new for you

Let's ease back into this BLOGGING THANG with some Wednesday morning musical love. I have so much to catch up on..I've missed you guys!

Hunter has filled my iTunes with a TON of music recently..This is one of my new favorites. Although there is something weird about naming your band Happy Birthday, I mean really.



I am usually an ardent follower of my own strict rule which is: I don't really dig on things that I find slightly embarrassing to say (this is usually the case in restaurants with goofy ass names for dishes). But rules are made to be broken, amirite?

Points for some boss song titles: Perverted Girl, Pink Strawberry Milkshake, Zit

family time

Hi everyone...
This past Friday my dear and beloved and amazing and accomplished and incredible grandfather passed away.
It will be a little bit quiet here for a couple more days...Back to posting on Wednesday.

xo
Elizabeth

don't shake it

Today is THE DAY!
What day, you ask? The day, my dear friends, that THIS GUY:

My dear old SX-70 land camera, purchased in college for $40 at the height of my Charles & Ray Eames obsession*, will finally be PUT BACK TO WORK.

How's that?

POLAROID FILM IS BACK!
The Impossible Project, who took on the task, has done the impossible and saved analog instant joy.

It's called PX SilverShade  / First Flush
Right now it comes in 100 & 600 ASA, and is only sepia and B&W but color is coming by the end of the year! The film is universal for any working Polaroid camera that uses the battery pack film (SX70s and 600s are the best).

Are you happy happy and full of joy?
I AM.
It's $22 bones for 8 frames but I don't wanna hear ya complaining.You can order it on their site starting today.

The darkslide comes with secret messages!
Before it develops, the film is YVES KLEIN BLUE!
It's delicious. I am high on life.

Time to make some magic.

THANK YOU IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT!!!!!


PS: *watch this movie!!!!

i think i prefer version 1.0

Are you a fan of literally-straight-off-the-runway looks, ornate frames and somewhat correct English? Then please direct your attention to Anna Dello Russo's bloggy blog.

My amici Paolo from Dolce & Gabbana posted the URL on Twitter the other day and I have been thoroughly enjoying it ever since.

Here is the real gem of the site though, Anna as captured by Helmut Newton in 1996!

SO FUCKING COOL.
She reminds me of Stella Tennant!

I want more of this ADR, version 1.0 !!!!
What we need is a Hot Blog Time Machine...Can someone get on that? Yeeeeeeahhhhh theenks.

i call her red

Monday night Christine invited me to be her +1 for Karen Elson's sold out solo show at Le Poisson Rouge.

REAL LIFE DREAM WEAVER

She was...luminous. Magical. Incandescent? I may not know the right words. I died more than a few times.
I don't think I will have a day where I am like, I NEED to listen to a Karen Elson record today; it's the only thing that will get me through; it isn't exactly my thing..BUT- her voice is gorgeous. I was taken aback at how incredible she sounded.



(I forgot my FLIP! ADM*! Here is a tiny clip from my Lumix, twill have to suffice)

SPEAKING OF INCREDS, let's discuss how she LOOKED: That long peachyglowdress (with matching fascinator AND microphone fringe) and her unbelievably hypnotically gorge orange flame pennylocks. Superjelz x 100 millzbillz.

I am sorry to gush, but she is a VISION. And my hair idol. And so pretty I want to CRY.

Oh and no bigs, my second hair idol and Head of the Pennylocks Hair Association, Grace Coddington was there, front row and center. Amaze.

*ADM is AY DIOS MIO! Obvi, it's the new OMG. PASS IT ON!

big teez

New things, old things, free things, borrowed things...All awesome things.

ALEXANDER WANG FOR LINDA FARROW SUNGLASSES  ///  FRESHJIVE 'STANTON T'
VINTAGE LEOPARD COAT BORROWED FROM LESLEY

FreshJive sent Hunter these realllllly sick tees (I haven't worn FreshJive since middle school whuuut)...The photos are by Guy Webster (PLEASE check his site, amazing old pics of like, Mary Steenburgen who P S was HOT AS HAY-ELLLL back in the day). 

ALEXANDER WANG FOR LINDA FARROW SUNGLASSES  ///  FRESHJIVE 'STANTON T'
VINTAGE LEOPARD COAT BORROWED FROM LESLEY /// PERRE HARDY FOR GAP WHITE CLOGWEDGES

MAC LIPSTICK IN GIRL ABOUT TOWN

Oh, sorry, don't mind me and my HARRY DEAN STANTON TEE SHIRT DRESS!!!
Ok it's just a tee shirt, but on a midge like ME it's a dress. I miss HDS on Big Love! LONG LIVE THE PROPHET! I shall protest his departure on my chest.

Sorta forgot about these Pierre Hardy for GAP clogswedgeshoe situations. Even though they are kinda like the ghetto cuz to my Margiela clogswedgeshoe situations, I feel a RENEWED INTEREST in them.

I hope Arfin is cool with the fact that she is NOT getting this coat back...uummm, SOWWY LES.

SUNGLASSES STOLEN FROM HUNTER /// ROGAN CARDIGAN
FRESHJIVE 'HOPPER T' /// ALICIA & OLIVIA FOR PAYLESS (!) POLKADOT PLATFORMS 
MAC LIPSTICK IN GIRL ABOUT TOWN

He also got one with Dennis Hopper on it. AKA Owen Wilson's doppelganger in the 60s. Talk about bone fantasies. HI THERE.

GIANT PEEPS WRAPPER 'GARBAGE' BOW BY THE GIRLS OF SUPERCUTE!
OLD H&M PERFECT CIRCLE SUNGLASSES /// VINTAGE SATIN CAPE
BLACK BOOK WEEZY TEE /// MAC LIPSTICK IN GIRL ABOUT TOWN

When a Swedish company called Black Book offers to send you a Lil Wayne tee because they like your blog you say YES. (I believe this is a Terry Richardson pic of Weezy?)

I bought my bow at our 92Y event, it is Supercute! band merch!!! Are you DYING or what?
I mean...it's a PEEPS WRAPPER. A Peeps wrapper. These girls kill me.

It was 5 dollars. I highly suggest obtaining one– you will not only support a terrific band but there is a 99.99999% chance that you will most likely look amazing.

For the record, this Weezy tee is mine but if I want to wear it I have to dig through Hunter's things; I AM JUST SAYING. 

mag hag

Thanks Lurve, for sending me the latest issue! I perused it this weekend at my office..see?

LURVE MAGAZINE // ISSUE 3 // SPRING/SUMMER 2010

Very cool issue, my favorites were the editorial shot by my blogger galfriend-turned-IRL galfriend Zana Bayne ! SO much A.F. Vandevorst (not a shocker, if you follow Garbage Dress!)

It really got my springtimes juices flowing. I feel a new mag buying spree coming on...

i like you, you like me

I woke up today and thought..where IS my that dog. record?

Ugh, the perils of having moved about 12 times since high school. I mean, where the fuck is ANYTHING, really ??? (Haven't seen a yearbook in about 10 years, I have a feeling you would all get a good giggle outta that piece of nostalgic embarrassment...must find!)

 THE 90S HAD SUCH A SICK EYEBROW GAME

Anyway.
Here is a song I really really liked when I was 16, I think you'll dig it too (my other favorite was 'Old Timer').


"We do whatever is really cool."

fashion emergency

Please send one of those rescue Saint Bernards....

...with these LD TUTTLE strapwedge dreamboats in a Red Cross rescue barrel around it's neck.

V V NECESSARY FOR ME TO CONTINUE LIVING.


Thank you very much for your time.

that's the look

Saturday I got to spend some QT with my old friend Ms Angela Barrow...and this bitch just about killed me with her ensemble.

DENIM ON DENIM, COLLAR BUTTONED, DOPE JANGLE !!

BLACK DENIM "BIBB" NECKLACE BY CHEEK-IE (ANGELA'S JEWREE LINE)..BRACELETS ARE VINTAGE, CHEEK-IE & ARIELLE DEPINTO

BE CUTER, WHY DON'T YOU

I basically try to steal one of Angie's necklaces every time I see her. 

This style is a particulare favorite, but let's get real I love them ALL.

My favorite Cheek-ie items of all time are black chokers she custom made me a few years ago- IMPORTANT Q: WHEN DO CHOKERS GET THEIR MOMENT IN THE REDUX SUN??

The denim on different denim mix is so so SO SO GOOD for right this second. 

 I THINK I FINALLY "GET" KRISTEN STEWART, PS

One of my fave looks in the new Runaways movie is Dakota Fanning in a denim shirt (like Barrow's) tucked into highwaisted dark denim ripped jeans, tucked into knee high green platform Bowie boots. I tried to find a screenshot of it, but I couldn't. This denim jumpsuit look will have to suffice.

CHLOE S/S 2010

If yr feeling a baggier denim shirt vibe, I think this is the way to do it. If I wore pants, I would crafternoonitize some light denim knee patches STAT. While yr at it rip the pockets off of the shirt, sick detail.

Just a little spring wardrobe inspo for you on this most perfect of March weekends, YOU'RE WELCOME.

oh, these old things?

JUST KEEPIN IT CASUAL, YOU KNOW.

ALEXANDER WANG FOR LINDA FARROW SUNGLASSES // THRIFTED I. MAGNIN OPEN WEAVE SEQUIN SWEATSHIRT // NARS VELVET MATTE LIP IN DRAGON GIRL

HEYYYY NOWWWWWW.
So...whatcha been up to?
Me? Just busy enjoying the SUNSHINE in my ALEXANDER WANG CRAZY CATFACE SUNGLASSES. AKA the best gift I have EVER RECEIVED.

NO

BIG

DEAL.

I fucking die for these things. (Thank you Alex Hawgood..you are the BEST, times a billion)

An important NOTE:
People gawk at these things, like for real. Almost everyone comments on them and people were taking my picture all afternoon in Soho, it was nuts. Do not wear unless you are prepared for all out staring at you, all day long. It's a teensy bit unnerving after a while.

Hmm I was just trying to remember..who else owns these?

OH, RIGHT.

Although I like to think I feel like Gagaloocoocoocachoo in them,  I feel they make the wearer resemble most closely any woman depicted in Far Side cartoons:

I still die.

the agony & the irony, they're killing me

Sometimes you just want a 90s radio hit, you know?
How about a little Wednesday afternoon FLAGPOLE SITTA?


Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
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Please note the SUPERIMPORTANT line:
"I want to publish zines and rage against machines"

Remember, this was 1998 and so this was considered an ironic "retro" joke.

Here on WHITE LIGHTNING we are POST-IRONY and so we take that as TRUTH.
 We also support pre-Scientology Katie Holmes, and this was the trailer song for Disturbing Behavior, and she was so hot and normsauce back then..WE MISS YOU, JOEY POTTER!

clean cup, move down

Last weekend Hunter & I eschewed 3D movie theatre surreality to stick with our favorite reality: Laptop movie marathons in bed. In my wine haze I agreed to a subtitled, taxidermied 80s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland called Něco z Alenky.

 
It was great looking but creepy as hell.

Except for Alice (and actually, sometimes Alice) everything was toys. Stuffed rabbits, marionettes, china dolls, building blocks. The white rabbit ate sawdust and he was so teethgnashy scary; this is definitely a nightmarish take on the tale.

WHY does this look always appeal to my interests so intensely? Will I ever outgrow a love for a kneesock and a maryjane??? Shouldn't I be over this by now??? (Please don't answer that.)

This was my favorite part:after she creates an ocean of her tears, a rat takes refuge on the island of her head. She lets him stay until he hacks off part of her hair and starts a campfire to heat up some hobo beans ("That's just rude, thought Alice").

I only made it about three quarters through before I was like OK, BASTA... I couldn't take the dreary weirdness any longer, although I do adore a pink pinafore and a fringe, obvs.

In conclusion: When I am old I will have a room in my house that will be scaled to make you feel like Alice after she eats from the side that makes you grow LARRRRRGERRRRRRR. (Pls see above for refernce) And I will still be wearing knee socks.

hey I made that, part 2

My latest DIY is up at Crushable...I made my own Miu Miu kitty collar!

It was super easy, super cheap and super fun. Super!
Go make yr own!

what's more perfect than perfect?

I stopped by Kate Fleming's studio to see her Fall 2010 collection. I want it all.

 THE KNAPP SATCHEL, MY DREAM BAG. KATHERINE FLEMING F/W 2010

More pictures and words and a video and stuff over at my Sundance blog. Check it!

i don't wanna think anymore

The duo of Gagaloo & Beyonce, Too finally (FINALLY) released the supervideo for Telephone and good fucking grief where do I even START?

Ok I will start....here. TEN MINUTES? Who has ten fucking minutes to watch a video? This shit is an epic in the fucking dictionary definition; my adult onset ADD does not really allow for focusing on something for more then 90 seconds at a time.

But I did it. FOR YOU GUYSand for the LOVE OF THE GA.

SO..in a brief sentence, what we have here is one a them "video movies" that were sorta popular in the 90s (Hellloooo Beastie Boys' Spike Jone directed Sabotage..which ps was still only abt 4 mins long) that is some sort of Kill Bill / Thelma Louise / Who's that Girl / 70s Lesbo prison porn mashup with chola eyebrows and Beyonce as a Vargas girl.

Allow me to attempt to run through the video and discuss Important Moments, the outfits (bitch has more major outfits than seems possible), the PRODUCT PLACEMENT (barf), call out some pop culture refereces as I see them, and try to understand what the fuck is going on.

 LET'S DO IT.

Whoa whoa whoa.
Someone loves the 70s.
Or a "feels like the 70s"..much like  in the aforementioned BBoys video:

or in the (totally underrated) Quentin Tarantino (more on his influence later) move:

Guess who else loves the 70s? THIS GIRL RIGHT HERE. So right off, I am kinda into this.

This, we are told, is "Prison for Bitches". As far as I can tell,  it is very warm there, as even the wardens have their tits out. Gagaloo (in Jean Charles De Castelbajac) will probs fit in just fine here. Except for the fact that one of them tell her "SAY GOODBYE TO FASHION".

NOT FUCKING LIKELY, BITCHES. (I can call them that, as it is a Prison For Them)

Hey hey heyyyyyy watch the leather, man!

"I told you she didn't have a dick" Guess it sucks to have started a rumor about yourself that just WON'T QUIT, huh Ga? Well, now we all know.

Cut to the prison yard, our heroine in chains (by Viktor & Rolf)
Time for some exercise! And maybe some fresh air...that is of course if she doesn't breathe in anywhere near her OWN FACE as her SUNGLASSES are made of LIT CIGARETTES (by Haus of Gaga, as if you had to wonder). I have to say, I wanna barf a little in my Diet Coke thinking of the smell.

[Product placement: The diamond headphones that she shills for are on an inmate rocking out in the yard]

Double barf thinking about having to kiss her at this moment, I mean..i can't. Thank god this chick is wearing sunglasses she might singe her eyebrows off.

I like that big girl in the back. She like...damn, now it's Burning Tobacco Glasses?! I just MADE this FUCKING HAIR BOW! Sheeeeeit.

PRODUCT PLACEMENT 2: A certain cellphone compant has their phone in her crotch. YEAH I BLURRED IT OUT, I AM NOT GETTING PAID FOR THIS SHIT.

SIDENOTE: Why would you want yr cellphone comapnay affiliated with a song where her fucking phone don't get her no service in the club? JUST WONDERING

SO MUCH IMPORTANCE, on so many levels. DIET COKE CAN CURLERZZZ! HAAAHHA omg that shit is so dope. I love it!
But what else is this about? Is that girl representing a young Stefani Germanotta at right? If i was writing this for a dissertation I would compare this to the theme of twins in Finnegan's Wake...ok, no I wouldn't,  I stole that whole reference from The Bell Jar I have never been anywhere near a copy of Finnegan's Wake.
Point being..IS THIS THE TWO SIDES TO GA? Young and unadorned, new and covered in crap?
WHO KNOWS, I DIDN'T WRITE THIS SCRIPT.

This is the most serious eyebrow game I have ever seen in my entire life. It makes Joan Crawford look like Whoopi Goldberg (get it? Whoopi HAS NO EYEBROWS). And obvi...the chola lip is so hot. SO HOT.

There was some crazy cat fight whatevs happening and then..HEY GAGA, PHONE CALL, BEYONCE´.
First Madonna reference, to my overcaffeinated brain..Shades of Desperately Seeking Susan?

Stretch? Shut it, this is my blog.

The SONG STARTS.
We are THREE MINUTES IN.
God this is long.

Not sure what this almost naked skinny mini dance scene is about; I guess this is for those of you who force your boyfriend into watching this and at this point he is really ready to bail, but then this comes on and he is like oh..wait.

GAHHHHHH ! GAGA PUTS THE LOTION IN THE BASKET!!! (In Brian Lightenberg tape outfit)

PS, They show her with THAT PHONE AGAIN! In this get up! Where do you keep your phone in that?! (Don't answer that)

Someone bailed your ass out, lady (in vintage Mugler). I WONDER WHO?
One note on this "glove": we have taken it as far as we can haven't we, Fashion? A glove is now reduced to leather bits on just four of yr five fingers. Basta.

By the WAYYY...madonna reference #2:

SO Nikki Finn! Who's That Girl! She wears red lips and latex and studded jackets and major brows and the wardens are hired from the same Man Faced Scary Dyke casting agency.
You can't trick me, gurl. I am on to you.

See ya guys, my ride is here! It's...the Pussy Wagon? From..Kill Bill? What in the who...?
Shit gets weirdly Tarantino-ish from here, why didn't he direct this thing?????

Hi Beyonce! Sorry, "Honey Bee". Nice bangs!
They try to break down some deep shit here:
"Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger" and "Trust is like a mirror...something something who cares this makes no sense".
I don't know. Were you hoping I would unlock that mystery? Sors, I got nothing.

Um..you guys? Litering is really not cool.

So...now we're in a diner. And Gaga works in the kithen and takes the takeout orders from her brain with a bunch of produce queens dancing with heads of lettuce. This is the start of some sort of revenge death plot that we are never told about, where Beyonce is killing Tyrese with her d-eye-balls and a tiny bottle of poison, and Gagaloo is hosting her own Death by Sandwich Show on the bizarro Food Network.

This is the most delightful moment of the whole 985 minutes of this video.
YAY! LET'S MAKE A SANDWICH!! (Whisk maracas!)

Shades of poisoning Heather Chandler! Blue liquids (corn nuttssssssss).

Where are we? Beyonce's haus? Why? I dont know, the editing in this musical insanity is caraycray. I know you don't care, but I would love to have my hair look lke this say..EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE.

Shit, she works hard for the money! She has to waittress here too?!?
We are anothier level- Hair telephone eyepatch! Hair telephone cord! 


Hmm. maybe I'm reading too much into this (why stop now) but...

...RIGHT? SORTA? YES.

Oh right.So..he dead. And like..other people are dead. Killer sammies. Homicidal bacon. Life-taking pancakes (I am just quoting from Zagats..this place has a bad rep)

We did it! We kiled everyone! We love America! LET'S DANCE IT OUT!
Gaga looks like Daisy of Love dressed like Bret Michaels.

I HAVE COME SO FAR, YET I UNDERSTAND NOTHING.

Then they peace out. And Jai from Queer Eye is a news reporter and everyone is dead (Kalifornia? Natural Born Killers? no?)

Then they dress like bee keepers and dance in the wind.
Then they pact a pact to run far far away and never come back.
Then...

Oh my god, really?
I DON'T HAVE THE TIME!
TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS NOW!

Ten minutes and 6,000 screen captures later, what have we learned? Tell me in the comments, I am fucking spent.


thank you kylie for the screenshot heads up and thank you nicola formichetti for always posting credits on your blog.