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...

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!

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!

buffalo stance

I was very generously given a MOUNTAIN of old magazines and books by a friend who recently moved.

If you are looking to preruse all the late 90s and early aughts issues of i-D magazine, COME OVER. I made some chili. We can drink hot toddies and get giddy together.

I plan to give yous some old fashion print based fashion mind blowings at least once a week; I have already started marking spreads and stories and superdupes greatness. As they say, WATCH THIS SPACE !

page turners

The internets are afire this week with talk of the new Spring/Summer 2010 campaigns...Bloggas be all excited bout them but fashion houses be all pissed at us? For posting pics? I am confused...it's free advertising and it is usually a LOVEFEST and all those ads'll be out in February mags right about now ANYWAYS...right? Right.

Well, controversey be damned here are some of my faves of what I have internets stalked so far:

BALENCIAGA / STEVEN MEISEL

Correct me if I am wrong, but (unless I have the credit info wrong) David Sims has shot the Balenciaga ads for years...Why the switch to Meisel this season, I wonder? I will assume they have kept M/M Paris on as the campaign designers (as they have for years) cuz this seems about their weirdness level (see any and all Stella McCartney ads for reference). I dig it though, if only cuz it is something unique in the sea of samesamesameyness that is the front third of most fashion magazines.

LANVIN / STEVEN MEISEL

The ads for Lanvin are always...CHALLENGING, shall we say? Remember the Bratz-like giant eyeballs? This ad is straight up UNCOMFORTABLE, but I find something fascinating in that.

Perhaps wearing Lanvin throws you into a full body orgasm. I would suspect that this is TRUE, although I have yet to have had the pleasure of Alber's creations on mah skin...Lemme try adn rectify that sitchernation and get back to ya.

CHANEL / KARL LAGERFELD (DUH)

Is that hat for sale? Because I need it. WHAT I ALSO NEED is Claudia Schiffer's pact with the devil/goblet of water from the Tuck Everlasting fountain. Last I checked bitch was 40. She looks 19. CALL ME, CLAUDIA.

GIVENCHY / MERT & MARCUS

They coulda done whaaaatevaaahhhh they wanted for this ad, I would been all for it. I LOVE THIS COLLECTION. I WANT TO WEAR TRIBAL ZIGZAGZ ALL OVER MY BODY ALL DAY LONG. Totally loving the logo treatment as well; it's like the logo for LOVE mag, which I know is controversial aesthetically for a lot of people but I am a champion of UGLY AMAZING and so I love it.

ALEXANDER WANG / FABIEN BARON

This is the first time I have ever been WANG RABID (hey wait, getyr mind outta the gutter!) in my life, readers of this blog know I am not usually a fan. But this sweatshirt MIGHT improve my life by like, 487%, I am pretty sure. Also (as I posted during fashion week) sidebraids are the new jam. And my supercrush Fabbyfabs is tops, obvs.

LOUIS VUITTON / STEVEN MEISEL

Bike shorts n clogs! Bike shorts n CLOGGZZZZZZZZ! I won't focus on the fact that this looks sorta like a grisly but CHIC murder scene discovery out of an episode of CSI:VOGUE, where they solve FASHIONABLE MURDERS with CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY (the head detectives are played by André Leon Tally and Grace Coddington). I will just focus on BIKE SHORTS N CLOGZZZZZ!

PRADA / STEVEN MEISEL

I know I am in a cold lonely dark room in enjoying this collection as much as I do, but I feel like it falls under my aforementioned UGLY AWESOME rubric. CLEAR PLASTIC & VELCRO on everythin, let's do it, I dig it. And orange lips are a look I like to rock myself, so thumbs up right there.

MARC JACOBS / JUERGEN TELLER

She's standing in a toilet. I mean. You've got my attention. (The End).

OVERALL SIDENOTE:
Can we talk about Steven Meisel for a second? Dude has the market CORNERRRRRRED on ad campaigns. Kinda crazy, right?

all pics from tfs

never gets old

Hey look! It's my Betsey Johnson fish dress! Apparently this is from Dazed August 09, an article on Betsey Johnson. I wish I knew what year this pic is from...What do we think...1985?

Just realized I desperately need a CRINOLINE to wear under this bad boy! God damn this dress never gets boring to me. I would die to have it in a skirt....

Thank you Kylie!!!!

you'll eat raw fish but you won't accept a guy's TONGUE in your MOUTH?

Thank JEEBUS I am at an age when things like First Kisses and Losing Your Virginity are just the stuff sentimental moments & hilaritymaking. That being said, I love to discuss those sentimental moments all the time, often.

Let's talk about them, a lot, to everyone. Cmon! You know you want to!

Marisa Meltzer & I are making a one-off zine about first kisses called, naturally, FIRST KISS. And we want to hear about yours.

Send us the story of your first kiss. It can be as long or as brief as you like, but we'd love to know things like where you were, with whom, what you were wearing, what song was playing in the background, if it was a good kiss, how it happened, any emotional fallout, etc. We hope you'll want to use your name, but you don't have to.

Email your submissions by January 31st to mslightning@gmail.com and/or mnmeltzer@gmail.com
Kisses,
Elizabeth and Marisa
 
Hottest First Kiss of all time (or any kiss, for that matter):
 

 
My teenage dream First Kiss (my real one was in 7th grade and so not dreamy):
 

 
This one would've be pretty great too (without having to have my brother die in Vietnam, that is):
 

wishlistin'

Thank you W magazine, Craig McDean & Alex White for the sartorial pornographic bounty we are about to receive. (yellow brackets and !s, mine)

Rodarte S/S 2010 Alien cage shoes of certain death. Those heels are made of nuts n' bolts, right? Fantastically cunty looking. Do the Mulleavy sister secretly take out their aggression in their shoe design? Inquiring minds want to know. (PS: clear Prada bags, I don't hate it!)

Miu Miu S/S 2010! sighsighsighwowowowow. These are the shoes I dream of, they have everything i love and need.
Giant chunky pattern height! They are the juiced up version of the Miu Miu S/S 06 ka-pow print platforms I wish I had (I have these instead, still love them but they don't make me TALL and white patent leather doesn't age so great.).
I LOVE THIS COLLECTION. What a filmy sparkly muted lightbritedelight. I also want to be Siri Tollerod, if you want to know everything.
Obvi Chloe Sevs has been out and about in S/S 2010ness already and looked amazing. Jellyballs.

PRADA CHANDELIER HEELS, CHANEL CLOGS, PHI BOOTS. All S/S 2010, obvi. All desperately musthaveable. All in my dreams and hope and wants.

I know I am somewhat alone on this Prada shoe lust, but these plasticities are so many wrongs that fill me with rightdelight. CLEAR. CHUNKY HEELS. VELCRO. CRYSTALS. This is bananas and I am giddy. I want to wear them with dark grey ribbed tights and a beat up denim dress and be happier than I have ever been, mmkay?

I never stopped loving clogs and at least now I can get them skyhigh (if I win the lottery) from the Haus of Karl. Clogs4lyfe.

DISCUSSION POINT: PHI makes the DUH-HOPEST chunkyclunkybitchy ankle boots EVER. Kinda wonder why they aren't more on the forefront of internet WANT buzz? I COVET THEM SO HARD.

Please let the record reflect that Phi is my number one WANT for S/S 2010. DEAR ANDREAS MELBOSTAD, TAKE PITY ON ME. Please send boots, must have to live. K, theeenks.

EDIT! SAY IT AIN'T SO, PHI TO CLOSE DOWN?! balls.


900 million other looks with the rest of the slideshow here.

important reading

Will spend the rest of the afternoon with this lil treasure and my 3rd (4th? uh..5thhh?) coffee.

SELF SERVICE F/W 2009


Is this too much for Thanksgiving finery? Don't say yes.

Just push the mashed sweet potatoes through the veil, easy pease.

i like your style

i never worked up the courage this week to introduce myself to OLIVIER ZAHM.



i did, however, have no qualms about photographing his shiny green HEELS at the Zero+Maria Cornejo show.

can you stand it???? that boot is no joke!

nothing really happens in my secret life

fun with fashion, V mag peel off sunglasses edition!
WHO WORE IT BEST?

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta:



olga:



david byrne ?



charlize?



ScarJo?



anthony kiedis?



white lights?
i tried and failed, colorforms don't stick to pasty white faces too well. mabes that's why ga is so TANNED UP on the cover:



not...really...working....



fuck it, stick it to the mirror and make a hairbow outta that shit. we call this CREATIVITY and HOMAGE. (my parents would call this 'do you have a job yet')



ps white lightning tee in the house! I LOVE IT SO MUCH. duhvs, already made it a croptop

stickerface

STOP IT ALL RIGHT NOW:



those sunglasses PEEL OFF HER FACE so you can stick them ON YOUR FACE.

i'm gonna walk around like that, dare me.

ps, the press realease says AVAILABLE SEPT 1, which is TODAY, which means sept-never in portland. my cab from the airport is going STRAIGHT to my mag store on 4th & A.

pps outfit credits ON COVER is soooo p i m p

does mark ronson read POP?

i'm sorry, but there my be a little bit of POP OVERLOAD on this blog for the next few days, i am JUMPING AROUND with excitement to see ourselves in the issue!!!

here is one scan so far, we clean up pretty good, IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF:



the photos were shot by jamie morgan, who was a tiny bit of an older brit dude crush for me, i can't lie.
i was TERRIFIED of this photoshoot, and having anxiety attacks, and he made me feel totally chill and i actually..had fun?

except for the fact that he kept calling us "punky funky nerds". punky funky? NERDS? ok fine, i can take nerd. but FUNKY sounds like moms buying feather boas for a GALS NIGHT OUT.

BUT I DIGRESS.
i got to wear gucci and now i have a decent photo of myself for when i get real old.
can't wait to share the rest when i get it....!

the big time

hey so..remember when i went to london in june?
i was working on a spesh lil project that will be in here:



the new revamped POP magazine !
i haven't seen it yet but inside there should be a ZINE made by me and tavi and laia and eden...(please someone in london send me scans until i can buy one??)

oh, and YES that is TAVZ on the cover, you aren't seeing things.
so this week she not only started 8th grade but she is on the cover of a major fashion magazine, NO BIG DEAL.

PS since she is poised to become a star on a mega level, can i get a HOLLER for doing her FIRST PRESS EVER- A YEAR AGO? in a little thing called the new york times? just saying.
only tavi STARTS with the times and goes from there.

i'm so proud of her and i'm so proud of all of us that worked on this project and i can't wait to see the issue!

platinum

la linda will be in the next issue of V magazine. this opening spread kinda stopped me, i love when she gives I WILL KILL A BITCH face:



sebastian faena // sofia achaval

this is some twisted fairytale vermeer shit, so great right?

i need to go on a SEPTEMBER ISSUES hunt out here in hippie loveland.
i mean, they have a store here that only sells ZINES but to find an issue of PURPLE may prove difficult...what a world we live in.

i used to have a steady paycheck?

this sunday will be the appearance of the first issue of T Magazine that i haven't fully worked on in almost 4 years...it feels so strange! i know i will feel a little twinge as i flip through the pages..



the women's fall fashion issue is also the 5th anniversary of T, and i hope you all get your hands on a copy or 5 (there are multiple, MULTIPLE covers). jeff koons T cover!!! also: REDESIGN!

congratulations to the T peeps (at least the ones that read this blog), i am sure it's going to be AMAZE.
special special hearts and love for chris martinez and david sebbah who i miss like crazy and are the dudes responsible for making this thing look so top notch.

ok, enough babbling about my PAST LIFE; can i get the sunday times in portland or WHAT?

ps i DID work on 'the strip' section, twas my last hurrah. cant wait to see it on page...

pps, if we all weren't sure:
this has been the craziest year of my fucking life, truest.of.fax.

the day that will live in infamy (-famy -famy -famy)

STOP. DA. PRESSES.

today is THE DAY OF DAYS.
news so epic that i had to make some ART to commemmorate it:


yeezy, fabz, and ga on da moon.

FIRST:
i got werd in a latenight text from nyc:
FAB IS BACK AT INTERVIEW MAGAZINE!!!!!
byebye M/Ms..fabien baron & karl templar are BACK ON THE SCENE!
holy. shit. AMAZING. AMAZING. AMAZING.

secondz:
KANYEEZAY and GAGA?!
ON TOUR TOGETHER?!
WHAT IN THE WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT

omg. are you there? sorry.
i just passed out.
SO MUCH EXCITEMENT, annnnnnnd it's only 1 PM.

all i need is for mark ronson to follow me on twitter and i may just end it all with a hemlock/high life cocktail, dreamz realized. (what? ignore me. i am way too caffeinated.)

i die x 500 jillionsquillion.

c'est si bon

i am convinced that packing was invented by satan to punish those of us who subscribe to a MAXIMALIST lifestyle. good grief, make it end.

tales of a publications addict:



lots of issues of oui, some more copies of the face, premiere issue of sassy



still so dope. i miss you fabien, i MISS YOU.



i have most of the playboys from the 60s & 70s. best covers ever.
they are so genius and campy and beautiful.



still the best issue of purple ever: f/w 2006. vincent gallo in women's balenciaga (one of the BEST balenciaga collections ever, too)

i mean:



okay...back to the tape gun !

is this what the weather is like in portland?

57 degrees and pouring outside (i secretly love it).







the new issue of ACNE paper
& blankets
& a serious to-do list.
hi sunday.

it's raining, rain from the skies

broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats (or so i have heard)

sigh.



issue #2 of M/M era interview..still a bust. (design-wise)
the cover is, again, the best part...comme kisses.

tiny heartbreaks.
i miss you, fabien !