she’s overboard and self-assured: topshop’s 90s make-up guide

Just stumbled on this really awesome video produced by Topshop on Stylecaster. I think they meant to call it groupie makeup (not roadie, this girl doesn’t look like she could do much heavy lifting), but either way: Nirvana fangirl makeup is a great idea. Three cheers!

OG delia*s

Getting excited that it seems like the 90s interpretation of the 70s seems to be a comeback trend. Should have saved so many things.

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frolicking frenchies

Our manager just sent over this rad little video. When these ladies are covering their French chests, they are sporting some totally mignon outfits. Also, friends are great.

and then poof he’s GONE

That’s right I have now just quoted from The Usual Suspects. How UN-usual of me!! Anyway, I’m realling digging Scando photog Carl Kleiner‘s intensely graphic and geometry-laced work. This series is cute and fun and so now it’s on the blog. Check out more of his stuff here.

Thanks to this blog I just found for the tip.

flibbertygibbit/wil-o-the-wisp/clown

Last weekend, I saw one of my childhood favorites, The Sound of Music, writ large (really large! 70 mm, baby!) on the big screen courtesy of the American Cinematheque. Now I’m no film buff, but I’m pretty sure now I know how to solve a problem like Maria. THAT WARDROBE! Never noticed it before. Too busy having con-fi-dence in meee. Let me tell you, if you’ve got to slip away to Switzerland after doing a command performance at the Strasburg Folk Festival this is the way to do it.

Take it from the top (left): felt hats from Need Supply Company;  cape from Anthropologie; compass and whistle keychain from Brook Farm General Store; knit button hat from Steven Alan; gray wool booties by 80%20; backpack basket from Kaufmann Merchantile; sweater by Steven Alan; yellow skirt from APC; boots from Totokaelo; gray jacket from APC.

party down

It’s been really fun traveling around the past month or so, but these photos of the Thom Brown SS ’11 show from  Jak & Jil blog are making me want to get back home and hang with my friends! Someone get me a coupe.

band of hotties

This video is great. It’s the make-up artist from Robert Palmer’s videos recreating the girls’ iconic 80s look.

Then watch this guy for research purposes only, obviously:

Sheer black tights. So good, so good. Also thinking I may need to cop the keyboard players performance style for our upcoming tour. Yes!

Thanks to the endlessly wonderful Ms. Katey for the tip.

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so good. so so good.

new, delightful items from French store/label Cancan.

there’s also a very fun and very cute behind-the-scenes video, which unfortunately i can’t show you because wordpress refuses to support flash (?!?!?!). BUT, I highly recommend viewing it here on Clementine Levy’s blog.

 

ANYWAY, fantastique.

7th grade reprise

Have a strong inclination to repeat what I did in 7th grade: dye my hair to look like Angela Chase. Plus bangs. Thoughts?

Thanks to this lovely lady for the image.

three little fishes

Check out this video starring Karen Elson, Sarah Sophie Flicker and Zooey Deschanel — all styled by Lula Magazine’s Leith Clark!

picture this

I’m loving this new wave of photo printed textiles! Top is a silk scarf from a collaboration between Philippe Roucou and M. Cherie, called Objets Trouvé. Next is a bathing suit from We Are Handsome (and it is!); following is a pillow from Nord.

Just in from Ziskin:

Françoise Hardy’s suit and slouchy bow tie seem like a great idea for AW 08, if I do say so myself.

k-town or bust!

Poking around some of the blogrolled sites on Liebemarlene Vintage’s lookbook blog yesterday, I noticed that Ms Leifheit had linked to VogueGirl, the cute as a button TeenVogue outpost from Korea. I’d seen some scans of the magazine before and marveled at its ridiculous level of cuteness and I always try to keep my eyes and ears alert while wandering through K-Town in Los Angeles (admittedly not really doing this enough to qualify as a true goose chase). At any rate, in all my VogueGirl dreams it has never, somehow, occurred to me to check their website. There, they have all their editorials up and flash’ed and ready for a truly animated and Eastern web-viewing experience. Here are some of my favorites and here’s a link to the site. Enjoy!

xo

Z

i want to go outside

For my birthday I’d like to live in this video. Thanks!

let’s do it for our country, the red white and the blue

{Photo courtesy projo.com, yeah that’s my hometown newspaper.}

Anyone who has recently spent some time in front of the T.V. gasping “Dude, do something about your stylist!” in reaction to Hilary’s wardrobe (or anyone who’s been reading GQ or Vogue lately) knows that the clothes really do (or can seriously help) make the man. Sometimes (read: most of the time), this fact is sorely overlooked in politics. Slightly tangential, but hey, it’s my blog and I’ll cry if I want to, one of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain reads, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little influence on society.”

And with that, Hilary, with her jewel-tones and her pantsuits, infamously blousy and tapered in all the wrong places, took a final bow.

Now that the general election seems to be picking up some steam, Americans (and our beloved liberal media) are changing gears and refocusing our efforts on more important levels of scrutiny, like marijuana usage and first lady fashions.

{Photos courtesy of mediabistro.com, nytimes.com & reuters.com}

Here’s the part I love best. In addition to being named an “It-Girl” by Vogue magazine and fêted by André Leon Talley next week, Michelle Obama recently had a whole article in the New York Times devoted to how great she looks. The Times even went so far as to compare her (although it’s not hard with her bright pencil skirts and big white pearls) to our paradigm of the fashionable first lady, Jackie Kennedy.

Like Jackie before her, Michelle Obama strikes a balance between traditional and respectable first lady attire with more daring elements, whether playing with color, volume or embellished details. What political wife would dare to wear shocking orange or purple (a potential Camelot reference, says the NYT) or bare their back in a ruffled halter dress?

{Photos courtesy of smh.com.au and nytimes.com.}

A partial side note: The controversial (but adorable, let’s not forget!) purple dress Mrs. Obama wore last Tuesday for Barack’s victory speech was designed by one of her favorite Chicago-based designers (and former Geoffrey Beane assistant) Maria Pinto. Looking forward to Michelle stepping out in this little number!

But, really? Truly? I just can’t wait for the day Michelle Obama sits down to coffee with Carla Bruni Sarkozy.