September 2008
16 posts
Last Xanadu show : (
Lolita in America symposium
Burberry is predicting a pretty gloomy Spring. Still loving the ankle socks, though.
Diffusion-line Milan is picking right up where London left off: louche prints, easy shapes.
Milan is working some pretty insane embellishments.
Is Gwyneth making a Martha play? →
Personal Style Manifesto →
I’ve been reading tons about personal style lately — there’s been a total trend in media to focus on this ideal.
A quote from the Psychology Today piece struck me as particularly poignant:
“Style is, for starters, one part identity: self-awareness and self-knowledge. You can’t have style until you have articulated a self. And style requires security—feeling at home...
(Re)learning to Read, Update II
My mini book report on “The Wind-up Bird Chronicle” is perfectly summed-up by this assessment:
“The first 600 pages of ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ offer much unadulterated reading pleasure, and it’s only as the remaining pages grow ominously sparse that the proverbial sinking feeling sets in. Even if he does provide for Toru, Murakami can’t, in the...
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will...”
Standing on the corner of 6th & 40th. The fashion shuffle is amazing.
At NIN with Diddy. Nothing better than Red Rocks.