May 14th, 2012 § 1 Comment
Loving this sweet little Parisian confection by Louis Clichy.
To see Edith Piaf and Théo Sarapo sing ”A Quoi Ça Sert L’amour?” live, head here.
Many thanks to Tara for bringing this to my attention.
May 13th, 2012 § 1 Comment
Had a lovely time visiting the Brimfield Antique Show on Friday with Lani! Luckily, we had lovely weather to match. Unluckily, the week’s rain had kept away a lot of the other antique hunters for the better part of the week, resulting in a very crowded and lengthy drive in, but we didn’t let that get us down!
As to be expected of the Northeast’s (and perhaps the country’s?) largest antique show, Brimfield doesn’t really offer many deals. The Brimfield dealer is savvy, picky even. They know that somewhere, someone is wandering around in the fields that would be willing to pay their inflated prices, either because they don’t know any better or because they just don’t care about the cost. And for good reason, as the creative services and design teams of some of the biggest mainstream Americana brands (Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie and Fitch) regularly sweep through Brimfield looking for inspiration (and pay top dollar for it).
That said, going to Brimfield is still a lot of fun — there’s great food and even better people watching. There’s also some truly weird stuff out there. It’s definitely my favorite Brimfield pastime to play “Didn’t you tell me you needed _______?” In which the blank is filled in with the weirdest thing within sight, e.g, a Liberace pillow, a 5 foot-tall tea kettle, and the like.
Canadian yacht club plaques from the 1930s.
My Brimfield kit included:
wellies, a waxed cotton parka, and a Boat and Tote bag
The fonts! So good!
Butter dishes and Somersize. Best product placement ever.
Lani is excited for…
…some amazing lobster rolls.
Love my new leopard and zebra!
They join a thrifted elephant in my burgeoning apartment menagerie.
May 12th, 2012 § 2 Comments
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mothers out there,
and especially to my own fabulous mom.
Also, if you’d fancy reading a post I did for the Rugby Ralph Lauren Style
blog about three style lessons I learned from my mom, you can find it here.
May 11th, 2012 § 1 Comment
A weekend to wander a few antique-strewn fields in New England.
By now, Ralph’s creative services team has already swept through,
so try comfort yourself as you dig through their cast-offs.
Apesi field jacket (mens)*
J.Crew Blythe blouse in pink
Oliver Peoples Sheldrake sunglasses
J.Crew windowpane scarf
J.Crew Abingdon waxed cotton tote (only $100!)
PF Flyers Sumfun lo in black canvas
Citizens of Humanity Elson straight leg jeans
Panasonic Lumix digital camera like this one
Lots and lots of cash (Dame Bassey knows what’s up)
Additional inclement weather ingredients to include:
This jacket by Brooks Brothers (mens, currently on sale!)
My green Hunter wellies
* It’s worth noting that because I only use item shots without a background (or a person wearing the item) in my collages, I’m really limited by what I can choose. Please don’t think I mean to recommend you must drop nearly a thousand dollars on a field jacket. It’s a great jacket and if you can afford it, by all means — but I definitely can’t. See more affordable jacket options here and here.
This weekend I am very excited to make my annual trip to the Brimfield Antique Show with Lani! I will also spend time in Cambridge and Boston, is there anything I should do or see?
Have a lovely weekend!
xoxo. M.
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May 10th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I’ve long admired Louis Vuitton’s “100 Legendary Trunks” project (you can see my previous posts on the splendid book and the exhibit at Musée Carnavalet in Paris). The book was curated by authors Pierre Léonforte and Éric Pujalet-Plaà, and is a collection of over 600 images — some from the LV archives, some taken especially for this project — of the 100 most spectacular trunks and cases created on commission by Louis Vuitton, with owners including Douglas Fairbanks, Karl Lagerfeld, Ernest Hemingway, and Damien Hirst.
If the pricetag of the tome (normally $125, but currently $86 on Amazon) has put you off from purchasing it, I have good news, if you own an iPad. Packaged in what appears to be an exceptionally manipulable — and so very pretty! — format, you can now experience the 100 Legendary Trunks as an app! And the best part, it’s only $19. Head here to purchase it from iTunes.
So while the app may not offer the comforting and luxurious heft of a coffee table book, and an iPad doesn’t exactly look quite as outwardly interesting while sitting on your bookcase, granted, it is worth noting that the app means this exceptional media on the subject of travel, is now perfectly positioned to tag along on your globe trotting. In fact, I think it’d be the perfect companion…
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