I can give you what you want, I can make your heart beat short.

Hello luvah...

Watching the Detectives

I've spent the last 6 hours doing the internet equivalent of window shopping. That's what happens when your boss leaves you to man a booth at a Toy and Hobby show for 4 days.

Hot Child in the City

Today Raquel and I ventured out onto the warm streets of San Diego to get sandwiches. We were both pleasantly surprised by the sunny, clear skies and toasty breeze. In honor of today's weather, here are some sizzling dresses (and a bag!) I'll be lusting after in the upcoming months (and I obviously won't be eating since I'll be spending all my dough on clothes).

The blue Opening Ceremony is the perfect cutout dress. I need it. I tried on the Alexander Wang combo dress and I'm coveting it...madly. Even if the construction is a bit wacko, I'm sold. That picture really doesn't do it justice. Jil Sander, you do fringe proud.

In other news, we got our coachella tickets today so be sure to check back for our Coachella guide!

Brown Bunny

Project Runway winner Christian Siriano showed his Fall 2009 collection at New York Fashion Week on Thursday, and I am terrifically disappointed. First of all, I think it's safe to say I hate the color brown. Secondly, the Rodarte-style shoes are really ugly. Third, the gold fringe bangs remind me of Raggedy Ann and Andy, which is not hot, and lastly, don't the clothes make all the models look really wide? Dowdy to the max. We know you can do better, Christian. Try again!

Graveyard Girl

In case you didn't already know by now, I love black. I also love metallics, really high heels, and fur. I can never get enough structure, draping, or glamour. My favorite thing to wear is something that turns heads and makes eyes pop. 

(Those who know me will probably roll their eyes, because I usually wear jeans, but while I am not too concerned with what is apropos, it is more of an obstacle than anything else to show up at the playground with a freakishly energetic two-year-old wearing a skirt up to here and shoes with two-inch platforms. Not that I haven't, but the safety I must surrender accompanied by the strange looks I get from the stroller brigade tipped the scales in favor of less "statement-making" outfits during my working hours.)

Actual usefulness aside, garments with these qualities send me into a tizzy. Lanvin's Pre-Fall 2009 collection practically sent me into cardiac arrest. It. Is. Gorgeous. It is the collection for the ages for me. These are clothes I want to wear now, and the way I want to dress when I'm old and my children are grown and I'm a crazy cat lady like Edith Ewing Bouvier. 

Will you be my Valentine?

Proenza Schouler Pre-Fall 2009. If I had this collection in its entirety, I wouldn't have to buy clothes for several years. Okay, that's a lie, but how perfect is this? The colors, the textures, even the sunglasses are good!

Black Is Black

I hate that feeling of being totally out of the loop, and that's how I feel now that I've discovered this gorgeous Burberry Knight bag. Huge, black leather, extraneous straps, and most importantly, studs. A girl in my French class last night was carrying the best bag ever, and when I asked her who made it, her answer hardly surprised me. 

Rachel and I have been looking for good new bags, and thought we had done a decent job of it... Not so. I'm pretty certain everyone but me already knows about this bag. Whatevs. It's fucking fantastic. I now have my next project... all I need is some leather dye and a big bag of studs.... Who knew punk would become priss (and not completely suck)?

L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches

Well, school is back in session pour moi, which means two nights a week of French. While my classmates are horrifically style-impaired (excepting my dear friend Cassie), a fabulous fashion discovery did come from something we discussed en cours.

For some reason, we were asked to identify famous Frenchmen/women, and the ever sexy Serge Gainsbourg was on the worksheet. Somehow, I was the only student who knew his work... When I asserted just how handsome I find him to be, le Prof decided to start watching videos of Serge on YouTube. Inspired, I ran home to do more "research" and looked up Serge's musical arranger, Jean-Claude Vannier. I have his record, "L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches" (The Child Killer of the Flies) and love it. In this video, Vannier's band, Insolitudes, is playing a song from the record, live, for an Yves Saint-Laurent fashion show on the Roland Petit Show. It's like a precursor to Fashion Rocks. 

Lovers Who Uncover

Daydream Nation "Love is Blind" Necklace, $187

Tutu Blu "Color Block Mesh Dress", $172

Interlud "Cupcake Blouse", $128

Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and while I don't usually celebrate (my birthday is four days later, a holiday I much prefer), these new heart-shaped offerings at Pixie Market have me wondering how I can stealthily trick the boyfriend into getting all mushy with me over it. If that fails, I always have my cat. 

Never Want to Put My Feet Back Down on the Ground

This is so Grey Gardens, I'm in love! I've been thinking about getting a longer fur coat like this one for a while now and this now makes that acquisition compulsory.

In other news...

They finally came!

And they are beautiful...I do apologize for the crappy photo quality. My next big purchase is going to be a fancy new point and click. I also added photos of my newly acquired Vena Cava dress (sparing you more bad photo quality).