The eyes are the windows of your face

Andrew Kuo's tees for Opening Ceremony, still from Christopher Walken's Googly Eyes Gardener skit from SNL, BackMan backpack

Everyone likes to stare these days and there's nothing you can do about it but stare back (or wave, that can be fun). What do people think about when they look at you? Look into their eyes and you'll probably get an idea...unless they are a plant as Christopher Walken explains.

Flavor flavaful

The streetstyle blogs were boring me for awhile, but I finally managed to find a few kids that have inspired me to pull stuff out of the back of my closet! Things that currently make me smile: oversized shapes, cartoons, clashing, monotone, the best of the 80s, the worst of the 90s, big letters, photo prints, translucent materials, polka dots....and the list goes on.




top, Scrapsnap; bottom, Street Peeper

The sky is wide

I was checking out some of the RAFW coverage when I stopped on these REDONK shades from the Fernando Frisoni show. OMFG to the fullest. Where can I get mine??

Nu shooz

Here's some of my latest shoe friends, all a bit clowny, but you know "practical" cause they are flat. The clear converse were haunting my dreams after seeing them in Crayon Lee's wardrobe on Style Like U. I am debating whether to get Boris to add a platform to these and the polka dot espadrilles I picked up from Zara. The orange calf hair booties were my reward for giving in and stopping by the Zero + Maria Cornejo sample sale a few weeks back- finding these glorified slippers was well worth the mad dash on my lunch break!

Plastic Baskets

Walking alone on a windy day, my eye fixates on a single plastic grocery bag fluttering above the street. I realize I'm having a moment parallel with that scene in American Beauty where the bag gets caught in a wind tunnel, swirling about in the air with a pile of leaves, like "a little kid begging me to play with it." NY-based Josh Blackwell also sees the beauty in these everyday mass-produced disposable objects, using the bags as canvases to apply delicate embroidery in simple patterns. Like a wise someone once said, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." I want to not only admire these creations in person, but would love to have one to carry around myself!