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HUNT: Whenever there is a redhead on screen, I tend to take notice on how they are styled, especially what colors they are wearing. It can be tricky to get the right colors to work with the my coloring: Blue eyes = cool colors & Red hair and freckles = warm colors… which colors work best? Tuning in this way, I’ve actually found a lot of good inspiration, as silly as it sounds. Most recently I fell in love with Joan Holloway’s yellow ochre coat and thought how pretty it looked against her red locks and that swellegant blue eyeshadow!
GATHER: I found a similar harvest color hue in this modern sculptural jacket at Anthropologie. I really love the unexpected silhouette! Pair the retro color with some gold jewelry and a messy updo… I think I’ve found a wardrobe staple for autumn. P.S. Mad Men‘s costume designer Janie Bryant was once asked if the show’s vintage style rubs off on her current wardrobe. “Sure,” she replied, “But there’s a fine line between looking like you’ve been influenced by the early ’60s, and looking like you’re going to a theme party for the early ’60s!” In other words: A little period styling goes a very long way.
Flipping through my September issue of Vogue, I stopped when I came to this particular page photographed by Steven Meisel. The editorial is simply called Tender Is the Night. The grellow knit with mismatched vintage looking buttons running up the back, the bias cut velvet skirt in a fawn-gold hue, the rear window pause a la Grace Kelly – the call to ladylike elegance is beckoning! A Modest Proposal: The look is covered up, demure- you could say (gasp) mature! So how is it so intriguingly sexy? Concealing is the new revealing. But was it ever out of fashion? Love it!
I’ve been loving (a new to me) blog, Amateur Couture, which skillfully combines two very related subjects, as told by the description “I love fashion and fashion loves art.” In the images above originally posted by AC from upper top left- fashion: Stella McCartney art: Pierre-Joseph Redouté & art: May Yang fashion: Chris Benz Can’t wait to see what is posted next!
Typical to the overexposed, quirky world that sometimes can you uncomfortable, Juergen Teller‘s latest work for Marc Jacobs hit the right note for me again for the fall 2010 campaign. I’ve been that girl before, still dressed up after a long day and needing to stop somewhere to lie about in the sun. In fact, I was that girl this weekend. Any time the photographer shoots with the contrast of the models in Jacobs + great wide open spaces of nature’s dramatic backdrop makes a formula set to get my heart humming…
I came across these tees by Out of Print and I just fell in love. Let’s judge a book by it’s cover, shall we? Which one is your favorite? For every shirt you buy, a book is given to a community in need via Books for Africa. Also of note is the company’s blog, which posts all sorts of goodies for the reading enthusiasts. Which is how I found the following gem – the restored original film (over 100 years old) of Lewis Carroll’s tale, Alice in Wonderland. Enjoy!
I picked this tote up back in January, and I’m still feeling it’s awesomeness. It’s absolute madness how much a woman needs to carry with her when she has more than one child. Madness! Sometimes I feel like it takes more time to pack us up than be out. But with this Mary Poppins number, I’m never without a thing. It’s just grab the bag the size of my torso and go. In fact, I almost feel like I’m living out of a carry-on and I like it. Now I can just as resourceful as Michelle Pfeiffer in One Fine Day. Remember when when her son accidentally gets ice cream all over her work attire before her big presentation, and she pulls on that child size dinosaur shirt from her bag and throws a scarf over the rest? Or the raincoat she just happens to have with her as it starts pouring at the soccer match? Or the best use of the bag: when she constructs superhero costumes for the kids at the the 9th street drop-off because it’s hero day and the kids can’t go inside without costumes, right? And that’s when George Clooney turns to her and says, “W-Where’d you get a bag like that?”
Dearest Fred Flare,
Please bring back your diamante fox ring that went on backorder and then never returned.
Because you broke my heart. And I would give him such a nice home.
While looking for some royalty free images for a project I’ve been working on, I came across paper pursuits. Browsing through the vintage spreads and couturier sewing patterns has me wistful for days gone by when women dressed to the nines. Good thing there are so many occasions to dress up this time of the year – because I love to!
These Christian Louboutin Miss Clinchy boots completely fascinate me. Probably because I can’t get through my day on anything higher than a two and a half inch heel, and even if I could, they aren’t really my style… but still, I can’t stop looking at them. I had an issue of Flare that I picked up while in Canada spread out in front of me the other night when I was painting landscapes and somehow ended up painting these too. I mean – - – Ponyhair. Leopard. Print. So outrageously high and sculptural and insane, they look like an object d’art to me. Can one use a shoe as a vase? Oh well, If you can’t wear ‘em, paint ‘em. (The other boot is just out of my imagination, but more my style.)
Over the weekend, I went thrifting for the first time in ages. I didn’t have my usual shopping mojo, but I did come away with this incredible pair of twist earrings. I can’t decide if I will wear them as is, or turn them into rings…
