30 days of brandon

i need to give a huge, spectacular shout out to my dear friend brandon, of twentythirtyforty.net, who has been in the midst of a 30 day style challenge for the past month, in which she has challenged herself to wear something completely new every single day without repeating an outfit. i went over to the studio one day to take her daily picture and we were discussing how difficult it is to create a completely new outfit everyday, with just your closet as a resource. she has done beyond fabulously, and i'm so proud of her. these are just a few of my favorites, but you should really check out styled in chicago - the chicago now blog on which she's been chronicling this journey - to see her entire 30 days (look 30 premieres today!).

she is a beautiful, wonderful, creative, fabulously dressed women, and i have inserted each of the photos from her challenge directly into the "style inspiration" folder on my desktop for when i've nothing to wear. xoxo.

images: styled in chicago

blogger love!

i love my dear, wonderful brandon and arlene at twentythirtforty.net. not only are they the most stylish women i know, but they're fabulous, fabulous people, in every sense of the word.

not surprisingly, i'm not the only one who finds their stylish impulses to be completely unstoppable, as they've been asked to write a fashion blog for Chicago NOW, a new site comprised of different blogs written about different topics (art, music, food, free things, crafts, etc) relating to the chicago social/culture scene. their blog, Styled in Chicago, is awesome, and you should totally check it out.




that's arlene at the top (who's really going to kill me for this), brandon in the middle, and me at the bottom, taken when brandon and i did our own ridiculous street style photography during dinner on monday (you can just imagine how much everyone sitting outside loved us). aren't they a delight? such wonderful summer fashion.

hope you're out enjoying the phenomenal weather (if it's anything like chicago where you are)...i'm off to rollerblade along the lake, and then i'm going to inaugurate my first foray into rollerblading-as-transportation with a trip to trader joes. we'll see how it goes...