Monday, December 20, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Year of the Ballerina
Ballerinas are beautiful, there is no doubt of that. Their style, their muscles, their thin limbs, their slick buns, the minimal makeup. It's when they're training and wearing shrugs, leg warmers, old tutus--that they possess the most beautiful and age-old style. Thanks Kanye and Darren Arnofsky for bringing light and newness to awesome ballerina style!
Monday, December 6, 2010
best.movie.director.yes
Black Swan, watch it! Most will find it uber disturbing and hard to shake, as I did, but Arnofsky is king of the intimate portraits of the deranged and obsessed. Natalie was prissy and lovely, Mila Kunis played a vapid, jealous bitch, Winona Ryder was insanity on wheels, and it was pretty much my girl crush club sandwich. Beautiful styling by Rodarte. watch watch watch~
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
BAG HAG
Marc by Marc Jacobs Saddlery Striped Perfect Messenger
$179 - barneys.com
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$179 - barneys.com
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
beauty in the eye of the beholder
I love this girl; they're about to rid her of her neck tattoo :(
images from Cobrasnake, Stockholm Street Style, and The Sartorialist
After my first visit to Stockholm during my semester abroad in college, I became enamored by Swedish fashion and the strong, Nordic blondes who wore it. Upon landing at the makeshift tent at Skavsta, which was the closest Ryan Air stop an hour from Stockholm, we took a bus to a train to a car and arrived as weary travelers at a hipster bbq. This was in 2004.. yes, I'm dating myself, and although hipsters or their equivalent, euro trash, existed in the US and Europe, this was my first taste of the coolest, most innovative hipsters, the ones that rule fashion, art and music today.
I didn't know much, if anything, about Sweden at the time as I was living in Paris and absorbing the francophile's fantasy world. I knew that I could arrive, say Hey, they say, Hej, hmmm sounds like Hey... and they ended up speaking English anyway, without an accent. Suddenly I was surrounded by my DJ/software developer friend Moonsuck and his friends. All I could notice was the smattering of insanely blonde guys and gals, the diversity of the crowd, who were all born Swedish but were black, asian, Middle-Eastern, or mixed, and their impeccable STYLE. One guy was wearing brushed metal spectacles, had naturally white blonde hair and lashes, wore a neon plaid shirt with bright blue pants and boat shoes, and his GIRLFRIEND (he was straight and outrageously fashionable?!) wore a mousy brown mullet, a vintage button up buttoned all the way to the throat, skinny jeans (which did not exist yet in the U.S.), kelly green vintage heels with buttons leading down to the peep-toe, a sonia rykel mini purse, and her profession was a buyer for H&M. The boyfriend of course, was a graphic designer and DJ. Repeat and repeat with more fashionable and cool people than the next and I was in heaven; I suddenly woke up from my traveling stupor and became inspired.
At this time I felt the stirring of the blogger/tech movement in fashion and art. Up until that point, you didn't see these cross-genre variety of people; computer programmers by day, DJing by night, dating the YSL buyer who moonlights as a kitschy wedding photographer. If you were artsy, it didn't mean you had to have a trust fund or lackadaisical airs, you simply became an art dealer and you hustled to get there. These people were intelligent, ambitious crafty, fun, and above all, thought carefully about cultivating amazing style that didn't necessarily have to look like it came out of a dumpster. Of course, now, these people are a dime a dozen and you can throw a stone into Brooklyn or the Mission in SF and find this couple. But I first saw it in Stockholm. And it happened while gazing at some excruciatingly fashionable Nordic blondes. This is when I decided that I wanted to be involved with Swedish fashion one day, "when I grew up".
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Zara Fall 2010
Zara Fall. I am loving those blanket/baja design/ponchos this season, although they were attempted many times in seasons past and never took off. They had one in every shop in Tokyo in August, and when I tried to buy one, my otherwise very hip mother just scoffed and said, "Blechhhh, don't buy that!!!" Oh really, Mom? They are the dreaded poncho, hated by men everywhere, but they are soft, versatile, and double as a blanket if you are whisked away to go camping or brave a night of drinking on a cold SF night. I would probably wear it with my wolfshirt throwbacks. Yeeeeah.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Paris Fashion Week: Streetstyle and Shows
i think pumpkin spice lattes have made me obsessed with all things of the pumpkin color variety.
Alexa's bag droool.
I'm inspired to dress like Count of Monte Cristo meets Carmen Sandiego
Go-go dancers inspire me as well! I'll wear any boots that are covered in fur or fringe and make me feel like a little muppet.
Lanvin Glory
Celine
Haider Ackermann
All can be found on Stockholm Street Style and The Sartorialist.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Streetstyle, Muses, Fun Fashion
I love a power calf and a vintage bag:
For some reason, this girl is smokin, no pun intended.
My kind of dork
feather
Whitney's gotta be the least unique designer out there, but she herself is cute as a button
not bad, Whitney Eve
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