sale is my fave 4 letter word

This is very much APPEALING TO MY INTERESTS.

When I went to Mara's studio to pull things for my shoot with MNDR, I saw the full gorgeous mystical DOPENESS that is Mara Hoffman clothes..so much cool stuff that I didn't even know about. The images above don't even really give you the sense of what cool treasures there are to be found

You have 3 days to acquire some really good summertime shiz at 80%off.

Also V V IMPORTANT:
Mention WHITE LIGHTNING when yr paying and you will get another 10% off. I mean...

PS I pulled that beaded harness (pictured over the bikini) for Amanda and it was realllllyyy good.
PPS Any sample sale that takes credit cards is a sample sale I need to know.

it's here!

Our zine is here! It's a real thing! You can buy it and hold it and read it and love it and tell it secrets and take it places as your +1 and hide it in your textbook during AP History and give it to someone you have a crush on!

All these things are possible because the world is your oyster.
And also because I learned how to add code for a paypal button to my blog! (PLEASE LOOK TO YOUR LEFT.)
Also!  
We have a zine blog! You can buy it here, too!

Thank you so so much to everyone who sent in their stories. You are all awesome, but we only had so many pages we could fill..!

Our fantastic contributors are as follows:
Carlen Altman, Loulou Androlia, Lesley Arfin, Aurora Armijo, Zach Baron, Sven Barth, Christine Cantera, Jon Caramanica, Kat Clements, April Starr Daniel, Michael Dempster, Jocelin Donahue, Brendan Donnelly, Elisabeth Donnelly, Claire Evans, Sean Fennessey, Hallie Fryd, Julie Gerstein, Tavi Gevinson, Martin Glenn, Emily Gould, Rockwell Harwood, Shayla Hason, Kelley Hoffman, Sunshine Hurlburt, Aya Kanai, Mat Keel, Shelby Keyser, Katy Martineau, Gavin McInnes, Marisa Meltzer, Ashley Merriman, Bayla Metzger, Reza Nader, Leon Neyfakh, Katie Notopoulos, Caitlin Ogilvie, Marianna Ritchey, Yasi Salek, Doree Shafrir, Elisa Sheehan, Isabel Slone, Laura Spinella,Elizabeth Spiridakis, Hunter Stephenson, Louise Sturges, Spencer Tweedy, Jaimie Warren, Fletcher Woolsey, Aviva Yael, Diana Zapata

Marisa & I are so proud of this...The stories are magical.
Get one!

PS..thank you Hunter for making our Tumblr all linked up and profesh...

do not miss this

When I love something, I LOVE IT.
If you read this blog, you know I LOVE, with a true passionate intensity, my friend Kate and her line of KATHERINE FLEMING bags.

They are, to me, a rare combo of supercool, totally forever, and gorrrgeousssness. 
Rarely have I worn one/shown someone one/talked them up without ladies FREAKING out over them.

If you  have always wanted one (and I know there are lots of you out there. Because you tell me. Often.) then it's TIME TO GET EXCITED, GALS:

Sample sale !!!
I AM GOING, YOU HAVE TO GO TOO.
All necessary info is in the pic, write it in yr diary or put it in a locket. THIS IS IMPORTANT.

Send me pix of what you get!

afternoon delights

My longtimelove affair with Osborn oxfords (which started last year when I bought the perfect African print pair at the Brooklyn Flea Market) hit levels of insanity when Keren and I visited their studio last week!!

SO MANY OPTIONS. As we all know, I bought the pair I am wearing and Keren went with the ones she is wearing....

CHUKKA BOOTS!

I want them all.

Information on how to get your very own pair(s) and/or CUSTOM MADE SHOES included in my post over at my joint on Full Frontal Fashion..go go go!

so close

Ooooommmgggggg...We're almost finished!

COVER STOCK COLOR TESTS!!! WHAT COLORS DO YOU LIKE?

Marisa and I are in the home stretch of finishing the zine! We are so in love with all your stories; it's SO GOOD!
Soon it will be available for purchase and we will have all the info for you..stay tuned.

EDIT!!! We're in the April issue of Interview! Page 52, bitches!!!!! (with the old cover we had to make to have SOMETHING for press!)

ALSO!!!

If you didn't know, or forgot, or just like to be reminded:

We are having a First Kiss HAPPENING at the 92YTribeca on May 26th !

A few of the contributors (Gavin McInnes, Tavi, Lesley Arfin, Doree Shafrir, Emily Gould, Jon Caramanica, Ashley Merriman...to name a FEW) will be reading/reenacting/submitting videos of their kisses...it is going to be A TIME.

I would buy your tickets now, or be realllllly sad to miss it.

for when the moon is in yr seventh house or when jupiter aligns with mars. or just right now.

One of my most handsome and talented friends (and as I have many of those, this is saying a lot), Mr Derrick Cruz, the man behind Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons (aka my favorite jewelry aka YOUR favorite jewelry) (PS-Derrick is who made the giant brass knuckle plate ring that I wear all time that so many of you freak out over...Just FYIslers) has a new F/W 2010 collaboration already up with our friends at Bblessing.

I WANT THEM ALL: SATURN, JUPITER, MARS, THE SUN, VENUS, MERCURY, THE MOON. NO CLUE IF THAT IS THE ORDER ABOVE, I'M NOT SUSAN MILLER YA DIG?

The 7 Sacred Planets !

Stickpins in brass or sterling silver, perfect for:

fascinators or lapels or hairbows or ties or cummerbunds or spats or plackets or balaclavas.

Or like..your shirt. UP TO YOU! This is America! PUT IT ANYWHERE YOU WANT!

Since Derrick RULES, he's made a special discount for WHITE LIGHTNING lovers like yrselves: 7planetswhitelightning gets you 20% off on the site!

I need a sharp mystical accessory like YESTERDAY...Which one should I get (all of them)??!

don't shake it

Today is THE DAY!
What day, you ask? The day, my dear friends, that THIS GUY:

My dear old SX-70 land camera, purchased in college for $40 at the height of my Charles & Ray Eames obsession*, will finally be PUT BACK TO WORK.

How's that?

POLAROID FILM IS BACK!
The Impossible Project, who took on the task, has done the impossible and saved analog instant joy.

It's called PX SilverShade  / First Flush
Right now it comes in 100 & 600 ASA, and is only sepia and B&W but color is coming by the end of the year! The film is universal for any working Polaroid camera that uses the battery pack film (SX70s and 600s are the best).

Are you happy happy and full of joy?
I AM.
It's $22 bones for 8 frames but I don't wanna hear ya complaining.You can order it on their site starting today.

The darkslide comes with secret messages!
Before it develops, the film is YVES KLEIN BLUE!
It's delicious. I am high on life.

Time to make some magic.

THANK YOU IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT!!!!!


PS: *watch this movie!!!!

your new favorite

I have new post up on FulFrontalFashion: Ten Minutes with MNDR.

You want to get into this like, NOW. SHE IS THE DOPESHOW !!!

I took some vids at her show at Coco66 last weekend, I wish you had been there, it was sooo fucking great.



Can't wait to see her again with YACHT next week at Bowery!

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):
 

shoppy shop

2 ladies I know and admire are selling their covetable wares in a deeply discounted way.

Mara Hoffman & Carly's All for the Mountain are sample sale'n it!

All for the Mountain only being sold today. You HAVE to get some of this jewelry...and then send it to me. Mmkay? Theeeeenks.

You can get Mara's flowy sexy thangs all 3 days: Today & Friday 10 AM - 7 PM & Saturday 11AM - 5PM.

Go go go and tell me all about it. I am in bed with a terrible cold and a voice that resembles Zoul from Ghostbusters.

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

mystix

I have just discovered my new favorite jewelry line...All For The Mountain !

I mean, I fell in love at the homepage, this is some mystical acidtripping BDonns-esque weirdo stuff, SO DOPE! Look at this, there's a GIF of a hand with a Smudge Stick in it as well.



i am totalllllyyyyy feeling this!


Transformer Cuff


Shoulder Pads


Rock Snake Pinky Ring


Drip V Bolo

Want, need, must-have..Dontcha think?

little things

eff a YSL tribute tote, the new "free" dope shit are the bags at APC !



suuupersick cotton totes, free (after you drop major bones on some lovely french threads)
the blue one is really big...new laptop/gypsy caravan carrier (can def fit all my clothes for a few days in there) ad the red one is regz tote size.

they are rad, i have to say. sidenote, the APC store on mercer has the Supreme x APC tees, they are sorta dope; white with a pic of a girl's fishnet covered legs from the knee down with her ankles tied with rope? it sounds darker than it looks, it is probs a betty page photo.

ANYWAYSLERS
the totes are worth a trip down there to maybe grovel for a freebie?
mine were a gift after someone's shopping spree.
it's really the little things that make me happy, kids.

so close yet so far

SPOTTED at new york fashweek
numba one on your (my) fall shopping list:



rodarte for target knee socks!!
nude with a million lasercut holes (apparently will be in other colors too). perfect perfect perfect.

as seen on the number one internet gangsta aka my shortest friend.

ps..i got to see a LOT of the target stuff, and it is basically ALL SO GOOD. no lie. you will all be freaking out. 2 more months!

scissor happy

yeah uh..really feeling CROP TOPS right now?
blame that crochet situation i got in kansas city.



tourist tees from bleecker street + snip snip snip + high waisted skirts & boots = my new favorite thing to wear ever.

ps, the (d)evolution of my style post-CUBICLE EMPLOYMENT is hilarious. where are my combat boots?

let's remember the time

we took a wrong turn on our way to the tate last saturday and ended up at Idea Books. basically a dream destination for photo book and magazine junkies like myself.



i have wanted this juergen teller book for a while..it wasn't too expensive and i HAD TO HAVE IT. it was published in 1996, all the portraits are from the early 90s and they are SO FUCKING GOOD.


linda evangelista

look. at. linda.
do you fucking DIE?!
she was givin face like NOBODY'S BIDNESS.
i hate that she looks all botox-y now, it makes my heart hurt a lil.


courtney love

super iconic courtney love shoot, doy.
i feel like i remember this from SPIN but maybe not?
basically the sartorial inspiration for my junior & senior years of high school.


kristen mcmenamy

the real star of this book is kristen.
the pictures of her are so incredibly SICK.
the series above, the nudes with the lipstick are so so good. so off and twisted.
i feel like it's hard to appreciate juergen's style these days when everyone in the universe is a copycat but looking through this book you realize when it's GOOD it's fucking great.

more spreads with chloe, vivienne westwood, and kate moss on my tumblr. go see!!

ps
i didn't buy a thing from topshop, just spent my cash at the bookstores in london and i couldn't be happier. more to come in the next week.

do it to it

i am not sad to miss out on most anything in new york right this moment (except for some exceptional peeps, you know who you are..)

but THIS does give me a lil twinge:



(i added the heart for extra WHITE LIGHTNING APPROVALZ)

topshop bike club!

from this saturday june 20 until sunday june 27, there is a free BIKE VALET at topshop and FREE TOPSHOP CRUISERS with BASKETS to rent all day until 9 PM..!
i mean? SO DOPE.

there is also a big movie night party thang:



BLOW UP is the only antonioni movie i haven't slept through..it's FASHION, BABY!
a hot brit!
JANE BIRKIN!
colored tights!

i am posting this because i love you.

go and tell me it was fun (and that you miss me).

flattery is my forte

2 music posts in a row, whatwhat?

kleenex girl wonder
aka
kleen-ex girl wonder
aka
KGW
aka
graham smith
has a new record out!



MRS EQUITONE (click dat)
(it's only 6.99. i call that a steal, if you wanna know the TRUTH.)

even before i knew graham I R L (as the kids say) KGW was one of my favorite bands of all time...still is, still good, can't stop won't stop.
(please check out his old records too? they are all so dopeshow. i am partial to final battle, but don't make me choose. or mabes you wanna DL the song julie&barbara, you will like, swearz )

he writes some of the best lyrics i have ever heard, truestoftruefax.

SHOP IT LIKE ITS HAWT (wha?)

I AM SELLING A TON OF STUFF IN MY APARTMENT THIS WEEKEND!



vintage clothes
a TON of shoes: boots, sandals, flats etc etc.
vintage, prada, miu miu, chanel, frye, jeffrey campbell, ETC ETC.

tons of cool vintage houseware & kitchen stuff, lamps, some furniture.

CDs, books, a horsehead bookend, a plexiglass coffee table and YOUR MOM.
JUST KEEDING ABOUT YOUR MOM.

COME TO MY SALE, BRAHS!!

SATURDAY & SUNDAY
MAY 30 & 31

12PM - 6 PM

240 EAST 2nd STREET between b & c
APT 3D

everything is anywhere from FREE - $100 !

help me to help you

hihihiiiii everyone.
so.
time to flee this concrete quicksand for GREEN THINGS and CHEAP BEER.

as of june 4, i will be chillin in portland, oregon for a while, then a little LA action, then a cross country drive, then...? who knows. i just plan to stay away from new york until fall (whaaaaat).

AS I AM NO LONGER GAINFULLY EMPLOYED (my own choice, please join the factions of those think i am insane) i am trying to SELL SOME STUFF.

1. i need cash flow.
2. i own way too much crap.

i will have this site up:


SHOP WHITE LIGHTNING

until sunday, may 31.

buy things!
if you aren't feelin a price, email me at the site email and make me an offer i CANNOT REFUSE.

i will keep adding to it, some clothes, more shoes, etc.
maybe you like?

back to packing.
summer heat + 4th floor walkup +small space = die.
sighhhh.