your hands have lost the grip on their prize

i wore the outfit to the left last year with a kind of grey, utilitarian aesthetic in mind. the striped shirt is thrifted, both sweaters are from when i was younger, the one on the bottom is like knit, and i'm not sure what fabric the top one is but it feels really slick and smooth, like something i would wear if i was ryan gosling in a movie where i end up leaning thoughtfully on a car idk. the belt thing is just a shoelace. 

when i kind of rearranged some parts of the outfit to align more with the look of a thom browne rtw12 (below), i tied the sweaters together and around my legs (not at all practical for... walking... or moving) and the gray jacket on top is my mom's. LOVE YOU MOM!






can i just say that i'm 100% pro wool bullet bras. the idea of exaggerating the parts of the body that already protrude reminds me visually of rei kawakubo's lumps and bumps. i also love the shape of those shoes.i guess most of his clothes are like menswear and coat materials, and seeing the little satin collar at the top of this dress that looks like the lining of a coat made me smile a lot and think the words "thom browne you sly dog." in other news...



this is like the answer to a jeapordy category called wes anderson movies and couture clothing: fantastic mr. fox fur stoles. also, the layering! the combinations of materials and shapes!




this is one of my favorite thom browne collections: it maintains what i see as the aesthetic of his brand (disfigured, exaggerated silhouettes and his macabre color palette), but it also feels really exploratory, more relaxed. the tweeds and the elegant shapes of some of the looks also adds a feeling of couture wear that's interesting.



this is incredibly cool, it kind of reminds me of saint laurent in some ways, maybe it's just like the elegance of it all, or the thing that almost looks like a neck-bow thing.






maybe it's the collar or the ruffles, but this reminds me a lot of marie antoinette and just the general costume of the aristocracy. this dress is SO beautiful: the layers and layers of tulle, and the hundreds (thousands?) of little mirrors on there ughhhh.






the draping and shapes in this collection are amazing.

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what do you guys think?

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kanyinsola

when I wake up in the morning light, sunlight hurts my eyes

i love this alt-j cover of bill withers, it's so positive and colorful and clean (i'm trying not to describe the album art right now), it's not as "natural" sounding as the original, but still really cool.

fashion month always fills me with this strange magical idealistic feeling of being able to live whatever life i want and be whoever i want to be simply by putting on different clothing. and it's great-- i mean, that's basically the scope of my interest in clothing. it also makes me feel really optimistic about the future. also, the  fact that the earth's orbit around the sun takes 365 days has nothing to do with humans whatsoever, yet we managed to make it all about us and our health and our debt and our reading etc and i find that hilarious, so  i've decided to make a more concrete set of resolutions for (the remainder of!) 2015 because i am goal-oriented (haha). here we go:

1. eat a cronut. this is really less of a resolution, and more of a life plan if you know what i mean-- which autocorrect (or whatever this whodanglethang on this computer is called) clearly doesn't because it actually just tried to correct cronut to croutoN!  ugh. (if any of you guys has ever had a cronut, please describe it vividly in the comments so that I can live vicariously through your experiences)

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2. read at least 52 books, one per week. let's ignore the fact that i'm already way behind schedule ok.
3. compliment 2 people each day, one of them being myself.
4. see fight club and inception. i really would like to see a bunch of movies this year in general, but i feel like i'm seriously missing out on some sort of societal underbelly by not getting the constant references from these movies.
5. complete at least 5 journals 
6. do something that makes you mildly uncomfortable once a day
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in the continued spirit of newness, i also really love the photos of erik madigan heck's perspective on thom browne's most recent spring show.

the photos are beautiful and bright and reminded me of a range of things including: marc jacobs in a sense of playfulness or whatever, commes des garcons, the yoruba geles that the women in my family wear to parties, the eminent arrival of spring, the elaborate, aristocratic beauty of marie antoinette's hats, the ~art girls~ at my school whose clothes are covered in paint-- which may just be me regurgitating a list of things that i find cool/inspiring but have no way to organize.

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also just a note that i'm in my school's production of big fish the musical, and it's pretty much my first play aside from elementary school things-- so i really wasn't prepared for the time commitment and that's kind of why i've been awol. thank you for hanging in there, like a cat on an inspirational poster: 

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kanyinsola