While checking out one of my favorite blogs, It’s Nice That, I stumbled upon the incredible sculptures of Pete Goldlust. His work is really amazing, and I was immediately blown away by his intricately carved crayon sculptures. His installations, which are done in collaboration with painter Julie Hughes, are also pretty cool. To me they look like some sort of extraterrestrial jungle scene.

It’s finally beginning to feel like winter, and I have yet to stock up on cute cold weather pieces. Since it’s difficult for me to find pants to fit my short stature, I often opt for the next best thing. This season, J.Crew has provided adorable pant alternatives with these wool minis. I love their use of traditional plaids in an array of classic colors. I think these tartan plaid and houndstooth styles are adorable.

I have always liked the dark and cryptic graphics of Obesity and Speed tees, but was pleasantly surprised to see their take on bags and dresses. I love their braided strap dress, which comes in both black and white versions. My favorite piece, though, was this humongous graphic hobo. If I wasn’t a broke college student, it would be mine..all mine.

Hi Everyone, as I mentioned Louise will be guest blogging for a bit. Please welcome her!

During my recent trip to Paris I got a chance to go out a bit more than usual. I found a bunch of great places which I highly recommend. The first and most fun was Favela Chic, located at 18 Rue du Fbg du Temple. There is also one in London apparently. It’s a Brazilian themed restaurant, which seems to be a growing trend in the trendy Oberkampf area. The food was great, and the mojitos were even better. The place switches to a club atmosphere later at night with a great DJ spinning mostly good American pop and hip-hop. Some other places I loved were Ave Maria (also in the Oberkampf area) which serves Brazilian food and amazing champagne frozen margaritas. We stayed in the Marais this time, and found a surprisingly lovely cafe on 9 rue Saint-Denis of all places called, Le Petit Chat. Surrounded by panini/crepe stands, this cafe has great service (and a multi-lingual staff which makes everything super easy!) and great affordable mains and drinks.

Hi everyone, once again I’m swamped with work while getting ready for the Direction Textile show in NY.  If you happen to attend the show, please do stop by at booth 117.

XOXO

Hi Everyone, Leo and I are in Paris for the next couple days. I’ll be back on Wednesday, and I’m hoping to have lots of wonderful finds to share with you!

I feel a little cheesy admitting how much I like 3.1 Phillip Lim. In the last year, his stuff has appeared in all the magazines and on many a starlet. Still, I love his dresses, slouchy fitting pants and billowy light cotton shirts and if I had a legal unlimited money source I would like to wear his stuff all the time. Last spring, for the first time, Lim staged his first runway show during fashion week and it was really critically acclaimed. He showed mostly white dresses, every one of them seeming more beautiful than the next. In some way, they almost seem too airy or pristine to actually wear on the street.

The collection I saw last week wasn’t as striking. Still, there were a lot of looks that I wish I could have in my closet and many I would like to try emulate.

The show was held in this long, dark building, near the water in Chelsea. The darkness of the whole place and the narrowness of the space and the runway, made for a sort of somber viewing experience. Apparently, it took almost two minutes to walk the complete runway.

The color pallet was neutral-ish like so many of the other Fall shows- camel, grey, white, black. In spite of all my attempts to wear more color, these are the colors I end up wearing so a lot of this appealed to me.