fash on

wooop woooop wooop wooooooooop!

i have so many magazines and journals and so little time!

how is a girl expected to read all these things and still walk her dog? i have subscriptions to: flare, elle canada, fashion, toronto life, canadian art, and the globe and mail which is giving me FREE WEEKDAY PAPERS! not to mentions the single editions i've picked up in the last while. love, zink, onethatican'tevenrememberthenameofwithgoldlettering... my style.com magazine SHOULD be here by now, but isn't. (grrrrr! arrgggg!) and i'm reading 1Q84. and my roommate just got her copy of worn in the post which i'm sure to peruse. i am not made for this much reading! but i do love it... sigh.

oookay. but. i did crack a few of those magazines this last week, and flare! may i say? two kickass editorials this month! check these out!!! (the scans are kinda rubbish... sorry. not doing the pictures full credit.)

{first editorial fashion edited by elizabeth cabral and photographed by chris nicholls}

{second editorial fashion edited by fiona green and photographed by chris nicholls}

yes yes YES yes! horses and eyebrows and birch trees! and crowns and texture and greyhound statues! yes please! yes! phew! i'm pooped from being happy about these.

panthercats!!! PANTHERCATS!!!

givenchy fall 2011.

panther freaking cats!

and irises. of course.

AND! iconography. and easter colours.

YES! FREAKING YES!!!!!

seriously, though. what an excellent set of options for easter mass. which is coming up... sooooo... (sure, sure, the line won't actually be AVAILABLE for this easter. but. ummm. maybe i could rock it for the 6month easter-iversary? please?)

























photos from style.com

let's all go to the opera!

badgley mischka fall 2011.

teal! fucsia! glamour-grandma-pantsuit! and. cape-back sleeves!
also, i'm pretty into the texture combos. sequin with velvet , wool and lace... and so on. i want to go to the opera and the ballet in this.



























photos from style.com

bright white light

it has been pretty lovely here in toronto the last few days. spring, i believe, is setting in. and thank goodness for that! (sorry edmonton folks.) my apartment is crazy dark, what with being a half-basement and never getting any direct sun due to a too-close-neighbouring-building... and i've been going a little crazy functioning in a perpetual dimness. (and the fact that i can't take a decent flashless photo in here to save my life... blarg!) plus the bathroom light died a zillion years ago, then was repaired ever so briefly, and then died again immediately. so i've been in the dark there. and two days ago the ONLY highly-functional (bright) light fixture in the whole place popped in some sort of power surge, and hasn't worked since. darker and darker!

but yesterday mel, margene, and i went for a long walk in the crisp sun, and then sat outside to have a coffee. and it was delightful.

and today, i'm saying goodbye to the fall/winter desktop:




and hello to a newer, brighter screen existence:




now all i need is a desk and life will be GRAND! (also, a birthday-parcel arrived in the post from one emma-in-the-uk... so that's exciting! less than a week now!)

all that being said, now i'm going to say a quick something about some more FALL FASHIONS! (but they're shot on white backgrounds, so it's okay.)

tess giberson.

there was a lot of black-on-black layering, which was hard to read in the photos... but there are a few things i really like. like. orangered! (although i would belt it at the waist. for me.) and. sheer as a bottom layer.






and. willow. (by kit willow. which reminds me of the muppets... willow, tit willow, tit willow.)

i like her take on suiting/the tux. and. mountie pants!








the above five photos are from style.com.

maximus boots festivus

holy cow holy cow holy cow.

alberta ferretti.

BOOOTS! these BOOOOOOTS!!! velvet. and. electric colours. and brocade? and grey and soft.
and then there's the 60's-esque lightning print. and all that saturated colour. and then the sheer and softness and shine and textures. oh man. great show. great stuff. i want the whole lot. all of it.





























all photos from style.com