Sweater Sisters.

All Images via The Sartorialist

Quotation of the Week

"'How do you juggle it all?' People constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. 'You're screwing it all up, aren't you?' Their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent, but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I've poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away." 

— Tina Fey

Bon Weekend!

Ellie Goulding - Lights by igapromotion

I'll be rocking to this tune on walks at twilight and windy beach days :)

We the people.

US Royalty performs their song "Equestrian". Shot on location at the AE photo shoot in Nashville, TN. I like it. Feels gritty and free-spirited. Feels like summer :)

Morning rituals.

Image via Musings in Femininity

Caffeinating has never looked so chic.

Hangin low.

I got da blues.

All Images via Old Man Swag.

 

I would say my style is more on the sporty side than the feminine, so I love love taking inspiration from men's fashion. I be rollin in my chambray, nautical stripes and light wash denim alllll summer long.

Summer Tunes

Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks by Strueber

Quotation of the Week

"I like things that are worn. I don't like newness... I still wear old things. And I wear new things. And the old things that I love are non-fashion. There's a timeless quality and an unfashionable sensibility... They're utility, the things you wear to work in, they're things that have sort of an honesty."

— Ralph Lauren

Weekend Music

Passion Pit - Little Secrets by Jaylumlock

Hot communication.

Image via Wit and Delight

Just converted to the iPhone. Needless to say, it's really rad.

Rocking out.

Directed by Tony Kelly for American Apparel from Tony Kelly Photography on Vimeo.

Bookworm.

Quotation of the Week

"This world demands the qualities of youth: Not a time of life, but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite of adventure over the life of ease."

Bed {and} breakfast {in} bed.

Image via Apartment #34

Image via Apartment #34

Image via That's Chic

Above is some design inspiration as I begin packing and moving (once again) into my new home. I've always been attracted to calm, meditative palates: White, gray browns and blues, taupe, with occasional red.

Power couple.

Image via Apartment #34

I love a tailored trench coat and a good-sized leather bag. Mmm ... I MISS NEW YORK.

Bromancing till the world ends.

The White Panda! I've been following them for a while — So, so good. The duo really makes you appreciate mash-ups at a time when the trend is for sure on the decline. Or are they?! These are truly superb.

Foolish Monsters by whitepandamusic

Perfect workout/running music. I lurv.

"The White Panda formed when two boyhood friends discovered they had independently embarked on mashup careers in college. Chicago-based Procrast (Tom Evans) first blended Rick Astley snippets with 2 Live Crew grooves as a way to avoid productive activity in 2008, while DJ Griffi (Dan Griffith) embarked on the same mission, for a similar purpose, in L.A. Their combined effort, the White Panda, launched in 2009 with a single that topped internet radio charts days later."

Stereo Hands - White Panda (Edward Maya vs. Roscoe Dash, Waka Flaka Flame, & Wale) by travissap

The White Panda - Till The Bromance Ends by DJ Major League

Great summer rocking out playlist — It's an hour of perfectly mixed dancin tunes:

Versus (The White Panda Mixtape) by whitepandamusic

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Vintage!

 

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

Favorite lines —

"So my hope for all of you here is that you're going to walk across the stage and get your diploma, you're going to go out tonight or maybe all summer and celebrate (you deserve it), and then you're going to lean way into your career. You're going to find something you love doing, and you're going to do it with gusto. You're going to pick your field and ride it all the way to the top."

"The most important career decision that you will make is whether or not you have a life partner and who that partner is. If you pick someone who is going to share the burdens and the joys of your personal life, you're going to go farther."

"A world where men ran half our homes, and women ran half our institutions would just be a much better world."

"Do not lean back, lean in."

"Put your foot on the gas pedal and keep it there, until the day that you have to make a decision."

"Try until you find something that stirs your passion, until you find a job that stirs you and stirs others. It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."

"I hope that each one of you have the ambition to run the world, because this world needs you to run it."

"Go home and ask yourself: What would you do if you weren't afraid? And then go do it."

Hot dry breeze

Image via Chic Muse

Image via Chic Muse

HOLD STEADY.

Images via My Vibe My Life

Some images for motivation... and balance + organization + energy...

After a super duperly awesome (don't know why my vocabulary has reverted to that of a 13-year old) weekend, it's hard to come home and face the monstrous to-do list that I've been running away from for the past ... uh ... for quite a while.

I've got about a week until my big move to Pittsburgh — enough time to recenter, refocus and in general, feng shui my life back together. Kind of excited, believe it or not. It's going to be a great week. Here are some great rock sculptures for inspiration ... xx oo

Quotation of the Week

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything because it's all written there."

Beautiful rustic summer days

Image via Thats Chic

Image via Deep in Vogue

Image via Thats Chic

Work work work itt

Image via Les Composantes

Great future work wear, I think, yes.

Carla Marion Paris

I gotta see this new Woody Allen asap. It looks very Vicky Cristina Barcelona gone French. Just how I roll...

BON {GRADUATION} Weekend! Run, Run, Run on outta there!

Image via The Daybook

Graduations got me feeling all bittersweet, but then I put on this tune and feel amped instead.

"When I get sad. I stop being sad, and be awesome instead." 

True story, Barney Stinson.

Earth Wind & Fire - September by FiFi.x

Fave lyrics as per uge —

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in September
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days 

Quotation of the Week

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

This is... my alma mater

This Is from Alex Silver on Vimeo.

YSL et Pierre Bergé, L'amour FOU

Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Image via NY Times Magazine

"L' amour fou" (2010), directed by Pierre Thoretton from sleek magazine on Vimeo.

A clip from the documentary, L'Amour Fou, directed by Pierre Thoretton — it features an "uncharacteristically unguarded (and frisky)" Saint Laurent taking a Proust questionnaire.

Glamspiration

After spending the past few days in leggings and baggy sweatshirts, I need a bit of glam to get me feeling alright. TWO MORE EXAMS UNTIL ALUMNA STATUS.

Image via Fashion Fades

Image via Lucasolare

Clemence Poesy and Caroline Sieber @ Chanel Resort 2012

Image via Fashion in My Eyes

Image via Fashion Squad, Stella McCartney

Image via Stylish Wanderer

That's all, folks.

Serve chilled.

The build-up in this tune is spectacular. Just be patient, and you will be rewarded with the chillest mix.

Quotation of the Week

“There is no beauty in youth … Beauty begins where youth leaves off. I am not decrying youth. I love it. It is fresh, charming, gay, inspirational. Youth works hard and laughs easily. It is always surrounded with the promise of beauty. But always that promise is in the future ... Only when time has laid its softening hand on youth — when experience, love, suffering, living have ripened the green peach — can there be completion and loveliness.”

Bon {WORK} Weekend!

Image via Musings in Femininity

Feeling quite swamped, although Gwyneth, here, looks pretty stoked to be surrounded by crap— I mean, educational material. I'm sorry I keep whining about work. Not cool, I know. I'm going to channel some positive energy, today, so voilà, I present you some weekend motivational // study muuusic:

"You know, a lot of people have various definitions about what jazz is, or what jazz isn't. And after all these years, I've come to the conclusion that all music, if it's played well is good. If it's not played well ... it's not so good. Sometimes, we come up with funny stuff by using our fantasy, and so forth. So now, we're going to try something a little different. [Breakdown.]"

{Side note} I find this quotation pretty hilarious (or, maybe, charming?), because that's how jazz feels for me: A little scattered — with no predictable train of thought, a bit random — but nevertheless, kind of genius.

The electro-nouveau take on jazz really shows how far you can push the limits of this genre. It's exactly how the jazz scene started out in the first place: A pioneer that was either hated or adored. It also goes to show how things really do come full circle.

Random epiphany-status musing of the day?

I really should be writing my paper, instead of thinking about things like this.

Glamour goes to war

Image via Saturday Evening Post, 1943

Image via Saturday Evening Post, 1941

I'm writing my senior term paper on cosmetic science during pre- and post-World War II. It's been a pain in the ass, but I've had a lot of fun digging through the dusty archives of old journals and magazines for images like these.

Cosmo heartbeats

Handcrafted Modern, Leslie Williamson

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Favorite Stanzas —

One night to be confused
One night to speed up truth
We had a promise paid
Four hands and then away

Both under influence
We had a divine sense
To know what to say
Mind is a razor blade

To call for hands of above
to lean on
Wouldn't be good enough
for me, no

One night of magic rush
The start a simple touch
One night to push and scream
And then relief

Ten days of perfect tunes
The colors red and blue
We had a promise made
We were in love

Micro Scallops

Image via Deep in Vogue

#crnllfinalswk

Image via Because I'm Addicted

I have officially broken the last pair of my grab-bag pile of cheap-o plastic sunglasses. It's so springy out, but I'm a library prisoner today... must continue to stuuudyyy #crnllfinalswk