i am weak.

i can't take it anymore.
i haaaaave to make one of these shredded up jimjamz that everyone is doing..
this picture from outsapop trashion sealed the deal:

she takes commissions, but i gotta think i can handle my own shredz...right? (crickets)

miss outsapop posted a tutorial (and of course camille has one as well) that makes it seems pretty doable, i don't know, this may HAVE to be this weekend's project...keren? kat? lou? who's with me?

pic from outsapop

picture bookz

recent acquisitions in the quest to keep my brain from becoming zeros and ones:


mike mills graphics films

i love mike mills. i love him so much. marry me.
mental note: need to dig out all old x-girl tshirts, post haste.
there is a picture of a pile of them in the book and i own at least 4 of 'em. (...somewhere)




also this:


the last magazine #2


fifty-eight pictures of natasha / camilla akrans

this magazine is so insanely enormous. i feel like edith ann reading the newspaper. (whoa..reference for old people? classic sesame street, dudes!)
the first issue was a bit boring, oopsy?
i liked this issue muuuuuch more content-wise (beyond the seductive ginormity). it's still a bit of an 'eh', though; to be honest.

ps, official review of M/M redesigned interview mag? GIANT THUMBS DOWN. shocking. so let down. thanks for killing me softly, mon freres.

necessary viewing

last night i went to film forum to see 'valentino, the last emperor'.



it was so funny and fantastic.
the tan, the pugs, the italian.
it was also, apparently, the hot ticket.
the entire day was almost sold out by 1 PM yesterday!
and i spied asfour(three?) and philip lim in the theatre as well....!

best moment of the film is when karl says in valentino's ear after his final show (they speak to each other in french, oh la la): "compared to us, everyone else makes rags"
!!!!!

getting crushed out on the things that only i can see

i got tired of waiting for warm weather to wear these shoes...


forever 21 dress / tights from sockman on st mark's / prada ss 08 sandals

..so i just went for it.

credit in the straight world

ohhhh HO....i KNEW there was a reason to be a packrat.
lookit what i found this morning!!!


(sorry bout the shitty iphone pic)

that, my dearests, is a pink HOLE baby barrette with gold glitter.
yes, you heard me right.

purchased in feb. 1995 during the 'live through this' tour.
the show was at roseland, and i went mainly as the 15 year old chaperone for my 13 year old sister and her friend (eva?) that were DYING to go.

what if i wore this thing???
dear god i hope i have a kid someday that cares about all this junk.

**EDIT: i love finding out that friends i have NOW like elizabeth and trudy were at that show too !! yahhhhhh!

*also found: sailor moon barrettes, a backstage pass for lollapalooza 94, and a smashing pumpkins guitar pick that billy corgan HIMSELF gave me. will be posted another day!

send me things

got a lovely little package in my sad grey work mailbox the other day:



the samantha pleet lookbook, wrapped in butterflies.
besides the ol' fashioned paper version, it also comes in video form (yeah dortch !). wrapped da times, oh la la.
there is a dark blue wool cape + dress situation inside there that i REALLY MUST HAVE. i shall beg her for a personal order at the next gossip girl night...

drats

i've been brainstorming for weeks now with friends about making fashion snuggies (black denim with bleach stains, A.WANG shredded teeshirt steez, leathuh, etc. we had a great list at some drunken point)
but i think we got bested, someone already beat us to the punch!

fash snugz:


now here is the real question, friends: why do i want this thing so badly?

pic from yvan, bien sur

when you're around me, i'm somebody else

i am on such a GBV kick lately.
reminds me of my college roommate bros and my ex-bf who was so obsessed, he was not only in a guided by voices cover band but we went to chicago just to see the last GBV show ever. ps, there was a bar onstage, just for ol' bob. that's some rock star shit.

smile, you love this

i'm gonna live forever?

if you were to check my ANALYTICZ right now...you would see this:



it goes on for pages.

why's everyone searchin WHITE LIGHTNING?

ohhhh umm hmmm because none other than the KANYE WEST mentioned me on his blog...he thinks i'm cool. (among other things...)

kanye, if you're reading this, i hope you realize that I LUH YOU.
i mean, i have a 'kanye' TAG, for the love of pete.
i think you are the marc jacobs of hiphop, pop culture remixer that gives it back to the masses. i honestly think we could be bff.
but, you know. maybe you're a little upset with me right now. oopsydoops?

white lightning is all about love, believe.

ps, if you get a chance..can you pass my link to lady gaga? theeeenks

das ist rad

i meannnnn ok this may be just for diehard model/fashion/90s nerds (um guilty, fail) BUT steve just sent me the BEST video (via fashinfags. i love fashinfags. but i digress)

models talking about what they're wearing and who has great style (stella tennant is the only one that names kate moss, oh holy icon)



shalom's EYEBROWS are realllllllly speaking to me. and helena's babybangs. and naomi's everything. and I MISS KIRSTY HUME!

5% pay cut be damned

more reasons to be a flat-chested waif...90% of what's to offer at welcomehunters:



these boots, THESE BOOTS! if they are SOLD OUT, why leave them on the site to TORTURE ME?
this daniel palillo dress is the scream mask as a garment. I WANT IT.



the necklace is a roided out rip of my girl angela's stuff, but epic nonetheless.
and this parka is for boys buuuuut WHO CARES, hand it over.

and for the record? THIS:



is considered unisex. love it.

black white white

white tights, white shoes, why not.
my own black laces in (free!) white brogues = dunno, feels kinda comme-ish? (let me have my small fantasies, please)
why don't i wear these more???

watch it

dear nicole richie on the cover of blackbook,
why doncha keep yourself outta thangs you DON'T UNNASTAND.



lady gaga is MY GAME, GIRL.
don't make me put my baby down.

love,
W.L.

unclear.

am i losing touch with reality? or...are these kind of cool?


adidas SLVR sneakerwedge

i have had this picture on my desktop for literally two weeks.
i keep looking at it with my head cocked to the side like..hmmmmm. nnnnot sure.

i mean, in essence it's a rod laver wedge.
which is a shoe close to my heart, i wore rod lavers for most of the 90s.
[sidenote- 2 best classic sneakers of all time are rod lavers & sambas. if you find a boy wearing either, jump him. immediately.]

i wish they were just pure white.
i kinda can't picture myself wearing these in any normal situation...yet i am bizarrely drawn to them.
yes? no?
maybe?
for when i want to play tennis with kanye and lady gaga on a special snowcourt in dubai?
hmmm?

can someone do a "my sharona" tribute song for dorota?

was it just me...



...or was last week lamesauce??

this eyes wide shut jazz is SO NOT INTERESTING. chuck becomes a lovelorn pussy after one night and gets totally played by some dumdum faux-pair? NOT INTERSTING comma NOT SEXY. bring back saucy one liners and chuck-blair hotness.

do NOT bring back (dorky) teacher and (unsexy) student sex plots.
do NOT bring back dan humphrey shirtless OR in a top hat:



i have a STRICT no douche in tophats policy and i refuse to bend the rules for you, gossip girl.

PLEASE MAKE IT BETTER TONIGHT!

ps, every time i see little J in her role as "top fashion expert" i picture like, arabelle and jane being at school with her and she's all OMFG, the new kira plastinina stuff is soooooo cute, be my friends you guys! and then belle throws a fruits book at her head and jane is like, you're sitting on my vintage yohji, nerd. and that is amusing to me.

last night my cab driver told me i was a beautiful russian girl

doublebuttons vintage fur & chanel red lips

EDIT: not russian, not beautiful-esp not at 3 AM, and girl is pushing it. creeper.

i already hit up all the mailboxes etcetera in new yawk city

dear lady gaga,

the fucking jig is UP.
i found your inspiration board!


(click to reallllly enjoy the GENIUS)

DALE BOZZIO of MISSING PERSONS is TOOOOTALLLY your IDOL.
(it's true, nobody walks in LA) (check that link, GAGA all over the place!!)

i just started my vest made out of bubble wrap and it has an epic margiela shoulder- don't even fucking try it bitch. i also put a call in to DOLPH LUNDGREN, and now we are in love.

GAME RECOGNIZE GAME.

all my love,
WL

ps, this all came to me in a tidal wave of epiphanic absurdity due to the awesomeness of jon farb who fucking diez for the 80s and was like, this band rules watch these vids. and i realized HOLY SHIT THIS IS LADY GAGA. this has been a public service announcement for INSTANT MESSAGING. it'll save your life!

we will spread, we will cover the earth

this album is one of my top ten of ALL TIME.

desaparecidos : read music speak spanish



if you don't own this record welllll then...you're not really trying.

booksbooksbooks

i've been waiting for this to arrive, so happy to finally have it:


not in fashion / mark borthwick

a retrospective of mark borthwick's work....
more spreads on my tumblr.

to sum up.

transcript of text messages that sum up the burberry party last night pretty succinctly:

friend: hi

me: hi. uh i'm at a barney's party hosted by chuck bass.

friend: ha, really?

me: yes really. it's like a douchey dude convention.

friend: whoa...coke & herpes?

me: no..more like hair straightners & diet pillz.

AAAAND SCENE.


notes for the record:
chuck stayed for about ten mins, he had on a lot of make up and but was still so so cute , i can't lie. so small. very small.

MK was being trailed by derek blasberg most of the night, she was in a trench (probs burberry?), skintight jeans and her signature balenciaga boots. teeny mctinerson, duh.

leigh lezark seems super mean girlish (duh not a shocker) and her bf max minghella was def the hottest boy therrrr. good GRIEF, quite a looker.

all in all...let's be honest, those parties are not so fun unless the gay boys you work with and the ones you know from other magazines are there so you can all gossip and be awful.

gg recap to come tonight, too much actual work....

hey nowwww

friday night at arrow bar i stumbled upon a pack of rowdy dudes..one of which was jason crombie, editor and publisher of WOOOO magazine. i'd never met him before but our circles overlap, you might say...

the newest issue of his mag is out and it has some friends i like quite lot in it...



hilarious interviews with kuo, alex, and wes.

i mean...there are other people too that i don't know too like that blonde brit gal on the cover, p.l. dicorcia, zach galifinakis...good scene all around.

check it out!

i hope you've cleared your calendar

THANK YOU LORD JESUS BABY JESUS.
gossip girl, tonight.
!!!



i can't deal with dan's gross teacher affair...there is NO WAY that that nerdy high school kid is in any way good at doing anything nakedtimes ever.

i need good blairbows.
i need some major bass action.

don't disappoint me!!!

EDIT
PS
i'm gonna have to watch it ON THE DVR becuase i'm going to a barneys event hosted by umm..oh, you know....ED WESTWICK. i will probs hide in the corner and secretly freak. stay tuned for stories!!

feeding my addictions

so if you care about these things like I DO (and i want you to, i do i dooo), you know by now that fabien baron & karl templar are out at interview magazine and the M/Ms & joe mckenna are in.

i know, that didn't last very long. well, we got about 7 great issues out of it.

ok, sadface BUT:
i am totally BEYONDDDD excited to see the NEW new interview, i mean i die for fab but i die for the M/Ms too (i loooove what they do at arena homme +, among a bjillion other thangs)

their first cover popped up on the internets yesterday:



they hit the archivez and brought the logo back to the seventies era of interview, i was instantly reminded of the january 79 capote cover:



..actually the 70s aesthetic of interview is SUUPER m/m steez, lots of cut paper scribble collage-y ness:



quite a departure from the cold future fashion covers that fabby fabz was giving us, i will miss it:



but change is good, no?

oooh la la, la lalalalala*

i know i have heretofore eschewed the 80s trend but i am making one GIANT exception and it is for the louis vuitton show.

i am smitten.



i know marc declared this a big love letter to parisian ladies but i feel like it's a british gal gone french or something? it's cooler-lacroix. (sweetie dahling, dahling sweetie).

TAFFETA GIANT PEARL BUNNY BOWS.
my heart is full.



can you see the detailing on that striped shirt? the stripes are all separate and held together by studs! good grief. and those sunglasses are off the charts.
making these necklaces POSTE HASTE, obvs.



so sexy gorgeous flouncey insanity.



this reminds me of the chloe collection that we all die for..you know which one i'm talkin bout.



i just can't. i'm swooning. that giant parka and a crazy legging (that "thigh" is freaking me out, but i digress) ???

i want to be this girl. i do. for a day or two, at least.

marc has made me high..but lets not sleep on giving the stylist credit, peoples..i see her all over this:



i die, katie. I DIE.

*dig

mona lisas & mad hatters

ohhhhhhh you fucking crazy bitch.
you made l'eggs panyhose eggs into a dress and now you're playing chopsticks with yourself.
(i love you)



i am going to make a wish.
i wish for lady gaga to wear this outfit and perform the mcdonalds piano recital song at a special concert just for me and my 10,000 closest friends.



someone please tell me you remember this commercial?
thanks keren, for feeding my addiction

lurve is strange

dear jefferson hack
publisher, kate moss baby daddy, anouck shagger, snappy dresser, older-yvanfacehunter-doppelganger:



stop making me feel funny, like when i used to climb the rope in gym class.

it's a constant battle between lusting after dirted up be-jangled wild haired bros and a clean cut DANDY in a JAUNTY BOW TIE.
you are tipping the scales violently into dandy territory and i am not sure i can handle it.

stop looking at me like that.

forever yours,
WL

calling all in transit

i'm on an early REM kick right now.
first teevee appearance ever?!



UMMMM
not sure if most of you are aware (as i know many of you lovely readers are quite YOUNG) but michael stipe used to be maaaaajorly hot.

like, full on full-lipped shaggy-haired sneaky fantasy.
so so hot.
sigh.

also enjoy my older man fantasy david letterman who was also totally foxy.

best record so far of 1983!

fashion nightmarez

unnhhhhhhh CREEEPPERVILLLEEEEE
the makeup at mcqueen is making me feel icky


matthew barney in cremaster & mcqueen f/w 09

stooppppp alexander (lee, can i call you lee?), you're SCARING ME!
it's too much like the scurrrry nightmare haunter cremaster jazz and i don't like itttttt.

bad touch.

barbie girlz

STOP IT, STOP IT RIGHT NOW


chanel f/w 09

uncharted levels of hilarity and awesomeness...
clamshelled chanel gal in a bag!

good god, you well preserved teutonic lunatic...you've given me quite the giddy thrill, DANKE SHOEN

ps, steve sent an even BETTER pic!!!



CHAN-IPOD!

paging lady gaga, i mean COME ON!

ps teen vogue knows my scene..thanks !

summer is coming, apparently

i think i'm only marginally aware of who tracy feith is.
i think he is a HE and like some sort of hippie surfer? that makes pretty dresses for girls in soho?
is that right?

well he's doing a target collab and he gets the WL thumbs up because this dress, on the left?



is straight out of the salvation army in my dreams. very mrs roper.

that's a compliment.

ps, that's ALLIE from the CITY in my dress! she does model!
pics from racked

new threadz

poppet, one of my favorite stores in new york closed today..la crise continues. it's a serious serious bummer, everything in that little space gave me a thrill and made me want to be richer and cuter.

today was the last day and so i strolled on ovz to maybe stimulate the economy just a TAD...



ho-lee shit dudes, a guy laroche leathuhhh jacket? SO not me!
but but...it looked so DOPESHOW i didn't wanna say no.



it's polka-dotted, different leather textures. sickness, sickness.



i never met a 60's mary-jane i didn't like, we know this.



i wasn't gonna get them, in the interest of keeping the totals SANE but then she gave me a mega-discount and i couldn't say no. shmoops.



a camel cashmere thin coat with a poofed up sleeve and perfect pockets.
pierre hardy gap white wedges made a debut and OKAY OKAY i also bought that skirt in the first pic at urban yesterday while shoppingggg with steve...GAH, i'm horrible.

never not awesome

i live for the mood that rei creates every season.


comme des garcons f/w 09 (click pic to make it biggerrrr)

this is twisted practicality at it's finest.
(it's winter, just wear your blanket UNDER your teeny jacket)

i covet all of it and WISH upon wish to be the girl who could pull this off

add to crafternoon list: trompe l'oeil jacket painting, tulle leggings

man's inhumanity to man

spent friday afternoon at the armory show..i wasn't really floored by anything but i do love to go.






note to the art world : ENOUGH with the poignant phrases set in neon -"the truth is a lie" or some shit. i saw like, 15 pieces like that. maybe more. [old timey flashing colored lightbulbs are still acceptable, see above.]

note to gallery assistants: ENOUGH with the giant eyeglasses.

sacha baron cohen's next movie needs to be about the ART BIZ, good grief.

ps i'll post some other things i liked at the show on the tumblr tomorrow...