Imagine a prêt a porter, gorgeous, structured, academic skirt hand crafted by top Vietnamese designer Lac et Mel, shown in Berlin’s Fashion week, arriving on your front step? Sounds pretty exotic, doesn’t it?
We are all so programmed to ooh and ahh at anything strutting down the runway from the big houses associated with the fashion weeks from the illustrious cities of Paris, Milan, or New York.
As we delve beneath the stuffing of our Fendi purses, we find the coveted mini-carded envelope of authenticity next to that numbered and leathered Made in Italy appliqué. We are part of an elite club where few belong and we enjoy that!
But what fashionista wants to put a limit on anything? What about a fabulous belted dress made somewhere even a bit more exotic than a factory in Milan? How about a stunning lime and violet scarf hand-crafted in Singapore or Serbia?
Florida- based Owner & Founder of designer clothing website, PLANETTOGS.COM, Lyne Butterworth tirelessly obsesses over each of the luxurious pieces she hands selects as owner and sole buyer for her brand new luxury website.
These must-haves and nobody-will-
Designers she works with, like Gloria Coelho and Etsu by Peter Kor view themselves on par with haven’t garde luminaries such as Versace, Etro and Roberto Cavalli.
Lyne adds, “The visionaries I buy from know they will be seen in the states eventually. They may be far from ubiquitous in the U.S. now but they have a following with ready-to-wear and couture lines that are heralded in some of the finest exotic destinations. They know their time is coming, and they are flourishing as we speak.
If you can't make it to the Burj Al Arab hotel boutique, please do this globetrotting ingénues the courtesy of sampling what she has discovered outside that confining top shop box.
The website is www.Planettogs.com and you of course can begin to follow her on her next adventure, believed to be somewhere in Peru, on twitter.
