Sample Sale Crazy in L.A.!

BUST Magazine is holding their 2008 Holiday Craftacular sale this month in L.A., New York, and London.

Some designers and consignment in attendance include Mucha Muchacha, Cut x Paste, Eleven Eleven, Classic Hardware, Sleep Pictures and Nous Avon:

Nichole Muchacha's lovely fused glass jewelry line...















Eleven Eleven's eclectic assortment of wallets, card holders and notebooks...
















































... and some great hewn metal by EDM Designs, available on Etsy. Am into this steampunk thing, very bullets and brains over brawn, per se.

Adorable Fails to Wreak Havoc in Valentinoland

Tyrnauer,

Red Carpet at the Emmys!

I didn't actually catch the Emmys this year, except for a few video clips here and there, and they seemed a bit ho-hum, with reality TV hosts pandering to the audience and Josh Groban belting out the theme to "Love Boat". Nevertheless, here are my best and worst-dressed picks for the red carpet!

BEST:
"Weeds" star Mary Louise-Parker takes it on in cerulean blue, a color that does no wrong, ever.





Kate Walsh in a saucy "mermaid dress", stunning beadwork.
























Auf Widersehen to bad fashion for Heidi Klum!












Deborah Messing, impeccably styled for the red carpet as usual, (thanks to Rachel Zoe, most likely).



















Subtle, but those roped, '20s-style diamond necklaces and dark nail polish are killer touches on Rose Byrne.















America Ferrera dons a pretty, rouched black gown.

















WORST:
Brooke Shields reinvents the '90s, in non-ironic fashion.

























Julia Louise-Dreyfuss in peach prom attire with a vinyl bodice cutout.



















Lauren Conrad in one of her own designs. Way too much fabric. Is she pregnant? Does she wish she were?






















I hate to even bring this up, but Tina Fey's dress is wholly unflattering. For such a smokin' Writer/Producer/Comedienne these days, she should have one of those mermaid-esque or gauzy, floaty frocks on instead, methinks.






















January Jones is beautiful, but why is she wearing a corset and lingerie? Not to mention, John Slattery look somewhat grim about this.

Patti Smith Closes NY Fashion Week, Spring '09

Patti Smith played a show towards the end of NY Fashion Week hosted by Costume National.

This documentary film, "Patti Smith: Dream of Life", looks amazing. I wish I had checked it out while it was still in the theaters, because my Neflix queue is somewhat out of control at the moment.

Rachel Zoe Shuts It Down

"The Rachel Zoe Project" on Bravo is worth checking out, if anything for the famed stylist's designer vintage shopping binges.

Incidentally, before the show aired, just picked up a pair of "Rachel Zoe's picks" off of Piperlime and was totally enamored.

NY Fashion Week: Rodarte RTW '09

"J'adore Rodarte": Reminiscent of an ethereal punk waiting outside of a club in Hollywood with a creamsicle pop.

NY Fashion Week: Marc Jacobs RTW Spring '09

Off-beat Americana in a techni-color dream while on safari. Here are some of my favorites:




And BTW, is that model below a drag queen?!





















According to this recent profile in The New Yorker on Marc Jacobs, he's an incessant smoker that regularly goes to the gym, an otherwise proper contradiction in terms.

A Graphic Rendition of Margiela

'Tis the trend

The Ladies of Mad Men

Betty Draper's about to let Don have it! Finally!

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

New York publicist Sloane Crosley has a book of essays out, "I Was Told There'd Be Cake", which was at the top of my summer reading list and now an aspiration for fall.

The book is a collection of first-person musings on life in the Big Apple. Current news on the horizon of its adaptation into a HBO series. Crosley has been reassured the series is more Larry David than "Sex in the City".

XOXO!

I recently discovered the artist, James Jean, and his cover art for the book collection, "Fables". He also just released "XOXO", a postcard book available during this year's Comic-Con in San Diego. His other work includes "Trembled Blossoms", a video short for Prada, and a Vargas print of the character Sally Jupiter in "The Watchmen". The video for "Trembled Blossoms" posted below:

Eco-Friendly Takes a Turn

Vulture Mag. has a great post about an art exhibit in New York at P.S.1., International Shoes, featuring Finnish artist Anni Rapinoja.

Less practical than sequins, but much more interesting than faux leather or snakeskin:

Tip Your Hat!

Albertus Swanepoel is a milliner originally from South Africa, designing hats with appearances in collections by Proenza Schouler, Betsey Johnson, and Marc by Marc Jacobs:

Paper Dolls

Paper doll dresses were literally a throwaway commercial trend in the '60s, an intersection of advertising, fashion and art by Andy Warhol.

Not such a terrible consideration in the summer heat:

Such a Deer

I adore this photo of Audrey Hepburn grocery shopping in Beverly Hills with her pet deer, Ip (1958), taken by Bob Willoughby. Willoughby is a photographer well-known for an ability to take behind-the-scenes photos of stars in candid moments, both on and off-set in the Hollywood era of the '50s and '60s :

chloe sevigny and opening ceremony

This is a rad video profile on Chloe Sevigny in the NYT Style Magazine online:

My Style Icon: Little Edie Beale

Grey Gardens (1975), a documentary film by Albert and David Maysles, reveals a portrait of New York socialites Little Edie Beale and her mother Edith Beale in their decrepit East Hamptons estate.  

A former haute couture model and debutante in the '30s and '40s, Little Edie spent most of her life with her mother as they spiraled into isolation and a world of their own.  The film captures their relationship and a no-frills glimpse at the voyeuristic tendencies of American culture to gape at celebrity and high-society, as if nothing were ever amiss.

A family member of the Beales formed Grey Gardens Collections, a 

collection of vintage jewelry, accessories, journals, and home furnishings, inspired by Little Edie's personal style.

bowie was the man that fell to the earth

Jezebel has a great post on Ola Hudson, the designer behind David Bowie's outfits in "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976), also the mother of Slash in Guns 'n Roses.