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I'm a woman of many skills. I take pride in my ability to consistently pick the best items on any menu at any restaurant, to type on BBM without looking, and to give good advice to my friends. Above all, I relish with absolute delight in my ability to throw together a slammin' outfit on a day-to-day basis.

I've always thought that girls fall into one of two categories: there are girls that dress for guys, and girls that dress for other girls. Yes, some straddle this fine line, but for the most part i think my theory holds strong.

I dress for other girls.  I can't help it if I crave a compliment or two from another stylish sister.  Red lips and harem pants and top knots, oh my? OH YES!

Boys just don't get it.

Chegthishitowt  http://manrepeller.blogspot.com/

let's hear it for the boys!

Ray bans, blazers, trench coats, sperrys topsiders, oxford button downs, nike cortez sneakers, varsity jackets, denim for days, polos, crewnecks, dudes wearing hats that don't bear the logo of their favourite sports team.

Ugh.  Have you ever realized how wonderful mens fashion was in the 80's? Some seriously risky business.

Take me there John Hughes.

(i love you jake ryan)

leblogdeawesome


What do I dig?
a. french chicks
b. french chicks with bad-ass style and bangs
c. french chicks who blog and translate their blog into English for those of us who dropped french after grade eleven
d. http://www.leblogdebetty.com/ (all of the above)

uh huh uh huh uh huh


Pictures from Karla Spetic's aw10 collection.
the most ultimate combo of colour, draping, melt-in-my-mouth goodness simplicity i've seen in awhile. mmmm.

pritteh

Photographer Tierney Gearon reminds me of the importance of having fun, hanging out naked and acting like a kid. Furthermore, she's made me realize that so many of the most fun times decidedly come about when you are hanging out naked and acting like a kid.

Take a look at her site... i particularly like the mother project

SUP.

Some pictures from a shoot I styled with my gal pal Lauren Levine. Shot by Jake Rosenberg. Model Lily Antflick.

cleanest porn on tha net

For designers by designers is the philosophy of Design Porn

The official design portal for AmoebaCorp, a design firm based in Toronto (what! what!?). It's full of inspiration. Anything from music, photography, fashion, interiors, illustrations, blah blah blahh


I want you. I need you. Oh baby. Oh baby.

Want...? Need...? This is no time to debate semantics.  It is a time to reach out to wallets and bank accounts in need.  

In this case, mine. 

Help cover my body in these duds. Clothing is a basic human right.

I'm not asking for much. Just a dollar or two thousand thrown my way. If you aren't the solution, you are the problem. Any and all donations are welcome.


Missoni Converse
Lanvin Rondes Sunglasses
Wang Diego Bucket Bag
Jeffrey Campbell Clog Extreme Wedge
Rag and Bone Long John Trousers
Elizabeth and James Ruffle V-Neck Tank

Why walk when you can Gallop?

Cindy Gallop.

I took a look into her home (Chanel shotgun? Don't mind if i do!) on The Selby, and after digging around and doing a bit more research about this amazing woman I found out there is much more to her than her "consultant/entrepreneur" title suggests.

One project that really spoke to me is http://www.ifwerantheworld.com/

IfWeRanTheWorld is described as a simple platform that harnesses good intentions and downloads them into tangible, do-able micro-actions that anyone and everyone can fulfill. By simply completing the sentence "If i ran the world I would...." you are subscribing to the concept that you are what you do.

After you decide what your main effort in running the world would be, the website gives you the tools to start your own action platform. It forces you to think from the ground up; beginning with the tiniest steps that one would need to take in order to make their ideas a reality.

If i ran the world... i would give everyone a reason to smile every single day

The brain! The brain! The center of the chain!

April 2010 is sure to bring about many positive things: graduation, retiring my tights/going bare-legged, some much deserved sunshine, and most notably the re-release of of my favourite childhood series The Babysitters Club(!!!!!!)



Ohhh Anne M. Martin. How you cut to my core and made me realize the importance of friendship, family, celebrating our differences, and childcare.

In keeping with the Baby Sitters Club theme, my dear friend Miriam showed me this gem of a blog a few weeks back. The author of the blog takes note from the sassiest BSC member Claudia, and reinterprets her style with a modern spin. Essentially what Claud wore, and would wear today.

Like Claudia Kishi, Miriam has always been my friend who dictated cool. She is a go-to for music, style and laughs; oozing effortless hip-ness and rocking bangs better than Zooey Deschanel (a hard thing to do. trust me, i've tried).

This site is bomb and so is Miriam.

i'm exactly what i appear to be, if you look closely.

SO! I finally saw a single man this weekend and was jaw open-tongue out-goose bump covered-giddy the entire time and continue to be as i write this...

I realized that there are a few things that I want. Scratch that. There are a lot of things I want.

I want it to be acceptable to drink a martini in bed at 11 in the morning
I want everyone to dress to impress all the time with immaculately tailored suits
I want to wear a beehive-esque hair style
I want to wear excessive eye makeup
I want to dance with Colin Firth in a living room that you enter through an indoor orange orchard
I want to live in a glass house
I want to swim naked in the ocean with Nicholas Hoult (yeah that's right Nicky... call me... winky face)
I want to live in a world where it's okay to look cool smoking a cigarette because the government is still profiting from nicotine sales and does not yet have the balls to tell us that we are slowly killing ourselves.
one. cigarette. at. a. time.
I want to be perfectly tanned all the time
I want to be approached by a sickeningly good looking man named Carlos in the parking lot of a liquor store and have him solicit me for sex (too far?)

BASICALLY
I want to live in a world constructed by Tom Ford where everything gives me a tingly feeling in my stomach and I am constantly blown away and impressed and surprised by how beautiful everything is.
IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR?? FUCK.

Dear Diary

Remember that song by Britney? It was alright...
You know what's better than that song?
This site.

http://www.terryrichardson.com/



A camera-wielding predator they say? eff that. LOVE YA TER!


*picture taken from terryrichardson.com

springs tings


sunny skies
 school goodbyes
silly girls

party twirls
best BEST friends
good times with ma mens
long pretty braids
the giggliest days


and poems that don't really rhyme but it doesn't matter because there are cute pictures that go along with every line!!!!
i would make a million hearts right now if html codes didn't permit it!!!!!!
i love SPRING!!!

All morons hate it when you call them a moron. - J.D. Salinger

The biggest thing to come out of the book since the murder of John Lennon. A step in the right direction, I'd say!


Based on the character and story of Holden Caulfield, (the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye) clothing line Caulfied Preparatory takes note from Salinger's novel as the clothing reflects Caulfield's struggles in the days following his expulsion from prep school. 

In the Spring 10 collection the clothes manage to look as though they've literally been blowing in the wind for months without compromising the simple clean style. And moving on to Summer and Fall 10, one is easily and fluidly brought back to the compromising position of Caulfied: an anti-hero attempting to break away from the bourgeoisie lifestyle his parents are pressing on him.

It works and I like it.

... And one day i will have a boyfriend/man slave who dresses (and looks) like this.

pea-NUTS!

Is there anything better than Charlie Brown and the gang? If this had been a week ago, before I was showed this site, I would have responded to that question with a resounding "HELL NO!"

But this?

Well this changes everything.

Kickin The Peanuts is a music blog (updated daily with free downloads) full of old classics, new remixes and all around bad-ass good shit. Sounds lovely yet standard, right? Just wait. 

The music is catalogued and organized according to the musical tastes of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters, whose taste in music is clearly just as diverse as any of ours.