Oh, barf.
I was recently combing the internet for acceptable bridesmaid dresses, and ended up on Anthropologie, a weirdly reliable site for buying super-discounted Rachel Comey shoes. I immediately noticed this dress (top two images) for exactly what it was: a blatantly simplified copy of Stella McCartney’s incandescent 2011 resort collection (bottom two images), of which I have waxed poetic on many occasions, including here. Yet this copy is so embarrassing, so derivative, so lame.
Tagged anthropologie, dresses, knockoff, shopping, stella mccartney
So happy for Renee and her beautiful new store, Anaise. I compulsively clicked on every category in her shop to make sure I saw every image, and was so taken with her aesthetic and vision. Congratulations, Renee!!
Posted in announcement, fashion, people, shopping
Tagged anais, fashion, montmarte, shopping, web shopping
Maybe it’s the scent of spring in the air, but I can’t stop gawking at these grassy green hues. Both pairs are perfect.
[Strummer sandals via So Much To Tell You; A Detacher Didion sandals via Ermie and Search Party]
Posted in color, design, fashion, shopping, spring
Tagged a detacher, ermie, search party, shoes, shopping, so much to tell you, strummer sandals, summer sandals
I already own the pants, and these tops are just as perfect. I’d like them both, please. It’s like embodying these landscapes, or being the woman in these photos. Beautiful work by Rachel Comey, as usual.
[via Frances May]
Posted in art, design, photography, shopping
Tagged frances may, landscapes, photography, RACHEL COMEY, shopping
My best friend is getting married this summer, and I’m a maid of honor. Among my other manifold responsibilities (she is totally letting me DJ the afterparty, that is why she is my best friend, because that is seriously one of my all-time dreams, to DJ a wedding, I still can’t believe it), I need to find a dress. The dusky salmon roses of this Rodebjer silk dress might be exactly what I need, though the technical logistics of it (how to wear a bra?) might render it unwearable. Nevertheless, it is divine. (Cheryl, don’t you love it?)
[all images via Una]
Posted in color, design, fashion, shopping
Tagged dusky rose, maid of honor, meredith towsand, rodebjer, shopping, silk dress, una portland, weddings
I love Una of Portland! Many thanks to Ermie for pointing me in the right direction when I first moved to town early this year. It’s a beautifully edited shop with the most stunning pieces; I particularly love her selection of knits + jewelry. I stocked up on last season’s Mociun, including these gorgeous high-waisted silk crepe pants, which are hard to style due to the killer cutout on the backside but totally badass nonetheless. I rarely go shopping these days except for super cheap thrifting but it felt right to get grown-up pants and I don’t regret the splurge for a second!
Bali is an easy place to fall in love with, but I don’t mind working a little harder to find the magic in Singapore — like the three-story bookshop Books Actually, the fish ball noodle soup at the Maxwell Food Centre, the rooftop flowers at the Esplanade, or the vintage record shops in Chinatown. I also documented the one massive fail meal I had the entire time I was in Singapore. I had spent all day at the National Library doing research and was famished for lunch and headed down to the library cafe downstairs… so I unwisely picked at random the ‘pesto’ pasta dish and was confronted with a slimy, watery mess of noodles and mysterious gooey green sauce. Never again.
No trip to a new place is complete without having a taste of the regional club sandwich! The Uma Ubud iteration gets my highest markings.
Bali mangosteens! The cutest video game fruit of all time. I have to admit I was a little bit skeptical at eating this at first — the inside flesh looks just like garlic cloves! But it has the sweetest, most delicate flavor.
Sweet necklace.
Super super cool Holly Fulton prints at Ermie, who has the best eye for pattern. (That jumpsuit!!)
Bananas jewelry at Erie Basin. That ring. I don’t even like rings!
Speaking of rings that I desperately need to own…
Mark McGuire of Emeralds — who released one of the best records of the year — is coming to Portland for few weeks. He is playing Valentine‘s a week from today and I am CRAZY excited!
Nectarine brown butter buckle? Shit.
I’m a convert to olive oil cakes — this one is next on my list.
Summer Evening, Ed Hopper. Exactly right.
I saw so many unfamiliar foods in Southeast Asia, and one of Singapore’s crowning jewels is definitely the chaotic neighborhood Little India, which is a sensational explosion of smells and sights and an essential antidote to the overwhelming sterility of the city’s futuristic shopping malls. No idea what many of these vegetables are, but rest assured I wanted to devour all of them in their colorful anonymity.
Posted in celebration, color, food, outdoors, shopping, summer, travel
Tagged little india, produce, shopping, singapore, tropical, vegetables