Saturday, May 9, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
bright lights long nights
As summer rolls along what I've been craving is bright, neon colored nail polish. When the sun comes out, it's time to ditch the emo nails!
Essie's neon collection seems perfect- and it's got fun names like short shorts (hot pink) and bermuda shorts (more violet). The only problem is that they don't have a neon blue, so I'll have to keep my eyes open for that.
Friday, May 1, 2009
endless summer
In case you haven't noticed yet I'm a little bit obsessed with summer- definitely the best season in my book! Summer means lounging by the pool, barbeques and most importantly the beach! I'm definitely a beach bum at heart, and I feel like no decade did the beach scene as well as the 70s.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
ysl cage heels
Am I the only one who hasn't become completely obsessed with these ysl shoes? I can usually get behind the whole architectural bandwagon, but these just don't do it for me- I think its because the straps come off feeling almost geriatric as opposed to sexy.
Whatever it is if Giovanna Battaglia can't make me love them I don't think anyone can.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
hot fun in the summertime
sunlight
summer
I'm going to be spending a chunk of this summer in kenya- it's an amazing opportunity but i'm not going to lie- i'm going to miss chilling with my friends by the pool, feeling the sun
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
the key to happiness?
"being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect
it means looking past the imperfections"
Vogue Nippon
First I was obsessed with the employees of Vogue Paris, then Teen Vogue, but those two magazines have some serious competition from Vogue Nippon. To begin with there's Anna Dello'Russo in all her fierceness. But her co-workers are equally inspirational- I love their classic style and use of color.
fashion crush
I am obsessed with her simple outfits. She manages to look without being trendy.
Plus her blog posts over at Glamour.com are really fun to read (who knew glamour had a fashion presence?)
I've already expressed that I'm not exactly the biggest fan of the exaggerated shoulders that have been taking the fashion world by storm.
As Miranda Preistly explains in The Devil Wears Prada, a trend starts on the runway and then works it's way down to casual corner where the proletariat will be able to pick cerulean sweaters out of sale bins. Once everyone and their mothers are swatched in cerulean the fashion crowd moves on to the next hot trend. But with these exaggerated shoulders it seems like the fashion crowd is moving on before the trend has even begun to trickle down to the commoners.
as the ladies over at fashionista observed,
So if 80's fatigue is hitting hard, does that mean that we're moving on to the next decade before these 80's imitations even hit the racks?
I'm personally going to be looking for clothes without the gimmicky, pieces that won't look entirely out of date within a year, maybe two.
Simple lines, basic colors, uncomplicated pieces of the 90's sound like just the antidote to the fall 09 craziness.
As Miranda Preistly explains in The Devil Wears Prada, a trend starts on the runway and then works it's way down to casual corner where the proletariat will be able to pick cerulean sweaters out of sale bins. Once everyone and their mothers are swatched in cerulean the fashion crowd moves on to the next hot trend. But with these exaggerated shoulders it seems like the fashion crowd is moving on before the trend has even begun to trickle down to the commoners.
as the ladies over at fashionista observed,
"the over-the-top feel of the 80’s runways have made everyone groan “ew” and mourn the days when sequins, shoulder pads and mini-skirts weren’t all on the same runway"
I'm personally going to be looking for clothes without the gimmicky, pieces that won't look entirely out of date within a year, maybe two.
Simple lines, basic colors, uncomplicated pieces of the 90's sound like just the antidote to the fall 09 craziness.
domino's site is down
So I was finally ready to take all of my images off of domino's my deco file only to realize that the website has already been taken down!! all of those images that I had sorted, ready for future blog posts- how incredibly frustrating! I know that they had given us a couple weeks to take stuff down but I feel like they should have said "no really, this is the week we're going to take down the website" just to whip into shape me and all my fellow procastinators.
I still strongly believe that the my deco file is a brilliant idea- someone needs to resurrect it! I think it would be tremendously with all the bloggers and those like me that we'll call the wanna-be bloggers. Seriously though- images are taking over my computer. My desktop image is barely visible. This website was really helpful in keeping my computer less cluttered and my favorite images more organized.
p.s. does the fact that the domino website redirects to the architectural digest website mean that that that's the magazine that's going to be coming in my mailbox instead? I'd really rather get a refund for the remaining issues- that's supposedly what they offered Men's Vogue subscribers when that magazine folded
I still strongly believe that the my deco file is a brilliant idea- someone needs to resurrect it! I think it would be tremendously with all the bloggers and those like me that we'll call the wanna-be bloggers. Seriously though- images are taking over my computer. My desktop image is barely visible. This website was really helpful in keeping my computer less cluttered and my favorite images more organized.
p.s. does the fact that the domino website redirects to the architectural digest website mean that that that's the magazine that's going to be coming in my mailbox instead? I'd really rather get a refund for the remaining issues- that's supposedly what they offered Men's Vogue subscribers when that magazine folded
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
PS-1
It seems like everyone is claiming proenza schouler's newest bag, the ps 1, as the anti-'it' bag. While I understand that the bag may be covered in gaudy logos, it's still quite distinctive and with all of the press it's gotten I think it will be hard to escape the label.
So I wasn't exactly well imagine my suprise when I saw it on lipstick jungle (yes, I know, it's one of my guilty pleasures). The character playing it is a loud outgoing publicist, in other words exactly the person you would expect to be carrying an 'it' bag.
The bag is totally fabulous, but as an example of an anti-it bag? Hardly.
p.s. props to the costume department. This was so appropriate!
So I wasn't exactly well imagine my suprise when I saw it on lipstick jungle (yes, I know, it's one of my guilty pleasures). The character playing it is a loud outgoing publicist, in other words exactly the person you would expect to be carrying an 'it' bag.
The bag is totally fabulous, but as an example of an anti-it bag? Hardly.
p.s. props to the costume department. This was so appropriate!
exaggerated shoulders
It's official- the big shoulders of the 80s are back. But I'm not exactly sure that's a good thing. Reading WSJ correspondent Christina Binkley's report from milan got me thinking with a more skeptical eye of all the 80's styles we've been seeing. She spoke of 80's fatigue, and predicted that the collections that were overly reliant on the decade would look entirely out of date within a year, maybe two.
I understand that designers are trying to get consumers to open up their pocketbooks. It seems like you can do that either by one of two ways- a)designing more commercial, basic pieces that appeal to the consumer as an investment, or b) creating exciting, "i gotta have it" pieces that consumers will pay for regardless of their bank statements.
The second method certainly worked for some- balmain's outrageously expensive clothes were flying off the shelves, their $2,165 dollar jeans were quickly sold out.
But I feel like too many designers tried to generate the "i gotta have it" effect by too closly immitating balmain's 80s inspired collection. While balmain has no patent to the exaggerated shoulders these over the top, blown-up shoulders were on practically every runway and ended up feeling omnepresent, stale, and worst of all gimmicky.
You want to inspire us to ignore our sinking portfolio's and spend like it's 2007? Give us something fresh, new and inspired- not something that we've already seen last parade down the runway.
I understand that designers are trying to get consumers to open up their pocketbooks. It seems like you can do that either by one of two ways- a)designing more commercial, basic pieces that appeal to the consumer as an investment, or b) creating exciting, "i gotta have it" pieces that consumers will pay for regardless of their bank statements.
The second method certainly worked for some- balmain's outrageously expensive clothes were flying off the shelves, their $2,165 dollar jeans were quickly sold out.
But I feel like too many designers tried to generate the "i gotta have it" effect by too closly immitating balmain's 80s inspired collection. While balmain has no patent to the exaggerated shoulders these over the top, blown-up shoulders were on practically every runway and ended up feeling omnepresent, stale, and worst of all gimmicky.
You want to inspire us to ignore our sinking portfolio's and spend like it's 2007? Give us something fresh, new and inspired- not something that we've already seen last parade down the runway.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I know that gwenyth paltrow's not necessarily the most popular person- and that her newsletter GOOP hasn't exactly helped anything. But I really do admire the way in which she is able to look so chic day to day- it doesn't look like she's trying to hard or spending hours in front of the mirror. She seems to have a well defined sense of personal style.
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