what is it about the beach..

enjoy your beach day! wish i were there! post pics.

xx

c'était un rendez-vous

Claude Lelouch 1976

FLAT, MATTE & DARKER

Proenza Schouler posted immediate FW12 preorders for their clutches made of baby deer hide.

Model Alexandra Spencer's "digital dye" in "Proenza green".
A bit more blue-toned than our resident "Tristan green".

PS FW12 show - girls were dyed "flat, matte & darker" for the walk.  Matte!

WHERE TO BEGIN

 3.1 PHILLIP LIM 31 HOUR BAG

  CELINE ENVELOPE FW11

  JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, 1971

  WANG SS12, AGAIN.

 ACNE CONCEPT STORE 2012

that said, i may not be an accessories person.

accessory (əkˈsɛsərɪ)
— n , pl -ries
	1/a supplementary part or object, as of a car, appliance, etc
	2/( often plural ) a small accompanying item of dress, esp ofwomen's dress
	3/a person who incites someone to commit a crime or assiststhe perpetrator of a crime, either before or during itscommission
— adj
	4/supplementary; additional; subordinate
	5/assisting in or having knowledge of an act, esp a crime

aside from the obvious...

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imagining watches with thin wooden parts, couture re-useable grocery bags or totes, deliciously crafted cigarette holders

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thinking of things that people carry around.. and could carry around more beautifully.

lunch. cigarettes. phones. groceries. gym clothes.

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jewelry?

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aren't clothes themselves accessories.. an addition to the human body?

Past Favorites

 Reed Krakoff SP 2012, heel detail. 

 Photo: Jane Aldridge.

  These boys.  On set of the Gap SS 2012 presentation.  Sean O'Pry.  

Photo: Kate Owen

 The lambskin Marry Poppins bag.  Celine.

 Abbey Lee goes platinum at Prada.

 Chanel reworks The Cure's "A Forest" for Fall 2011 RTW.

 Jil Sander and her German sensibilities.

 Wang, wang wang.

 Wes Gordon designs a nail tone for his SS 2012 show - Poppy.

Wang does backpacks for the hiking set.

3.1 Phillip Lim's clean show set, FW 2011.

Photo: Kate Owen

is color more vivid for the blind