college

"Do you think it's a coincidence that college is when many Americans do their most serious fucking and falling-down drinking and generally ecstatic Dionysian-type reveling? It's not. College students are adolescents, and they're terrified, and they're dealing with their terror in a distinctly US way. Those naked boys hanging upside-down out of their frat house windows on Friday nights are simply trying to buy a few hours escape from the grim adult stuff that any decent school has forced them to think about all week"

- David Foster Wallace in Consider the Lobster

rumors

Apparently Blake Lively has been rumored to be the new Carrie in the eventual SATC prequel. Honestly I cannot believe they're actually making another movie after the soul-wrenching awfulness of the last one, especially with a new actress. Yes, it will probably make millions, especially with uber-star Lively as headliner, but it's just driving the original show's legacy straight into the mud.
I guess I can visibly see how it would work, but somehow my guts is saying that if this does come to pass it won't exactly be cinematic gold.

I want some BOY

Boy by Band of Outsiders that is! nyucknyucknyuck...
Seriously though, so many things to love about the SS11 shots they just put out. Kirsten Dunst is perfect for Polaroids, plus she's weilding a Blow Pop - girl after my own heart. It was incredibly difficult to choose just a few favs; I gravitate to the borrowed-from-the-boys aesthetic and this collection has my current obsessions as well: slightly prep, and army green. I love the rumpled grunge of a cargo-style ensemble, a la photo 2, and the plain piped tee in photo 3 harkens back to my tennis days. Photo 1 is just the cutest thing ever, especially those metallic oxfords and the tails topcoat.
Now I'm yearning for round John Lennon glasses too... help.

Gaga's leaked Vogue

Lady Gaga's Vogue cover leaked Friday, and sources have confirmed it's authentic. I'm still waiting to see it up close to survey the amount of inevitable airbrushing but there are a few comments at first glance. First, I find it interesting that Vogue feels the need to work in pink into almost every single cover they produce. Her short pink bob is very Lady and I like it a lot, but the complementary pink lettering bothers me. It's just so... well, it's so Vogue. And let's be honest, US Vogue is about the least edgy magazine there is. They could have still kept to their standard but changed the lettering to maybe a deep purple to work off the lipstick, if they still wanted to do matchy-matchy. But that's not to say she's been romanticized here like so many who grace Anna's covers are, especially considering that plum lipstick (love it) and the squared stance. It's pretty, but the combination of the plunging neckline and pink hair are the anchors to Gaga's controversial nature.
I'm also intrigued by the rumor that she's wearing Haider Ackerman. In a very off-hand question, Karl Lagerfeld recently said that should he have to chose a successor today it would likely be Ackermann. I'm wondering if Anna heard this and, if it is Ackermann's dress on Gaga's too-lean frame (airbrushing? Or just another indication that as Gaga's fame rises her body weight drops?), chose accordingly. Or perhaps she just wanted to stray from her usual floaty-frilly dress theme and knew Ackermann would give at least a marginal bit of cred.

quote of the day

"I always say that I would rather spend a week at Rikers Island or the hospital than do Fashion Week. Don't you think it's like school? It's sort of divided up into periods and it has mean girls and you go from one class to another. It's the worst,"
-Lynn Yaeger.

it's an old quote but as Fashion Week is heating up I felt it appropriate.
Not that I would ever decline a FW invite but... it's still funny.

sk8r grl

Spring Ads are out in full swing and being a surftown girl I can't help but notice the decidedly Dogtown-ZBoys tendencies in the latest batch of SS11 shoots. Obviously, 70s is experiencing a revival - please, that's only been beaten into our brains by every analysis this side of September - but now we're starting to actually see it commercially materialize and, frankly, I'm really feeling the lazy daze vibe. I'm still a fan of leather and army green cargo parkas, but I could totally go for some marigold sundresses and a nice vibrant wedge, perhaps a cherry-print ruffle bikini? I was raised on skateboards and sandy beaches - these ads look more like my hometown on a July day than something 'latest' - but I'm loving it, especially as I've grown so utterly sick of every spring collection featuring florals. Springtime, birds chirping, pastel flowers. Yes. We get it. Give me something new. True, the inspiration is probably actually from So-Cal but I'll take what I can get, yeah?
Below, a collage with my favorite ads and some 70s Cali girls and boys.

Marc Jacobs SS11; 70s Pierre Cardin dresses; Georg Jensen SS111; girl, Huntington Beach
skater, Huntington Beach; Gidget; flikr photo
Celine SS11; flikr photo; Bally SS11; flikr photo; Jil Sander SS11; unknown

and while we're at it, a nice dose of the original surf rock... under all this snow, we need some wishful thinking

best new music

cannot get enough of this song. It's the first song off The Decemberists new album, The King is Dead, and I've had it on repeat for a week. The album is pure recognizable Decemberists but strays away from the political-commentary tone they adopted last time. Not that that was a bad thing I just really appreciate their simpler banjo-and-harmonica ridden tunes more .

take a gander. I love... do you?