ROUND 2: OPENING CEREMONY X PENDLETON A/W 2010

Hot off the press y'all.
See the entire lookbook here.

ANN-SOFIE BACK DRIP SUNNIES, SO MAD!

$285.00, pretty much sold out

LE POP-UP DE CHANEL

Copped a few things from their Summer '10 collection. Check it out at your nearest Nordstrom Chanel counter, it's all amazing!

Creamsicle Lips

Wearing my favorite, Sisley's L30.

Tales of the Unexpected from More Soon.

Birthday Wish List

1. A haircut, please!!

2. Someone to pay for my next load of dry-cleaning

3. Someone to pay for my next load of shoe repairs

4. Someone to replace my AA black tie-dye circle scarf

Seriously, all I want for birthday is pristine hair and a pristine (and complete) closet!! Someone help a sista out.

WOOL TABARD

Wool Tabard, complexgeometries

Thank you, secret sale!

SHAVED

I'm totally digging this cut a la Kate Lanphear. And of course the velvet pants! Where can mama find herself a pair of these?!

Check out the other babes of Jakarta on Face Hunter.

(JAK & JIL)

GIVENCHY SS10

Givenchy + psychedelic chaos + triangle motif = heaven on the runway. Definitely one of my favorite collections of the season.

THE DEETS...

(style.com)

View whole collection at style.com.

Jimmy Choo for H&M

nymag.com

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this collection. The shoes are definitely stronger than the clothes but this is an obvious reflection of Jimmy Choo's reputation as a designer of accessories and shoes first and foremost. The suede pieces are pretty fucking spectacular (and same with the blingin' jewelry) whereas the fringe dress and sequin track jacket are another story... Extending the collection into menwear and footwear is questionable... We'll see how thoughtfully edited this collection will be. Released in select stores November 14th.

WESTWOOD WALLS

Cole & Sons, £55 per roll

Vivienne Westwood wallpaper produced by top British wallpaper manufacturers Cole & Sons.

Visual noise all up in my kitchen and boudoir? Yes, please.

Click here to see other prints.

VELVET

Chloe F2009RTW

There's nothing darker and more romantic than black velvet. Trying to get velvet in rich black, navy, plums, and evergreens in my wardrobe this fall.

MIRRORS

Christopher Kane for Topshop Embellished Legging, $160

Lusting, once again.

Had my babies stolen this year and am pretty damn determined to have them replaced.

STARGATE

2001: A Space Odyssey

LOVER'S SPIT

Revisiting You Forgot it in People.

GRACE JONES

Boo, you so rrrrrright.

BREAKFAST PERIODIC TABLE

Gastronimica: The Journal of Food and Culture, vol. 9, no. 2, p.122. 2009 by Catherine Weese.

"Cereal is an emblem of industrial artifice, and this table addresses it's design evolution. After extensive research in the supermarket breakfast-foods aisle, I divided the cereals I found into five categories based on shape: the square or orthogonal, the flake, the "grain", the round and its variations, and the "fake". The table orders them in rows by shape; within each row they are in chronological order according to the date of their introduction into the market (indicated by the "elemental" number on top left). Subsidiary information includes nutritional data, price (which is no longer up-to-date), and manufacturer.

Over the course of my research I was struck by how American breakfast cereals, perhaps unwittingly, participated in the design trends of the times. The gridded shape of Shredded Wheat, the first mass-marketed cereal (1894), celebrates the industrial process and the prospect of uniformity. The flake and grain are stylized renditions of cereal's natural origins, an almost Arts and Crafts sensibility. The next geometric shape to appear on the market was the ball (Kix, 1937); its abstraction, subverted by playful connotations, ushered in a new era of cereal that targets children. Finally, the "fake" cereals emerging in the 1950s brought in the postmodern era, in which cereal pretends to be something else. My personal favorite in this category is Crunchberries (1968), and breakfast cereal imitating breakfast cereal. Its square pillows and red berries are a miniaturized version of Shredded Wheat with Raspberries, as depicted on the product's box. Thus, cereal completes its tour of twentieth-century design, from early modernism to wistful anti-industrialism to cheeky postmodern quotation."

....a really entertaining article in Gastronomica's Spring issue. I couldn't find Weese's full table online so this will have to suffice. If you're interested in this food quarterly feel free to email me-- I'll lend ya a copy!

VICIOUS

Rihanna in next Vogue Italia. Photographed by Steven Klein.