i’ve covered this ground before, but the new ysl leather gem earrings convinced me it’s a good time to revisit.  leather jewelry, or leather wrapped jewelry is not very google-able.  you end up with a lot of not so cute tribal stuff and weirdness.  but there are a couple of standbys that you can always [...]

not only is luisaviaroma in my opinion, the best edited online boutique, i accidentally discovered that if you time your screenshots right, you’ll get some cool effects without even having to deal with photoshop.  a few of my favorites… left is jil sander, top is christopher kane, and bottom is gareth pugh.  have fun, kids.

summer’s officially in swing here.  temperatures are hovering around 100 all this week.  and probably into the foreseeable future.  i don’t feel like doing anything other than laying by a body of water with a vodka snow cone. probably not going to happen soon… but this picture’s nice, isn’t it?  it’s one of renate aller’s [...]

i can’t say i’ve been particularly excited by the resort shows.  and i feel like i want to be excited by something right now, but they’re just not doing it for me.  i know christopher kane is the talk of the shows, but i just can’t get on board in general with the photo print [...]

amy bennett is a brooklyn based painter who works from miniature three dimensional models.  she describes her work as “glimpses of a scene or fragments of a narrative.”  the top and bottom image are monotypes, and the center is from her series “neighbors” for which she built a model neighborhood, and created personalities and relationships [...]

i’m not really sure what you call this style of earring.  they sort of give me the feeling of being a more socially acceptable way to experiment with the tina turner in mad max look.  how could that not be a good thing?  (incidentally, i just downloaded we don’t need another hero.  so good.  if [...]