Posts Tagged ‘kelly wearstler’

Dries van Awesome Fall 2011 shoes meet your counterpart, this entryway by Jamie Bush & Co. Oh yea!!!!!  Hi. Franz Kline (look alike?) painting, say hello to those squiggly socks. Um, hi. How are you?

Emerson Fry cocktail ring stylist, I’d like to introduce you to this strange Pinterest-uploaded Mona Lisa made of old tapes.

Kelly Wearstler for de Gournay wallpaper, I really thought you would hit if off with this quirky retro pin up editorial for Bon International via FGR.

And you,  Architectural Digest funky and elegant room meet the coat who wants to live here, although I think it lives in Paris with that pretty girl  I spotted via The Locals.

Indulge me people, this week marks three years of continual non-stop, doesn’t skip a day (ya know, its rare) blogging. It’s been a long, crazy and sometimes tedious road. I’m entitled to go a little batty once in a while, now aren’t I?

The thing about blogging is that it can take you to amazing places in your life and career, but at the end of the day you still have your homework due at 6 am the next morning, now don’t you? No matter how rich or famous, every blogger still plods away at a computer, alone, trying to entertain, amuse and inspire…. and it doesn’t get easier. One might say it gets harder. I’ve written over 1500 posts in almost 1100 days… how much more could I possibly say? And yet…. on we go.

Talk to me people!

Sorry for the late posting everyone, I did this last night and had to wait until morning to take the photos!

Remember last year, I made a neon orange collar with nail polish? I wore it at least 3 times a week and it was and still is one of my favorite accessories. Well, the now I decided to do one in mint, the color de jour of the moment. This concept of painting things with nail polish is just the gift that keeps on giving!

I started with a silver collar from Zara and some nail polish from Walgreens, Revlon and Sally Hanson brands. I made two collars, one for me and one for a friend. For the first one, I brushed on the polish. It took 3 coats and got a little clumpy in spots. For the second collar, I POURED on the polish and then just guided it with my brush into the right spaces… EUREKA! Smooth enamel. Do this, but I warn you, you will get high off the fumes.

Don’t mind my hair, or what my mother just recently called “Ombre Frizz”! I nearly peed myself laughing, because for my mother to use the word Ombre in regards to hair is just pretty damn hilarious.

The entire rest of the outfit is from Zara. Is it wrong to wear head to toe Zara? YES. Not because it won’t look good, but just because its too easy! Is there anything nerdier than taking pictures of yourslef in the mirror? No, there is not.

And just for kicks a room to outfit… I know my outfit is a bit more minty and this is more blue… but still, I love this room in a Viceroy somewhere by Kelly Wearstler. I just love it.

Have a great day everyone! And go paint some jewelry!

The first round of Spring 2012 is hitting the stores… I’m always apprehensive about buying clothes so out of season. Like, what is this, 1990? Stock piling clothes in advance reminds me of back to  school/summer shopping with my mother at Lester’s in Brooklyn, and then putting that shit on LAYAWAY for 3 months.

I, along with Kelly Cutrone (whose book I read this week) think that fashion is going to stop being delivered 6 months in advance, and start being more time-relevant. [I also think, like she does, that normal gets you nowhere, that you need to cultivate a tribe of like-minded people around you(kind of like what I found when I started the blog!), that the people you are born into may not necessarily know what the right "best for you" is... She's a really smart and inspirational woman.]

Anyway, so this is my first batch of selections from Spring 2012 accessories. And, I don’t really want to buy anything yet because so much of the good stuff hasn’t come out yet. And right now I’m into more muted colors, because its still winter in New York, but I know inevitably it will be warm out and I’ll want to wear head to toe neon, like our favorite Neon Running Lady of NYC, who thanks to your instagrams, tweets and emails, I now have tracked all over NYC. Ahh… the locals, what a fun bunch!

Round 1:

 

1. I lost the source! But basically, any skinny belt. I’ve been wearing the skinny belts off all the Zara trousers I bought last year.

2.Yves Saint Laurent $895, This is heinously expensive. Especially because I want two, so that I can look like I Dream of Jeannie.

3. Diane Von Furstenberg Tonda Clutch

4. Kelly Wearstler Tie Dye Suede Jacket.

5. Givenchy, $880  Im all about the clunky heel and platformless shoe. No more Minnie Mouse shoes!

6. Marni $525

7. Balmain $1020, this price tag makes me sick, but I LOVE IT! As a bonafide belt collector, I can tell you, this is sufficiently gaudy while being super cool. Wear with a T shirt and jeans and no more.

8. Bally $275 Love this print, its nautical and almost tribal. Perfectly preppy print to start wearing at the end of winter and into spring.

Happy Weekend!

Ummm… yea, so KW flew a couple of bloggers to her Malibu beach house to STAR in her RTW collection look book. One of them being The Glamourai, who is one of my favorite style bloggers… doesn’t hurt that she already looks like a model, right?

Anyway, If you have been following her on twitter or insta, you’ve been seeing live updates from the shoot. And if you are anything like me you are probably puke green with envy and well, its more than just good old jealously, its like a deep, bone crushing, blood curdling feeling of HOW CAN THIS BE ME? And I have to tell you- I NEVER get that feeling.

Anyway, Kelly (the Glamourai, not the weartsler) posted about it on her blog... and I stole some photos from her insta as well… Is that creepy? Oh well…

(So much crazy goodness in that room… wanna know what Im DYING over though? Those square skinny legged boxy chairs. WOW those are good.)

The clothes are fine and dandy, but lets be honest, if this was an Elizabeth & James photo shoot shot in a hotel, would I be posting this? NO.

And you know what this all makes me think, aside from jealous? That I could never ever EVER be a model. Nothing to do with looks… but obviously that precludes me from the contest but just because I could NEVER pose and be relaxed enough to take these types of photos… I could barely take a good picture at my own WEDDING! Im not kidding, I even get tense when I take below the neck outfit shots of myself on instagram….

Anyway, I can’t wait to see the look book! How could it be anything less than awesome!

KW’s new jewelry is on NET-A-PORTER, and I’m loving it. Its all burnished brass and pyrite. At this point Im just deciding which piece to buy… and I think its going to be the perforated ring. I would gladly wear any one of these pieces though… 

Check it out HERE.

Speaking of Kelly, I got a little preview of her fall 2011 collection for Bergdorf, and once again I want it.

Brass tubular sculpture, if you were to magically make your way to my home, I would NOT complain. Not at all.