cultural adventure

Olvera Street






Wearing vintage BCBG skirt, American Apparel vneck, Forever21 cardigan and purse, Urban Outfitters gladiator sandals.

Choose Chinatown







Today, Amelia and I got up early to go get breakfast and then take the metro..somewhere. After oatmeal at Heirloom Bakery, we took the metro to Olvera Street and walked around a bit. I've never been there, believe it or not, so it was pretty fun. Everything was very adorable and very colorful. After Olvera Street, it was still early so we decided to go to Chinatown and visit the Cheap Monday store again. While we were there, we found another store we didn't notice before, Welcome Hunters. Let me tell you, this place was freaking incredible. I can't even describe. All the installations were skulls, or some sort of head with nails in it, and the shapes and just EVERYTHING WAS AMAZING. One of my favorite designers there was Daniel Palillo, he had a lot of oversized shirts and cut-out holes and shapes. After seeing the melted hole t-shirt (which cost about 200 dollars) Amelia and I were inspired and thought about doing it ourselves. It's pretty simple. After Chinatown we headed off to Target to get some extra large t-shirts so we could begin our d.i.y.. I'll have pictures and a tutorial or something up soon.

and I am alive

Patrick Wolf so amazing. I also love the video of him and pigeons. His cape is freaking incredible. I want one.

mysterious phone numbers

Vintage Aardvarks embroidered shirt, thrifted cut shorts, worn with Urban Outfitters gladiator sandals.

Don't you ever have the urge to jump off, hoping you'll fly? Feeling unprotected. I do.

We're all boring.

when i grow up

Love this song and video, its perfect for my mood right now.

and a cool music blog?
twenty kilohertz

the same old thing, we did last week

H&M jacket, Aardvarks vintage skirt worn as a dress, Forever21 stud ring, mom's old belt. 

Have a nice three day weekend everyone? After being sick on Thursday and Friday, my weekend ended up being five days long. Heheh. The Aardvarks in oldtown is really cool, lots of sequined dresses and leather mini skirts. I got an old BCBG reddish colored leather skirt for 10 dollars! I also purchased a white embroidered shirt for another 10 dollars. 

During my sick days, all I did was watch 'That 70's Show'. It's so great. Hyde is my favorite character. 

lay down like a naked dead body

Seriously, one of my favorite bands ever.
I saw them with Amelia last summer at the Hammer Museum, they were intense. Aja has such a powerful voice and Rich is just amazing. He threw out plums at the concert, and I caught one.

aah

I'm in love with the Rodarte inspired dress that Cats&Dogs made, it's so great. I want one. Once I learn how to knit, I will make one ;)

(Cats&dogs)

There's a Mark the Cobrasnake yardsale on Sunday, planning on going with Amelia. We've been to one before at his house, it was pretty cool.

destroy everything you touch

Rodarte. Only they can make something knit that looks like its falling apart, without actually having it fall apart. Looove it. and those Christian Louboutin spikey heels. Too bad they cost about.. an arm.. and a leg.

Oh wait, now you can to. D.I.Y. Rodarte anyone?!
SixSixSick did a D.I.Y. of Rodarte's diamond cut leggings and their sweaters/tights. Now if only I knew how to knit.. time to visit grandma. I tried learning a little while back and made half a scarf, but now I've forgotten. :(

I stayed home from school today, staying home all day makes me feel kind of lazy and useless. I've been watching the show 'Bizzare Foods' with Andrew Zimmern and eating Soy creamy icecream all day. I learned that in Iceland, they eat puffins and sheep's blood pudding. How horrifying. Good thing tomorrow is Friday and I can get outtt.

john galliano

IRINA

style.com

Words cannot even describe the amazingness of this. Especially that enormous fur coat, it's intense.

I love the colors, and shapes.

I love it all. It's ridiculous.

not easily offended

American Apparel tie-dye burnout shirt, Urban Outfitters skirt, 99¢ store sunglasses.

I found these sunglasses at the 99¢ store! I was so excited. This week has been quite warm, and I've stopped wearing jeans..
I need more dresses and rompers and those Deena & Ozzy zipper sandals.. I'd also like to live in my romper, but control yourself Emily.

I'm excited for summer! Only about a month left of school and I can't wait! Unfortunately I have summerschool.. health and computers.
It'll be good to get that out of the way. After summerschool ends, I'm taking an artcenter fashion sketching class with Amelia.

Still begging my mother to get me a sewing machine, she's going to get one soon hopefully. (:

I'm also in need of a haircut. After I cut it, its grown like crazy.

I wish I lived in the 80's.

Can we build a time machine, please?

mustard

Forever21 top, thrifted sweater, bracelet from my grandma.

sorry for the terrible webcam photos.

I found this bracelet that my grandma gave me a long time ago, I remember not liking it.. and now I can't get enough of it. New favorite (:

It's friday! This was a nice week. The weather was perfectly warm.

Unfortunately, I have nothing to do on this Friday afternoon.. so i went out and bought the weirdest fruit I saw.
It's called the 'kiwano horned melon'. It'll be interesting to eat.. though I don't know how I'm going to eat it.

New Lissy Trullie 'Boy Boy' video. I love her, she's so adorable. short hair, heels, denim vest thing, perfection.

last weekend

Edie Sedgwick makeup ;]

Wearing my new American Apparel tri-blend halter romper.. looove it, especially with Amelia's acid wash denim jacket.
It was Amelia's birthday, and we went to the Camarillo and the beach. The Betsy Johnson store was freeaking adorable, I'd like to have every dress in there, please.
We also managed to find some really disgusting cheez-it flavored lip balm.. SO GROSS.

(p.s. Neiman Marcus..SHOEPORNN! Oh my gosh the shoes there..)

Irina

models.com

I love her. First seeing Irina Lazareanu on JakandJil and now this.

don't save us from the flames.

I did it. I cut my hair. I'll have pictures up sooner or later.


I feel like everything is going downhill from here.
"We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal."
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)

haircut

I'm going to get a haircut ;]

sundays

Renee Perle

Yesterday Amelia and I went to the salvation army in search of fur coats and denim shirts.. no luck. However I did find this pastel pink/cream pleated skirt, sweater, and a giraffe bag (that is weirdly similar to my elephant wallet. hah) We also discovered that the Aardvarks in old town is now open ;]. Fur coats and leather jackets, unfortunately our time was limited.
We also saw these two girls with short hair, boots, and sweaters, they were so perfect! Haha they must have thought we were creepy since we kept staring at them.. but they were just tooooo cute. We also saw this guy on the metro with the most amazing studded leather jacket, it was red and green in some parts and the collar was studded. He was kind of weird though, his eyes twitched weirdly and he constantly had this little grin on his face.

So, my mom has been in China for the past month and she took the camera with her, so no outfit posts until next friday :l

(p.s. Why does Rodarte send Tavi their really cool ripped/shredded tights and sweater? I would like some too please ;])

factory girl

Edie Sedgwick is one of the cutest people ever. Her make up, her hair. Factory Girl is a good movie. Watch it.

Trying to decide if I should cut my hair or not.. since summer is approaching..
IDONTKNOW. What a difficult decision.