Diana

"try to be born in paris if you can arrange it."

Mermaid

{from here}

Ewan, You Sweetheart

"Women are always expected to be naked. And I like to try to be naked in films, and have the women not be naked. It's a feminist thing that I do."

Beautiful Catastrophe

"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."

Le Corbusier

Agnes Martin

Happy Birthday, Zelda Fitzgerald

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”

Yes, yes, yes

Words to Keep in Mind

Makeup

A Few Words About Fashion

I am by no means an expert on fashion or style. But I love it. I love clothes and how they can transform a person; how you can express yourself to the world. I like exploring the ever-changing and ever-constant (A dichotomy, no?) world of fashion. From the American standards like Michael Kors and Ralph Lauren, to the ridiculously otherworldly like Alexander McQueen, Mugler, and Comme des Garcons.

It's not a perfect world. Sometimes it's really stupid. Sometimes it's unfair. Sometimes it's inaccessible.

But... I like it. I like talking about it, posting about it, writing about it, ruminating on it.

Here is what a few folks have to say on the subject:

"I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, they just put it down. On the whole, people that may say the meanny things about our world, I think that's usually because they feel, in some ways excluded or, you know, not a part of 'the cool group,' so as a result they just mock it.

Just because you like to put on a beautiful Carolina Herrera dress or a pair of J Brand blue jeans instead of something basic from K-Mart, it doesn't mean that you're a dumb person.

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous." --Anna Wintour

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"True fashion is about the triumph of personal style, and in these uncertain times, don’t you want to dress up and face the music in your greatest thrift-shop finery?" --Lynn Yaeger

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"Dressing up is an exercise in creativity... Too many people are so afraid and they just want to do what everybody else does and look like everybody else." --Iris Apfel

Ah.

Salt Water

Love is...

{found here}

I wish it would snow...

I'm one of the best.

{BY KATE MOORE}

Go into the arts

"Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

—Kurt Vonnegut

First Day of Fall

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"Summer always feels endless until it suddenly ends. For kids, there is no greater tragedy than summer’s end. September is the Monday of months."

-Jeff Scher, painter and filmmaker

It's always sad to see summer go, as Jeff Scher expresses. Every year we always feel like it's over in a flash. Here in Seattle we get two more days of summer weather: today and tomorrow the high is 80 degrees!

But Autumn is a magical time, and I welcome it; I think it's the most romantic season.

A Few Wise Words on Fashion

"True fashion is about the triumph of personal style, and in these uncertain times, don’t you want to dress up and face the music in your greatest thrift-shop finery?"

-Lynn Yaeger

"Dressing up is an exercise in creativity... Too many people are so afraid and they just want to do what everybody else does and look like everybody else."

-Iris Apfel

Nothing is original

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: 'It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.' "

— Jim Jarmusch

I wanna really really really wanna...

Other wise words from the Spice Girls:

"If you want my future, forget my past"

"All that I want from you is a promise you will be there"

"You've crossed the line, so you're going to have to turn around"

"Giving is good, as long as you're getting"