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I couldn't stay in the city any longer, I just couldn't...Escaped to Quogue for 2 days of bestever.

PHOTO BY ANDREW DE FRANCESCO

Every time I head to Kat's country house, I am like a Fresh Air FUnd kid, basically. We went to a farm to pick our own berries and they had some animals and I was like..THAT'S WHAT TURKEYS LOOK LIKE? WTF?

It's a whole new world out there.

You know what rules? Eating a strawberry you picked yourself and it's all warm from the sun. THAT. RULES. Look at me up there. SO PSYCHED! Def ate twice as many as we put in the box, whoops.

KATIEBERRY

BUNNICULA

You know who else loves strawberries? This crazy ass bunny. He had a serious case of BERRY FEVER. We named him Bunnicula, duh.

BEST LUNCH

I drank a Budweiser barefoot while we drove to a farmstand. We cooked thangs all weekend and I now have a dangerous addiction to rhubarb. 

Most important thing: Upon learning that me, Kat, and his mom all have beaus who are younger than them, 8-yr-old Thomas (a genius, clearly) declared: "I know why. Because younger boys know that older girls are H-O-T-er!"

CORRECT, THOMAS.

CORRECT.

A VERITABLE DOOGIE HOWSER, THIS ONE.

My nose is sunburnt.

eye dios mio

Hey gals n pals! Happy Tuesday!
Time for FUN WITH PHOTOBOOTH! FUN WITH PACKAGES! FUN WITH EYEWEAR!

Maybe you wreck-a-nize theeeeeesssseeeeeee:

FROM A LITTLE AD CAMPAIGN THAT LOOK-A-LIKE THEEEEES?????!

Oh, yeah. JUST SOME S/S 2010 PRADA NEON EYEWEAR, ALL UP IN MY REAL LIFE.

What can I tell you? I have some really amazing friends.
Who messenger mystery packages to your desk in the middle of the day.
And inside is something as delightful as THIS.

I sent him this jpg and he wrote back, "Don't leave the sticker on!"

where is the baby

IT JUST HIT ME.

All my nostalgic teen-years angst comes crashing to a hopefully spectacular freakshow of screaming insanity TONIGHT. At Terminal 5. When me, Marisa, Kara, Emily, and Doree go see HOLE.

I really can't remember being this excited about an EVENT* in a longass time.



When she sings this song -and she better sing this song- I am gonna freak out. BIG TIME. CROWD SURF. GET WEIRD. You've all been warned.

The last time I saw Hole PROPER (not counting her surprise Lolla perfomance, or any other weird industry party things) was at Roseland in 1995, Live through this tour. I guess I should wear the barrettes I bought there tonight?

*except for First Kiss at 92YTribeca, DOY

gone postal

Reasons I love to go to my office:
I can IM, text, and have lunch with Lesley pretty much simultaneously.
General Gavin-ness.
No shortage of Dad jokes.
Trevor once bought us all Skor bars and I hold on to the hope that the magic of that day will be repeated again.
Sometimes Ronnie stops by and leaves me notes and drawings (The last one was a WHITE LIGHTNING logomade out of dicks. I HEART ART!!!)
I crack up about 98% of the time.
Repeat first line about Les.

Also? I GET MAIL !!

I love mail you guys, I LOVE IT.
Packages and letters and zines and postcards all intvites. All awesome, all showing up on my desk...YES!

Latest greatness on that has showed up at 14th St:

under.ligne Dress. My new favorite item of clothing. Outfit post forthcoming.

Whim Quarterly: A new magazine by my old friend Paul "Underdubs" Underwood..It's funny, it's actually printed on PAPER (novel!) and..it comes with a free toy inside! (note, no free toy inside)
EDIT! THERE ARE FREE TOYS! (Breaking: I am shtoops)

Oh and this?
This is just a Tim Lincecum baseball card, with a piece of his jersey inside of it.
I know umm hmmm likeeee NOTHING baseball, but I caught about 2 seconds of Tim on teevee last year and sorta fell in love. He is a supertall long hair pot smoking baseball star from the pacific northwest, ummmm HELLO, I am your #1 fan. PS I have no idea what team he even plays for.
Anyways...my longtime friend Mr. Scott Opirhory sent me this crazy thing.
I wanna make a jangle out of it? Just like the Abba turd in Priscilla Queen of the Desert? (Anyone?)

WHAT TREASURES AND DELIGHTS WILL I FIND TODAY?
I.
can't.
wait.

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.

kicks

My friend Phil stopped by my office today so we could have lunch n chats. I stopped dead in my trackzzz when I saw his sneakers..um WHAT?!

NIKE SAYS WHAAAAAT

Some kind of super limited edition snakeprint crazy ass hightops with an extra-long tongue..They COME mismatched! They're called Mint Chocolate. Are you kidding me?? I freaked out.

He also brought me these:

Teenytinerson adorable stickers from his recent trip to Japan. Phil is wise, he knows a very important life truth which is: GIRLS LOVE STICKERS (Lesley got some too, we were both squealing).

Brb, currently covering my ipod with puffy donuts and smiling mochi balls (we call this "working").

Happy Friday!

i want to be your blow pop queen

Last night was..pretty major.
My dear dear friend Marisa Meltzer, she of the amazing new book Girl Power and my partner in FIRST KISS the zine, asked me to be part of her event at the 92YTribeca, What it Feels Like For A Girl, along with Emily Gould and Sean Fennessey and mynewfavoritegirls Supercute.
She suggested I talk about Lady Gaga, and really, who can say NO to that?!?

I said yes, got excited, then..the night before I had a panic attack and possibly cried a little and freaked out.
I HAVE STAGE FRIGHT! Major. Public speaking is SCARY to me! It always has been! Good grief.

But last night (after a whiskey) I felt..excited?!

Marisa was so composed, funny and brilliant..Talking about how COURTNEY LOVE FRIENDED HER ON FB (true story!) and then read from her book AND Courtney's published diaries.

Emily read a chapter from her forthcoming new book, And the Heart Says Whatever (currently reading it and I love it)  and SANG (!!!) Liz Phair's "Flower" with Supercute (note, as the super cute Supercute is a band of 3 delightful 14 yr olds, Emily reworte the lyrics to be TEEN FRIENDLY. SO funny. My fave part "I'll take you home and make you pancakes").

Sean, our brave boy in this sea of GIRLNESS, talked Nicky Minaj (sooo DOPE) and RAPPED HER LYRICS. 

I mean. You guys, it was so great.

I was last. I got up there, with a laser pointer (YES!) and a slideshow, with nothing written down...and HAD SO MUCH FUN. I wasn't nervous. I wasn't scared. Even when the computer wasn't working at first, I just rolled with it. I can't tell you you how I surprised myself...but I did. And it was so fun. I traced Lady Gaga's sartorial evolution in the past year (her rise to mega-fame), with school as a metaphor?

If you were wondering what the hell that means, here are the title slides for the 4 sections of my (highly non-scientific and largely ridiculous) discussion:

It made sense (kinda) if you were there.

What a night. Thank you Marisa and Emily and Sean. Thank you Supercute. Thank you everyone who came to watch us.

THANK YOU LASERPOINTER..I reallllly need one of those things for my every day, what a revelation.

ps, Supercute will be getting their own post this week. They slayed me.

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

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.

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

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!