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Hair of the Season

photos from Refinery29 and Style.com

I just got home from working the Alexandria Anthro store opening (hence my extended lack of posting- sorry!) and my roommate Lauren had the coolest hair ever. She does these awesome architectural twists and rolls every day. Our room resembled a hair salon, with irons and curlers and product everywhere. I mean, here we are working 12 hour days for nine days straight and her hair is perfect. Meanwhile, I was lucky if I showered.
Anyway, I'm back home and have a bit more morning time to do my hair. I'm still digging braids and top-knots but I love, love, love these hairstyles (maybe not with the eyeshadow though- too much?) from Rodarte's Spring show. It's sort of a modern, undone '40s thing right?

A (Giant) Necklace a Day

Jewelry should either whisper or scream (medium-sized baubles are for suckers) and today I’m all about making it loud. The bigger statement, the better. I’ll take one for every day of the week.

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Miami: Out and About

A bunch of random images from this year's Art Basel in Miami. It's difficult to categorize these images into one post but also impossible not to share.

the breathtaking first floor of the Delacruz Collection


The always amazing Swoon with a wheatpasted piece that made me, um, swoon.From the Underbelly Project show.


Concrete bunny by Ross Bonafanti at Aqua.


Asmall corner of Greg Haberny's installation at the Like the Spice gallery at Aqua. Wonder if anyone partook?


Achair that manages to be both modern and very traditional at Design Miami. From Priveekollektie Gallery.


A fashionable couple at Fountain Art Fair.


Love the kicks. At Fountain Art Fair.


Fashionistas. At Fountain Art Fair.


Some seriously good street art.


Some seriously funny street art.


And the obligatory, check-out-my-feet vacation photo. Thanks to the hammocks at Scope!

 

Miep Jukkema: Photographer

This week I am loving the feminine frippery, the over-the-top sticky sweet girliness of these photos of these photos by Miep Jukkema.

Daughters of Simone: Vintage Wedding Dresses

I don't talk about weddings very much because I was not a traditional bride. I wore a champagne colored cocktail dress, purchased for $75 at a thrift shop in Connecticut.



I can totally see why a lady might want a big poofy white dress but I definitely didn't. That's why I got excited when I saw Daughters of Simone's well-curated shop of totally affordable, drop dead gorgeous vintage wedding dresses and accessories. The two ladies behind Daughters of Simone, Brittany and Christy, "envisioned their woman as a rare bird, someone who would breathe new life into “the dress” and feel that it represented the entirety of her essence." In other words, the dress doesn't wear you, you make the dress awesome.

And the hipster-goddess-frolicking-through-the-woods styling of the photos doesn't hurt either. Who wouldn't want to look this pretty on their wedding day?

 

Big Blue- Pinterest Favorites

It's a grey grey Tuesday and I must be craving a clear sky because everything I posted to Pinterest today was blue blue blue. Oh, and I spent a lovely weekend at friend's house in Brooklyn and she has one fantastic teal blue wall in her living room. Hmmm...maybe I shouldn't have painted my living room white!
I'm a bit of a color harlot- I can't really think of a shade I don't like! Any colors you really hate or really love?

A gorgeous home from Design*sponge


Farrow & Ball wall colors


paint chip quilt by kimem


Abigail Ahern's totally-awesome-and-over-the-top blue table.


Shades of blue, green and yellow.

The American Restaurant

Who wants to take a road trip to the American Restaurant in Kansas City? We can wear our Mad Men best, have some champagne, caviar and a flambé (restaurants like this always have a flambé, am I right?). In the late 1960s, the area was in a total state of decay when the founder of Hallmark cards built the Crown Center, it's "crown jewel" being the American restaurant designed by Warren Platner.
I am over the moon for the sparkly ceiling and those plush pink banquettes!

photo via b for bonnie

White Cube

I have to admit: I have never, ever in my life wanted white walls. So it's a little weird to be completely obsessed with white right now. The Mr. and I currently live in a very brown house; it's all brown floors, brown stairs, brown couch (what? I bought it before we moved!) and white walls seem like the only thing to combat the sea of brown. Not taupe, eggshell, cream, just white white white. I've been pinning and saving any inspiration I can find with white walls. Here are a few favorites below...

Oh, and the color we picked? Snowbound by Sherwin Williams. Just a teensy bit creamier than pure white.

the Smithy home (it's for sale!) in the Catskills.


Jonathan Adler's New York home

two images above of the designers of Nightwood's home in New York Magazine


to the left: from Convoy, to the right, a house styled by Emily Henderson

Love it: The Flower Girl

Architectural orchids, perky tulips, pretty peonies and shrinking violets...florals can be modern, feminine, ditzy or grand. I love them all...

photo by Sandra Friej


Bella Foster paintings



Liberty Nikes, which sadly sold out in a mili-second.


Marc Jacobs/ photo via Faking Fashion/ Vogue US Feb. 2011/ shot by Mario Testino

Stella McCartney Resort 11


print by Peggy Wolf

 
Erdem Spring Summer 11


photo by Mav


photo by Amira Fritz




two photos by Chloe Aftel


photo via Fashion Copious/ Vogue Turkey March 11/ shot by Hans Feurer

Love it: Neon and Neutrals

Marni flats from Net-A-Porter


photo by Tommy Ton for Style.com

Neon door from you are my fave.

An oldie but goodie- Gemma Ahern's living room


Bangkok University via The Cool Hunter


Neon trims from Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring 2011

Amazing ceramics by Maison Sauvage


Stylist Sally Lindley on Elle.com

I've been in a little of a when-the-heck-is-winter-going-to-end funk this week. What's better than a little pop of neon in a world full of neutrals?