This is one of my favorite collections I have seen so far.  You can check out the whole show at Style.com.  She put together a collection of stunning prints, wearable silhouettes and fun, funky styling.  From style.com’s review:

“This season’s show was a passport to the American Arts and Crafts movement of the late nineteenth century, bleeding into the Art Nouveau that has been Sui’s default position for years. I’d never heard of the furniture designer Charles Rohlfs, but Sui could produce a weighty coffee-table book devoted to his work. As it was, she designed an embroidery based on a Rohlfs’ chest of drawers, which Agyness Deyn wore in the show. That sounds academic, which is totally selling short the straightforward pleasure in fashion that animates Sui’s work. She may very well wear her influences—Biba dolly birds, Rolling Stones girlfriends—on her bell-shaped sleeves, but every season she brings a fierce-some amount of research to bear on prints, fabrics, and the decorative elements that give her clothes a distinctive richness…

But if the mood of these clothes was vintage bordering on antique, the overall impression was curiously un-retro. That’s because Sui, who once worked as Steven Meisel’s stylist, knows how to weigh the whimsy: a flat boot, a big cable-knit cardie, or a fur bolero helped to make her most hippie-princess looks real-world-ready. And, because the backroom boys and girls don’t always get their due, it’s past time to credit Pat McGrath’s makeup, Garren’s hair, and Frederic Sanchez’s music. At some point in the future, those elements will all be part of the most wonderful museum exhibition on New York’s most underrated designer.”

Anna – you are a curvy woman – hook the plus size community up!!

“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.” – Coco Chanel

For some women it is an earring, a necklace or a shoe.  For me, it is a purse.  The ultimate item I can own is the Chanel 2.55.  Recently re-issued by Karl and designed by Coco, it is the bag, in my humble opinion that defines a lady.  It is timeless, classic and will never go out of style.  I have seen women of all ages carrying this bag and it is definitely different on all of them.  A 21 year old will rock it completely differently than a 65-year old woman.  I wonder if that is what Coco was thinking when she designed it – if there should be a bag out there that would satisfy every woman at any age.

When I turned 30 I thought it was time for me to get my own, but at the time I couldn’t decide if I wanted one that was the classic black, or something a little different, purple, mauve, bordeaux and then the leather… lambskin or caviar… I couldn’t decide, but the more I think of it, and the more I think of me, I would probably rock the bordeaux lambskin.  Now, all I have to do is have someone buy it for me * wink *.

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Maybe if I repeat this enough times she will listen, “Diane, we want a plus size line!”  Her styles are all designed to flatter a woman’s body with elegant draping and fun, flattering prints.  Here are a few of my favorites from this week’s show.  What do you think?

I used to sell insurance.  This suit would have made it infinitely more interesting!  Add a flippy skirt and it would be flattering on the curviest of women.

I adore this tunic!!

This isn’t the first time I have posted about Southwest Airlines and while I hope that Kevin Smith has humiliated them into behaving in an accepting, civil manner, I doubt that will be the case.

(PEOPLE.com) — Kevin Smith’s most famous role is a guy who rarely speaks. But he’s got a lot to say — much of it profane — after being kicked off a Southwest Air flight because he didn’t fit comfortably into the seat.

“You [messed] with the wrong sedentary processed-foods eater!” Smith, whose next film, “Cop Out,” comes out February 26, posted on Twitter.

It was one of many Tweets recounting the actor/director’s humiliating expulsion Saturday from the Oakland-to-Burbank, California, flight.

Southwest said in a statement airline officials had called Smith to offer their “heartfelt apologies,” but also stated his removal was for the “safety and comfort of all customers.”

Smith, 39, originally purchased two tickets “as he’s been known to do when traveling Southwest,” the airline noted, but when he decided to fly standby on an earlier flight, only one seat remained. Although he had been seated, he was asked to leave.

“If a customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a customer seated adjacent would be very uncomfortable and a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised if we allow a cramped, restricted seating arrangement,” Southwest said.

I’m Fat

Smith, who played Silent Bob in his Clerks movies and who has battled his weight for years — “I know I’m fat,” he confesses — was given a $100 voucher and arrived in Burbank on a later flight. But he was in no mood to accept an apology.

“I broke no regulation, offered no ’safety risk’ (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?)” he tweeted. “I saw someone bigger than me on THAT flight! But I wasn’t about to throw a fellow Fatty under the plane as I’m being profiled. But he & I made eye contact, & he was like ‘Please don’t tell…’”

After landing in Burbank, Smith wrote, “Don’t worry: wall of the plane was opened & I was airlifted out while Richard Simmons supervised.”

Smith added that while the ordeal was embarrassing, his “Jersey Girl training” (the 2004 flop starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez) was helping him cope.

See full article at PEOPLE.com.