maybe credit cards are romance.

when my hair gets as long as sienna's was in alfie, i am so getting bangs and a warm blonde colour. i mean, there's no way you can wrong with honey locks.

in other news, how cool is this cheap monday skirt (sold at urban outfitters) ?

i'm going to the loblaws superstore tomorrow: the only store which sells joe fresh style (good clothes, even better prices). in my mind, joe's is the equivalent of sjp's bitten in the states, except for we have more taxes. actually, just more expensive in general.

hopefully i'll get my hands on some good fall basics such as:
marine stripes; high-waisted skirts, trousers or denim; structured jackets, capelets or blazers; loose-fitting knitwear; chunky sweaters; superlong long-sleeved tees; rocker booties; thick scarves; hoisiery; and anything else that seems worth my while.

i'll update upon my return with purchases & finds.

zoë.

the city that never sleeps never stops dreaming.

i cannot wait to soak up the magic of ...
new york, i love you.

starring:
kevin bacon; natalie portman; christina ricci; shia labeouf; ethan hawke; olivia thirlby; drea da matteo; justin bartha; julie christie; andy garcia; rachel bilson; anton yelchin; maggie q; james caan; blake lively; orlando bloom; qi shu; hayden christensen; eva amurri; john hurt; eli wallach; chris cooper; bradley cooper; & cloris leachman (amongst others).

zoë.

how we get from a to z

charlie bartlett: one of the best movies ive seen in a long time.
rent it, buy it, whatever.
do it pronto stat tonight, it's amazing.

x.

jessica

open up the medicine chest.

for a healthy dose of ashley & mary kate.

one.

the wackness: propelled by an exuberant hip hop score, the wackness captures the spell of 1994-- a time of pagers, not cell phones; a time when tupac and biggie were alive but kurt cobain had just died. funny and moving, the wackness is an offbeat tale of two lost souls stumbling towards maturity.

two.

influence by mary kate olsen & ashley olsen: the billion bucks twins will be releasing a coffee table book titled influence this fall. ashley says the book will feature “the most interesting, challenging, creative people we know — the ones who helped pave the way for us and our generation.”

zoë.

hey rich girl.

epitome of summer.

carolina engman; woodstock; almost famous.

[from fashionsquad.com, & flickr]

x.

jessica.

lazy summer eyes.

one of the best movies i've seen in a long time;


when a recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children, he gradually starts to turn his life around and he helps the family cope and confront their loss. a brilliant take on mourning, drug addiction, and recovery.



halle berry & benicio del toro are both so amazing.

zoë.

it never snows in mexico.

i saw justin nozuka live in concert last night.

the guy is amazing. in case you've never heard of him, he's a twenty year old toronto-native who performs soft-rock/folk music with the aid of his acoustic guitar. plus he's adorable.

download:
criminal; after tonight; i'm in peace; mr. therapy man; golden train; save him; down in a dirty cold well.

also, and this is by no means fashion-related, i just had to mention it. while watching step up 2: the streets recently (yes, i finally saw it, & i must say that amidst all the hype, it was very entertaining) i had an epiphany, and here it is right here: does robert hoffman, who played the male lead in the movie, not look like the blonde california-boy version of penn badgley, also known as daniel humphrey from gossip girl? just a thought.

zoë.

eating cheese on toast.

St Trinian's is a fictional girls' boarding school which was created as a series of cartoons by Ronald Searle, a British cartoonist, and later became the subject of comedy films. The school is the antithesis of the Enid Blyton-type posh girls' boarding school; its pupils are wicked and often well-armed, and mayhem is rife. You can only imagine how they wear their uniforms, then.



In the upcoming movie St Trinian's, starring Mischa Barton, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth & Gemma Arterton, wicked takes on the traditional private school uniform abound.



It's so Gossip Girl that it's not. I mean, could you ever picture Leighton Meester in black fishnets & a straw hat? Then again, the whole 'Our-take-on-uniforms-is-so-much-more-stylish-&-sexier-than-most-private-catholic-school-would-ever-allow' theme is ongoing. You're not allowed to hike up your skirt that high.


[an older take on st trinian's story.]

I would kill for on of those blazers. Ralph Lauren, my obvious favourite, tailors them to perfection. They're just so classic and sophisticated-looking.



And here I was, thinking I'd be able to do a school-uniform post without side-tracking onto Gossip Girl outfits. But really, who am I kidding? I don't even follow the show at this point - the fact that it has no substantial link to the books, and Nate's character by far not living up to the actual Nathaniel pretty much turned me off - but I'm constantly researching the show's outfits after the fact.



These two crack me up. Their whole matchy-matchy trend, not that it's catching on, is pure gold. Not to mention that their outfits are almost always horrendous, except for a few touches like accessories or shoes that may miraculously pull the whole thing together, but even at that.



Jenny, I suppose, was dubbed the risk-taker. The excessive plaid & opaque tights make me smile, but only because the combination catches my eye, not because it pleases it. School uniforms don't actually look like this elsewhere, do they? We have school uniforms, and we have to follow strict rules if we even want to be allowed in: standard shoes and knee-high socks in navy blue, black, or forest green. We're not allowed to have haircolour that doesn't look 'natural' (aka, pink, green or blue), nor are we allowed to roll up our skirts (which doesn't mean we can't have them professionally cut to length). It's frustrating but inspiring to see the way television shows switch up uniforms in many unexpected ways.

Zoë.

PS: St Trinian's features Lily Cole !

she spends pesos on them labels.

I'm trying to be innovative, but it seems that my posts are becoming more & more mundane. Critiques have come to exhaust me & I can no longer stand designer show reviews. When it comes to myself, I try and be as descriptive as possible to make my life seem at least somewhat fashionable, but lately I feel I've been missing the bullet. I started to fear that maybe - this is just a possibility - I was getting bored with fashion. An empire that's ever-changing, and here I was scavenging for more, always more. Theyskens can only do so much to grasp my attention. But then, the viewing of a particular film changed my mind entirely. The Devil Wears Prada is brilliant, especially for its fashion-related connotations that the everyday movie-goer wouldn't even notice.

Miranda Priestly explains it all so well, though. "You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff."

Fashion isn't as superficial as it looks.

Zoë.