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!"

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...

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.

leather ladies

Phoebe Philo knows my inner thoughts. She must!

CÉLINE S/S 2010 // SHOT BY JUERGEN TELLER

LOOOK AT THOSSSSSE SHOESSSS. Those are my hippie woodstock freelove summerstomping dreams COME TRUE!

I think I could change the world in those shoes...AND be 5'10",  like Cindy Crawford.

fashion and art and drugs

More S/S 2010 campaign love aka WHITE LIGHTNING ART APPRECIATION DAY

COMME DES GARÇONS // SS 2010

The artwork is by the artist Stephen J Shanabrook, (in collaboration with Veronika Georgieva) from his series called "Paper Surgeries". 

I dig it; it inspired me to look for other pieces of his from the same series...

 

So weird and great, no? 

Too bad they didn't go the route of his "works of HEROIN" :

STEPHEN J. SHANABROOK

Which is covered in crack pipes and heroin foil..but sorta looks like a Sophie Calle Chromatic Meal?

SOPHIE CALLE

And that concludes today's installment of ART CHAT with LADY LIGHTNING. 

Let's all get back to refreshing Dlisted six thousand times an hour, mmkay?

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

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.

we're lost in space

Just got the lookbook for The Row, S/S 2010.
It successfully combines multiple interests of mine: Stuff on your head, Hanna Liden photography and tribal bodypaint (win/win/win)


Birchwood Top

I am slightly hypnotized by this shot.
If this model had any sort of a rack it would seem almost like a goth John Currin.
In fact, most of the shots feel very painterly to me?
I fear (know) I am not sylphlike enough to wear The Row but I like the way this gal looks. 1880s/1980s, (or somethin).
I do NOT fear those shades however...MUST HAVE THOSE SUNGLASSES..when did they start making accessories? I LOVE.


Barton Jacket

Hello Ursula, I love your face. I love this dried bouquet headpiece, bodypaint-as-bodysuit and that washed leather jacket, gorgeouz.


Morgan Jacket

Think I need more jackets in my life. If this has pockets, it may be perfection.


Landry Skirt

Is this leather? Is this latex?
Can I have it? Can I wear it with that jacket I posted above it? (Burning questions)



Pretty.

r.i.p. ?!?!

Is it really true? The end of Luella? Howwwww can this be? These "troubled times" are realllllly fucking with my program.



You can't take Luella Bartley down until I am able to be this girl for a day. I DO BELIEVE that that is the perfect fall coat. I might be wrong, but I am never wrong so how can that be wrong?!

And um...totally a bummer and all but uh..does that mean that I can buy that polky-dotted handbag at some sort of discounted price? Because it would be a DELIGHT to have it in my life. JUST WONDERING, OK ?

crucial

A couple weeks ago I stopped by the new Bodkin offices to fondle the wares and get excited about S/S 2010..which was not hard to do because everythinggggg was so so cute.



Beyond the realdealholyfields, the lookbook (of which there is a hard copy of, on newsprint, I love newsprint) threw me into a minor frenzy, as I am maaajorly gingerjelz these days...This model is making me want to dye my hair TODAY.

A few items that I am springtimedreaming about:


Equinox dress


Bermuda blazer // La Niña bralette // Santa Ana shorts

OBSESSED with this look. Lil shorts suit with brogues! Dreamy springdaytimes.


Cumulus dress

Ohhhh PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEEEEEE, I want this....look at the hem of that dress, can I keep things in there? phone and keys and gum and a slingshot and a flask and gummy bears?


Cirrus sweatshirt // Santa Ana shorts


Oxygéne dress

Sooooo gorgeous and flowy and silky and CROPTOP'D in a dress!


Nimbus tunic // Typhoon skirt

I want this to be me. Like, yesterday.

I am not SO much of a hippie, but Bodkin is the kind of label I love to get excited about: Brooklyn talent + sustainable fabrics + cute clothes = I dig.

Go out and support the EARTH while wearing some sick threads. Steven Alan, Jumelle, and LaGarconne all carry it.

PS I went looking for info on the SHOES in this shoot- that are unbelieveablyyyyyy sick (PERFECT lace-ups) - and discovered they are more local talent:Dieppa Restrepo. I was (completely coincidentally) going to do a post about them later in the week, I was birthday gifted a pair of their laceups yesterday and they are my dream brogues ! More on that this week...

Photographs by Tina Tyrell

i like what i like

Looks that I have saved in a folder on my desktop called "Maybe I shouldn't, but I Tooooootally do"


VIKTOR & ROLF S/S 2010

I fully realize that this is a giant scrub brush Klaus Nomi dickie of a situation but i can't help myself. Can i rest my head on it WHILE I'm wearing it and take a lil disco nap? Fantasgreat.



PRADA S/S 2010

The Prada spring collection was pretty terrible, I think most people are feeling that way. But this shoe, while still TERRIBLE is still a TAD TERRIBLY AWESOME? Lucite, chandelier drops, VELCRO! Why does this get me excited? hahahaaa.


CHLOÉ S/S 2010

Don't get confused, I am not a fan of Hannah McGibbon era Chloé (i still miss you, Phoebe..Celine looks kinda rad, yaaaay) but. BUT! Much like the controversial (read:mostly hated) light denim-n-leather looks that i LOVED at Givenchy last spring, i am a sucker for almost barfy denim looks. This is sort of dope, i am sorry but IT IS. CHLOE SEVS will TOOOTALLLLY rock this shit and then you will all be like, oooommmg i need two tone denim kneecaps, toute suite. (sidenote, CSevs is the only person who wears current Chloé well. I stand by that). i shall thrift this shirt and rip off the pockets ASAP.


MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA S/S 2010

Question: Is this made of Fedex envelopes? Just wondering. I would wear pants if i could get my hands on this. Also- waterproof! That plus pink equals win/win.


CHARLES ANASTASE S/S 2010

Soooo totally unflattering and weird. Potato sack waders. SO wrong, why am i sooo drawn to them?



MARNI S/S 2010

Grandpa sock styling gets me every time.

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?

well look at you, smartypants

kinda shtoops that no one has thought of this before, back hinge:


HUSSEIN CHALAYAN S/S 2010

i mean..doy to the bajillionth power.
also, siiiiiick shape, want want want.

pam grier, dat chu?

oh my holy mother of hair


LOUIS VUITTON S/S 2010

god DAMN i cannot wait to see this whole collection.
besides wanting to be a redhead (which may happen in a few weeks...) i have ALWAYS wanted a lauryn hill/coffy afro !





COFFY IS SOME HOT SHIT, BITCHES



still the best hairdid of all timessssssss !