Mimi Fong Update: Ornate Patterns

I wrote about the above Mimi Fong tie once before a few months back sans a close up shot (Unfortunately, the Mimi Fong website doesn't let you zoom in on the patterns). Now that the tie is on the Neiman Marcus website, we can finally get a good look at it.

I love the ethereal ornate black and white pattern here -- it gives the tie an appealing graphic quality; it's as if someone drew the pattern on the fabric with a pen.

To be completely honest, I don't think this tie is particularly pretty -- but it ellicits a strong visceral response from me; the baroque, almost gothic quality is alluring. Interestingly, the ornate pattern is not light and airy, like the first tie of the post, but dark and thick, almost oppressively so, as if it were made of wrought iron. There are a lot of ties out there that have no personality, no real point-of-view or aesthetic. This tie has loads of it.