Louis Vuitton Spring 2009

Everyone is talking about Louis Vuitton's Spring collection this year. And rightly so. The scene was crazy, and the emotions were high. Ah yes, Marc Jacobs' genius was surely out on full display for all of us revelers (as if we hadn't already noticed). As he tromped his girls one after the other down the runway to classic Parisienne tunes, it was both shocking and exciting--the attitude, the punch. From the polka dots to the feathers, from the sky high shoes to the African Bracelets and the teensy structured jackets, it seems both crammed with detail, and yet perfectly positioned. There was nothing all that was not fantastical, and nothing too far from the Champs Ellysees either.

Jacobs, who is now being compared to a young Yves Saint Laurent, with the potential to blow all of his contemporaries and critics away with the '09 collection, seemed to exude an and artistic infusion in this collection that has been unseen thus far. Fall 2007 was the closest thing to this type of extravagance, what with some feathered hems and tousled hats, furry pulls overs and chunky stones, but it was almost as if the designed was still keeping himself slightly at bay. Now in his 12th year, Jacobs seems to be settling into the fact not only can he spread his wings at Marc Jacobs, but that we all accept and actually crave his complete influence rectified on Louis Vuitton too. Was that Pietro Beccari, Yves Carcelle, and Antoine Arnault that I saw smiling like a group of proud papas after the show? Oh I think it was!

Watch the full video of the Louis Vuitton Spring 2009 Collection here and share if you loved it too. Dying to hear...


Louis Vuitton Spring 2009 Runway Show Video Part 1


Louis Vuitton Spring 2009 Runway Show Video Part 2

What's your Hyde Park Style?

Welcome to Hyde Park Style.

I'd like to say, first, that Hyde Park is not actually one place--it is many. And, moreover, it is the collaboration of the effortless style that has emerged from the many Hyde Park's we have come to know and love.

Hyde Park Style has come to represent, over the years, the chic dwelling place inside of each of us at Hyde Park Shop and the Hyde Park Style Team.

New Hyde Park was where my father grew up in NY, one of the most stylish men I know, someone who reaches for the stars each time and never settled for anything less than his best.

Hyde Park is a small town beneath the Palm Trees in sunny Florida where I personally first learned to be a grown up, a pretty through back to Palm Beach and Boca shopping, with an effortless sense of sophistication among the Mom's there, as they stroll along the cobbled streets with their children.

Hyde Park, IL is a progressive neighborhood in Chicago, where political ideas abound and their own blog, Hyde Park Progress is a lofty election of thoughts on where exactly our country is headed in this strange and unpredictable time.

And then there is Hyde Park, UK...a brimming mecca of culture near London where I once lived too. Hyde Park there was somewhere, where as a 6 year old, I first saw women in Mink Coats stroll the city streets, and knew that fashion was the only thing for me.

Hyde Park has been not only a place that I have visited and coincidentally, lived many times. Hyde Park has also come to represent an inclusion of ideas and voices that represent style, glamour and just the right amount of edge too.

Here at Hyde Park Style, we know what our Hyde Parker looks like...a little Catherine Malandrino, a little Louis Vuitton, steamed soy in Starbucks, a Barbara Kingsolver book, and the New York City Street beneath our feet.

What does your Hyde Park Style look like? More importantly, what does it feel like?

VTY,

H. Parker

PS...Please note: we are not rich, nor are we famous, nor are we anything but everything and exactly what we should be which is just lovely indeed-like little girls dressing in a mother's closet...true little starlets and actresses in our own right...so please, let's play.

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." -Coco Chanel