dress up.

"clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society."
— mark twain

my friend jamie and his special gal jen are getting married on the 21st and while i contemplate what to wear and how to accessorize, i mostly think that if i had $295 spare bucks i would splurge on the jillian dress from j. crew in classic navy and call it a day...yellow shoes optional!

[photo via j. crew]

f-ing monday.

mondays can be a bit of a drag, if not a bunch of a drag, so i'm going to leave you with a few links ["F" themed!] that i have quite enjoyed lately, g'night!

funny
fabulous
fluid
function
flattened (and funny!)
flippin' fantastic
fashion

old is new.

i just love a throw back to the past and this new song by solange (beyonce's younger sis) is so fun, i could play it all day long on a loop. i have always had the love for new old sounds, like when lauryn hill came out with doo wop (that thing) and more recently amy winehouse's back to black album...i just hope for solange that she doesn't turn into a cuckoo bird or a crack head - cheers!

p.s. this video is pretty cool, but i'm not exactly (or even minorly) sure what it has to do with the song. that's A LOT of political and historical content for one summer hit...


***UPDATE - so the video i posted was whack and until i can find a new one, you can find it here...sorry!

she's a maniac.

“some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. i wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.” - ani difranco

i would very much like to wear these while sporting a wide-mouthed-cut-off vintage grey sweatshirt...think flashdance, but more fancy than a steel mill. although i would tape my feet and go barefoot rather than do the high heel thing, these lace-up legwarmers from year of the goat are corset meets knit heaven. j'like (this is me & dw's version of j'adore...our silly american version!). also - for those motivated folks out there - the pattern to make these yo'self is also available.

[photo from year of the goat on etsy]

the song in my head.

i love this new kanye track with chris martin...love, luv, luff.

laugh out loud.

“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
- calvin & hobbes

funny sites that i have found in my inter-web-travels - fair or not, nice or not - it does not matter, the true question is...does it make you laugh? i thought so, click here & here.

p.s. thank you sera for tipping me off to the video above! it makes my day...everyday.

ysl.

yves saint laurent
1936 - 2008

to someone who was once a silly fashion intern and assistant, ysl was:
the ultimate, beyond, heaven.