PeSuit and Tie

this week's inspo comes from childhood - one of sib's best fashion moments. i may have mentioned in passed entries, but we were introduced to fashion and haute couture and all that screams luxury by our mother. she styled us as toddlers, taught us of the importance of chanel no. 5 (her signature scent) , gave us her old pierre cardin tops from the department store, let us rummage through her old outfits from yugoslavia  and italy  (when you had to buy real jeans in trieste), and bought us a limited edition elizabeth taylor  barbie doll.  through our games and playing pretend, fashion was prominent - our  bratz dolls  had boutiques and fashion shows, in a pretend game of camp i was coco chanel's  long lost daughter, we played numerous dress up games (dollzmania, stardoll, daily dress up games, and roiworld, just to name a few), and one of the games i remember vividly was playing pretend that sib and i owned the boutique  melani safari . this aesth...

  books of the week finished the book on the controversial artist andy warhol  - on&by andy warhol. who was he - the peter pan of art, the demon of quaker america, hipster snob, or slavic businessman? all andy wanted to be - was a machine . you can't be too weird if you want to be on the cover of time , or if you are, you have to be weird in the way they want you to be weird, like a murderer, a cult leader, a communist rebel, or someone like that, which isn't really weird because anyone can see any of those characters on tv any night of the week. saul anton, warhol's dream , 2007 warhol would have settled right into the 21st century, with its ubiquitous cctv cameras - perpetually pointed and rolling, just like andy's - and time and space collapsing across razor-thin computer screens and skinny iphones. we can imagine his monosyllabic twitter feeds of 'wow', 'gee' and 'great' #nothingspecial; his all-night binges on youtube and instagram; or h...