April 2009
40 posts
Bat For Lashes, I’m On Fire
why it's good to indulge the urge to splurge →
sarazucker:
you don’t have to feel bad about buying that $10,750 satin beaded jumpsuit!
“Well my darling, all shopping eventually leads to shoe shopping.”
– Gossip Girl
On fashion
Beyond its creativity, renewal or money, it is glamour that proves fashion’s perpetual seduction: glamour and its reflex of idealisation on to which every hope and fantasy can be projected; glamour and its implicit promise of a life devoid of mediocrity.
-Alicia Drake
Filson + Urban Outfitters collaborated on a line of bags? If I were a dude, I’d totally buy one of these.
Available here.
I never thought I'd say this, but
I may have been converted to reflexology this weekend…
Camera Obscura, French Navy
Currently reading:
I’m obsessed with it. So obsessed I’m probably going to fall behind on my book club book and all of the other books I’m in the midst of for this month. Oh, to live in Paris in the 70s with one of these camps.
Relationships in a Twist Over Twitter (USA Today) →
The daily grind.
Did you know that the French have a great phrase to describe the daily grind? It’s “métro-boulot-dodo” to mean subway-work-sleep. The expression was a popular slogan for the strikes in 1968. These three words were originally a part of a longer line: métro-boulot-bistrot (pub)-mégots ([cigarette] butts)-dodo-zéro, from the poem, Couleurs d’usine by Pierre Béarn…
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Micachu & The Shapes, Golden Phone
Everyone who lives in New York City says the same... →
It’s a harsh city, a city that can grab you, a city that’ll spit you out, a city that grips you, a city that’ll wear you down. Lots of people spent their first years here in tears.
But most of them just couldn’t leave. The energy is too insistent, the parties too crazy, the work too hard. And the dreams have no measure.
Watchthedailywhat:
The House Of Light And Shadow of the Day: Graphic designer Camil Tulcan turned a room in his house into a Camera Obscura by puncturing a hole in one of the walls, allowing him to create his own private sunrise.
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“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Four Tops, It’s The Same Old Song...
On trust.
“Yeah I know not to stress. I think I need to find a girl that would trust me to burn her pants off”
- Ty
Yes, I let him burn & tear my Paper Denims into shorts 3 years ago @ Preakness. It was amazing and infintely stupid at the same time, but after it all I was more comfortable and the shorts looked hot.
On going to the dark side
“Everybody changes. I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I’ve done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile.”
- Victoria Beckham, on how she feels when she looks back at photos of herself as Posh Spice, to the new issue of Time magazine
I...
“every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a...”
– brian doyle, from the best american essays (2005)
Why funny guys get the babes →
If You Can't Walk in Them, Don't Wear Them →
You emerge from the subway, it’s 9:17, and you get stuck on a narrow sidewalk behind someone trying to walk in heels when they so clearly cannot. You can’t go around them left or right, because they’re walking smack in the middle of the pedestrian lane for balance, fun - who knows what.
Thriller. Upside Down. →