Sunday, September 22, 2013

Françoise S. McSass

In the past year or so, I've become really really good at procrastinating. I've become so good, in fact, that I've created new words that correlate with the form of procrastination I am participating in (ie procrastisnacking). This form of procrastination, right here, is a double-whammy: I'm avoiding doing my homework and I'm avoiding writing any of the blogposts I know will take more brain power than I'm willing to exert at the moment (basically more than one nanowatt per hour) (that's definitely not how you measure brain power). So, in light of my sick procrastination skillz, here's some mindless inspiration from one of my preferred French ladies, Françoise Hardy. 

Françoise is one of the classic '60s/'70s musicians: tall, blonde, bang-ed, skinny, glamorous, and sad. She's like the French Joni Mitchell. She's got a beautiful voice, a dolorous soul, and a knack for being so freaking French. 

...There's really not much else I can think to say about her. But you should listen to her music to get the whole picture. Here's some of my favorite songs of hers (not in any particular order):

1) Parlez-moi de lui
2) A quoi ça sert
3) Suzanne
4) J'aurais voulu
5) Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux
6) Toi je ne t'oublierai pas 
7) La rue des coeurs perdus
8) La mer les étoiles et le vent

Now you get to look at her pretty face and clothing. 

[Photos via the vast Interwebs]

Sass McSassypants

Sad...guitar....scalloped dress...knee socks...

Still sad

Eff you all, I ain't sad no more cuz now I'm sassy!!!

Probably still sad
but glamorous

Pensive 
and sad
and nice hat

Sassy
French

Still pensive 
but now wind-blown

Older, but still sassy-sad

I hope you found my interpretations to be accurate. 

Happy freaking Sunday lil bubs. 

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Grandma Twippy

That title is a combination of grandma, Twiggy, and hippie. 
Not sure what else I can say about it. 
The photos do a pretty decent of job of explaining that. 

(I wore this outfit to go to the Katya Leonovich show.)

[Photos by my mom.]

Jacket: We Be Bop (via my mom's closet)
Bandeau: Maidenform
Pants: Cut Loose
Shoes: Trotters
Bag: my grandma's 

I know, I gotta work on my posture. 

Me and that bag are going places. Mark my words, it's comin' with me

Midstep

My first attempt at Twiggy makeup.


Listen to Dear Nora on Spotify, they rock and will color your weekend pale grayish colors in the nicest way possible. 

I went to MoMA PS1 today with Lola to go to this really cool art book fair. I got a freakin' awesome postcard that says "Your body is a battleground" and "Support Legal Abortion/Birth Control/and Women's Rights." 

Monday, September 16, 2013

Grams



This is just a really quick post to share the photo Laia from Rookie Mag took of Octavia and I when we went to Maria Cornejo last Monday (coincidentally our first day of school). I don't have an Instagram so I thought I'd share it through here.

More fashion week stuff to come, but in the mean time, why don't you check out the essay I wrote for Hypocrite Reader?


Sunday, September 8, 2013

Bang Bang

Last Wednesday, I was invited by OMEN PR to attend the opening for the tattoo artist Bang Bang's new shop in the Lower East Side. Even though Bang Bang is only 27, he's already tattooed Rihanna, the Biebz, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, Russell Brand, Cara Delevingne, and lots of basketball players whose names I don't really know. That's pretty freaking amazing for someone so young. That's a lot of famous skin. 

The event was part grand opening, party charity function; lining the wall in the front room were framed and signed kisses from some of Bang Bang's celebrity clientele. There's an auction being held for these framed kisses, with the option for the winners to get the lips inked onto their own body. The money raised is going to a local animal rescue organization, Animal Haven and Empty Cages Collective. Art, tattoos, loud music, nice/well-dressed people, and good deeds: what more can you ask for on a Wednesday night? 

I really dig the idea of tattoos, I actually may get one/more than one someday, but I hate needles so I'd probably have to be heavily sedated in order to go through with it. I'd want something really dainty and cute and sophisticated. I have a tall order, whatever. 

I was able to bring along Alina, so her and I dressed up in our Wednesday night best and went out on the town. After a while, our bodies began crumbling from the stress of high heels (okay fine, just Alina, I'm not brave enough to wear high heels) so we had to leave and wait for our mommies in a Burger King down the street, but that was a stupid mistake because apparently Rihanna showed up later. Of course. 

 [First six photos by me; last three photos courtesy of OMEN PR.]


The lips of a famous person on paper!

A wall of kisses

A cool-lookin' lady 

The part-ay scene outside, where Alina and I spent most of our time

More lips! (Katy Perry?)

J. Biebs drew a silly little mouth cuz he's silly

Peep me and Alina on the far right!

That's me and her again!! 

Bang Bang with Rihanna, likely moments after we left, because I have terrible luck and the stars hate me. 

OMEN PR also sent me to a fashion show that I will report on soon, as well as another party that I ended up not being able to go to, but I was honored to be invited anyway.

I apologize for the boringness of my writing this morning, school starts tomorrow and I can already feel the life being sucked out of me.


Friday, September 6, 2013

Miu Miu x2

The other night, Alina and I went to a pre-Fashion Week party for the tattoo artist Bang Bang (more to come on the event later), and funnily enough, her and I both wore outfits inspired by different Miu Miu seasons. 

Miu Miu Spring 2012

Alina's awesome interpretation

Smiley starpup

There's never too much red.

Her frickin' Prada shoes.

Miu Miu Fall 2011

Dress: Sundance (via my aunt)
Necklace: some family member
Socks: nowhere n everywhere (where do socks even come from??)
Shoes: Dansko (via my grandma)

What is even happenin'

Bag: my grandma

Hello these are my frumpy lil feet and my silly bag hi!

I think that may have been the lamest post I have ever written. Yowza. Whatever it's Friday go sing songs and drink sunflower juice.


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Something to Hide

My mom is a reoccurring theme on my blog. She always provides me with some of the most interesting and bizarre things I put on here (see my trip diary) (originally wrote dairy). A while back, she mentioned something about masks. How they were supposedly a trend. I was all like, "Uhm I think you're wrong but okay," and then I put a Mardi Gras mask on the copper bust of Beethoven located atop our piano. 

I recently discovered that she was actually, miraculously, correct. Maison Martin Margiela Couture has this thing--I'm tempted to tag it as a fetish--with full-head masks. I don't even know if I should classify them as masks. I have no idea what to call them. But whatever they are, they're awesome, and I desperately wish there wasn't a no-wearing-things-that-obstruct-your-face rule in school because then I would wear these on days when I'm feeling like "nope I'm not actually here right now" and I could just hang out inside my bejeweled ski mask minus the eye holes. 

Also, there was apparently some sort of high fashion mask trend surging in 2009, so I dug up a few photos from those days (it's been four years since '09 wait what?? I'm having a bit of a time trip because I started looking through my mom's old yearbooks from her job and the sassy 90s-ness of those kids invoked a weird sense of nostalgia for something I never experienced). 

[Photos via Style.com.]

Maison Martin Margiela Fall 2012 Couture

Maison Martin Margiela Spring 2013 Couture

Maison Martin Margiela Fall 2013 Couture

Alexandre Herchocovitch Fall/Winter 2009

Richard Nicoll Fall/Winter 2009

Leonardo DiCaprio 
trying to eat pizza
nice try
because now you just look stupid

[Photo by me.]

Yes.

Blindfolds are cool and all, but utterly impractical. So are welding masks. Actually, those are straight up scary and shouldn't be worn at all unless you are welding something.

As part of my femme fatale look I want to wear veils. But I have to find/make them first.

New York Fashion Week is beginning. Feel it in the streets, feel it in the air, the fashion horde is gonna getchyou.