giveaway: stand up comedy x whitney totes !

A few weeks ago I wrote about the limited edition handmade/screened/numbered art book totes that Portland's Stand Up Comedy made for The Whitney here in NYC.

Well sometimes life is good, brahskevitches. The very cool people at the Whitney sent me a S.U.C.xWHITNEY tote of my very own, and I am complety in hearts with it.

YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU MIGHT HAVE TO JAM

This is essentially what I carry around on my person most days:
Magazines, various composition notebooks, my hideous wallet (anyone have any recs on a new one? I'm desperado), flash drive, comb (the only way to keep your bangs like Peggy Moffitt's), Karen Walker sunglasses, my keychain with Miu Miu ribbon and "self-defense kitty" that I bought when I was 15. (Your fingers go through the eyes and you stab with the ears! DANGER!), tiny red notebook from Kiosk (I love notebooks from Kiosk. I love anything from Kiosk!), felt tip pens, business cards (WERK), Dior Skin Sculpt concealer, Marc Jacobs mirror, Bobby Brown cheek color, Mustela hand lotion, a stamped leather vintage..ciagarette pack holder (???) that is perfectly iPod shaped, my iPhone (aka my siamese twin).

This is a pretty normy day. Sometimes there is weird random shit in my bag..recently some of the weirder things have been: Korean ice cream sammies (shaped like fish!!), the first season of Beverly Hills 90210 on DVD (so key), Ouzo flavored chocolates for my dad and about a thousand paint chips from Home Depot.

You can fit a LOT in this lil tote and since it was designed to carry heavy monographs, you can really pack it in there. Or at least I do. Which is an easy way to give yourself a gangsta lean. Which is why I recently invested in a backpack.

BUT I DIGRESS.

HERE COMES THE BEST PART:
The Whitney also gave me 3 totes to give away to you, dear White Lightning readers ! I have one in each color and I really want you to have them.

 

Leave me a comment with the weirdest thing you've ever carried around in your bag. The 3 best answerersss get a tote.

GOOD LUCK & GET WEIRD!

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.

targarte

SO yesterday my sister picked me up in the family car and we hit up the dirt Jerz for some Christmas shopping/Gaga car singalongs/mall mayhem.

My only mission was to find a Target that would still have some meager shreds of Rodarte chillin on their racks. Leave it to Tbonz the supershopper to guide us to HACKENSACK where treasures were still to be found!

We tried on a million things, and I wanted most of them but $$$ is not so flowin and so I left with only what I NEEDED TO SURVIVE.

The baby blue Swiss-dot dress, mustard lace skirt, and BOTH PAIRS OF THE KNEE SOCKS! Which I haven't seen anyone else with besides Tav when she debuted them at fashion week. 

Mustard lace skirt with nude tulle overlay & mustard perforated knee highs / Rodarte x Target

Self-altered chopcropped grey sweatshirt / Duane Reade

Brown perfect ankle boots / Prada

HEY GUESS WHAT MY FIRST INITIAL IS "E" necklace / Topshop (gift from my sis)

I. love. this. skirt. I love it! It is so pretty and strange. I don't think I own anything this prettygirlyfilmy, besides my mettalic Philip Lim Skirt from last year? I only want to wear it with my really old grey  tee that is 80% holes or this giant grey sweatshirt I cropped up. Or grey tights. Or grey knee socks. Just lots of old grey.

PS, how bonx is that necklace?!?! Totally flavin' it.

Mustard lace skirt with nude tulle overlay & mustard perforated knee highs / Rodarte x Target

Maroon suede & white wooden platforms / Pierre Hardy x Gap

Giant mess, blogger's own

Baby blue lace & tulle & Swiss dot dress / Rodarte x Target

Favorite red red red lipstick / Bombay by Le Métier de Beauté

A collection based on Rosemary's Baby that is "Junior's" is not exactly GIANT RACK FRIENDLY, just FYI-SLERS. The mesh top of this dress makes this a somewhat sexxxay situation, but that's not so bad sometimes, right?

My dress matches my wall

 Who's chapstick is that? WHOOPSY

I am gonna wear this on Christmas, cold weather be damned. I'm not really going outside, so who cares? Gonna need a cardigan though, SENSUAL CLEAVAGE doesn't really fly with Mom and Dad for family affairs.

Nude squareholed up kneesocks / Rodarte x Target

Gold metallic ankle boots / vintage

The OTHER kneesocks. Nude with all these little rectangular holes. Dope. I am so psyched on these, they were honestly the items I wanted most (besides the lace cardigans, which were long gone by the time I got to Target)

Other things I loved but had to leave behind were the floral raincoat, the cropped sherpa-y jacket (SO GOOD, SO SO GOOD! but at 50 dollars...ehhh I dont know. Kinda regretting leaving it but oh well), the navy lace skirt.

There was ONE leopard lace dress left and it fit my sister like it was made for her. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, if you can find it. You can't get dressed alone though..someone has to help ya with those back bows (The more you know).

Balls. Still thinkin bout the sherpa jacket. 

But you know what? FASHION GLUTTONY is not a good look and I am really really happy with what I got.

Mo' betta' pics soon, I am still not into my blogga photo groove in this new apartment...

in my dreams

One day I will do something worthy of allowing me to appear somewhere wearing this outfit.
I am completely serious, I consider this a PERFECT LOOK.

Ok, let's get real. I would wear this anywhere, forget "spesh occasions".  
Let's fangirl all over it, shall we?
1. Off-kilter bouffant. No one really needs to see this much of my face, btw, but I still would love to walk around like this. Mental note, buy giant bumpits and DIY it.
2. White mink shoulder stole straightjacket topper. Lurve.
3. Long flowy sequined skirt (dress?)with whats-his-name on it, increds. 

and and AND:

4.A JUDITH LEIBER BAG. I have always had a dark secret love for JL novelty bags..they are so synonymous with expensive tacky aunt but I LOVE THEM.  
I LOVE THEM.


Whyyyyyy wouldn't you want a bejeweled pavé glittery forestdwelling creature slung across your body that you can fill with superimportant things like red lipstick, stray pennies, a button from god knows what, airplane peanuts, a lucky rock, grape hubba bubba and $11 dollars american (TMI?)

Here it is! Gimmmeeeee:

Or this one:

Or, okay, I WILL TAKE THIS ONE TOO:

UNFORTCH FOR OL' WL, these sweet, sweet jazzholes cost like, $3,800+ bones on the average and SO it reallllyyy REALLY will never be my own personal intense pleasure to own one. Very sad, this thing we call real life.

gaga, ooh la la

THIS IS IT, FRIENDS.
This is the moment.
If you love fashion, and don't love GAGALOO TOO..then you don't get the joke, you don't get the fun, you don't get the THING. You don't have to love the music (bad move) but you have to LOVE THE LOVE.

Today I watched the Lady's new video, Bad Romance and to quote Polly Mellon in Unzipped..IT CHANGED MY EYE. That is to say this shit is THE ONLY LEVEL.

This is also a pretty offish landmark for ol' Lady Gags- no more homemade couture "homage"... There is ALEXANDER MCQUEEN and it is REAL.

LET'S LET IT ALL IN:



FIRST SHOT: WE ENTER HEAVEN.
And HEAVEN looks like a Dolce & Gabbana ad! If you were wondering, I audibly GASPED when it started. I love.



Um, this is the only way to sit in a chair.



Mental note, dismantle old VCR and place parts on face, POST HASTE. [ED NOTE, eek they ARE razor blades. I am not that hardcore!] I mean, this is 30 seconds in and already 4000 mega fashion moments have happened.



But then..Que es esto, La Gaga? Nail mesh? (Is this also bizarre product placement?)

Oh, and if you were WONDERING Where the Wild Things Are?



They are here:



good grief, creeper latex Max costumes! Holy Whaaaa. WILD RUMPUS, INDEED.



Hey kids, REMIND ME TO D I for Y this kooky crown.



There is some sort of story in the vid of like..an overdose? Bad Romance indeed, Gags. This hair is neo-Frenchy-in-Grease. I want easter egg curls, i think. Anime freak eyeballs, mabes no.



Who's this guy? Is that couture headgear?



I am ready to move past this look. I call this "Hot Bod Gagalog", or "Dope Britney". it's sexxxay, but I need more. (...and more is coming, JUST YOU WAIT)



Oh hai.



PSSST i see you, MCQUEEN SHOE, I SEEEE YOUUUUU. (fashionforeshadowing!)



Sing alongggggg: I want your love and I want your revenge



I want your love, I dont wanna be friendsssssss



OK. I just got you started up, are you ready?
Ready for the MOST MAJOR MOMENT EVER?



FULL



MCQUEEN



HEAD TO MOTHERFUCKING ARMADILLO TOE !



McQUEENADILLOS!!!!!!

I mean, I CAN'T. Can you? I can't. I am so in love.
STOP THE WORLD. GAGA OWNS IT ALLLLLLL.
NO ONE can best this. NO ONE!

2 MAJOR song notes:
1. 1990s Madonna impersonation is reaching an all-time high in this jam AS IT SHOULD. She shouts, "Cuz I'm a free bitch, baby" and it sounds ZACTLY like M.
2. The french chorus at the end is hilarimazing. J'adoreeeeeeee.

There is some amazing shit at the end of the vid too- bitch shows her full ASS and sets herself on fire on a bear rug but like, after the McQueen-adillos I have nothing left. I feel like this:



I LOVE YOU, LADY GAGA.

i need new ways to say GIMME THAT

i hope you weren't so put off by the weird furry neo-uggs and questionable use of a cavaricci-esque pant so as to miss the BEST THING ABOUT LOUIS VUITTON (save the afros, doy):


LOUIS VUITTON S/S 2010

these hairytail JANGLEBAGS are my new EVERYTHING.

GIANT JANGLES THAT HAPPEN TO BE BAGS!
they can hold things, but not too many things. flat things. like your phone and some necco wafers, no cash though because you spent it all on giant racoontailz.

DEAR MARC JACOBS, PLEASE SEND ME ONE...please?

number one with an umlaut

happy wednesday animal print inspiration?
wait...animal print, short hair AND clog inspiration:



chloe sevs, kids era. (1994-5ish)
ALWAYS BEEN DOPE. it hurts, just a lil.

in the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever

the new kid cudi record is getting major play up in my headspace...hop around to this jam today, i mean have you ever heard a more upbeat ditty about WAKE N BAKE in your life?

well played, wangy

leave it to THE WANGER to have the collection i totally LOVE the one time in my life i will have a seat AND not be able to go (let's never speak of this again)...

LADY FASHION FOOTBALLERS!


alexander wang s/s10

i was thinking this week that i NEED a grey sweatshirt to croptop-ify and NOW i need a grey sweatshirt dress with a halfmoon sleeve and leathah accents. I NEED IT. don't i?
also, i truly ENVY any of you who can rock a long messy sidebraid. i should get extensions. (jk?)

anything to fuel my kneesock fetish:


alexander wang s/s10

could totally DIY this, slice a sock and add elasticz? DONE and DONE...luckiliy i have FREE TIME.


alexander wang s/s10

ok the SICKEST thing are THESE SUNGLASSES! just the next incarnation of a theme i love:

catwoman -> ghost world'd catwoman -> luella'd ghost world catwoman -> wang'd luella ghost world catwoman

DOPENESS.
and those shoes ain't bad neither.

i can feel the hysteria, even on the west coast

marc jacobs talks after partayyys over at the cut:

"We’re doing it with Visionaire and we’re doing it for Lady Gaga"

obviarse.
i mean, DUH DUH DUH. why she isn't starring in the MJ FW 09/10 campaign is BEYOND ME!

so fashion is JUST now accepting gagagagagaglunacy as SO DOPE, is it awesome or a bummersville that she can get the real things and mabes doesn't need to crafternoonitize a headpiece and leotard for her daily coffee run? unclear.

btdubs, "doin it for lady gaga" is my new mantra

i can see myself in your pants

WHOASLERS:



crocodile maw crotch cover! so best.
christopher kane for topshop! give it, bitches.

in other news:



sheer mirrored leggings, a boobcup frock, MIRRORED KNICKERS!

to see and be seen in, oh oh oh.

mad wings

i got this sweater when i went DEEP thrifting into methtown the other day...it's pretty fucking dreamtown, i love it!



the sleeves are HUGE, this shit is AVANT. i hve it tucked in to a denim skirt which is maybe not the LEAST BULKY look for a gal, but i'm just going for it.



whoever this "MOM" character is, she should get her own sweater line. this is the best thing i have bought in a while.



bought a bullet keychain at this sick army navy store, it's my new jangle jam. (with my lucky coin)



these deena& ozzy white oxfords that i got a while ago at urban are what i wear with everything these days.

thank god the 90 degree bullshit that was happening here has slowed its roll.
it's 66 at 2 Pm and i couldn't be happier. SO the kind of summer i can can get down with!