i heart tag sales

I was on my way to my haircut this morning when I spotted a cute little tag sale right down the road from my house. I think at one point I actually started yelling "OOOH TAG SALE TAG SALE TAG SALE" and practically seizing in my seat. Tag sales excite me so much, they are so interesting. It is like you are snooping into these people's past lives and re-living them through their items. Hmm.. that came out a bit creepier than I intended....

After my haircut I waited excitedly as my mom drove at what seemed to me to be the pace of an elderly snail being dealt copious amounts of morphine, and finally arrived at la destanation de DREAAMSS, a.k.a small tagsale in driveway of 50somethings surburban home. She gave me 20 bucks and then sped off to fetch various sibling of mine. I entered excitedly and noted immediatley that this lady must have worked at ralph lauren or something because she had a buttload of 80's and 90's ralph. I looked a a few pairs of breezy flannel shorts and one rather raunchy feathered dress when I discovered the beacon of light that had been delivered to me straight from the GOOJ (God Of Orange Juice). Under a stack of old barney VHS tapes I discovered a very dandy Kate Spade bag- and for only 2 dollars! I snatched that thing faster than......
a- really fast.. thing?
and booyah I was outahh there.

The majority of the designer bags I have are from various tagsales around my little old town of Yawnroot*
a picture of two of my best finds here:




they are a little worn out but I love them all the same.

Sorry that I haven't updated my last post (with the photos of my outfit)

But come on, 2 dollars for Christ's sake!

Oh and I about the haircut; I didn't go for anything drastic, just a trim because i'm growing it out. Sorry folks, thats as crazy as its gonna get for now. Although I am probs gonna re-dye it next weekend so maybe I will do something crazy... pastel turquoise stripe? That Marc Jacobs ad from ye yonder ago has me inspired...

PS. HOUSE season finale tomorrow night!! YAYAYYYY! Who's watching it? Huh? HUh?
I sure am!
And so should you!

-C

*Name of Town has been purposefully miswritten because of "privacy" "issues" (annoying father)

maxi maxi

I have suddenly gotten really into maxi skirts and maxi dresses. I just love floor length things except I can never wear them because they look to mature for me and I can never find a top to go with them. I am in NYC today and I will be desperately searching for a nice tank top or crop top or something to wear with a floor length skirt..

Oh and I also need a floor length skirt.
Hah. I've mostly just been borrowing my mum's skirts and she really only has mid-calfs because she doesn't like floor length.

We might stop in urban outfitters later but I'm not sure if they have maxi skirts.

Oh! And a few hours ago is I stopped in a Hudson News while in Grand Central and they had this fantastic international fashion section where I picked up a Dazed & Confused. I have never read a dazed and Confused but a lot of bloggers talk about it so I figured I should check it out. I've onl had time to flip through it (I'm at a Shakespeare on the sound rehearsal//meeting)
The issue that they had was titled "the naked truth" so I'm not sure how many photos will be going up here (NUDITTYYYY--OMG) but I will put up the ones I can latahh. (: I will also post a picture of my outfit for the city//shakepeare meeting
It beez pretty chill :3

Update this postie post later!
-C
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mcqueen,mcqueen,mcqueen

Alexander McQueen was and still is, even after his death, one of the most influential and groundbreaking designers of the century. Whenever I find myself in a dull moment in class, I subconsciously start sketching his famous armadillo shoes. I did these sketches the day after he died (in math class).

(I will add this picture later when I have access to le camera)

Hopefully the McQueen house will continue to exhibit the trademark creativity and daring that they are so well known for. Here are some of the highlights of Alexander McQueen's designs through the years.

(The first two are of th famous armadillo shoes)














Th shoes above are also a rather famous design of McQueen's the "Titanic Ballerina" shoes.





I Know that this Memorial//Tribute is extremely late but unfortunately this little bloggy blog was not around when he died. ):


Hope you enjoyed this post! (;



-C

these are few of my favourite thingss

Here is a little picture full of some of my favourite things.



Hamburger Phone from Urban Outfitters
Too-Faced Mood Activated Colour Changing Lip Gloss from Sephora
Marc Jacobs Lola perfume from Sephora
Tokidoki Cactus Pup figurine from KidRobot
Hamburger Earrings from Claire's
Living Nightmare Nail Polish in Nightmare Black from a costume store
Some drink called Qoo that I got from a vending machine while in Japan (Then again I love all Japanese things)
Heart Necklace from Forever 21
Escada (the perfume) Moisturizer from Marshalls
Sunglasses from Forever 21
Dunny from KidRobot

There shall (currently) be no rant accompanying this post, so just enjoy these snazzy items!

a clockwork orange

I read A Clockwork Orange a few months ago and it still haunts me. It was beautifully written, though I have to say it took a little getting used to for me in the beginning. The language is a very complex mix of Russian, Shakespearean english, and ghetto slang. However after I read a few chapters I started to recognize the words with a russian base which is good because I actually know a little Russian now (making my russian ancestors proud :P). I'm not going to lie,
This book was INSANELY creepy and disturbing. I would tell you all about it but then that would ruin it for you when you decide to read it (WHICH YOU WILL). I heard the movie is even creepier, but I haven't seen the whole thing, only clips.


This next one was supposed to be my own rather lame reproduction of the photo above ^ (taken by flick in study hall)



And here is a photo from my book of Vogue Paris covers that I found that was just pulsing with a highly clockwork like vibe.
(Photo: Helmut Newson for Paris Vogue 1978)



I had to photoshop some clothing items on those two girls that are being used as footstools in the picture above, because they were unfortunatley in the nude. Lets keep it Pg-13 people! (this picture is from the movie)



I remembered that back over spring break I was reading a fashion editorial that was done in the theme of A Clockwork Orange, but I couldn't remember what magazine it was in. I was 100 percent sure it was from Nylon so I spent like 3 hours looking through my Nylon archives from around that time. Turns out it was actually in a magazine called Clear which is a really awesome magazine that I bought once in an an airport and then I could never find it again (I'm too lazy to order it online). So I have few photos of the spread that I took with my SLR but they are kindof crap because of the light reflection and shadow and brightness and AHH I NEED TO GET MY BUTT TO SCANNER SCHOOL.

Heres an illustration a did a WHILEWHILEWHILE ago of the pictuh above (its not very good but all is well)







I spent a panicked three hours trying to figure out an outfit for this dance my school is having. They say it is "semi-formal". I hate when people say "semi-formal", what does it mean? Dresses, shirts and jeans? I cant be semi- formal. Can I be full formal? Yes. Can I be casual? Yes. Can I be dressy? Yes. But semi-formal?? Wtf does that mean?

anyway so apologies for that little side rant but the bottom line is that after nearly a half hour of coaching over the phone from Ali, I finally decide on this outfit that
*SHOCKER*
was really similar to the outfit in the CLEAR Magazine clockwork orange spread.

It must have been in my subconscious or something...





Vintage Blazer. American Apparel Leggings. Shoes from H&M. Hat from Mom's Closet.

This isn't my usual style but since I had hit an outfit roadblock I figured I might as well try it!

(oh and btw my hair look really gross in those pictures for some reason, but it isnt I swear! *nods head eagerly*)

-C

new layout (:

I hope you all enjoy the new layout (:
As you probably know I get bored with things really easily (example: Hair Colours) so I figured I'd change it up.
I would give photo creds except those are my eyes. They are highly photoshopped though.
I love photoshop. It is a really good tool for creating art, and editing it. Unfortunately real photoshop is like a million dollars so my dad got me photoshop elements instead. I think photoshop elements is just as good though. This is not the post of the day btw, just a little update.


Please Enjoy this really cool picture by Eleanor Hardwick:


-CD

passion pit and all else holy

I am still listening to Hercules on repeat, and since (as we all know) that is not very beneficial to my health, I have decided to spice it up.

I will now change my soundtrack to a slightly less disturbing song; Little Secrets by Passion Pit. This is a rather fantastic song if I do say so myself, so listen to it if you have nothing else to do (or even if you have something you should be doing!)I love the electro synthyness in this song and the high note of his voice provides a new feeling to the song. I don't really know shiz about music but I know enough to realize this song is comparable to orange juice (in other words- GOD) and that it should be worshipped.
Here is the music video;



Okay i'm sorry but the woman in the video's glasses are SICK. If I needed glasses I would wear ones exactly like those, oh and her dress//jacket//trench coat is pretty awesome too, except yellow looks horrid on me, so unfortunatley if I ever tried to wear a recreation of this outfit, it would most likely = EPIC FAILURE
(:

I put together a mix board (on polyvore) of the elements of this outfit.

Tights from American Apparel, Jacket from Buckle.com, Shoes by AmiClubWear, Gloves from notjustalabel.com, Vintage Sunglasses from love-worn.com

Sorry for the shortishness of this posticle, It was originally a SRFPP (Side Rant From Previous Post) so It is not as long as my usuals. As you can tell (if you read my last post) this is not at all related the previous posts theme and that is why I seperated it. Oh and also my ranty-ness had caused the previous post to be EXTRANEOUSLY long.

-Cordizzle