Leather/Wool/Silk/Suede + Cream/Olive/Navy/Cognac
Collage made using Polyvore
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October 14, 2010
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
LustList, Style Files
Labels:
Color Story, fashion
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
LustList, Style Files
Labels:
Color Story, fashion
Arts Visuels >> Classics >> Brancusi
In seventh grade, Ms. Hearey, my art teacher, showed our class this piece and immediately and forever changed my understanding of Modern art.
Bird in Space, 1923.
She put up a slide of this sculpture on the first day of class, without telling us the name or giving any introduction, and asked what we thought of it. As twelve and thirteen year-olds with no particular artistic leanings, we stared dumbly and were unable to offer anything of substance. I remember actually thinking the classic non-Modern-art-lovers’ comment, “I think I could have done that.”
Then she told us the name, and showed us more examples of Brancusi’s style of reducing and abstracting ideas to their simplest form– in this case, a flying bird represented not by beak and wings and feathers, but by a fluid, graceful form encapsulating the essence of a bird in flight– and it all clicked.
The Kiss, 1916
Brancusi (and these two pieces in particular) became a favorite, and Katy Hearey, if you’re out there, I think I have you to thank as starting me on a path that would result in my majoring in art history and generally loving art history for life.
October 13, 2010
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels
Labels:
Arts Visuels, classics, sculpture
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels
Labels:
Arts Visuels, classics, sculpture
Tom Ford
The Tom Ford SS’11 show. Instead of models, he had beautiful women who inspire him modeling the clothes, including Julia Restin Roitfeld, Julianne Moore, Daphne Guinness, etc. Love that idea. No photos were allowed during the show, so that the collection is a surprise when it comes out, but just these photos of the entrance are enough to make me swoon. When he does something, he does it right, no?
[photos by Hanneli]
More from Ball-Nogues Studio
Ball-Nogues studio, who created these awesome suspension installations, also created this map of San Diego for a new local hotel.
Not content with merely an “artistic representation” of the layout of the city, they created a geographic and topographic replica using custom-made software to transform an aerial photo in a 3-d bas relief using wood, bronze, and polymer resin.
October 13, 2010
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels
Labels:
Arts Visuels, I love maps, installation
Curated by:
Eliza Coleman
Section:
Arts Visuels
Labels:
Arts Visuels, I love maps, installation
Anna dello Russo vs…
OK, this is not the kind of blog where I post pictures of my outfits, but this is a little crazy– just came across Anna dello Russo in this dress that looks uncannily like the dress I wore on New Years, and I just had to share. Short striped sequined dresses with long sleeves were not the most common thing last time I checked… I actually got mine at a thrift store and cut about two feet off the bottom, so it wasn’t even something I found in a shop!
Even the shoes! You can’t see the shoes I’m wearing so I added a separate pic of those, and they’re fairly identical to the ones she’s wearing…
Brown paper packages tied up with string…
I love anything field guide-esque, and I love brown paper with red and white bakers’ twine, so I immediately fell hard for these “tying the knot” themed wedding invitations. But the cover of the “guidebook to tying the knot” is only the beginning. There’s even more to love inside…
They just nailed every detail. The fonts, the stamps with the date, the retro clip art-like icons on the “be prepared” page, the luggage tag, the trail map, the very “official”-looking, unsentimental layout of the cover, ugh, I’m dying. These aren’t just invitations, this is like full-on branding for their wedding. I don’t know that I’d ever do something like this for my own wedding, but I am obsessed with how creative and thorough this is!
Designed for and by, not surprisingly, a guy who works for a branding firm Urban Influence – he is the groom as well as the designer!
MUJI Pre-Fab
Japanese minimalist brand MUJI, whose full name roughly translates to “no-name quality goods,” purveyors of well-designed simple products with little packaging and no branding, has entered the pre-fab home market in Japan. I find the development of modern forms of pre-fab homes seriously encouraging for what it could do for green building, affordable housing, etc., so this is pretty cool!
They offer a few different designs, starting at about $200,000. A pretty good deal for a good-looking modern home!
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Although I will say the partitions between the bedrooms below look a little flimsy/not-totally-opaque/not sound-proof?
More on MUJI prefab houses here.
Fall Looks >> Blazer + Big Yummy Scarf >> Keri Russell
I unabashedly love Keri Russell. I’ve seen every episode of Felicity (which says a lot, seeing as I’m not a TV person… I think the show actually might’ve been a subconscious reason I went to NYU (Felicitiy went to “UNY” on the show)), and have watched Waitress almost as many times as I’ve watched When Harry Met Sally.
She’s just so darn charming, she has great hair, and I love that she married a carpenter and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and baby. And then she went and wore this great outfit and I had to put her on the blog.
