are wwwd onto something?

just in from whowhatweardaily.com is this:

I've heard others voice similar opinions about Who What Wear Daily, that often they seem a bit behind on trends and it girl-spotting but this time it looks like they're onto a winner in the form of French (already a recipe for success surely?) actress Melanie Laurent.

Better head to her Fashion Spot thread, pronto!

pic whowhatweardaily

the dapper twelve

12 ways 'to hair':

james dean, morrissey, michael pitt (as kurt cobain), nick cave, daniel day lewis, jeremy irons, wes anderson, cary grant,

paul thomson (franz ferdinand), jimi hendrix, peter saarsgard, sean penn (as harvey milk)

nora arnezeder

just a cool girl..

in a "i just happen to be stunningly modelish" kind of way.

naturally.

pics; bella howard for jalouse

anntian

I'm rather besotted with this Anntian colour block tee, which is unlucky for me, seeing as it's $286.

I think it would fit the bill as one of those tees that you wear and wear throughout the summer; chucked into a sandy beach bag to pull over your swimsuit when the sun is at it's highest and most merciless. Tucked into a pair of black men's trousers for a breezy afternoon lunch (ala kirsten dunst) or under a pair of dungarees for a day of pottering around the house.

Shame I was so awful in my attempts at screenprinting when we did it in my graphic art class last year otherwise I might be up to a DIY!

please ms sevigny, tell us about yourself

Hearing about Chloe Sevigny's favourite things (circa 2005, that is) is like the sartorial equivalent of curtain twitching, and the little anecdotal slices they're served up with are most entertaining.
(Article from Vice Magazine.)

HERRAND FIGURING My aunt gave me a Herrand bunny when I was little and since then my mom and my brother often give me them as gifts. My boyfriend, who is a little shabby looking, had to go into the WASPiest store in Manhattan to get this for me. It’s a place called Scully & Scully. I love that he picked out a pink lamb.

NAMETAG I collect the little place settings they put down at dinners and awards shows and stuff. I like this one because it was misspelled. It was at a Whitney Museum gala. GUN TARGET This is from the first time I ever shot a gun. It was a .22 rifle. This was at like 30 feet. My first two shots are in the same spot!

WOLF MASK My friend Lily Ludlow is a painter and sculptor. She made a series of animal masks. She was kind of a starving artist—pretty broke and down on her luck. I wanted to support her, so I bought this one. I always loved Little Red Riding Hood. The teeth in there are carved out of wood. MARLENE DIETRICH PHOTO For my 30th birthday one of my best friends, Tara, gave me a pair of gloves that Marlene Dietrich had owned. This autographed photo came with them. I like how mysterious she was and how she slayed men and women both. When my brother first saw this, he thought it was a photo of me. I wish! BLACK BOWS I bought these at Trash & Vaudeville. I used to go there when I was a teenager. I had wingtip steel-toed Doc Martens. Just the shoes. I couldn’t afford the boots. ELVIS JEAN JACKET Out of the Blue is one of the best movies ever. When we were making Gummo, I asked Linda Manz, the star of Out of the Blue, if she still had that little Elvis jacket she wore in it. She did, and she sold it to me. This is one of my favorite things in the world. LIZZIE BORDEN Halloween is my favorite holiday, so this year my boyfriend and I went to the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Massachusetts. It’s a bed and breakfast now. The hosts told us we could stay in the room where Mrs. Borden was murdered, but I said “No!” We ended up staying in Mr. and Mrs. Borden’s bedroom. Even that was incredibly scary. I barely slept at all. GRATEFUL DEAD PIN When I was in high school, I was really into hippie boys. They were so furry. I’ve been to about 80 Dead shows. My favorite record is Workingman’s Dead because of the song “Black Peter,” but I have lots of live tapes too! RITZ BRUSH Once a big fashion house flew me to Paris so I could go to their show. They put me up at the Ritz. This was one of the trinkets I stole from there. It’s a nailbrush. I thought it was funny that it was plastic. I stole a towel too.

GIRL WITH SNAKE CERAMIC This is by Herrand too. I found her in an antique shop near Gramercy Park. I love the look on her face. It’s this perfect mix of pain and ecstasy. WHITE SUNGLASSES My mom got these for me at a thrift store in Connecticut. I used to wear them all the time and I got made fun of in all the tabloids for them. Finally my publicist and my agent conference-called me and asked me to never wear them again. But then in Star or something they had a whole page of celebrities wearing white sunglasses and then a photo of me saying “she did it first” or something like that. I was totally vindicated. CREEPY DOLL This is a Keane doll, but she reminds me of the Little Match Girl in the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. That is one of my favorite stories. If you don’t know it, look it up. FASSBINDER SHIRT I was always really into Fassbinder. I knew this little boy Jordan from around town and he made me this. I wore it out a few times, but I got too many weird looks for the swastikas on there. SONIC YOUTH SHIRT I got this at the Salvation Army on Spring Street in 1994. Kim and Thurston lived around the corner from there and I had this daydream that this had been his shirt. BOOTS These are boots that Balenciaga gave me as a gift. I asked Nicholas Ghesquire for them. They hurt like crazy—they are five-inch heels—but I wore them out every night when I got them. Then one night I was leaving Smiths night and a friend of mine and I were play-fighting in the street. I took a dive in these and bashed my face on the ground. I broke my four front teeth. They’re all veneered now. One is totally fake.

well, well, well..

Very excited indeed that Discotheque Confusion made the pages of todays Luxx Magazine in the Saturday Times!

I'd like to thank my therapist, primary school english teacher, my three nutritionists, my nannies, God, Nelson Mandela for a constant source of inspiration and all of the teachers who ever set me tedious homework assignments that confirmed I would much rather blog.

Thanks to Jo Craven for getting in touch about the piece! It's on page 55 for Brit readers who have that inevitably disordered stack of weekend papers floating about. I'll get scanning for those who don't..

we're going to be friends

bracelet, ettika (tackily addictive)

After reading this post over at Refinery29, I have become overwhelmed by the urge to stock up on an rainbow spectrum of thin threads in order to plait my own friendship bracelets, old school style.

And I shall most definitely thread my friends names onto the string in glittery beads and hand them out at 'breaktime' before proceeding to do handstands and doodle my crushe's name all over my school folders.

Who's with me in predicting that this may become a micro-trend? Shall we dig out the mood rings while we're at it?

who's that girl?

diana moldovan!

[thanks to those who solved the case in the comments!]

strolls through the park, bbq on the rooftop

silk suspender shorts by adam, straw boater asos menswear, acne lace-up boots, eiffel tower crop top topshop, "morange" lipstick by mac, alphabet tote bag urban outfitters

more substantial and word heavy posts coming soon, I promise!

inspiration on a wednesday

"careless in our summer clothes, splashing around in the muck and the mire"