Dries Van Noten Fall 2009

"it's interesting to work with restrictions. It makes us more creative."

- Dries Van Noten

Jonathan Saunders S/S 09

"I wanted a bit of playfulness, something uplifting in these trying times"

-Jonathan Saunders

Even though this Jonathan Saunders collection is from last season I couldn't help but immediately blog about it after noticing the delicately hard chiffon skirts that were precisely cut right above the knee creating and elegantly sexy silhouette for a modern female on the move. His bold choice of color this time around made way for a refreshing look at spring and summer as well. Bright turquoise & acid yellow were only two of the colors that Saunders used in his collection to depict his master mind of a vission. 

P.S. Those Sargent Pepper jackets are life!

Can I see you i-D please?...

i-D pays homage to 12 of the best models in their up comming March issue. Models like Jourdan Dunn, Kate Moss, Susie Bick, Naomi Campbell, Stella Tennant, Eliza Cummings, Alice Dellal, Daisy Lowe, Twiggy, Yasmin Le Bon, Lily Donaldson, Agyness Deyn are all gracing covers.

Photography by Solve Sundsbo

"I Wasn't Thinking Really!..."

I've been meaning to post this for a while now and as I was making my rounds online I stumbled upon it on R. CALIEL's blog. This extremely comical clip of mother Crystal LaBeija, founder of the House of LaBeija (ball scene get into it) is from the 1968 documentary The Queen. The Queen is a hour-long documentary about the "Miss All-American Beauty" pageant judged by Andy Warhol & others, held in New York in 1967. Please sit back and enjoy the battle of wit amongst these fem queens. My group of friends always quote this!

Dita Legends

So I jumped, hopped & skipped to the ophthalmologist about 5 days ago just so I can can be lectured about how horrible my vision is. "Yeah Yeah! I already know I'm almost legally blind! so what?! (not true)". Anyway I went in, sat down in that extremely relaxing chair, got some eye drops aka "Uncomfortableness In A Bottle" and then got my prescription. Since that day I've been looking out for a pair of frames that I can fall in love with. So far I'm almost sold on a pair of Marc Jacobs or maybe even a pair of Gucci frames. But recently I've found out about luxury eyewear designer Dita Legends. Their eyewear is, for lack of a better word, exquisite. They specialize in replicating eyewear from the 60's, 70's & 80's (the best eyewear years in my opinion). I might have been sold on the spot if the price tag wasn't so steep. Sorry but were in a recession and I'm setting pretty on my stoop. But nonetheless I aspire to someday own more than one pair of Dita glasses.

..::Some of my Favorites::..

Afro Samurai

I don't know if you know but I'm a huge Anime fanatic. Weird I know...I know! But regardless of what anybody says i find it extremely interesting. The artistry, the morals they teach and the absolutely awesome fight scenes keep me oh so hypnotized.

This movie in particular named Afro Samurai Resurrection is so dope, to say the least. Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Lui, and RZA are all part of the cast of voices that make this Anime movie so intriging. Get into it!

Oh Christina...You Do Me So Lovely

She went of on this song!!

Slight Hiatus

I Told You Give Me A Minute & I'll Be Right Back

I'm going on a slight hiatus. I need some time to get my daily schedule and my biological clock back in sync with my tasks

Hope I'm missed as much as I'll miss

Porcelain Treatment

Lately I've been looking back at some of my chronicled happening throughout old High School via Facebook & I noticed that my skin used to sit! I once had clear skin. So after an hour wrapped in a ball of tangents I came to to the conclusion that the one and only thing I was doing during the era I like to call, "Sitting Face", was the Porcelain Treatment. What is that you ask?...well its a simple honey and brown sugar facial scrub/mask that i would apply every other day to keep my skin glowing. & now I'm handing down this extremely useful advice down to you!...yes You!

Things You’ll Need

►Honey (Preferably Organic)
►Brown Sugar
►Spoon
►Small Mixing Bowl
►2 Towels

What To Do:

1. Mix the brown sugar and honey in the bowl; mixing 2 parts sugar 1 part honey. mix until consistency seems right..not too runny not to thick. You can choose to put more sugar it all depends on how rough you want the scrub to be.

2. Wet your face. You can opt for your favorite face wash but just make sure it's not a harsh one.

3. Towel dry your face.

4. Take some of the Porcelain Treatment into your fingers and simply GO OFF! lol Work on the face going in clockwise circles for about 1 minute (more if you...have a lot to take care of and less if you have sensitive skin).

5. After you have scrubbed yourself a new face let the honey rejuvenate and moisturize it back to life; sit back and relax for about 20 minutes (for extra pampering slice up some cucumbers, chill them and then place them on your eyes to reduce puffiness and give you that "I'm awake" look). I advice you to place the towel around your neck due the honey drip dropping btw.

6. After those heavenly relaxing 20 minutes feel free to wet you fingers gently wash the mask off of your face.

7. Take the unused towel and wet it with hot water. Squeeze it real good and place it on your face for about 2 minutes to get those pores open. Then simply wash your face with cool water, towel dry, finish it off with some toner and your favorite moisturizer and enjoy the new layer of skin you just worked on.

..::p.s::..
You can proceed this with the Egg White Facial just omit the resting for 20 minutes part.

I Refuse To Stand...

This economic deficit has hit mighty freaking hard in the United States. Obama is doing his best to improve the unfortunate mess that Bush passed down; but in the mean time all we can do is hope for the best & live through the worst.

Of course nobody is safe not even the ever so popular Marc Jacobs. We all cried when news that his biannual return to glam after party was canceled due to budgets cuts. Well that dreadful budget cut daemon is back! & this time it forced the MJ company to downsize their entire production for their up coming NY Fashion Week show. Instead of sending out the usual 2,000 invites this year only a lucky 700 will be sent. Usually about 1,100 guests sit to enjoy the show while the other 900 stand in the background; now, instead this time around, 500 will be seated while 200 stand and watch.

The show will still be held in the same place luckily, because the 69th Regiment Armory was booked beforehand last year. As for celebrities, Jacobs's business partner Robert Duffy said, "There may be one or two.". Duffy went on to say...

"This isn't the time to spend the money to entertain the entire world…. Everybody thinks it costs the same money to entertain 500 people as opposed to 2,000"..."It doesn't. All those 2,000 people still need to be seated, they still need to check in, this one needs this, that one needs that, and you know what? It's very costly."

Well I suggest that the invited bring a big bottle of water and something to keep them selfs entertained with, considering the show started 2 hrs late, especially if your one of the lucky 200 whom get to stand all show.

No Man Can Resist This P*ssy

Ummm ok!...?
I kinda sorta live!...not completely though
I wish the ages of you in Boomerang would come back
*sigh*

Couture Is Still Coutouring

For John Galliano's Spring 2009 Couture line the Have-To-Be-Snatched models busted from behind the stained glass back drop with 300 to 400 hour labor intensive, blue & white delft printed, corseted crinoline gowns. Minimalism is no where in this man's vocabulary. It's fine though...even though I would love to see something a tad more original. I mean we all know Galliano is known to be colorful and theatrical so why not surprise us and show case something on the darker side?