stunning earrings. what a crazy shape! they mirror the scarf perfectly.
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.
gilded blue
this was my museum-visiting outfit. i thought i'd never say this, but i miss the shanghai heat and cozy smog.
skirt, purse, and omnipresent black flats are secondhand; shirt is a north face hiking shirt that i like to travel with because it fits perfectly and refuses to get stinky or dirty; little cut-glass earrings are from the yuyuan bazaar; gold-and-blue scarf is from suzhou.
inside the shanghai art museum. it says "the people."
skirt, purse, and omnipresent black flats are secondhand; shirt is a north face hiking shirt that i like to travel with because it fits perfectly and refuses to get stinky or dirty; little cut-glass earrings are from the yuyuan bazaar; gold-and-blue scarf is from suzhou.
inside the shanghai art museum. it says "the people."
the people's park
at the center of shanghai, near the shanghai museum, shanghai art museum, and nanjing road.
kari and sarah: supermodels for life
my friends look too sharp, loitering in black and red.
a failed attempt at a jumping picture
kari and sarah: supermodels for life
my friends look too sharp, loitering in black and red.
a failed attempt at a jumping picture
burgundy
i haven't done a good-ol'-fashioned outfit post in a bit.
here is what i wore to the first day of school this term: vintage black dress (long-sleeved with really thick fabric); beloved burgundy sweater that used to belong to my grandmother; scarf i bought at a "yard" (apartment) sale last year; thermal bottoms; and my favorite favorite boots, whose appearances i struggle to limit to a couple per week.
i'm in my new bedroom in a new apartment in this photo! my sadly white walls have, by now, been covered in posters.
here is what i wore to the first day of school this term: vintage black dress (long-sleeved with really thick fabric); beloved burgundy sweater that used to belong to my grandmother; scarf i bought at a "yard" (apartment) sale last year; thermal bottoms; and my favorite favorite boots, whose appearances i struggle to limit to a couple per week.
i'm in my new bedroom in a new apartment in this photo! my sadly white walls have, by now, been covered in posters.
shanghaied
, some shots from a trip to shanghai this fall...
it's surreal that i took this with my own camera:
at yuyuan bazaar. i'm wearing a scarf from suzhou. my cloisonne bracelet provides that essential little orientalist touch.
everyone's favorite japanese-h+m-type-thing on nanjing road, shanghai's actually charming hypercapitalist pedestrian street, which is similar to the more soulless wangfujing in beijing.
taking in the afternoon:
bar rouge, on the bund. some bits of shanghai were a little too shanghai for me, and the clubs fell into this category: compared to beijing, things were often too shiny, too westernized, too populated by expats--not beijing-y expats (NGO people, students, diplomats, artists), but really stereotypical expats (english-only, business, finance, real estate).
it's surreal that i took this with my own camera:
at yuyuan bazaar. i'm wearing a scarf from suzhou. my cloisonne bracelet provides that essential little orientalist touch.
everyone's favorite japanese-h+m-type-thing on nanjing road, shanghai's actually charming hypercapitalist pedestrian street, which is similar to the more soulless wangfujing in beijing.
taking in the afternoon:
bar rouge, on the bund. some bits of shanghai were a little too shanghai for me, and the clubs fell into this category: compared to beijing, things were often too shiny, too westernized, too populated by expats--not beijing-y expats (NGO people, students, diplomats, artists), but really stereotypical expats (english-only, business, finance, real estate).
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