Tattoo Dress

Wow that's a really neat and unique dress! Worn by Asia Argento at the Cannes Film Festival

Maxstudio little black dress

I wish I could afford things in this store, they have the most amazing dresses. I have one dress from them that I bought to wear at a wedding, its made of silk and is so comfy.



I really, really want the dress on the far right, its like a perfect little black dress. I also love the women's tailored suit on the far left, so chic and sexy.

Diesel store Philadelphia

The Diesel store in Philly has this weird new window display, usually their displays are rather innocuous but I walked by yesterday and out of the corner of my eye I saw this dude sitting there with his hands out like he was begging and I was like WTF? Then I looked closer and realized that he was a screenprinted rag doll of some sort but his facial expression and skinny body just made the whole thing rather bizarre looking, kinda reminds me of Christian Bale in The Machinist.



The girl one isn't nearly as terrifying, and I guess they should be congratulated for not using mannequins like every other store on the block, the whole thing is definitely weird and eye catching.

Michelle Obama in London

I feel as if her cardigan is having an identity crisis haha, its kinda weird yet hip at the same time. The sparkly detail on the ONE sleeve is just no.



I love this whole retro fullskirt x cardigan look, although the whole thing just makes her look like a passive 50s housewife doesn't it? But maybe that's the point, her approval ratings are at an all time high of 70-something percent, compared to the 32% they were during the campaign when she spoke at rallies and the media coverage of her dealt more with her words rather than her fashion. However I'm glad that she's no longer perceived as an angry Black woman, we need more positive portrayals of Black women abroad and at home.

Anthropologie Philadelphia & Joan Shepp

Anthropologie's latest window visual, honeycomb! The lighting is really cool at night.



Joan Shepp has this awesome shoe display, I need to get some new shoes so bad! Pay day today I think :O! I've never actually been in this store because I could never afford anything in there but their visual merchandising is always pretty eye catching.

Flirty Spring Styles from Asian Fashion Brands

Some cool outfits from yesstyle.com



1.BBon J Frayed Ruffled Collar Plaid Vest $75

2.Spring Girl Mock Two Piece Dress $56

3.Chiffon Empire Dress $30

4.Cara Drop-Waist Chiffon Miniskirt $82

5.Antic Beads Flair Satin Waist-tie Dress $55

6.Antic Beads Lace Trim Chiffon Sleeveless Minidress $58

7.Antic Beads Lace Hem Knit Sleeveless Dress $50

Mod Cloth Dresses

I love so many of the retro inspired dresses on Mod Cloth, although right now I couldn't afford many of them but I like these six to wear to the office.

1. Best of Both Coasts Dress $129.99
2. Cosette Dress$64.99
3. Magnificent Mod Girl Dress $49.99
4. Torch Song Dress $137.99
5.Britannica Dress $91.99
6. The Kenley Dress $199.99

Tilda Swinton in Another magazine

~Fierce~!!!!! She looks amazing and the dresses look like pieces of art. More scans here.

Houndstooth details by McQ

Omg I need this dress in my life! I love how the houndstooth pattern gradually morphs into the birds. Its so beautiful and a great detail. I thought houndstooth had an overused run last season but apparently not! The amazing details and tailoring that went into these outfits just makes me wish I was a millionaires so I could buy them all!






I can totally see Gwen Stefani wearing these previous two outfits! *want want want*!!!




More F2009RTW over on style.com

high waisted

High Waisted skirts from Urban Outfitters

I'm really into skirts this season because I own a lot of jeans but I never got into buying skirts in the past. I love the silhouettes UO has going on right now. I bought the two skirts on the right column and they're super cute. I don't think the model's body's do them justice in these pics lol.

From L to R and Top to Bottom

Ecote Watercolor Silk Skirt $58
Silence & Noise Pleated Skirt with Pockets $58
Play by C. Ronson Hi Waist Button Skirt $49.99 (on sale)
byCORPUS Hi-Waisted Gathered Skirt $78

Diesel Spring/Summer 09

Diesel Intimates

Diesel is one of my favorite brands, not for their jeans but more so for their accessories line, jewelry and bags. Last year they introduced an underwear line and this year they have a home textiles line of products so you can make your home much more rock n' roll looking, although I don't know how safe these studded hand towels are.




Diesel Home Textiles

Etsy Favs

B&W Whimsy

Some of my fav items from my favorite sellers on etsy. I don't think I've ever actually bought anything from anyone on etsy, then gain my disposable income for the past year has been very little and I stopped shopping for the sake of shopping. But if we want to help the economy we need to buy stuff lol and what better way than to support these selfmade small businesses.
You can find some amazing items on etsy for great prices that you wouldn't find anywhere else.

Papercut Print Tree House $25
Lets Eat Gocco Printed Invitation $3.50
Oh Deer Necklace $20
Craft Scissor Earrings $8.00
Wonderland I'm Late Necklace $22
Octopus Sliver Platted Necklace $11

Vintage Fashion Inspiration

Piksi_'s Fashion Flickr

I came across this wonderful fashion photostream on flickr run by a young lady from Finland. She takes pics of her day to day vintage inspired fashions. She's gorgeous and has a great body to pull off these types of clothes. I need to get back into being creative with my wardrobe, I tend to dress very practical since I live in the city and I like to be able to get around with ease. So I avoid wearing heels because Philly streets just destroy them if you wear them too often and I like to walk fast lol. I also don't tend to buy skirts because I can never find any to fit my tiny waist, there's too much vanity sizing in stores and size 0s are more like size 3s -.-; But I love getting dresses for summer and little cardigans. My favorite store to get cute and relatively inexpensive items is Zara.



I love her outfits because they look like they'd be great for the office. They're fashionable yet formal enough to wear to the office. I'm starting to work again on monday and I need to build up an office friendly wardrobe. The place I work at is very, very casual but I need to define a workplace wardrobe so that when I'm on my off time I don't wear the same kind of clothes to the bar and movies. I've been trying to build up a date wardrobe too, but I was unemployed and didn't feel like spending the money lol. So maybe now that I'll be earning some dough I'll shell out for some cute Spring date outfits.



Piksi_'s Wardrobe Slideshow

Lily Allen

Lily Allen in Glamour UK magazine





I think these shots of Lily Allen in the March edition of Glamour UK are so cute! I love the concept and the Union Jack flag always leads to strong and amazing imagery. See more at the source.

Below is a sampler of songs from her new album It's Not Me, It's You..

Hello Kitty meets M.A.C

AD Campaign for Hello Kitty for M.A.C makeup line

Very gorgeous ad inspired by Alice in Wonderland. My only gripe with it is that a lot of the shots of the Alice character focused on the model's legs, if only they had cast a model with a nice set of legs that didn't make you think eating disorder every time they came on screen. I'm sorry but toothpick legs like that just look weird and unattractive to me. Aside from that visually its a beautiful piece of promo video.

Michelle Obama in Vogue

"I first met Mrs. Obama at an impromptu dinner at Oprah Winfrey's house in Santa Barbara, California, on the eve of the divine Ms. O's Legends Ball in 2005. I was seated between the then Senator Barack Obama's wife and Tina Turner. Do I remember what Michelle was wearing? Not at all. What I do remember was how informed she was on so many topics. And when she said she actually knew who I was, I was so flattered my jaw dropped."

The disconnect is so apparent in that paragraph, I find Michelle Obama an inspiring and memorable FIrst Lady not because of what she wears but because of what comes out of her mouth. Her mind, intelligence, demeanor and fearless-ness are far more inspiring traits than the clothes she chooses to wear. That's why the fashion industry's obsession with trying to turn her into another woman who only cares about clothes is so annoying to me.

"What Michelle Obama is less focused on—in direct inverse proportion to the focus of the public—is fashion. Which isn't to say that she doesn't appreciate good clothes. Or that the fashion choices of a woman whose image will shortly be—or already is—among the most recognizable in the entire world aren't iconic. And thus far, those choices have been fearless. Every moment she sallies forth, she will be scrutinized, then alternately set on a pedestal or skewered."

Its too bad that what she wears will be more coverage and recognition than the policies she wants to work on and promote. Just because of her gender the media has already put her into this box, she's a woman she MUST like clothes and we will only pay attention to that because that's what other women are interested in and relate to -.-;

What I find most exciting about Michelle Obama being in the public eye is that she is an example of a fiercely intelligent woman who isn't afraid to tease her husband and doesn't fawn at him and take a back seat. We see so few examples of women like that in media that I wish her narrative would be more about her brain rather than her wardrobe. But hopefully in time her endeavors as First Lady will get the attention they deserve.

Read the entire Vogue article here

Michelle Obama & Fashion

Vogue U.S. March Cover featuring First Lady Michelle Obama

The high-end fashion industry has an unhealthy obsession with First Lady Michelle Obama, every time I read coverage about it, they seem to want to reduce this highly accomplished and intelligent woman to someone who's only role in the Obama administration is to provide the fashion industry with an opportunity to congratulate themselves.
This is a woman who wears clothes from H&M and J. Crew and doesn't go out of her way to be particularly fashion forward, so the obsession the fashion industry has with her comes across as so desperate.

Here in Philadelphia, local high-end shop Joan Shepp has a window display dedicated to Michelle Obama that somehow relates to celebrating Black history month, even though the designer clothes in the display aren't all my African American designers. And the First Lady hasn't worn any of the dresses in the display either, so its just like pics of the Obama family surrounded by dresses and designer sketches selected by Andre Leon Talley. Its just feeding off the Obama brand and seems like a really weird and desperate tie-in.








Photos taken by me.

Blue & Yellow

Steven Klein photography via Jezebel

Wow the male model's painted mask is one of the more visually arresting images that I've seen in a fashion shoot in a while. Reminds me a lot of The Joker. Also I love the use of color in this his wardrobe and makeup, the combo of yellow and red don't usually lead to such a sinister visual combo but I think the model's facial structure adds a lot too.

More pics and commentary at the source.

Sailor Jerry

Spring '09 Sailor Jerry Catalog

I dropped by the Sailor Jerry store today in Center City because I was looking for some inspiration on two Valentine's tattooed themed designs that I'm working on. For those of you who don't know Sailor Jerry is a legendary American tattoo artist who specialized in nautical art with a touch of Asian style inspired tattoos.
There's a flagship store in Philadelphia that sells merchandise featuring his artwork, the store is beautiful and it has a great vibe. When you walk in you immediately get visually hit with a ton of really great and inspiring art. What I like about Sailor Jerry's style is his use of color and shading, his style of drawing wasn't the most precise or perfect but that gritty quality and the imperfection is precisely what gives it a great non-mainstream quality.

The Spring line has some really beautiful and surprising items compared to what this brand has offered in the past. These were my favorites.



Jumper $138


Pin-up Dress $130



These are adorable! They had these in the store today, the purse costs $42 and the wallet $24.


Women's Cardigan in Grey and White $74

I have a weakness for cardigans, which has resulted in me owning one two many gray cardigans BUT I really love this one and I kinda want it. If you visit their website you can see that the clothes I've featured here are a far cry from the lame stuff on their online store lol. At least this brand hasn't been completely bastardized like the work of Sailor Jerry's protege, Don Ed Hardy.

A lot of these items haven't arrived on their online store as yet, so check back later if any of these caught your eye!

Cherry Blossom Girl

World of Whimsy

I was reading the latest issue of Bust magazine and they had a write up about this French fashionista blog called The Cherry Blossom Girl. Its curated by this young woman called Alix, she has a really great sense of style and accentuates her outfits by photographing on locations to add an air of whimsy. She has a great eye for color and and gorgeous Chloe shoes. I love the mood she creates with each photo session, it lends a less superficial air to fashion and shows her passion.

The best part is that quite a few of her outfits are from stores like Zara and H&M, so they're not completely inaccessible to her readers. But unfortunately not all of us can afford fabulous shoes like these Chloe ones!



Check out her blog if you need some inspiration or to get lost in a whimsical world of fantasy.