Fashion Pirates

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2009-07-03T14:09:00.000-04:00

I've always been super inspired by FRUiTS and Japanese street style, and it's the only inspiration I actively look to for any outfits. I do grab inspiration from all around me, and at the end of the day I can pick out what inspired the outfit, subconciously or not. It's funny. Even though I think Betsy Johnson isn't my thing, two weeks later I'll be wearing something froufrou and be reminded of her unintentionally? Anyway, if you're going to buy any magazine ever, it should be FRUiTS. If you are both 1) stingy and 2) lazy, I've uploaded some of my favorite outfits on my other tumblr. That way, if you miss my outfit posts, you can see BETTER outfits!

Here are some of my favorites, and they pretty much always inspire me. Some aren't from FRUiTS, but never mind that.

this look above is what i wear pretty much on an every day basis.
this look (below) is very number (n)ine... R.I.P bbz.

This is maybe the best outfit ever and if you don't think so you're not my friend.

Nothing in the world is more perfect than this picture. Nothing.

hi marit fujiwara i lurve you

2009-07-03T00:58:00.005-04:00

Marit Fujiwara makes the most gorgeous.. I don't even know. Speechless. Of course Susie found her first. Hey Marit! I LOVE YOU.

2009-06-29T19:51:00.002-04:00

Heyyyy dudes, I'm not going to bother apologizing for my absence, 'cause technically I have not be internetz absent, just blog absent. I hate summer (no lie? teenager? hating summer? PHONE THE PRESS!) purely because even though I might have the time to think up some epic outfits -- albeit, all of my favorite outfits include a crinoline or hooker heels -- it's just too damn hot to wear them. I sweat like a pig, and yes you needed to know that, so pretty much even if I ended up with an outfit suitable for Rei or Uncle, I would

(my favorite LP! i love how his package is skillfully flashed out. I'm pro.)

Have to sit in sub degree temperatures in my basement, thereby not showing my outfit to anyone, getting it dirty and also probably catch pneumonia
Attempt to leave the house and thereby melt into a puddle of sweat and spleen, thereby ruining my outfit with blood and yummy juicy things like that, probably catch.... deadness
I like using bullets and thereby! Thereby I say thee areth very swelllike yeeeeee octupi

Anyway if you follow me on twitter, which you probably do because I post on it more than blogger, you know that these shoes are the next giveaway! I have already sent out the winner packages to the previous giveaway so it's about time for a new one eh? It is actually between these shoes and the sneaker heels in the other outfit post, in orange, white, or hot pink, but I'm not certain the winner will have the shoe size available so yeah.

Anyway! I'm you know... testing the giveaway heels out, you know, making sure they're UP 2 PAR 4 U// but next time I get computer time I'll fill you in on the contest details! Hint: sign up for twitter!

In other news, I was in a few publications without really getting interviewed for them, but people email me about them so if you have seen them (I'm not sure what their called, but know that they're out there....?) can you just scan me the articles? This is to the Australian, Korean, and Swedish readers I think? Maybe London too?

Blahhh london blahhhhhh insert violent battle royale gif to fully explain my angst about not being with my wife and uncle blahhhhhhhhhh

outfit outfit, insert funny and intellectual and insulting header here

2009-06-08T23:29:00.004-04:00

(Before you say it: Why yes. I do use my phone like it is an additional appendage. )

Anyway! This is a jumpsuit thingamagijggy I got from my friend Zoe awhile ago. Since summer is kind of not quite here, I wear it pretty often with the harness I got from Angie as part of my prom dress (which you should not expect pictures of for well.. ages, because we all know how I am with showing you things on time.) I wear the harness probably way more than I should. It is kind of the best thing in the entire world, except it does not give me money on whims or speak in tongues. If it did, I would probably be fondling it instead of typing this... hehehh.

Pretty old outfit, but one you guys probably haven't seen. This jacket is actually a handmedown from my English teacher, from when she was a student thrifting? Funny stuff. It's so pretty.

Anyway, I'm looking through the comments now! You guys still have a few days left, so keep posting!

so. first outfit: gifted jumpsuit, Angie harness
second outfit: gifted vintage jacket, vintage vest, thrifted blouse, vintage skirt, vintage belt. the reason i don't typically post outfit information is because everything is vintage or thrifted!

giveaway

2009-06-02T19:02:00.007-04:00

Giveaway Summer!

Eryn brinié, which is a label I think you'll all love. I think with summer, I'm going to be dressing in a lot of easy pieces with some epic tailoring, and Eryn has some stellar pieces that would go with pretty much everything. Eryn brinié is actually a fictional character; a young fashion designer in her early 20’s living in Paris who loves art and culture, frequents museums and is constantly inspired by the beauty around her. Sounds like pretty much like what I'm going to go to do in summer, except I'm not as awesome.

Anyway! The girls at Eryn have been awesome enough to send me some accessories and a gift card to give away!

Pretty much all you need to do is comment in the post below with your email, name, and one sentence about what kind of girl you'd want to be in the summer. Travel the world with only a pair of shoes? Write it down.

You're limited to one sentence. Make it worth it!

You can enter once only. This will be going on until June 12th. Good luck, girls!

i sex up morals with my bodily organs and lack of dignity.

2009-05-23T23:38:00.001-04:00

OH SHIT GUYS I AM ACTUALLY IN DENIMS FOR ONCE?!

A while ago I got these jeans from Kill City for a campaign they wanted me to participate in -- 100 Stylish People Around the World. Super fly. These are the only jeans I wear. This shirt is from Jen, it's a Brian Lichtenberg shirt and it is maybe the coolest shirt ever? Yes? Yes.

I also got this amazing, amazing pair of sequined harem pants from Gilda (a.k.a my twin. Not to be confused with my soul, Tavi, or my many wives. You see, I have a fashion harem. We all wear high heels and discuss HGTV and our favorite collections, while listening to the Beastie Boys and have grapes skinned and fed to us by Cole Mohr and Matsumoto Jun.) from a contest a few months ago.

For ye old faithful readers, you may remember this video I did.

I certainly do. My dad used it as a holiday greeting card. I would be mortified, but then I remember my soul died long ago.

I didn't get a chance to get a decent outfit picture of them today, maybe next time I wear them. Here is what I have, though. Use your imagination? USE YOUR IMAGINATION~ CHARLIE~ THE UNICORN~ ETC.

but here ya go. The care tags are hilarious on the pants, dudes. I love them. They say "for skinny bitches" and it makes me feel like eating cupcakes is a reward for not swimming for several months. Or. something. Anywaymovingonawkwardturtle

HOW FUCKING PERFECT IS THIS? A WHOLE LOT, IS HOW MUCH. Indescribable. So good. This was Paul's FW collection, not his spring summer, which was pretty bare and typically.... springy. I really hate the resort and spring/summer collections of a lot of designers. It's an excuse to just do safari and beige for the umpteenth time. Blerg.

I think the only designer I really dig for whiteness other than the givens (mommy and daddy Kawakubo and Yamamoto, obviously) would be Calvein Klein Collection? I have some CKC from the eighties and shit is still divine. Sometimes I fondle it at night. In a non sexual-deviant kind of way.

Maybe.

Okay, ta ta for now! I must go on to do homework a.k.a watch more Secret Diary of a Call Girl while sitting on my textbooks.

2009-05-20T22:20:00.000-04:00

This may be the best thing ever written about me. Ever. I love you Anna! God, ontd star trek memes and me? Stop it. You know me too well.

2009-05-12T23:26:00.006-04:00

New favorite poem!

Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy
To those who woo her with too slavish knees,
But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy,
And dotes the more upon a heart at ease;

New shoes! And new photographer (my girl friend's boyfriend! Hi girlfriend, I love you.). And new setting. I could tell you where it is, but is is probably obvious to like 25% of my readership (nosy nerds! boooo).

And new shoes. Say hi to my new shoes.

because i don't want to be a cocktease: jacket, shirts, goodwill. tights are from the sock drawer ($5) and i made the skirt. i pretty much just wear tablecloths and linens now all the time. it's a neverending toga party. shoes are from a local jersey chain store/sweatshop.

back to the future

2009-05-03T22:37:00.006-04:00

Click to enlarge.

One of my favorite internet budz Aly (whose tumblr is fucking epic, I'm pretty sure she shares my brain) was going through FP's archives and came across this colalge I made awhile ago. Funny how life doesn't change at all, I'd still kill for any one of these things. And when I look around, I notice the trends haven't changed at all, either? We're seeing the same things in stores we saw last year, literally. Nothing new. Maybe I'm missing something.

Have you noticed any new trends and the like so far this spring/summer?

2009-04-30T18:42:00.004-04:00

i am not writing a blog intended to change your life.

i am writing it because i want to write it, and i'll write what i like.

suffer no delusions.

three designers you probably should blood sacrifice to

2009-04-25T06:00:00.000-04:00

SHIN MURAYAMA.

Dean from IDLM gave me the heads up on this guy (I guess he would know I would like Shin due to my last layout heading, woopsydoops). Since we all know I'm not very good at critiquing a single artist -- and with Shin, I don't really feel the need -- I'm just going to bother you with excerpts from the interview IDLM gave him.

influences:

SM There are just too many people that I respect and was influenced by. But honestly, I try not to idolize anyone. If I do need to pick one person though, it would be my friend, let's call her "Turkish High School Girl." I think most artists try to become Peter Pan, stay young forever, and not be affected by how life can be jading. They want to keep themselves pure. My friend, this Turkish girl, she's the embodiment of that, and she doesn't even realize it. To me, that is art. She is an artist...

IDLM Do you believe artistic creativity is innate, generally and personally?
SM I think creativity, in itself, is a unique human characteristic, and an innate one. I also think that "artistic creativity" in the way you use it is too specific and exclusionary. You can be an artist in many ways, depending on your culture, environment. The most important thing to remember is to pursue the development of whatever skills you're naturally good at, and don't worry about categorizing things.

I really dig his work. It reminds me of Danny Mansmith, the same energy and vibe comes from it. I think if they sat in the same room, their minds would link, and then it would be like the artistic version of what could have happened between Mendel and Darwin (holy, did i actually sound smart for once? ohnoze)

ACADEMIA DI COSTUME E DI MODA.

Gloria Carcangiu is so fucking epic, but she has like 3 pictures anywhere on the internet?!

Technically it was a fashion school and not a single designer, but whatever. I'm not a fan of a lot of fashion schools because they can end up producing glorified prom dresses or just heinous pieces of fabric multiplied by 45835353 (IM LOOKING AT YOU, ITALY) I digged this school's last designer promotion. Here are some of my favorites.

Actually I think Lady GaGa would wear this and look even more like a man. and I'm not a fan of the color, but I still kinda dig it a lot. Chiara Baschieri.

Eleanora de Parolis is a pretty rad designer too (name is a bitch and a half to spell though, oh geez). I refrain from describing her because then it would be something disgustingly vague and cliche like... "modern chic with a twist". I think you'd all like her stuff, though none of these designers have websites up yet....

Joseph Font is ridiculous. I saw too much McQueen/Sandra Buckland workery/Comme (via Nozomi) to be truly comfortable, but dammit, this dress is insane.

this is why people think jersey children shoot their brothers in the face

2009-04-21T22:33:00.006-04:00

So apparently, this is where girls in my school are going to get their dresses for prom made?

Yes. I'm just going to sit here, and let that sink in for you guys..... oh, notice the darling white priest/gangsta jacket/coat/robes in such complimentary combinations such as acid green, lame, and lilac! Oh, and the lame robe gold.... toga?

I don't even know, man. FML.

MY BAD, GUISE

2009-04-20T20:30:00.001-04:00

Woops, I guess I went on an unofficial hiatus there huh? Life is busy busy busy busy busy. I hope you'll forgive me for not coming back with an outfit post.... pretty much all I can offer you is this. Please forgive me darlings, there hasn't been a day that's gone by that I haven't missed you all terribly. [okay, one day all i wanted to do was watch Hana Yori Dango and honestly it is a lot more emotional than blogging, I'm not gonna front] To beg for your forgiveness, I give you many things.

Dresses we all need to band together and mob the stores for. You'll notice how a lot of these dresses are ALWAYS in my polyvores. This is because I'm really fucking obsessive over things I want and will obsess over them until I get them, then I will wear them to death (see: hooker shoes, prada lace skirt thrifted, my only comme skirt).

I am very close to talking to the chinese knockoff store on the phone about the tsumori chisato knockoff skirts (the second and third) because I really need them in my life but like, you know, since they're coming from KNOCKOFF ASIAN SWEATSHOP POSSIBLE SCAMMERS you know I'm kinda hesitant.

Maybe if I speak to them in shitty Chinese they'll be all like, "Oh, it's my brethren, I totally wont scam you, and also here are 5 more things you might like to get for 2 american dollars because I love you so much." and not rip me off 60 dollars. Maybe I can discuss asian dramas with them to gain their trust. Good idea, y/y/y/y/y?

This polyvore is dedicated to Jane and her future husband, fishsticks.

on the thinking pot

2009-03-18T21:36:00.006-04:00

Soooo unbearably busy with school it's not even funny. I am extremely excited for Tokyo Fashion Week (i actually had dreams about it the past few nights). The sum of Tokyo Fashion Week is greater than Comme. It is that good.

Anyway, I'm wearing some of the awesome stuff I got from Isabel: the dress (tres rad) and the Dr. Martens. I'm contemplating buying a pair of knockoffs to do a DIY on these:

I'm thinking about using these pairs as the black ones, and buy some cheapo ones off of gojane.com or something. Okay, time for more homework.

p.s if you're missing me (as apparently you do, hi twitter scolding + emails, i love you all too) just add me on twitter or follow me on tumblr, i post pretty consistently (read: incessantly) on both.

hat porn

2009-03-05T19:25:00.004-05:00

i can totally just feel the weirdo's coming to my blog because of the post title. er.

It is like a shiny pearl that smells like fresh sugar cookies, or like a really pretty JE Boy, or like Ikuto if he wasn't a pedophile cat mutant thing, or just like a normal really gorgeous hat that makes tulle babies out of it's hat butt.

Yeah. Awesome.

so like, your draik WN RC 4 my robot kau oh wait WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN

2009-03-05T19:01:00.005-05:00

So Tavz got me all addicted to neopets again and I've neglected the blog, amongst other things. Oh, and did I mention I was 1,500 emails BEHIND? REALLY DUDES? Am I THAT interesting to talk to?! I am not Ghandi or the pig in Diane Duane's wizard trilogy that is everywhere/anytime/knows the meaning of life. Anyway, I'll get to your emails like... eventually. You'd be better of sending smoke signals or throwing a rock at my window (though I would probably come downstairs to throw a cane at you for doing so).

^ my response to ~artsy fotos~. Yeah my photos are hella edgy, did you not know rotating 270* is the new selective coloring?!

Abigail sometimes says, "Good shit just gravitates to you like you have your own personal orbit and also you are a flaming ball of bitchface," and so the former part being right, I got some stuff from Goodwill / my dads friend the past few days.

She gave me 1 lace batwing dress top (^) and this epic silk and lace flapper dress, amongst this gorgeous hat that merits an entire post of its own.

Not including that, last goodwill trip for Isabel I snagged this batwing sweater from the fat kids section. (Seriously, thats what it's called!). I am too selfish to give it away, and so I prance about in it in my Comme skirt and Helmut Lang boots. Here I'm wearing it with some Cheap Mondays from the News Showroom.

I would also discuss with you the fashion weeks... but they kind of fail miserably and hugely. they are a huge sack of disappointment and lame so far. Sadface.

post soon! I have a great surprise for ya'll after.

i was going for the gothy yakuza grunge look, but i just ended up looking like an Adams family version of a hasidic jew

2009-02-23T18:51:00.005-05:00

I have a habit -- a nice habit -- of wearing my darkest and moodiest clothes at the beginning of the week and moving on subconsciously to the lighter, weirder outfits. I also have a habit of carrying around violent looking stuffed animals in my big black bag that could hold several prepubescent asian gymnasts.

I listened to The Cure and watched old yakuza movies last night. This might explain a lot of my outfit.

i want to go to there.

2009-02-22T01:37:00.002-05:00

Om nom nom Central Saint Martens show. Most of it was ~modernist and ~contemporary and ~minimal, which is to say, boring so I am going to enlighten you all with my favorite shows so far that are kind of the antithesis of chic in the conventional form of the word. Yay, originality!

Okay so there you have it, 179 looks condensed into... less. I am in loveeee with the last designer. Look at it. It's so fantastic. Hey, designer person.... email me so I can fangirl you, and kiss your internet feet. Mmhmhmhmhm.

so thats why your face looks like a cheesegrater

2009-02-19T19:56:00.002-05:00

When I wake up from 4 hours of sleep to go to 11 hours of school I dress like a hipster.

in which i decribe to you how going through the paper shredder was the best thing to happen in my life,

2009-02-18T22:41:00.005-05:00

So I was surfin' the net, avoiding my email, thinking about chocolate, eating chocolate, doing my thing, you know, and came across Iris van Herpen. She is perfection. I cannot see anything NOT perfect about her. She is Comme.

Okay, so she's an Amsterdam designer who graduted from design school in 2006 (notice my serious journalism skills, obviously I am very specific and informative). The lookbook pictures here are from her first collection. Her first. They only get better. My favorite kind of design is pure, unadulterated art you can wear. If I could wear an art gallery every day of the week I damn well would.

She's very elaborate in each piece, which makes the fact she only makes 10 pieces per collection forgivable. I'm nervous for her solely because I don't know how she'll make it commercially -- though obviously she's not doing it for the money, or else she'd be pulling a line skirts out of her ass and splattering them with whatever trend of the season.

No, she's very much designing for her own muse and her muse alone. I love it. I want to write a love song to it. I want to court her muse and serenade it at night to sleep, and buy it rings the size of my fist, and buy it a yacht and half the world. I want to stalk it at night at it's window. Yes. Even that.

her latest collection.

She juxtaposes mummified silhouettes with ruffles, studs, anything that fits her whim. Her aesthetic is kind of like a love child of Pugh, TAO, and skeletons, with a healthy dose of barbed ire and rufflery and sometimes even bondage. Iris smudges the line between the macabre and the feminine. It's rough, but it's fragile, and damned if I don't want it all.

(sorry for the quick post, got lots of plans for the blog in the future -- lucky packs return, a contest, and more. xxx)

2009-02-11T21:19:00.002-05:00

My secret lover Anon (secret loverrr~ thats what u r~) kindly requested that I bestow upon you all my "epicness" in outfits. Truth be told mostly all I've been wearing was black, lace, sheer, and red, in any which order and amount.

The tights are from Elizabeth the Epic from when I visited her at her office. They are fascinating and I stared at them for most of the day. They remind me of spiderwebs up close. Wearing them with my crinoline from ebay, prada skirt, lace top my mom made, hanes t-shirt, and my favorite cardigan.

I am not tubby it's the skirt not being tucked in right / shirt not being tucked in right shut up it was nicer before >>

I took these pictures at the public library I go to to attempt to study / make fun of Abigail when she's working. Can you spot my Jew? She's in plaid.

And now I must return to SLEEPING and Dear School Gang Leader and Kaichou wa Maid Sama! I am so into manga I may just force you all into reading my recommendations, which would consist of pretty bishounen boys and shows about old men and bread and alien Jimi Hendrix. Mmm, alien rock stars.

2009-02-09T21:45:00.003-05:00

Ah, the lazy summer days in which I would talk to Tavi on the phone about doing things that never end up getting done, how Demarchelier vomits glitter onto his editorials, and COLLAGES.

I miss it. My style hasn't changed much when it comes to inspiration from the time this was made -- August, I think. Definitely look at the bigger versions, its gorgeous.

the only way i can rebel is to go to church. YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT SUCKS? I'm athiest for crissakes (lolz pun)

2009-02-08T18:39:00.004-05:00

This is my dad when he was cool.

He used to hang out with Freddie Mercury and Xaviera Hollander. Now he likes to grow long beards and shave off half of his head like Alice Delall. Consequently, he does not hang out with either of them.

This is Alan Nolan. He was my dad's BFF.

My parents will always be cooler than me.

2009-02-03T21:20:00.002-05:00

Wore this around the house, I have actually be washing and rewearing these pants like.. the entire week. They clash/go with everything. I feel very ~mellow with them on. I wore them with a blue and white checkered skirt and a yellow knit skirt on top of that (the bw skirt, worn lumpy was the first thing I wore that reminded me of Comme. The lump collection. It was the first collection I really fell in love with out of any designer collection ever.)

So this vest thing you can't see at all behind my Gloomy Bear is from Another Man's Treasure, a local vintage store that is pretty much the best thing since white on rice. Meika and Warren are the nicest people ever, and they will not judge you if you buy dodgy books called "The Happy Hooker" which is precisely as slutty as it sounds like.

So, these are the outtakes of the Teen Vogue shoot that Aya and the crew let me keep for myself when we shot it in November! I look insane in all of them, and you can see A.J's arm in one of them. I was fondling his Comme des Garcon sweater for a good part of the day. I'm not a label whore of course not stop looking at me like that im breaking out into a sweat ackkkk

It was fun to shoot, I slump my shoulders and my ankle twitched a lot so they were all like "Corpse ankle! Corpse ankle! Old man shoulders! STRAIGHT, WOMAN." I am only exaggerating slightly. But in all seriousness, it was surreal. Evonne and Naomi and Aya and A.J and everyone who participated, you are (insert adjective of your choice here).

the happy hooker was a family friend, now my social life as a pre-fetus has gone up a notch

2009-01-30T10:24:00.005-05:00

This week was as bad as Pierce Brosnan's singing in Mamma Mia.

In my asian ways, anyway. I drowned my academic sorrows of mediocrity in pretty clothes, fighting over gooodwill clothes with a crowd of gay black twenty-something's, and meeting up with The White Lightning. Note the capitals, she is just that PRO.

So Everything I'm wearing here is new from the past two days! Lace gown (not the Prada one I thrifted yesterday, I have it next to my Prada skirt I also thrifted.)

weird metallic shirt, and necklaces are from Goodwill and my mom. Elizabeth gave me this pretttyyyy velvet bolero amongsts other things.

My room is hella orange.

*angst thoughtful stare at nothing angst angst* I'm getting used to my new hair, I find that I like it better when it's greasy and disgusting. The secret to good hair is to treat it badly, trufax.

In any case, I'm stoked for NYFW! Unfortunately I am not as cool as Tavzsters and don't get tickets to Rodarte / know them by any means (HATEHATEHATE) but I am hopefully going to a few shows, thanks to some rad friends. If my schoolwork doesn't rape my freedom.

Dooodoodooo more posts this week than one, I promise doodoodoo. Especially on the TV article. Speaking of, send me the urls? Thankssss.

Now time for SRS BZNS MMORPG. *ominous music plays*