loveeeeeeeee that cape

altamira nyc

mk killing it

love the burberry look - the bracelets, the gloves, the amaaaaaaazing sunglasses, the ankle boots. star light, star bright, make me an olsen twin tonight.
tfs

a few highlights from london

i loved this look but really the entire collection was brilliant - so much texture, so much skilled layering, and so much black. definitely fantasy life, but with an element of the real life.
john rocha f/w 2010

i really love this jacket - the black on black embellishments are beautifully done. i'm imagining it on la lanphear over one of her basic outfits - thin black pants, white tee, perhaps a gray blazer layered underneath the black?
matthew williamson f/w 2010

i would really, really love to be badass enough to pull this dress off. but i'm not, so i'm going to sit in a corner and cry about it.
julien macdonald f/w 2010

coats like this almost make me wish i lived in a climate where i could wear one. not really, but i still covet really great coats. and i love pringle - when i was 16 i spent a summer in england, and was waiting at heathrow for my flight home totally exhausted, literally falling asleep in my chair when i saw the pringle store. something drew me in, and despite the fact that i was practically sleep-shopping, i managed to find and purchase a bag that i used for the next several years. still have it, but i never use it - alexander wang and i are exclusive on the handbag front.
pringle f/w 2010

can i have this look in all black, please? then add a few extra black layers, mary kate's black python ps1, some psycho jewelry, and walk around pretending i'm an olsen twin.
burberry prorsum f/w 2010

fantasy life: wear with messy hair and kate lanphear's jewelry for a picnic in griffith park.
real life: hang on wall and drool.
jenny packham f/w 2010

a note on christopher kane: i thought it was brilliant in theory and fell down in execution. it was all really well done, except for the embroidery. it was really well designed and the colors were good, but it was sad machine embroidery - which in a collection that so prominently featured embroidery was a major shortcoming. there's no substitute for hand work. obviously a rtw collection can't afford hand embroidery, but i thought that the difference in quality really detracted from what otherwise was a fantastic collection.

FREJA

god, i love her
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mr. newton

this was featured a few days ago on refinery 29 and reposted today on mr. newton, and i still can't get over it. i want want want that jacket. it's gray and amazing.

tao okamoto

so in love with that trench and all the layered neutrals. perfection.

and she's totally gorgeous.
from altamira nyc

tommy ton for style.com

my favorite shots from tommy ton's nyfw photos - two completely different looks that i think perfectly capture my schzoid fashion personality.

the first: black on black, leather, layers, pony hair ankle boots. this is my everyday life, minus the heels (for the most part i am all about flats)

the second is a fantasy look - pink fur and rhinestones. totally wild - this is a look that i love to death and that lives entirely in my imagination. despite the fact that my closet contains only black, white, and gray, (literally. i gave up on wearing color last year and gave almost all my colored clothing to the goodwill. a few things i can't give up live in my storage closet, gathering dust) there is a side of me that loves rhinestones and glitter and hot pink. that side lives only in my studio, where i play with rhinestones and glitter and make dresses of the imagination. doesn't leave the house.