I guess “witchy ballerina vibes” is kind of a thing I get behind once in a while?
shirt free people
skirt zara
boots surface to air
We’re going to take a moment for a highly political interlude and talk about the fact that, like, legalization of gay marriage on a federal level is obviously necessary due to the fact that when the hell else would I ever get to wear this entire situation? Like, from the lipstick to the jacket to the pleated half-sheer maxi skirt gown thing and all. Unless “motorcycle bride with vampire makeup” is a thing I can rock on a daily basis, which I guess I might have to start doing.
In further complications, it turns out that this thing of glory and all the other things of glory above are in fact from the AW2012 show of Christian Siriano, who has not once ever made a thing unruffled enough for me to be interested in it putting on my body, and then this happened. I’m totally stealing this one-liner from Hilary since she said it earlier before and I laughed so hard I spat my lunch out on my computer because I am A Classy Lady, but so many of those jackets and sheer things and boots and all of it are — dare we say it? — fierce.
tee that sharpied YSL thing I made and can never take off
skirt from urban a billion years ago, whateva
hat also have been wearing it for months, oops
creepers underground, which I also wear constantly
OUTFIT POST OVERLOAD CONTINUES. But seriously: I told y’all I was dressing super chill all week. None of this is even new — see all those links to the times you’ve seen it all before — which I think is probably some sort of NYFW crime. Oops! Plus, how great does my awesomely dirty hallway look? Way too cold and dark for the roof still!
What you can’t see here though is how snazzy I did my nails this week — a dull khaki green with orangey-pink stripes randomly on some of the nails:
aaaaaand the latest permutation of the various shades of blonde-silver-purple-grey of my Mermaid Hair Manic Panic Adventures:
In entirely unrelated material, I leave you with Werner Herzog reading Where’s Waldo, in case you had forgotten this existed or not yet encountered it, as well as…. snowtoro!
AND TODAY IN 90’S EDITORIAL GOODNESS, we bring you more 90s-pop-feminism-influenced fashion-androgyny by which I mean “Stella Tennant and then some nakie models with messy hair,” plus the last time that neon opaque blue and yellow lipstick was a thing!
Previously: Arena Homme eds by Stevens Meisel & Klein, the Self Service archives, and more Arena Homme from ‘96. It’s okay if you go ahead and print it all out and paper your walls with it, ‘cuz I was thinking about that too.
[Via the TFS vintage magazines thread, which I could obviously spend weeks browsing.]
skirt gretchen jones
shirt nudie jeans
jacket wilson
boots surface to air
One of the perks of working in fashion is that when, say, you’re wearing a leeeeettle-bit-too-short-skirt and your stockings suddenly bust open in a giant run, like, an unforgivable totally not-cute underwear-baring gaping nightmare run of horror and shame, not that these things happen to me ALL THE GODDAMNED TIME, WHY, WHY TIGHTS, WHY DO YOU HATE ME, there’s usually a rack of samples somewhere in the office to come to the rescue for the rest of the day before you steam them and return them safely to their rack with a sigh of relief before running home to hide from the universe and bemoan your ability (or lack thereof) to ever be a real grownup. Anyhow!
This Gretchen Jones skirt saved me last week, and, goddamnit, I think I’m going to have to get it for real now because I kind of love it. It was one of those things I’d really liked on the rack but never thought it would work on me — it just seemed a little more girly and boho than I usually roll, and I tend to have a hard time with prints. But it worked fortuitously well with the outfit I had on that day — which originally had included a black wool mini instead — and fit in oddly well with my otherwise chains-and-leather-and-grungy-beanie steeze.
We may also notice that I bought another pair of those Surface to Air wedges that we saw me covet and eventually buy here like in 2009 and after wearing the old ones to three separate deaths, each time resurrected by a shoemaker with a little less vitality until finally they were beyond hope, they popped up on Gilt for, well, cheap. SO I JUST BOUGHT THE SAME PAIR OF SHOES AGAIN. Which feels sort of stupid, but whatever, I’m way psyched about it.
Sudden cathartic realization of THE FASHIONS and AESTHETICS: I basically just want my entire life to look like the hypersaturated pop-religion floral sequinned over-the-top faux-branded clusterfuck of the 1996 version of Romeo+Juliet, forever all of the time. Which I hated at the time — I was what, in junior high school the first time I saw it? and not particularly interested in liking anything, let alone Leonardo diCaprio, ew, that was for dumb girls — but have become oddly re-obsessed with in the past year. And a bit of googlin’ revealed that the costume designer was the same lady who did the costumes for The Matrix. Of course!
THIS IS THE LAST TIME WE TALK ABOUT LISBETH SALANDER OR H+M, I PROMISE
Sarah and I have been e-mailing way too much about this goddamned Lisbeth Salander collection, which I’ve mentioned before? Yes? Anyhow she wrote a good thing about it so I don’t need to write another thing since it’s all the things I would think anyhow (we’re serious about the intern), but I am still e-mailing about it and wringing my hands becuase GODDAMNIT I WANT IT I HATE IT BUT IT’S SO CHEAP AND IT LOOKS CUTE WHY AM I HAVING SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT STUPID FUCKING HOODIES WITH THUMBHOLES. And then I found a bunch of photos of the actual collection pieces, and then I realized something.
MAKEUP TUTORIAL PART DEUX: AFTER DARK.
OKAY KIDS. Makeup tutorial, part two time! So you did that nice classy cat-eye with the orange lipstick thing earlier in the day, right? And now you just got home from work and are going to, I don’t know, something FABULOUS and you want to look like a grungy alien witch mermaid goth from space in the 90’s or something, yeah? But like you don’t actually want to pull out the blue lipstick like Meg does sometimes because you still want to look sort of like a presentable human, just with rad eye makeup? Like this?
Tumblr has also informed me that I have “partial heterochromia.” Cool!
Cool. So you’re gonna go home, wipe off the rest of that lipstick, and dust a little loose powder over your face to negate any shininess that happened during the day, and maybe fix your brows a bit. And then we’re gonna get started. You’re going to go into the bowels of your makeup box/bin/bag/Kaboodle/whatevz and get:
- Black waterproof pencil or gel (not liquid) eyeliner
- Grey or dark purple waterproof pencil or gel eyeliner
- A matte black eyeshadow
- A shimmery, sheer metallic eyeshadow or pigment (white, silver, gold, or bronze)
- Black mascara
- Lip balm
- A little bit of a neutral darker lipstick
- A sheer black lip gloss
Ready?
MAKEUP TUTORIAL (AT LONG LAST!): EVERYDAY RETRO
So you guys all comment or ask me for a makeup tutorial like once a goddamned week, I swear, and I finally did it! For some reason this felt super awkward? Like way more awkward than taking photos of my outfits? It’s really weird to do one step of your makeup and then take a picture and then after like eighteen photos I’m all “ew god that is WAY TOO MUCH OF MY FACE this is so embarrassing what am I doing ew, wait shit I shouldn’t have worn this tube top now it looks like I’m NAKED too, someone SEND HELP PLZ” but anyhow, whatever, MOVING ON.
This is pretty much my daily makeup routine, more or less: the whole thing takes me less than ten minutes at this point and relies basically on a simple bold cat-eye and a bright lipstick colour. This is basically what I do in the morning, for work or ordinary daytime things, and later in the week (I did TWO!) I’ll post the second half of this to show you what I do at the end of the day, with this stuff basically already on my face, to go from “daytime appropriate” to “super gothy 90s club kid editorial black eyeliner new sparkly Gareth Pugh pigment and greyish purple lips whatever I don’t even know” that I guess is more what my face usually looks like after 9 PM. It’s the Jekyll and Hyde of makeup tutorials or something? I DON’T KNOW. Let’s get started. Three steps only, I promise!
You’ll need:
- Foundation
- Highlighting powder
- A good waterproof liquid eyeliner
- Matte black eyeshadow, or whatever you like to use on your brows
- A big fluffy blush brush and a small angled brush
- Mascara
- Lip balm
- A bright or bold lip colour of your choice — I’m using my usual orangey-red.
Deets after the jump!
Theysken’s Theory PF2012.
GODDAMNIT, OLIVIER, ARE YOU EVER GOING TO DO ANYTHING WRONG OR AM I JUST GOING TO HAVE TO KEEP COMPULSIVELY POSTING EVERY SINGLE COLLECTION YOU COME OUT WITH, DEVOID OF ANY COMMENTARY OTHER THAN ‘DROOL’? Gaaaaaaaah.
MONTHLY PICSPAM/MOODBOARD/WHATEVZ TIME Y’ALL. More of the usual, it seems: apparently all I want this winter is still serious big pastel or blonde hair with drawn-on eyebrows (sound familiar?) and lace-up boots and crop tops with ratty layers and major 90’s vixen babetown vibes and bra tops and fur and maybe some weird athletic wear mixed in there too? I don’t know. I dyed my girlfriend’s hair cotton candy pink and got her a white studded belt for her birthday, I guess I’m still majorly regressing. That’s okay, right?
When my friend Erwin asked if I would help out with his photo portfolio and model for him, of course I said yes! I bought this dress for next to nothing at a Buffalo Exchange last week and have been wearing it every opportunity since.
dress vintage
vest h+m
creepers underground
hat allsaints
photos by Erwin
Before you leave me that snarky comment about how over-the-top tacky leopard faux-fur coats are, like, so two years ago, that just sounds like the perfect time to find them a lil’ cheaper at thrift stores to me. I’m totally over all those conservative, sensible black wool coats I posted last year — loud’n’trashy winterwear 2k11/2k12, please.
This weekend’s brisk but sunny weather called for a trip up to Fort Tryon Park and The Cloisters, hands down one of my favourite places in the city. It’s unreal that somewhere that looks so old and mysterious is just half an hour north of midtown on the A train — the riverside gardens, arches, crumbling stone paths, castle, and ivy-covered stone walls look more like Vyšehrad in Prague or something than an Olmsted-planned park and branch of the Met plopped down on a former Revolutionary War fort.
jeans current elliot
tee, scarf american apparel
jacket april77
boots timberland
sunglasses rayban
(And for all of y’all who always request less-girlier styles here, significant otter @RXTURN3R is wearing Allsaints jeans, Jeremy Scott for Adidas shoes, French Connection coat, a Coal hat and Jeremy Tarian sunglasses.)
Miliyah Kato x Saga Sig — a little reminiscent of all those photos of Eriko Nakao I posted a while back, no? Totally epic, and now all I want to do is match neon periwinkle eyeshadow and nail polish or put weird temp tats on my face and neck.
