In remembrance of Nina Simone’s birthday, here’s a clip of a live 1968 recording session in Paris performing ‘ The Other Woman’, one of my favorite songs from her vast catalog of treasures. With lyrics: But the other woman will always cry herself to sleep The other woman will never have his love to keep […]
WANTED: ‘Rustic Organza Trousers’ By Juan Carlos Pajares
To see these bottoms just hanging there, you can’t help but relate them to sculpture. But when worn, they take on a sense of magic + majesty after you see what’s really going on underneath. Upon the wearer slipping into these ‘Rustic Organza Trousers’ by Juan Carlos Pajares, you get to see the different geometric shapes […]
Katerina Jebb’s Life Size Scans Beautifully Display Galeries Lafayette’s FW/15 Collections
For Galeries Lafayette in Paris, artist Katerina Jebb created 11 life-size human scans + a video to represent the F/W 2015 collections in their windows. An A4 digital scanner, different pieces were created, then assembled into these photo montages seen throughout. Amazing how delicate yet graphic all of these works look, right? My favorite part has to be the dark + light photos […]
How To Spend 21 Days With Coco Chanel
Regarding Coco Chanel,photographer Douglas Kirkland once said, ‘ Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion,she changed culture, + she changed how people dress,’ + he should know, afterspending three weeks with her during 1962 + documenting those tokens of memory in ‘Coco Chanel: Three Weeks/ 1962’, by Douglas Kirkland, published by Glitterati Incorporated. Now Chanel […]
Favorite Kenzo Resort 2015 Looks
(photos: John Aquino) (via WWD)
Love These Tanaka Paper Toys For Karl Lagerfeld
Last night, at Karl Lagerfeld‘s flagship boutique on Paris’ Left Bank, the designer unveiled 20 paper toys by Japanese paper artist, Shin Tanaka. Hybrids between origami + street art, Tanaka’s paper creations included an identical replica of Karl, down to those signature oversized shades on him + on Choupette, his white kitty. Check out T-Boy below, the […]