TUES TAILOR ♥ MARNI WINTER SUNGLASSES

Here are some of the new fantastic frames from the MARNI WINTER EDITION 2012 EYEWEAR COLLECTION...the press release describes them this way:

The main feature of the sunglasses from the MARNI WINTER EDITION 2012 EYEWEAR COLLECTION is the contrast between opaque and shiny used for a flower motif on relief in the upper part of the frame.

Opaline and watery colors range from bright green, pink, yellow and red to sand and brown, while temples are in contrasting solid colors.

We can see that...they do look amazing. I think the Italians do some of the best sunglasses that anyone has ever done...and that goes for vintage, too! Available at marni.com .♡

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MAKEUP MONDAY ♥ NARS TUTORIALS

Did you all know that over there are the NARS website, they have these gorgeous simple video tutorials? The new Fall collection How-To videos are up here. But I thought I could post a couple of the Summer How-To vids here since it is still summer and the weather feels like it's starting to actually get super hot outside. The only thing I don't understand about these videos is why François Nars isn't doing the makeup himself? I remember the first time I went to New York and directly to Barney's to pick up a Nars lipstick. They were new then and super exclusive. And I think the brand is still pretty much living up to the same feel as it always has.♡

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SUNDAY MATINEE ♥ FRANKENWEENIE!

I can't wait!

Also, did any of you catch the Olympics when the Mens French Swim Team won the gold? That was amazing! Their names! I loved their names! It looked like a Wes Anderson movie!;)♡

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SATURDAY SHOW ♥ YAKATA HAIRSTYLES

I will fill in the words about this tomorrow. But I wanted to get it up now. This is VenusAngelic from YouTube. I have been watching her since she had only a couple hundred people watching but now she has a ton. And a ton of haters. But I like her. I'll explain tomorrow, but I esp loved this new video she did with easy Yakata hairstyles....it's surreal. And she's not Japanese. I think she's Swedish and Spanish or something. But she looks Japanese. And that's her real voice. I like her. OK. I will be more clear when I write tomo.♡

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GIRL FRIDAY ♥ LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

In honor of the Olympics launching today, I thought I'd try to find some really good athletic or Olympic fashion shoot. I tried to find something from the 80s, but it was taking too long. I nearly gave up until I came across this gem from Marie Claire Italy from March, methinks, titled "Black Gym". It features model Ranya Mordanova who is styled amazingly by Ivana Spernicelli (what talent!) and photographed by David Slijper. Now, when I was a magazine editor (for Oyster and also worked for Dazed and Tokion and others for a long time), these are the kinds of editorials I looked for. Or, rather, the kind of stylists and stories I LOVED. This is so original looking. Even the cover looks fresh. Let the games begin!

I was actually trying to find this shoot by Arthur Elgort...I'll still look for it. Looks amazing and very Olympic-ish...♡

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THUR SHOW/SHOE ♥ MIU MIU 2012 CAMPAIGN

Wow. What a winner this is...teaming Chloe Sevigny with the super funky very 60s Miu Miu collection to make it WORK. Otherwise, maybe the message of the collection would have gotten lost, ya know? Notice the very very Bowie-esque make up and hair. I mean, Miu Miu does their virals right.♡

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WED WONDER ♥ LV, MURAKAMI AND FPM

I initially was looking up videos by one of my favorite DJs from the 90s DJ Tanaka and his creation FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE. FPM used to be on an amazing record label called Emperor Norton Records...Sofia Coppola used a lot of their stuff on her movie soundtracks...look it up. Upon looking for videos, I found this Louis Vuitton promo video for the launch of Murakami's Superflat Monogram. It's amazing and the music is by Fantastic Plastic Machine! Weeeee! These are circa 2007...

I'm not sure but I think the music for the below animation was also done by FPM.♡

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TUES TAILOR ♥ OLDEST BRA EVER FOUND

Amazing that recently it has been realized that a bra (and some other lingerie) did in fact exist...in the Middle Ages! If you follow fashion history, then you would know that everyone thought that the bra came after the corsets...which makes is sort of a modern invention. Not so. Four linen bras that look very much like the current style women wear today were found in an Austrian castle and date back to the...1400's!!! That is amazing that they even exist! They had to have been locked up tightly in a thick cedar chest or something! I guess one of the bras even had little decorations of lace and beading on it! Amazing! These pieces were found in 2008, but had to undergo carbon dating which ended up saying they are 600 years old! Since the 1600's, women wore corsets until the bra was "discovered" by a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob. You can read more about them all here including how they also found a couple thousand pieces of textiles and other clothing, including what they think to be a pair of men's underwear...because the historians say that women didn't wear panties back then! :) Read more here.♡

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MAKEUP MON ♥ PETRA'S SHADOW REVIEW

I was all prepared to start a review on a new favorite Japanese skincare product I've been testing out, and then I saw Petra Kozina, a makeup artist I follow and love on YouTube (I wrote about her here), had a brand new video up...a review of her favorite eyeshadows. If you don't care about the shadows, just listen to her voice....it's amazing. She is on the rise to becoming one of the premiere YouTube beauty gurus quickly because she's the real deal...she does looks that we all wish we could do. And, a lot of us wish we could sound as kitten as she does when she speaks. :)♡

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SUNDAY MATINEE ♥ WENDY O WILLIAMS

Have I posted this before? It's an interview with one of the best female rockers, Wendy O Williams...she has the most amazing body and energy. Her band was called The Plasmatics. This is hilarious because it's from the 80s on a talk show with Sally Jesse Raphael, who was pretty big back then. Not sure if this ever went up, but if you read my blog then you know I have a novel (ARCADIA) out that's Heavy Metal. So of course I love Wendy O Williams (esp her duet with Lemmy from Motorhead!). Sadly, she took her own life. I think she was too sensitive to everything, to aware of everything, and I think she was too intelligent to handle life and aging. Anyway, if I already posted this in the past, then forgive me. But I feel I need to post it again. Just because...because Wendy was the ultimate badass.♡

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SATURDAY SHOW ♥ COME EDIE VOGUE KOREA ♥

I had never seen this Edie Sedgewick/Andy Warhol/Factory shoot before. It's from Vogue Korea 2008 and features models Kim Min-hee and Lee Soo-hyuk (who apparently were a couple?). This shoot is amazing. I can't imagine all the work that went into it. All the work that went into the makeup and props and painting the silver factory. It is genius. Then it got me to browsing through other Vogue Korea fashion shoots and they were equally amazing. All the credits are below. You can see some documentary footage if you're unfamiliar with the Warhol Silver Factory here. I have been obsessed by Warhol since I was a teen. Maybe this shoot will explain why...

PS...DON'T forget the Heavy Metal novel comes out soooon! See more info here!  LONG HAIR ROCKS! 

Update...it's out but the links are the same above!♡

Kim Min-hee, Lee Soo-hyuk Vogue Korea August 2008

Editors: Son Eun-young, Kim Ji-soo, Lee Hee-jung

Photographer: Lee Gun-ho

Set Stylist: Lee Hyun-min

Hair: Kim Jung-han

Hair & Makeup: Won Jo-yeon

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♥♥♥DOUBLE POSTS TOMO!!!!♥♥♥♥

SO SORRY, LOVELIES. WAS TERRIBLE SLEEPY FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS...OH AND I HAD TO DESIGN A FULL WEBSITE LIKE OVERNIGHT. SO MY EYES WERE SO STRAINED AND HURTING FROM GLARING AT THE COMPUTER FOR ALL THOSE HOURS STRAIGHT...ANYONE KNOW OF ANY GLASSES YOU CAN WEAR TO PROTECT YOUR EYES FROM THE GLARE? 

I WAS ALSO REALLY BUMMED OUT ABOUT THE WHOLE THEATER SHOOTING. I MEAN, THERE ARE SO MANY VIOLENT CRIMES AND SO MANY PSYCHOS HAVE ACCESS TO GUNS AND THESE IDIOTS IN THE NRA WHO SAY THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO PURCHASE GUNS....WHAT IDIOTS. WE ARE NOT LIVING IN THE CIVIL WAR DAYS! YOU ALL KNOW, IF YOU READ MY BLOG, HOW MUCH I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE FILMS! I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYONE CAN GO TO A THEATER AND FEEL RELAXED AND SINK INTO THE FILM NOW...THERE ARE TOO MANY WEIRDOS AND COPY CATS AND GUNS OUT THERE. I DUNNO. IT REALLY UPSET ME. I GUESS I FEEL LIKE THAT SPECIAL THING I LOVED TO DO, GO TO FILMS, HAS BEEN AFFECTED IN A MAJOR WAY. I FEEL SO UPSET FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO WENT TO HAVE A GREAT TIME AND THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT'S TERRIBLY SICKENING. 

SO SORRY FOR HEAVY TALK, BUT THESE ARE THE REASONS WHY I JUST DIDN'T FEEL LIKE BLOGGING FOR A DAY. BUT I WILL RESUME TOMO. 

TOMO...DOUBLE THE FUN. XXX♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

GIRL FRIDAY ♥ SUPERMODEL YASMIN LE BON

When I was still in elementary school, one of my favorite models and biggest role models was super model YASMIN LE BON (wow...how many times can I say the word model in one sentence!). (Her maiden name is Parvaneh, which means butterfly in Persian.) Not only was she gorgeous and part of the super models that reigned back then, but she was Persian and dating Simon Le Bon (from Duran Duran). My family was obsessed with fashion and models...I think to some extent they still are. We loved most of the models, but we especially loved her because she represented US. When was the last time you heard of a Persian super model? Or a regular Persian model on the catwalks in Paris? Even though there are some gorgeous Persian girls out there. She is the epitome of class and beauty. One hot lady. And she aged amazingly. See her photos below and see why I loved her so much as a young girl and teen!♡

i think she's older here, but look how gorgeous she is!

so hot in that french cut bottom!

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