Can I Have Your Closet: Annabel La Riva

When I first saw Annabel La Riva, I totally thought she was an art major. At my school, there are certain ways that people from specific majors dress; it's just a fact. Then there are people who manage to break the mold and be unpredictable; that would be Annabel. It wasn't until I saw her singing in a concert that I realized she was a vocal major. It was a pretty exciting moment for me. Probably a little too exciting. It probably didn't warrant as much excitement as I gave it. What can I say, I love surprises.

Annabel's style is a conglomeration of several different things, which is great because you never know what she's going to have on. Sometimes she wears ripped tights with high waisted shorts or maybe a velvet dress, or perhaps a button up shirt and jeans. She's the one I got the idea of wearing a choker from. Bringin' back the nineties one girl at a time. Since she's so inconsistent (in a good way) with her clothing, Annabel is always giving me new ideas for what to wear. Some people wear the same thing everyday and I just want to shoot them, so needless to say I do not want to shoot Annabel. A lil' transitive property there, guys. There's an experimental vibe that one gets from her, as well as the fact that she knows what she's doing. That's always a good thing. Ignorance iz st-00pid!

Before I stop speaking English, I'll just cut to the interview. 

Odelia: How would you describe your style?

Annabel: Well, kind of like a jumble of things. It's not really consistent.

Odelia: Are there three styles that you could think of that you combine usually?

Annabel: I guess, [makes air quotes] “sophisticated,” if that's a style, and then it's a little punky, and I guess hipster.

Odelia: Who are your fashion icons and who do you admire aesthetically?

Annabel: In terms of fashion designers and stuff I really like Chanel, obviously, and I like Elie Saab, and I really like Sky Ferreira, you know, really cool chick right there.

Odelia: Where are your favorite places to shop?

Annabel: I really like American Apparel, Urban Outfitters, thrift stores, and then just a bunch of random places, just a collection of places.

Odelia: If you could own one item right now that you don't have, what would it be?

Annabel: [pauses for a while] Wow, um...

Odelia: It can be a piece of clothing, jewelry, whatever, or like an accessory...

Annabel: This is really weird because I really want a lot, but right now--

Odelia: You just can't think of it.

Annabel: I just can't think of it!

Odelia: This has happened to so many people I've asked that question. Okay, we can go onto the next one and then come back that. Would you say that fashion is a big focus in your life?

Annabel: I think so. It's not like I'm planning my outfits everyday but I do try to look fresh.

Odelia: Okay, that was the last question, so if you...maybe not even an item that you want, more just a thing that you have admired from afar.

Annabel: Okay. Oh! I really wanted these short pastel Doc Martens, but then, now they are not online anymore so I can't get them.  

Photos by me. 

The doily socks, the choker--we're two peas in a pod, I'm tellin' ya. 

Doctah Marten iz in da house! 

Just smizing, you know how it iz. #modellife

I totally wish I had a bag like this. I don't really like pink, but pastel is so in for spring. This is so on trend that I can't even complete my sent

Okay, I definitely had this choker as a child. Or an identical one. Why did my mother I get rid of it. 

The white button up shirt adds some classiness and the skirt adds originality. The jacket ties it all together. 

Isn't she lovely? Fer sherr. 

In other news, I have discovered the winner of the giveaway using a random number generator (random.org). It's Sadie Heisler; remember her? Congratulations Sadie! You should get an email really, really soon in case you don't see this. 

If you didn't win this time, don't you worry your little head. I'll be having plenty of giveaways in the future. It's just the first year! The party ain't over yet, y'all! 

Final note of the day: I'm going to a Charlene Kaye concert tomorrow, and I'm mega pumped. Hopefully I'll have some pictures to show for it later. 

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Superior Smizers: Arizona Muse

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you'll know that I have a massive girlcrush on Arizona Muse. I have a label for her on my blog; that's how often I mention her. I can't remember when exactly my love for her began, but I know that it's been going strong ever since I laid eyes on her. Don't think I only like her for her looks--that would be superficial. No, no, she has a beautiful soul as well (Jesse McCartney references, anyone?). How many active supermodels do you know of that have had a child? Hmmm? She's also one of the only smizers who is not considered underweight and is often used as an example of a healthy model. How perfekt is she? Madd perf yo. 


Enough fangirling for right now, let's get down to da facts. She was born in Tucson, Arizona on September 18, 1988. I'm actually laughing so hard at the fact that her parents literally named her after the state in which she entered the world. That's like how a girl I know told me that her friend's parents named their daughter Female (pronounced Feh-mahl-ay) because when they received the birth certificate they thought the doctors had already named her when in fact they were just looking at her gender. That one gets me every time. I digress. Arizona's childhood was spent in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she led an average American teenage life. Or perhaps it was a secret life of the American teenager, because she gave birth to her son Nikko in 2009 at age 21, which is kinda young. Not really sure who the baby daddy is; maybe we could do a gel electrophoresis test to find out (using big words I learned in science class will make the peers enjoy me and put money in the pockets). Arizona began modeling in 2008 as a long-haired blonde from the midwest...it's no surprise that she didn't really make it that far. She took a hiatus for about two years during which she had Nikko, cut her hair to a chin-length bob and dyed it brown. In 2010, she reemerged in the fashion industry and became one of the biggest models in the world. She started off modeling for Urban Outfitters, which is where I discovered her. (Fellow Urban model Anais Pouliot also became a supermodel after she stopped working for the clothing store; she's now one of the faces of Louis Vuitton.) Arizona has walked in every big show (think Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Jil Sander, Chloe, Isabel Marant, Fendi, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Jacobs, Alberta Ferretti; the list goes on and on and on and on) and has become a street style favorite. She's won the hearts of editors such as Anna Wintour, who has said about her: "When I look at Arizona, I see shadows of Linda Evangelista and Natalia Vodianova, but most of all I see her, a gorgeous, smart, grown-up. And how could anyone resist someone with that name?" The woman speaks da troof. The name Arizona Muse is practically begging you to worship her. 


Now you must experience for yourself the beauty that is Arizona Muse. 


Photos via harpersbazaar.com, tumblr.com and urbanoutfitters.com.

Those eyes...those eyebrows...that smile...she's literally perfect. 

Even without a lot of makeup on, she's freaking gorgeous. Even with no makeup, she's freaking gorgeous.

I could probably stare at her forever. No offense to my mom, but I kinda wish Arizona had given birth to me instead. Nikko Muse is a lucky little bastard (I mean that literally--Arizona is not married).

This is what she looked like as a model for Urban Outfitters. This is how I found her. You understand now why I fell in love with her.

This is her on the Stella McCartney spring 2011 runway. She was one of the first people to ombre her hair, and thus began a revolution. An epidemic, if you recall. 

This was taken soon after she cut her hair (Emily Weiss got to her first, though; Arizona told her all about how when she was getting ready for the Vogue Paris shoot (see the first photo in this post), the hair stylist Christiaan just kept chopping away and it ended up like this. Needless to say, pictures of Arizona dominate my haircut inspiration folder on my computer.).

Spotted on the streets of some fancy European city, no doubt. Arizona lookin' perf in a basic black dress and a bare face.  

I could probably devote an entire blog to her, but I'll just quit while I'm ahead. 


Enjoy your Saturday, and remember to ENTER THE GIVEAWAY! Time is running out! You have around 36 hours to follow my blog, leave a comment with your name and email address (and maybe follow me on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Bloglovin' for extra entries) in order to win an awesome Threadsence dress! FOR FREE! 

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Trending Next Spring: The Future Starts Now

That may or may not be a reference to that The Kills song by a similar name (take out the "n" in now and add an "sl") but more likely than not it's referring to the futuristic accessories that walked the spring 2012 (aka now) runways.

If someone says that clothing looks "futuristic," I automatically think the Jetsons and the episode of Spongebob where Squidward time travels (it's called, "SB-129," to be exact).  That's not particularly cute, if you know what I'm saying. You may recall from earlier this year that metallic is a trend for this season; that's proof that shiny silver garments can be kool, not kooky. Or both. Depends on how you look at it. (Do you see the glass half empty or half full? I always thought that was a dumb question because if you pour water into it so the glass has liquid until the half-way mark, that's half full. If there was originally a whole glass of water and you drank half of it, that's half empty. I need some context here, you know?)

If you're feeling daring, I think you should try this accessory trend out. If you have some silver shoes or a funky, avant-garde-ish, shiny bag, you're all set. The Man Repeller actually just enlightened the world on the subject of metallic Supergas. Praise the feudal lord. You can either pair your futuristic blingity-bling with a monochrome outfit à la Givenchy S/S 2012, or go all out and make the entire outfit shinetastic like at Alexander McQueen. Go cray or go home, I always say. Funnily enough, I actually tell people to go home quite often, but not for that reason. You gotta get outta there. 


Photos via harpersbazaar.com and style.com.

       Chanel  

The bag is a complete mind-boggler. It's totally throwing off my sense of perspective and depth perception. 

Prada

Is it a problem that these shoes remind me of the Jonas Brothers song "Burnin' Up?" I can make this relate to the future, hold on, I got this--the JoBros also did a cover of the song "Year 3000," which is about, well, the year 3000. BAM. Don't ask how I know all this about. I used to listen to Radio Disney as an eight-year-old, if you must know. 

Rodarte

Something about these shoes reminds me of a comic book. Is that just me? It usually is. 

Alexander McQueen

Heelless shoes have been making a comeback recently. 

Phillip Lim

Simple but elegant. Just how it should be. 

Yves Saint Laurent

        

The gold accents really add an element of futurism into all the looks in the YSL spring show. The collection itself was pretty sparkly and otherworldly, so the accessories (especially those freakin' awesome hairpieces) totally fit the vibe. 

Are you planning on trying out this trend? You know that I always tell you to go for it if it feels right. If you dig it, do it.

One more thing. Yup, you saw it coming, don't lie.

Enter the giveaway to win a free Threadsence dress! It looks similar to one from Alice + Olivia, but free and therefore infinitely better. Just follow this blog and comment with your name and email address. There's more info about the contest in the original post. Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor. #HungerGamesreferencesthatIdontreallyunderstand

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Dream Is My Reality

Not only is the title of this post a reference to a fantastically awful French movie entitled "La Boum," it's also a succinct description of two aspects of my night yesterday. Wanna know what I did last night? Guess. Do it. (Hint: I told you about it in this post.)

Da suspense is killin' you, right?! I'll just tell you. Olive and I went to the H&M flagship store on 5th Avenue and 51st Street to celebrate something to do with the NBC show "Fashion Star." It was hosted by Nicole Richie, and it was freaking incredible. I won't tell you too much because next week's Chictopia article will essentially be hardcore story-time. (Speaking of Chictopia, didja check out my new article from Monday night?) I will tell you that I finally wore that vintage Elie Tahari velvet sheath dress I bought at No Relation Vintage with Chris and Ben. I've been fantasizing about wearing it to a classy party with a 1920s hairstyle and my black round toe heels ever since I got it. Olive helped complete my Great Gatsby look by doing a pretty fancy smoky eye on me that I could have never accomplished otherwise. Snaps for her. 

The party was basically people shopping at H&M and mingling. Highlights of the night: 

1) when I was approximately five inches from Nicole Richie  

2) when I had really great conversations with Natalie Suarez, Nadia Sarwar and Claire Geist. (They all looked amazing; I was pretty starstruck. Just conversing with extremely famous bloggers on a Tuesday night, da yooj.)

Photos by me. 

Da partay scene! Check out all the minglin' singles! (eHarmony should use this as their website's main photo, no?)

Nicole Richie. Looking like a boss with her top knot and such. 

Aww shucks, ain't she just the cutest darn thang you e'er saw? 

These balloons hit several people in the head. They were about the size of a capybara. 

The only reason I got this photo is because the paparazzi were so annoying and rude. They were all guys (go figure) and kept shouting at Nicole to turn around. It was extremely infuriating. The only other reason I got this photo is because a terribly nice camera man told me where I'd be able to see her best and helped me stand up on a step stool to get better shots. Thanks, man! 

Her tattoos are pretty awesome. I still think Romy wins, but you can't beat dandelions. 

Photos by my sister. 

Dress: vintage Elie Tahari via No Relation Vintage 

Collar: Pippin Vintage Jewelry

(Invisible) Shoes: ??? #thrift store shwag 

(Also invisible) Polka dot tights: I got 'em from my mama! 

Haircut: Olive 

Sorry about the bad photo quality. It was dark, it was late, Rachel was impatient. 

H&M represent!! Feeling pretty hyped, if you can't tell. 

Let's get down to business. When the hand goes on the hip, it's sassy time.

C'est Olive and I. I wish you could see her dress; it was pretty jammin'. We both got complements on our dresses/jewelry from Nadia Sarwar, at which point I internally freaked out. 

That's about it for today. Except...

Enter the giveaway! 
I'm going to keep bugging you until you do it. All you really have to do is follow my blog and leave a comment below with your name and email address. If you want to get fancy, you can also follow me on Bloglovin', Facebook, Twitter and/or Tumblr for extra entries, a.k.a. a better chance of winning. To quote Nike, JUST DO IT. 

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Can I Have Your Closet: Emma Peltzer

Emma Peltzer (rapper name: E$weezii) is a pretty k00l chick. Not gonna lie, I was kind of intimidated by her for quite some time, but once I got to know her in art class I discovered that she's just a hilarious well-dressed munchkin. I feel like a lot of my friends are like that. Despite the fact that Emma was Barbie for Halloween this year, she's nothing like the fake, humanly impossible being that lives in the Dream House with Ken. Nor does she dress as horridly and painfully color coordinated-ly as Barbie does. (So...many...adverbs...) In fact, Emma just kinda does what she wants when it comes to clothing. As you'll see in our interview in just a moment, it's hard to define her style at all. Some days it's a little preppy, some days it's a little punk, other days it's cute and sweet, but it's always original. I always enjoy looking at Emma's clothing and drawing inspiration from her. That's what friends are for, right? (I might be kidding.)

Another thing that really excites me about Emma (besides her incredible artistic skill--art majors represent!) is that she reminds me a lot of Yvonne Strahovski, a.k.a. Sarah from "Chuck," a.k.a. my favorite television show. Not in the super spy way, but more in physical appearance. And Sarah is a total babe, so...connect the dots, guys. Without further ado, I give you--Emma Peltzer!...z interview with me.


Odelia: How would you describe your style?

Emma: I mean honestly, I've never tried to label myself. I know that sounds bad, but...I mean, I've always liked—you know, I've seen people on the street and been like, “Wow, that looks really cool,” or “I really like that.” But I've never been like, “Oh yeah, I wanna look like so-and-so,” or “I really like that designer, or this kind of clothing.” I just kind of—whenever I see something I like, I just kind of put it on.

Odelia: Who are your fashion icons and who do you admire aesthetically?

Emma: Oooh...okay. I mean I'm not very...I don't know how to say it. I'm not—I don't think I can really say that I know a lot of designers. Whenever I—always as this joke I'm like, “If I was a millionaire I'd shop at Prada.” But I've always loved the high fashion aspect of Prada and all of that kind of stuff.

Odelia: Are there certain celebrities or just people you know that you...

Emma: Actually, at the Oscars, I did have a favorite dress, which was the Alexander McQueen dress that—oh, gosh, I forget her name, but she was in “The Help,” she had orange-y hair, Jessica something...

Odelia: Oh yeah! I know who you're talking about! Yeah, whatever. [EDIT: It was Jessica Chastain.]

Emma: Whatever, yeah. But I thought her dress was so cool and she looked great.

Odelia: Where are your favorite places to shop?

Emma: I mean, I love Free People, I love just kind of whatever. I mean, yet again I don't—I'm not very...[Laughs] I don't know, I'm just not—I mean, I have places I like to go, but I don't really think that I have one store specifically that I like to shop at.

Odelia: Do you shop often or whenever you want to get something?

Emma: It's really just if I need something, or like, birthday, Christmas, that kind of thing.

Odelia: If you could own one item right now that you don't have, what would it be?

Emma: Oh! Actually, I've been sort of brainstorming. There's this one pair of pants that I want that I haven't been able to find anywhere and they're just like khaki army green skinny pants that go right above the ankle with pockets on the side of the leg and a small zipper that goes on the ankle.

Odelia: Would you say that fashion is a big focus in your life?

Emma: Definitely. I mean, I'm never the kind of person that would walk out in sweatpants and Uggs. For me, even going to school I need to feel confident and feel like my outfit is sufficient [giggles]. I've always been the one to dress up, not down.  

Photos by me.

J-chillin' in the 8th floor hallway. You know. 

Something about this reminds me of "Alice in Wonderland," and I can't figure out why. I feel like the Cheshire Cat has something to do with that, that rascal. 

You can tell we're art students because we know that yellow and purple are complementary colors. 

INTENSE. That's the vibe I was going for. 

I'm pretty sure Emma has three layers on top. That's something I would do. Great minds think alike, they always say. 

She's gonna be a model for American Apparel someday, I can feel it. 

Walking into the distance--got dem dramatic photos up in here, am I right? 

Hooray! It's Emma! E$weezii! Yeah!

In other news: I got a haircut this weekend (as in Olive cut it in my bathtub) and a cartilage piercing tonight. I totally had a rocker chick revelation and I'm completely digging the vibe. I even wore my sassy t-shirt today, the one that says, "YOU'RE SO VAIN" on it. Badass right here. Don't mess. I've got a metal rod through my ear and minimal amounts of hair (this could also be the start to one of those guess-what-I-am games, where the answer is a rat in prison).

Also, I'm going to a party hosted by Nicole Richie at the H&M 5th avenue flagship store tomorrow night. It should be pretty rad.

That's all for tonight, except...

Enter the giveaway! I'm giving away a free dress that you should try to win because you will lose nothing from doing so. 
Just follow my blog (and my Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and/or Bloglovin' for extra entries) and leave a comment below with your name, email and a list of the places you're following me et voilà! You're entered. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! 


A Merry Monday to you all.

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Majoring in Housewifery

If there's one place I want to be it's in a different era. Confused you there a little bit, didn't I? Yeah. The next best thing to actually being in a separate time period is pretending that you are. And what's the easiest way to do that? Dress like it. I always say that I want to be in 1920s Paris, but that one's a little tricky to replicate. As we learned from Nora the other day, twenties clothes are madd tuff (not in the light, porous rock formed by consolidation of volcanic ash way, in the misspelled version of "tough" way) to get a hold of, and if you do by some incredible feat, they're cray-cray expensive. You know where this is going...(That fish cray.)

I don't believe I've mentioned it before, but I do quite love the 1950s as well. What a cute decade! Poodle skirts and tacky diners...yum. My cousin Emma used to say she wanted to be a fifties housewife when she grows up. Last week when I was visiting my cousins, Emma's brother was making fun of the fact that she's a Sociology major by comparing it to majoring in housewifery. I thought it was hilarious and fitting due to the style of my dress; hence, the title of this post. There ya go. 

I got this dress when I went to Williamsburg with Olive last week. I saw it and I was like, "Oh hot damn this is my jam I need this." It fits perfectly and it's quite beautiful and it's vintage and comfortable so basically it's flawless. I'd like the neckline to be even higher (I guess I'm really a Puritan at heart--I like my necklines high and my hemlines low), but ya can't have it all. Not even Adele. 

Photos by ma soeur. 

Dress: Eber

Shoes: Jacques Levine

Necklace: It's Spongebob, so...yeah.

Whoa...doin' some artsy stuff with that camera, Rachel (that's my sister). This is some craz-E mind-boggling perspective usage here. 

"Don't sass me, or else you don't get any dinner. And I made chicken." That's what I would be saying if I were actually a fifties housewife. Me really saying that quote is also highly improbable because I only know how to cook things using microwaves. 

Look how fluffy it is! Yum yum yum yum yum--delicioso! 

Just so you know, the next time you see photos of me, I may look slightly different. No hints, you'll just have to be surprised. I'm keeping your life interesting by doing so. You're quite welcome.

Merry happy Friday!

P.S. Don't forget to enter the giveaway! You can win a free dress. Hop to it! 

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Happy Blogday!

Happy birthday minus the birth plus the blog equals happy blogday! This phrase was coined by my mom last night; she was quite proud of her creation.

As I mentioned yesterday, today is the one-year anniversary since I began this lil' blog. I remember it clearly: it was a Sunday night, and I was laying on my stomach in between my and my sister's beds facing the window writing the post. No one in my household knew that I was doing it (I didn't tell them for a few weeks, I believe), but I was really pumped about it. For some reason I thought that they would judge me, so the first person I told was Lola. And so it began. Let's link back to that first post, shall we?

Idiot that I am, I already recapped the lifespan of this blog back in December, so if you're feeling nostalgic, please just read this post. I felt like such an overenthusiastic mom writing that post; I literally documented the first everything I did on this blog. Even its first words. Who does that? Apparently I do. What a n00b.

I've been saying for months and months and shmonths (how I wish something rhymed with "month") that on You're A Tulle's first birthday I'd do a giveaway. I'm like an elephant: I never forget (that is a complete and utter lie), so I'm giving away a free dress to one lucky reader! That's a little backwards, isn't it? Giving other people gifts on your birthday? Okay, let's be real, my blog is not an animate object and can't really receive gifts anyway. 

A few weeks ago I received a super duper awesome dress from Threadsence. Peep the link right there--note how awesome it looks on the model! That's how it will look on you! Ya! Get pumped! Exclamation points!

Photos grudgingly taken by my sistah. 
The Alice + Olivia photo is from style.com.

It looks an awful lot like this dress from Alice + Olivia's Fall/Winter 2011 collection, does it not?

Now you can be trendy...fo' free! 

Me, just bein' silly. My thumbs are up because I'm indicating that entering this giveaway will bring you happiness. 

You can do eagle arms with slits like that. You can essentially be a bird in this dress. I guess I secretly want to be a bird? This isn't the first time this has happened...

The dress sells for $38 (not including shipping) on Threadsence's website, but you can have it fo' free. all you need to do is follow the mega simple and takes-legitimately-one-minute steps, which I will list for you below:

1. Become a follower of my blog! Think of it as a birthday present--to my blog. This is really easy and fast; if you need help figuring it out I've got not one, but two tutorials to help you out! Click here or here for detailed instructions on how to become a follower.
2. Leave a comment in the comments section below with your name and email address so I can contact you if you win and know who I'm addressing when doing so.

**Optional steps that will increase your chances of winning!
3. Follow me on Twitter, Bloglovin', Facebook (technically that counts as a "like" but shhhh) and/or Tumblr. For each one of those that you follow, you get an extra entry. The way this works is that you get a number for each entry you put in, and then those numbers are put into a random number generator (random.org). The person whose number is picked gets the dress. It's completely fair and it's totally worth doing the extra entries.

If we go to school together, then I'll give you a high-five in the hallway if you enter. No joke.

This giveaway ends next Sunday night (April 29th) at 12 am. 
May the odds be ever in your favor. I hope I didn't misquote that, I'm not a Hunger Games fan. Just saw the movie. 

That's a birthday cake. Ambiguous clipart is the best. 

Before I sign off for tonight, I'd just like to thank you all for reading this blog. Obviously it wouldn't exist if there weren't people reading it, so merci beaucoup. Here's to another year of blogging! 

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Can I Have Your Closet: Nora DellaFera

If I were to describe Nora DellaFera in a few words, it would be as a beautiful vintage golden-haired goddess of sorts. Nora's that girl that wears extremely one-of-a-kind clothing and red lipstick nearly every day so that she looks like she's stepped out of an old film whenever you see her. Wait...you don't have one of those at your school? Huh. Hashtag arts school swag (please know that I don't often use the word "swag," it just felt appropriate in this situation. Nothing's more obnoxious than using that word and a hashtag when this is clearly not Twitter or the ghetto.). 

Nora is a drama major at my school, so perhaps her love of vintage clothing is related to the costumes involved in theatre? Just throwin' that thought out there, makin' connections. Making soup? Maybe. I've gone back to school as of today and the noggin's a little wacko. Please try your best to enjoy the insanity that shall be spewing forth from my brain/fingers. It's like a party. Une boum, if you will. I digress. Due to the avid Anthropologie-website-stalking that Octavia does regularly, I have learned that Nora also loves to shop at Anthropologie because Octavia can spot an Anthro dress anywhere. That place is the shiz, so by the transitive property Nora is the shiz. This is a true fact. It is quite evident that you will most likely not gain any further substantial information about this wonderful girl if I continue to write because of the disconnect from my brain to my phalanges, so how about you just read the super-informative interview we did? 

Odelia: How would you describe your style?

Nora: I really like old stuff, vintage stuff, I have—I mean, I really like fifties, sixties, forties...I love twenties, but it's too expensive so I don't really have any of that. I mean, I love Victorian, [giggles] so sometimes I try to do Victorian hairstyles, but I don't have enough time, so I really love anything from the 1800's to the sixties. I tend to wear more like fifties, sixties stuff, 'cause it's just kind of more practical, I guess, but yeah. Anything old I'll pretty much go for. [Laughs]

Odelia: Who are your fashion icons and who do you admire aesthetically?

Nora: I don't have a lot of really specific people that I admire...I more sort of admire the general styles of the eras and the people who represent that, so I guess Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, all those people who represent the style of that era, but not a lot of people specifically. So more just the general population.

Odelia: Where are your favorite places to shop?

Nora: Mainly thrift stores and flea markets. Sometimes when I—I'll go to Buffalo, where my grandma lives and there are loads of thrift stores that have amazing stuff really cheap. I love Beacon's Closet...there's like, a strip of thrift stores down 5^th Avenue in Brooklyn. The flea market though, definitely.

Odelia: Do you have any specific flea markets that you could suggest in Brooklyn?

Nora: Well the Brooklyn Flea is the one that's most practical for me so I go there like every weekend. [Giggles] And then recently, actually my mom and I took a weekend trip to the Brimfield Flea Market, which is in Brimfield, Massachusetts. It's like, incredible, it's the biggest flea market in the world, and it's just fields and fields of a million vintage vendors and handmade stuff, it's just incredible. And I love shopping on Etsy as well.

Odelia: If you could own one item right now that you don't have, what would it be?

Nora: It would probably be like, a legit really really nice beaded twenties dress, like a drop waist, silk, with hand glass beading...I'm just obsessed with the twenties [giggles] but I don't have really anything from it because it's so expensive and hard to find.

Odelia: Would you say that fashion is a big focus in your life?

Nora: Yeah! Um...yeah, it is. [Laughs] I spend all my free time on Etsy and on Ebay and looking at old stuff so I guess it is. My mom's always been really into fashion. She's more into high fashion and I'm more into vintage, so she has a lot of designer stuff that she's really into so I guess I get some of my inspiration from her, too and we both sort of revolve our lives around that, so that's sort of it.

Odelia: So I know that you wear red lipstick a lot.

Nora: Yeah...[Laughs]

Odelia: When did you start doing that?

Nora: I guess 8^th grade, the beginning of 8^th grade, I guess. I've always really liked red lipstick and I remember in like, 7^th grade, I guess, or maybe summer going into 8^th grade, I tried on red lipstick and I came downstairs and I was like, “Hey mom, do you like my red lipstick?” My brother looks over at me and he's like—I think he told me I looked like a prostitute or something, I don't know. [Laughs] Some rude remark by my brother, and my dad laughed, and I was like, “Ugh, I'm never gonna wear red lipstick!” But then in 8^th grade Olive wore red lipstick, so I was like, [giggles] really inspired so I started wearing it like everyday, and now I have, you know, bright red and orangey red and dark red and rusty red and pinky red [laughs] and I have like, every shade of red lipstick that I wear every day.

Odelia: What's your favorite one? If you could choose.

Nora: My favorite red is probably MAC Russian Red. It's like a matte, bright, fire engine kind of classic forties red. I really like matte lipsticks, not shiny. This is actually kind of shiny [motions to face] right now, but I really like bright, matte, pigmented red lipsticks. 

Photos by me.

Golden hair: check. Red lipstick: check. Vintage clothing: check. Freaking amazing Woody-Allen-in-Annie-Hall-esque-sort-of-ish glasses: check. Fingers that are suspiciously on their way to making the "Bloods" gang sign: check. 

Now she's making a butterfly! The color-coordinated-ness of her outfit is crazy awesome; I don't have the patience to match my lipstick to my outfit and my hair tie to my belt. Nor do I have more than one red lipstick or hair tie each, so that's out of the question. 

Ha! You thought it was a dress, did you? Well, so did I, until Olive called out from the sidelines, "Nora, show her the pants," or something along those lines. It's a jumpsuit. What is this madness. I am in love. You know how much I adore jumpsuits; if you don't know, let's just say I wore one to my middle school graduation party. That is dedication. 

Don't you want glasses like hers? And the ability to wear red lipstick all day erry day? I totally would, except for the fact that wearing it makes me slightly paranoid...like, what if I get thirsty?? What happens then??? 2012 happens (the apocalypse). 

Check out the juxtaposition of Nora's skin to her lips and the two different colored walls: they're both shades of white and red, respectively. That fish cray, is it not?

Doesn't she make you want to live in a different era? You know where I'd be: nineteen-twenties Paris. Send me on my way, brudda. 

I have a few announcements for today. Tomorrow is this blog's one year anniversary, so expect happy fun times related to that. It's been a good year. We'll get more nostalgic tomorrow, don't you worry. 

I'd also like to make a shout out to my friend Charlianne because it's her birthday today. She's one of my most enthusiastic readers, she dresses really well and she's so, so, so sweet, so let's all wish her a mega happy birthday! Wooo! 

Okay, that's all for today! Enjoy the beautiful weather (wow, say beautiful one more time ever and see what happens) and rejoice, for it is spring, and there are beautiful (I did that just to spite myself) people like Nora roaming the earth. That is cause enough for celebration. 

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