If you know me personally, it is not news that I am an unofficial spokesperson for toast. The way the farmers have started to brand milk as a general commodity, I have begun my work, to get everyone excited about the four-cornered, dry-humored carbohydrate that is often forgotten about-- toast. The dry-humored bread needs better pr, and lucky for it the majority of my conversations with my roommates position us as brand ambassadors: long live the loaf!
But besides the obvious outreach we do on behalf of hung-over party-girls in the tristate area, I have decided it is time to appreciate the way wheat-shaded fashions are dominating the runways. (You didn't think I was really going to write an entire post about toast in the middle of fashion week, did you?)Anyway, to me toast is the basic staple of a diet the way that wheat is the grounding force in a collection (and both are underrated and overshadowed by "experts" throwing around opinions on high-protein rigor and the omnipresence of black).
Once you find the right shade of cream, wheat or beige for your skin you will never go back. Just as the life-saving properties of toast on an uneasy stomach are not soon forgotten. The key to finding the best shade for you is to figure out the undertones in your complexion. Magazines, sephora sales people, and mirrors are your best allays here.
Cheat-sheet: if you are Asian, Mediterranean, Italian or have olive or golden skin tone consider yourself yellow; if you are British, polish, German or have fair to flushed skin, think pink. If you have deeper hues than olive you don't need to worry about wash-out and can move along to step number two: choosing your dream crème. If you have yellow undertones avoid yellowed cream because you will look bright and vibrant in pinker shades of beige.
When thinking about the variations in cream words like sensible-dressing, or blah may pop into your mind. Don't be fooled, tapioca is exciting in the fashion world. Just ask Francisco Costa whose women’s collection for Calvin Klein marked the last of the major shows in New York's Fashion Week, and showed the flirty side of the trend when Lara Stone came out in a gold jacquard shift-dress.
Costa referred to the number as "wheat" which reminds me that the girls at Rodarte where literally swaddled in full-length evening gowns that had been dipped in wheat at the hem. Kate and Laura Mulleavy cited the American Plains as their inspiration.
According to style.com the operative word to describe Micheal Kors’ collection was sleek, and the luxurious looks featured monochromatic take on beige—it was breath-taking and all the better to create that long, uninterrupted line Kors favors (Nicole Phelps reporting for style.com).
