really Neely - Rumi in neo-Pocahontas garb/Erin Wasson's spring '09 instant-classic RVCA floral plus a vintage Chanel backback and pizza to-go equals a laid-back and steamy summer night/sex shop thigh-highs are allowed sophistication when paired with an oversized Alex Wang knit

Daria in Vogue Nippon - chill in the air, golden fields, rugged skins on supple skin

 

Say yes now: -Aprons and pinafores  -St. James striped boat shirts  -All buckled up  -A touch of dowdiness  -Rapunzel braids  -Greasy black eyelids  -Re-released vintage Betsey Johnson  -Way-shredded jeans  -Knuckle rings  -Gloppy doll-like mascara  -Touches of tie-dye  -Hip-hugging belts  -Spine-tracing zippers  -Threads and weaving  -Peek-a-boo flesh  -Subtle side cleavage  -Found objects as jewelry  -Plaid and floral  -Unapologetic bell-bottoms  -Kelly Bundy on "Married with Children"  -Cross pendants galore  -Heart-printed tights  -Military jackets  -Eye glitter 

seeing is believing/wild hearts can't be tamed - Anna Karina in Une femme est une femme/back room (faux) bohemian - affectation is irrelevant if it's performed with conscious confidence/youthful Marianne Faithfull/nameless and lustful in Last Tango in Paris/photographer Stacey Mark's trademark rustic, fuzzy femininity/Alice Dellal wants you to know she won't dress by your rules/Mark makes a doily foreboding

 

You're a hot mess/I'm lovin' it, hell yes - hot pants in the city/playing hippie dress-down/a beflowered diamond in the urban rough/flying fringe adds exuberance to Alexander Wang's party joy/Mary-Kate Olsen's armor of trinkets/gypsy pants on a lonely road

"Lolita, when she chose, could be a most exasperating brat. I was not really quite prepared for hger fits of disorganized boredom, intense and vehement griping, her sprawling, droopy, dopey-eyed style, and what is called goofing off - a kind of diffused clowning which she thought was tough in a tomboyish hoodlum way. Mentally, I found her to be a disgustingly conventional little girl. Sweet hot jazz, square dancing, gooey fudge sundaes, musicals, movie magazines and so forth - these were the obvious items in her list of beloved things. The Lord knows how many nickels I fed to the gorgeous music boxes that came with every meal we had." -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Tomboy in turmoil - Freja Beha Erichsen

 

fashion weeks - purple lips, finger-combed pomp/new level bedhead/Becka Diamond in furry tails/Pixie Geldof is a convenient store punk/glam-pantied girl gang at Dolce and Gabbana/school girl gone bad on Marco Zanini's Rochas runway/bright spots plus metallic copper equals disco redux/Margherita Missoni unites sheer structure and classic leopard

Erin Wasson x RVCA, Spring 2010 - nasty desert-traipsers/"girl on a journey"/these boots are made for knocking/dusty, gritty, greased-up, raw

mash-up - beach gypsy washed ashore/Dree Hemingway, leopard and legs/street strut in ready-to-wear Louis Vuitton/Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon are Parisian beatnik perfection - Elle, British Vogue, Vogue

dream girls - Madonna takes a bow in smeared lipstick and vamped-out nails/hoops and high blonde hair/Barbarella saves the planet, one romp at a time, in bodysuits and chain mail/"my name isn't pretty-pretty"/Sharon Tate as pill-popping doll/and god created Brigitte Bardot/she stirs up sunny St. Tropez/ultimate camp in Russ Meyer's "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"/will sex appeal save the day?