KAT VIOLATES HER COMMITMENT TO AVANT-GOTH MINIMALISM BY FALLING IN LOVE WITH A BUNCH OF NEST HANDBAGS
Lately I’m into the idea of rebelling against myself every now and then, just to shake things up a bit, keep things fun and, you know, stave off existential boredom with a bit of Buddhist rebellion. Or something like that. Whatever, dudes, what matters is that I really am a sort of severely dressed, minimalist girl; it keeps things easy and keeps my eye on the prize. But of course I fall in love a lot, sartorially speaking, with things that don’t fit into that mode, and once I held these soft, beautifully made babies from Nest — well, I was a goner, being a total sucker for how things feel and hang off the body. What is great about Nest is that they use such beautiful fabrics, which are rendered into vintage-influenced designs that are straightforward, sturdy and practical — but still really, really pretty. (And, by the way, they’re at pretty good price points for the quality and workmanship of the bag.) They even have an eco/vegan line, but generally their bags use little to no leather for your vegans out there. These are my Nest favorites, but cruise the website (especially for, ahem, upcoming gift ideas):
LIZ GIVES HER APARTMENT A MAKE-BELIEVE MAKEOVER, COURTESY OF ANTHROPOLOGIE
I’ve been trying to make my apartment lots nicer for the past few months or so; it’s sort of a means of dealing with the fact that I probably won’t be acquiring some dreamy new seaside home anytime soon. For now I’m focusing on just getting rid of shit, which is a big struggle for my clutterbug pack-rat self, but sometimes my head floats off into bright and happy fantasies of buying lots of new things to make my “charming” (in the most Craigslisty sense of the word, i.e. “teeny-tiny as all get-out”) little studio all the lovelier. But since I’m so clueless about home-goods-shopping, even my daydreams are wildly uncreative, and I mostly end up just wishing for a big Supermarket Sweep kind of adventure at Anthropologie. Here’s some stuff I’d throw in my grocery cart:
Antwerp Chair, Bella Hothouse Bedding
Botanist Curtain, Joueux Jardin Chandelier
Orimono Pillow, Galliformes Pillow
LAURA JANE APPLIES THE CORE PRINCIPLES OF AVANT-WACK-DOM TO TOPSHOP.COM FOR THE THIRD TIME
Every now and again, I like to scour the Topshop website for things that I think are obscenely cool. I did it once last winter, and then I did it again this past spring. I guess it’s kinda become “my thing”. So, in the grand tradition of me being myself, may I present to you: three hastily-designed photomontages of shit from Topshop that some scrappy little girl from Toronto, Canada thinks is particularly fly right now. Enjoy!
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PS: I AM SO BUYING THE PURPLE VELVET TROUSERS.
PPS: I REALIZE THAT I SPELLED “IRRESISTIBLE” WRONG, BUT IT WAS TOO LATE- I’D ALREADY FLATTENED THE IMAGE, SAVED IT AS A JPEG, AND DISCARDED THE PSD FILE.
Where is the shell shirty from? It IS perfect!