kdunst by rodarte

kirsten dunst styled by kate and laura mulleavy for the current issue of lula. liked it so much, i made an image my banner.

help prease? i'm searching for the perfect sartorial holiday image to make as my banner for the month. if you've any favorites — please send them my way.

chicago has turned into a winter wonderland...can't wait for the semester to be over so i can enjoy it! i'm thinking baileys, ice skating, holiday movies. my boyfriend is a peanuts/animation fanatic who's made me promise to watch every animated holiday movie ever made with him. in turn, i've made him promise to watch "prancer" and "the family stone." kate and i are buying each other tickets to the nutcracker for our xmas presents. jack and i have decorated our apartment to the hilt (including his james franco-adorned stocking). so, so excited for this holiday season.

snow + love + cuddling with warm drinks = best time of year, peanuts.

xox,

sassafras

images: moodboard

stylish dna

i wish i had gotten my hands on this 64-page spread in vogue paris "ADN de mode" (DNA of fashion) featuring a glorious bevy of models posing as the designers they're wearing.

love the title, the styling, the photography, the ysl smoking, karl, the whole bit.

images: refinery29

green green dress

i need/want/love/am obsessed with the manuela crepi dress by les prairies de paris at twentythirtyforty.net. you must see it in their newest editorial here.

brandon made me try it on last time i was in the studio and it was the rudest, most cruel thing she's ever done. it's basically the most perfect thing ever created.

call it love

i'm not particularly moved by the story of this editorial (vogue nippon, may 2010, "call it love") - the bff/life of the fabulous theme will always be a mainstay for fashion - but the shoes alone make it worth every while. those lace-up wedges? they're perfect.

although i will say - the addition of nicholas hoult + his styling makes for a glorious little something. i don't think i could ever get enough of skinny ties and slim tailored suits on men.

photographed by: ellen von urwerth

fashion editor: grace coddington

images: fashion gone rogue

vogue. in vogue.

i really thought vogue did a good job with this editorial. although i think it could be more encompassing (it's a little sparse, period-wise, no?) the styling was nice, and the variance of the images was effective. still very us vogue, but nice to see a chronology of different imagery.

what did you all think?

images: fashion gone rogue

parisian sass

in paris, i'll be sitting by fountains all day in fabulous clothes enjoying visual splendor and cigarettes, right?

right.

image: fashion gone rogue

my silhouette

i want to live in this silhouette.

can you tell i've spent a lot of time looking at blogs today? i have been so overwhelmingly busy with school work and work-work and saving-for-paris work that i've not perused blogs, for sheer enjoyment, in what seems like months. i also got a new computer last wednesday (fiiiiinaaaaaalllllllly!) so in setting up all of my preferences, and re-establishing myself on this glorious new macbook, i've rediscovered some old favorites and have been delightfully inspired. add to that a desire to fantasize about the day in which i'll finally be released as a shut-in (may 13!) and a slight level of insomnia, and you've got yourself some blogger madness.

all that's neither here nor there. i still want to live in this silhouette.

image: miss at la playa

kata szegedi ss/2010

i love the fluidity and movement of these images - they have so much energy, yet they possess such liquidity. these are from kata szegedi's ss/10 lookbook, for her entitled "daniel's road." inspired by her best friend, she said "it's all about connections, like roads on a body." you can see that in the progression of her images - like the model never stopped moving and her different outfits were changed without interruption. the colors, shoes, texture, photographic perspective - i'm loving it all.

images: fashion copious

lynn yaeger

i am infinitely intrigued by lynn yaeger and her painted-on lips, penchant for oddities, and natural proclivity for the bizarre. this article with the inside source is great - it features amazing photos and lots of images of all the creepy dolls, et al, she collects.

in fifty years, i totally want to be her.

law and order: steven meisel

although i don't often delve into the personal - i've got to come clean. thanks to my friend kate, and a small business enterprise called netflix, i have developed an unsightly addiction to law and order: svu. at first i scoffed at kate's addiction, but then i discovered that EVERY season is an instant play on netflix and everything just sort of spiraled out of control. it's not even a guilty pleasure anymore. it's a disease.

so, because we should all come clean about what ails us, i'd like to thank steven meisel for "state of emergency" a sept. 2006 editorial from vogue italia that made me instantly think of svu when i saw fashion gone rogue's picture of the day today. as you all probably won't be putting yourself to sleep watching mariska hargitay, as detective olivia benson, fight new york city's most heinous sexual predators...consider this a guilty pleasure.

















images: cyanatrendland