Appetite for Destruction

Miu Miu dress and boots.


This photo was taken during the Paper Planes magazine editorial shoot in Hollywood. I really wish I could have kept that Miu Miu dress--there were naked ladies on the collar for gods sake, I need to own that.

Check out the behind the scenes video from the shoot here.

Advanced Style Video: Tziporah Salamon

Here is the latest Advanced Style video installment from amazing videographer Lina Plioplyte. Check out her site Teenage Peanut and more videos on her Vimeo page. We have featured Tziporah Salamon several times on Advanced Style, but I always find that its best to give people their own voice.

beets

Spent two final grueling hot days digging for shop goods last week and managed to pick up a few things for me!

Our time away from home is drawing to an end and I am most excited to get back into familiar routine. Once home I promise more substantial updates, for now I'll leave you with an excellent update from Always the Forest on cooking up your own natural blush! I gave it a shot last night and was surprisingly pleased with the results! If you have any more natural make-up secrets up your sleeve I'd love to hear them!

SPÚÚTNIK

Shot these images in Reykjavik with amazing team, all of these amazing vintage clothes are from SPÚÚTNIK vintage store in Reykjavik.

Photos. me
Styling. Hrafnhildur Hólmgeirsdóttir
Makeup. Ísak Freyr
Hair. Þorsteinn Blær
Model. Elín Jakobs and Danival /Eskimo models

Head in the clouds.

Spring where o' where have you gone?

Start of Summer Flea Market Sale !

Hi everyone!
Here is a little schedule for how things will be running over at my etsy shop for the next 2 months or so ... Which seems like a long time in advance, but time is moving along so quickly lately!

I'm planning a long trip to New England at the end of June and I'll be there until probably late July. During that time the shop will be in vacation mode (I'd love to be able to keep it open but there's too many family things going on it'd be impossible for me to keep up!) so I want to make sure everything has found a home with someone before I leave. (I'll be bringing back new findings and there's not enough space in my tiny apartment for everything!!)

Leaving for almost a month means lots of planning and loose ends to tie up in San Francisco (plus I'm taking Westley with me and I've never flown with a dog before) so to make sure I don't have too much etsy shop stress before I leave I'm going to start now by having a flea market sale!

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http://www.etsy.com/shop/thirteeneightyfive



- From now until Thursday evening at 6:00 PM Pacific everything is up for grabs. Please understand that there are a few things that I can't budge toooo much on... But, I do want to make sure mostly everything is gone by Thursday!

- Pick your fancy from my shop and send me a message with an offer price. I'll write you back and either accept that price or offer a different one. If you agree on that price then I'll reserve the Item for you!

- Since I'm running the sale for almost a week, the only catch is that I'll be offering only a 24 hour reserve period for the item(s). So it has to be purchased and paid for within 24 hours otherwise it'll go back up for grabs.

- And of course the golden rule of the flea market applies - the more you buy the more you save - so don't be shy and shop away!
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Then on Friday I'll be adding some of my own printed cotton summer dresses to the shop and then Alameda flea market loot will be added sometime after June 9th/10th.

Phew! Ok! Hope everyone is enjoying this long weekend!

new journalism

I am reading a book called The Gang Who Couldn't Write Straight at the moment. It's about Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion et al and the New Journalism movement. It's wonderful, and I find reading about this time in journalism and media fascinating. But I've always felt a little uncomfortable with the hype and hope pinned on new journalism - was "new journalism" really that new?

I read a piece on the Paris Review today which I think is quite apt. It's an interview with John McPhee. I've not read any of his work, but reading this has made me inspired to write again, which is a nice feeling after a three-month stint at the Sunday paper regurgitating press releases and writing drivel about television programmes I haven't watched.


INTERVIEWER You were writing in the sixties and seventies, when there was a lot of talk about New Journalism. What was your attitude toward that? Did you feel that something different was happening in nonfiction writing?
MCPHEE Well, something was happening in the Sunday magazine of The New York Herald Tribune. It’s often described as some kind of revolution, but I never really understood that. Nonfiction writing didn’t begin in 1960. Going back, there were so many nonfiction writers—what about Liebling? Walter Lord, James Agee, Alva Johnston, Joseph Mitchell—these are people who had prepared the way, and, more than that, had written many better things than these so-called New Journalists would ever do. Henry David Thoreau, for all that, was a New Journalist of his time, as were Dorothy Day, Ida Tarbell, Willa Cather between the ages of twenty and forty at McClure’s Magazine, John Lloyd Stephens, Richard Henry Dana Jr., and on back to Thomas Browne, Robert Burton, Francis Bacon, James Boswell, and Daniel Defoe. You get the point.
       New Journalism sounded like labeling for labeling’s sake. Some of the things were really interesting to read, but there was too much precedent challenging the word new. Anytime I was called a New Journalist I winced a little with embarrassment.
       Tom Wolfe helped bring a certain amount of attention to this kind of writing. But he’s just Tom Wolfe. It didn’t happen because one person did it. It happened because a whole bunch of people across a lot of time were interested in making pieces of writing out of factual material that would stand up on their own. They were not just writing articles telling you how to recover from hypothermia.


You can read the rest here...

perfect is as perfect does

“Babe Paley had only one fault,” commented her one-time friend Truman Capote. “She was perfect. Otherwise, she was perfect.”

Girls who never have a hole in their tights make me really nervous.

nest

I'm going into hibernation. It's cold. I'm buying shelves and a new wardrobe, and rather than thinking about clothes, I've been thinking about furniture. Rugs. Crockery. Trade Me prints. Painting old furniture. Finding a Bertoia chair for next to nothing and covering it with a white sheepskin.

Girl Meets Boy

Brazilian supe Raquel Zimmerman channels her inner teddy-boy for a Paris Vogue/Emmanuelle Alt/Isabel Marant extravaganza. This is going to be the go to look when Fall 10 rolls into town. I know you've already been wearing the shit out of your biker jacket - but you can't tell me you seriously own red leather pants do you? Dust off your suspenders and skinny tie and quit complaining!

Paris Vogue via fashionising

Lusting...

A. Wang sunny's i-D magazine via le Fashion

Summer movies

I'm really excited about summer this year! I'm really looking forward to my 3 weeks in France and I've been listening to "Sea sex and sun" by Serge Gainsbourg to really get in the mood for the French riviera (I'll probably skip the sex part but I'll enjoy the sea and sun!). When I get back I'll only be in Sweden for a week until we go to England for Carl's cousins wedding. I know that I expressed some cynical views about weddings a couple of months ago in a blog post, but I don't hate them! It's just that we have a huge wedding hysteria in Sweden now since the oldest princess is getting married so I got fed up. I'm way to sentimental not to love weddings. After all the traveling, I'll spend a week at the west coast in my parents summer house by the sea. I love the sea more than anything and missed it so much after moving from Göteborg. Anyway, enough about my summer schedule, here's a list of my top favorite summer movies that can be watched after a long day at the beach:

1. Sommar med Monika

Summer with Monika is one of my all time favorite movies! It's about a young couple who runs away one summer and lives on different islands in the archipelago outside of Stockholm. It was controversial abroad when it came out since you get to see Harriet Anderssons naked behind. It's a really sweet yet bitter love story

2. Nóz w wodzie

The knife in the water is about a middle aged man and his younger wife on their way out on a sailing trip. They end up inviting a young hitch-hiker to come with them and this eventually leads to a domestic triangle where the two men start fighting on the boat and the young man falls into the water. The movie is built up great and the soundtrack by Krystof Komeda is fantastic.

3. The Cement Garden

The cement garden is about a teenage boy who lives with his two sisters and little brother in a depressing little town. During a short period of time both parents in the family die and the two oldest kids decide to bury the mother in the basement in order to avoid foster care. The relationship between the boy and his older sister slowly evolves to an incestious love affair while the home falls apart under the care of only children. It's a really weird movie with a great feeling of decadent teenage summer.

4. 8 1/2

8 1/2 is about a movie director trying to relax after his latest big movie, but everyone around him is excited to get started with a new movie again. He finally decides to make a new movie, inspired by his surroundings. This movie, like most of Fellini's movies, is more based on moments than plot. This movie feels like an orgy of childhood memories and is also one of my favorites all time!

5. En kärlekshistoria

En kärlekshistoria is a beautiful love story about two young teenagers. The contrast between the pure love of the teenagers and the uglyness of the adult world makes it extra powerful. This is a classic Swedish movie and one of the best teen movies ever in my opinion! The movie takes place in the same neighbourhood I grew up so I feel extra connected to it.

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A little while ago I went with Hillary Rush to a Judith Leiber Charity Event at their store on Rodeo Drive and got to see some old friends.