INTELLECTUAL PERVERSION

2011-02-25T09:30:00.000-05:00

bleached-out bewitchery/gauzy long layers, accents of turquoise and gold - Abbey Lee exits Fendi show/Milan Fashion Week F/W 2011

2011-02-25T00:27:00.000-05:00

You caught me off-guard. I never saw it coming. Something just crept up on me. And I realized I was no longer alone. - Abbey Lee, Chloe Sevigny, Elyse Taylor, Elisa Sednaoui, Anja Rubik, Irina Lazareanu

2011-02-22T12:04:00.000-05:00

Sometimes she felt like she was blood running through the city's veins, its pipelines, its choppy vertical and horizontal and hidden diagonal intersecting streets. She felt, too, like the city was her lifeline. It is what kept her own blood pumping. It was ingrained in her skull and the wiring of her brain, in her limbs' bones.

2011-02-18T10:04:00.000-05:00

Rock 'n' roll hippie hands -

Pamela Love on Elle.com

2011-02-18T09:57:00.000-05:00

Suddenly, I yearn for pretty, feminine, soft, and gentle. A nubile charm, a girlish curve. Cleavage or a ruffle row or pure white lace.

2011-02-10T00:12:00.004-05:00

alice dellal will eat you alive.

2011-02-10T00:00:00.000-05:00

On nights when she could feel her hip bones jutting out just enough on her sides in bed; when she would stare down at her legs and see little knees so knobby they had almost become their own entity, she was lonelier than ever. The more exposed you are, the closer you are to your actual insides being exposed, out there, the more isolated you become.

2011-02-09T23:22:00.002-05:00

here, there, and everywhere

2011-02-09T10:56:00.006-05:00

inspiration boards - unknown/erdem/charlotte ronson/mark fast/meadham kirchoff

2011-02-09T10:43:00.001-05:00

the february blues call for the cure of splashes and flashes of bold color. I'm craving candy-bright lips and coordinated accessories, neon lingerie popping out beneath neutral overlayers, cheeky tap pants and decadent dresses. anything that reminds me of pastries and food coloring.

2011-02-03T14:21:00.003-05:00

at the moment...

2011-02-03T10:21:00.000-05:00

She had taken to wearing black. Not black in the cliche wannabe chic way but a head-to-toe monochrome donning that possessed the spirit of mourning. Like a young nun, newly wed to Jesus and still in the honeymoon phase, still rosy-cheeked and farm-fresh, she moved with hints of pride. The air of unfounded supremacy that could only be born during youth. Her hair peaked out in piecey tendrils from a floppy black hood.

2011-02-03T10:10:00.002-05:00

Streetfsn.com

2011-02-02T23:49:00.005-05:00

Say yes now: -Goat hair jackets -Military-green parkas -Skin-tight chenille -Cold-weather crop-tops -Feathers in hair -Chunky stainless-steel watches -Opera gloves -Sorceress jewelery -Anything corseted -Chanel nail polish in Riva -White socks and ankle boots -Red pants -Wolford Twenties fishnet tights -Dashes of macrame -Liv Tyler in "Empire Records" -Peasant-puffed sleeves -Cleopatra eye makeup -Gratuitous flair

2011-02-02T22:21:00.001-05:00

Kate Moss by Mert & Marcus for LOVE, Spring/Summer 2011

2011-02-02T21:52:00.000-05:00

"If she mentioned it at all, she added, it was because she was drunk. She wished to be taken home or preferably to some cool quiet place with a clean bed and room service...She was an extravagantly slender girl. Her ribs showed. The conspicuous knobs of her hipbones framed a hollowed abdomen, so flat as to belie the notion of 'belly.' Her exquisite bone structure immediately slipped into a novel - became in fact the secret structure of that novel, besides supporting a number of poems." -Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura

2011-02-02T11:04:00.001-05:00

Transitions of the seasons:
wishful thinking of bits of bare thigh/mix sporty and straight, nubby and sleek.

Front-row and street style/Isabeli Fontana by Alastair McClellan, Self-Service, Fall/Winter 2007

2011-02-01T15:02:00.004-05:00

Countryside and homebody/Low-key and low-production.

Kate Moss by Juergen Teller.

2011-02-01T14:04:00.003-05:00

Make things beautiful. Make them look interesting. Make them feel new. Make others aspirational. Make myself more.

2011-02-01T13:38:00.001-05:00

Starting over.

6 months passed after experiencing image-overload, computer-burnout, and general jadedness. 1 month into a(nother) new year it is time for regeneration, self-possession, and the aim for creative flow.

2010-07-05T18:52:00.000-04:00

If I could mix the elements just so to achieve an unsettling symbiosis. If I could strike the delicate balance between clean and dirty, jagged and smooth, pretty and scary, right and wrong, then I would really have something. Like anything of interest, it's elusive, it's fleeting.

2010-07-05T18:37:00.000-04:00

Not exactly one of the boys/skate park glitz - Keke Lindgard by Knoepful & Indlekofer for "Airwalk," Vogue Germany, July 2010

2010-07-02T13:24:00.000-04:00

"'Oh, God, oh, Jesus God, why must they be either brutes or choirboys? Stewardess,' she says, grabbing the girl's arm as she passes in the aisle, 'I don't want a drink, I've had enough. I only want to ask a question of you. Don't be frightened. Why are they either brutes or choirboys, do you know?' 'Who, madam?' 'Don't you find that in your travels from one continent to the other? They're even afraid, you know, of a sweet little thing like you. That's why you have to go around grinning like that. Just look the bastards right in the eye and they're either at your knees or at your throat.'" -Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire

2010-06-30T12:16:00.000-04:00

Knick knacks and body parts/showcased and discarded - scuba-esque, a day in bed, back talk, fat zippers and skinny heels, prickly pockets softened with wrinkly linen, collected intimates, feet in motion

2010-06-24T11:40:00.000-04:00

Don't fight the heat, embrace it

2010-06-16T12:41:00.000-04:00

Summer resolutions: 1) Get it together. 2) Spend afternoons in hammocks. 3) Opt for simplicity. 4) Get more than enough sun. 5) Work on a novel. 6) Take motorcycle trips. 7) Flee the city. 8) Go out and be seen. 9) Consciously reflect. 10) Make things happen. 11) Work up a sweat. 12) Don't overdo it.

2010-06-14T22:49:00.002-04:00

Say yes now: -Ocean-colored nails -Athletic undergarments -See-through crochet -Bum-skimming baby doll dresses -Coconut oil -Little white dresses -Raw hemlines -Fish bone braids -Chanel Galapagos lipstick -Tank watches -Leopard and polka dots -Plaid and floral -Hot orange -Overdone eyes -Mega-high top-knots -Hot orange -S&M shoes -Lolita-esque -Mesh and netting

for example...

2010-05-19T13:21:00.000-04:00

Braless/shirtless

2010-05-19T13:17:00.000-04:00

"By then she was sleeping not in the house but out by the pool, on a faded rattan chaise left by a former tenant. There was a jack for a telephone there, and she used beach towels for blankets. The beach towels had a special point. Because she had an uneasy sense that sleeping outside on a rattan chaise could be construed as the first step toward something unnameable (she did not know what it was she feared, but it had to do with empty sardine cans in the sink, vermouth bottles in the wastebaskets, slovenliness pat the point of return) she told herself that she was sleeping outside just until it was too cold to sleep beneath beach towels, just until the heat broke, just until the fires stopped burning in the mountains, sleeping outside only because the bedrooms in the house were hot, airless, only because the palms scraped against the screens and there was no one to wake her in the mornings. The beach towels signified how temporary the arrangement was. Outside she did not have to be afraid that she would not wake up, outside she could sleep."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

2010-05-18T11:49:00.000-04:00

From white sky morning, into the night. Find the air and suck in, chest open, pushed into light/Texture matters: denim is thick and rumpled, cotton fragile, lace yanked thin, leather coarse and scaley - "You Promise We'll Never Come Back? I Promise," i-D, Summer 2010, Miranda Kerr, shot by Willy Vanderperre/"Surfin' Costa Rica," Elle Italia, June 2010, Behati Prinsloo, shot by Matt Jones/Numero, Issue #67, October 2005, Bianca Balti, shot by Greg Kadel/i-D, Summer 2010, Constance Jablonski, shot by Cedric Buchet/"Macadam Cowboy," L'Officiel Paris, May 2010, Erin Heatherton, shot by Patric Shaw

2010-05-17T16:04:00.000-04:00

Girl next door - Miss Unkon/Spring and Summer 2010 lookbook

2010-05-12T16:19:00.000-04:00

Tropical punch/desert storm - Anja Rubik, Kim Noorda, Angela Lindvall, Tori Praver, Kate Moss

2010-05-12T11:55:00.001-04:00

A steamy basement grumble/sweat and beer vapors imitate the moisture of the jungle/Rhythmic gamblers gyrate into the murkiness of early morning's corners/a serpentine lust fest set to skipping records - "Let's Get Lost"/Interview, May 2010/Daria Werbowy, shot by Mikael Jansson

2010-05-11T13:19:00.000-04:00

The moments are passing. Say yes now.
1. Confederate irony - play on the flag with layers of retro-revival; shirt knotted around the hips, chunky Docs, and the utilitarian backpack

2. Viva la femme - pink on nude brings out the bad in the good girl with knots and cut-outs; visibly brushed hair doubles the "tease" effect

3. I die for tie-dye - take bleached-out and surf's up nonchalance to the city streets; pretend the clash matches for smart disregard

4. Be a spicy wannabe - a dose of Ginger's sass works in form of the undersized, stretchy mini with the the oversized saucy symbol

5. Wrinkled and clean - freshly washed cotton and khaki in a pale palette feels rugged when cinched with awkwardly-knotted leather and unstyled locks

2010-05-11T12:06:00.001-04:00

"...Or it was just a  flagstone wall 

with a flaw in the  stone, an understandinG cavity  

for burning young men  with smooth dreams— 

the true circumstance  is gone, the true 

circumstances about  us all then 

are gone. But when I  kissed her, all water, 

she would close her  eyes, and they into somewhere  

would disappear.  Whether she was there 

or not, I remember  her, clearly, and she moves  

around the room,  sometimes, until I sleep..." 

-excerpt from "Seniors," by Albert Ríos 

2010-05-11T11:53:00.000-04:00

Go on and find what you deserve.

2010-05-05T15:00:00.003-04:00

South-of-the-border tourist glamour calls for over-shadowed lids to protect eyes from high-noon sun, welcomed sand between the toes of fiercely stilettoed feet, glistening skin damp from blocks of buttery leather and eyelet suede, and bursts of untamed color to offset the prep to your khaki. - "Keep it Short"/British Vogue, June 2010/Constance Jablonski shot by Regan Cameron

2010-04-29T17:27:00.000-04:00

Truth number 2: It's wise to prepare for a never-ending summer.

2010-04-28T20:36:00.000-04:00

Truth number 1: Cowgirls have more fun.

2010-04-28T16:22:00.004-04:00

This must be the place - Isabelle McNally/Julia Restoin Roitfeld/Erin Wasson/Alessandra Torresani/Chase Cohl/Alexander Wang - The Selby

2010-04-26T13:09:00.004-04:00

"The wall is high, the black barn,

The babe in my arms in her swaddling clothes

And I know soon that the sky will split

And the planets will shift,

Balls of jade will drop and existence will stop.

Little sister, the sky is falling, I don't mind, I don't mind.

Little sister, the fates are calling on you...

Your soul was like a network of spittle,

Like glass balls movin' in like cold streams of logic,

And I prayed as the lightning attacked

That something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack,

Something will make it go crack, something will make it go crack."

-Patti Smith, "Kimberly"

Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin/Jak & Jil Blog/Bec & Bridge A/W 10/11 lookbook/Tania O. by Jonathan Segrade, 160g, May/June 2010/Daria Werbowy by Nico, Harper's Bazaar Espana, May 2010/Masha Novoselova by Rennio Maifredi, Marie Claire Italia, May 2010

2010-04-26T12:02:00.001-04:00

There are so many ways to seize the day. A tailored jacket, scrunched-up socks, slouchy sweats, and business man oxfords act as armor. Accessorize with spectacles, coffee to-go, cigarette, and hardcover. Party-time balloons and moments reserved for frolicking on city streets add shots of whimsy. - "Urban Outfitter," Elle Italia, April 2010, Caroline Winberg, shot by David Burton.

2010-04-21T17:44:00.000-04:00

Light and air/Life is a waking dream. In between consciousness and slumber, like slowly slinking into water. Sometimes you choose to get lost. - Jason Lee Parry photographs/Tara Vasev by Tommy Ton/192 Magazine/"Shrink to Fit," Vogue Italia, April 2010, shot by Steven Meisel/"Bijoux," Vogue Paris, Magdalena Frackowiak, shot by Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer/Nirrimi Hakanson photograph/"A Life Less Ordinary," Vogue UK, May 2010, Dorothea Barth-Jorgensen, shot by Paolo Roversi/ilovewildfox.com

2010-04-15T09:54:00.000-04:00

"Women look like one thing when you don't know them and another when you do. It was not that he didn't like her. He would watch as she sat, dressing for the evening, before a folding mirror. In the circle of light her mysterious reflection did not even acknowledge him but watched self-absorbed as she applied the black around her eyes. Her necklaces hung from a deer antler. There were pictures cut from magazines tacked to the wall." -James Salter, Solo Faces

2010-04-13T09:59:00.002-04:00

"Spring is like a perhaps hand/(which comes carefully/out of Nowhere)arranging/a window into which people look while/people stare..." -e.e. cummings - military accoutrements, crazy hair, bikini tops, up-to-there hot pants, birdlike touches, see-through tees, kooky epaulets, strangled denim, warm-weather leather

2010-04-09T10:42:00.001-04:00

"You're such a beautiful fish/Floppin' on the summer sand/Lookin' for the wave you missed/When another one is close at hand" -Neil Young, "Stupid Girl" - Grey, Spring 2010, Sophie Vlaming, shot by Stefania Paparelli

2010-04-08T17:15:00.007-04:00

Venus rising/Into full bloom...
"You Ain’t Got Nothing But Nothing to Lose" Hailey Clauson, shot by Jason Lee Parry/Sally Mann photographs/Carmen Kass/"Les Soeurs Jac and Lily," Vogue Paris, April 2010, Monika Jagaciak and Lily Donaldson, shot by Steven Klein/Olivia Wilde, shot by Guy Aroch

Summer wants and to-do list: -sleep in the sun -high-heeled wooden clogs -sheer gauze -pick up a book -weathered leather backpack -ride passenger on a motorcycle -turquoise and silver -obtain a grass stain -sleeveless flannel shirt -discover tan lines -little-kid socks -keep it casual -palest pink jeans -wear a lei -be slightly savage -everything fringe -be a cowgirl in the sand

2010-03-31T17:53:00.001-04:00

I want to be a navajo nymph.Ruddy, wind-whipped cheeks suggest a merging of cold and hot, blazing smoke and hard comfort against a backdrop of frontier fields. - Jalouse Beauty, Jalouse, April 2010/Zippora Seven, shot by Skye Parrott

2010-03-31T17:31:00.003-04:00

The justifications of desires. Where do you find them? Do they exist?

2010-03-31T17:08:00.001-04:00

"When I think of my childhood, I was always alone. When I think of the war years it was the same...And now I'm alone again. But I knew how to be alone because I've been so often alone. Maybe that's the secret of life." -Diana Vreeland, D.V.

2010-03-26T15:38:00.000-04:00

Weekend rules: take good company. wake up underdressed. inhale the moment. mess with your hair. pack a bag. feign nomad life. play with Polaroids. black it out. look up close. show off. hide away.

2010-03-26T12:58:00.002-04:00

Methods for running away (Everyday life gets too mundane) - spring/summer edition

1) Reckless abandon/into the wild - "Stoned"/Russh Australia, April 2010/Bambi Norwood-Blyth, shot by Beau Grealy

2) Mermaids' escapades/take a plunge - "Forever Kate"/Vogue Homme International/Kate Moss, shot by Mario Sorrenti

3) AWOL soldier/gear up and go - "Mission Lanzarote"/Vogue Paris, March 2010/Eniko Mihalik, shot by Cedric Buchet

4) More is more/follow the desert sun - Vogue Paris, April 2010/Natasha Poly, shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

5) Jungle fever/hide in the heat - "The Eco Warrior"/i-D, Spring 2010/Isabeli Fontana, shot by Richard Bush

2010-03-18T17:17:00.000-04:00

"A man's presence is dependent upon the promise of power which he embodies...Presence for a woman is so intrinsic to her person that men tend to think of it as an almost physical emanation, a kind of heat or smell or aura...A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image...And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity." -John Berger, Ways of Seeing

2010-03-17T15:49:00.002-04:00

gypsy life/part 3: Take it to the beach. The water's deep, and I'm shallow. So shallow, I could swear I'm deep. The dog days of summer tend to bring out the animal in us. A raw streak of sunlight can inflame a burning streak of mean. - "Indian Summer," Glamour France, April 2010, shot by James Macari/Shelby Keeton for "Shake Dreams for Your Hair," Mirage #2, Spring/Summer 2010, shot by Nicole Nodland/Daria Werbowy for "When Goddess Rules the Sea," Vogue Nippon, April 2010, shot by Mikael Jansson/Lara Stone/Josefin Hedstrom/various

2010-03-16T15:23:00.000-04:00

To inflict abuse and to refrain the abuser, depending on the moment/Nothing is accidental. Everything follows a pattern, a ritual pattern. - "We look before and after and pine for what is not/Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught/Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." -Percy Shelley - shots by Remi Rebillard/Linda Evangelista shot by Maurizio Cattelan for W, November 2009/Shannan Click shot by Dan Martensen for Exit/Japanese Vogue, August 2006, shot by Karen Collins/Rie Rasmussen and Jon Kortajarena for "Rie," Vogue Italia, March 2010, shot by Steven Klein/Lara Stone/Brooke Shields, Elaine Irwin, and Candice Swanepoel for "Lady Cops," Vogue Paris, March 2010, shot by Bruce Weber

2010-03-16T00:56:00.000-04:00

That old idea: a photograph steals your soul/Together and alone, or, at once, both/Lovers, grip hard, for as soon as a silver of distance creeps in, the might of its repellent pull only swells. - "For me, it's not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress." -Nan Goldin

2010-03-15T15:13:00.000-04:00

"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future." -Jack Kerouac, On the Road

2010-03-11T12:31:00.000-05:00

Say yes now: -sweatpants, dressed-up -unpretty pretty -snakes and serpents -lots of leg -greased-up legs -irreverent prints -massive mary janes -peasant tops -boys' briefs -'90s overalls -stars on skin -bangles -eyeglasses -wreaking havoc -slept-in eye makeup -white jeans -white all over -feathers in hair -classic engineer boots -traditional henna -luxury for luxury's sake -sex on the beach

for example...

2010-03-09T16:41:00.000-05:00

A beach romp, a hippie stomp - Erin in Paper, April 2010/"Smokin' Gun," shot by Cass Bird

2010-03-09T16:27:00.000-05:00

Plain and simple:

2010-03-03T10:46:00.000-05:00

Sometimes when people talk, I just can't listen. It's like oh, sweet nothin'. I guess I'm just a ditz. All mixed up - Abbey Lee Kershaw, Egon Schiele, Alice Dellal, Chloe Sevigny, Kate Moss, Natalia Vodianova, et cetera...

2010-02-26T11:40:00.000-05:00

the morning after/the walk of shame - Angela Lindvall for Numero Tokyo, March 2010, shot by Hans Freur/Noot Seear for Elle Italia, February 2010, shot by Matt Jones/Mariacarla Boscono for The Last Magazine, shot by Daniel Jackson/Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss, and Lara Stone for W Magazine, July 2008, shot by Bruce Weber

2010-02-24T10:57:00.000-05:00

With uncommon ferocity; with lean lims, sinewy and bandaged; with hips slim as an underaged soldier boy's; with a gaze of steel, peering from squinted eyelids, and a gaped jaw, bellowing a warrior's cry - "Commando"/Vogue Paris, March 2010/Iselin Steiro shot by David Sims

2010-02-23T17:22:00.000-05:00

"She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her." - Albert Camus, The Stranger

2010-02-23T17:17:00.000-05:00

Eyes that yearn and lips that burn - pick one or the other/Hair that has been lived in - grease, stains, smears, heavy rims, soft touches, never lose the urge to play

2010-02-19T15:53:00.000-05:00

I just want to hang on to this good feeling/"Yesterday don't matter if it's gone" - Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger, Gram Parsons/down time in the south of France, here's to hoping the party never dies, a messy, hearty, unfussy rock 'n' roll moment in time

2010-02-18T04:32:00.000-05:00

He knows what we know but don't know quite how to articulate: 
...We asked for signs 
the signs were sent: 
the birth betrayed 
the marriage spent 
Yeah the widowhood 
of every government 
Signs for all to see. 

 I can't run no more 
with that lawless crowd 
while the killers in high places 
say their prayers out loud. 
But they've summoned, they've summoned up 
a thundercloud 
and they're going to hear from me. 
  You can add up the parts 
but you won't have the sum 
You can strike up the march, 
there is no drum 
Every heart, every heart 
to love will come 
but like a refugee. 

 Ring the bells that still can ring 
Forget your perfect offering 
There is a crack, a crack in everything 
That's how the light gets in... 
-Leonard Cohen,"Anthem" 

2010-02-17T16:20:00.000-05:00

Declare yourself. Say yes now:
1. Fantasy hair - multi-color streaks; odd shapes; over-teased, over-done and then a bit undone

2. Texture mish-mash - bohemian whimsy oozes from lace, embroidery, folkloric stitching, and charms

3. Anytime is party-time - miniscule frocks mean big statements when they shine like lights; bring your own confetti

4. Le disco sauvage - indulge the inner beast and elevate past the daily mundane. i.e. war paint and pelts

5. Over-the-top tips - kookily glamorous manicures are an unexpected compliment to greased-out locks and slept-in eye makeup

2010-02-16T12:06:00.000-05:00

gypsy life/part 2: runaway bride - Anja Rubik for Vogue Nippon, March 2010, shot by Camila Akrans

2010-02-14T15:30:00.000-05:00

Love bites - love's violent and cruel, selfish and selfless, temporary and forever, greedy and pure, will tie you up and tie you down, always leave you wanting more/i heard that love will set you free

2010-02-12T14:14:00.000-05:00

I see your future; they know your past. When ardor's so fleeting, not much can last.
People get lost and people get found. All mixed up:

Bianca Balti for "Faith," Numero #110, February 2010, shot by Camilla Akrans/Dorothea Barth-Jorgensen and Imogen Morris Clarke for "Fly by Night," W, February 2010, shot by Craig McDean/Hedi Slimane Diary/Miranda Kerr for "In New Light," Vogue Russia, February 2010, shot by Willy Vandeperre/"Angel," The KRTL Collective, shot by Jacques Dequeker

2010-02-12T11:21:00.000-05:00

gyspy life/part 1: children of some kind of revolution - Ana Claudia, Pedro, Junior, Gabriel, and Leo for Dazed&Confused, February 2009, shot by Mariano Vivanco

2010-02-10T20:14:00.000-05:00

in the summer it's a bummer when the heat just can't be beat...
Part 1: Hang ten chicks - scuba swimsuits, fingernails with punch, adorned underwater, color bursts in unexpected places, kidding around, let me draw on your skin:
Barbara Berger for "Radical Chic," Vogue Brazil, January 2010, shot by Jacques Dequeker/Abbey Lee Kershaw for "The Life Aquatic," Vogue Australia, March 2010, shot by Max Doyle/Luana Teifke for "O Canto do Cisne," Vogue Brazil, January 2010, shot by Fabio Bartelt

Part 2: Resort glamazons - hardcore accessories, cocktail wear fit for the street (but even better in the ocean and sand), it's all about glowing skin, let's pretend to get a little native
Caroline Trentini for "Bain de Mer," Numero #110, February 2010, shot by Richard Bush/Anja Rubik for "In the Rhythm of a Hot Night," Viva! Moda, Fall 2009, shot by Marcin Tyszka/Daria Werbowy, Dree Hemingway, and Lara Stone for "Vogue a Porter," Vogue Paris, February 2010, shot by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

2010-02-09T18:13:00.000-05:00

Tattoo you - charms of comfort and epic etchings...Including: Henna in "Vogue-a-Porter," Vogue Paris, February 2010/Lauren Hanawalt for "These Gray Days," off The Ones2Watch.com/Noot Seear for "Denim," Elle Italia, February 2010/Freja Beha Erichsen's lightning bolt/Rodarte Spring 2010's tribal art/Kate Moss for "The Fashion Icons," LOVE, Issue #3/some dude with Julia Nobis for "Julia Likes Metal & Making Out," Russh Australia, January/February 2010/Constance Jablonski for "Bienvenue a Gattaca," Vogue Paris, October 2009

2010-02-09T15:25:00.000-05:00

I'm thinking about...Las Vegas: excessive stones, dirty stay-outs, sloppy car rides, flash and trash, show-time and low-time, bright lights in the bathroom and on the strip, money can buy you lust, and girls, girls, girls

2010-02-04T14:14:00.000-05:00

Like thunder's rumble, like a fistful of steaming salt water. Eyes that set out to pierce like lightning bolts under a demon's phony-calm sky - "Stormy Weather"/Numéro #110, February 2010/Anna Selezneva shot by Peter Lindbergh

2010-01-27T01:58:00.000-05:00

I want to live on an abstract plane - witchy women or lonely girls/put a spell on me/lean lines and smoke & mirrors

2010-01-22T12:56:00.000-05:00

Get ready(-to-wear)...Mark Fast/Preen/Christopher Kane/Joseph Altuzarra/Alexander Wang/Julien Macdonald/Sophia Kokosalaki/Derek Lam/Jean Paul Gaultier/Dolce & Gabbana/Topshop Unique/Balmain/Jen Kao/Jasmine Di Milo

2010-01-15T11:50:00.000-05:00

Erin worship (this is starting to get a little out of hand, but the girl can't help it)

2010-01-13T11:17:00.000-05:00

Girls will be girls - girls who are sometimes rebels, rough-housers, players, tramps, playthings, wallowers, and ladies-in-disguise.

2010-01-12T12:23:00.000-05:00

Body/Parts - She is reduced to edges, outer bits, some harsh and some fine. It are her rims and fringes that define her. The adorned knuckles and fingertips sporting tell-tale nails. The slender feet encased in thick leather, sore heels supported by vertical chunks of wood and python-coated plastic. The delicate apex of a nipple abstrusely mimicking the jolt of an elbow’s point. Such a contrast from the blurriness of a tilted thigh, the nubby rolls of fabric layered upon each other, a hazy burst of tumbling hair.

2010-01-12T11:49:00.000-05:00

"Wild at Heart" - Vogue Germany, February 2010

2010-01-07T22:10:00.000-05:00

Ethereral suburbia/Like a suave Lux Lisbon out of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides

2010-01-07T21:55:00.000-05:00

"Wisdom likes men who are reckless, scornful and violent;
being a woman, her heart goes out to a soldier."
-Zarathustra

"An artist worth his salt is permanently separated from ordinary reality."/"There is no feast without cruelty, as man's entire history attests. Punishment, too, has its festive features."/"All good things have at one time been considered evil; every original sin has, at some point, turned into an original virtue."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

2010-01-07T12:47:00.000-05:00

I can't stop thinking about spring - Theodora and Alexandra Richards/Anja Rubik/Balmain 2008 ready-to-wear/Daisy Lowe/Kate Moss/Roberto Cavalli 2008 ready-to-wear/Sartorialist sighting/Jen Brill/Etro 2008 ready-to-wear/shot at the Glastonbury festival/Martin Margiela 2008 ready-to-wear/Alexander Wang 2009 ready-to-wear/Agyness Deyn/Harley Viera-Newton

2010-01-04T17:10:00.000-05:00

Hang on to your ego - Emmanuelle Alt gets Balmain right/Kate is most improperly British/Abbey Lee and Natasha Poly get silly for Steven Meisel/black and white, leather and fur is street simplicity/Sasha is an urban glamour rat

2010-01-04T16:40:00.000-05:00

Dreaming of a fancy-free spring frolic - Lara Stone photographed by Willy Vanderperre in British Vogue, January 2010/gauzy florals and golden pigtails/pink lips and red nails/feels like a romp in the countryside

2010-01-04T15:18:00.000-05:00

Fellini's women - Barbara Steele, Anouk Aimee, Anita Ekberg, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo/symbols of seduction, torment, willfulness, distraction/when asked of her career goals, Steele said, "I want to fuck the world!"

2010-01-03T22:30:00.000-05:00

Lita Ford - vintage, runaway rocker chick/metal, lingerie, spandex, and hair spray/it ain't no big thing...c'mon, pretty baby, kiss me deadly

2009-12-29T11:37:00.000-05:00

whatever will be will be/take note: eccentric headwear all over the place/sometimes Polaroids look better/boys' parkas/daisy dukes and Chloe boots/over-brushed doll hair/sci-fi sparkle vs. sweatpant strength/a fedora-and-oversized t-shirt combo is reserved for the sultriest of tomboys/Carine carries nightlife lace well

2009-12-29T11:14:00.000-05:00

Likes/Loves: -Knowing what you want -Wild rides -Drinking wine in bed -Surprise nights -Something new -Punch bowls at Bobo -Regular haunts -Shopping sprees -Retro Italian glamour
-Cigarette holders -Hopping on airplanes -Languid afternoons
-Bicycles and sundresses -Gin gibsons -Taking control -Giving up control -Celebrating nothing -Room service -Bowling alleys -Sweaty dance halls -Snow days -Living beyond means -The real deal -Lingerie from Kiki de Montparnasse

2009-12-29T10:32:00.000-05:00

Lou Doillon - scrappy, raggedy heiress of a je ne sais quoi breed of chill/thrashed-about tees/i'm-with-the-band traipser and undresser

2009-12-28T14:08:00.000-05:00

Flush and steam in Istanbul - Moss in September 2008 W/"Hamman" by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

2009-12-28T12:13:00.000-05:00

my love is like whoa/she floats on a cloud & she's a mystical babe - cotton candy hair, daisies, jade fingertips, wet look, twist your rags, sand and shells

2009-12-26T14:07:00.000-05:00

"First I surveyed the little trinkets on the table, her lotions and her perfumes. I picked them up and examined them one by one. I turned her little watch over in my hand. Then I looked at her wardrobe. All those dresses and accessories piled one on top of the other. These things that every woman used to complete herself - they induced me in a painful and desperate loneliness; I felt myself hers, I longed to be hers. -from the notebooks of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar" -Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence

2009-12-25T11:32:00.000-05:00

I'm your biggest fan/I'll follow you until you love me - Amber Valletta by Steven Meisel

2009-12-23T17:11:00.000-05:00

Nomadic women of Kabul, Afghanistan, 1972

2009-12-22T12:55:00.000-05:00

tight vs. loose - Erin Wasson, Frankie Rayder, Tara Vasev, Alice Dellal, Emily Eisen

2009-12-20T12:28:00.000-05:00

girl of the sea, sun, earth - elements: lived-in blazer, Anna Karenina choker, bare feet, nude nails, ruffled locks, Hermes cuff, a heavy dose of femme

2009-12-19T00:02:00.000-05:00

'90s flashback - Amber Valletta by Paolo Roversi for French Glamour, September 1994