I love the british shop Toast’s on-line store. I caught sight of it over on Lena’s blog. I love the above caftan and the below beach items, so cute!

Love in a bag. Recently while Leo and I have been planning our honeymoon to Italy, we realized we needed some ‘grown-up’ luggage. I came across this amazing Diane Von Furstenberg suitcase the other day, and just fell in love. It would be so easy to find it twirling around the luggage carousel! Oh well, enough dreaming. We ended up getting a very sensible set of swissgear cases, which are good in their own right.

I haven’t had the time to go to the Poiret exhibit at the Met, but I did have time to order the book. I’m in love with everything in it! So many of the garments are so now. They feel like dresses you would find in an Isabel Marant boutique. Here are two of my favorite pieces.

I love Olly and Suzi’s new t-shirt collection for Topshop. In such a pro-green fashion moment, this collaboration is wonderful (and dare I say, grossly trendy). But regardless, I love Olly and Suzi’s drawing style as well as creative concept. The two met as art students and have spent their creative careers approaching wildlife in it’s natural habitat, and together working to ‘capture their prey on paper’. Check out their book here, Olly and Suzi: Arctic, Desert, Ocean, Jungle.

Yesterday I ran into Zoe (one of the original founders of Seamsters). Zoe always has the best outfits, and here is a shining example. I love that she’s glamorous enough to be traipsing around on a Wednesday in an Olga Kapustina silk chiffon dress. But most importantly she’s wearing gladiator sandals. I’ve been meaning to post about them for a while now, but I was waiting to see a real person actually pulling it off, and well here it is.

So maybe I’m a little late on this…but in my defense, they’ve always been around. I finally caved and bought a pair the other week at the shore, and I have to say they are the first pair of grown-up sunglasses I’ve ever owned (by grown up, I mean comfortable and functional). I always toyed around with vintage DVF’s only to suffer from looking way too much like Nicole Richie with the huge bug-eyed glasses. Oh well, now I just look like Tom Cruise in Risky Business.

The other week my closest friends kidnapped me and took me up to Newport for a crazy bachelorette weekend. And, it reminded me that in addition to amazing stories, experiences, and so on…One of the best things about a road trip is that you listen to other people’s tapes (or these days ipods). Anyways, I’m loving these two albums. I’ve been listening to them on repeat for days now. Above is Beirut’s Gulag Orkestar and below is Andrew Bird’s Armchair Apocrypha. Both are melancholy without being depressing, a very important distinction.

I love this flying series by Jan Von Holleben. It feels like a story book.