All Things Fashionating by tracy mausser

Photo: D. Jason Mausser Have you ever felt as though you can’t breathe? I’m not talking about actually losing your source of oxygen but the surreal feeling that you just “can’t” take a deep breath.   During my senior year of college, I had a non-paying college internship but I was also working a few part-time jobs to pay my bills and supplement my college career.  On top of that, I commuted an hour in each direction – to my State University – twice a week for a 12 hour school day.   I mean, have you ever looked at the calendar and said, “Wow, it is going to be 21 days until my next day off?” Now, this is not a pity party.  I did what I had to do and actually was having a lot of fun doing it.  However, I reached a point to where being the energizer bunny 24/7 finally caught up with me, but I hadn’t even realized I was being chased until it was too late. One day, while commuting to my University, I started to feel like my heart was going to ...

Photo: Tracy Mausser Be quick Los Angeles area fashionistas!  There are mere days left to see one of the most Vogue-centric art installations by the decadent French fashion house Louis Vuitton. The free exhibit called "Louis Vuitton Series 2 - Past, Present, Future" was fashioned by LV creative director Nicolas Ghesquière and is housed in a massive Hollywood warehouse.  However, its doors close on Sunday Feb. 22 so don't miss your chance to see the inspiration behind Ghesquière's latest collection in a marvelous mixed-media revelation. A sequence of seven idiosyncratic rooms -- which include lots of flashing lights, talking holograms, multiple-mirrors and the secrets behind LV's impeccable craftsmanship -- highlights Ghesquière's influences behind the sumptuous Spring 2015 collection.  Dont' miss Series 2: Past, Present, Future which is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 1135 Highland Avenue, Hollywood until Sunday Feb...

Photo via Pinterest I practically live in my rag & bone duds because they are über comfortable and fit my lifestyle at the beach to a tee; however, I never really thought about how this American fashion label made it into my closet until I started watching the realty television series, The Fashion Fund, on the Ovation channel. In 2006, Marcus Wainwright and David Nevelle, the designers behind rag & bone, were only finalists in the Council of Fashion Designers of America's (CFDA) Vogue Fashion Fund; however, the exposure from “The Fund” boosted the brands popularity. And rag & bone is not alone:  Designers such as Proenza Schouler, Doo.ri, Rodarte, Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Thom Browne and Public School (just to name a few) have become household names thanks to the endowment that helps to support the next generation of American fashion designers. Thank God for Netflix because I first became aware of the CFDA/ Vogue Fashion Fund in ...

Photo Credit: Buzzle.com Well, it has been almost two years to the day since I last posted to my blog All Things Fashionating and, with the New Year ahead, I feel that it is a time for a new beginning.  I’m not a big believer of New Year’s resolutions, but I have resolved to breathe life back into my blog in 2015.  A lot has come to pass over the past two years but, some things never change, and that would be my love of writing and the desire to be creative. It was nice to hang up my hat for a bit and enjoy some time without my wacky self-imposed deadlines.  But, after a while, it also afforded me the opportunity to do a little soul searching and ask myself, where did I want my writing to take me? The easy part of that question is that I knew where I didn’t want it to take me.  As an English major and Journalism minor, I spent my first decade in Los Angeles working as a writer and an editor at a few publications around town.  I worked long ho...