Crime Of Passion

My procrastination is a crime.  As is the time I spend on the internet.  Combine the two, (and pretend that I'm a boy) and you get this:

Applying to schools is frustrating and extremely costly.

Later: 3SCHOLASTICREFERENCES??? I'VEBEENOUTOFSCHOOLFORAYEARANDONEOFMYTEACHERSISTHEPROGRAMDIRECTORFORANOTHESCHOOLI'MAPPLYINGTOWHATAMIGONNADOOMG.

Gunmetal/Steel/Hubcap Grey

Interestingly enough it also looks good on your fingers.

A nice alternative to black.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND

"What does Margiela's coat mean? What is its significance in early twenty-first century fashion? It functions on the same level as that other Belgian Surrealist, Rene Magritte, who in 1928 created "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" - a painting of a pipe that denied it was a pipe. As an image of a pipe, the paradoxical inscription was true and in the same way, Margiela's "Wig-Coat" becomes a paradox, a paradox of adornment, of seduction and of fashion. It mimics nature whilst choosing to be artificial; the workmanship is painstaking, costly, yet applied to cheap synthetics; it is adornment which repels and yet, oddly, manages to seduce. Finally, as a luxury good it manages to function on the least luxurious level possible."

the video is a little NSFW but intriguing nonetheless.  Watch it.

Ulysses

I love those white shoes.  

Here's one of MARINA'S IDEAS FOR DRESSING:  wear all black and one colour in one place (I.E, all black and bright orange lipstick, or al black and white shoes, etc); see what happens.

Maybe you'll end up in a desert too.

In The Middle Of The Night

The benefits of hiding a credit card is that groggy, middle of the night purchase, like these, are easily avoided.

in order from top left:  Jeffrey Campbell heels; UO, JDauphin bracelet; La Garconne, Mary Meyer spine dress; Oak, Grey Goose leather jacket; La Garconne, WHYRED dress, Joy Division shirt; Oak, Candy Pyramid Rings; Made Her Think, Talon ring, Made Her Think, Acrylic diamond ring, .byAMT; Supermarket, Anzevino & Florence top.

Mmmm....Smells.

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For approximately 4 hours.  Drive me nuts, why don't you.

This mixed with Cannabis Rose by Fresh is amazing too.

The Trick To Hunting Is Letting IT Come To YOU.

I bought a fedora years before it became cool, and because I was never one of "them kids" who reveled in the fact that they were somehow different from "the pack", I hardly wore it and my mom ended up donating it to Goodwill.

Luckily I kept the little red feather that was once attached to this fedora.

Lately (and by lately I mean, the day after I found out the hat was in the big bag that was now in a big bin somewhere) I have tried to find a new one.  I didn't want something patterned or something that had ribbons or bows or other trimmings on it.  Most vintage hats were either too big or too rigid (or too soft) but never "just right".

And where did I end up finding the "just right" hat?  At Forever 21.  When I was looking for a cheap wallet so I could stop using my change purse for everything.  It has a brim that isn't too too wide, it's the right size and cost me less that $10.  AND it is solid black.  No trimmings or frills or trendy baubles, it's just a black hat that I can wear over my face or on the back of my head, and am free to pin however many hat pins/feather/removable baubles as I wish.

It just goes to show that sometimes you just have to sit back and let certain unimportant things come to you.

At this rate, I may go back and buy another just so I can copy this hat I saw at Lilliput (Toronto milliner) last summer.  That is, after I do the YSL sweater project, the "good copy" of the YSL t-shirt, and spray paint my shoes.............