Chanel

Cool accessories, knits, CUTEST THING EVER, Lindsey Wixson, Jac, JEANS, cool watercolor thingy, KLOSSSSSS, and we're not even done....

...and lots of gowns.

ACCESSORIES

ahhhhh it made my brain hurt how awesome these are.

No really.

FUTURE SHOES, Michael Jackson gloves, sparkly shoes, neck bling, :) :) :).

COFFEE

oh, Karl. Only you.

When you think of Fendi, what do you think of?

Expensive leather purses?

The FF logo?

The color brown?

When you think of Fendi, I'm guessing you wouldn't think of bright colors, jumpsuits, blue shoes, the "cappuccino effect," pencil-shaving designs, gold straps, crisp white dresses, the color orange....

But this is Karl Lagerfeld we're talking here.

I guess he felt like spicing it up, for really no particular reason except for his own amusement.

WHAT IS THIS CAPPUCCINO EFFECT IN WHICH YOU SPEAK?

Basically its those yellow dots on look #3, but if you get really close to them you can see that they're little holes patched up with yellow string.

You see, if you were seeing this from the seats of a show, you wouldn't see the little holes.

So I guess KL just wanted to know how awesome he is with the little yellow dots.

WHOOAAA

O.

M.

G.

Fashion's Night Out was AH MAZIN.

OMG.

First we waited for 2 hours at Ralph to see...

ANDRE LEON TALLEY

but then some security guard informed us that

NOPE, YOU WON'T GET TO SEE HIM.

we beat it out of there to 7 for all Mankind across the street and ate the cute little cookies.

Then went to Madison to see what was going on.

ANSWER: not a whole lot.

BUT, ALAS....

we had officially pronounced FNO a fail because we hadn't seen anything.

So we decided to make NANETTE LEPORE our last stop.

IM GLAD WE DID.

because GUESS WHO WAS THERE.

NANETTE LEPORE.

Like really, are you kidding me?

I was ecstatic.

My friends and I... ACTUALLY TALKED TO HER.

OMG.

OMG.

Lets go.. FNO lets go... FNO...

WHOA IT IS ALMOST TIME FOR FASHION'S NIGHT OUT AGAIN!

I have to admit I didn't go last year, probably because I didn't have a subscription to Teen Vogue back then and therefore didn't have any access to COOL STUFF.

This year I plan to hike down to the Ralph Lauren in SoHo for Ralph's version of FNO.

Oh, and guess who is going to be there >says with fake nonchalantness<... Andre Leon Talley.

ANDRE LEON TALLEY????!!!!! SERIOUSLY???!!!!

Seriously.

OOOOMMMMMYYYYYGGGGAAAAWWWWDDDDD.

I am just BEYOND excited...

I'm going to wear my yellow Rodarte for Target Sweater (from a givaway from Style Rookie), my J.Crew denim "work shirt", my tulle skirt OF MY OWN DESIGN (what better way to showcase my talents than to wear them?), Chucks, and Ray-Bans.

Wowie I am so excited... I am probably going to end up writing ANDRE LEON TALLEY all over my school assignments that day.

BUT MUAHAHAHAHA I AM GONNA MEET ANDRE LEON TALLEY

Fake Karl

Funniest "bedtime story" ever.

It is very fitting because of how fashion-nutcase-ish I am so you should really check this out.

Actually, no.

That was a lie.

You shouldn't "check it out," you should ravenously devour the whole story, then proceed to read the rest of the blog, then get yourself drunk on Fake Karl stuff.

Amen.

Karl Lagerfeld's Guide to Life: The Very Hungry Model: a Children's Story

Me Liiiiike Chloé

Chloé Resort 2010 is quite mesmerizing, or at least I was a little captivated by all the colors and super-fabrics.

My faves were the ones that were interesting, fun, or otherwise unique, while still being tasteful and/or boldly stated.

So now you can try to visualize the looks from all that technical mumbo-jumbo.

Yeah, no.

I put these 2 together because my main focus is the blazer, and the blazer is the same (except for the color but seriously, you know what I mean, OK?!?!) on both looks.

So choose whichever you like to stare at whilst I account on my realizings.

(That was supposed to sound cool but I know it didn't so we can just live with my puns being fails.)

I love the Michael Jackson-ish (RIP) aspect of it with the embellished blazer. But it's really not THAT glitzy that someone just COULDN'T wear it. I LOVE it.

Next is like a sundress thing that's not really like a sundress but i think you get what I am trying to say...:

It looks really comfortable, like the skirt part of it is soft and feels nice, and not like I'M WEARING DESIGNER CLOTHES >itch itch itch<

but more like I GET TO WEAR THIS? >and, exhale<

Same with this look. The blouse and the skirt look comfy but like so high-fashion that it's not even funny.

And the ruffle-y-ness looks very old Marc Jacobs. ME LIIIKE MARC JACOBS.

I like the same-color coat and dress. The cream color is somehow.... relaxing. And it just looks so amazing to wear that I had to post a picture even though I don't have much to say.

CIAO!

SVEDANSKA

SWEDEN!

I am actually in Sweden right now, but I'm going to talk about my trip like it's over (because this may be my only internet opportunity in a while),

so if I have any more to say I will post it later.

What I've noticed in Sweden that has anything to do with fashion is this: for most people, daring is quite the norm,

(so I guess that means it's not daring anymore, but whatever it is it's different from the US)

and I've only noticed-enough-to-remember-individually the things that are REALLY daring

(which make the looks ACTUALLY daring as opposed to the daring looks that are not really daring [am I confusing you yet? GOOD.])

SUCH AS (I bet all these parenthesis are really boggling your mind: two things to say to that: GET USED TO IT and GET USED TO IT.).....

Two-toned hair that is actually one color on one side of the head and another color on the other side of the head. Also, at least 3 people I've seen so far have legit candy-colored pink hair. And it is EPICCC.

I will post a drawing later of what the two-toned hair looked like, because taking a picture would be weird if I didn't know her and she found out and then started talking in Swedish and I'd be like "ENGLISH?" and then I'd feel dorky AND BECAUSE I didn't have a camera handy.

I'm feeling rambl-y today, so I have two things to say to that: GET USED TO IT and YEAH.

OK SO the next thing is that E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E wears Converse. I took a tally yesterday of all the different styles of Converse:

About 11 High-Tops and 11 Low-Tops

2 red pairs

7 black pairs

1 green pair

9 white pairs

(everyone wears the white ones beat-up and dirty, which, if I may say, is incredibly chic, and some are so beat-up that I had trouble distinguishing the Converse from the Keds from the Jack Purcells from the other kinds, but I did my best.)

3 patterned pairs

(striped, aztec-y, and heart-patterned. It was hard to tell wether they were scribbled-on or came that way, which is also very chic, in my opinion)

So that is my epic (I LOVE the word epic, as you may have noticed) description of my trip to Sweden.

I'm having trouble thinking of a clever way to say goodbye, so I'm just gonna say it and save the the mental stimulation.

Bye.

THUH OUTFIT

Finished the outfit I was creating!!!!

It took me a bajillion years to sew, partly because I pinned it on the dress form in a really strange way, and partly because I kept putting the pins the wrong way (which caused the sewing machine to jam and make some pretty noises. Watch me try [and fail] to recreate them: "ehhhhh", "p-p-p-p", WAHWAHWAH!") and forgot to put the foot (thingy that keeps the fabric down so you can sew it) down, which resulted in the fabric going everywhere and me having to consult my trusty friend Seam-ripper.

The shirt (below) is what the EPIC story above depicts...

...But I made the skirt(s) a while ago. More about the skirt's EPIC story..... here.

The belt was an impulse. I just felt like the outfit needed an unexpected pop of color. Plus it's preeeety. (Vineyard Vines belt/scarf thing.)

Get set to get tired of the salmon-pink-red color of the shirt, because that is basically the only fabric I have left. And also, just to warn you, the skirt is going to be in AH-lot of the outfits, because it more or less goes with a lot of things sometimes maybe.

Designer Dreams

I'm going to start designing again!

What really made me want to start again was the nice new dress form the arrived at my doorstep a few days ago.

It took we about an hour to decipher the instructions, clearly-translated-from-Chinese-and-in-very-broken-English, but I finally figured them out, and the result was well worth the process of putting it together.

The dress form+my great sewing machine=This is gonna be interesting.

I plan to make a pleated skirt, some super-easy dresses, and a one-shouldered blouse.

Wish me luck.

HEJ

In this post I'm going to talk about how awesome summer clothes are.

Summer clothes are awesome.

But everybody knows that and it's just to darn HOT to really care about anything so let me get back to that later and we'll leave it at that.

In my upcoming trip to Sweden, I plan to wear braids and long skirts and try, try, try to not look like a tourist and I don't know how I'm going to do that because of the camera I plan to carry around and the map I'm going to need, and the fact that I don't know a word of Swedish, except for Hej (hey), which the big yellow letters at IKEA taught me.