Sexy + Sweaters

As fall approaches, I begin the hunt for eye-catching sweaters. And boy, have I found just the trick. Except they will be going straight to my Xmas list cause they are $70 a pop.

Meet Sexy Sweaters: unbearably desirable sweaters that sparked an internet frenzy and are now "offered" in an infinite array of designs, none of which are actually buyable. 

Enter the biggest internet tease: The Fashion Meme.

Below are the actual sweaters you can purchase from Sexy Sweaters (slash the website is called Mr. Gugu and Miss Go? To be honest I'm a little bit confused about the origin. I think they're polish?) 

The Memes are too follow.

 galaxy. so in right now.

The memes:

This one if for my friend John.

dis one is MINE.

spotted by Richard.

Novelty + Bags

Check out these dope handbags by Spanish designer Ines Figaredo.

Loving the gold skull. And they only cost upwards of $4,000! What a steal.

Zadig + Voltaire

So apparently elbow patches are super "in" right now... which is annoying because I've wanted a great patched blazer for a long time but now it's no longer as special... but griping and grumbling aside, I welcome you to gawk at these fabulous cashmere sweaters with metallic elbow patches by Zadig and Voltaire. So glitzy and luxe.

PS. this would also be a great DIY project for the artsy and ambitious.

 

P.S.S also found this gem on their website. iwantiwantiwant.

Spotted at i am a greedy girl.

Black + Milk

I am obsessed. I don't remember how I stumbled across Black Milk's website but I'm literally drooling onto my computer as I type. These swimsuits remind me of the post I did on We Are Handsome, but wayyyy less pricey, which is amazing. GAH. I will possess one of these before the year is out. 

I refuse not to.

Caterpillar

Samurai

Ribs

Cathedral

Leg Bones

Galaxy

The Moonwalker (favorite?)

Gold Velvet Metallic. fantastic. 

Skull + Candy (Part II)

So apparently I'm more into skulls then I realized. Looking at my artwork from the last year, 50% of them involve some kind of skeleton part! For example, the piece below I did in last spring.  It was actually a really cool process. The entire piece was made without ANY digital editing of color. I used the same gold skull over and over again and placed in in front of a white wash wall and then used different colored shirts to cover the lights (all very professionally done in my dorm room). Next, I photoshopped and swapped the different skulls into different backgrounds, mixing up the matching colors in order to emphasize the effect color and light have on an object.

kinda cool, huh?

Oh and just for kicks, here a photo of me and my younger sister Lorelei. I'm wearing a KILLER black carved-skull Noir necklace my aunt gave me. It ties with this beautiful black ribbon bow in the back. 

And here's me (on the left) and my wonderful friend Zuzka whom we visited in Slovakia. I'm wearing a SUPER COOL scarf I got in Ibiza that has skulls on it. The bigger ones at the bottom are rather obvious, but I like how as the print gets smaller you have to look closely to realize that they are, in fact, skulls.

Skull + Candy

While in Mykonos, my friends and I had the grand idea to get Henna tattoos. So flipping through the various example books, I passed by my usual swirly sun or flower choice to land on a skull with flames shooting out behind it. Well, I ixnayed the flames and asked for just the skull. I was feeling adventurous. The guy took my wrist and did it in about 30 seconds without really looking at it. So while it may not classify as a work of art, exactly, I kind of love it. His name is Frank and sadly he is now fading.

bamf.

Anywho, skulls (and anything skeleton related) have recently made their way into my "I want I want I want" category. Maybe it had to do with taking an anatomy class last semester? Although you'd think doing 150 skeleton drawings per assignment would put you off them. 

I mean, how can you not like skeletons. That would be like not liking you own substance of being. Literally. And self-loathing is baadddd. I'm all about the love.