Want to Make an ‘It’ Item Your Own? Just Cut It in Half
Natasha Goldenberg in her modified Prada dress. Photo: Getty Images
Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published a how-to guide on fashion trends: What’s worth buying into, and what you’re better off saving your money on.
The Journal consulted with several “experts” on the subject, including Miroslava Duma’s bestie Natasha Goldenberg, a Moscow-based designer and stylist with a knack for taking trendy items and making them her own.
Recently, Goldenberg purchased one of the most recognizable dresses from the fall 2015 runway season: A spaghetti strap, tweed number with yellow bows down the skirt by Prada. You know, the same dress that appeared on every single magazine cover this past September.
Though WSJ incorrectly identifies the dress as being Miu Miu, it was right about this: Goldenberg, not content to wear a dress that many other fashion folk would surely be wearing this season as well, took a pair of scissors to it—reimagining the frock as a bralette and high-waisted skirt.
“I was sure I would see many others in the same dress,” explained Goldenberg. “I thought, ‘I want to wear it in my own way.’” She wore the look over a white tee during Milan Fashion Week, as seen in the photo above.
The dress in its original iteration: on the Prada runway. Photo: Getty Images
So the answer on how to fully own a trendy item is simple: To be sartorially unique—yet still street style credible—you should spend several-thousand dollars on a single item of clothing, and then turn it into two! And to think: Lindsay Lohan caught so much flack in 2013 for altering her floor-length amfAR gown into a mini dress. Girl was ahead of her time!
Then again, the Prada dress… er… matching set does belong to Goldenberg, and she can do whatever she wants with it—including wearing the pieces both separately and together. In all honesty, that skirt would actually look pretty cute with a top tucked in. You can’t blame her for not being creative.
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