I’m going to get this tattoo! What do you think?
Updates from December, 2009
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i had a great idea...
Carmen
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speaking of hair...
Carmen
Do you think this lady looks like a lesbian? Not that there is anything wrong with that. However, I am trying to not look like a lesbian but my hair is growing out and I need a good in between cut. I really like this cut but I’m afraid if I got it I would look like a lesbian from the 80’s. I think my end goal cut will be this last picture.
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Mai Lamore shoes
Emilily
I was browsing through my Elle magazine yesterday, and came upon these lovely shoes! They’re made by a French designer, Mai Lamore. (For our reader(s) out there who aren’t Carmen or Emilily, we recently purchased feather earrings, so this is in keeping with a theme.)Here is a link to a larger picture at SBeulah’s fashion blog, because you really have to see them full size to appreciate the beautiful detail.
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When I did a quick web search to see where one might purchase these beauties, I found another stunning pair, made out of hand-painted silk and 18-karat gold, for only $27,945.I know the price seems a bit outrageous, but I think these really are a work of art, and the fact that they are functional makes them that much more valuable.
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Seems a little more reasonable when you consider someone paid $72.8 million for Rothko’s Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose. I wonder if anyone pointed out to them that they could have had 2,605 pairs of Mai Lamore Rose petal shoes instead. -
want...
Carmen
so pretty… on sale on gilt today by Jonathan Kelsey…
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Drinkin' the Kool-aid...
Emilily
Dylan and I went on a run the other day, and I decided to sport some of the paraphernalia! D looked like he was considering asking me to run ten paces behind him, but then thought better of it, probably cause I looked so kick-ass.xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Carmen
Saw this in the window the other night, not sure what to make of it. Trying to figure out how to insert a joke about the Second Amendment but I’m not sure anyone would get it. Any suggestions?
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online today
Emilily
K Dukes’ comment about the practicality of these boots cracked me up. Although I’m not particularly crazy about the boots, I always appreciate some good rationalization. (I also like tall boots, and the hidden toughness of a lug sole, but I think this model needs a little more meat on her calves to pull off this look.)I also really like Garance’s post today – do you get Vogue? I think this line epitomizes what I imagine my perfect wardrobe might look like “The masculine wardrobe, the relaxed femininity…”
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somewhat obsessive behavior
Emilily
I have just discovered (thank you Dylan!) a brilliant new app for iPhone, the myPantone color app. This app is sheer friggin’ blow your mind genius. (I love love love color schematics, so even if it weren’t genius, I would probably still buy it and blissfully extol its mediocrity, I am that hopelessly besotted.) In brief, it gives you 7 or 8 pantone color books to flip through, as well as the ability to take a snapshot and then pull the pantone hues out of the image and create numerous custom color palettes.
Now, you may ask – aside from geeking out with my iPhone, what else would I use this somewhat pricey ($9.99) app for? Ah ha! Here’s what I am going to do! Photograph all my favorite clothes and create custom color palettes based on outfit combinations! Then, anytime I am out shopping, and I am wondering if I should buy something, and if so, what would I wear it with, I can photograph the item in question, pull out some swatches, and see if they match any of my in-heavy-rotation palettes. I will never again have one of those moments where I’m like, this sweater would look awesome with these pants, but I wish I had noticed at the store that they were two completely non-coordinateable* shades of ochre! Also, once you create a color palette, you can email it, and the email includes the ASE files to send your swatches to Photoshop!
* Non-coordinateable may not be a real word. Spell check says it isn’t, but spell-check also says the word geeking should not be used as a verb, and that I am spelling ochre wrong, which I don’t think I am. Or perhaps I am, and I am just stubborn.
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on Hautelook today
Emilily
Gawd I would give one of my kidneys for one of these Herve Leger dresses!
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last night...
Carmen
So I was all dressed up ready to go to a dinner party with a “french peasant” theme. Here was my outfit:
Strangely it didn’t go over so well. Apparently people are not familiar with the French Basque Peasants and their traditional “basque-horn” head-dress. Who knew! Needless to say it was a little embarrassing to walk in and realize that only the food was supposed to be french peasant themed. Luckily I travel with an extra outfit at all times for just such an occasion!
I met some lovely people and ate alot of good food. Max made seafood bouillabaisse, which is one of my favorite dishes in all the world. Everyone there made delicious food and it was hosted by the guy in rabbit hat and cigarette looking pensive.
And at the end of the night we took some portrait shots. My brain is not working so good today so I’m just going to post these pictures and go get a glass of water.
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lookbook
Emilily
I am digging our new addition to the addictions. Besides the outfits, the composition and lighting effects applied to some of the images are quite beautiful. I think my favorite are the posts where the wearer has created a collage of images, like one main outfit, then two little sections of a print or texture. Although, I swear some of those people are lying about their ages, and if not, then they ought to be, because they look way too haggard for 16.
I just read the FAQ section, and saw that it was started by two people in San Francisco!
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Anthropologie
Emilily
I don’t like everything at Anthropologie, but every once and a while, I find a real treasure. I can go in there 10 times, and find nothing, then the next time, just randomly run across something that I absolutely have to have, and those finds are consistently my closet favorites, even years later. (Like that fuchsia dress!) They have some beautiful sweaters right now that would really help me in the transition to fall. I love all the draping!
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Cloche...
Carmen
I’m really loving this style right now.
Like I promised, I have been reading Elegance as I mentioned in this blog post. It is quite beautiful and I love seeing the styles change depending on whats happening in the country. My favorite style so far is the 20’s and out of the 20’s my most favorite thing is the cloche hat style. This style was invented by Caroline Reboux, who made all the hot hats for all the hot people. She was a self made woman who, like Chanel, grew up in an impoverished environment. The cloches that I have seen for sale these days are hideous things that look like fisherman hats – not elegant at all. If I can’t find one that I like I might have to try my hand at millinery and make my own! I’ll keep you updated!
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On the subject of style
Emilily
I thought since we were talking about personal style last week, I’d post my “idea wall.” I don’t know how it got that name, it started as a Cirque du Soliel calendar that had a kind of creepy picture one month, so I started clipping pictures of clothes and shoes I liked on top of it. Now I change the page each month, and it is always interesting to see what items make the cut from one month to the next. Some things get tossed at the end of the month, and I am glad I didn’t jump on that trend, and when something lasts for a few months, often I buy it (or something very similar.) Like those studded ballet flats from capezio (top right) have been up there for a long time….I hope soon they will be on my feet! -
On that note...
Carmen
I’m glad you posted that last one about Lady Gaga, it segues so nicely into the post I’ve been thinking about. This post contributes to quite a few of our interests. It delves into the meaning of a word (our lexophile tendencies) and explores the branches of culture that come out of that word (i’m talking about clothes!). The word is…
Style.
Good ol’ Merriam-Webster says style is:
2 a : a distinctive manner of expression b : a distinctive manner or custom of behaving or conducting oneself c : a particular manner or technique by which something is done, created, or performed .
Little did I know, its also this!: c. the filiform usually elongated part of the pistil bearing a stigma at its apex AND! d : a slender elongated process (as a bristle) on an animal. (you just got learned!)
Lets ignore these last two and focus on the first one. My question is this – Can style be learned? If it is learned can it also be genuine? and one final question – Can one learn style at the ripe age of 33?
My first theory was that you have to have alot of money to have style. And while money certainly helps, my theory can be proven wrong very easily. My next theory was that you had to be raised around style (like The Sartorialist) but that theory can be easily proven wrong also. Obviously, people believe that style can be learned, I mean, there are piles upon piles of books written on the subject. However, if one reads a book on the subject that doesn’t necessarily mean that one could then convey style. And really, lets just take a look at the definition. A distinctive manner, a particular manner. It doesn’t say anything about being able to pick out a good outfit. Its the manner in which you wear the outfit. Its picking out an outfit that can best enhance your inner manner. Is this right?
Here is my final theory and conclusion: people who exude a natural sense of style are born with a sort of brain disorder (much like OCD!) where they must have things look a certain way or they feel ill. That much cannot be learned. Everyone else are just posers who can either pull it off well or not so well. People with true style are few and far between. I have decided to read a couple books on the subject and search for my distinctive style. I will keep you updated on this endeavor.
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CK...
Carmen
I don’t know why but I’m always drawn to Calvin Klein even though just saying “Calvin Klein” reminds me of cowboys in the 80’s. Why does that happen? I have no idea. Maybe it was a marketing campaign they did in the eighties that just stuck in my mind. Whatever it is – I like their stuff! Its always a well done combination of simple and interesting. I really like these dresses (even though I probably would never wear them, and I admit the second one is a bit bag-ish but there is still something cool about it) and I would imagine that you, especially, would like this jacket if only so you could run around pretending you were in Bladerunner.
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And on the fashion front!
Emilily
There is some interesting stuff going on with Gilt Groupe today.
I really love the structure of nearly all of the Donna Karan dresses, but this coat is a little confusing to me. Also, here are some nipples!
On Gilt Fuse’s upcoming sales calendar, Sequin claims to be “well-made, well-priced costume jewelry.” Somewhere in that phrase is an oxymoron…
And finally, I just bought these jeans! They were on special at Nordstrom’s although still quite pricey. I have been trying on various brands of skinny jeans, and they all make me look like I have the legs of a supermodel…just compressed, so they are disproportionately shorter and thicker. Then I accidentally tried on a pair that was “ankle-length” and viola! they fit. I am unconditionally against ankle-length pants, no matter how trendy they become, because the last thing I need to do is visually chop off even a few precious inches of my leg…but apparently, my leg ends where the average jeans-model’s ankle starts. -
Just in time!
Emilily
Since you’re up in the sticks, in the land that the internet and cell phone reception forgot, and we agreed I am responsible for posting this weekend – here it is! At, literally, the 11th hour. And although I have so much more to say (please feign surprise) I will end it with this: I hope you and Tuesday have room in your closets!
Be prepared...my goal is to eliminate about two-thirds of my wardrobe!
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shoes shoes shoes
Emilily
Okay, I love converse, and I love a high heel…but please oh please, not at the
same time. I would normally say that any shoe could be improved with a bit of
height, but NOT athletic shoes. (For example, I would also say that any beverage
could be improved with a splash of champagne, EXCEPT coffee. See, there’s an
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boot with a heel – just like the one here, but with a 3+ inch wedge or cuban heel, and preferably not made by UGG. Somehow, UGG boots in my mind represent a very poor attempt to class up those sweatpants you should never have worn out of the house. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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And lastly, the boots that for months I have been coveting and stalking and making up little love songs in honor of, the Frye Harness Boot in Crazy Horse. I love everything about them – the walkable heel, the color, the name of the color, and the Lonesome Dove-esque androgynous cowboy fantasies they inspire…
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plastic shoes
Emilily
I cannot decide if I like these shoes or not, they’re on Gilt Groupe right now. I do love Vivienne Westwood, and jelly shoes bring back memories (ok, they bring back memories of being made fun of by some nasty sixth graders because my neon green jelly sandals did not match my home-made rainbow fairy costume, but jelly shoes are now super retro cool and those mean girls are probably fat and married to some knuckle-dragging mountain man and living in a double-wide in Orick, so there.) Anyways, do I love these or hate them?!?!
Plastic shoes?
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new project?
Carmen
What do you think about adding sequins to an old pair of shoes as a craft project?
this picture was taken by garance dore - she's so goooood.
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New Gilt Pleasures!
Carmen
Are you so excited about Gilt Fuse??? It will be cheaper and more edgy! Finally, I might be able to afford buying something from them! It opens next wednesday only to members…. which we are.
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Off to the the BBQ...
Emilily
…but before I go, some things to note:1. I am wearing a romper. An entire outfit made out of one item of clothing. I like the efficiency of it. But I also like the efficiency of my fanny pack, and that doesn’t mean it is in good taste. Either way, I’m giving it a shot.
2. I put the Nars monoi oil in my hair. It smells tropical. It looks a tiny bit greasy. It makes me feel like I spent the night on a beach in Tahiti, so overall, a success.
3. My new camera, which I do not yet know how to use but am madly in love with anyway, is a Leica D-Lux 3. I got a smashing deal, or as my friend Mia said, I used my energy to manifest it. Here’s the link to their website: http://en.leica-camera.com/photography/d_system/digilux_3/
4. I dig this blog thing. Maybe I am just totally self-absorbed with us, but it is so much fun!
5. Holy crap look how white my legs are.
