if love were a dress...

... it would look like this.

Confession: I'm shopping for Bliss 5... It's December 17!

happy friday!

I love these laughing eyes of a true New Yorker, Robert de Niro. via The Steward

tips for paying student loans (I have to start thinking about that now...)

 a glass for one who's ever the optimist

feeling free with these cliff-diving images

remember "Back to the Future" from Irina Werning? Here's a behind-the-secnes look at her work (watch the video; it's great), and part of her latest project with pro athletes

I want this easy-breezy little pink dress so badly!

a genius way to get closer to nature

sometimes you just have to laugh... it's just too easy. thank you, mr. vice president, for having such good intentions. but also for being so entertaining.

happy friday!

Photo by Shanti Knight

Austin, Texas, March 2011 (SXSW)

These are the gorgeous blonde locks of Casey of Bits of Yum

What a big day!! I'm on my way back to America, and just in time. Southern Japan had delightfully light, breezy, perfectly warm and perfectly cool weather for the past month, until yesterday, when without warning it switched to outrageously sticky hot and humid weather. In Japan they call it mushi mushi! (Which is different from moshi moshi. That's what they say when they answer the phone.) Today I'll be making a trippy time zone jump when I cross the International Dateline. I will arrive six hours before I left! How wild. Here's some fun from around the Web for a Friday afternoon.

a fantastic fun art blog via my university

ideas for beach reads (I adore this writer's description of trying to read David Foster Wallace's The Pale King as "jogging backward in sand while drunk")

girl power via the great Susan Hyatt

Since I'll have access to a kitchen again, I'm wanting to make these yummy-looking popsicles.

thoughts on valuing children, by my friend JoAnn

I'd love to get this face cream for my papa

I really love Pink and Carey Hart's first family photo with their newborn daughter

welcome, summer. by my pal Chelsea Sanders

perfectly ripped jeans

Swoon.

Allison Tayler at Coachella 2011, photo by Cara Stricker courtesy of Vogue

jean shorts

My closet aches for some. These oversized belts really sex them up, don't they?

Anna Friden and Elin Kling, photo by Cara Stricker courtesy of Vogue

royal wedding tomorrow!

I think the entire watching world combined has just as much pre-wedding jitters as the couple themselves today...

How about this fun Vanity Fair story comparing this to the previous wedding of our lifetimes?

to be a fairy princess

a spring dream.

Image of Emma Watson courtesy of Style Frizz

at one with the earth

Photo by Ibai Acevedo via My Modern Met


The sky was light and the land all dark

The sun rose up over Central Park

I was walking home from work

Gaia

The petal sky and the rosy dawn

The world turning on the burning sun

Sacred wet green one we live on

Gaia

Run run run run said the automobile and we ran

Run for your life take to your heels

Foolish school of fish on wheels

Gaia

Turn away from your animal kind

Try to leave your body just to live in your mind

Leave your cold cruel mother earth behind

Gaia

As if you were your own creation

As if you were the chosen nation

And the world around you just a rude and

Dangerous invasion

Gaia

Someone's got to stop us now

Save us from us— Gaia

No one's gonna stop us now

We thought we ought to walk awhile

So we left that town in a single file

Up and up and up mile after mile after mile

We reached the tree line and I dropped my pack

Sat down on my haunches and I looked back down

Over the mountain

Helpless and speechless and breathless

Gaia

Pray for the forest pray to the tree

Pray for the fish in the deep blue sea

Pray for yourself and for God's sake

Say one for me

Poor wretched unbeliever

Someone's got to stop us now

Save us from us Gaia

No one's gonna stop us now

(listen)

I love the earth, and in honor of its own special holiday, here is one of earth-lover James Taylor's greatest anthems to the planet. Walk somewhere today. Pick up trash. Help an animal. Buy a hybrid. Call your representatives and tell them you care, and you expect them to defend the planet. No matter where you stand politically, it's all we've got.

P.S. If you're in New York, check out this Earth Day activity list.

P.P.S. Check out Earth Day Network.

P.P.P.S. Check out Anthropologie's Earth Day celebrations.

bright

celebrating springtime

photo by John Wright courtesy of My Modern Metropolis

coachella fashion

If it weren't for Little 500, I would really have loved to have beeen in Indio, California last weekend, kicking it at Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Michele went last year and had a great time celeb-spotting and hearing great tunes. It looks like such a laid-back, good-time chill-fest.Plus the line-up included Ms. Lauryn Hill, Yelle, Kanye West, Ratatat and the Strokes. (Fun fact: Wiz Khalifa performed here for Little 500 on Friday and then went to California for Coachella on Sunday. So it's safe to assume at least a little Hoosier dirt got to Indio.)

Some of my top outfits:

Peachy button-up linen dress with a little lace on top. Add a black fedora and grab your boyfriend. Let's go!

Isabel Lucas, via Zimbio

Simple, straight to the point. An easy-going little white dress, black sandals that won't fly off, and a medallion necklace. Ready!
Alexa Chung, via People

I swoon. It's completely perfect, top to bottom. Minimal hair and makeup tricks— just beach hair and a great tan. White tank with a ruggedly printed American flag + pristine white shorts, folded up so the pockets hang out. Bracelets on both wrists balance it and the functional brown leather hiking shoes finish. Just enough clean, just enough dirty. Doesn't she look pretty? Doesn't she just look ready to have a good time? Nobody will have to wait for this girl to fix her makeup. She's already out the door.
Kate Bosworth, via People

If it weren't Coachella this would be overkill, but given the situation, it's just right. Crochet top? Check. Feather earring? Check. Stonewashed denim? Check. Bare feet? Check.

Get her super sexy and completely rad leg garter here

Vanessa Hudgens, via People

I love the simplicity of this. Short hair, a functional bag, and a long, goes-with-everything knit dress. She's elegant and chill all at the same time.

Amira, via Vogue

Not to play favorites, but I'm particularly in love with the look on the left— a dainty corset with roughed-up jean shorts? It's a little Golden Hawn and a little saloon. Tell me, what's not to love?
Andrea Florescu and Kelly Thiebaud, via Elle

It's edgy, it's outrageous, it's positively perfect.
Kimberly Pariente, via Elle

reese witherspoon in may vogue

Is Reese Witherspoon not the most endearing woman in Hollywood? She is so genuinely sweet and she has that lovely accent. And then there's her gorgeous face.

Now, she takes Vogue to promote Water for Elephants. I love how these images (by Peter Lindbergh) feel so old-worldy, like The Fantasticks. Will you be seeing Water for Elephants? I'm hoping I get a chance. It looks romantic and beautiful.

happy friday!

Photo by Shanti Knight


Have a fantastic weekend! Here are some of the cooler things I found on the internet this week...

Totes wish I could be in London on the 29th! If I were, I'd be doing this.

Ah, Savannah! (via Jamie Beck)

Janis Joplin's take on music.

The new J. Crew blog.

Symbolic mid-day revitalization.

I saw Lil Wayne live this week. Here's the story of how an Indiana college town got on his tour.


For art people.


Being disagreeable.


Everybody loves a mud puddle.

mulberry spring/summer 2011

So sorry, my readers, for the weeklong hiatus. I got all caught up in school work and simply didn't have time to blog! What a shame. As my friend Johnny V said to me over the weekend, "I'm up to my ankles in it, but I dove in headfirst."


Water under the bridge. It's 65º outside, and things are getting done.


Doesn't this Mulberry campaign just feel like springtime? That sigh at the beginning... ahhh.

Spring Summer 2011 - The Campaign from Mulberry on Vimeo.

looks like fun!

I just love this image of a girl flying away on a popped champagne cork. Love champagne, love flying. Love art like this!

A 1915 ad

Image courtesy of The Naked Scientists


P.S. Loving Rachel's input over at Fur Coat, No Knickers

matchbook magazine

Have you seen Matchbook Magazine yet? It's an online-only publication that launched just last week! I'm really enjoying it. Katie, Jane and Fallon call it "Field Guide to a Charmed Life"— it's an eclectic collection of fashion, design, beauty, travel and anything else you can imagine falling under the umbrella of culture. In other words, just my cup of tea.