New look entirely from H&M -- bellbottoms, tee-shirt, vest and all. I decided to collaborate with H&M for their stylish spring break separates product launch, but kind of just had to go with this all black, 70's rock n roll look. I've been in a dark bellbottom phase, who knows if it will end anytime soon.
Hope you guys are inspired as I am to play dress up this spring. Happy Saturday! I'm off to an upstate adventure!
xo
look by H&M
photos by Kara Nixon
Here's another version of one of my favorite go-to looks. Easy black blazer over white denim. So perfect for spring! I've got like one belt, and this slayer shirt is my absolute favorite. I think I got it in college.
I hope you're all having a beautiful Monday morning! I'm excited this week for some events, photoshoots, and getting ready to move into my new apartment. So many wonderful things happening <3
love
x
black blazer + white denim + bag from Just Fab
sunglasses by Zero UV
photos by Bri Elledge
It is in our willingness to contemplate what we want that we get what we desire. You must be willing to contemplate what you want from the universe.
Buddha said that all suffering arises from attachment. I can try to deliberately detach myself from it, but why would one want to, when the things we're attached to make us feel so alive. It seem as though we must love things from a distance, not possessing them. It is in our need to posses them that suffering arises.
How then can I just admire the things I love? Sit back and enjoy them for just being the universe.
Nothing is so polar as love. The seemingly effortles pursuit that requires all effort.
I guess we're all looking for this replica of the ideal, our own version of the perceived paragon. But in our pursuit of that ideal, I fear we will destroy everything worth having. The self-sabatoge that derives from an assumed state of lack.
If we only knew that we lacked nothing, and everything we need to be happy has already been given to us.
Ahh, what then.
rose gold hendrix jacket by Liberated Heart
hendrix bellbottoms by Liberated Heart
naves jacket by Lenni the Label
jimi pants by Lenni the Label
photos by Maine Focus
Here's a casual look I've been going to with a little twist. I usually love the black blazer + black skinny jean look with a band tee for days spent in meetings and the coffee shop, but here I decided to add a little color.
Since it's spring I decided to give white jeans + a pink blazer combo a try. I'm pretty happy the way the white jeans look paired with a light color blazer, I was a bit worried it would be too much. But paired with a dark hat, bag and boots, I think it still works.
This bag is one of my favorite, I've been bringing it around everywhere. It's by Sticks + Stones and you can get it here.
I'm off to a shoot in Soho and then a busy day of meetings, I hope you all have a wonderful day.
xo
stud backpack by sticks + stones
photos by Bri Elledge
I never show up on weekdays. Always down to be on my own, the silence of reading words on a page. I have found that everything comes in dichotomies except for silence. The polarity of leaving your side in the morning.
I don't feel better when I'm fucking around. I'm in perpetual motion, and I fail at aligning myself with any one person.
Sleeping in your apartment. Salad days. Little slice of heaven under cold white sheets. I am as aimless as I desire to be. Smoking on your fire escape. I always dreamed of meeting someone I could say nothing to.
Henry Miller said, "Play with your thoughts rather than putting them to some useful occupation. It's just as important to empty the mind as it is to fill it."
Shake, shake. Minds in abiding meditation. I like emptying my head around you. Both real and detached.
I don't expect myself to be wonderful, and I'd never ask that of you.
heaven in lace thong teddy by Yandy
white feather robe by Yandy
sheer eyelash robe by Yandy
stretch lace sleepwear bra + bottoms by Yandy
black floral lace and fishnet teddy by Yandy
photos by Raymond Croft
Here's the second look from my Nasty Gal "Wild Wild Fest" campaign. I shot this last week in beautiful Central Park just two short blocks away from my house. Now that the weather is so good here, it's hard not to be outside all the time. I've been running 3x a week in the park, training for the New York City marathon this fall.
But anyways, this looks is probably one of my favorite I've shot recently. Especially the embroidered tail coat. I can't wait to style it a million more ways, with leather pants, leather shorts, white denim, and vintage band tees. I can't get enough of good blazers and things of the sort lately, (could I finally be moving on from furs?)
The links to shop my look are below, I hope you all have an awesome Monday. It's so beautiful outside!!
xoxo
outlaw embroidered tail coat by Nasty Gal
ring me up bodysuit by Nasty Gal
denim hot shorts by Nasty Gal
moto backpack by Sticks n Stones
photos by Lexy Monaco
Hey babes!
Sorry I haven't posted in almost a week. Nothing too new with me, still looking for a place to live and getting together my spring/summer wardrobe.
I'm currently reading Walden by Thoreau, one of my favorite thinkers. You'll see a lot of his ideas in the things I write and post on instagram. His work is incredible, and I feel like Walden is an important piece of work for the time we're in, with people moving away from traditional jobs and crafting their own lives. Some of his philosophies I have carried with me from the very beginning of my blog. I've never had an hourly job, and frankly I really don't believe in them. Thoreau said that he would rather do labor for a few hours to get what he needed, and be free from the commitment of having to show up somewhere everyday.
I'm also reading M Train by Patti Smith, not sure if I love it as much as "Just Kids" but hey, I'm willing to give the whole book a shot.
I've been listening to Duane Allman's Anthology, one of my favorite guitarists of all time. The Anthology was released in 1972 and has some of his best work with the Allman Brothers Band, as well as some rare solo stuff. If you can tell, a lot of my style lately has been influenced by this southern rock feel. Of course my outfits are always influenced by the music I listen to, you can tell when I'm going through a hip-hop phase, or a rock n roll phase just by what I'm wearing on my blog.
Anyways, I'm off to shoot the second part of my Nasty Gal festival collaboration now with some red roses in Central Park! I've got a shoot for a new boutique in LES and H&M tomorrow, so it's going to be a busy weekend.
I hope you all are doing wonderful, and just remember you can always message me on twitter/facebook/snapchat if you need someone to talk to.
I love you all.
xx
crop top by Band of Gypsies
vest by BB Dakota
shoes by Sam Edelman
hat by Lack of Color
photos by Christina Emilie
As many of you know, I've been apartment shopping in Soho. While viewing a studio Sunday, I saw this cute little vintage pop up shop across the street, that I couldn't resist checking out.
Right when I walked in, hanging on the left wall was this beautiful blue silk kimono, that obviously needed a home. So I took her home with me, and now she is my favorite article of clothing that I have worn for three days straight.
Also in this outfit are some killer new platforms exclusive to Dolls Kill, which make me so tall. I've also got on some leather pants, a belt my mom bought me when I was seventeen, and I topped it off with a Lack of Color hat.
I'm hoping to shoot a bunch of new outfits for you guys in the next coming weeks. I've been wearing such cool stuff, but just too busy to actually shoot it. When it comes time to shoot it, I'm sick of it! Haha..
much love
x
kimono from The Vintage Twin
leather pants by Black NYC
hat by lack of Color
shoes by Dolls Kill
photos by Svetlana Blasucci
For me, rock n roll has always been about taking responsibility for my actions and creating my lifestyle, not about some slip into debauchery.
And I learn something new about myself with each life I create. I am in perpetual awakening, so I never grow old.
Jimi Hendrix blasting from the speakers in my living room on this sunny Friday morning. I hear his words, I understand his motives. "Everyday in the week I'm in a different city, if I stay too long people try to pull me down."
I burn palo santo and rearrange the furniture. John Lennon used to live on this same block. Each morning, I run by his strawberry fields and slip into the park for an 8 mile run. My mind submerged in a lengthy playlist of whatever pleases me, and I begin to create everything you see here. All the words, images, song titles, and outfits were once just pictures in mind. I dream up everything I want to make manifest, sometimes at sub 7 minute mile pace. Running through the park now, I see the trees blooming. I have watched the seasons change here. I am connected to it all. I have endured the harshest winter here, with my hands numb by the time I get to Harlem, yet my mind is still free to create.
I'm a baby Prefontaine. Who once said, "Some people create with words, or with music, or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run." My creation is derived from motion.
So as I sit here in the stillness of my apartment, I often drift back and dream of when I will be running through Central Park's majestic beauty again. It is amongst the trees in perpetual motion that I am home.
And to me, that is rock n roll. That is freedom.
xo
lingerie by Cantiq LA
hendrix jacket by Liberated Heart
kimono by Ivyrebel
photos by Noel McGrath
