These shoes are CUTE. And THEY'RE ON SALE here ... I think the hearts are perfectly done and the fact that they're brown and cheetah and leopard and such and not red or pink is pretty sweet. Normally $550...they are now available at 50% off...IF you can land your size, chickees.♡
I love Surface To Air . I haven't seen the boys in years, since I left NYC. But there are a couple of them from the collective that I used to see almost every night at events and parties. So I'm not even sure if they're all still involved in the collective or the label anymore. When they launched their womens line, called S2A (es-too-ay)...I did write one of the very first stories on the label for Anthem magazine. So I wanted to check it out and I found this awesome bag. It's just perfect. The site describes it as a black leather grocery pouch with zipped inside pocket. And, of course, the styling and the girl are spot on. This is called the BIG BAG and it's available to buy right now....for 470,00€.♡
OK. First of all, it's pretty obvious by my first name that I'm Persian. And by my blog it's easy to tell I'm a history freak. As well as being obsessed by pop culture. And I do love a lot of the history of the art and style and culture from Iran. (But not what's going on there now. I miss the way it was when I look at old photos of my mother and father from the 60s and 70s....before the revolution.) I'm also a huge freak about rad wedding dresses...vintage wedding dresses. At one point, I wanted to start a vintage wedding dress company just for all the cool/hip girls I knew who weren't doing things the normal way with the ugly puffy things girls wear now. One thing a lot of you might not know is that Yves Saint Laurent designed the wedding dress when Farah Diba married the Shah (Reza Pahlavi). And when YSL passed away, Farah attended his funeral. Apparently, she remained very close friends with him. She sat in front, near the French President and his (tacky) wife (ahem). Here are a couple of images that are pretty cool. I love this stuff. I hope you do, too.♡
Farah's fitting at Yves Saint Laurent's salon for her wedding in 1959 to the Shah of Iran.
This YSL wedding dress is def fit for a Queen. I wonder where the dress is now. Or if it still exists. It might have been destroyed during the revolution. So sad. You can see YSL looking over the finished dress and smiling.
You can see this part in the video below.
Such royalty. And glamour. Love it. Too bad it was before my time.
And here's some really rough video...but at least you can see the dress "live"...
And Farah attending the funeral for Yves Saint Laurent. She still looks glamorous. And very sad.♡
Farah Pahlavi (on the left) at YSL's funeral services.
I love a stylist who can work the right look and get a girl to look old school and still current and hot and sexy. The below shoot is from the current issue of Italian Vogue. It's film-y in a very Godard /Truffaut way. And a little To Sir With Love . But it's something anyone could do. And what I also love about it is it's not afraid to NOT be pretty. Which makes it really even more cool. At least in the U.S., everyone is so overly concerned about being pretty or sexy that they forego style. When all the while some good style makes you really stand out. You do occasionally see a girl rock this look in places like New York and San Francisco and any other town where it gets cold a lot. In sunny LA, I never really ever see it. But I'm happy to see it in this shoot. It's very Sergio Zambon ...it's very Nancy Girl. That's why I'll be using this shoot as a reference on those colder days when I just want to look a little...more stylee and a little less everybody.
PS if you want to know how to get that hair look and do your eyes in that 60s liner way....check out my post with video tutorials by this girl who does it really well...the hair is really just ratted (back-combed) and then brushed out a bit and the eyes are like edie sedgwick....watch the bardot videos for the hair and the edie sedgwick video for the eyeliner.♡
just gorgeous. and a little dirty. which is why i love it. perfect beauty mark.
like she woke up and pinned her hair and applied makeup over her last-night's makeup. love it.
that's totally my hair on the left (or it will be!) with a little less eyeliner. love the sweater and the beatnik effect. and the gorgeous black girl on the right.
the left pales in comparison to the right. the right looks like a lot of girls who live in cold places. love it.
i don't think i'll see too many girls with hair styled like it is on the left. but i love it in this shoot. i would love to see it. and i do love the hair on the right. i'll def be doing that. my hair gets bigger with wet weather. but i'll make sure it looks more bardot and less snooki poof.
the tools you might need for this look. cute still of the makeup.
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