those clever frenchies...

"everything on sale here, except love" 

from the jean-charles de castelbajac store in paris.

inspiration

look me in the eyes.

it's ok if you're scared, so am i.

but, we're scared for different reasons...

i'm scared of what i won't become

and you're scared of what i could become.

look at me.

i won't let myself end where i started;

i won't let myself finish where i began.

i know what is within me,

even if you can't see it yet...

look me in the eyes.

i have something more important than courage.

i have patience.

i will become what i know i am. 

recessionista dreams really do come true...

are you ready for this?

tucker for target


christian siriano for payless


mulberry for target


prabal gurung for target


brian atwood for jones apparel


lanvin for h&m


VALENTINO for gap!!!
although this line will apparently only be available in europe... dislike!




OMGGGGGGGGG I AM DYYYYYYING RIGHT NOW!!! better start saving now... i'm sure i'll need one of each. ;)

music! ke$ha "take it off"

mostly cuz i really wanna have a GLITTER PARTY!!! 

and i like her hair. 

art! todd james

"bloody cape" 2010
gouache and graphite on paper

http://www.galeriajavierlopez.com/users/imagenes.aspx?i=i&id= 

what would life be without music?

old chinese proverb...

if you are in a bookstore and cannot find the book for which you search, you are in the... 

music! alphabeat "heat wave"

OMGGGGG!!!!!!!! WHEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNN will this group be available in the states?
itunes? hello? they're amazing... get with it!

how freaking adorable is joseph gordon-levitt?!

first the sexy three-piece suits in "inception" and now a lady gaga rendition.
iwanttomarryhim.

talkin' 'bout my generation...

brilliant post from rebekah monson.

There’s been a lot of press about my generation lately. A lot of it questions our values, work and goals. So, here is my admittedly unsolicited opinion of my generation and, more specifically, our work life.

You must understand that we are not starting out with a positive attitude. In our short careers, we already have been laid off or at least afraid that we would be laid off. We have seen our parents downsized and left high and dry by companies that they helped to build. We have been unable to get work after doing “the right things” that we were told would make us successful — school, internships, volunteer work, mentorship, etc. We have gone into high-demand fields like IT only to see those jobs outsourced overseas for pennies on the dollar. We have joined the military, served our country, come home broken and with no opportunity for honest work in the private sector.

The corporate leadership in this country has made it clear to us that no one in our generation is getting a gold watch. We don’t have any delusions about that. Hell, many of us can’t even get insurance or make a living wage now, and no one sees it getting any better. Why would we make a job anything close to a top priority in our lives, when we can have no realistic expectation of having a long-term career to begin with? No one I know in Gen Y (or Gen X for that matter), has any faith whatsoever that any employer will ever give a crap about them as human beings. We accept that we are numbers on a spreadsheet in the current corporate landscape, but we don’t have to like it. We check off your boxes, and we accomplish the goals you lay out. We play nice. But, if there is no benefit to going the extra mile, then why bother?

That said, we are largely financially conservative. Our debt is daunting. We try to save more, we try to live more sustainably. We do not trust Social Security or that our 401Ks will see us through retirement. We are waiting to buy, and avoiding rent by living with our parents. We rely on your help because you offer it. If you didn’t, we’d scrape by somehow.  Many of us live at home to help our parents as they struggle with their own low wages and financial trauma. We have no idea how we will ever afford a family or a house or anything on our own when we cannot attain jobs with basic benefits and full-time wages.

We have a lot to be excited about, but less and less of that exists within the current corporate structure. We communicate constantly. We love to collaborate. We are data junkies. Many of us are imbued with entrepreneurial spirit. We strike out. We tinker. We play. None of this is particularly valued in the current corporate environment. But, we value it in ourselves and in each other. We have interesting side projects. (And, we keep them from you so that you won’t fire us.)

We also have a conscience, and we expect it to show up in the workplace. We were raised to be aware of the plights of others and to understand environmental issues. It is important to us to be involved in our communities. Our friendships run deep. Really deep. We view our core friend groups as family, and family is supremely important to us. We give our time and our energy to causes we believe in. We share. We expect our peers and the companies we work for to do the same.

So, we work, and we wait. We are working and waiting for our side projects to become our main projects. We are working and waiting for  the right kinds of relationships to solidify in our personal and professional lives. We are working and waiting for you to retire so that there are funds and jobs available into which we can “grow up.” We are working and waiting for a chance to change the establishment to reflect our values. No, we don’t want what you have, just as you didn’t want what your parents had. We don’t want to spend our lives as perpetually burned-out slaves to a company that does not value us. We don’t want to be in bad marriages and isolate ourselves in McMansions.  Neither did you when you were our age. Of course those things will happen to some of us, or perhaps most of us. But, right now, we’d rather hope they won’t.

Every generation goes through its turn in the news cycle. And, every generation thinks they’ll do it better. Time will tell. But, there’s one really great thing about coming of age in America in an era when things are generally thought to be pretty bad: It forces an early decision about what’s important in life. No matter how it appears while looking down from 25 years up the corporate ladder, we are decidedly chasing our own ideals, even when things seem hopeless. I’m proud of that. Maybe, if we’re lucky, this experience will pay off when we get the chance to examine our kids in the harsh light of our own age, experience and privilege.