Internet favorites for April: Barrettes

Check out these amazing surreal barrettes from Dream Collective! As a lover of jewelry but a coward when it comes to wearing necklaces, bracelets, and rings, these are just perfect. 

here are all the other internet favorites. :)

internet favorites for january: molly young's critical shopper column

This month, I wanted to highlight Molly Young's amazing column for the New York Times. She goes to a variety of stores (from upscale to goofy) and reviews the experience--the ambience, the clientele, the employees, the products. And she's hilarious and super smart and this is exactly the kind of fashion/style writing that brings meaning to my life.

 Some favorites:

1. Flying Tiger Copenhagen--the post where I first sat up and said, "Who is this genius writer?" (Here's my haul.)

"As retail experiences go, it is like walking into a junk drawer that was blown up to theme-park scale. If your reaction to that sentence is to physically swerve away from your reading device, you may cruise along to the next article. If your reaction is “Tell me more,” here we go."

2. Totokaelo--my love for this sort of thing runs deep.

"If you’re in the mood to hit the playground or just to obscure your secondary sex characteristics, any of these will do the job."

PS Another astonishingly accomplished (and gorgeous, Molly Young too, I said it) writer hero--Alice Gregory. Here's a piece of hers I never forgot, the real experience of working at Sotheby's.

PPS All of the Internet Favorites!

A visit to 29 Rooms

Today I went to a warehouse right on the edge of Greenpoint to see this massive temporary art/fashion installation by Refinery 29. On the one hand, it was a lot of advertising, and I'm not used to feeling brands breathing down my neck like this--one of the 29 rooms was just Puma shoes dangling from the ceiling, another had "#nordstromrack" laminated here and there on the walls. (Along with the really corporate ones, some of the rooms were made by independent artists, like Petra Collins.)

On another hand, the whole installation was perfectly calibrated to be Instagrammed, and (to my surprise) I enjoyed being surrounded by people unabashedly taking photos and selfies at every corner. Sometimes I feel like a dick because I always have my camera out, but the whole atmosphere here was (obviously) very welcoming to that.

On the third hand, the event had its playful, beautiful and delightful moments--funhouses were always my favorite at the State Fair, because they're non-competitive, and the thrill comes from discovery. I loved the blacklit room with the magically fluorescing feathers, the winding path through shiny red ribbons to the Minnie Mouse area, the hallway, lit in rainbows that kept shifting, the Print All Over Me room, with gauzy floral walls and gauzy floral kimonos to wear in front of them, and the cloud room. I stood under one of the clouds, and private music played all around my head.

this room had several different small mirror chambers. a woman's voice softly asked questions like, "when do you feel most yourself? when you look in the mirror, do you like what you see?"

solange knowles's room!

no selfie shame...well, maybe a little

petra collins's bathroom

The installation is only open one more day--tomorrow--and if you're willing to wait on line ~20 minutes, I recommend it! I was going to say, I recommend it despite the weird corporate advertising factor, but that was very interesting to me--I know us millennials are supposed to be all about experiences rather than products, and Refinery 29 offers this experience up so tidily with a little bow on top. I can't imagine a more zeitgeisty event.

Internet favorites: Giant, Loose, Unaffordable

Those who know me well know about my unstoppable passion for giant, loose clothing. Basically, if it looks like you might wear it as penance, I probably like it.

For example, I just bought this "raw-edge linen sack dress" in two colors:

K-POP fan style, for Fusion!

I had a lot of fun attending the East Coast's first KCON and photographing fans in their wild and beautiful outfits. Here's my post.

favorite perfume

Internet favorites for June: favorite wallpapers

Here are the other internet favorites!

I don't know when I'll ever own a house. But I dream of having a room of my own where I can write at one desk and draw at another. I don't think my gf would like to have wallpaper--she's all about simple, white-box style--so I'd need my own space to put up one of these beautiful beautiful prints.

Hygge and West is what kicked off this strange new obsession with wallpaper. Feast your eyes on these beautiful designs from Rifle Paper Company:

1. Rosa in indigo

Special report: Flying Tiger Copenhagen haul

Can you imagine a mash-up of Kikkerland, Ikea and Party City? Well, it opened in New York four days ago, and it is awesome. Flying Tiger Copenhagen is a kind of Danish dollar store. I'd never heard of it, but apparently there are 452 locations, though this is the first in the US. I went in thinking, "I'll just have a quick look," and then my eyes turned into spirals and I whipped myself into a frenzy and my "minimal living" "quality over quantity" "please don't buy anything else, Molly, you make $10 an hour"* went out the window.

favorite spring fabric trends, and some shopping in manhattan tips

anytime i have anything vaguely stressful to do in manhattan (and every possible reason i might have to go to manhattan is stressful), i wind down afterwards by going shopping. i don't always buy things (though i buy a lot more than i need), but it is very soothing to touch all the different fabrics and think about the future.

so here is your trend report (click through if you dare):

Internet Favorites for April: Print All Over Me

Some more heart's desires from your desire expert. Here are the other internet favorite posts.

Do you know the website Print All Over Me? Like Society 6 or Spoonflower or whatever, you can upload images and get them printed on all kinds of gear.

1. This scarf by jessssssseeeeeeee

2. This shirt or this shirt by Saskia Pomeroy

3. This tote bag by Sara Andreasson

4. This shift dress by Nathalie Chikhi

silver and dresses

Free advertising for H&M

I'm sorry I keep writing about clothes.

Anyways I somehow missed that Maison Martin Margiela was doing a collaboration with H&M. ("What's that jacket, Margiela?" --Kanye West.)

I can't afford any of these things, and also there's no H&M nearby, but the collection appeals to me in every way.

Things it has:

1. A coat made out of a duvet, and you can actually take off the duvet cover and wear that as a different kind of jacket, and plus the sleeves are removable:

2. A clutch purse made out of metallic faux leather that looks like a giant candy wrapper (and, on the guys' side, a fanny pack as big as a backpack):

3. A purse that you wear upside down (it actually has a zipper on the "bottom"):

4. A dress made out of two different dresses (below). H&M describes this as "half lined," which is the first time I've ever seen that in a clothing description. Also, there is a dress made entirely out of dress lining, and many other pieces made out of incorrectly used materials/materials masquerading as other things--a men's jacket made out of belts, a belt made out of a watch band, jeans sewn inside out, tops made out of scarves, a dress made out of car-seat leather, and skin-colored leggings with a fishnet print on top.

5. Beyond the candy wrapper, a ton of giant things, including this necklace that looks like a huge key chain. There's also a women's peacoat big enough for Mamadou Ndiaye, and a massive turtleneck with "extremely long sleeves," which is the thing I'd most buy for myself.

But the single awesomest thing, that made me write this post and that reminded me of Proust, is this linen tablecloth set, that is printed with a photorealistic image of a tablecloth after a party.

Here is a close up of the napkins:

It is so beautifully executed too--I mean what kind of party was this? It looks like a party with ribbons and confetti that were then covered with a thick layer of ash. No one had time (or everyone was too careful) to spill their wine or drop bits of food.

It's great how a lot of the clothes put on a good show of being multifunctional (that split dress, for example, or the sweater you'll never outgrow), but are actually deeply impractical. I think I particularly like this collection not only for its jokiness or narrative or fairy-tale proportions, but also because it doesn't seem to give a shit about being "body-conscious." Most everything, except for the shirts and leggings that are supposed to resemble skin, would not flatter anyone's figure. I never like those designers who, in Vogue or wherever, talk about their careful study of the feminine form, their strategic darting and pleating to bring out the body, and especially how such garments give women self-confidence. I don't think self-confidence goes that way. How about clothing designed to make invisible and conceal the body--or something that tries to make you lose confidence in yourself and the world around you? (The skirt that looks like you didn't realize it got hitched up in your underwear when you went to the bathroom--the fake-sequin dress that shows that you are clearly a fraud--the tiptoeing person who actually has plexiglass heels?) So you can expose yourself in a different way. But what I like even more is the option to sequester yourself away in these clothes, those huge coats in particular, and hide.