celestial

Yesterday we watched about 7 hours of Big Love. Which sounds pretty bad when I say it out loud, which is a pity because it was DELIGHTFUL. All caught up to the current episode, which was superweird in a season that is superweird, so much shit is happening I can't keep it straight.

A note on my absolute favorite woman on that show, favorite favorite favorite:

BITCH DID SOME CRAZY SHIT IN MEXICO.

SISTER LOIS HENRICKSON.
Oh... you thought I was gonna say Nicky? No, sowwy Chloé. You are 2nd (but a very close second, obvs).

Lois IS AMAZING. I am slightly bummed out that she is..softer this season. In her demeanor and her face. She is usually so sourpussed and overly blunt that I start cracking up as soon as she is on screen.

I live for a cantankerous bitter old Southern woman (please see Shirley Maclaine in Steel Magnolias:TOP BITCH. ps, she wears a fur coat with overalls, STYLE ICON), if you must know.

I would love to interview the head costume designer at Big Love to talk Lois Looks. She wears the ugliest shit but it is weirdly AU COURANT. Lots of army green and khaki, overalls and vintage coats. (My favorite part EVER is when she gives her floral vintage coat with fur trim to Sarah and says, "I want you to have this. It was made in America and it's got good pockets.")

She's not supposed to be fashionable, like at all. But as with most things that try to be outside of style, they sometimes end up being the most stylish (see anything anyone wears IRONICALLY in Brooklyn). Obvs, tons has been written about the "Mormon chic" of the show, it must have it's own blog somewhere. (I live for it. If you have a fuckyeahmormonchic tumblr, pls leave it in the comments!) The weird modesty and utility of their outfits is really IN right now...

Case in point? Socks and platform sandals! SOOO now and SO F/W 2010 !

Bitch is ON TREND, even when she's jailed in Mexico for bird smuggling and just cut off a Mormon kingpin's arm with a machete. (I wish I was joking) (Are those Korkease?)

get up on this

OH, HAYELLLLLL FUCKING YES!

V MAGAZINE #65 // LILY DONALDSON & LIYA KIBEDE
PHOTOS BY JOSH OLIN // STYLIST CLARE RICHARDSON

NOW WE ARE TALKIN' SOME GOOD SHIT, BITCHES!!!

Platform sneakers taken to the lunacy level (I am finally doing this this weekend...), some of them lattice acid wash jean thangs (those are Ashish!!). THOSE SUNGLASSES in the opening spread (Nasir Mazhar otherwise known as LADY GAGA'S ORB DEALER)...this shoot is killing me! 

I have to have those sunglasses, there is no question. Imma also start stickin some curls to mah face, take that shit to the NEXT LEVEL.

I am also pretty psyched to see those Y-3 fishing net bodystockings making a cameo in my life, i would rock that thing like I was Miss Chicken of the Sea 2010, yeah. (what?)

Ladies, all the ladies, louder now:

My only qualm? To my eye, this shoot is way more early 90s and Let's Talk about Sex Salt n Peps than mid 80s and Push It S n P, but whatevs, mabes I am wrong.

This video will stuff your head full of so many reference inspirations (SCORPION CLEAVAGE TATTOO??) you might freak out. Beware!

every day i'm hustlin

It is criminal that I had to get out of my bed this morning. The snowflakes are superchunks and you can stream Magnum PI episodes on your boyfriend's laptop in your bed, did you know this?



THIS IS WHAT MOTIVATES ME, welcome to my life anthem WAH WAH WAHHHHH.
It's all good, soon all this hustlin' will pay off and I shall buy these and life will be BEAUTIFUL.

the english understand me

DYINGGGGG OVER THESE TWO. I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOUUUUUU.

CHARLES ANASTASE // FALL 2010

PRIMARY ELECTRIC COLOR OVERLOADDDDDD! Well, primary/CMYK. I mean, after the creamblackgrey ocean of NYFW weren't yr eyeballs THIRSTAY for some a this? I love you Charles Anastase. I hope to one day fondle yer wares I R L. I want that yellow coat, with my denim osh kosh bgosh overalls dress, and these crazytown red snakeyprint Anastase shoes and that brunette girl's LARAINE NEWMAN HAIR! Yes, how much do I have to go on about loving frizzy hair ntil we all do? SO good.

ERDEM // FALL 2010

I swear to Gaga, if I do not find a way to get these Erdem blurryfloralphotoprint hiking boots I will die one thousand horrible deaths. This is my favorite collection of all shows so far, I can see myself in ALL OF IT. I LOVE ERDEM. It is always gorgeous feminineness..but dark and cool, not sappy or saccharine. This look with the giant poncho pocket flower shirtdress sitchernation? With matching boot and tiny sock? Is exactly what I want to look lke every fucking day of my LIFE.

Please do not let it go unnoticed that my desktop for the Erdem collage is Erdem. METABLOGGIN in THE TWENTYDIME.

How much coffee did I have this morning, you ask? None of your beeswax! (lots, yay!)

leather ladies

Phoebe Philo knows my inner thoughts. She must!

CÉLINE S/S 2010 // SHOT BY JUERGEN TELLER

LOOOK AT THOSSSSSE SHOESSSS. Those are my hippie woodstock freelove summerstomping dreams COME TRUE!

I think I could change the world in those shoes...AND be 5'10",  like Cindy Crawford.

she's crafty

The crafternoon bug has struck again!! I will be posting my hey-I-made-that's over at Crushable.com, hopefully weekly, if the inspiration strikes.

HEMPY CHAINLINK!

My latest project: Recreating the Alexis Bittar necklace I saw in the March issue of American Vogue. Super cheap, pretty easy, a little bit time consuming.

Check it out!

the new modesty

A giant duffle bag, that I am certain I could live in quite comfortably, has been returned to me. It was on extended holiday in the pacific northwest in Jill Meisner's kitchen, since I left it there to chillibrate in early September.
Now that my wardrobe has tripled, and I have been reunited with some of my favorite treasures,  I am living in an episode of Hoarders:Thrift Store Addict Edition. It's not too cute for my apartment.

It is cute for my STYLELYFE, though, and so..I will figure it out.

QUESTION FOR THE FASHION UNIVERSE: Can I do a longer length?

THRIFTED DRESS (NASHVILLE?) // BLACK OLD NAVY BLAZER FROM 2001 (SRSLY) // POLKA DOT ALICE & OLIVIA SATIN PLATFORMS // M.A.C. GIRL ABOUT TOWN LIPSTICK (SO BEST)

I am undecided. I am short as hell, so really...long doesn't seem so right? But these shoes are a monster and they make me seem fucking TALL. So..maybe it works? I can't tell. It's weird! Hunter said it seems fancy. 

I can't get longish-to-long skirts outta mah head...blame it on Chloe Sev's Big Love steez; Mormon chic. I love how she declares everything "immodest"; it cracks me up.

I am seriously on the fence.

This is either swedish shopgirl odd-cool or like..parent teacher conference night.

Unclear, stay tuned.

pleetz pleez

The Samantha Pleet F/W 2010 show & afterparty was truly a friend filled fun fest.

 SAM AND HER MODELS, POST RUNWAY

Sam's collection, which is really my absolute fave of hers to date, is full of plaids n parkas and capes and rompers and paperbagged highwaisted skirts that are going to be major.

She did a collab with Osborn (they of my Somali-pirate oxfords that I bought in April 09 at the Brooklyn Flea) and used silks that had been first buried in the ground for 3 months (I know)!
 Sam is nothing if not whimsical.

The lookbook was styled and shot by the insanely wonderful and vivacious duo of Miss Kathleen Clements and Andrew DeFrancesco, respectively. They also co-directed a video to accompany the collection.

When Kat proposed I crafternoon with her to make some quasi-hippie-mystical jewwwrieees for SP Fall 2010, how could I say no? I love adding a SLASH to my job title!

Here is a melange of SP related imagery for Fall 2010. Some lookbook, some runway, some film stills, some shots of my jangles and some of my iphone pics...Start making your lists nowwww:

HEMP & LEATHER BOWTIE BY WHITE LIGHTNING JANGLES

OBSESSED WITH THIS CAPE & OSBORN FOR SAM PLEET WOOL OXFORDS

 HEMP CROWN WITH ARROWHEAD & HEALING CRYSTALS / WHITE LIGHTNING JANGLES

 MY OTHER MUST HAVE- PARKA & MATCHING ANKLE BOOTS!!!

BLAIR WALDORF AT BURNING MAN HEMP BOW HEADBAND / WHITE LIGHTNING JANGLES

 

Peep the video:

Samantha Pleet A/W 2010 from Samantha Pleet on Vimeo.


photo credits: Lookbook pics by Andrew De Franceso, film stills by Andrew DeFrancesco & Kathleen Adams Clements, runway pics by Paul o Colliton, iPhone runway pics by me

it keeps getting better

I am not ready to stop freaking out over pre-fall. DON'T MAKE ME!

MIU MIU PRE-FALL 2010

Ho-lee shit on a bitchy 70s private school girl shingle. I wish I could say I DIE in about 14 languages, including ASL and Morse code. BECAUSE THIS IS THAT GOOD. 

I keep hearing Candy Pratts Price's voice from Unzipped in my head- "I'm not fond of plaids" every time I see a plaid, which is funny because I live for a plaid and can't figure out why anyone wouldn't be fond of them.

You know what else I am fond of? A fur, a toggle, a popcorn poof thigh high, and a double-breasted anything. I CANNOT WAIT for the full fall runway.

camouflage

Someone let this chick in my house, she ate all my Razzles and matches my walls.

Stars n stripey Tavs, last Sunday in my front room. Sam Pleet accessory night & i-D archive sesh.

putting this picture in a locket

Why they don't show detail shots of Pre-Fall collections on Style.com is a serious source of frustration in my life (hard life!). I KNEW KNEW KNEWWWWW when I saw Balenciaga's Pre-Fall 2010 color sensaysh situationalz that I was going to need NEED, like..NEEEEEED the shoes.

AMERICAN VOGUE // MARCH 2010

Look look lookylooklookkkkk. How do you not LOVE them?!?!?!

It's all my favorite needs and wants in one gloriously clompy clomper. A chunky heel, deliciously shiny hard leather, unexpected color combinations. I already went cray-cray on the tights- no brainer that I will beg, borrow and steal for them as well.

To own these shoes is my new goal for the TwentyDime. Lofty, I realize. I am nothing if not an 'AIM HIGH' kind of gal.

For some reason, all my pleas to Nicolas c/o this BLOG seem to go UNNOTICED, fancy that. (ahem, sz 38, New York City, USA. ASAP, merci beaucoup, je t'aime je t'aime je t'aime). 

May need to resort to desperate measures (aka selling my parent's car when they are on vacay. JK MOM AND DAD, PS PLEASE STOP READING MY BLOG). Pls stay tuned.

i'm kinda scared to dance

Yesterday at the office Lesley gave me a copy of her book, (which I remember stealing from an editor at work when it came out a couple years ago) and between last night's Pratt commute and this early morning's insomnia, I have already re-read it and I am so glad I did.

We're the same age and grew up in the tri-state errrea and so so many details in her early entries made me smile cuz they were so familiar- and when she mentioned in her diary at some point in high school that the band Weston stayed her house, my 16 year-old-self freaked out. I loved Weston!!! I used to go see them play in church basements and VFWs with my cousin Michelle in high school and now I have to post this song because it's been running through my mind all day..JUST LIKE KUUUU-HU-HU-RTTTT..



I wish they had a music video, but this shitty little gymnasium performance takes me back to 1995 and I like it.

frenchy

Please, let this entire outfit be mine. Well, the sweater and the platforms at least? (I don't dig on bangles)

SONIA RYKIEL FOR H&M

I'll take the hair too. 

This shit drops February 20 aka Saturday aka meet you there?

montage

Ok, I have a teensy bit of FashFatigue, please forgive me. l\Let's look at some choice shots from my iphone from the past week while I catch up on Style.com and watch all the Bravo that I have missed.

Fashion Week montage! In aesthetic and not chronological order, FYIslers.

Still from the Samantha Pleet F/W 2010 collection movie, directed by Andrew DeFranceso & Kathleen Clements. I made some jangles and headthings, you can kinda see them here.

 Carine Roitfeld at TheRow F/W 2010 presentation. Both things were divine.

Christopher Kane for Topshop mirrormesh leggings & gifted black n' white windowpaine check Nikes. 

TUESDAY: Open Ocean performance at the Bodkin/TenOverSix F/W 2010 party/presentation/concert at The Future Perfect

SATURDAY: Lunch in the Catskills.

 

MONDAY: My usual  outside get-up. Yokoo Pembroke cowl, Kate Fleming tote (fits a laptop!), Rogan sweater & navy wool coat combo, Hayden-Harnett for Targ umbrella (it's victorian shaped and delightful), Wolford tights full of holes and rips. 

MONDAY: Deliciously epic lunch at The lever House with Dasha, Laia & Tavi.

 Anna Wintour's teeny bob (past Tiina Laakonen's bun), TheRow F/W 2010 presentation

 

SUNDAY: Freakishly real stuffed Gibbon, Catskills

MONDAY: Post-lunch car ride, Tavi in a self-made hat & Yokoo chain

Sam Pleet F/W 2010..the PERFECT cape

1 AM dinner, Catskills

I have about 9 million more photos on my real camera; more fashion lusting to come

xo
WL

top of the pops

You guys...is Princess Tiamamiamiamlamadingdongalong actually the baby Jesus? Or just the star of Jersey Shore: Babies? (like Muppet Babies, just tanner!)

ALL HAIL BABY SNOOKS. PRINCESS T'WOWWWWWW

THIS IS UNREAL. I CAN'T WITH YOU, BABY. 

Or maybe..I can? 

Bless me, my child. 

Please raise your chubby spray-tanned peace sign hand, laden with a teenytiny LV purse full of what I can only imagine is gold dipped Zwieback cookies and a FisherPrice iPhone, high above your bleached curls and BLESS ME. 

I am mesmerized by your Zen-like stare.

England is really kicking your ass in psychotic child rearing, LA. Mabes you want to CATCH UP.

Here are some pertinent photo references to undertand the above message:

 

 

Thank you for your time.

pos and neg

What in the WANG is HAPPENING HERE?!??!!

ALEXANDER WANG  F/W 2010

Help me to understand this.

Now, if you read this here blog, you know I have never been an A Wang lover, really. 

There are moments that I do deeply dig; a pre-fall look here, a bag there..and surprisingly, MOST of S/S 2010 collection (grey sweatshirt lurve) but this? This is some bullshit right here. 

What is this? Am I actually looking at a thigh high-biz caszh pant-legwarmer? What in the fuck. I am 

not sure what to start on with the trompe-lace silk contempo casual situation happening ABOVE the thighpants. 

I can't with this.

I almost barfed on my screen except then I saw something that got me hyperventrilicating:

 

FRONT ROW CHANEL CLOGS! Ohmahgah, where is the left one and can I see them both NOW? (Sidenote: Is that Alexa Chung? Why do I envision her as the only person who owns those shoes?). 

Anyways- Can we get these thangs a twitter feed? www.twitter.com/chanelclogz...FOLLOWED. FOR LIFE.

Sweet lord almighty I want those clodhoppers more than anything. It's bordering on insane (I decide where the border is, not YOU).

Sigh.

Ok sorry, where was I?

TO SUM UP: 

A.WANG ENSEMBLE = BARFY

C.CLOG CAMEO = DREAMWEAVER

So glad we talked.

brb

A mountain of posts to come, as soon as I get a minute to think

Lust over this Peter Jensen F/W 2010 blouseywonderdressthing for a sec, I'll be right back.

veedee

A little late to post on the day, but I have been gone for the past 48, crunching snow under my wooden-heeled Docs (those are snow shoes..right?), sitting by a righteous fire and basking in the delicious SILENCE outside the windows.

But now we're back from the woods, dinner is almost done and I am running out for a fashion show in 1 hour. Still...it's a pretty groovy day. This song is dreamy times a millionzillion, I hope someone sings it to ya.



Happy Valentine's Day !
xo
WL

speechless

So deeply sad and shocked by today's horrible news.

RIP, Alexander McQueen.
You were one of the few designers whose collections made me feel completely excited, enthralled and transported by your vision of how a woman can dress.

Love forever,
WL

good company

You take the good, you take the bad.

OPENING SPREAD, WHUUUUT

PRO: I am featured on the opening spread (!!), ya def can't miss me..hey nowwww. Eleanor Friedberger, hi. CUDI, HI THERE.

CON: I am not so fond of how I look 

PRO:: MARGIELA clog platform craziness !

CON: I am not so fond of how I look 

MEGA PRO: Standin next to VICTOR of DAS RACIST! (ahem, Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell?)

Aaaand..ok. Ending it on a pos note. Thanks again TimeOut! And congrats to all my friends that were included in there- Chuck, Samantha & Louise !

hey now

TimeOutNewYork included me in their Most Stylish New Yorkers round-up ! Very exciting.

 

 THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE I LIKE. I AM NOTTTTT GOOD AT PICTURES. OH WELL.

If you'd like to know what stores I like, trends I hate and some of my inspirations, please check it out!

hearts

Today, my dear bloggyfriends, I would like to take a moment to say HAPPY ANNIVERSARYYYY to my parents.

DAD, CHILLIN. HE WAS A LONGHAIR!

MOMS! CUTIE MIDDLE PART HIPPIE PONYTAIL AND ESPADRILLES! I LOVE.

They've been married THIRTY FIVE YEARSSSSSS. 35!!!
Like...10 plus 10 plus another 10 PLUS another 5. I mean...Can you wrap yr head around that?



They have the best wedding song evahhhh...SUCH dreamy sixtiestimes (And bearded hippie singer!)!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM & DAD!
Now please stop reading my blog, it makes me uncomfortable.