wild card up my sleeve

ok i SWEAR there are tons more nyfw fall 2011 backstage photos coming, but i just played an entire rec basketball game against a crazy quick fast break team (no subs at all for my team! gah!) and am exhausted and dying to just crawl into bed to get back to patti smith's "just kids", an autobiographical look at her relationship with robert mapplethorpe... it is brilliantly poignant and makes me long for the nyc of yesteryear... grit and all! oh and um, patti's style is siiiiiick!

(pics courtesy nick drake, vintage threads uk and archive of ephemera)

if i could say what i wanna say

one of my new year's resolutions (the one that i actually might keep) is to step up my style. never get complacent kids! Scott Schuman's (aka the sartorialist) new book The Sartorialist, is over 400 pages of street chic to get those wheels a-turnin!

i just wanna be there beside you when the night comes

fall is almost here and therefore my craving for a kickass pair of boots is in overdrive... new york magazine has a great shop-a-matic feature that i'm currently way obsessed with...

(photos courtesy of nymag.com)

over the hills and far away

last summer i searched ENDLESSLY for a pair of over-the-knee boots after i fell hard for gucci's lushly wicked fall 2008 collection... i finally found a pair from nine west that i unfolded to reach over the knee, and if they weren't black suede i'd be all over this pair from  jeffrey campbell... 

(pics via shopnastygal.com)

heavy reading

my kickass mother picked this book, fashion now 2, up for me today at barnes and noble just because! it's a 500 page encyclopedia of over 160 world renowned designers- the thing weighs about 5 pounds, no lie! it's got great pics (love the back cover 2nd pic above) and interviews and i can't wait to go through every one... thanks mom, you're the best!!!

(pics courtesy of barnesandnoble.com)

inspiration

whenever i l feel like i have no clothes and nothing to wear i always pull out amy arbus' "on the street 1980-1990". capturing innovative, gritty and sometimes outlandish on-the-street styles in nyc in the 80's, it never fails to get my creative fashion juices flowing.