I’ve had the “mean reds” for much of the past month, which may be why I almost forgot to write this post!
Reading: I finished The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and I’m trying to make a dent in my pile of unread New Yorkers.
Video: Downton Abbey and Sherlock, of course… and now they’re both over!
Audio: Beck’s “Morning Phase”
Winter in New York City, one hundred years ago.
Let’s hope that we’ve seen the last of the snow for this winter!
Image via Whitney Museum of American Art.
When I was writing my recent review of LUSH’s Tender is the Night massage bar (scented with jasmine, ylang ylang, and vanilla!) I looked up John Keats’s poem “Ode to a Nightingale” in order to refresh my memory about the phrase that gives this product its name. Well, LUSH actually names F. Scott Fitzgerald as the source, but he was borrowing from Keats!
Continue reading “My Back Pages: Scent and Sound in John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale””
My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of LUSH’s Tender is the Night Massage Bar. You can read it here.
My longstanding love for Anna Sui’s work is no secret. One of my fashion dreams is that someday, somehow, I’ll be able to attend an Anna Sui runway show. In the meantime, I just keep visiting the designer’s Manhattan boutique and studying the photos from her newest collections.
I’ve just gone through Style.com’s shots of Sui’s Fall/Winter 2014 Collection and, as usual, I can imagine myself in quite a few things I’m seeing. I’d wear the above outfit as is—well, maybe switching in a pair of black Victorian-styled boots.
According to the designer’s official Facebook page,
“For Fall/Winter 2014, Anna Sui set out to MOD-ernize Anna May Wong’s style from the film ‘Piccadilly’ (1929). The collection is inspired by Serge Lutens’s photographs for Shiseido, fashion illustrations from La Gazette du Bon Ton, Biba, art deco jewelry, the interiors of Rose Cummings, and chinoiserie rooms and pavilions from European palaces and features the colors jade, cinnebar and kingfisher blue.”
(Did you catch that Lutens reference, fragrance friends?)
Here are details of two “looks,” one in a hunter-green palette and one in “kingfisher” blue with shimmery silver. I love the layering of that textured black coat over that scenic-print cream-and-green tunic on the left, the drape-y fit of the blue dress (with that little fur scarf!) on the right, and the Erickson-Beamon tassselled necklaces on both models.
Pat McGrath’s makeup for the collection included red lips and dark fingertips, and the hair by Garren ranged from 1970s-style wild manes to 1920s-style sleek bobs.
I can only hope that something from this collection will end up on the sales rack! I’ve learned to be very patient…
Images: all by Marcus Tondo/Indigitalimages for Style.com.
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