French Navy

In honor of Camera Obscura's show tomorrow night, here are some of my favorite "Sailor" or "Nautical" outfits. I love how stripes and nautical clothes are everywhere, from high end to low end stores (check out your local F21 and Barney's and see what I'm talking about). Not only is it super cute for summer, but if you are a stripe fiend like myself, it's a good time to load up on basics. Here, some of my favorite looks from lookbook from a few months back....which means these ladies were ahead of the game!

Liberty of London for Target: time to free up that wallet money, girl.

Finally!!!

Rodarte sold out too quickly, Sonia Rykiel for H&M left me disappointed (I didn't want to wear roses on my nipples and pink and black are just not my forte), Gaultier is a joke, but ALAS!!! here comes Liberty of London for Target, just in time to save us all.

The collection (hitting stores March 14th, just in time to get that horrible Gaultier taste out of your mouth), is perfect for summer. It's like a freaking Cover Girl commercial, easy, breezy, beautiful, but not cheap looking. The little romper number gave me giggles and the bathing suits are so perfect for a postpartum body (the one I'm going to be trying to work out, but god knows I'm not gonna). The dresses are not too complicated and look like anyone could have made them (I mean, this is Target here, let's not get our hopes up), but the whimsical print that Liberty is known for make up for it. Add to that a few accessories and, wait, is that a bike? Yep.

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Jean Paul Gaultier

So, in about a week, we'll be seeing Target stock up their stores with the anticipated collection from Jean Paul Gaultier. Everyone will be stoked......or so we thought. Looking at this collection, one word comes to mind: Horrid. Or two words: Horrid and cheap.

For starters, the leggings, one of the dresses, the bathing suit thingie and that top worn under the yellow dress, they all look like that crap that people were wearing when they wanted to look like they were tattooed. WTF? Seriously? We expect this from Ed Hardy, not one seriously famous designer.

Then, where is the heck is the consistency? Some of the collection looks like it came out of the movie Cry Baby, with the leather, gingham and good girl florals.....none of which even Hatchet face would wear and the rest look like Madonnas back up girls wore the clothes in a bad low budget video. Ugh. No thanks. The only things that look good are those last two jackets, but only the price will tell.

So, I've never gotten anything from ModCloth, but my sister offered to buy me something online for Christmas (she's stationed in Japan, so it's kinda hard for her to go shopping right now). Here are some of the things I have my eye on. I just can't decide......

Always blue shoes $32.99
Picture Book Dress $74.99
Reflection Dress in Yellow $54.99 (I think this one's my Favorite)
In Living Color Dress $47.99
Featherweight Dress $84.99
Easel on the Eyes Dress $34.99
Deductive Reasoning Dress $49.99
Attic Adventure Dress $39.99

do like kid kudi: day & night

chris benz

vera wang

bright red

Today the sun was bright red when I woke up, due to all the fires surrounding the area (something about dry lighting, WTF? What does that even mean!?). It reminds me of Mexico in May, when the farmers around my dad's small home town burn all their lands to prepare for the summer thunder storms. But here, it just means bad news. With the heat and the air like this, it makes me look forward to Fall (the Topshop fall collection doesn't help either). But, alas, summer is here for some time. Which is why I would DIE to have any of these dresses. Although the Fall '08 collections are already all over the runways, I'm still stuck on Rue du Mail's spring collection. Here are some of my favorites.

short and sweet

Only two pictures today. I can't have last week's fiasco. And besides, there are only two things on my mind lately. One is my dear friend, Megan. When I saw this photo of Bat for Lashes again, I realized how much Natasha Khan reminds me of Megan. Both have a quirky aesthetic pallets, loving to mix bright colors and patterns with dark undertones. And both are very artistic. I haven't seen her for ages and I wish I had the money to fix my car and just drive to Mill Valley one day.

I've also been dying to go thrift store shopping, even more so that I've been thinking about visiting Megan. This picture, that totally reminds me of a vintage picnic in the french countryside, has such potential for being found at a local Goodwill. Sigh. So many dreams, so little sleep....