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Check it: my friend Anja aka Miss Clever Nettle is running a seriously amazing contest over on her blog at the moment. Basically, it involves one of my greatest loves, Polyvore, and the chance to win a $1000 Visa giftcard (that's a lot! Of money! Holy jeez!)
All you have to do is visit this post and use her mini-editor to create as many pretty Fall outfits as you like. I really hope that we/she win(s), and we can totally make this happen! There's plenty more info in her post, so I wont waste your time with details, and instead just say LADIES (and gents?), START YOUR (collaging) ENGINES!!
(images featuring clothing by Ulrika Sandström and Rachel Comey)
Of all the pieces I've had published here and there so far, this is easily the one I'm most proud of. It all started last fall with an email from a girl named Elizabeth Doan in Australia who thought I might like this brand spankin' new swimwear line called We Are Handsome, which lead to a blog post or two, which lead to a pitch and now--fast forward a few months, dozens of emails, a Skype conversation to the other side of the world, some early morning trips to Bed Stuy, a photoshoot (on medium format film!) in Brighton Beach on a frigid spring afternoon--my article is leading the Style section in FADER Magazine #68! Thanks so much to Jeremy for taking the time to talk on the internet with me, and for the motivational life tips imparted to me in a wine bar atop the Time Warner Building. I'm still working on taking them all to heart. Baby steps.
Some of you, like me, may have come across this glorious picture on Erin's tumblr recently. It's by frl.zucker on flickr, and at first glance I didn't think too much past "oooh, pretty colors, pretty bike, pretty bag!" However: upon closer inspection, I realized that, besides being pretty, that bag is both TAPESTRY and CAT PRINT. Stop the presses!!! That's the kind of mind-blowing combination that I never dared hope might exist anywhere outside my wildest, twee-est fever dreams.Naturally, I assumed anything so amazing could only be vintage. Still, I decided to poke around and see if I could find anything online even remotely similar. And then--a miracle! Un milagro!! A search for "cat tapestry bag" on ebay returned, after some careful sifting, this:
Dost mine eyes deceive me or is this the EXACT SAME BAG??? Waaaaah!!! It also comes in a smaller, dare I say even more adorable size. Long story short: as far as I'm concerned, this kind of success story is why the internet was invented, and why it's actually ok that we'll probably all be cyborgs with Google chips in our brain boxes come the year 2025.
Ok, so my weekend?? Bizarro world. Friends, I could not make this shit up if I tried. Long story short, I found out last week that the amazing people at streetwear brand 55DSL wanted to fly me to Italy to cover their Galactic Foosball Finals for FADER. Knowing little more than what I've told you in that sentence, I said HELLS YES. A few days later, I was in Bassano del Grappa at the foot of the Italian Alps, snapping photos of giddy, grappa-soaked dudes facing off over red and blue plastic foosmen (an actual term, I looked it up! Research!!)
Even though I only spent a total of about 36 hours over there (and almost that much in the air, I swear to gawd), it was an incredible time filled with insanely kind people, the best pizza I've ever had in my life, nutella gelato, poorly dubbed classic American films starring Frank Sinatra, a jacuzzi tub, $17 sunscreen and very, very little sleep. You can check out my post over on the FADER blog for a few more photos/details from the weirdest weekend of my adult life. I'd also like to throw in a GINORMOUS thank you to 55DSL for showing this scrappy little lady such a wonderful, welcoming time. Let's do this again real soon, ok????
I'm a little late posting these, but here's a couple shots from a shoot I assisted on a few weeks ago. The stylist pulled some amazing Matina Amanita jewelry, including this crazy-ass owl cuff! He also had more big sparkly rings than you could shake a stick at. Blingggg.
In other exciting jewelry news, I came home today to find a package from Kathryn, aka the Vamoose, waiting for me! I sent her a little care package of big silky shirts and Japanese treats a little while back, and the gorgeous bounty I received in return filled me with both wonder and amazement. Pictures soon!
Hoo boy, haters are definitely gonna hate, but I frickin' LOVE this dress on Alexa at the CFDA's (Burberry, I believe? Marc Jacobs durr!) The color looks good with that orange cube thing in the background too heheh. And the hair!! Super. Duper. Pretty.(photo found via tFS)
As a result of my recently busy days, I actually ended up making a bit of money this week, which was a pretty exhilarating feeling for a change. The first thing I did to celebrate was go out and buy a bunch of ranunculus in the most beautiful sunset colors.
I love them so much! They one of my favorite flowers (along with roses, and peonies, and lilacs, and anemones, and delphiniums, and...) I also decided to finally splash out on a kitchen table, which we've been needing since we moved in, but it turns out it's just too big for our place, booo. So, ahem, if anyone in NYC needs a really nice dining table, I know where you can get one cheap!
This print, which hangs above our bed, is amazing for two reasons: first, it looks JUST like my best friend, only naked, holding a bird (though I'd be lying if I said I had never seen her in a strikingly similar pose on more than one occasion ahaha.) Second, there's some writing on the back of the frame, which reads:"from a Portuguese Socialist magazine found in Lisbon, Summer 1977"Good stuff.
