Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Pre-Fall 2010

Let's start off with Chanel.  Does Lagerfeld ever do any wrong? 
(Actually yes. Sorry S/S 2010, clogs will never be chic.)  But this 1930s Beijing inspired collection is fabulous!



Carolina Herrera: Never a big fan of flower print dresses, Herrera does dancing people instead. 




Narciso Rodriguez : Amazing structural minimalism



Oscar de la Renta: This is what I picture myself wearing when I'm 50.






















Lastly, VERSACE.  For clothes I would wear right now... if I could afford them.


No more Uggly Boots

So I've been searching for a good pair of boots that can handle Iowa's winter.  I absolutely refuse to buy Ugg boots because they're really ugly and I don't want to be another stock model for Chicago suburbanites.  I don't care how comfortable they are.  Alas I thought it was a futile search until yesterday!!!! Cutout wedge heel?  Yes please!! Michael Kors is a savior!!


Michael Kors Patty

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Trashy Classy Streethard Chanel

I was drifting through DSW with my best friend trying to find boots that did not include the letters Ugg when I came across a rather nondescript quilted leather chain purse.  Chanel first introduced the now famous quilted bag in 1955.  But I can't afford a real Chanel purse, so I've decided to make one.  Thankfully this Poppie Jones bag I found at DSW gives poor college students like me a chance to buy this style without paying the price.  But it's not like I'm fooling anybody.  The leather's cheap, the inside reeks, and there is no interlocking C's on the outside.  But this can be fixed by adding all the materials below.

                          






Making the Chanel logo out of studded spikes makes me feel beautiful and dirty rich.  Which is a good thing.  As Lagerfeld once said, "Vanity is the healthiest thing in life."

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Beating the System!

Might seem random but... it describes my day pretty well.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Art of Paintballing

If I ever go paintballing, this would be my strategy. 



Bon Yurt is a Colombian pop artist who orchestrated this wonderful Warhol portrait of Marilyn utilizing paintball guns.  Brilliant!

Friday, November 27, 2009

I Want Your Ugly

Money, Fame, Celebrities.  In the past decade these three entities have fascinated our generation culminating in the popular sites of PerezHilton.com and TMZ.com.  It seems that everybody is primarily concerned with money and the superficial aspects of social interaction.  The 2000s certainly exploited the many facets of stardom among celebrities in the explosion of reality shows and thereby the creation of the "reality star."  Instead of free-thinking individuals, America is rampant with hoards of hollow frames posing in the VIP section of clubs.  I don't care if your shirt cost $100 and I don't care if you drive a BMW.  But I do care that you're a pretentious, shallow human being.  A side product of this money-lust and greed (besides an economic collapse) is the absence of fun.  Nobody is truly having fun when everybody is so concerned about how people perceive them.  I care very much how I portray myself; what I don't care about is how people perceive me.  I thought high school was supposed to be only four years of a person's life.  Unfortunately it's seeping throughout all social ages and locations.  I'm ready for being poor to be cool again.  For the brilliant thrift shopping to become fashionable.  I like the crazy, the freaks, the ugly, the fat, the bold, the beautiful, the uber-cool, the nerds, the geeks, the jocks, and the goths.  Not the photoshop or the producers in the background, or the scripts. I like it as long as it's real, as long as it's raw, as long as it's passionate.  Because that's what makes it beautiful.  So, take it away Marilyn..
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." 

Cheers to cheap drinks, Hawkeye wins, and blue tongues.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Boxing Ring + Bed = Genius!

One of the greatest ideas for a bed, the Boxing Ring Bed portrays the inevitable power struggle of sex.  But it's bright neon colors give it a playful twist.  Designed by Japanese architect Masanori Umeda in collaboration with Memphis, this piece is now on exhibit in Paris.  Even better is the fact that the god himself, Karl Lagerfeld, furnished his home with this bed as well as other pieces Memphis had created.  My favorite part has to be the four light bulbs on each corner; because isn't sex just a performance after all?