Braless/shirtless

 

"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

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
 

 

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

 

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

 

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

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