"Mary Wished to Say Something Sensible, but Knew Not How

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Pants: I'm not sure, Grandpa sweater: my aunts (i stole it from her closet and forgot to ever give it back oops), shoes: Doc Martens It's a relief when i can actually have a link to where i got my clothing. 

Today i am much like Mary, in Pride and Prejudice,  in that I wish to say something sensible but i don't know what or how to say it so i leave you with the above pictures for 

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

-Napoleon Bonaparte   

Stylspiration

Cara Delevingne for The Journal #32 by Hugh Lippe

Ahhh the New Year.

America's excuse to make resolutions that will fall apart by the end of the first week. 

I find that making resolutions in the dead of winter to be just dreadful (i still made them). But what i really mean is that, who wants to go out out of their car to go outside into a gym in barely there gym cloths and work out so that they can loose those 5 pounds that they promised themselves that they would loose when the year flipped from 2012 to 2013 .
When you made that resolution as the ball slowly climbed towards the New Year and you simply can't  find that you can climb towards achieving that goal you had set for your self is something that happens all the time because i know that, with proven facts, that myself and plenty of other people just want to watch them SVU marathons when its snowing and freezing outside and your in a miserable mood. It sucks. 

But i find the dead of winter to be quite the perfect season for fashion, why you ask me. Well this might just be retaining to my style but i love to layer and now i finally have and excuse to wear those 12 dresses all at one time and looking like an Eskimo.

So let's take a look at my style inspiration for the next year shall we. 

Please now scroll to the top of this post. You now see a collage that obviously took me less then 2 seconds (i know its not my best work). Well ignoring that shall we look at what is in this collage which is the always bug eyed Cara Delevingne for The Journal #32 by Hugh Lippe. 

I have probably scanned, screen shot and dragged those above photos into folders labeled Outfitspiration a thousand times to the point that i am surprised that i am still some what sane. 

I love this editorial because i just love it, to its rocker glamorous style, to it's fusion of mixing evening cloths and doc Martins, and of course that one shot (the left one in the collage) where Cara is in a black evening gown pouring her self some coke something i would totally do (except that instead of coke it would be Fanta or Juicy Juice you got to love artificially flavored fruit). I just love the perfect mixing of American and European styles something i aspire to do in my wardrobe and don't get me started with  that half beehive hair do (i love that too). 

From left to right: Stockholm Streetstyle, Love and Lemons lookbook, Charlotte Free for Timo Weiland, Jean Greige, The Sartorialist

When it comes to street style that will inspire some truly great outfits in the upcoming year i see button downs worn over button downs with Ozzy Osbourne glasses  (see far left). i also see some long white shear dresses that could be seen perfectly paired with an Ouija board and a ton of religious relics (see middle left) that sort of style i was obsessed with by the tail end of  2012, you know that creeper gothique i am going to put a spell on you style. i also see plenty of dark clothing in my future because i never have really celebrated winter and all its darkness (see very middle).  Layering has always been in my heart right next to doughnuts and a future in high cholesterol caused by doughnuts but Madeline from the Jean Greige does the layering in a way that just looks cozy (see middle right) something i wish to feel this up coming year she also has the perfect punch line to go with this layered outfit and a new motto for my style in the up coming year.

Fall fashion tip: just throw all that shit on at once. Yeah. Lookin' good.

- Madeline from Jean Greige 

And finally just squint your eyes to the very far right and you will see a woman (cigarette hanging from her mouth oblivious to the fact that those things are a funking gun to the head), but let's just look at her outfit in all its transparency goodness i just love it's head to toe blackness and all i really want for the new year is a transparent shear whatever black dress. 

See more pictures from Shae Acopian Detar here 

Shae Acopian Detar is an LA Based photographer who puts a unique spin on her photos. 
She paints over her breathtaking photos (by the way they are all taken with film cameras) using such painting materials as oil paint and acrylics to paint in different colored backgrounds and even flowers. 
I have been for a long time hoping for a film camera and i hope either when i get it or before then i shall make you some Shae inspired painted photos that will surly appear on this blog. 

Tim Burton's Tricks and Treats for Harper's Bazaar by Tim Walker for me is an essential for the New Year. I find the kinda of late 19th century Gothic wardrobe and that feeling that you don't know whats going on to be extremely inspirational for some strange reason. 


Now to conclude this post i give you a video of a dress being painted by machines in the Spring Summer collection of 1999 for Alexander McQueen entitled the 13th, which was inspired by arts and crafts and had robots spraying spraying a pure white dress with black and pee yellow paints. The robots seem to have some what threatening personalities leaving me to think are machines some what human? But i already know that machines are somewhat humans because my computer is named Luna and she is having a relationship with both an i-touch and a iPhone and also Siri.  

   

I was Expecting "2012" to Happen and Now I am Left to Make Resolutions

This post is all about showing you quotes on pictures, the pictures have no relation to the quotes, which represent my New Year's resolutions.  

Source of this quote: Looking for Alaska By John Green

I should have sucked the marrow out of 2012.

 I should have lived everyday as if "2012" was going to actually happen. 

Well obviously the Apocalypse did not occur and i am now left to reflect on 2012 and what a "joyful" experience it was for me.

Let's put it lightly 2012 was dreadful. It was a complete utter replica of 2011 (besides the fact that i made this lovely blog which is definitely put a silver lining to 2012) , I went through the same "teen" problems that i went through in 2011 the only difference being that 2012 put them on a much more severe scale. 

I spent the year trying to rebound and also trying not to loose my temper at myself. 

My first resolution for the "New Year" is too make sure that its not as shitty as 2012 (= !

I think way to much. 

I think way too much about the littlest things, I over analyze them as if they're the most important decisions i will ever make in my entire life. 

My second resolution is to think less and not make a pro and con chart in my head for why or why not i should eat pizza over dumplings for lunch.  

source of the quote: Looking for Alaska by John Green 

When i think about the best day of my life my mind draws a blank picture. I always think that the best day of my life is some day on the beach with my family but i have had that day on the beach on numerous occasions it is not one secluded day. 
I don't have a single day that i can think of that is extra-ordinary from all the other days i have lived. 

I wish in the upcoming year to find that "best day of my life (so far)" and to stop thinking it hasn't happened yet. 

source for this quote: Looking for Alaska By John Green

I want to scorch the ground with my intensity. 

2012 seemed to be a year where i was just riding a wave that constantly pushed me down i had no time to form "streaks" that i would have wished to maintain, no time to be extraordinary because 2012 seemed to be the year i was drowning just trying to get some relief. 

I hope in 2013 to be a person "who (will) scorch the ground with their intensity"  

source of the quote: The perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephan Chbosky

Have you ever wondered if these are the best days of your life? 

Well that is certainly a question Charlie from the book Perks of Being a Wallflower has pondered over. 

Well i just see it as an excuse to live your life to the fullest because what if these are your glory days. 

So that leads to our 5th resolution, my desperate need to make sure that i live each day to the fullest because i want to look back on my teen years and think that they did not suck that badly (but hopefully these years are not my glory days because that would be quite depressing).

In 2012 i started this blog and in 2013 i hope to achieve greater things.

Now i leave you with a quote that i made up about that pesky hope of being Great one day. 

Happy New Year, 

"And may the odds be ever in your Favor"

-Effie Trinket (The Hunger Games) 

Long Time No Post

And speaking of a long time these photos were taken quite awhile ago. 

They're from a Monet Garden Exhibit that took place at the New York Botanical Garden, which was enchanting!    

 Happy Christmas eve!!

Now take a look at the gardens in my perception!

What I wore: Boots and Jacket- Idk, Shear Dress: Free People, Polka Dot Dress- Vintage, Turtleneck- Simliar one here.

Iekeliene Stange

While going through the endless amount of  editorials that are posted on the blog Fashion Gone Rogue 

I fell upon An editorial done by Baku Magazine (December issue).

While trying to click on photographer Kerry Dean's link I accidentally clicked on the model  Iekeliene Stange's link. Something i would totally do. 

I probably spent an hour scanning and viewing the previous editorials Iekeliene had done only to discover that she was a high cheek boned model, who models. 

So i decided to waste more time by searching Iekiliene up on google because i really didn't want to study for that math test and in my opinion finding out who this model is, is much more important then finding out what y equals. 

So being me i searched her up on google because google has the weirdest name out of all the search engines and i like that about Google.

(below are some collaged images of Iekeliene's appearance for Baku magazine) 

 

And what i found is my new favorite model (if it is possible to have a model that you feel is superior then any other model). 

To her awesome introvert sense of style with it's clownish edge, to one of the most memorable and touching moments i have ever seen on the runway, she took off her Lucite Marc Jacobs sandals mid runway, i know she was just like "hey i will just take off these heels off because hey they are giving me blisters". And to make matters better her personal style icon is not one of those memorable stars from the 20th century but the Princess Snow White!   

But the real reason i love Iekeliene Stange is not because her pairing of that velvet jacket with those thrifted Doc Martins is an utterly a "to die for" look, but the true reason i love her is because she is not like any model in this day and age. She does not wear leather pants with a perfect white t-shirt like many models do so that the people hiring them know what their bodies look like. She dresses the way she wants too, no matter if their is a modeling gig up for grabs. She dresses for her own comfort and isn't that what dressing is all about