mariachi y mojitos

claire and adam

gracias senor black

you made me and my apartment look so lovely.
styling by mademoiselle turner.

check out his blog for a bigger selection.

made to measure

claire is making me a high waisted pencil skirt for summer!! in gigham or floral or something else totally radical.
[we did our fitting on s.7th ave, much to the intrigue of our fellow tapas diners at ostia.]

apple blossom smells like home

my room in the house i grew up in overlooked about 5 apple trees. these ones by my dads's house were in full bloom last week and my olfactory senses went into childhood bliss.

matt[y] siegle is super

my buddy matt is out at calarts getting his m.f.a..he used to live in new york and now he lives in los angeles and studies with our gal suze on the left side. i ran into him at the openings, when i was out there visiting, and i was reminded to check out his website.
and my feeling is that along with being a very handsome fellow, he is talented and witty within his work and this is important to me. check out his work here

tricycle time

i found this bike on the street in soho back in the summer of '02. i was studying art history at NYU and was currently obsessed with duchamp and his readymades. this little guy struck me as a metaphor for childhood past- no seat and a broken bell.
anyhoo, it has been at my mom's house [much to her -non pack rat- displeasure] ever since. she has desired to get rid of it again and again but i've been steadfast in my belief that someday, this lovely piece of art [not junk as she would have it] would come in handy.
that day is soon. the lovely katharine is going to curate it-with some modifications- into a show taking place during the bicycle film festival. so there, ma. ha! vindication of my [accumulated] beliefs is always appreciated.
cheers kat for being so frickin'awesome.
xL

romance

looking forward to the white sands wedding of rachel and chris, whose engagement story remains to be one of my super top faves. involving a post baby bike ride in barcelona, one grooms-made candy ring, and one bride-to-be devouring it promptly.

kid's today

i'm sure he'll be better at computer code than all of us at age 4.

i've eaten two this week

the one featured was eaten on thursday. after therapy, and just after a gossip girl sighting [the real life couple of blake lively and penn badgley- walking hand and hand into the bed bath and beyond on 6th ave]. i had a five minute sit down on the corner, which you mostly only do alone if you're new here or a tourist...it was kind of like a weiner meditation watching the city go by.
delicious and awesome views and one of those moments when i really remember why i heart ny.

tonight's dog at the movie theater made me feel sick.
p.s. in case you don't know gossip girl [which you should] this is them:

rainy day women

we sat it out, 'like it was london', whilst all y'all pussed out and went inside.

the jam

the invites

top created by house of donnelly
bottom courtesy of white lightning

nerds of blogtown steez

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1. steve of polio polio polio...all's i can say is, FUCK YEA!

2. ladyE of white lightning..rocking the white fantastic

3. claire of gossip topic..covetable fringe fantastic

4. carlen of carlen altman..modeling one of her jewish rosaries. on the right is the host, DB, modeling one of BD's grateful dead t's [which i just began to suspect was brought to the city for me/as brendan said he had left a black GD T at dave's and i could arrange to get it from dave, when i got back from LA/ is it serendipitous that dave should be wearing it everytime i see him as of late?/ hmm..]

manhattan vintage show

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1.ms.katie clements on the corner. she was on the fone. i was listening to spanish for dummies on my ipod

2.rEdiculously stunning [but unfortunately slim fitting] emerald green terry de havilland platforms, that i tried to jam on, to no avail. but which kat managed to squeeze into, only to decide that they were only appropriate for seated parties. and at $200, an L riding girl was unlikely to indulge. [they are back in production and thus exist as a super dream shoe (along with the vivienne westwood mary jane/ and pirate boot)]

3.this guy. who i haven't seen since the day i got my red fur hat at the hell's kitchen flea market..what a hoot..i'm terribly curious about him and his like minded addiction to vintage. well and also how he became such a mad hatter. [i will say he has some of the very best spandex in town.

4.what one wears to work, when one goes shopping at the metropolitan pavillion with one's boss, the one and only betsey johnson.[not sure why i didn't take her picture]

i will show you pics of my scores in a post soon..but highlights were a chain vest/necklace thing, wide leg hang ten jeans, a 70's bikini with matching tie front crop top, super worn in 70's playboy ringer T and strawberry print superwide leg summer trousers.

katie's treasures were a mauve and white strappy seersucker jumpsuit, an emerald/teal cropped knit bra/tank, high waisted khaki safari shorts, and an amazing red white and blue 60's or 70's bikini..i dare her to post them for you to see.

sounds like a lot. but we collectively restrained from buying a hot pink YSL fiesta dress confection, slightly too tight but handmade asian slippers, $200 green linen caftan, $80 70's AMAZING stripey hotpants, white ferrago flats, a chanel gun, giant bird necklace, spats, a wooden clutch with sailboat inlay and oh so much more...

so so much amazing stuff from vendors around the country.
i highly recommend a visit when it happens again in the fall. i know i will be a returning offender.

an exchange with a [tuned out] vendor from virginia, "are skinny jeans back? you're the second girl i've seen today with them on."
to which i replied [stifling an aghast fashion reflex], "it's basically a jeans free for all right now-skinny, wide leg, bell bottom, straight, anything goes but bootleg"