things that scare me

Word vomit

Actual vomit

Dissapearing

Changing

The moment before something bad happens

My roommate, Morgan

When everything is wrong and you don't know why

Wednesday mornings

Forgetting

my roommate, Morgan

HAPPY HALLOWEEN WEEKEND!

(DORA! LOL!)

Fashion Profile: Soren Hope

Year: 2015

Major: Undeclared

Q: How would you describe your style?

A: I’m very inspired by the 90s and a lot of my clothes are from that era. I shop in thrift stores and a lot of times I take things from the lost and found. The lost and found at my high school and at the summer camp I work at are particularly good. I like children’s t-shirts. I also take clothes from my mom and my dad.

Q: What are your most prominent fashion influences?

A: P.J. Harvey, the movie Ghost World, Dazed and Confused, Rayanne Graff from My So Called Life. Oh and my mom. Only how my mom used to dress though…

Q: What is your favorite piece of clothing that you own?

A: I think my favorite piece of clothing is this really old t-shirt that I have from my grandpa’s charity softball game. I got this t-shirt from him and it’s from the 60s.

Q: What would someone rarely or never find you wearing?

A: A polo.

Q: If you could live in any decade for fashion, which would it be and why?

A: the 90s! There’s something about it that appeals to me, maybe its nostalgia.

Q: Where are some of your favorite places to shop?

A: lost and founds. There’s also a nice flea market in New York City that’s in a large garage that I go to a lot.

Q: What are you wearing right now?

A: I’m wearing a pair of boots from the Thrifty Parrot in town. Tights. A skirt that I got from a thrift store and two shirts that I also got from a thrift store. I’m also wearing my dad’s hoodie and my grandmother’s earrings and bracelet.

DIY: Detachable Collars

It’s sixth week. You wake up after spending half the night writing a 10 page paper, throw on that drab old grey sweater, and inhale two cups of coffee on your way to morning lab. After squinting through a microscope for four solid hours, you look up and catch your reflection in the window. Two haggard eyes stare back at you, and you wonder what happened to your youthful and joyful spirit. Sleep and a bubble bath flicker through your mind as possible solutions, but you quickly dismiss these ideas realizing you have no time for either. Fear no more, we have the perfect solution. Peter pan collars! With the donning of a single accessory, you can regain the youthful spirit of timeless childhood friends like Eloise and Madeline. This versatile rounded collar embodies Wednesday Addams angst, defines Zooey Deschanel’s whimsical style and dominated the runway during New York Fashion Week RTW 2011. So what are you waiting for? In just 5 easy steps you can take back your youth while also looking fabulous.

Material:

Felt square

Ruler

Scissors

Hook-and-eye closure

Needle

Thread

Step 1: Lay your piece of felt on a hard surface and cut an oval 6 to 7 inches in length and 3 to 4 inches wide.

step 2: Cut out the collar as shown in picture.

Step 3: Sew on your hook-and-eye closure. (Hip hip hooray for ADD! But isn't the yellow so much more cutting edge? We thought so too.)

Step 4: Decorate!

Step 5: Put on your peter pan collar, frolic to your 1A, and greet your reflection in the window with a wink a mischievous grin.

xoxo

Morgan & Zoe

hustle&bustle

SCHOOL SPIRIT

Well. Hello 5th week! A week of too many nights getting kicked out of the libe, cups of iced coffee and conversations in british accents. BRING IT ON. Manhunt in the Weitz Center study break anyone? But really...

(Tavi rules and these photos are from her new online magazine called Rookie. You should all read it. It's very important.)

all photographs by Petra Collins for Rookie magazine.

Fashion Profile: Halah Mohammed

Year: 2014

Major: Undeclared

Q: How would you describe your style?

A mix of urban hip-hop side street prep, with a dash of hipster.

Q: How has growing up in New York City influenced the way you view fashion and your own personal style?

It’s influenced me a lot. I’d say most of my fashion comes from people I see on the streets in New York City and I combine their clothing. I see a person with shoes that I like, like some oxfords, but their shirt and pants doesn’t go. Then I see a girl with a dress that would go with the oxfords and I’m like that would go together! That’s how I come up with different styles. I think also being a 90s baby gave me a lot of insight on style. It was a time of pure color and experimentation from jumpers to weird swooshy jackets and Nike and Tommy Hilfiger trying to make primary colors look cool. New York has definitely influenced my fashion.

Q: Where do you get your inspiration?

Music. I’m going to be honest, I always listen to Common. His music speaks to me. Depending on what he’s talking about in his lyrics I’ll dress to that type of mood. Lauryn Hill. Adele. John Legend. Phil Adé. When I wake up first thing in the morning I listen to music and that’s what dictates my mood—if I’m listening to ghetto dreams gangster I’m going to dress like that.

Q: What is your favorite piece of clothing that you own?

This is a really hard question but I’d have to say my men’s large sized Ralph Lauren blue and white pin striped button down. At any point in time in the winter you can see me wearing it with a Carleton sweatshirt over it or a Bulldog sweater. That shirt will forever be in my wardrobe. I don’t care if termites come and get it—I would patch it up.

Q: What would someone rarely or never find you wearing?

A bunch of neon colors together. What the fuck are you on? Some people can make it look good but highlighter purple, orange, green and yellow would not be in the same outfit on me. Just wouldn’t happen. I could pick two of those colors and pair it up with a little bit of black. But for all of those little neon highlighters that walk around here—it’s not fun anymore. Stop it!

Q: If you could live in any decade for fashion, which would it be and why?

I think I would go with the pencil skirt 50s. I like the flowered and lacey tops. The pin stripes and pencil skirts and the weird platform shoes. I’m into that, I don’t know how much I can pull it off but I can definitely do that.

Q: Where are some of your favorite places to shop?

This is so cliché but the first is urban outfitters. Then thrift shops, maybe forever 21, key word maybe. American eagle. Anthropology. Brooklyn industries, I like that store a lot. Oh, and Charlotte Russe, I just bought a jacket from there. I really like the jacket.

Q: What are you wearing right now?

This is a Forever 21 scarf and a Converse baby blue button up. These are Hollister dark blue denim wash jeans and brown and gold sandals. My earrings are off the street from one of those weird flea markets. One of them is banged up a lot, it looks like a weird continent--but its not! It’s just banged up. I think they have character.

Q: Do you have any advice for the less fashionable Carls?

Dress how you feel. That’s how I do. I do it. Big shot.

...Fendi and Madonna

While fruits are so last season (hi stella--diggin the dots) vegetables were only a matter of time. For Dolce & Gabanna's Spring 2012 collection, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana went all-out with their Italian pride and created a collection full of eggplants, tomatoes, zucchinis, hot peppers and--most importantly-- pasta. Creating beautiful 1950's inspired silhouettes with bright bold and delicious prints, the collection was truly MAGNIFICO! No more french on this blog after this winter--Ciao a tutti Italiano! Submitted my Siena application today. Oh mon dieu.

Digg'in the pasta earrings? I am too. Thanks to the lovely ladies at Honestly...WTF, we can make them in the privacy of our bedrooms and shortly after have a fashion show in the living room.

YUM. Click here for the full DYI.