fall doll

Fall 09 Erdem (this collection is full of the cutest Fall DRESSES EVER!!)
this is really one of the cutest little autumn dress and practical for work. (which is sadly how my mind works these days...)
i love the mustard skirt (ever since my sister went through that year of only wearing it...it grew on me immensely. it isn't easy to wear, yet so wearable)
the textiles in satin (or silk?) of this collection made the simple shapes chic. the inky colourscape was so refreshing, but still very fall appropriate.
loopy neckpieces to replace traditional boring scarves, LOVE.
i always love tights with my dresses, and the shoes are maj, echoing those amazing colorblocked prints from the dresses.

its spring 09 Lanvin
but i can't help but see it this fall with a cute coat, then take it off for evening and big reveal
i love this volume, and recently bought a dress with this type of (almost maternity) wide waist and its very faltering
and so comfy...and still chic. too much of the stuff i own is tight (i mean fits me like a glove, so perfectly ha) and at the end of a night i am so damn relieved to remove it. ha AGAIN the chic wearable mustard colour in a big shoulder LOOP. sidenote: not only do i love mustard for autumn style...i love it smeared on a sandwich. yum

happy autumn fashionites! let the leaves fall...

hot or not?

so goth is cool, who doesn't love wearing black?
and that necklace is major, huge and well...fucking awesome! silver+tribal=collar cool
the hair is huge, fluffy and a strange shade of purply silver grey
and those earring are equal parts klingon, native american and elfin.
but something still feels off.
i am still inspired, but like my mother says with fashion,
Sometimes less is better.
and Coco used to say when you are about to leave to go out,
take one thing off.
what do you think?

(from facehunter.com, which i hadn't been on in a few months. its way too chic/posed now, not quite as self-conscious as the satorialist, but its very fashionmag and not street fashion anymore, does anyone else agree?)

new motto

'She was intoxicated by herself,
Every night she kisses someone new."
as seen on a bathroom wall in brazil
reading this sorta changed my life
who knew a fusion restaurant called zaza
could do this to ones life

aubergine

eggplant
brinjal (Solanum melongena)
a nightshade related to the tomato and potato
a perennial often cultivated as an annual

a berry
closely related to tobacco
european or chinese

grayish-purple according to Crayola
what a beautiful shade of violet in our spectrum of style.

thank you thaimychu! stunning foto. a talented photographer who needs to quit grad school pronto.

pretty pretty petticoat

crinolines are in.

tulle is in.
asymmetrics are in.
bi-sected gowns are in.
pastels and black are truly a match made in fashion heaven.
(my elementary school bff's mom taught me everything goes with PINK ha)
oh yeah and roisin is always in.
(emphasizing your size when your pregnant is in to V&R)

oh yeah and HOW MAJ ARE THOSE SHOES, I DIE.
love you viktor.
love you rolf.
i love fashion through your thick glasses that are just like mine.

the devil

(reversed)

shattering the moonlight

white wings fan

tonight a white peacock haunted my thoughts. i obsessively looked at pictures of gorgeous white peacocks online. here is a marvelous hybrid.

'All its plumage fiery with the starshine,
Nacreous, shimmering, weeping, iridescent,
It drifts across the floor and mounts the bed,
To the tap of little satin shoes.
Gazing with infernal eyes.
Its quick beak thrusting, rending, devil's crimson . . .
Screams, great tortured screams shake the dark canopy.
The light flickers, the shadow in the corner stirs;
The wax face lifts; the eyes open.

A thin trickle of blood worms darkly against the vast red coverlet and spreads to a pool on the floor.'

excerpt from The White Peacock by Stephen Vincent Benet

what? i AM a Plastic.

just got back from jetsetting to Rio with my gay boys
and went to the Melissa store in Ipanema Beach shopping area. SAW THREE PAIRS OF ZAHA SHOES IN PERSON! truly stunning.
you can't try them on, they are in plastic cases like art, i guess like they should be. they weren't even for sale, just for show.
but if i owned them i'd wear them all the time. so i tried on quite a few pairs, was really disappointed with the Vienna Westwood ones, i really thought i'd buy the black ones with the three ankle straps, but the matte plastic is ugly. (more palatable for my blog in this bronze, but unfortunately, these pictures really make them look better than they are)

so anyways after trying on quite a few pairs, and being disappointed by the fact that this particular store had very few pairs in my big foot size (ie the black booties below that i wanted for my stylish rainy days in manhattan, boo)

but my pal simon said we had to leave and go eat freijoda, saturday special bean stew-ended up AMAZING! however,because of our hasty retreat, i didn't have time to purchase. and boy was that a blessing in disguise. we had not discovered the crazy downtown bargain shopping mecca/experience that is Centro. Cheap cute cool hip shoes for cheap, i am talking dirt cheap. i wish i could of bought suitcases full for friends, family and more to sell to turn a profit. i found my plastic shoes in the bargain bins for mostly less than $10 (gotta love the Brazil Real exchange rate!) I got the black knockoff version of these Melissa's swirly flats with an ankle strap (thus more practical and CUTER!)

I got a few other pairs, but the ones that were mirrors after ZAHAS were so impossible to find in my size in black. i found a location with white but couldn't bring myself to buy them (even though i think they were $3, i am so stupid, i get so fixated on what i want when i shop sometimes) i will post pics of me in the beauties sooon, before fall really gets here. but even then, i bet they will look adorable with tights!

bed fellows

London Fashion Week
Spring/Summer 2010

my friend had the guy who designed this as a fashion professor in india.
he slept with him after graduation.
the shirt makes so much sense now.
and i want one.
ashish, email me for my address.
xoxo,
ubi

brilliance

Melissa shoes by Zaha Hadid
great article from Dezeen

ok i am a little behind on these from 2008....but WOW!
serious stunning. i like the Lacoste ones...too. BUT THESE ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING like her building...wow
i need to locate a pair now...pronto
any ideas/leads?