the Exarchopoulos

images: thefashionspot, instagram

Adele Exarchopoulos is so cool.
She's my age, an equally lovely and depressing fact, with an ability to wear clothes that rivals her faultless acting.
Yes, I'm always looking for the frivolity, but there is such a knack to looking un-styled.

because it's sunday

-here's some convoluted, and in no way-related, inspiration cluttering up my desktop.

images: afterdrk, the f blog, stylesight, tfs

on the outside

image: anne bernecker

excellent outerwear + leather mini + tote

babes in frames

  

lindsey wixson and ashley williams

inspiration: the versace archive

Spring 1993

Fall 1994

Spring 2002 

Fall 2004

images here

You to come to expect only the most polished and perfected of women to feature in a Versace campaign.

So it was nice to find, during a large bout of of procrastination, the Spring 1993 campaign featuring denim, chiffon, and seemingly natural hair and make-up. A dose of subtlety before the super humans took over.

I'm not complaining, the 'Supers' campaign of Fall 1994 might just be my favourite ever. (I say, whilst trying to work that mini and cropped knit combo in to my day to day wardrobe.)

Another favourite is Spring 2002 with Israeli-American model Sharon Garnish. The printed sarong and white boot combo, the tasseled leathers on the beach, a lesson in unapologetic sexiness if ever I saw one.

i want: an embroidered blouse

images: fashionmenow, pinterest, anne bernecker

I love these 70's embroidered blouses.
As perfect with slip-on vans and a tan in the summer, as with denim and leather in the months leading up to it.
Natalia Vodianova's beautiful (and most probably, vintage) number is my favourite, with Isabel Marant's  tunic a close second as a dressier, evening counterpart. 
These three (1, 2, 3) are the closest to make the grade so far, all free people, and all hideously over priced.
I'll have to keep looking for something vintage (and affordable) to fill my bohemian cravings.

say it with stationery

Got to love a passive aggressive notepad. 

an ode to the black boot

Sure I need you in the winter, to keep me dry and warm, to go with every pair of pants I own, to rough up lightwash denim or seamlessly underline skinny black jeans.
But it's in the summer, those months of bare legs,  those months when sandals and supergas will suffice. It's in the summer, when you really come to life. When you provide the perfect counter to tanned legs and floral dresses, the perfect platform for grassy summer evenings, and pavement pounding afternoons.
The clumpy, the stacked heel, the chelsea, all as necessary as each other. Sartorially speaking, there really is nothing better. 

favourites of favourites: pre-fall 14

I've always preferred Resort, if only for the name. Makes me think of rich upper east side babes, able to buy whole collections in accordance with a slight change in temperature.

Great thing is, designers have the ability to completely ignore the weather. Which I, as a 'human icy hot' (see this Man Repeller piece) always appreciate in pre-fall collections.

Mr Calvin Klein knows that his garms can be cabbed from block to block even in the iciest of temperatures. Christopher Kane needn't worry about the babes in his dresses ruining a silhouette on account of goose-pimpled arms, their thighs are exposed for goodness sake!

Thankfully pre-fall does little to actually prepare you for fall.

Coats and tights need not apply.

Calvin Klein

Chloe

Christopher Kane

Givenchy