seen your citizens

Some say that as people get older, they lose their ability to pull off the harem pant or the sequined shrug. Well, some people are wrong. These ladies (especially the one above-- breaking gender barriers while also looking like a first class diva? INCROYABLE) prove that while time goes by, style reins on! If I'm even half as fashion forward as these divas at 80, I'll consider myself in good stead. Let's hear it for the boys? Nope. Let's hear it for the fashion grandmas.

lavender lovely

photographs by Thomas Giddings

DIY: Hunting Lodge Edition

Have you been trying to find a way to make your dorm room go from bare-walled bleak to aristocratic chic? Is the Breakfast at Tiffany’s poster you bought at the poster fair just not cutting it this year? And most important, have you always dreamt of having a large reindeer head looming above your bed as you sleep? We had too. Initially, we evaluated the logistics of having a stuffed head mounted on our wall. However, numerous factors, including the high price tag, a dubious taxidermist who looked to be straight out of Borgin and Burkes, and our oversensitive vegetarian roommate quickly deterred us from this possibility. However, don’t be discouraged, for we have found the perfect solution! Keep reading, and in just 10 easy steps, you too can be the proud owner of a cardboard reindeer head.

Step 1: Follow the link at the bottom of the page and print out the six pattern pieces available.

Step 2: Cut out pattern.

Step 3: Trace the pattern on a large piece of cardboard. (Insiders tip: look in the Watson basement for spare pieces of cardboard.)

Step 4: Cut out the traced pattern using a sharp X-Acto knife or box cutter.

Step 5: Assemble neck as shown below.

Step 6: Assemble head as shown as shown below.

Step 7: Hot glue neck to head.

Step 8: If you have extra cardboard, cut out a fancy shape to mount your reindeer’s head on. Cut two long slits on the fancy backboard and insert the reindeer’s neck.

Step 9: If you’re looking to get extra fancy, pick up some spray paint from the local hardware store and unleash your inner Banksy.

Step 10: ZOMG YOU'RE DONE.

(That's our friend Bobby. How dreamy can you get?)

If you’re still determined to have the real thing, we recommend watching this immediately. If you're not still determined to have the real thing, we recommend watching this immediately:

MATERIALS:

Cardboard

X-Acto knife or box cutter

Printed pattern from the link below

Hot glue gun

Spray paint

Pattern

xoxo

Zoe and Morgan

Jason Wu Spring 2012

pictures from vogue.

100 years of fashion

100 seconds of 100 years with 100's of outfits of East London style. Sept 13th 1911 - Sept 13th 2011.

Take 2

I am finally back and blooming in black (just kidding, i'm wearing yellow!) sitting in the library not doing my french homework. This week I bought my first backpack since 8th grade and purchased a bicycle. I feel like a pre-pubescent suburban middle schooler and it feels GRAND. Rumor on the street (www.weather.com) has informed me that Minnesota is even lovelier than New York City right so ha ha ha to all those folks who turned up their nose and said "the midwest? how cold." (Right after "I've never heard of Carleton. Is that a community college?") So raise your textbooks high and chin chin to a happy fall.

This is a picture to show how much I have grown since freshmen year! Sophmore year, bring it on.

CONTACTS SHEETS.

Because often the process is more interesting than the finished project.

Richard Avedon:

Elliott Erwitt

Diane Arbus

Albert Watson

Cecil Beaton

Oooh, you've got to Vogue

Hello you glorious ladies and gents. I'm sorry I've been lacking in the blog department lately but I was far too busy tanning (/melting) and accumulating freckles this summer to post. Hardy har har! Just kidding--sort of. This summer I interned at Vogue Magazine where I worked as a digital archivist. Getting paid to read Vogue all day? Ideal. When I wasn't sorting through sketch after sketch of the hat revolution in the 1930s (it moved from shielding your eyes to resting daintily atop your head doing absolutely nothing-- thus sunglasses were born!) I was able to gloss through other decades as well. Here are some of my favorite covers that I came across.


FIRST VOGUE EVER. 1892. Insanity.


1929. Color is born! Hip hip hooray! The world learns that Georges Lepape is a genius.


1942. They are still talking about hats.


1951. The most lovely bosom bow is presented to the world.


I forget the year of this but it was printed in November thus the need for a hat situation this large and in charge.




We got to watch Cher grow up!

See Claudia Schieffer pre-baby!

The Spice Girls were on the cover on Vogue in 1988 and then shortly after changed the world forever. Did I play charades with my extended family this summer? Yes. Was Spice World reenacted? Why, of course.