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.

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.

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.

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