Fashion Week

I have been super distracted this week looking for jobs and places! Exciting stuff! But I have managed to look at some of the shows. Overall I haven't been blown away, but I was pretty much in love with Marc Jacobs. I haven't been very impressed with him for a while, but this year is a different story. In the economic downturn, I think this vintagey collection fits in perfectly. These are my favorite three looks.

a new project

I have been looking for a good blog project for a while. I have thought about the ever popular"street style" blog, a Boulder edition, but I am concerned about the real Boulder and the few stylish people of Boulder, since the honest to god "street style" in Boulder is about 90% Ugg boots, Northface, and backpacks. I am going to keep mulling over that idea, but in the mean time I think i'm going to tackle a different project.

I am tenatively calling it the "style web." I will dissect the evolution of my own personal style, especially the things that have influenced me over the years. This is the web I came up with.

I will start with the Environmental, Social and Media aspects, and then I will move on to Relationships, where I hope to compile whole style webs for those who have influenced me.

valentines day

this is the first valentines day i've ever actually spent with a valentine!

It's taken me a while to come up with an official position on Lady Gaga. I admit, I have gotten a little sucked in at times (alexander skarsgard's role in that one video), however I have always kept a skeptical eye open, and I have finally decided for sure that what she's doing is really a gimmick. She wears crazy costumes, but they really aren't original (alexander mcqueen, ect), she is just going for shock value. Her videos have nothing on the artists she is ripping off, namely Bjork and Fever Ray's Karin Dreijer Andersson. And her music is catchy, but it's not really interesting or different. Unfortunately her gimmick worked, she has caught the press and college aged girls and made them...gaga.

But I guess thats what makes Andersson so much better, her desire to stay out of the media and press...and only in the hearts of the coolest college aged girls.