Ode to Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart is definitely one of my style icons. So much of her typical '30s pilot attire is coming full circle and gaining popularity again. The tall lace-up boots, scarfs and jodhpur pants. I really dig em.





Raghavendra Rathore showcased the autumn/winter collection in '08

Pretty Precocious

When does it become creepy that you idolize a child? I wish i could go back in time and put all my efforts into being as cool as this kid. She recently just did a post dressing up like the essence of certain greek gods. I've often thought about choosing characters to dress up in every day, but I always manage to forget to do it. Maybe, I'll start tomorrow.

edit: I had pictures, but she asks people not to post them without asking first, so I took them down out of respect. Go to her site,

In case you needed anymore convincing, this is her bio:
12 year old garden gnome with the brain of a wind-up monkey, posture of a crotchety old hag, stare-down skills of a zombie, haircut of a little boy, and tact of Larry David. I enjoy Edward Gorey, vulgar thoughts, rapping about Rei Kawakubo, and reenacting scenes from the Lion King with 10-month-old babies. I am not cute.

Mannequin

Is it too late to say Happy New Year? I know, I'm sorry. This is the first moments rest I've had in a good five days. I've had three different groups of company come to Austin in the last five days. I'm sorry for neglecting you. Check out this cool mannequin!
I found this incredibly cool mannequin(that's how you spell it right?)in a thrift store here in Austin. I've been looking for a good mannequin figure to put in my apartment, preferably just a bust form, but this one is so much better than anything I was looking for. As far as I can tell someone made it out of leather and cotton fabric. Color me impressed, I wonder if the thrift store would let go of it.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*SPOILER ALERT* I have not been able to stop thinking about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button since I saw it on Christmas night. Not really because it's particularly thought provoking, but mostly because I have yet to settle on a suitable moral of the story. I loved the movie; I was completely enthralled with the cinematography, makeup, and costumes (more on that later), but three days later I'm still having trouble finding a message that means something to me. Not every movie I love has to have a life altering moral, but I felt like TCCOBB was trying to tell me something, and I can't figure out what. I refuse to believe the message of the story(given as the tagline) is "life isn't measured in minutes, but moments.' That sounds like something I could find on several girls I knows's facebook profile. This is going to bug me.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is your standard coming of age story of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), except that he is coming of age backward. His mind and soul follow the same path as everyone else, but his body is born like that of an 85 year old and regresses all the way back to an infantile state. His doomed-from-the-beginning relationship with the beautiful Daisy(Cate Blanchett)begins when he looks 70 and she is only 8, which provides for a funny scene when he is scolded for being a pervert. The story follows them through difference epochs of their lives, both in and out of a relationship. The story is romantic, and filled with interesting characters. I didn't have much trouble sitting through this three hour long movie despite my short attention span.
This picture is easily the sweetest part of the movie. Ben and Daisy, both in their 30's ( I think) move into a duplex where they live on a mattress in the living room. We see a montage of them making love, fixing up the apartment, and generally acting happy being poor. They always romanticize being poor and happy in movies, to the point where I actually desire a life like that. Somehow, I don't think it's as great as they make it look. Although, I hope I'm wrong.

The costumes in this movie were so great. The two of these pictures above are ones for the look book. I wish I could find a picture of Cate Blanchett in this fantastic red dress, with her rosey cheeks and bright red lipstick. She looked stunning and I can still picture it in my head.
This was one of my favorite shots in the movie; it's just 20 something year old Daisy, who is on her way to becoming a world class dancer at this point, stretching her legs and exercising gorgeous dance technique as the audience views her silhouette on a gazebo against this lush fog. Breathtaking.

These last two pictures are all I have to attest to the great cinematography. Colors just don't look like this in real life. I wish I was a character in a movie :/

Ode to Katy Perry

I really like Katy Perry, and Sean and his roommates are currently obsessed with her. At least once every time I visit they dance around yelling "You're hot then you're cold/you're in then you're out" in my face. So, I get a healthy dose of Katy Perry's sound, but I cannot get over her look.The girl always has on some kind of costume; She can do silly and sexy and classic beauty and look like she borrowed an outfit from a play or a circus even, but she always looks so confident. That's what really does it for me. I like to think I wear what I want regardless of what most people think, but I aspire to have the fashion confidence of Katy Perry.She just looks like a girl I'd want to know.






Here's lookin at you, toots.

Tights

I don't know about you, but tights are definitely on my Christmas list this year. I love all of the new colors they're coming out with. I'm also really glad people are picking up on the thinner tights that cover your feet; I'm not a big fan of the cotton ankle cut off leggings. They just have too much of a 80's workout type stigma for me to give them a try.

This place has a pretty good array of colors.

Photos are from The Sartorialist and I am Fashion

Rain boots 2.0

Usually, I am adamantly opposed to those ridiculous rain boots girls are wearing all over campus. They seem a little gaudy for any city that isn't Seattle, and they make it look like you're about to go wading or panhandling.




Let me suggest a better rainshoe I found on The Scoop. They are fashionable waterproof city slippers. The look at hell of a lot more reasonable for a city that doesn't get much rain, while simultaneously being very cute.
Although, I haven't seen them in person it looks like you could get away with wearing them on a sunny day, whereas with the plastic Uggs you look retarded. ANNND they make them available to slip on over high heels; I want some real bad.

SWIMS are available online at swims.com or (don't cringe) at Bloomindales and Saks.

Polyvore Francais?

I just discovered this fantastic site where you can create a collage from images on the internet that may or may not be provided by the site. I've been going crazy over these collages all week. I'm partial to the fashion ones myself, and as soon as I can get the courage and time I'll get a collage going and post it here.

Here are a few neat ones.






check it out, it's pretty awesome.