speaking of which...

I'm obsessed with finding these tights worn by one of the girls from Litter SF in this picture.
They're sheer, unlike every other pair of skeleton tights I've ever seen, and I like that the bones are rendered in outline rather than solidly. Given my recent obsession with tights (thank you pantsless wardrobe), there just can't be any way I can carry on without these. They are transcendent.



source: litter

boned and dethroned

Honestly, what I've wanted, more than all of the jewelry I've featured, is these rings from the Bone Room, a store in Berkeley. They've been sold out for so long I'm ready to die over it. I guess they don't have a manufacturer anymore (?), not sure, not the point. The point is that I PINE for these rings. PINE, I tell you.

Another piece from the site, an anteater vertebrae & rib bracelet, I've largely ignored because of the other picture on the site was so unappealing. But this picture is much better: it shows two of the bracelets interlocked together, and I want it too, especially after having just bought vertebrae friendship necklaces with my friend Paris, and these interlock into each other too. I don't own a bracelet (literally, not a one), so these could be some excellent investment pieces for me.

source: the bone room

shoes

I've made no secret that shoes just aren't my bag (, baby), but I must admit that I do like these few recent styles. It's a bit heavy on the Kirkwoods, and the shoes all share a few common elements: lacing, buckles, wedges, platforms, and the colors black and blue. And I'm okay with that.

From top: Kirkwood, Kirkwood, Jil Sander, Kirkwood, Ann D., Chloe Sevigny x Opening Ceremony, Ann D., YSL, Givenchy, Dolce & Gabbana, Kirkwood, YSL

So I bought myself an early Xmas gift last week. It has yet to arrive, but I'm pretty stoked. I'll mostly be wearing it with black pencil skirts and opaque black tights and converse (which is what I wear every day, basically). I need to get back into wearing pants so that i can walk around in tight tight black skinny jeans again. I miss my old uniform.

goodbye phi

Phi is no more! It has been lost to the recession. Quel tragique! No, but really, I'm sad. Phi did some cool shit. Let us mournfully look at their most recent collection:

This collection has everything I love: straps, buckles, zippers, FAN LACING. It actually looks a lot like the two medical corsets I bought at a vintage clothing store near school for $5 each a few months back. But, you know, better fitting and in nicer colors (pink and beige, anyone?). My new mission is just going to have to be finding and collecting any Phi pieces I possibly can (in all likelihood none).

Gah! Look at those straps! I die.

source: nymag.com

wishlist

LuisaViaRoma has Spring 2010 items up. Lust.

Ann D. zip vest (absurdly easy DIY), Rick Owens dress, Ann D. belt

yeah i went there

Much as I hate wearing or having what everyone else has (although all black is hardly individual), I caved and bought the yellow tulle and lace skirt and both the yellow and black lace cardigans from the Rodarte x Target collection. What I was most interested in was the lace tights, but almost NONE of the Targets in Los Angeles received any accessories, so it seems like I'm out of luck on those. I have yet to decide whether to wear the clothes now, hopefully wear them in an interesting way, or wait five years hoping that everyone else's will have dissolved into dust in the interim.

sources: target, nymag

which one is better??

Oh dear god, the Christopher Kane atomic bomb collection has finally been produced for the masses. The question is: do I want green or black? SO HARD to choose: green would be more interesting, but black and white is so classic. Also there is the distinct possibility of people mistaking the print for simply an abstraction, which is something I know one of my Art History professor would lose it over (the conceptual part of it, not the actual dress. Although I must admit, he is quite the dresser himself. Red socks anyone?).

But ultimately, do I really have it in me to spend $300 on a cotton tank dress... eh, I think not.

why am i not nicola formichetti's assistant!?!?!?

new mission, become someone's assistant.

source: jak & jil

harakiri

I saved these in my fashion folder about a month ago with nothing remotely helpful as a title to help me remember where I found them. Thanks to some frantic searching of my browser history I managed to track it down: Harakiri, whose work I've written about before (double-ended mouse skull bangle, anyone?), available at NotJustALabel. Although I think the things above are supposed to be earrings (?), I think they'd function best as brooches. Ahhh, I can just picture one on my lapel right now... Apparently my fascination with dead-stuff jewelry will never die.

fall 2009 reconsidered

You know, when I first saw this collection, D&G Fall 2009, I wasn't particularly impressed with it. The heavy fabric, the Marilyn Monroe references I think I remember seeing, I had very little feeling towards it either way, actually. It just was. And then today, while browsing through an interminable selection of white and cream runway looks from Fall (I am deeply invested in a winter white 2009), I came upon one of these looks again, and for some reason, they really appealed to me.

Maybe the collection resonates with me now, as opposed to this Spring when I dismissed it, is the fact that I've entirely divested my wardrobe of pants (ok, I still have them but don't wear them). Had I not moved into a co-op and gotten too... shall we say, voluptuous, for my many pairs of almost identical dark, skinny J Brand jeans, I wouldn't have moved entirely to wearing skirts, and thus wouldn't have taken such a fancy to these looks.

But since skirts compose essentially the entirety of my wardrobe now, I can't help but be enchanted by these looks. Or at least the silhouette. I love the rounded little belljar (not sure how to describe it really) skirts that sit at the waist and are so very short. They make the models' legs look miles long, and although I'm not exactly statuesque in height, I still love it. The dark colors, the heavy fabrics, now they just look like the sumptuous trappings of the Russian imperial period rather than stodgy and evoking musty old lace. I'm soooo into it. This could be a new look for me.

Of course, if I'm being honest with myself, this look, this silhouette is not entirely new for me. It's similar to the one Miuccia Prada put out for Miu Miu Spring 2008. And I'm fine with that.

i will never stop loving you

on sale and sold out.
source: collete.fr

chain gang

you had me at hello. well minus the street urchin fingerless part of it.

source: tommy ton for style.com

accessorize

alexander wang mini brenda camera bag and givenchy wedge

my two favorite items from candy pratts price's interminable spring 2010 accessories report, that i actually clicked through. i'm having a bit of an "i die" moment over both of them, but quite frankly i'm a little more in love with the mini brenda because it's a little more attainable and because i don't wear heels, and because i think purses should be as minimal and tiny as possible. i've actually wanted a vintage camera bag for ages. perhaps perusing ebay is in order...

source: style.com

surely kate lanphear. i have dreams about chainmail already, now this could just take me over the edge into a psychosis of longing

source: tommy ton for style.com

slash

I've been admiring this Ann-Sofie Back slash sweatshirt over at Acrimony for at least a couple of months. I've been thinking what a fabulous DIY it would make, if I could get my hands on some nice thin gray sweatshirts. I just noticed the accompanying slash tank, which also makes me very happy. I'm a little slash-happy lately, but I have yet to produce anything. I should get on that.

source: acrimony

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

winter wishlist

unknown sleeveless cardigan from browns, preen skeleton vest, unknown black dress from browns, miu miu flats, ann d. belt corset thing, balenciaga print scarf, rodarte skirt, miu miu embellished flats, black thigh-high socks, made her think cuff, gareth pugh leather jacket

color me obsessed

Hand ring by Daphne Guinness and Shaun Leane
from the Sunday Times Style Magazine, 21 October 2007

source: the fashion spot

mi piace

I'm in love with these rings by Aoi Kotushuiroi. They remind me a lot of the pieces by Imogen Belfield that I posted about ages ago. Both artists have created rings that remind me of stone outcroppings - uneven jagged edges protruding from a softer matrix. In a way they also recall the studding mania that has had us all in a vise grip for months, but in a fresher, less distinctly 80s way.

This last piece on the right is by far my favorite, which is surprising because it seems so much less dynamic and raw compared to the other rings. It's a little more constrained, and in a way looks like the encrustations of barnacles on the hull of a ship.