Bass Sunjuns

Remember these from when we were little? I think my sister Annette used to wear these in the early 80's. Well I've been thinking about these a lot lately and was going to try to hunt some down on eBay. I was walking around in my fabulous new a.p.c. jumpsuit that coincidentally looks like something I would have found at a Dead show in college thinking I really needed some of those Bass sandals to go with it. My blue sandals were not cutting it. So I decided to go check Shoe Market in Williamsburg which always has exactly what I'm looking for. They had them, and they were buy one get one half off. So I got both these babies for just $65! The guy there said that Bass went out of business and just came back a couple of years ago. Yeah! They are so comfy too.

a.p.c.

So I basically spent my rent at a.p.c. this past weekend. But I got lots of good stuff. I adore this French label but unfortunately it's not really meant for people with my um, body type. But I did get a few good pieces for the rest of summer and into the fall. And they were having a great sale so must of the stuff was half off. Can't wait to wear the trenchcoat and sunglasses in Paris this September! Au Revoir!

The Gothfather

In high school The Cure was my favorite band. I looooved Robert Smith. I saw them the summer before my freshman year started. My sister and her boyfriend brought me to New Orleans to see them! How cool is it that I had older sisters to bring me to concerts? That was the Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me tour. I was lucky enough to catch them last night at Radio City. 21 years since the last time I saw them. They were amazing! I didn't know a lot of the new stuff, I haven't bought an album since Disintegration. The crowd was weird. What's up with that? Where have all the goth girls gone? Not one cool looking person! (Besides Moi). Robert was soooo charming. He talked about how wonderful the weather was and passing his driving test. Then for the encore he climbed the steps on the sides that led all the way up to the mezzanine. The spotlight didn't even make it that far up. So he was in complete darkness and someone had to kinda come get him with the flashlight. He started laughing and said 'I can't believe you fucking let me come up here'. But then he climbed up the other side during 'Why Can't I Be You?' They played a lot of my faves like Catch, Push, Charlotte Sometimes, Boys Don't Cry, Close to Me, Hanging Garden. They went off on 10:15 Saturday Night. Did I mention they played for 3 HOURS?! My favorite was Kyoto Song. It was the first time he put down the guitar and just walked around the stage and sang.

Yves Saint Laurent

One of the most important figures in fashion died on June 1. I've been waiting for some magazine special to come out. Something I could keep. I was elated when I found this Paris Match with a 42 page special. The cover shot is my fave of all time! Coincidentally I've been reading this book about him and Karl Lagerfeld.

More Self Service

So this is the first issue of Self Service to go hardback.  Fall/Winter 2006.  Shalom Harlow and Raquel Zimmerman star on both versions of the cover.  Self Service is the ultimate.  There is a 95 page layout with Shalom and Raquel with all these avant-garde  pics photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin.  They also feature old photographs of cool people like these of Peter Saville and a young Terry Richardson taken by his mother, Annie Lomax.  There are also old fashion advertisements sometimes photographed with new accessories on top of them. And new ads like Tsumori Chisato that you can't find anywhere else.  On top of it all at the end of the mag there's always cool interviews like this one with Tilda Swinton and Mike Mills. 

Bitchen

Also found my copy of 'The Totally Awesome Val Guide'.  This is like totally amazing!  It explains how to eat, drink and breathe like a valley girl.  Published in 1982! 

Memory Lane

So I just took a trip home to Louisiana. As usual, I dug through all my old junk. All the fun things I don't have room for in my tiny New York apartment. I came across some really good stuff! First, my old Guess jeans which are probably circa '84-'85. The pair with the triangular pockets were my first pair. I remember pretty much growing out of these as soon as I got them. The really cool ones with the fold down pockets belonged to a friend of my sister's and never really fit me. I just wore them with a long shirt. The zippers are broken in both of them. My heart started beating really fast when I saw that Guess label. My mother got the ones with the buttons on the fly. I remember seeing 2 really cool girls at my sister's church in White Castle(a tiny Louisiana town). One had really amazing Guess jeans that I never saw anywhere ever again. The fly tied up. She had some cool long cardigan on with them. I knew they must have been visiting their grandparents from like New York or something. I'm pretty sure I tried to copy her look for the next 20 years or so.

Overly Chloe

So this Self Service has 120 pages of nothing but Chloe pics done by different photographers and stylists. Of course my favorite section is the one styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington and photographed by Terry Richardson. I'm a huge fan of Camille. She is one of my fave stylists by far. She also happens to be the wife of Jarvis Cocker. Can you get any cooler than that? I saw her in Paris during fashion week; I think she was on her way to the Westwood show. I also think she noticed me silently freaking.

Self Service

Self Service is my favorite magazine ever. I can't get it as often as I would like since it runs about $35 a pop. Which shouldn't be a problem since it only comes out twice a year but sometimes I sleep on it. Last year it changed over to a hardcover format. This issue was the Chloe Sevigny issue. This is my fashion bible.

You've met my husband...

Now meet my boyfriend!






Saw The Verve last night. Brilliant!

Rusty Dennis(Cher, pt. 2)

Well, I said I didn't really have to say much about this, that the pics could speak for themselves. But I have more to say! First of all, I usually get a rush when the weather starts to give a little and I start thinking about my spring/summer wardrobe. First and foremost I'm a southern girl so I relate more to sandal weather. Usually I get inspiration for the upcoming season from a mishmash of things. This season it's all about Rusty Dennis. My soundtrack for summer will be the 'Rusty Dennis' playlist on my ipod- lots of Grateful Dead and Steely Dan's 'Do it Again'. I'm wearing the devil out of my denim jacket-my classic Guess one. And simple gold hoops. I don't even think she wore denim jackets or gold hoops but it's just an inspiration you know?

Cher

So I have a few movies that are forever burned in my memory fashionwise. One of them is Mask. I don't even really have to say anything here. I'll let the pics speak for themselves. By the way, I'm back. Winter starts to bum me out, but I'm coming out of the doldrums here and I'll be writing more real soon...

Some of My Favorite Movies-Fashionwise

In no particular order:
Foxes
Christianne F.
Urban Cowboy
Over The Edge
Legend Of Billy Jean
9 To 5
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Just One Of The Guys
Honeysuckle Rose
Less Than Zero

Bigmouth Strikes Again

Went to the Morrissey show last night. Had pretty great seats on the first mezzanine. No obstructions in our view whatsoever. There was a short film first with snippets of New York Dolls and outtakes from East Of Eden. The finale was amazing with fan after fan jumping over the barricade onstage to hug the holy one. The security couldn't keep up. Everybody was going for it. Wish I had brought a real camera, all I had was my iphone but I did get a few fun shots outside the show.

Tokyo, Part 4

Pretty much everything is cooler in Japan, like when you order a drink in a cafe, it's like a pineapple soda mint sorbet thing , or a green tea float, one of many different floats entitled 'Float Party'.



Or if you go to a store it's called Backwoods and the whole building is encased in branches and it only sells different types of thread. (I didn't go in this one but I'm sure it was something like that.)


Check out my friend Amy's blog. I'm in the pic of the day: http://amyvcooper.com/blog/

Tokyo, Part 3

So I mentioned we stayed in 2 hotels, right? Well for the last night of our trip we stayed at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo. This place is rather pricey which is why we only stayed one night. But I can tell you it was totally worth it. I hate saying this, but it's the hotel in Lost In Translation. That gives you a point of reference. You can picture the pool and the gym at least. The rest of the hotel is amazing. You're treated like royalty. There is a person that greets you when you get out of the cab and somehow they already knew our name. They take you up to the 41st floor to check in. You are given 'Tiffany' keychains. We stayed one floor up from the lobby. We were a little concerned that maybe the room would not live up to all the hype, that maybe the hotel would be gorgeous but a little tiny room. No way. There was a bed you could swim in, 40" flatscreens with great cable stations that played the Simpsons and The Outsiders. There was an amazing view of Tokyo. The gigantic bathtub filled in minutes with luxurious bubbles courtesy of the Aesop products, the flatscreen in the bathroom playing relaxing nature scenes. And the toilet actually had a dryer on it. It's official! Rich people don't even have to wipe their own asses. We had dinner from the famous Delicatessan located in the hotel. But the big splurge was room service breakfast which cost about $75. Worth every penny. I felt like Linsey Lohan as the guy came in with his white gloves to set up the table. I didn't want to leave this paradise as we were handed bottles of Park Hyatt Water in case we got thirsty on our trip to the airport.

Tokyo, Part 2

Tokyo is packed. Like New York x10. But somehow the place is spotless. There are no trashcans yet no litter. The people here are obsessed with cleanliness. Even when you eat at a really cheap fast food place they give you a wet napkin to clean your hands. And forget about the bathrooms, the bathrooms here are amazing. I only encountered one bathroom that wasn't sparkling clean yet it was cleaner than the bathrooms at Saks. And this was at a fast food place in the middle of one of the busiest areas in Tokyo. Basically all the toilets have all these buttons that clean every part of your bottom region. Not just a bidet but a spray that cleans you after you do a 2. These toilet controls are located on the walls next to the toilet mostly. Apparently there are two types of flushes but I'm not sure what the difference is. Ann(my friend that's been there for 2 months) says she had to leave without flushing a couple of times cause she just couldn't figure out which button to push.

Tokyo, Japan Part 1

So I've been in Tokyo for the past week. As soon as we got there we met up with some friends Ann and Stradton who are teaching in a little town about 4 hours out of Japan. They have been there about 2 months and were able to show us some new things to do. We ate at a Korean place where you cook your own meat. They also showed us how to eat at a place where you order everything at a machine outside and give the tickets to the people inside and they give you the food. This was a good, cheap and easy way to eat. We stayed in two different hotels, first off the B Roppongi in the Roppongi district which is kinda the sleazy part but still very clean and safe. Which is weird because the first night we were there we ran into Curtis Sliwa founder of Guardian Angels with some of his Japanese counterparts. He said Roppongi can get a little rough on the weekends.