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balmain bullet belt, fifth ave shoe repair dress, iosselliani earrings, givenchy wedges, roland mouret belt, christopher kane dress, stephen webster ring, made her think earrings, fleet ilya armband, natalia brilli headband, delfina delettrez ring, botkier bag, kirkwood heels, aurelie bidermann lace cuff

mas

Hussein Chalayan dress, Pamela Love talon ring, Delfina Delettrez hands ring, Made Her Think pyramid stud ring, ThreeASFOUR dress, YSL bracelet, Balenciaga heels, Fleet Ilya bag, Rodarte x Kirkwood thigh-high boots, Alexander Wang suede moto jacket, Alexander Wang camera bag, Shanka fossil resin bangle

being broke blows.

sick kid post

lanvin blue strapless dress, simona kaunaite porcelain (?) ear brooch, imogen belfield ring, lanvin earrings, jeffrey campbell clinic wedges, rodarte skirt, fleet ilya clutch, made her think spine knuckle ring, betony vernon sperm rings, siegerson morrison cut-out oxfords, lanvin cross-body bag, delfina delettrez hand cuff

Notes:
I don't care that I posted a version of the Delettrez hand jewelry yesterday, I love it, and that's enough. Originally I wanted to do a post on blue and yellow, but my incipient illness and inherent laziness prevented that from happening. I really like anatomical jewelry (duh), so the brooch fits right in, and I've taken a fancy to the idea of brooches as of late. I've been in love with that Rodarte skirt since back when Moses wore short pants, and I'll always have a soft spot for whatever weird shit Fleet Ilya dreams up.

As for the Jeffrey Campbell wedges: I have mixed feelings about these. They certainly look very cool but, as with all things Jeffery Campbell, they are not strictly an original design - the metal side plating is "borrowed" from boots by Akiko Ogawa. And J. Camp does have a boot version - minus the buckles and whatnot. So, while I like these, I'm not sure I could, in good conscience wear them. Besides that, I'm not sure I could pull them off. "Fierce" shoes are for braver, more coordinated souls.

the slow introduction of color

from top left: natalia brilli necklace, vpl insertion bra, alexander wang sunglasses, helmut lang cotton moto jacket, lanvin tulle and pearl ring, repetto oil slick flats, proenza schouler metal cuff, delfina delettrez rubilie stone hand ring, marni top, givenchy brooch, nicholas kirkwood x rodarte heels

I tried on that Helmut Lang jacket at Bloomingdales about a week ago, right before I came back from break and I nearly swooned in the dressing room. It is so soft, the collar draped perfectly (not pictured), it was like a hug from Herr Lang himself. But it's also $400, so I parted ways with it with quiet grace and dignity. BUT THEN I found a fairly similar black version, also by Helmut Lang, for about 25% of the price, so I went for it. I am most pleased.

Anyway, everything else pretty much speaks for itself. Yves Klein blue leather-covered necklace? Delicious and would look fetching on top of one of my many all-black ensembles. VPL bra? Sure, why not. P.S. their stuff runs TIGHT in the chest. Delettrez hand ring? You had me at hello. Lanvin tulle/pearl ring? It kind of looks like an opulent bird's nest, and it's made from a somewhat non-traditional (although not for Alber Elbaz) jewelry material, so yes, I'll take it. The Proenza arm cuff looks like slightly modeled asphalt, which I love, I'll wear anything Givenchy and spiky, and I pine for Rodarte and Kirkwood to such a degree that I make myself slightly ill.

I can't promise anything more than a thank you note in return, but if you're feeling generous, my wishlist is above.

winter whites

Being that I generally wear black all year round, I feel the need to stand out in some way when the winter rolls around and everyone else dons their darks. Every time I see a photograph of someone in copious amounts of white in the winter, I can't help but be mesmerized by the chicness. Especially if that person has white-blonde hair and they become a monochromatic vision. Actually, that might explain why I wear black so much (seeing that I am far from blonde).

Anyway: some fantasy winter whites for you


wangster one-shoulder dress, vivienne westwood anglomania sweater, jasmine di milo white dress, pleasure principle white scarf top, lanvin alpaca cardigan, delfina delettrez skull ring (this looks so much like a día de los muertos calavera de azucár), wool & the gang oversize scarf, wangster slit/cage shouldered top

i don't feel good today

clockwise: Fendi military dress, Lanvin necklace, Delfina Delettrez hand ring, Lydia Courteille skull ring, Lanvin necklace, Kirkwood shoe

show your bones

I was going to start my roundup of skulls but I got distracted by Delfina Delettrez's work. She's getting quite well-known and I've seen her work many times before, so I might as well post some images. Unfortunately her website is inaccessible - at least to me - so information about and photos of her work is somewhat more difficult to put together. But, Dazed Digital has an interview with Delletrez from last year when her Delerium collection debuted and T Magazine's blog has a short profile on her shop in Rome.

Yeah, I know it's crooked. It pisses me off, too.

From an editorial in Vogue UK's March 2009 issue entitled Black & White. There's a video from the Black & White shoot that doesn't give Delettrez's name but shows some nice shots of the ring/bracelet in action. Of course everyone and their great aunt Helen has posted pictures of the skeleton hand (which is way cooler than Beyonce's robot hand, which I actually only know about because I was Googling ideas for a robot costume, honest). If you have about 17,000 Euros to drop, you can buy it over at LuisaViaRoma, or if you'd like to pay 2,000 more it's also available at Colette. Cross my heart and hope to get fat if I'm lying, if I had the 20+k I would buy this in a heartbeat. And then I would wear the most boring outfits ever for the rest of my life, because I would never have to think about it again. It's the ultimate accessory - it upstages everything else so that you can wear a sack and you're still interesting.

Delettrez wearing a gold, sapphire-encrusted version of the skeleton hand, about €35,000

Style.com has a snippet from back in the day when her collection debuted. Get ready to be depressed kids, she's only 21 or 22 (not totally sure as the article is oldish). She's a Fendi. Her pieces are already in the permanent collection of the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris. The least she could do for the rest of us is to be ugly or fat. I'd be happy to pass you a tub of ice cream or some cyanide if you want to have a pity party with me. Everyone's invited!

The piece on the left is a bracelet (available also in "light" silver and gold) and to the right is a brooch. Not as cool as the skeleton hand bracelet/ring/amazingness.

Some pieces from her collection, available at Colette. She does a lot of enamel (?) pieces of animals which don't interest me. But here are the obligatory skull items! The ring reminds me of a calavera de azucar and I find myself feeling a strange longing for churros. Delettrez claims to get a lot of her inspiration from the Churches (some of which feature ossuaries) in Rome.

Eye necklace from Número, April 2008, modeled by Karlie Kloss

We've been talking about the Evil Eye a lot in one of my classes this semester. The Evil Eye is the product of envy and can be sent either inadvertently or deliberately. However, there are a few means one can employ to defend oneself against it: you can spit on the object of envy (a new baby, your own chest), use a penis to scare it away (yes, really), make various amulets (Evil Eye charms are still given to Greek children at the time of their baptisms).

More Delettrez eye jewelry, bracelet and ring

While we're on the subject of the Evil Eye, here are a couple of photos of the Mark Walsh and Leslie Chin eye pieces for Rodarte, also from Colette:

Brooch, earrings, and bracelet

There are other pieces available - arrowheads and copper pieces, but again, not particularly keen on them. The terrarium-like pieces aren't available on Colette, strangely.

If'n y'all was wantin' more evil eyes, Trend de la Creme has put together a list of evil eye jewelry.

sources: the fashion spot, style.com, colette, the fashion spot, luisaviaroma, colette