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Yes to all.
I frequently send my boss an email full of issues and questions and in response I get back, “Yes to all,” which is frustrating in its vaguery, but at the same time seems to imply (I hope) that I’m on the right track with everything. To this girl’s outfit, I simply give a “Yes to all.”
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Best Made Co. Strikes Again
In my ongoing love-hate relationship with Best Made Co., I present to you a preview of their soon-to-be-released short films, which, based on the clip, seem to prove that their designy axes actually are functional, not just pretty. And of course, the video itself is pretty. Shot at 2000 frames per second, it’s actually pretty stunning.
I still maintain that anyone who is seriously into axes and hard (yard) labor probably doesn’t care if their axe is painted with cool stripes, but, nonetheless, I’m a sucker for everything these guys put out there! From the axes to the maps to the videos! Why! The degree to which this stumps (bahhh axe pun) me is sort of absurd.
I have no problem with functional objects being well-designed; in fact, on the contrary, I’d say I’m borderline obsessive about my functional objects being pretty. My problem is that I don’t think the business model makes sense– I just can’t believe that if you made a Venn diagram of axe-wielders and pretty-functional-object-lovers that the circles would overlap very much.
Hence, I’m dying to know the profile of their customer. If they largely live in Manhattan and Brooklyn, then that proves my point but only furthers my annoyance, as I can just imagine people hanging these things on their wall to look cool and never touching them again.
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Girl Crush >> Sofia Coppola
“And there’s always these kind of moments in life that are kind of magical and perfect, but they never last and then you go on, but they’ve always left something with you.” -Sofia Coppola
As photographed for L’Uomo Vogue September 2010
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Pretty People + Pretty Bikes
1: Sally Singer (editor in chief of T Mag) via Paper Mag
2: Jim and Kim Mimran of Joe Fresh and Pink Tartan via Common Elite
3 & 5: The Sartorialist
4 & 6: unknown (Garance?)
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Hedi Slimane
Just came across these on Hedi Slimane’s photo diary (profiled with some of my fave pics of his back here)…
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Behind the Scenes >> Pierre Balmain, 1954
Love these photos unearthed by Brooklyn fashion blogger Sighs and Whispers taken for Life Magazine from backstage at a Pierre Balmain couture show. What an amazing snapshot of a bygone, and oh-so-glamorous, era.
Also interesting to compare to current photos we see from backstage at fashion shows! Don’t these models seem much older and more decidedly feminine than runway models today? I feel like these women look very mature and elegant.
Original post with more photos here.
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Back to School
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Stripes + Stripes =
photo by Rene Maltete
via Swiss Miss
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In God We Trust
If I were a smoker, I’d definitely need one of these cool customizable brass lighters from In God We Trust. Just enough space to fit your initials.
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American Bespoke >> Brooklyn Tailors
As I’ve mentioned (ad nauseum? are you sick of it yet?), I’m really enjoying men’s fashion more than women’s at the moment. Menswear is just having this great back-to-basics, focus-on-quality-and-materials moment, and I really dig it. Here, Brooklyn Tailors, who make custom and ready-to-wear shirting and suits for men (and one shirt for women!).
Girls, keep your boyfriend/brother/whatever looking classy and get him one for his birthday. Guys, one of those shirts above, a pair of jeans or khakis, and a pair of sneakers or dessert boots and you’re set.
They’ve been suiting up men in New York for a while, but now they are also available to those further afield through Etsy.
