jay mcyay!

Sunday, oct. 8, 2006   |   0 comments

I’m a huge, huge fan of Jay McCarroll, the Season 1 winner of Project Runway. I think he’s charming and funny, and self-effacing and insecure in a way that makes him seem extra likeable. Great fashion senses, too: I’m really into the way draws deep from his small-town quilting background to make such amazing and unusual clothing, stitchy things full of all kinds of interesting, beautiful fabric combinations.

You may have already seen these, but I just ran across the pics from his Spring 2007 show (which was sponsored by the Humane Society, more points for Jay) at the very important OLYMPUS FASHION WEEK, and hey there sure are some interesting things in there, cute and still very Jay-ish. Look it:

Put a Lucky mag love-it sticker on that blimp print skirt, please. (The bagel frame bracelet, too!)

A nice, simple dress, but note the exceptinally nutty and great bird-cage necklace.

Prooving he can do something clean and simple, but still preserve his bright eye for color.

A skirt loaded with all Jay’s fabric smarts, plus pockets!

I like all the graphic craziness going on here, plus the silver leggings, and how the tattoos pull it all together.

It doesn’t seem like a polkadot tubetop pantsuit and insane wireframe necklace would work, and yet somehow this manages to be weirdly awesome.