Moi, Je joue...

**Super-double post Wednesday**



I want to live in this commercial!!

It is from 2008--directed by Sofia Coppola. (That's Brigitte Bardot singing.)

I linked to this blog and came across it. Je le coeur! 

Put on your red shoes and dance the blues...

I believe summertime calls for some red shoes. I've been scouting around and I'm longing to get a few on my feet...

Model Agyness Deyn sporting some red TOMS canvas shoes

I saw this photo in Lucky magazine of Agyness Deyn (who has great personal style, but maybe not so much with these pocket-showing Daisy Dukes?) They fall in the category of ugly/cute and are a hint of that nautical trend happening now. Ahoy!

And they are cheap, $44. Nice. The bonus: guilt free shopping.  For every pair you buy, TOMS gives a pair of new shoes to a kid in need. 

(It seems everyone else is after these.. because they are now out of my size. A google search is in order! )

 Oohh.. next red shoe of choice. Espadrille wedge sandals from Marais USA. So retro. So breezy & summer-y! I saw these in the New York Times Style section. They best not run out of my size in these too!

After purchasing said red shoes, I shall crank up the David Bowie**.

** I refuse to acknowledge that this song was used to promote Dancing With the Stars.

Fire in the disco, fire in the Taco Bell....

**Super double -post Thursday!!**

Some things to share.. in no particular order.....

1) This Electric Six song, Danger! High Voltage... from 2003... which I recently found on Matt's ipod and love! Jack White sings on it (although he never really admitted it is him--he enjoys creating "mystery")
It mentions Taco Bell. How many songs can you say that about?**




P.S. The video is a little "racy" and "weird" at times...


2) The new Vanity Fair with Grace Kelly on the front... and amazing photos inside....inspiring.



The Eternal Style of Grace Kelly Features: vanityfair.com

Check out the slideshow.

From the V&A website: In April-September,  the spectacular wardrobe of Grace Kelly will be on display at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Tracing the evolution of her style from her days as one of Hollywoods most popular actresses in the 1950s and as Princess Grace of Monaco, the display will present over 50 of Grace Kelly's outfits together with hats, jewelery and the original Hermès Kelly bag. Dresses from her films, including High Society, will be shown as well as the gown she wore to accept her Oscar award in 1955. These will be accompanied by film clips and posters, photographs and her Oscar statuette. The display will also include the lace ensemble worn by Grace Kelly for her civil marriage ceremony to Prince Rainier in 1956 and 35 haute couture gowns from the 1960s and 70s by her favourite couturiers Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy, and Yves St Laurent. 

Who wants to go??  

3) Haroué accueille 3 grands créateurs (Haroué hosts 3 great designers) 

 So after I jet over to London to check out the Grace Kelly exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I'm going to head here, to the Chateau de Haroue in France. 

 

May through August they are hosting an exhibition of three designers, including Hubert de Givenchy--who made all kinds of clothes for Audrey Hepburn, including the black dress in the beginning of my all-time favorite movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. 

 Cue Moon River....

Alas, the private jet may not be available...

4) Lastly, I must share this cool article from The New York Times. It's about people who photograph their food... before they eat it and why. Read it here.

**if you thought Danger! High Voltage was the only song to mention Taco Bell.. you'd be wrong**

	Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you, that I almost believe they're real...

I discovered the coolest blog today... it's called My Mom, the Style Icon . It encourages readers to submit photos of their moms (or aunt or grandmothers) in their "style heyday". Then she posts them and the stories behind the photos! The cool thing to see is how so many looks are in fashion today...Everyone longs to be from another era, I think ! Nostalgia! **

 From the website....My Mom, the Style icon

**(Get ready, Mom--I may submit one of you rockin' your Jane Fonda-shag hair cut and big sunglasses--I'm thinking that one of you and Dad on your honeymoon:)

Go ask Alice, when's she's ten feet tall...

Cue up the Jefferson Airplane.


Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland opens today. I think this might be a renter but I love all the Alice themed-EVERYTHING.. that is everywhere now! I must say, to me Alice is a blonde and she looks sort of brunette-ish in this movie. That just doesn't work.

A great article with great images on the movie's looks

Designers created special windows with an Alice theme at the Parisian department store Le Printemps. Although the white rabbit head kinda freaks me out ...

 This blog has a really cool look at Alice the icon, complete with some amazing, fashion-y photos

Flaxen-haired Alice. As it should be. 

I never knew the charm of spring, never met it face to face

I dug out my Sarah Vaughan CD this evening... I love her singing April in Paris. Hear below:



Listening to her or Billy Holiday makes you want to gussy up in something frilly and ladylike. With pearls. Very Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn. Sometimes in the midst of some really bad low-rise jeans or sweatpants with uggs, I think we are missing something today. (Along with manners!)

 Grace Kelly  by Howell Conant, circa 1955

Grace again in Cannes, 1955

 

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly

"I was due at 21 half-an-hour ago." 

 

Claudia Schiffer in 2010 Ferragamo ads, love!