zeke and the fish.
pedro in blazer, joey in flannel, owning the dance floor.
afro, blazer, vest, perfect purple tie: pedro.
06 May 2010
20 April 2010
allison: dilatory
i just wanted to show off my friend's skill at making gorgeous clothing...
allison's blog/links to her etsy store
allison wu. sometimes menswear inspired, i guess, and just generally fabulous. allison was in beijing with me in the fall and i believe she bought some of her fabric there for her most recent pieces. i wore her clothes with several of our other friends in a school fashion show which i'll blog more about later.
in addition to making pretty clothing that is made to be actually worn, allison also has great personal style. knee socks? weird puffy plaid skirts from a haggle market in beijing? oversized sweaters? she does it all perfectly.
i get to walk for allison again in a few weeks, and this line is themed around sideways and upside-down clothes!
here's some of the gang at the march fashion show, photos courtesy of photographer and friend gloria tsan.
allison in the middle!
allison's blog/links to her etsy store
allison wu. sometimes menswear inspired, i guess, and just generally fabulous. allison was in beijing with me in the fall and i believe she bought some of her fabric there for her most recent pieces. i wore her clothes with several of our other friends in a school fashion show which i'll blog more about later.
in addition to making pretty clothing that is made to be actually worn, allison also has great personal style. knee socks? weird puffy plaid skirts from a haggle market in beijing? oversized sweaters? she does it all perfectly.
i get to walk for allison again in a few weeks, and this line is themed around sideways and upside-down clothes!
here's some of the gang at the march fashion show, photos courtesy of photographer and friend gloria tsan.
allison in the middle!
jackson towers
dinner party. wow, these pictures are several months old...oh well.
norma on the phone, navy blue dress and boots.
chef emily rocking an apron and miniskirt in the kitchen
i'm wearing a disturbingly yellow dress from a neighborhood church rummage sale. it has lace cutouts on the back and also came with a shoulderpadded short-sleeved jacket! extreme...too extreme for me to wear as a set until i'm about 60 years old.
marie and lizzie, pondering in glitter and blue and black.
striped glynis and plaid flannel todd.
the general scene
norma on the phone, navy blue dress and boots.
chef emily rocking an apron and miniskirt in the kitchen
i'm wearing a disturbingly yellow dress from a neighborhood church rummage sale. it has lace cutouts on the back and also came with a shoulderpadded short-sleeved jacket! extreme...too extreme for me to wear as a set until i'm about 60 years old.
marie and lizzie, pondering in glitter and blue and black.
striped glynis and plaid flannel todd.
the general scene
princess day
this ancient denim skirt is so flouncy i always feel like a ridiculous princess wearing it. a cowboy princess?
cheap old heels, big h&m shirt, messy bedroom.
cheap old heels, big h&m shirt, messy bedroom.
new apartment
we had a lot of decorating parties during winter term.
the dining room has orange walls, into which we pounded nails to hang things. and curtis has a good omnipresent hat.
hmmm...leaning across the top of the staircase? nice tie.
the dining room has orange walls, into which we pounded nails to hang things. and curtis has a good omnipresent hat.
hmmm...leaning across the top of the staircase? nice tie.
ladies who lunch
we lunched at a perfect french restaurant...bethesda, maryland. blazers, pommes frites, catching up on gossip.
denim jacket
i apologize for the silliness of me and my camera self-timer.
i've gone for the longest time without a denim jacket, and finally i got to the point where i saw one and snapped it up. it's tight around the elbows but worth it.
also, me and my ladyfriends from work kinda made a pact during winter term...we decided not to wear pants. it was all skirts, all the time. since i live in chicago, it was also all two pairs of tights all the time.
superb harold washington shirt from when my mom lived in chicago. and my favorite cowboy boots.
i've gone for the longest time without a denim jacket, and finally i got to the point where i saw one and snapped it up. it's tight around the elbows but worth it.
also, me and my ladyfriends from work kinda made a pact during winter term...we decided not to wear pants. it was all skirts, all the time. since i live in chicago, it was also all two pairs of tights all the time.
superb harold washington shirt from when my mom lived in chicago. and my favorite cowboy boots.
london-town
the last of this winter's tea party pictures...
rachel goes to an arts university in london. she is insanely skilled at making things, and also at finding just the right amount of vintage craziness. bonus: knee socks!
me in my own vintage dress and my favorite belt, with rachel. as usual, i am barefoot...i am just not made for wearing shoes inside houses.
rachel goes to an arts university in london. she is insanely skilled at making things, and also at finding just the right amount of vintage craziness. bonus: knee socks!
me in my own vintage dress and my favorite belt, with rachel. as usual, i am barefoot...i am just not made for wearing shoes inside houses.
hootenanny
some shots from a few months ago, the last time i was in dc. i am still, amazingly enough, friends with basically the same group of people i loved in ninth grade and before.
andrew, intent on his banjo, and in plaid.
a few of my favorite gentlemen. sean looks crisp; teddy looks quizzical.
lovely cory, also in plaid!
i hammed it up in two vintage sweaters (it was cold) and a vintage shirt, with micah.
andrew, intent on his banjo, and in plaid.
a few of my favorite gentlemen. sean looks crisp; teddy looks quizzical.
lovely cory, also in plaid!
i hammed it up in two vintage sweaters (it was cold) and a vintage shirt, with micah.
qianmen
i had my farewell dinner to beijing with my chinese roommate and two high school friends who were also living in the city. we ate in a fairly empty two-story hotpot place just off qianmen that was a) not a chain restaurant, b) not fast food, and c) not overpriced! amazing. i miss eating two-hour meals in large groups.
qianmen was renovated pretty recently. i visited the area when in china in high school and it is now completely different. it's beautiful, but it is basically just a touristy outdoor mall, which i guess is what is was intended to be. this past december, i turned right off qianmen down my beloved and mercifully not-yet-completely-sanitized dazhalan alley and wandered to the west through some unlit hutongs until i emerged in the liulichang antiques area. this is another one of the many places in beijing where i would love to live.
it was really cold:
qianmen was renovated pretty recently. i visited the area when in china in high school and it is now completely different. it's beautiful, but it is basically just a touristy outdoor mall, which i guess is what is was intended to be. this past december, i turned right off qianmen down my beloved and mercifully not-yet-completely-sanitized dazhalan alley and wandered to the west through some unlit hutongs until i emerged in the liulichang antiques area. this is another one of the many places in beijing where i would love to live.
it was really cold:
northern peace
hey, so, um, i haven't updated in...forever?
i just read vogue's newest issue and it's forced me to get back into the swing of things!
here are some final pictures from around beijing. i really, really, really miss that city. it'll be so tempting after college to just move to beijing and become a professional expat.
liz and the city, on our way to wudaokou for her birthday.
we ended up that evening in d-22, where i'd always wanted to go, and saw liz's friend's band.
a guard at tiananmen
tiananmen dusk. beijing really glows at night.
i just read vogue's newest issue and it's forced me to get back into the swing of things!
here are some final pictures from around beijing. i really, really, really miss that city. it'll be so tempting after college to just move to beijing and become a professional expat.
liz and the city, on our way to wudaokou for her birthday.
we ended up that evening in d-22, where i'd always wanted to go, and saw liz's friend's band.
a guard at tiananmen
tiananmen dusk. beijing really glows at night.
05 March 2010
by george
this is from my last tea party. gia apparently likes crazy/cute combinations of patterns, textures, and colors. she looks cozy and quirky-stylish, as usual.
scarves en chine
a couple of my last outfit pictures from china--i think i wore a scarf there every single day.
at the terra cotta warriors in xi'an. i bought this scarf in shanghai, and lost it in beijing at a concert about a month and a half later. depressing. it was my favorite for a while...i had a tempestuous love affair with gray and yellow.
at the temple of the eight immortals in xi'an. when we first got there, it was fairly warm; i didn't even bring a coat from beijing. yet literally on our last day there, it got disturbingly cold. i was wearing all of the clothing i had brought. in this picture, i look cold but happy. the scarf is from a brilliant 10-and-20-kuai (up to about $3) scarf shop in downtown xi'an.
the smell of chinese ink of the stone carvings was indescribably rich and dark and perfect.
i went twice to the great wall at jinshanling, outside of beijing. it's my favorite site by far on the wall: wild and lonely, and only partially restored. i'm wearing chinese pink pearl earrings--there have been stretches since then where i haven't taken them out for a couple days at a time!
at the terra cotta warriors in xi'an. i bought this scarf in shanghai, and lost it in beijing at a concert about a month and a half later. depressing. it was my favorite for a while...i had a tempestuous love affair with gray and yellow.
at the temple of the eight immortals in xi'an. when we first got there, it was fairly warm; i didn't even bring a coat from beijing. yet literally on our last day there, it got disturbingly cold. i was wearing all of the clothing i had brought. in this picture, i look cold but happy. the scarf is from a brilliant 10-and-20-kuai (up to about $3) scarf shop in downtown xi'an.
the smell of chinese ink of the stone carvings was indescribably rich and dark and perfect.
i went twice to the great wall at jinshanling, outside of beijing. it's my favorite site by far on the wall: wild and lonely, and only partially restored. i'm wearing chinese pink pearl earrings--there have been stretches since then where i haven't taken them out for a couple days at a time!
26 February 2010
lor-baby
lauren, at the tea party, somehow makes sportiness and bohemian-ethnic details work together. i really like the luminous jewel colors here, too--everything matches, but it's not overpowering.
stunning earrings. what a crazy shape! they mirror the scarf perfectly.
stunning earrings. what a crazy shape! they mirror the scarf perfectly.
25 February 2010
nicolectric
nicole is one of my favorite people to photograph.
love the tights...yep, they've got built-in knee patches. i also never get up the guts to wear tights with peep-toe shoes, and this is evidence that i should just do it.
all coated up and ready to head outside. note the footwear change! i can't figure out the coat...is it double-breasted?
love the tights...yep, they've got built-in knee patches. i also never get up the guts to wear tights with peep-toe shoes, and this is evidence that i should just do it.
all coated up and ready to head outside. note the footwear change! i can't figure out the coat...is it double-breasted?
winterseve
in the two seconds that i was home over winter break, i managed to throw a tea party.
alexjandra doing her usual tomboy thing with aplomb.
chris, focused on music as usual. plaid all around.
shanghai art
shanghai art museum, on one end of the people's park in the center of town, has tons of patriotic/propaganda art. this one is so gorgeous that i stood and stared for a few minutes.
moganshan/m50 is shanghai's newest answer to the jing's 798 art district. i love these girls' outfits, especially juxtaposed with the bike and cookie monster. the graffiti'd sign behind them that says some stuff about "new asia conglomerate" and a limited liability corporation! from industrial park to art space, just like 798.
stormtroopers, angry pandas, etc. i liked the feel of the outer fringes of moganshan--much like 798 pre-commercialization, i'd guess. the heart of moganshan, though, was commercialized and touristy yet still charming, like 798 today.
moganshan/m50 is shanghai's newest answer to the jing's 798 art district. i love these girls' outfits, especially juxtaposed with the bike and cookie monster. the graffiti'd sign behind them that says some stuff about "new asia conglomerate" and a limited liability corporation! from industrial park to art space, just like 798.
stormtroopers, angry pandas, etc. i liked the feel of the outer fringes of moganshan--much like 798 pre-commercialization, i'd guess. the heart of moganshan, though, was commercialized and touristy yet still charming, like 798 today.
23 February 2010
backpacker
ah, tourism.
this was from the lovely champagne-colored elevator in my shanghai hotel...who says that i can't wear a nice big ring and a good scarf at the same time i am toting a giant backpack?
this was from the lovely champagne-colored elevator in my shanghai hotel...who says that i can't wear a nice big ring and a good scarf at the same time i am toting a giant backpack?
a western peace
xi'an 西安 means "western peace." i went twice this past fall/winter. i really love it, especially the part of the city within the stone walls. the muslim quarter and its bazaar are brilliant, packed with history and food and shiny things...i'll post more photos of the night bazaar later, from my second trip to xi'an.
i fell in love with this moon door while exploring an old courtyard house complex in the muslim quarter. while it's impossible for me to blend in as a local in china, it's fun for me to try not to dress like an american tourist. that means linen pants instead of jeans or short-shorts, neutral colors, and puma sneakers. people usually presumed that i was french or russian.
costumes were available for tourist photos on the drum tower at the heart of town.
i fell in love with this moon door while exploring an old courtyard house complex in the muslim quarter. while it's impossible for me to blend in as a local in china, it's fun for me to try not to dress like an american tourist. that means linen pants instead of jeans or short-shorts, neutral colors, and puma sneakers. people usually presumed that i was french or russian.
costumes were available for tourist photos on the drum tower at the heart of town.
winds
a traveling buddy, on the way to xi'an, hometown of the terra cotta warriors:
we biked around the wide top of the city wall. look at all that grey! oh, i love it.
we biked around the wide top of the city wall. look at all that grey! oh, i love it.
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