Beach Babe

I have a shoot coming up this weekend ( pray for no rain) with this lovely lady locks rachelle . These are some inspiration shots.

POST SPRING- PRE FALL- NOT YET SUMMER

From all of the looks from all of the Pre Fall 2010 Collections this is my all time favourite. I think this Celine marabou ( don't quote me on that) feather dress and kelly green wedge strappy heels enters some strange fashion portal in my mind at least once a week. You know what that means.....I need find some cheaper feather piece version to fill that void.

THAMES SUMMER READING

MARAIS GIRLS

On Sunday, my most of the time stylish mom spotted these sweet puppies in the new york times style section and I have not been able to stop thinking and looking at them! TROUBLE!

Marais USA is an adorable shoe company based out of NYC. These women design classic staples that every women at some point in there life should own. I'm currently lusting over the Espadrille wedge. I just need to get them to my front door before I head to London!

Check out the website, blog, and wander into the ladies dreamy and creative world. Just don't even think about the Espadrille wedge in tomato red, they've got my name on it!

HALSTON HERITAGE

With all the hoopla surrounded with Halston these days I'm really, really looking forward to seeing this new documentary Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston by Whitney Sudler-Smith. There seems to be a bit of mystery surrounding this legendary designer, OK maybe not that much mystery. I just need to learn more about him. Hopefully I'll get to see more raw studio 54 images. Googling "Bianca Jagger, Halston, studio 54" just isn't enough for me, I need more!!

Here is the trailer. Side note: vintage fashion regret # 204- trying on a Halston 'fits me like a glove' light wool coat at House of Vintage last year and not picking it up. . shame on me!

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

The gang and I at the best coast show!


I was mentally preparing my outfit for the best coast show happening on April 13th and you know started thinking about cut off denim vests and starchy cotton boxy 80s print tops and white jeans and soft blond hair pastels and all that then brought myself down to reality and remembered that its ONLY APRIL AND I LIVE IN TORONTO- NOT SANTA MONICA. BOO.
I did however have a vision of my Barbie doll collection and remembered how awesome California Barbie circa 1987 was. I had the Barbie and Midge doll. They came with Beach Boy cassette tapes!

OK so the point to this blog post- to remember how awesome California Barbie and the gang looked and if it was 2010 these Barbies would be listening to Best Coast records!! ya, OK we will go with that..... also, check out BEST COASTS blog... HERE they POST a lot of beach boy videos, which is ALWAYS RAD!

KARLA SPETIC

I was just introduced to the soft, bold and beautiful designs of Karla Spectic. Her bold pops of colour mixed with the softness of pastel is lovely on the eyes. Her twisting and draping is a tad Burberry but she seems to create an original silhouettes that dare I even say it , love a bit more then Burberry ( sorry Mr. Bailey) Karla hails from Australia, and her pieces are available on her site. I wouldn't dare buy a piece like this online without trying it on but Im hoping I can find that orange and pink cardie or white coat with the sq cut outs when I'm in the UK!