stylespiration - cool girls (and one guy)

All these girls makes me sigh and wish I looked so effortlessly cool.... yes even Olivia Palmero (well in this pic at least)

I don't think I've ever seen a picture of Leigh Lezark that I didn't like, but I think this pic could be the first one. Almost made me pick up that Christopher Kane dress... almost.

I love the film noir look of this pic... complete with the perfect smokey eyes and the little dog. I don't say this often, but I think the dog makes the picture.

makes me wish we had winter... LOVE this outfit. Wondering if I can come up with some variation of it for my London trip?

Those Ann D. sandals again! I must have them!

not many people can do the Kate Lanphear look well, but this girl carries it off I think. Now if only I could do white blond without looking like an albino....

and finally the one guy... what can I say, this photo is adorable :)

p.s. in case you were wondering, all the photos are linked back to the original posts in garance's blog.

stylespiration noir

How amazing is this picture? I absolutely love it. It's almost like she's in front of a flat backdrop or out of something from a fantasy film.

Anyway, this is the second garance installment. I decided to try to get the pics into a theme this time... not sure I'll manage it for future posts but it does make things a bit simpler.

again, I love how she stands out against the black backdrop. Wish I had skin like hers... more attainably thought, I love how she's dressed up the shirt and shorts combo with pearls! Must try that sometime...

The etheral Dree Hemmingway.

this pic makes me want to go buy that Pamela Love rosary right now. This very minute.

pc: garance dore

Stylespiration du jour Part 1

While looking for the garance pics for my SC bag post, I was reminded just how much I like the pictures she takes. Some of them are so arresting (like the one above, which might just be my absolute favourite), and unlike a lot of other style blogs, it's not always about the clothes with her. Not that there's anything wrong with being all about clothes, but I love that she also takes pictures of people just because their face is interesting or something about them catches her eye.

Anyway, I wanted to have my favourites all in one place so I wouldn't have to keep searching through her archives, hope you'll like them too.

I wasn't able to get everything into one post, so will just do another post when I've got another bunch together.... :)

note to self

Must. Try. To. Hold. Out. For. SC Bag!

I've been really bad with miscellaneous shopping recently and totally fallen off the wagon when it comes to saving up for an SC bag. So of course, LV then launches a bunch of new colours and a smaller size! le sigh. Still... I'm not that keen on the new colours and not totally convinced I want a smaller size, so guess the quest is still on. In the meantime, I've dregged up every photo I could find that had inspired me in the first place to get this bag. Now just need to decide - Cobalt or Jasper? Or leave it to fate (and stock levels) to decide?

note: um... you might notice that these pics are pretty garance heavy notwithstanding the dozens of celebs pictured with the bag. What can I say? I love her... and somehow the pics with her carrying it just seem more like real life y'know? :)

pc: sartorialist; garance dore; marie clair; mr newton; jak & jil

style swoon

I just saw this image on garance dore recently and have been mulling over the celine shopper since... (esp since I'd just been looking at a brown version of the bag last weekend). So it seemed like fate when E. messaged to say that she's actually bought the brown bag I'd seen! Congrats E.! It's a beautiful bag and a totally savvy purchase... you'll use it forever. :)

Only question is, what am I going to do now?

cease and desist

I'm posting this in the hope that it'll keep me honest (not that that's all that likely but you never know...). So having obsessed over the LV Sofia Coppola bag for ages, I've pretty much decided to get it this year (probably if I can convince someone to help me pick it up in Paris with the tax back!). Of course that comes with a big if - if I can stop spending so much in the mean time!

I thought I would try bolstering my resolve doing a review of the pics that got me obsessed in the first place... strangely, I didn't really get that keen on this bag till quite a while after it'd been launched. I suspect it had something to do with needing to actually see it on someone.... anyway, this pic of garance dore carrying it just blew me away:


and then again when jak and jil snapped her with the bag



there've been a bunch of other photos since then but my lack of bookmarking organisation has meant that I have no idea where I saw them now. But here's a couple of pics from around the time of the launch.... not sure how sofia is managing to carry it like that cos the strap seems too short, but perhaps that was just the prototype. If I could carry it messenger style like that, it would literally be the perfect bag.

strangely, it's kinda nice to be really obsessed about something again. Maybe what the recent NYT article is true - that you're happier when you buy something you've been wanting for a really long time.