white rain boots: Jeffrey Campbell, 2010 | black rain boots: Fendi, 2010
a few months ago i gave my Aigle rain boots to Mom, because they were slightly large and i’d finally grown tired of piling on multiple pairs of thick socks every time i needed to wear them. and Mom was so ecstatic to receive them; i’d had no idea she’d been admiring and desiring them all along. so then i was happy that Mom was thrilled, but that left me in a bit of a quandary— it’d had taken me a long while to track them down, and when it rains, slightly big cool rain boots are definitely better than no cool rain boots at all.
well wouldn’t you know within a week i found the most perfect rain boots in the world, i’d been searching literally decades for a pair like this, i absolutely looove them. but some time around their fifth or sixth outing (i loved them so much i even wore them in the dryness) i began to fear i was smothering them with so much love, they wouldn’t be long for this world. and it’d taken me nearly a lifetime to find them!
but karma still prevailed, miraculously i soon found a second pair of perfect rain boots, can you believe it. they perform awesomely on those really brutally torrential stormy days that fine Italian craftmanship was simply never meant to endure. these white platform plastic boots are made in China instead, so you know the score on that. now my gorgeous Italian calfskin-lined black rubber rain boots can take a relaxing break from the monsoons every now and again.
and they all lived happily ever after, The End.
the flesh mesh dress mess (v 1.0)
dress: Geld Iaz, 1997 | jeans (underneath): Gap, 2004 | coat: LGB, 2004 | shoes: All Saints, 2009 | bag: Yves St Laurent, 2008 | eyewear: Yves St Laurent, 2010
look, it’s the flesh mesh dress mess: the original.
just running some errands.
gray day
jacket: Rick Owens Lilies, 2010 | top: Geld Iaz, 2010 | leggings: Forever 21, 2009 | shoes: Yves St Laurent, 2009 | eyewear: Fiction, 2010
drinks at Imperial No 9. dinner at Miss Lily’s.
bond.
jacket: A.B.S., 2009 | pants: Adrienne Vittadini, 1991 | top: Geld Iaz, 2009 | wrap: Geld Iaz, 1996 | fedora: Borsalino, 2009
you’d probably think one would need only one good tuxedo jacket, but when you finally find one you absolutely looove (and pay somewhat dearly for it as a result), you might discover yourself wanting to save it for very special occasions only, because you’re deathly afraid of ruining or overexposing it or something. and then suddenly you’d realize you actually need two tuxedo jackets— one for "every day" use of course. imagine that. well this is my "every day" tuxedo jacket. i’m just sayin.
drinks at "the Boom Boom." dinner at Imperial No. 9.
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the box
dress: Geld Iaz, 2011
Yohji Yamamoto once said, "the fabric knows what it wants to be." and personally i find he’s totally right– when you force a cut on a fabric it wasn’t meant to sustain, this is how you end up with bad designs and so much awful fashion. anyways, i recently found a nice sorta geometric-patterned fabric which wants really badly to be nothing but a box. since it was a completely new contour for me, i decided to try it on a simple neutral first— and this is the end result. so now that i’ve mastered this great structure, i had to go digging through everything trying to find all the poor forsaken cloth that also wants to be a box too someday.
yeh, Nouvelle Vagues’s "Manner of Speaking" happened to be playing in the background right at that moment, so this is my four-second rendition of controversial Oscar nominee Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan. or something.
spin. tumble.
shoes: Giuseppe Zanotti, 2007 | (ripped) t-shirt: A/X Armani Exchange, 2008 | leggings: Joyce Leslie, 2003
even though the temperature supposedly hit 55˚ this day, i got trapped inside because i had to stay fairly close to the Skype all afternoon. sigh.
yes i wore these beauuutiful Zanottis just to do the laundry— like a good little style blogger. bitches.