September 18th, 2024
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Fendi’s SS25 Footwear
Kim Jones’s ’90s nod — pairing slip dresses with Red Wing work boots — in the Fendi SS25 collection is on my inspiration board and would look great now.
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After 20 years casting models for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and fashion shows, I wanted to spend more time with my daughters. KiC is my way to share my thoughts on fashion and style. I believe style should permeate every aspect of our lives — from home, to family, to where we go, and naturally, what we wear — especially when we're just running around.
— Preston Davis
I like the cut of these boots. I also find the fashion adaptation of blue collar clothing somewhat interesting. There is a whole essay in that, but I’ll let someone else write it. Wearability is certainly one of the good things that American style has given the world, whether we’re looking at work boots or wearing our denim.
Love the shoes with elevated clothing. The trouble is that my everyday uniform tends to be jeans/trousers and sweater, so I need evaluated/polished/dressy shoes, bag and accessories.
I have a theory on the integration of blue collar clothing elements into American fashion. Our American heritage is one of building things. Our history is one of laboring and reaping results. In addition to ingenuity and invention, our country’s success is due to the broad range of skilled craftsmen and laborers who turn ideas and visions into reality. I recently gave my son a beautiful book of photographs chronicling the construction of the Chrysler Building. Like great bridges, tunnels through mountains, railroads, airplanes, Motor City, the building of infrastructure of all kinds . . . skyscrapers are a feat of genius. And America makes it look easy. And we are in awe of the men and women who do these jobs. We feel at home in a work shirt. I think there is a well earned romanticism with blue collar workers, and it is a permanent trait in our American fashion identity. The only other style of clothing similarly rooted in the American psyche comes from The Great West – ranch clothing, western wear, cowboy hats and boots, etc. These clothing references are all authentic to our great, excellent American story.
Paula, you took this in a different direction than I was thinking, and I thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts. I think part of the strength of America is that, at our best, we give work its true dignity. We lean into work, which we see as the creation of value.
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RM, I love your comment, and I’m on the same page. Work is virtuous. I rate it as holy. I count child rearing and creating a well run home and stable life for family as work as well, much like running a farm. Leisure has its place; but as a way of life, it’s overrated. Work gives humans personal accomplishment, and it delivers adults independence and ownership to oneself. On a personal note, I love that Mr. Buffet, in his nineties, goes to work every morning and that my husband, over 70, started a new venture and still attends meetings on Saturday mornings. America needs to get its ambition back.