the polaroid of perfection

ooooh baja jackets... not just for the adorable hippie boys playing hacky sack anymore! everyone from proenza schouler to urban outfitters is bringin the 90's slacker staple back... though for proenza's $1500 version i'd expect a nice spliff and breckyn myer to come along with it!

jackets from top to bottom: elizabeth & james, urban outfitters and proenza schouler

(pics courtesy net-a-porter and urban outfitters)

keep me on your side

what is it about stripes that always feel so fresh season after season?

(pics courtesy elle via fashiongonerogue)

the joker is a wanted man

shoe envy like whooooaaaaaa!!!

(pic courtesy new york magazine)

young and innocent then

for as much a tomboy as i was in my youth, i was also totally and utterly into playing barbies... my sister and i inherited the most bombass homemade doll mansion from our neighbor when she "outgrew" it (who didn't experience the torture of wanting to play when you knew you probably were now too old?!)... that sucker had like 10 rooms, balconies, a rooftop pool AND an attached garage... that silly generic dream house didn't even compare... it kills me that one of us didn't save it for posterity... and the stories we would make up! ooooh the stories! long lost princesses raised street urchins! giant bear and dog attacks (stuffed animals of course)!! husband and baby stealing under guise of the night! aaaahhh those were the days man...

(pics from plastic dreams magazine)

sing loud for the sunshine

abbey lee kershaw demonstrates the art of layered, mixed and matched perfection!

(pics courtesy lost in soho, fuji files, the electric, and nittygrittynow)

there will be a show tonight

most definitely coveting everything in made her think's fall 2011 "fight or flight" collection... and that sweet pimp hat too!

(pics courtesy fashiongonerogue)

a reason to start over new

could sasha pivovarova look ANY cooler in this pic from the june 2010 issue of vogue?!?! it's been almost a year since i last dyed my hair as i grow it out from it's short chop and i am very much feeling all the bright manic panic colors i've been seeing on street style blogs... a little bit of "purple haze" on some bleached ends could quite possibly make my life right now- corporate america be damned! i actually think my 9-5 is the one thing keeping me in line on this... how sad is that?! ugh to being a grown up!

(pic courtesy vogue)

suddenly everything is right

total and utter shoe porn at alexander mcqueen fall 2011... i mean whaaaaaaaaat?!

(pics courtesy style.com)

look into his eyes

snakeskin is totally set to replace leopard as the IT print for fall 2011... top to bottom: prada, chloe and gucci.

sidenote: check out my new york fashion week write ups for ruffian and wild fox at temptd! more backstage scoop to be up shortly!

(pics courtesy style.com)

you put the weights all around yourself

maison martin margiela apparently shares with my more is more rings policy!

(fall 2011 maison martin margiela pic courtesy new york magazine)

got no story to be told

how is it march already??! seems just yesterday i was knee deep in fashion week insanity! some backstage shots at preen a few weeks ago now at milk studios... from top to bottom:

• charlotte nolting getting a make up check from lead artist james kaliardos while hanne gaby odiele waits her turn
• extreeeeeeme cloooooose uuuup! thanks jia jing...
• hair, make up and nails all gettin done at once in a backstage time crunch
• ze hairz eeenspiration!
• let the sunshine in