oh.my.gaga.

huge gaga fan here.
this gave me a gagagasm.

iris apfel: an eye for style

i want to be her.
she's amazing.

anyone recognize this dress that iris placed in the nordstrom window display?

its a free people dress that vassiliki last wore here on valentine's day!

more posts coming soon! promise!

xoxo
maxwell conrad

terry richardson.

he has an odd sense of sex appeal.




also, he's amazingly amazing.

the end.

ask alice!

with the premier of Tim Burton's "ALICE IN WONDERLAND [3d]" starring JOHNNY DEPP, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, ANNE HATHAWAY and newcomer MIA WASIKOWSKA happening tonight, i thought a post featuring the December 2003 "Alice in Wonderland" editorial shown in American VOGUE was appropriate.

my favorite ALICE creations are the ones done by Karl Lagerfeld for CHANEL and Marc Jacobs for his self titled line MARC JACOBS.

the VERSACE and VIKTOR & ROLF creations are a close second.
Donatella hit all the right notes; the ruffled layers on her Versace gown are exquisite! and the Viktor & Rolf accordion neckline just seems so right for a Vogue interpretation of everyone's favorite lost girl.
(the way VOGUE included the idea of TWEEDLE DEE & TWEEDLE DUMB through Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren's presence was perfect)

what are your thoughts? favorites? least favorites?

enjoy! :)

grace is god

VOGUE (U.S.A) January 2010
"already famous" with sasha pivovarova
shot by steven meisel
styled by grace coddington

the kind of styling in this shoot is exactly the kind of fun i want to start having not only with outfits i style for others but with my own personal wardrobe.

its so fun. fearless. colorful!!

grace is a genius. point blank.

the outfits on sasha give me the feeling of a young anna piaggi/catherine baba love child with a dash of taylor momsen's character 'jenny' from gossip girl.

i'm in love.

here's a video of grace at work:
(alongside one of my favorite fashion photographers, annie leibovitz [i sometimes call leigh "my annie"])

youth

i stumbled upon these images on the web (source unknown) of jessica and freja wearing rather eccentric outfits for their calm beach setting. if the photographer and stylist had the intention of creating some sort of odd juxtaposition between the solidity of their clothing and the airiness of the beach, i KINDA see it(?) i think(?)
whatever.
i'm in love with the photos regardless of the stylistic intentions.
the photos remind me of the young girls i'd see playing on the beaches of new york growing up.
the 7 or 8 year old girls who have already spent a huge chunk of their summertime swimming and sunbathing on the beach and have decided that swimsuits were "soooo two weeks ago". these girls would rather play dress-up and tease their hair. no more searching for sea shells and making sand castles.

each models expression says "lets play" in very different ways.

and frankly, i want to play too!

hold on while i go whip up a black tulle skirt and find the faux-leather jacket i bought on sale at H&M last year; and have worn maybe 4 times since. perfect for dress up.