“When I listen to this song, I do feel like I am sailing away and I feel alive in my heart and soul again just as I did in my youth”

Yesterday I bought a shirt from the thrift store that can only be described as…I don’t know, Kenny Loggins’ vomit? And the thing is, it’s the only thing I am excited about wearing. Unironically. I am super jazzed about 80′s tropical influenced rayon shirts. Parrot head kind of stuff. When I was looking for examples of the kind of patterns I’m talking about I came across the work of Memphis designer Nathalie Du Pasquier. I have been grossly compelled by Memphis stuff lately, which is no surprise because it’s in the wind, but to wear it? The second time round? I don’t know.

Let’s have a margarita, listen to this song together, then decide.

 

Fabrics by Nathalie Du Pasquier from the blaaahg

The year belongs to Chico

Gingham shirts, short double-breasted jackets, corduroy, Tyrolean hats, patterned ties. Before we head into the seriousness of a 2012 minimalist revival, let us gaze one last time at the mad joy of Chico.

Gauchos

The pants! Where do I find bombachas de campo like these?

If I wore this shirt I would look like k.d. lang in the 80′s. But if you look like Christie Brinkley, you can wear anything. And you should! Be goofy beautiful ladies!

Karolina Maszkiewicz on Closet Visit

 

R.I.P. Loulou de la Falaise

What an incredible look she cultivated over her lifetime!

I wanna live on the Forbidden Planet

This still from Forbidden Planet would make an awesome dress. Not sure how it would work. Maybe just as a panel? Like this?  The movie is a total snore fest but it has really incredible set-painting.

Down with dinner parties! Long live dance parties!

You know what I miss? Fun. Unself-conscious fun. Or better yet, self-conscious winky fun. Nothing winky going on this season. And so, some pictures of some women who are having fun, behaving badly, all with incredible hair-dos and accessories.


from top: Desperate Living, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Twin Peaks

Kanye West x Tom Stoppard

There were two things that sprung to mind when I saw the prints at the Dries Van Noten show. One was the play Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard because of all the prints of botanical etchings. The second was the video for Kanye West’s Flashing Lights, for the dark nightscapes of cities. I thought these two things were completely irreconcilable until I read this line from Arcadia, “The Gothic novel expressed in landscape. Everything but vampires.” There is something of a menace in the juxtaposition of these prints, I think they reflect a kind of anxiety we feel about landscape.

from style.com

This video is NSFW-ish

Handbags are not art

Displaying bags can be a boring job.What do you do with them? Hang them up? Put them on a shelf? It’s hard not to make them look placed, you know? This Anya Hindmarch presentation for Spring 2012 does a good job of making the bags seem fun and odd and a just a little bit haphazard. Whoever styled this should get a raise.

from purple diary

This is how you don’t do it. Please, please promise me that you’ll never use handbags or shoes as decoration in your home. Please. I would like for us to remain friends.

Awesome.

 

from Fashion Canvas via Rising Tensions