lighten up, it's just fashion

Sasha Pivivarova, backstage at Nina Ricci

xo.

indie rock princess

In your next incarnation, you shall be born into indie rock royalty. We've already chosen your wardrobe; the only missing elements are the recording studio and the legions of hip fans that feel like they're dying on the inside.


Dior Resort 2007


Christian Lacroix Fall 2006

xo.

granny puts her foot down

We love Chloe just as much as the next girl, but pray tell, what's going on with the shoes for Fall? Last season's Mary Janes were dangerously, fabulously crafty, but this season's lot are just dangerously close to the year 1890. Quick - somebody page Dr. Scholl, and stat! Something has gone terribly wrong at Chloe from the ankle down.




Do not try and tell us that these shoes were inspired by anything other than the shoe closet in the orthopedic ward of Greener Pastures Nursing Home. We know it, Phoebe Philo knows it, and Phoebe Philo's crochety granny knows it, too.

xo.

every girl needs a little pucci

Pucci F/W 2006 is the first collection that has managed to get us hot and bothered in anticipation of the Autumnal Equinox. How very clever of Matthew Williamson to design a bright and relatively breezy collection; it's far easier to think about buying fall clothes in the middle of the summer when the vetements in question are fluid and colorful.





We are so loving:
The wooly little caps
The rich, opaque tights
The bright mini/black tights combo
The silvered grey/transcendental purple combo
The black tights/black shoes combo
The long scarf/fluid mini combo
The Matthew Williamson/Pucci combo

xo.