red shoes (for to dance the blues)

oh hey, david bowie! happy birthday!

here's some cool-kids fashion for you. ooooooooo. fashion...

{prefall proenza schouler 2013, photos courtesy of proenza schouler by way of style.com}

{prefall preen 2013, photos courtesy of preen by way of style.com}

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further more

may as well stick with a theme today. sheer and space and flowers. a harder take on it, though. sharper around the edges. oh. and snakeskin. snakeskin too.

{preen spring 2013, photos by marcus tondo at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

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somewhere i know there's something

preen's resort presentation is the stuff that fashion and dreams are made of. the stuff that breaks me down inside and leaves me shaky and crying because beauty and space and light...

it's funny. i read so many books on fashion and beauty in grad school. but i can't to save my life come up with the right words for why the third image - that grey sweater - makes me shudder. i wish i could. maybe it is because i can't think of ways to talk about it that i can't think of ways to make art about it... maybe that is why i can't pin down an idea worth making a painting about...

so. looking. instead. somewhat heavy-hearted. and yet. so joyful...

{preen resort 2013, photos courtesy of preen by way of style.com}

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a bit of earth

some shows make me want and want and some shows make me sad and some shows make me excited...

preen (justin thornton and thea bregazzi) has just made me joyful. it is so so joyful. it has made me warm and fuzzy in my insides, and glad to be alive, and all that fantastic joy-stuff. those orange pants. that outfit, image 4, is just about flawless. the fall-appropriate-flowers that are not dreary but not too spring. the earthy yet saturated and pop-y colour and the simple ornamentation. the picknick table sweater in image 7. can we talk about those orange pants again?! the makeup and hair, too, is so so wonderful. dewy and tousled and wind-rosy and making me think just a little of pixies and fairies.

yes. this has made me glad to my core.

{fall preen 2012, photos by marcus tondo at gorunway.com by way of style.com}

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