Paired with a pair of either red or green plaid cigarette slacks and a white t-shirt.
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Category Archives: Shopping
April, May “A Surfer in Paris” looks
These are everything.
Photos via Foam Tumblr.
Dreaming in shoes
I came across these Prada SS10 lucite mules while feeding my online window-shopping addiction and haven’t been able to stop imagining outfits with them since. Here’s hoping they show up on ebay one day in my size and price range.
Also, this color combination has clearly been haunting me.
OC Vacation Classic part II
OC Vacation Classic part I
Washington Square Park, on a weekday summer evening
Look at your feet. Feel Happy.
These Gravis x Dan Funderburgh shoes featured on Foam‘s Tumblr just shot to the top of my wishlist. I need everything in my life to be this red and blue Hawaiian print. I’m talkin’ matching wallpaper and bedspread and curtains à la Barbra Streisand’s bedroom in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. How do I make this happen? Who do I call?
Also, close-up: notice the skateboarder in the fallen glass.
“We’re team USA and we’re going all the way”
The 2012 Olympics are everything I love about everything. Pomp and ceremony, patriotism, global solidarity, sports, costumes, London. Throw in the lascivious tales to come from the Olympic Village and I’m done.
The story-lines are bound to be epic and I can’t wait to watch the Dream Team 2.0 in action, the spectacular tension between the US women hurdlers play out and Michael Phelps represent my hometown as he looks to beat the record for overall medals won (USA upsetting France in the 2008 relay is still one of my favorite sports moments).
And despite the truly incomprehensible decision to have the Team USA uniforms made in China, I love them. More people should wear berets, especially if they look as dapper in them as Kevin Durant does in this picture tweeted by Kevin Love.
But more than the uniforms themselves, natty as they be, I love the effect the games have had on fashion–in collections, retail and magazine spreads. The June/July issue of Foam featured some of my favorite Olympics-inspired styling, not to mention a fantastic piece on British designers to know. Ever since I saw their “Undefeated” spread (pictured below) I’ve had to fight the urge to go into every American Apparel that I walk past and buy the entire stock of leotards and tube socks. Imagine them paired with this jacket and some Keds and that’s basically the outfit I’ve been wearing in my mind for the past week.
That and the uniform that these Australian lady Olympians wore in 1972 because I feel like this is what Margot Tenenbaum would have worn if she was the tennis prodigy. Also the Olympics clearly bring out the best in hats.
As I write, New York is doing it’s best impression of London with a torrential downpour beating at my windows–a sound I fell asleep to many a night when I studied abroad there my junior year of college. Though the recent viewing of season one of Luther had me convinced that since I left it’d become a city filled with nothing but depraved psycho-sexual serial killers, all of these London-centric features in the news are reminding me of everything I loved about living there, when for four months I was a trainer-head and my best friend wore a beret every day. We were before our time.
With hair, in my sneakes, at Notting Hill Arts Club circa 2009.
Crushing on Isabel Marant
Because she designs for the girls who make sporty look feminine, disco look cool and who can get away with wearing pajamas as clothes. That’s a lot.
photos courtesy of Style.com
I’m a mermaid and you can too
Tomorrow is the Coney Island Mermaid Parade–it is everything campy and summery and I’ve been counting down to it since April. For outfit inspiration (not that I need to dress in costume, being that I am, in fact, a real life mermaid) I looked back to the SS12 shows and picked out an assortment of my favorite under-the-sea inspired/themed looks. For my part, I’m really hoping to see at least one person there dressed like a sea anemone à la McQueen.
Versace, Alexander McQueen, Chanel
Armani, Marchesa, Antonio Berardi
Givenchy
And of course, for accessories (the best accessories being any creative incorporation of fishnet and seaweed, but we have to work with what we’ve got) there is the Givenchy shark-tooth pendant, a mermaid wrap ring and, my personal favorite, a Little Mermaid-themed ring by Disney Couture (I will not rest until I own this).
p.s. This:
(you’re welcome.)
