via Franca

I know, I know,
horoscopes, horoscopes..
I do believe myself heavily in being a stereotypical Pieces,
a lady of the water.
But these daily, weekly prediction things, meh.

That said,
I just read this weeks predictions via Franca Sozzani of Vogue Italia
(the very best Vogue, truly),
and it left me smiling and smiling.
So much so, that I'm making it a bit of a mantra and prayer this week
as I head to a much anticipated, and much needed trip back to the lotus homeland.

August 22-28th.
Pisces

"A nice trip gives you a good week
as you are invited by people who impress you quite a bit.
You see that you expect more of yourself
and that people recognize your efforts at being at your top.
You resolve some complex, your skin, your weight,
the way you dress by treating the problem
in a very radical way instead of complaining about it,
you fix it.
You get along well with positive people
and it has a good effect on you.
Keep progressing!"

Amen!

Adding to the coat hunt...



This coat by Miu Miu reminds me of 1950's British School girl,
and all the charm that goes along with it, sigh.

rodarte for opening ceremony

Holy crap..
three of my favorite things all combined.
Rodarte for Opening Ceremony..
shot by
Autumn DeWilde.*
Perfection doesn't get any better defined.




*Autumn DeWilde is the crazy talented photographer who shot the gorgeous Elliot Smith book a couple years ago. And come November she'll have an equally gorgeous book out on Beck. Check out her blog for snippets of Beck, Rodarte, Elijah Wood, Zooey...and other crazy creative friends that pop up. She's absolutely one of my favorite artists.

Good to be proud of your friends.

My wonderful friends
Tom and Amanda
had their wedding
featured on a french blog this past week!

Truth from the man.

I would swear that nothing but truth comes from the mouth of this man.



This man is Jeff Tweedy,
front man for my favorite band of all time, Wilco.
Found a little article online,
where he talks about inpiration and influences,
and out popped this little doozy,

""... I can’t ever think of any one specific record or book that has been a direct inspiration. It’s more like, I read and I listen until I can’t take it anymore and I wanna make something, so that’s what ends up happening."

The simplest thing to say would be that I relate.
But the whole thing just totally resounded like a gong in my being.
Love it,
love Jeff.

So badly need a winter coat. Says Julie, in August.

Massive coat hunt under way for winter.
I hope it actually gets cold here, unlike last winter, which was grey and rainy.
I want some bone chilling, fabulous coat wearing weather come November 1st.
Are you with me?

Findings thus far.


Ms. Stella McCartney.


The Row


Ms. Stella Again


Etoile Isabel Marant

As you can see,
there is a main theme.
I'm not diverting too strongly from one strain of thought.
But that's ok. Free to be me.

Happy monday!

Chloe's Gladiator Ballerines

I'm seeing these (in print) everywhere right now.
And I can't seem to decide whether I'm for 'em.
But God knows I love Chloe,
so probably its only a matter of time.



A whole other ballgame with this dress though,
love, love, love, love.

Chloe Resort 2012