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Estoy en Tejas.
2007-05-30 18:43:00 Estoy visitando Tejas para la boda de mi hermano. ¡Hasta la semana próxima!(pic from people.com)
Loveable Dress
2007-05-26 20:48:00 I don't know if Lily's dress is from her Lily Loves line, but she seems to be loving it, as does Debbie Harry, as do I. More About: Dress
The Ryde
2007-05-23 22:45:00 If you're going to wear a t-shirt, it might as well be attractive and comfortable. Go to The Ryde for pretty textiles and the comfiest t-shirts. I dare you to find softer shirts!
Chanel Resort '08
2007-05-23 18:21:00 I was excited to see this photo because it summarizes what I've been wearing in the last week: red lips (!), headgear (scarves, headbands), high-waisted "mom" jeans and platform heels. Except, you know, not Chan el .I can't wait for these colorful, more carefree looks to start spreading. I'm ready for a break from the bleak/black emo abominations that are everywhere.I recently found a picture of my mother, taken in the late 1970s, dressed similarly to Raquel Zimmermann, although Mom looked more earthy and less jet-setting. It made me all nostalgic for an era in which I never lived. So I'm going to recreate the era in my wardrobe this summer. And at Karl Lagerfeld's bidding, I'm hope many other people will, too.(pic from style.com) More About: Sort , Resort
ma soeur
2007-05-23 02:42:00 Like Dita von Teese, my sister, Briallen, advocates glamour. Every minute. Every day. Briallen has an enormous (and ever-growing) collection of vintage jewelry, fur (tsk, tsk), party dresses and hats. I post these pictures as examples of quotidian glamour.
Distasteful
2007-05-22 19:36:00 I like many of the pictures in the new Vogue featuring Keira Knightley as water nymph, Keira on Safari, Keira as turn of the century imperial colonizer... but I think it's a little distasteful to go all the way to Africa and cloak an elephant in a Louis Vuitton blanket. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the blanket is thousands of dollars, and it just seems rather vile, given the state of Africa. The last thing Africa needs is coutured elephants or elephants as billboards for western capitalism.
Can You Think of A Better Candidate?
2007-05-22 07:57:00 Audrey Tautou is slated to play Coco Chanel in an upcoming biopic of the iconic designer. Can you think of anyone better to play Coco? I can't.(source Buzz Sugar) More About: Bett , Candidate
Wooden Gladiator Shoes
2007-05-17 07:21:00 I wouldn't describe myself as a "shoe girl" - at least not in the Carrie Bradshaw sense. However, I have a particular penchant for wooden heels. It started a few years ago when I lived in L.A. and I bought a pair of Frye mules. I wore them everywhere and with anything. I wore them as house slippers. Eventually I wore the heel completely off of them. I've forever been trying to replace them.I bought a pair of Michael Kors wooden heels last year, but they're not quite the same. And though I love them dearly, they just can't function as house slippers.BUT... yesterday, when I was out shopping for a dress to wear to my brother's wedding, I happened upon my new favorite shoes, proving my belief that the best finds are always random, never planned. More About: Shoes , Shoe , Wooden , Adia , Glad
Flashback
2007-05-15 01:35:00 This is a look a lot of starlets attempt, but it's so much classier on Lily Daché. More About: Flashback , Lash
Stuck In A Rut
2007-05-14 19:58:00 Today is a beautiful spring day and it will probably be in the 70s this afternoon. But I've come down with a bug and a fever, so I'm indoors consuming zinc lozenges and Airborne tablets.Because I've been so busy with school, or maybe just because I'm lazy, I'm completely stuck in a fashion rut. I'm too tired to even bother with pulling my spring/summer clothes out of storage. I've been wearing some variation on flannel and cardigan every day. It's awful. The last two times I've gone out (once to an art show, once to a concert) I've been the most underdressed person there. Which, I suppose, suits me more than being the most overdressed. But still... I'm beginning to bore myself. Look at these pictures taken in the last month:Are you noticing the theme? I need to get in gear, get out my sundresses, and quit dressing like a farmer.
Rouge
2007-05-14 04:12:00 Contrary to what's being dictated to me in magazines right now, red is the color I'm reveling in. Although it's not a traditionally spring-y color (Easter egg blues and yellows are), I'm finding it very fun (see previous posts on the Met Ball and My New Dress). I've especially been enjoying red lip colors (Aveda's Claret, Geranium and Rambutan colors), fiery red nail polish by Spa Ritual, and a red beret. Maybe it's overkill, but it's punchy. Whenever I wear red lipstick people come up to me and say, "I wish I could wear red!" I say, "Do it! Wear red!"For some reason, many people think they don't have the right pigmentation for red. But I'm here to say, I've been a makeup artist long enough to assure you that there are actually very few people who can't wear red. There are so many variations of red... so experiment. Find your red. And if you can't do red lips, do red nails.The Sartorialist snapped a picture of this girl in Stockholm, making the most of shades of... More About: Rouge
Cameron Diaz
2007-05-06 22:55:00 I'm not normally a fan of Cameron Diaz 's street style, but I do tend to like her red (or green) carpet fashion (minus her Oscar getup). She avoids banal ensembles by always adding something that's a little incongruous, like vibrant heels or asymmetrical patterns. She's so striking looking that it would be a shame for her to try to conform to cookie cutter looks with barrel-curled platinum locks and mahogany faux tans, and it's refreshing that she doesn't.Even though her outfit at the Shrek 3 premiere (below) isn't particularly avant-garde or out-on-a-limb, she still manages to look unique. After flipping through red carpet pictures, everyone starts to look the same after a while, like they're all using the same stylist. Cameron Diaz always looks like herself. More About: Amero
A Mireille Moment
2007-05-03 19:39:00 This is for the benefit of Anje, because I'm trying to convince her to do her hair like this. Here is an old LP by Mireille Mathieu, obviously, and her haircut looks very much like the work of Vidal Sassoon. More About: Moment
Danke Marlene
2007-05-02 08:31:00 I spent three hours in the library this afternoon researching Marlene Dietrich for a paper I'm writing on her for my German Cultural History class. In the mid-1930s she traveled to Paris on a hiatus from her studio contract. (She was unwelcome in Berlin due to her anti-Nazi stance.) She arrived in a suit (she'd packed over twenty-five), tie and beret. A Parisian magistrate, offended by her garb, threatened to have her arrested for impersonating a man; but Marlene's former lover, Maurice Chevalier, came to her defense and said that every freedom-loving Frenchman should love Marlene Dietrich. (Below: Marlene in Chanel)It's thanks in part to Marlene that women can walk down red carpets in beautifully tailored suits, looking smart and smashing, without being arrested. Kirsten Dunst look impeccable. More About: Lene , Arlene
Pass The Buck
2007-04-27 07:55:00 Really? Antlers? I rarely buy into fads, but I don't know who will buy into this. Will you?As metaphor for a bucolic ideal, antlers are fine. But their proliferation in fashion (in jewelry and graphics on T-shirts and hoodies) and home design (as candlestick holders and chandeliers) suggests a deeper societal meaning. To be sure, in various cultures, antlers symbolize masculine aggression, regeneration, sacrifice, financial stability and, in some cases, Satanism (see Joan Fontaine in ?The Witches?). In popular culture, they are likely to mean something else entirely, but what? More About: Pass , Buck
Guinness, The Wall
2007-04-20 08:13:00 School and midterm-prep have been taking a toll on my fashion creativity. Living off of caffeine, Emergen-C and four hours of sleep isn't great for the body or mind. Lately I've been craving the perfect school clothes... easy, and above all, comfortable. I have a few t-shirts that are nearly translucent from use, and I love them dearly. The Guin ness t-shirt that I'm wearing below has been a good friend to me for nine years. My outfits recently consist of (aforementioned) comfy t-shirts, cardigans or hoodies or a trenchcoat, baggy ripped-up old jeans and Converse.I have just added a new favorite t-shirt to my collection. The shirt below is from The Ryde and is a perfect combination of stretchy and soft. So soft. So reminiscent of a certain Pink Floyd album. Check out The Ryde's other fun t-shirts, too; I can't emphasize enough just how amazing this shirt feels. More About: Wall , Ness , The wall
Read and Discuss: Louisa May Alcott
2007-04-16 09:06:00 Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone; it keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion. More About: Read , Louis , Disc
Mancunian Musings
2007-04-09 01:20:00 I once had a Mancunian roommate. She was hilarious, blunt and unaffected and had the very British sense of humor that I love so well. I wonder if Agyness Deyn (née Agnes Hollins) is still so Northern in her temperament? More About: Musings , Sing , Sings
My Francophile roots
2007-04-08 23:17:00 I was attempting to explain to someone this week the roots of my francophilia. My mother, having lived in Fran ce as a child, endued me with a childhood full of baguettes and café au lait, Edith Piaf and the smells of Roger Gallet and Guerlain. One of my earlier memories is singing along to "Sur la Pont d'Avignon" as it played on the record player. When I got a little older, I'd swoon over the cover of my mother's Sacha Distel album as he crooned, "Je vends des pommes, des poires, Et des scoubidoubi-ou ah!" (Even as a child, I knew just how risqué the lyrics were.) Every evening around six, my mother would holler up the stairs to me and my siblings, "Á la table, sil vous plait!" I understand that baguettes and the occasional 'svp' thrown in do not make me French. And appreciation for 1950s French music doesn't either. But French things remind me of my mother, and grandmother and my childhood. Being in France feels familiar and comfortable to me, despite the language bar... More About: Roots , Phil , Root , Franco
The Wayfarer, The Aviator
2007-04-06 05:34:00 Rosanna and me at the Sunday Fremont Market. I like the glasses. More About: The Way , Viator , The A , Fare
America The Beautiful
2007-04-04 20:16:00 America Ferrera in W Magazine More About: America , Beautiful , Beau
Power and Poise
2007-03-23 06:15:00 Yesterday I was wearing my WWII-vintage sailor pants. They lace up the back (and I do mean up the back... half way up my back) and have a sixteen-button barn door on the front. They couldn't be more high-waisted without being a jumpsuit. They are dark navy blue wool and in nearly perfect condition, considering they used to sail the high seas some sixty-odd years ago. I wore them with a plain black top. Lately I really like being covered from head to toe; partly because it's 40 degrees outside and partly because I don't want leathery skin. But also, lately I've realized that covering your body forces people to see something else about you. I really love women who can wear atypical and modest clothing, simple makeup, simple hair, and who all the while ooze intelligence and confidence. I get tired of hearing women equate their power with their sexuality, as if it is only in their sexuality that they have power. These are the women who exploit themselves and their sexuality t... More About: Power
RIP Eliana Ramos
2007-03-19 17:17:00 Her sister, Luisel, died of an anorexia-related heart attack last year. Last month, Eliana, 18, also died of an anorexia-related heart attack. They were both catwalk models. More About: Ramos , Amos
Ugliest Bag To Date
2007-03-16 06:50:00 This Louis Vuitton Tribute Bag is $42,000. I wouldn't pay $42 for it. What about this bag could possibly justify the price? Is that real Aztec gold? Is it filled with Italian white truffles and beluga caviar? Does anyone know of an uglier bag? Do tell... More About: Lies
picture du jour: Kate Bosworth, V Magazine
2007-03-14 20:01:00 Since she looks like a tree shedding its leaves, this might've been more apropos in the Fall issue. More About: Magazine , Kate Bosworth , Picture , Kate , Worth
Too Darn Hot
2007-03-11 23:51:00 Because I'm spending my lazy Sunday watching Kiss Me Kate, here is a picture for you. Do you know that Ann Miller could tap her foot 500 hundred times a minute? Do you know that Howard Keel was a sexy beast? He could tame this shrew.
Best Outfit I've Seen In A While
2007-03-08 19:16:00 I love this effortless look from Shiva Rose McDermott.(pic courtesy of Style.com) More About: Best , While , Outfit
She Wears it So Much Better
2007-03-07 07:50:00 She wears it so much better than Kirsten Dunst. More About: Better , Much , Wear , Bett , Ears
Outfit I Want Now: Deanna Durbin
More articles from this author:2007-03-06 23:52:00 I want Dean na Durbin 's outfit for Spring. Look at the shoes! For those of you not familiar with Deanna Durbin, rent Three Smart Girls immediately. More About: Anna , Want , Outfit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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