I need to get a cigarette

The allure of women smoking, made attractive by the the sartorialist and Helmut Newton.

Mandy Rice DaviesBridget Bardot

Mary Kate Olsen

Not sure who this young lady is, but photographed by cobra snake

Lauren Hutton and The Row

In honor of the Olsen twin's birthday. Lauren Hutton for The Row spring 08.


And The Row video. The music by the way is by Danny Fujikawa.
His Myspace:

( http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=14549183 )

i'm picking out a thermos for you

How easy is it to fall in love with big, blonde curls? I have been growing my hair out, going from brunette to blonde. What a frustrating journey! Thank god for inspiration like this:

Burnadette Peters with her lovely hair AND dress in the Jerk

Ellen Von Unwerth for Lula magazine

you take the good you take the bad

I'm back from hot, sweaty Mexico. After being gone for six weeks I expected to come home, crank up the central air, sit in front of the computer, eat pizza, and catch up on the world. (World of fashion anyway). I missed out on so much, some bad, some good, but mostly heartbreakingly bad.
I always prefer the bad news first.

Yves Saint Laurent passed away today.

Richard Avedon photo of YSL's Soirée de Paris

Style Bytes is no longer. I think we all have the same feelings about this.... booo! no come back!

The good news:

The Coveted now has an ebay shop and surprise surprise it's wonderful. I would expect nothing less.
And the last bit of good news is that the sex in the city movie is finally here.
Oh how I missed this country and its internet

see you in june!

I'm leaving today for Mexico and will be gone for six weeks. Post will probably be few and far between as I will be without a computer.

Below are photos by Richard Avedon. Titled "IN MEMORY OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. COMFORT", these appeared in 1995 in the New Yorker and tell a fable of love between model Nadja Auermann and a skeleton.
aren't they something?

the perfect trio: Terry Richardson, Vincent Gallo, and Vodka

I just wanted to take a moment to share this commercial for Belvedere Vodka. It will no doubt be a great 30 seconds in your day.

bend you over my knee

Over the knee boots were made popular by hookers and pirates. Neither of which I am, although now that I'm unemployed I just might consider new career options. Below are fine examples of over the knee boots. I really don't remember where the rest of the pics came from, but two are of fashion toast. What a super lady she is!
Really, if I had a pair, I would want to wear mine much like Mira Sorvino did in Woody Allen's 1995, Mighty Aphrodite. Even if it weren't for the OTK boots, she was a hooker with great style!

a stardust memories kind of gal

Camilla Stærk's inspiration for her spring 08 collection makes so much since. The inspiration: gals found in woody allen movies. Particularly Stardust memories and Manhattan.I'm such a sucker for plaid and ginghams that without the woody allen influence, I'm head over heels.
Above is from fall 08. Leather dress, jumpsuit, cropped trousers, yes, YES, YES!

crazy lazy jumpsuit

Sometimes you're just in love for no rhyme or reason. For me, it's these crazy lazy print jumpsuits. It's not a shape I would wear, but a shape I'll dream of wearing. It would be hard to have worries wearing one of these.

from top to bottom: roberto cavalli spring 08, emilio pucci spring 04, stella mccartney spring 08.
on a side note, I'm starting to find Roberto Cavalli attractive and it scares me. Um, his clothes, not the man.

white light white heat

rodarte fall 2006

love the glove

I have rodarte on the brain. These are some glove shots from spring 2007.

hey fat girl, ya ticklish?

I'm an all American girl and I have the gut to prove it! I wear a size 12 and it's fine. The weight issue is such a tired one. There are skinny people who get paid for being thin and beautiful, and then there's people like me who are just happy to be eating cheese.
I never really got all riled up over it until I read about Vogue's weight issue. Vogue commissioned Kate and Laura Mulleavy (of rodarte) to go on a diet! I yelled, "nut-unh!" at the computer when I read it. Really, REALLY?, even though they were okay with it, really?

I'm not questioning the rest of the shape issue because really, who cares? It's clear vogue doesn't understand that average sized people exist. It's not really their place to. They are a fashion magazine after all.
I guess vogue's plan to use the sisters weight to sell more issues worked because now, for the first time in years I have to go buy a vogue and read all about it. Well, I DID buy the french vogue when kate moss was on the cover for her top shop collection, but that was a necessity.

it bag, schmit bag

I think we all can agree that the "it" bag is dead. I've been so board with bags lately, not wanting to carry them or seeing any that catch my fancy. Because of this I am so grateful for the Richard Prince bags for L.V. They fascinate me, the story, the design, the construction. I don't have the desire to carry one, just sit and stare at it.

we're trendsetting, we're what's happening

chlee sevigny from 2004 please click to enlarge

Trendsetting were trendsetting
Were walking through town
trendsetting were trendsetting
We walk like a ghost
We learn dances brand new dances
Like the nuclear bomb
When were trendsetting
Bright white setting
Oh isnt it wild...

standing on the corner waitin for the bus

Margot Tenenbaum

Style Bytes

? not to sure who this is, although I'd like to know?

I am going to Mexico in two weeks and I will be doing quite a bit of traveling by bus. I have very romantic images like these stuck in my head. This is how I dream it to be.

It's probably going to be more like this:

It's too hot in Mexico for furs anyway!

happy easter and henry clarke

Henry Clarke collage (please click to enlarge)

I just love henry clarke. If you're a fan, then you're going to love this collection of photos I found on foto_decadent. I just love the whole collection so much I viewed it four times. Enjoy!

Is the shoe replacing the handbag?

WOW! This is wonderful, full on hard core shoe porn from the new york times. Bill Cunningham did a audio slide shoe on the new spring shoes. The question in the end was this, "Is the shoe as a decorative object replacing the fascination that the handbag has held for so long?"
I'm having issues trying to link things, I sure wish I could link this video. Anyway check it out on the New York Times website

just thought I'd share

I just thought I might share with you my favorite reads from other, better, fashion blogs.

Thread Trend had a great a of the band She and Him, which I didn't know about before, but now I do and I just can't stop listing to their myspace page.

Trendinista did another one of her comparisons that everyone just loves, this time it was Victoria beckham and kokeshi doll. The similarities are scary.

fashion binge talks about a different kind of child abuse . Sticking your kid in those damn crocks!

Fashion Verbatium is now .net and although this happened long ago, I have yet update the damn link. Another link I have yet to add is the super SUPER great Jak and Jil , which Adrian Corsin of fashion verbatim writes for.

I really enjoyed fashion verbatim post on that prada skirt that I just love so much. It was summed up perfectally, "Ms. Harmon pales against Ms. Stone’s angular features, which makes the entire look relatively more drab." It's true, it's so true. That skirt isn't meant for women with hips and lips and boobs.

Also, if you're a fan of fashion verbatim. (gee,I wonder if I am?) or just a fan of a great haiku, you should totally check out the haikus Adrian Corsin wrote for fashion week. My favorite:

on MELLINDA MAE-HARLINGTEN:
The consensus was:

If great hats speak

for themselves

Ruffles made babble

Brandon Walsh was pretty darn dreamy

A spin off of 90210 90210 ? So, there really is a god.

pretty

Jonathan Saunders Spring 08 inspired by the Memphis Group. I get so weak in the knees when I see color blocking like this. It's so minty and refreshing.