3.28.2014
March Laundry List
3.27.2014
Maison Labiche
I first heard about Maison Labiche a couple years ago through Garance (thanks for always introducing me to the cool things, Garance). Friends Jenny and Marie started the Paris-based company in 2010, embroidering soft cotton t-shirts with names of iconic people and phrases they find inspiring. Since then, they've expanded into shirts with embroidered hand gestures and album art, and even a kids line. And the best part is that you can now place custom orders on their website. Très cool, no? Leave it to the French to design the most simple, unique, and covetable closet staple. On a more affordable note, I want to DIY my own sewn tee for Coachella this year. Now I just have to think up the perfect slogan...
3.23.2014
Sunday Succulents
I love a lazy weekend, but recently I've been trying to devote some down time to apartment decorating and cleaning, since there's little time for it during the week. My sister is an expert when it comes to decor DIYs, so we had a succulent day not too long ago, which involved painting flower pots and re-planting some store-bought plants. The perfect thing for my minimalist, mostly white room (succulents are perfect for indoor spaces).
2.24.2014
I've been on the hunt for a classic, quality denim jacket for.. well, forever. I'm petite, so I've never been able to find one at a thrift store that doesn't make me look like I came out of the '80s (not a bad look, just not what I'm going for). You can imagine my excitement when I stumbled across this treasure in J.Crew a few weeks ago. How great is their petite sizing?? While it's not exactly cheap, I just couldn't pass up such a perfect staple.
February Laundry List
2.11.2014
Bewitched, Bewitched
I think the way we connect with fashion is similar to the way we're all drawn to certain paintings. After all, fashion is art. Critics and editors pick apart collections each season to pinpoint specific elements that did and didn't work, but ultimately, our feelings about clothes are much simpler. Simple yet, conversely, inexplicable.
Walking through a gallery, we each tend to gravitate towards particular pieces of art, often subconsciously. Sometimes, there's this weird moment where something stirs inside us and everything else just fades into the background. I can't speak for anyone else, but I have a similar experience with clothes. Like, when I first saw this Dries collection, I literally got shivers. It's a feeling you can't fully articulate, but that's the beauty of it. You're bewitched (cue theme song), and that's enough. Well, maybe not for Style.com writers, but for personal fangirling purposes.. it's enough.
That said, I had to make a list of some of the things that made the collection so rad. (Side note: I know it's the middle of the NYFW, and everyone is talking about FALL FALL FALL, but it's not even mid-February. So let's just take a deep breath and soak up some in-season inspiration for a minute, k?)
1.31.2014
Happy Accident
I love it when things just fall into place. Kind of like how these four random photos I've pinned over the last few days actually make so much crazy sense together. I noticed the string of common colors after reading this great Rookie article by Sarah Sophie Flicker on creative vision. How serendipitous..
Did you know that those objects in the bottom left picture are actually painted-copper cuffs from Céline's Spring 2014 collection? Amazing, right? I thought they were old paint cans at first glance. Go team Philo.
1.13.2014
Shore Leave
I know this editorial is kind of old news, but I still can't get over it. Freja Beha is one of my favorite models. She pulls off the wavy bedhead with bangs, nonchalant rugged look amazingly well. Even her tattoos are cool (that float tatt on her neck? So good). I love how carefree, happy, and real she looks in this editorial. All while wearing Nike slip-ons that ranked high on the hotlist for a minute in the '90s. She just has this effortless, soulful air about her that you don't get with many models.
1.10.2014
The Composition Notebook
I think this planner was made for me. Growing up, I devoured books like chocolate and wrote in journals until my wrist hurt. The inkblot covers of composition notebooks would always catch my eye, like they were just waiting for me to crack them open. I also had a HUGE thing for Marissa Moss' Amelia books, due in large part to the classic covers, handwriting font, and, of course, the whole journal aspect. To this day, I often find myself in the notebook/paper section of any store, even if I'm looking for something completely unrelated, like a lint roller.
WHICH IS WHY I'm pretty obsessed with this planner, masked to look like a composition notebook slash top secret journal. Created by the Dutch duo behind Els & Nel, the Weekly Journal 2014 has a hard cover, graph paper pages (I love writing on graph paper), and a pull-out big-picture calendar. Oh, and there are only 500 copies in the world. Need I say more?
1.09.2014
Chloe Pre-Fall 2014
I love everything about this collection, from the delicious fall color palette to the pointe shoe-like pumps. If I were lucky enough to be clad in Chloé come fall, I would never take off that embroidered red, white and blue check coat (image #5). Ever. And those shoes just look insanely comfortable. If only I could borrow the massive wool, fur-patched winter coat (image #9) for my trip to New York, aka the polar vortex, next week. Really, the only turnoff of this collection is that one of the models looks like she hasn't slept or eaten in weeks. One of the (many) reasons why I could never be a model.
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