Last night as I worked on my WIP, I needed to find a designer of women’s tight, sexy dresses.  In my head, I saw the Alaia dress Alicia Silverstone wore in Clueless that she risked a bullet for because she didn’t want to wrinkle it.  But, since I’m finding more and more of my pop culture references need to have the dust blown off, I decided to do an internet search first.  Good thing I did.  As I suspected, Alaia ace bandage dresses are not current on the fashion scene.  These were early to mid-90’s.  Epic fail.  I began searching for other designers, looking at their collections, trying to find a dress that a fashion conscious man would buy for a woman (or vampire in my case) he wanted to make as tempting as possible.  I searched Missoni, Galliano, Betsey Johnson, until I settled on Zac Posen. Continue reading →