Speaking of Mayle, here are some favorites from Mayle’s Spring ‘08 collection inspired by a Manet exhibition at Moma.

Someone who’s stlye, energy and music I have been inspired by for the past.. decade, (wow, now I am feeling old) is Kazu Makino of BlondeRedhead. Her best friend is Jane Mayle and she wears and embodies the spirit of Mayle clothes better than anyone. She really exemplifies how perfect dresses are the easiest thing to wear to look amazing. With an effortless and always very unique look, she is someone who I will always look to for style inspiration.

To go along with the pretty wedding post, and since I keep coming across articles that declare it’s wedding season, here is a blog for a floral shop in New York I recently discovered called Saipua, a nice way to get a daily dose of fresh flowers.

I came across this beautiful spread with a unique take on wedding outfits, styled by Yoko Omori. She never ceases to amaze and inspire me. images from So-En magazine. (larger versions here, here, here, and here)

check out this great little feature on Ikeleiene from Refinery 29.

I missed this opening for this Fine Art group show at Saint Martins, but I’m sure it’s still up for a little while. If you are in London go check it out!

I am back! I had such a nice time that I didn’t want to come home. There are too many great things to talk about so here are some visual highlights for now.

I am off to Paris + London for the next 10 days! I maaay not be posting while away, but there’s sure to be lots of show + tell when I get back.

image from Lula

I’d like one or more of Maison Martin Margiela’s new shapes please.. m.m.m. is always an inspiring reminder that some designers are trying to create something new, fresh and conceptual in fashion.

I’m so excited to visit his shop in Paris next week. I love how he describes his line as “what Siouxsie Soux and Ian Curtis would wear in Hawaii.”

via Refinery 29

I don’t know very much about Tomoaki Shimizu, he appears to maybe be involved in fashion, but I saw his pile of cute bears and other animals in a magazine spread on kawaii a long time ago and then I just discovered a photo of the same thing in this Japanese guide to Paris I just bought and there was a blog address! It appears that he collects and saves old toys and cleans them up. It’s so sweet! I love the photos of the teddy bears getting a bath haha.

More amazing stationary products from Japan from So-En Magazine. click here for a closer look. It was also from this spread that I discovered Penguin books products. I love the pencil set!







available here.

Hope you can spend the day up in a tree wearing a beautiful outfit like this too. I know I wish I could. This is one of my very favorite fashion images of all time. Maria Carla is so pretty, I saw her in Whole Foods last week with my friend Phyllis and we were in awe.

Pretty colors from Poltock and Walsh’s Spring lookbook. I need that collar piece from the top image, I don’t know what for exactly but I need it, it’s so beautiful I would try to find somewhere to wear it.

I am always collecting beautiful scraps of paper and wishing I was putting them to good use like this.
I love these collages by Jacob Whibley from his site keep it hardcore.

I love all of the bright colors of spring this season. It was so much fun when I went to a Pop Rally DFA Dance party opening for the MOMA’s color chart show and everyone was dressed in super bright colors and taking photos in front of giant bright colored pieces in the museum. Since I hadn’t seen the actual invitation, which said to wear colorful attire, I started thinking wow this bright color trend has really taken off! I soon realized it was just part of the theme, but there is a definite brightness of attire out there in shops right now, and everyone at the MOMA seemed to be enjoying having an excuse to wear the brightest hues possible. My friend Justin Miller from DFA records dj’d, there was an open bar, they handed out colorful totes at the end of the night, and it was a great time. There should be more museum parties like this. Now if only I had one of these great outfits above to wear to it, it could have been even better. haha



images above from top to bottom: orange Jil Sander dress from Ten Magazine, ‘Harlequin’s Carnival’ set design by Damien Poulain, Dior Homme outfit from Purple Magazine, ‘floor piece’ pink box by Hreinn Fridfinnsson (not at MOMA), white dress from Chloe S/S 08 + pop rally tote bag.

dreamily lit photos by Matt Sundin.

Great colors, so fun and playful. Check out more from the girls from omsk here.

discovered via bored & beautiful

I love how playful and sweet this photo is, it’s part of an exhibition of Linda McCartney’s photography at James Hyman gallery in London through July 19th. Her photos captured such beautiful intimate moments. I can’t wait to be there in a couple weeks to check it out.

I was able to take a peak at the new issue of Jalouse that just came out, and it is so good! There are too many things to put up you just have to go out and buy it, but I loved this article featuring Valentine Fillol Cordier in her place filled with all her beautiful things strewn about, so I just had to share this.

Apparently Boudica had a Cake contest recently. check out the site for more interesting cake submissions here.
I love good food photos, they can be so pretty sometimes. Even leftovers can be aesthetically pleasing and they tell such a satisfying story.

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I can’t wait for the summer!

images from Jalouse magazine.

I discovered the photography of Serge Leblon via cheri ami and was so happy to discover the answer to who shot so many things that I had been admiring lately. The spring Sonia Rykiel ads, the Jarvis Cocker album cover, one of my favorite colorful spreads styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington, and he has so many beautiful portraits of some of my favorite famouse people.