Perfect fall November trip.

XoXo 2012

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Two women I greatly admire,

Garance Dore and Erica Tanov.

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backless.

I love backless attire.

What would my life be like

without The Sartorialist and Garance Dore?

Perfect fall November trip.

San Franciso, or Colorado.

Coffee & Champagne

photos by Garance Dore

I love these photos, the big wooden table, just a little purple in there. Coffee and champagne.

Summer.Park.Collage

S*U*R*F

I would buy this Garance Dore photo if I could. The colors, the mood.

Sunday & Easy to please

I love Sundays. I always manage to do a million things & the day goes so easy. Today I found the ELLE UK article on Garance Dore, who just so happened to be in my dream last night. Again. She pops up quite often... It was another fashion design dream where I found myself sorting through piles of vintage clothes, which are really products of my imagination and versions of ideals. Garance was on her way to a party held in her honor. She was wearing a trench coat over a dress with knee high socks and converse sneakers. I have never seen her in converse in any photograph online, so that was quite the fun quirk. Then today, I opened the magazine and on one of the pages there is a photo of a pair of her converse! With a love sticker on the toe. I adore her.

The other day I found this birthday card given to me by my husband. It must have been the year he gave me an ipod. It is such a sweet card and a very spot on rendering of our little clan.

Nosdam toasts. When we lived in Spain, our friend Dave came to visit us and to visit his grandmother (who lived in one of my favorite neighborhoods in Barcelona). He taught us how to make one of his grandmother's recipes. The recipe calls for a baguette, tomatoes, avocado, olive oil, salt & pepper. You smash the tomato into the bread, douse it in olive oil, add avocado, salt and pepper and bake for as long as you like. It is delicious. We call this snack Nosdam toasts in honor of our friend. Making them reminds me of Dave and reminds me of Spain.

Long hair

Photos by Garance Dore. Love her.

The top photo reminds me of almost every summer I spent as a teenager. There was a group of us girls, all about the same age. I think that you had to be there to see it all play out. Dressing up in 30's party dresses and driving around the street really fast in a golf cart. The lake. Knockin' on heaven's door. Seneca road. Boyfriend's prison diary. Boyfriend's band. Long car rides. Long Hair.

Creative Couples

It is safe to say that the tone to my day is set in some way by the influential images and easy writing of both The Sartorialist and Garance Dore. They are a couple. They are amazing. The best word I can think of when I look at this photo is Harmonious.

Instincts

I could not believe it when I saw this picture posted on Garance Dore's website.  An entire tribute to Isabel Marant, and specifically the pants worn by this girl. Why? I have these pants. I love them! In fact I have the entire sweat suit, complete with a 3/4 puffed-sleeve hoodie. I remember when I got it, after many days spent laboring over new Isabel shipments and lookbooks forwarded to me by my favorite boutiques. It is always so difficult to decide what to get. When it arrived I tried to "fold" the items into my wardrobe so that my husband wouldn't get suspicious. It didn't work. He took one look at me and said, "that looks expensive." He's caught on. And here, months later, months after I made the decision to get these pants, I see my instincts confirmed not only by a genius fashion blogger (illustrator, photographer), but by a lovely Isabel Marant shopgirl. There you go.

p.s I got the Isabel at Heist on Abbot Kinney Blvd. in Venice Beach, CA. Great great place.