Monday, June 30, 2014

Edgy Innocence



  I enjoy the juxtaposition of a flowy whimsical dress with a tough leather jacket, coarse jewelry and stout wedge booties. Not only is it fun to mix and match different styles but it also becomes a perfect way to maximize your wardrobe. I modified the dress by cutting the inner lining of the skirt, making it a bit more compelling and mysterious with the leg veil.

Dress / Willow 
Leather Jacket / Mackage
Booties / Sergio Rossi 
Necklace / Eastern Market 

Thursday, June 26, 2014

TBT: No Church In The Wild

The most surprising lesson that we learned during our visit to the Serengeti was that 99% of the time the animals are at peace and in perfect harmony with each other. Hyenas sharing the shade with warthogs (who are usually their prey), lions napping in close proximity to zebra, impala, topi, giraffes and jackals. Warthogs prancing dangerously close to a female cheetah. Everyone is simply co existing and enjoying the beautiful Serengeti day...until someone gets hungry. Usually it takes a lion or a cheetah getting hungry enough to hunt, a kill that feeds an entire ecosystem. Right behind our tent a lion pride took down a zebra during the night and by the morning all the substantial meat was gone and the hyenas were licking the bones and fighting over the scraps with a jackal. Then we noticed the vultures beginning to circle over head, just waiting for the hyena and jackal to finish their meal so that they may have their turn. Seeing this in person was shocking and thought provoking, survival of the fittest in the most extreme and natural form. So what can we learn from this? How is this relevant in the modernized culture we live in? I turn to this article from Forbes, Management Advice From Charles Darwin.                 (Photos taken in Tanzania by S+P)
Photo by Joe Kibwe (Our amazing guide and friend, who was born and raised in the Serengeti)
Zebra seem to be the likely prey, as comically depicted in this animalistic short film.
 


"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change." - Charles Darwin

Friday, June 20, 2014

Sydney Evan Jewelry

 A little piece of Rosanne Karmes good karma


Yesterday I found my way over to Bergdorf Goodman for the Sydney Evan custom charm and bead event, and had the pleasure of meeting designer Rosanne Karmes, the woman behind the wildly popular fine jewelry line.  

I first discovered Rosanne’s gorgeous, delicate and whimsical designs last year at this time, while searching for jewelry for my wedding day. I was immediately drawn to Sydney Evan, as all the pieces spoke to me in an elegant, timeless, and understated way. I settled on her evil eye bracelet and I’ve never taken it off. 

Photo by Fiona Conrad
 Rosanne designs pieces that you want to live in; when you look down on your wrist or graze your fingertips against the encouraging words on your necklace it brings you positivity, protection, and for the superstitious, luck. Meeting Rosanne only gave me more reason to want to wear her lucky charms. She is the physical embodiment of her designs: a positive presence, kind, and genuinely interested in the women who wear her jewelry. She's a role model as well, never having financial help to start and grow her business, she did it all on her own.

 Rosanne makes a conscious effort to price her trend setting designs more reasonably than her fellow competitors, not because the pieces are worth any less, but because she wants the jewelry to be attainable to the women she designs for so that her valued customers can purchase the jewelry for themselves.


One of my favorite charms from the new collection :-)






Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Socks w/ Sandals in Soho

 
Bodysuit & Socks / American Apparel
Skirt / Maison Martin Margiela
Heels / Nine West
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 Turtleneck Crop Top, Socks, Sunglasses / American Apparel 
White Leather Skirt / Club Monaco
Heels / Jimmy Choo
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Top & Skirt / Vintage Norma Kamali 
Socks / American Apparel
Heels / CL's 
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