WL x MM: Girl Power contest!

I am beyond excited to announce something that I have been brewing on for a bit...the first ever CONTEST on White Lightning, and I have to tell ya..it is AWESOME.

TAVI GETTING HER BLUE HAIR ON, READING SOME GOOD SHIT

Marisa Meltzer's book, Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music comes out February 9th..and she and I wanted to give 3 White Lightning readers a chance to win their own copy.

So tell us:
How do you define Girl Power?

We are accepting the answer in any form you want: words, photos, video, collage, quotes, playlists...it's completely open. Get yr creativity flowin, people.

We are accepting submissions up until Sunday, February 7th at midnight.
Email me your files/links/pictures/whatever: mslightning
We will select our 3 favorite "answers" and those readers will win a copy of the book and I will post their submission here on the blog !

Here is a lil "behind the scenes" video we made for the Girl Power book party flier. I lent my wonky left-handed scrawling and cropped Nirvana tee to the cause. Also, if you were ever curious about what my voice sounds like?...here is your chance to be disappointed. "There is something really pleasant about putting Sharpie on someone else's skin"..I am a nerd. Enjoy!



I know you are all creative masterminds, I cannot WAIT to see what you come up with! Get to it!

xo
WL x MM

photo of tav taken from her twitpicz

flipping out

Wednesday night I went to see Bear in Heaven's sold out show at the Mercury Lounge. The vibe was so DARK AND MYSTICAL...lights out, incense burnin...they were soooo good.



Can I just say that I LOVE my FLIP video camera thing? The audio quality is SICK. And now I can make HD quality amateur porn in my living room! Best Christmas gift EVER, thanks mom and dad!

I wear very few band tees but these are reallllllyyyyy gooooood. Must. Have.

BIH will be touring MAYJAH-LY starting in March, go go go...and tell Adam Wills you love his moustache.

girdleloo

Attention please, everyone...WHITE LIGHTNING QUIZ TIME!

Do you have your scantrons and dixon ticonderogas at the ready? Mmkay, here we go.
What does this working gal:

...have in common with THIS workin gal?

Hint: APPARENTLY, they both love to shop at the As Seen On TV store at the Paramus Park mall.

Ok, ok, you give up?
They are both wearing...these girdles?



Yes, bloggyblogtowners. what I am telling you is that Gagaloo's costume for the AMA's is the same backfatsucker that is pictured in the above video. KYMARO x HAUS OF GAGA collaboration??

Amazing. Paging USWeekly/InStyle/ladymagseverywhere and their STAR LOOKS FOR LESS columns...Dress like Gaga for $39.99 AND look 10 pounds thinner! It's geeeenballs, really. All you need to finish it is some sort of excavated exoskeleton (free AND green!) et VOILA, you've got the LOOK.

PS, I am only half kidding about the Kymaro x Haus of Gaga collection..they could make some seriously dope bodysucking sheath situations together...some red lace bike short girdles, fake bloodsoaked bustiers, holographic bodysuits? Who knows, sky is the limit; Opening Ceremony would be all over that shit!

marshmallow quicksand

I like these things.

IT'S SWALLOWING ME ALIVE

1  Impossibly yellow tights (I wish they represented better on film. They are shocking, really.) from Topshop ($1 clearance?! What's wrong with you, New York? YOU DON"T WANT THESE?)
2   Peter Benchley's The Deep (When Hunter reads it to me. In the dark.)
3  A VHS copy of The House of the Devil (see it see it see it)
4  White Lightning original paper feather fascinator
5  Marshmallow cloud duvet
6  Having my bf take blog photos. Except he's kinda bossy. Don't tell him I said that.

what's your good side

Ooooh. I see what you did there, Alexis Mabille, and I LIKE IT.

ALEXIS MABILLE // SPRING COUTURE 2010

Who is Alexis Mabille, dunno really.
What I do know is that strangely David Byrne-sized tuxedo jacket in the center there CAN GET IN MY CLOSET post haste, c'mon hurry it up.
How delightfully ginormous; I want to wear it over everything. I live for an oversized cropped sleeved THING...fashion smockz!

This halvsies business is sort of adorable, no?
I like this Two Face vibe.

Sidenote: I wore those American Apparel black n white thingythang tights the other day? Everyone looked at me like I had 2 heads; since when is it a crime to have your legs wear separate hues?

And SPEAKING OF HUES:Dying your hair is realllllly a THING now, isn't it.

Everyone is goin all HAIR COLOR CRAZY! Oh how myself as a 15 year old would be TICKLED. The dudes at Manic Panic are PSYCHED, they knew their time would come again.

bad romance

Hot off the runways of GAY PAREE: Bram Stoker's LoveBunz Parade !

CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE // SPRING 2010

If Gary Oldman as Dracula made sweet, dark, vampiric love to a box of Russell Stovers bridal candy, the bastard demon offspring would be this delicious confection of a hair-did right herrrrr.

In other words, I feel a desperate need to cover a cardboard heart with fake hair and tie it to my head with a hairnet.

And then drink the blood of virgins. Or Winona Ryder.

CHANEL HAUTE COUTURE // SPRING 2010

Methinks (does anyone say METHINKS I R L? Drop me a line if you do, I would like to set up a party line witchu) that SOMEONEEEE who's name rhymes with Blarl Bloggerfeld was a tad INSPIRED by the alienspine heels of the McQueen spring shoes a tad? Teensytinybitz? Maybe yes? Maybe maybe? (methinks)

Keep it Kooky, Karl.

they grow up so fast?

WHO WOULDA THUNK that the teenytinypocketsized 11 year old that I encountered when I wrote about her brand spankin newfound interest in this "fashion" stuff for the New York Times LO ALL THAT TIME AGO...

Would now be causing INTERNATIONAL FASHION FRENZIES on TWITTAAAA with her Stepehen Jones feather bow?

TAVS. FRONT ROW AT DIOR HAUTE COUTURE. LIKE A PERFECT EASTER PACKAGE

KILLING IT, TAVI. KILLING IT. I mean, why not. IF YA GONNA BE FRONT ROW, BEEEE FRONNNTT ROWWWWWW.

THEY AREN'T REALLY THAT FAR APART IN AGE, ARE THEY. WHY IS THAT WEIRD?

When she emailed me about being gifted the hat yesterday, I didn't even imagine it to quite that scale. SILLY ME.

REALNESS CORNER: IF STEPHEN JONES GIFTS YOU A MOTHERFUCKIN HAT, YOU WEAR THAT SHIT! Trues n fax. C'mon now.

second pic from here

there's water inside don't spill it

I truly think Cypress Hill's B Real set the bar for my true crotchthrob attractions for life. He's so FOXY. He is! Remember when he had that giant AFRO? Ohhh good GOD, I was so in love.

 CALL ME

I bought the Black Sunday cassette from Sam Goody at the Boulder Run (F.L.O.W.-area kids, hollaaaa) and wore that tape out; I was so in love with it.
Did my parents even bat an eyelash at this being blasted from my bedroom?!



They say HOME SKILLET in this song (I mean...) !
My deep love for Cypress Hill seems to make my Das Racist obsession seem to make a lotta sense, no?

Please allow me to also post the video for Stoned is the Way of the Walk. Not only is \my secretlover B Real is way hot here AND he is wearing a HOUSE OF PAIN tee. It's too good. TOO GOOD, I TELL YOU. (mental note...new ebay search, H O P tee is so necessary)



START YOUR MONDAY RIGHT, ESE.

i made a thing, part IV

CRAFTERNOONNIGHTS with Keren are back on track, now that the holidaze and thangs are out of the way. If you remember the last installment, we made jewwreez outta tape n paperclips. This week's theme was STUFF ON OUR HEADS!

Keren was making hats for a lookbook and so I took a cue from that.
I got obsessed with construction paper feathers?

WAY too fun. Not entirely sure when I will need to wear ths, I guess for my next SPIRIT ANIMAL SEANCE ? JUST A HEADDRESS AND A SMILE!

JUTE TWINE & NEON NYLON ROPE HEADBAND, CONSTRUCTION PAPER FEATHERS

PAPER FEATHER FASCINATOR

I didn't get any good pics of Keren and her handiwork, but here is a lil video I like to call CRAFTERMATH. If you've ever wondered what kind of a mess we get ourselves into, it looks like this.

You can see my feathers, Keren's goth-y velvety fascinators, and Palazzo's uh.."project" which I termed his THINKING CAP.

It looks like this:

THIS IS ONLY HALF FINISHED, THERE ARE GOOGLY EYES ON IT NOW

And when you put it on, it makes ya DANCE LIKE THIS

SO HAPPY CRAFTERNIGHTZ are BACK! What will we make next week? Stay tuned, brahs!

the day the earth stood still

CONFESSIONS!

LOOK INTO MY EYE AND TELL ME YOU ARE LISTENING

Are you ready, are you sitting down? For 2 days this week I wore...pants?

I shocked myself, really. PANTS. I own exactly 2 pairs of pants. Peggy Noland dropcrotch cheetahprint hammer pants (for casual Fridays) and Dries Van Noten linen denim giant leg trousers that I bought at Barney's in 2002.

This week I wore the latter. I haven't worn these pants since like...2005.

LET'S CALL THESE WHAT THEY ARE, MMKAY? FASHION JNCOS. 

PANTS // DRIES VAN NOTEN     CARDIGAN // ROGAN    JERSEY // BF'S   SHOES // RANDOM PATENT BLACK OXFORDS    LIPSTICK // MAC RED

I don't know what came over me. I knew I really wanted to wear Hunter's Michael Jordan jersey, and that was already supes 90svibin to me, stylewise. And so I guess I just went for it?

This outfit is inspired by:

Myself at 16 (good LORD were my pants enormous), this photo from Brendan:

I TOTALLY HAD PANTS LIKE THIS IS 1996. ANYONE REMEMBER "MOM N ME"? ANYONE?

And by this:

LOUIS VUITTON PRE-FALL 2010

It felt really good, but only when I wore it with red red RED lipstick (MAC RED is so dope, and it smells like frosting) and heels. Otherwise, I felt a lil bit like a scrub.

I TOOK A PICTCHA SO IT WOULD LAST LONGA

Are bifurcated garments my new frontier for the twentydime? SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.

daydream believers

Last night ADF showed me this happy little moment he captured of Kat & I on the beach in Quogue:

I NEED TO WEAR THIS IN MANHATTAN MORE: CLOAK (RIP!) SWEATER // AA GOLD LEGGINGS // DOLCE VITA LACEUP BOOTS FROM THE NICE PEOPLE AT URBAN OUTFITTERS // ANCIENT MIU MIU BAG THAT I ADDED THAT STRAP TO.

Kat is holding a heart shaped shell that she found! WHO FINDS THAT? Not I.

And wearing the best redridinghood cape ever. I was wearing my pajamas under that sweater aka my tie-dyed Metallica tee, BECAUSE I AM VERY CLASSY.

I miss Quogue! When is the summer again?

photo by Andrew DeFrancesco, bien sur

cops & queers make good lookin' models

Today let's take a little trip down memory's highway and tip our 40s to the awesome but short lived GLAMROCKER period of Brian Warner, aka Marylin Manson.

Mechanical Animals, anyone?

I MISS THIS!
In a weird way, I think I started to get more of an appreciation for fashion's hilarity when this record came out. First, the songs are sort of amazing, and secondly...Manson was KILLING IT with this look. No one was really going all weird at this point; I remember watching his perfomance on the MTV Music awards that year (99) and giggling with DELIGHT because it was so over the top and FUN. and FUNNY.

I SPY A RAZORBLADE RING! PAGING GAGA?

LET'S DO ONE OF THOSE CGI DUETS WITH MANSON THEN AND GAGA NOW. BFFS!

It's the same way I feel about Gaga...they are basically living out an elaborate art project that is here to make us all laugh and have a good time. And, I suspect, it is way to amuse THEMSELVES.

BOOBIES AND A BARBIE CROTCH

This era was not too well received and good ole MM has gone back to being a white-faced wonky eyed Satan-loving creeper of the darkness.

Which..is fine, I guess, except I prefer Platform latex boots and chola lipliner. It's much more fun.

Please listen to this all day today, I am gonna. And the next time you do karaoke, consider writhing on the floor at your dollar-a-song joint of choice while you whine: THE DRUGS, THEY SAY, ARE MADE IN CALIFORNIAAAAAA...it will probably get you a standing O.

failwhale

BREAKING NEWS.
SHIT IS NOT OKAY IN INTERNETS FASHION LAND.

this. is. UNACCEPTABLE. TWITTERTIGHTS?!?

IF I SEE ANYONE WEARING THIS LAMEASS SHIZ OUT IN THE STREETS, I WILL TRIP YOU, THEN LAUGH ABOUT IT, THEN TELL YOU I HATE YOU, TWITPIC IT & THEN TWEET THE WHOLE THING.

Just don't. For the love of god, don't even think about it.

Please, consider this a Public Service Announcement.

Thank you for your time,
WL

i'm afraid of clowns, i'm afraid of small towns

My deep love for Das Racist has been well documented here on the this weblog. So don't act surprised when I post this video for the song Rainbow In The Dark, which is not, (as I was sorta secretly hoping) a cover of the Dio gem (and Aviva Yael KARAOKE KILLAH) of the same name.



In these four minutes there are references to Saved by the Bell, Jeff Mangum, gchat, wikipedia brown,  Donkey Kong, secondhand Versace and Human Pocky.

I couldn't love these lunatics more if I tried, and i don't like to try- I JUST DO, KID. (What the fuck am I even talking about, I have no idea. I just drank a coffee the size of my head).

I would feel remiss if I didn't post the Dio song.



Seeing Veevs sing this at karaoke this past summer was MAYYBEEEEE a lifetime highlight.

PS,
Das Racist is playing TWO shows next week! TOTALLY GONNA BE THERRRRRR. You too?

i'm better when i cover my face

Make a note in your Fil-o-fax: PRE-FALL TWENTYDIME is all about A HOOD. Furry, fuzzy, leathah, wool...any way ya want it.

GIAMBATTISTA VALLI  //  LANVIN  //  CELINE

PRE-FALL 2010

Dear Celine Leather Cape That Looks As If It Borders On Naugahyde:
Better sleep with one eye open BECAUSE I AM COMIN' FOR YOU, BITCH. And Imma take that striped tunic, too.

Luv,
WL

looking forward

Nothing makes you feel more like an addict than when you a tiny taste of your poison and see yourself go CRAZAYYYY. I am so starved for runway, you guys! So ready for the season to start again...PRE-FALLIN:

PROENZA SCHOULER PRE-FALL 2010

OOOOH JACK AND LAZARO, such dark and goth-y preps! This SHOULD HAVE BEEN what Jenny's character was on GG in the beginning, straight up GOTHIP GIRL. God, that shaggy fur...what a dream. PS has quickly become the bag I NEED NEED NEED IN ALL CAPS PLEASE GIMME GIMME NOW; look at the SIZE of that one. Dreamboat America.

GIVENCHY PRE-FALL 2010

Cropped balloony layers...leather, wool and fur..all the things I want to wear when it's cold, really. That white parka is PERFECT. I will also never not love a Givenchy Nightingale and to have one as a rolling suitcase would be seriousssllyyy BALLER.

BALENCIAGA PRE-FALL 2010

THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKIN BOUT.  Colored tights (with a sheer inner thigh panel!), shoes that look like that were made out of stuff from the Home Depot, trash bag plastic crop tops, stripes and patterns and wrongisright. Why are there NEVER detail shots on Pre-Fall??? So unfair. I want to see every angle of these shoes! If they don't sell these tights, I will be distraught. You don't want that Nicolas..do you? This reminds me of the color combos of the gals in BLOW UP, so 60s future thought. Loving loving love.

Musical accompaniment, P(f)ree Fallin

courtney on the inside

The other day Marisa sent me a photo of Courtney Love that is quite possibly the best picture of her I have ever seen. It threw me into a tizzy of inspiration and lip jealousy and baby barrette hunting.

I WOULD MAYBE GIVE ANYTHING FOR THAT KIND OF FULL-LIPPEDNESS.

SHE USED TO BE SO SEXY & LUSCIOUS. That face! These days I am sorta scurred. Too bad, so sad. Really truly. Cookoobananas.

Believe me I know..not even close. But I am feeling the bringing back of these barrettes. And it felt pretty good to bust out a few new favorite things in the name of LOVE...

Faux leopard print coat // H&M (20 bones?!?) 
Raining Tears necklace // gift from MIMIMOON (thank you Margarida! I love love LOVE THIS!) 
Black patent leather tap shoes // Southampton thrift

BRB... I made my bed, gonna go lie in it.

this is my sherpa, lopsang

OHHHH, I forgot to tell you guys.

THE BAGS BEHIND MY HEAD LOOK LIKE A BOW AND I LIKE IT, I LIKE IT A LOT.

I got a giant swingy curly wool jacket cardigan thing that is akin to a luxe bathmat. It has pockets. And it makes me feel like a Yeti. In the BEST POSSIBLE WAY.
I bought it at Barney's with a gift card from my birthday LAST YEAR (ew, hoarder, tmi?) and I truly believe that items such as THESE are the exact ones that are made for gift cards. Buy the most ridiculous bang you can for the free bucks..ya dig?

I love it. I pet myself. And it's freakishly warm, for something without sleeves. It may need a name, it seems slightly alive. 

Curly sheep yeti sweater: Twelfth Street By Cynthia Vincent
Vintage thrifted overalls dress: Osh Kosh B'Gosh
Too high oxfords: Michael Kors
Perfect electric blue "Kate" bag: Katherine Fleming

And just so we can see that sometimes yo STYLE stays the SAME, here is a pic of me at age 4. Same bangs. Same Osh Kosh B'Gosh. Def still have sandals like that too.

SO nerdy! I knew what was up though, look at that POSE. haahaha.

stop motion addictions in the twenty dime

I have new favorite movie. And you need to see it LIKE, YESTERDAY.  

A TOWN CALLED PANIC, anyone?

HORSE, COWBOY & INDIAN IN THE ROLES OF HORSE, COWBOY & INDIAN

I like to think that if I had the patience, genius and wherewithall this would be the kind of movie I made if I made stop motion French language tales of ridiculousness, complete with attractive lady horses that wear purses, barns full of sheep in pajamas (it was bedtime, duh), a shouting farmer that eats a giant kitchen sponge of nutella for breakfast and a pig n' an octopus as BFFs.

I loved every second of it and I cracked up the entire time. I don't even know how to describe the plot..it starts with a disastrous attempt at a birthday gift for Horse and then...unravels from there? I love cotton used as fire extinguisher stuffs, shiny paper used as water waves, human sized butter knives for small plastic farmer's wife, the sounds of a hourse reading the newspaper and the patter of the sea people's flipper's as they (shhhh) STEAL WHAT ISN'T THEIRS.

The whole thing made me so happy..

I was lucky enough to watch it in my bed under a mountain of marshamallow duvet because my bf had a screener (read his review, if you are so inclined)..but if that is not your reality (too bad so sad)..it is at the IFC Center here in NYC until next Thursday! Please go see it, and then call me to tell me how much you loved it.

page turners

The internets are afire this week with talk of the new Spring/Summer 2010 campaigns...Bloggas be all excited bout them but fashion houses be all pissed at us? For posting pics? I am confused...it's free advertising and it is usually a LOVEFEST and all those ads'll be out in February mags right about now ANYWAYS...right? Right.

Well, controversey be damned here are some of my faves of what I have internets stalked so far:

BALENCIAGA / STEVEN MEISEL

Correct me if I am wrong, but (unless I have the credit info wrong) David Sims has shot the Balenciaga ads for years...Why the switch to Meisel this season, I wonder? I will assume they have kept M/M Paris on as the campaign designers (as they have for years) cuz this seems about their weirdness level (see any and all Stella McCartney ads for reference). I dig it though, if only cuz it is something unique in the sea of samesamesameyness that is the front third of most fashion magazines.

LANVIN / STEVEN MEISEL

The ads for Lanvin are always...CHALLENGING, shall we say? Remember the Bratz-like giant eyeballs? This ad is straight up UNCOMFORTABLE, but I find something fascinating in that.

Perhaps wearing Lanvin throws you into a full body orgasm. I would suspect that this is TRUE, although I have yet to have had the pleasure of Alber's creations on mah skin...Lemme try adn rectify that sitchernation and get back to ya.

CHANEL / KARL LAGERFELD (DUH)

Is that hat for sale? Because I need it. WHAT I ALSO NEED is Claudia Schiffer's pact with the devil/goblet of water from the Tuck Everlasting fountain. Last I checked bitch was 40. She looks 19. CALL ME, CLAUDIA.

GIVENCHY / MERT & MARCUS

They coulda done whaaaatevaaahhhh they wanted for this ad, I would been all for it. I LOVE THIS COLLECTION. I WANT TO WEAR TRIBAL ZIGZAGZ ALL OVER MY BODY ALL DAY LONG. Totally loving the logo treatment as well; it's like the logo for LOVE mag, which I know is controversial aesthetically for a lot of people but I am a champion of UGLY AMAZING and so I love it.

ALEXANDER WANG / FABIEN BARON

This is the first time I have ever been WANG RABID (hey wait, getyr mind outta the gutter!) in my life, readers of this blog know I am not usually a fan. But this sweatshirt MIGHT improve my life by like, 487%, I am pretty sure. Also (as I posted during fashion week) sidebraids are the new jam. And my supercrush Fabbyfabs is tops, obvs.

LOUIS VUITTON / STEVEN MEISEL

Bike shorts n clogs! Bike shorts n CLOGGZZZZZZZZ! I won't focus on the fact that this looks sorta like a grisly but CHIC murder scene discovery out of an episode of CSI:VOGUE, where they solve FASHIONABLE MURDERS with CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY (the head detectives are played by André Leon Tally and Grace Coddington). I will just focus on BIKE SHORTS N CLOGZZZZZ!

PRADA / STEVEN MEISEL

I know I am in a cold lonely dark room in enjoying this collection as much as I do, but I feel like it falls under my aforementioned UGLY AWESOME rubric. CLEAR PLASTIC & VELCRO on everythin, let's do it, I dig it. And orange lips are a look I like to rock myself, so thumbs up right there.

MARC JACOBS / JUERGEN TELLER

She's standing in a toilet. I mean. You've got my attention. (The End).

OVERALL SIDENOTE:
Can we talk about Steven Meisel for a second? Dude has the market CORNERRRRRRED on ad campaigns. Kinda crazy, right?

all pics from tfs

can't hardly wait

I will admit that I have not FULLY been convinced by Bravo's Launch My Line yet.
I feel it may just be a mater of time though, since I am a complete and utter Bravomaniac... apparently, I yet (until now) to see a show of theirs I haven't obsessed over [DEAR BRAVO EXECUTIVES, let me have my dream Ladies Lunch Roundtable with Tabatha, Kelly Cutrone & Patty Stanger? I think it would be ACES. We can call it "Love, Life & Hair: The Bitches Who Will Set Your Life Straight." Think about it, CALL ME.]

So far my biggest draw to the show is that I went to high school with Dan Karaty, who has the dubious honor of being the first person kicked off. OOOPSYYYDOOPS. Between this and The Housewives of New Jersey (which is set in Franklin Lakes, NJ, setting of my formative years) I want to say: GET OUTTA MAH HEAD, BRAVO.

But anyways.
Back to LAUNCH MY LINE.

Tonight, the (I am sorry to say but somewhat creepy) Caten Twins AKA DSquared will introduce the MUSE of the ep and of MY WHOLE LIFE, LADY GAGA.



TIME TO START TUNING IN.
Let's discuss it tomorrow.

never gets old

Hey look! It's my Betsey Johnson fish dress! Apparently this is from Dazed August 09, an article on Betsey Johnson. I wish I knew what year this pic is from...What do we think...1985?

Just realized I desperately need a CRINOLINE to wear under this bad boy! God damn this dress never gets boring to me. I would die to have it in a skirt....

Thank you Kylie!!!!

hello blogtown, my old friend

HAPPY FIRST MONDAY OF THE FUTURE, YOU GUYS! HI.
How was your New Year's? Mine was inebriated and late. I spent the next 3 days in pajamas with my sister and assorted friends watching The Hangover, a Buffy marathon, and a lot of 90210.

I have missed blogging, but I also feel a little bit..uninspired? And I don't want to write about nothing, nothing, tra la la.

But here is something! Recent acquisitions aka Christmas Presents & Rediscovered Loves.

This was one of the best Christmases I have had in a while, I don't know why but it was. Most of the time parental gifts can be a bummer (especially once you are OF A CERTAIN AGE) but this year, Moms & Dad tooootally went next level and surpirsed me with stuff i have menttioned offhand throughout the year. WHAAAAAT..that never happens!

Fashion Snob Warning- Items below may be weirder brands than you expect. Exciting!

BROWN LEATHER SATCHEL // LUCKY BRAND (I KNOW)

SKY HIGH OXFORDS // MICHAEL KORS

DIAMOND TIGHTS //AA

BUBBLE SKIRT // MARC BY MARC FALL 2005

This bag was something I saw randomly in a magazine and thought it was the perfect size and vintage-yness..I love beat up brown leather and I LOVE handles & straps together. I was kind of..perplexed to realize it was LUCKY BRAND (????)  but still..I thought it was kinda dope? And mentioned it one day while chatting with the Moms and..there you go. Surprise cute thoughtful gift!

I really love it. It looks vint, feels like i have had it for years, fits a ton of crap (I think I can cram my laptop in there, if need be) and kinda perfectly brown.

 The assorted charms that I have had for years that get moved from bag to bag:
A rabbit's foot from Las Vegas, 2001.
A lucky penny from no idea where
An Elizabeth license plate from my sister (she used to always gets me one when she went somewhere)
A little suede coin purse, a green heart charm from the 99 cent store

HEY, WHEN DID I BECOME JUERGEN TELLER?

(MICHAEL KORS TOWNSEND OXFORDS)

Tbonz got me these shoes after I tried them on at our Mall Day Extravaganza of late 09. They are so dope. They have a layer of ACRYLIC. like...why? I don't know, but I am enamored. They are VERY HIGH and maybe i am not wearing heels as much, but I tried to wear them on a drunk night out recently and was..like a geisha. Will resolve this in 2010.

THIS SKIRT CAME WITH MATHCING SUSPENDERS. MUST FIND, HERE SOMEWHERE?

Cream diamond pattern crochet-y American Apparel tights from my cousins, i have been contemplting their purchase right before the holiday, PSYCHIC CONNEX !

THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE WHEN I SPEND A LOT OF TIME ALONE.

OMGhilarious/awesome Alert: THE THREE WOLVES HOWLING TEE, of assorted internets & Dwight K Schrute fame. Also a gift from Cristina, OBVI. Might croptopify, might not. We shall see.

Shopped my storage and found a few long lost friends:

ENORMOUS DARK GREEN CHLOÉ 'EDITH'

Oh HELLO, DEAR OLD FRIEND. It seems like only yesterday (Summer 07) that I had a fairytale Paris vacation, complete with early dawn drunken Room Service French-fry orders at the Crillon and slightly drunken daytime shopping at Chloé. It was SOLDES, OKAY? Shit was a STEAL. (Sometimes I miss making monay...). PS, this bag could fit Tavi inside of it. Maybe me if I attended Yogilates more frequently (read: AT ALL). Good to know that if my $$$ situation gets ay worse, I can always live in this.

MUCH LIKE SOME SORT OF JAPANESE TEENAGER, I LOVE A JANGLE TANGLE OF ACCESSORIES ON MY ACCESSORIES.

Other favorites that find their way onto most of my bags (altho i keep them on this one pretty permanently):

Mr Green Beads homemade Alligator key chain: 25 cents, Virginia garage sale.
Prada dagger key chain..I loved these so much when they came out. I still regret not getting a Prada Robot!

A SMALL GLIMPSE INTO THE SURPRISINGLY TIDY BLACK HELLMOUTH THAT IS MY CLOSET. ALSO, I LOVE THESE BOOTS DEARLY.

These Prada ankle boots made a BLOG DEBUT in my Targarte Rodarte post, but they deserve some singular adulation. I bought them in..2006? can't really remamber. They are possibly the best classy stompers a girl can own. Ask my sister, she has a pair (in dark brown, and worn to shreds). They are high but totally walkable and comfortable enough for an entire night of revelry. I LOVE YOU, PRADA ANKS. TRUE, DEEP LOVE.

ALSO RECEIVED FOR THE DAY OF BABY JESUS, BUT DEEMED UNPHOTOGENIC: A Flip. Whoa. VLOGGING in OH TEN? We. Shall. See.

PS..I was interviewed by ILIKEMYSTYLE over the christmastimes..Check it out here. Thanks, Nika!