Sneakers

Adorable...imagine with a rolled jean, navy tee and a sparkly bracelet.....

Crave..Sarah Kane

melt when you smile and dissolve when you laugh

and i want to play hide and seek and give you my clothes and tell you i like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and talk about the day and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don’t listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and take pictures of you when you’re sleeping and drink coffee at midnight and have you steal my cigarettes and never be able to find a match and want you in the morning but let you sleep for a while and kiss your back and stroke your skin and tell you how much i love your hair your eyes your lips your neck your breasts your arse your and sit on the steps smoking till your neighbour comes home and sit on the steps smoking till you come home and worry when you’re late and be amazed when you’re early and give you sunflowers and be sorry when i 'm wrong and happy when you forgive me and look at your photos and wish i'd known you forever and hear your voice in my ear and feel your skin on my skin and get scared when you’re angry and hug you when you’re anxious and hold you when you hurt and want you when i smell you and get cold when you take the blanket and hot when you don’t and melt when you smile and dissolve when you laugh and wonder who you are but accept you anyway and write poems for you and wonder why you don’t believe me and have a feeling so deep i can’t find words for it and buy you presents you don’t want and take them away again and ask you to marry me and you say no again but keep on asking because though you think i don’t mean it i do always have from the first time i asked you and want what you want and think i’m losing myself but know i’m safe with you and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me because you don’t deserve any less and answer your questions when i’d rather not and tell you the truth when i really don’t want to and try to be honest because i know you prefer it and forget who i am and try to get closer to you and speak german to you badly and hebrew to you worse and make love with you at three in the morning and somehow somehow somehow communicate some of the overwhelming undying overpowering unconditional all-encompassing heart-enriching mind-expanding on-going-never-ending love i have for you

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Night out

Last week, my boyfriend and I decided to go out to a nice dinner with some of his graduation money.  Of course, I took this as a reason to get dressed up!  A couple of days before, I had randomly found an amazing LBD on a sales rack at Charlotte Russe - voilà!  Here's some of the detail on the dress to give you an idea of the beautiful-ness I was working with:

The restaurant is called Antipasto's and specializes in vegetarian fare.  But carnivores, fear not - their pasta and pizza is supposed to be out of this world, too.  I've been vegetarian for almost 2 years, a reason why my boyfriend had mentioned this place to me a few months back and I'd fallen in love with the menu online.  Since fashion is so much more than clothing, and can be about atmosphere, too, I wanted to share a little about this place, and how perfect the dress felt floating around me as I ate and laughed.

Well, we were a little overdressed - my dress was quite nice and he wore a shirt, tie, and nice dress pants. The restaurant was very small, snuggled in between stores in a Price Chopper strip mall plaza. It could fit maybe 20 people, and supposedly is known for it's very extensive wine collection (maybe in a few years). I had veggie chicken parmesan, which was amazing because since becoming vegetarian I haven't been able to experience the taste of a good chicken parmesan in almost 2 years. The lights were very dim and it was cozy. I loved it!  And more than that, a good LBD can really amp up a low-key night.  Just dinner and a movie - made special.  Why not dress up for no good reason?

Sunday Eye Candy

1. 

I LOVE Tim Walker.....

Ah, the French

This photograph taken at the Chanel couture show in Paris is a great example of American beauty in contrast with the French.  Leighton Meester and Clemence Poesy were both front row guests at Karl's show and to me Clemence captures the radiance, simplicity and self containment of French beauty.  She is dressed beautifully and simply in an elegant, feminine dress.  Make-up is minimal and her hair is au natural...I love this look!  On the other hand, her American counterpart looks overdone in every way...almost craving camera attention (which she probably is).
I admit I have always been a fan of Clemence Poesy. .I first noticed her in the movie"In Bruges" which I highly recommend.  In that film she was beautiful and natural with a dancer's grace.  She is always dressed simply but with an air of elegance. I love best that one can easily see that she is comfortable being herself....that is the essence of true beauty.

Miriam Haskell jewelry

In the heat and humidity of yesterday, I ventured out to the library and took out a beautiful book about Miriam Haskell and her jewelry company.  She founded the company in 1926 in NYC and it still exists today because it makes the finest costume jewelry.
Shortly after opening her company, Frank Hess, a window dresser from Macy's, joined her and provided the company with artistic flair...he was a great colorist!  Most credit Miriam with the business savy and Frank  with the creative talent.  Frank was a very private man who maintained tight control over his designs and work.  He showed up for work everyday in a top hat with a silver tipped cane (I would have hired him for that alone). He even approved the way that the employees dressed in the showroom....I guess Abercrombie & Fitch took note.
It was very interesting to read about the craft of jewelry making as well as how an excellent company survives during hard times such as World War II when they could not use metal.  Another designer for the company who made outstanding jewelry was Richard Clark.

I must admit that I am quite surprised at how large most of the pieces are..some might find them garish but some are truly beautiful.  The company produced an A line, B line and C line....rather like the stocking of  retail stores today.  As a jewelry company, it has a fascinating history and it also provides a great business model. Its legacy is that the best quality and adept business skills allows a company to produce a treasure trove of magnificent jewelry.  Miriam Haskell's health started to fail during the late 1940's and she sold  her company to her brother in 1950.
The large, opulent pieces the company was famous for seem to be having a resurgence today. Bib necklaces, multi-layered chains, bold bracelets, huge cocktail rings....they are all the rage today.  I wonder if in difficult financial times the sheer weight of jewelry makes one feel a tad more secure. Women in many cultures collected jewels as a way to measure their worth.  Chanel's motto was dress simply but wear lots of jewelry.  We all want to feel beautiful, secure and perhaps even regal.  In trying financial times...jewelry provides us with the power to transport ourselves on a magic carpet through the mundane.

An Introduction

I'm Lexi.  I've known Colleen for quite some time, but we've recently gotten connected again (thanks of course to the ever-growing internet community).  So, quickly, a little about myself:
Next fall I'll be attending SUNY Oswego as a French major.  The language is my everything, mon raison d'être.  Photography is my passion, and I shoot for bands, families, and myself.  I believe in really using our eyes to not only see, but to understand the world around us; allowing them to define what we like and don't like or how we interpret something.  This, I think, is the reason that fashion has become so appealing to me in the last year or so.  Fabrics, detailing, and most importantly the coexistence of pieces of clothing tells a person's story.  It can be so much more.