Watch with me.

I'll catch you up, dear readers, on where I've been in just a bit--but, for now you must watch something for me. Someone has gone and posted the entire film Unzipped on youtube. I just watched the first part of the 1994 documentary of Isaac Mizrahi's Fall collection and already I've been magically transported back to the basics of why I love fashion. In the first 7 minutes of the film you see Eartha Kitt in all of her living glory, a fresh-faced Amber Valletta meeting Isaac for the first time, and Mizrahi's mama bragging about her son's first garment: a straight blazer she would wear to temple on all of the high holidays. I have no television, so I have no idea what Isaac is up to on his new tele show with Iman, but in those days he was the kind of charming, energetic, smoking, neurotic, funny man that made for good entertainment. So, lets watch together. Here are all the parts:









*Part 4 annoyingly has no audio because of a copyright claim over a music track. I say watch the visual and hum.









So good, right?

Mizrahi Has His Moment

Don't call it a comeback, just let Mizrahi knock you out with his revival. Pretty fabrics wrapped like delicate paper packages, colors that seem to make their own light, and peekaboo neon bike shorts paired with boned corset-cut tops are all evidence for Mizrahi's emergence from the Target cocoon he's wrapped himself in for the past few years. His insect inspired collection makes me want wings, or at least pieces that make me appear to have them. Unzipped was such a formative influence on my fashion fervor that Mizrahi can rightfully be called a Founding Father of iwanttowearit. Here's to a show worthy of the buzz!



Now, if he could get these looks (especially those shoes and that little mint number up top) into the price range for the masses that I've come to expect from him, I'd love him even more.
For old time's sake, here's a clip of Issac in action: