Painfully Hip

Check Me Out: Zocalo Magazine’s New Fashion Director

Today I had a sweet brainstorming session with seasoned commercial photographer (and my newest collaborator – stay tuned), Steven Meckler and David Olsen, the founder of Tucson’s Urban glossy Zocalo Magazine, who have dubbed me their new Fashion Director. YAY. Not fully grasping what that meant until after said meeting, I attempted to [...]

Painfully Trite Twitter Tweets for 2010-07-18

Slasher flick as inspiration for a fashion editorial? I think yes. – http://mylikes.com/r/EKa #movies # It defense of conjunctivitis-inducing hideousness…. http://bit.ly/c67nCi # Its SO hideous I just had to have it. http://bit.ly/c67nCi # 's A/C unit sounds like an intergalactic sword battle, but LOUDER. Tonight I choose lack of sleep by UFO noise [...]

Check Me Out: Vested Interest

I don’t know what it is lately with the ugly. I find something hideous… like spontaneous conjunctivitis-inducingly hideous… and I can’t resist it. The more it makes me want to wretch, the more I have to have it in my closet. From a late ’80s Hawaii souvenir dress (yeah, it said “Aloha” all [...]

Painfully Trite Twitter Tweets for 2010-07-11

The perfect outfit for showing some flair for your 4th 0′ Party without looking like a republican. http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=20381699 # Oh awesome. I live in Arizona and my AC has stopped working. It was nice knowing y'all… # Never have I been known to curse my lack of mammary fortitude more than this. http://bit.ly/avpPvC [...]

Painfully Beauteous – The Artwork of Fuco Ueda

The internet gasped audibly when Fuco Ueda launched her website last year. Ueda’s works of in-exhalable beauty (acrylic and powdered mineral pigments on paper, cloth, and wood) are cloaked with an intangible darkness which is sometimes cloyingly subtle. However, in Fuco Ueda’s earlier works from 2000-2001 themes of stripey socks, incandescent sea creatures [...]

PHDC: The Perfect Periwinkle Patterned Dreamsuit

In training for my first Arizona summer, I am quickly learning that owning 2 or 3 swimsuits will not suffice. So I’ve been on the lookout for a 60s swimsuit without those dreaded torpedo cone cups. You know, the ones that the less blessed-of-bosom have to be constantly monitoring in case an errant [...]

Check Me Out: Silk, Chainmail, and Denim

Photo by Tyler Mussetter, M Portraits. Gold leaf earrings, silk chainlink top, beaded belt, and platform wedges from one of my favorite boutiques, Cuffs Urban Apparel.

As you know, I’ve been riding the skinny jean bandwagon for quite some time and can’t imagine letting them go as my staple denim with any [...]

PHDC: Wingflash Snowstorm Pt. 2

Photos by Ryan Mihalyi Models – Asher Caplan, Ashley Geiger, and Sandra Solial Jewelry by Laura Kepner-Adney, Wingflash Designs Hair by Addam Moreno, ISO Hair Makeup by Lauren Malanga Styling by Amber Mortensen

Get an eyeful of Wingflash Snowstorm Part 1

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PHDC: Wingflash Snowstorm

I love working with jewelry designer, Laura Kepner-Adney of Wingflash Designs. Nevermind the fact that her prolific collections consist of the most gasp-worthy, covetable objects I’ve ever ogled, she’s actually grateful to me when I borrow them for extend periods of time. Sometimes I think I must have secretly assassinated Hitler in my [...]

PHDC Mixed Prints

My team and I loved the outfits for our Mixed Prints story so much, we decided to use them again to shoot Paige, this straight-to-the-top 14 year old model, who rocked these duds to their maximum rockability. This girl was obviously born to be a model. She and her size 11 tootsies! I [...]