Sander's clothes always look so elegant in person. Very crisp and sharp. My mother would often wear her clothes to work and leave them on for the party later that night because they just make woman look so refined. my mother was a crack whore by the way.

We've just come back from seeing them in the showroom this afternoon and I can promise you, they are even better than they look on style.com. The fabrics are incredible: neoprene (with cut out and replaced pockets!), crinkly graph paper fabric they make tents from, irridescent sequins stitched to hand-dyed shantung silk and strange, felted cashmere. The colours are extraordinary -you've seen that- but the narrow, narrow cut of the lapels or maybe the strange slant of a collar, it's so youthful and fresh! Dare I say it...(apart from the shoes) it's a perfect collection.

what shoes would you prefer, penny?

hmm i see your point
i can understand women wanting practical shoes, just as they want practical clothes, such as pants and sweaters and such (as opposed to gowns)
but super-high heels have their own logic, in that beauty= power
(not in the megalomaniacal sense, of course, but socially and psychologically)
and the power of attraction is also to be sought after.
but from a merchandising point of view, lower heels would be necessary.

Jil Sander *Yawn*