A friend just turned me on to this website yesterday and I was all excited to share when I noticed that refinery 29 did a story about it this morning. Dag.
However, I think it’s too good to pass up, so take a look. It is so well done, so extreme- I think this may be the future of the online fashion magazine; very individual ideas produced by one person with a very specific editorial vision. Much of what is online now, in a fashion sense, is a scrapbook cadged from other sources that speaks to an individual’s aesthetic but rarely brings forward new ideas. To create what Luxirare has created takes an enormous amount of work/drugs/money that most of us don’t have the vision/will/time to create. Thank heavens someone does because the internet world is dominated by very boring pastichey tastes.
Just for the record I find Luxirare to be very fetishy and not just a little unsettling. That’s part of what makes it so remarkable.
Below, a cake baked by the creator of Luxirare inspired by the film Vampyros Lesbos. I’m not even kidding.
I saw this on D-listed this morning and it’s really setting the tone for my day/life. I love when people dedicate themselves to something so completely ill-conceived and misguided. I find it oddly uplifting.
I’m pretty messy in general, and in the personal hygiene department I’m just this side of acceptable. I like to keep things a little rough around the edges. But once in a while I feel the need, for whatever reason, to look more together.
So on these “I mean business” days I wear two or more things together that on an ordinary day I would consider too much. For instance- a blow out and a nice purse or a manicure and high heels or a fur coat and lipstick. Today it was a teal silk blouse and a gold rope chain.
I know for most women this is just called “getting dressed” but for me it feels like this:
I love a certain kind of athletic New England gal ( I’m sure I would have just swooned back in the day at Wellesley). So looking at these pictures of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, it comes as no surprise that I groove on her look. She kept it very consistent through her life: simple simple simple- with that great mane of hair. A lot of women shorten their hair as they get older, but it’s really great to see an old dame with a big old head of it- it totally defies expectation and is very sensual.
