the notorious wallflower

I bought these two items from the Alexander Wang-CFDA + GAP collaboration on tuesday.
I'm quite happy with both the pieces but I have to say that the sizing at the GAP is increasingly ridiculous.
I had to buy the jacket in an x-small, I was swimming in the small. I am by no means a large person but at 5'3" and 117lbs I am by no means the smallest. My shopping companion tried on and bought a VenaCava-CFDA+Gap dress in a size zero and while she is not curvy she does not possess the typical size zero body-type either.

Sizing in general has lately become a hot button topic for me. I don't understand why companies, especially North American ones (I have not noticed such a drastic change in sizing/fit with European brands), insist on pandering to our unhealthy obsession with weight and body image. They are just helping to entrench the practice of basing ones self-worth on a little number on the back of our clothing. The fashion industry should be trying to get people to accept themselves for what and who they are, to love the bodies they have. The north american fashion industry has instead decided to help propogate society's delusions.

We need to stop believing that we are something that we are not (smaller and skinnier). It isn't about the number on the back of our clothes but how those clothes look and fit on our bodies and how they make us feel when we are wearing them. There is no shame in being an actual extra large or having a 34 waist or being a size 8 just as there is no shame in being a true size zero or having a natural (meaning not dues to illness) 23 inch waist. Due to advances in technology, farming and health we, as a population and as a species are growing- not only increasing in numbers but increasing in individual size and strength. There is no reason for a company such as the GAP to have seperate sizing for North Americans that excludes petite, slim figures and sells white-lies to larger, more volumptuous ones.

Ladies day at Epsom racecourse.

oscar de la renta resort 2010

Jason Wu in a flowing evening gown, Alexander Wang in ripped up cotton jersey, ripped up denim and oversized leather and marc jacobs wearing those bunny ears.... it's all in this year's CFDA Journal (photographed by Craig McDean).

Not pictured at the link are 18 of the 21 other CFDA winners and nominees such as Lazaro and Jack of Proenza Schouler.

I watched the preview first episode and I can't wait for the fall tv schedule to start!

I'm not referring to those girls who keep their svelte figures by adhering to the liquid only diet.
This is the Zojirushi Ms. Bento Vacuum Thermos.
It comes with three different interlocking tops that fit into the thermos.
Spork and bag included.


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Amber beads, brass accessories.

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For the last two years I have been waiting for the Chicago Blackhawks. While everyone else was (rightfully) yapping about the Penguins and the Capitals (mostly for Ovechkin but shout out to Green and Semin) the team to watch -for me- was Chicago. I knew that they were re-emerging as a hockey power house and as someone who has always paid attention to hockey from the West Coast I have been excited to watch this team come into its own.

While watching the game tonight who did I spy in the team box but one of the greatest hockey masterminds, perhaps the greatest living today. Many teams owe a debt of gratitude to this man (Habs and Wings You know the awesomeness of this man). I knew that he had to have had a hand in the excitiment that is brewing in the windy city.

Too bad they are playing my team this round.

It's a case of new, exciting and hungry against older, experienced and starving.

(I don't have tv and I rely on cbc.ca live streaming, espn highlights and print media from both of these outlets and a few others for my hockey information and games and this is my excuse as to not have had confirmation that Mr Bowman was involved in the program in Chicago).

So, with the revival of the 90's supermodel, let us revisit a few other supermodels of yore. These ones didn't get quite the attention or cause quite the stir but I definately recognize the faces. In a world where photoshop, botox and plastic surgery are taking over it's kind of refreshing to see a few supermodels attain a certain level of rugged masculinity that has helped them to age gorgeously (and gracefully).

ru_glamour as more!

Carmen Kass is just getting better (and hotter) with age.

I can't get enough of the model centric May 2009 Vogue. For as much flak as I (an many people) give Anna Wintour's publication for catering to the celebrity obsessed market I forgive them with every turn of the page of this issue.

Yes, the impossible is possible.

Behold, the Christian Louboutin leopard print, pony skin sneaker. Sneakerheads everywhere (who are we kidding, even victoria beckam is going to want these) can only pray these go into production for A/W 2009









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Nina Ricci Fall 2009 black leather lace-up ankle boots. Sadly, NR bosses aren't putting these, or any of the fall 2009 shoes from Olivier Theyskens' final collection for the brand, into production (I understand with most of these shoes, but these are stunners).