Men's Fall Fashion

My favorite publication (GQ) + arguably my favorite TV character (Chuck Bass) + my favorite season (autumn) = one spot-on editorial. Enjoy!

{Images via GQ}

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Parisian Living

Simple, beautiful, very French, and it looks like something I could whip up for myself to boot. . .

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La Bella Gente

As if I didn't have enough reasons to crave a(n extended) vacation to Italy, here are some photographs of the effortlessly elegant inhabitants of Milano.

Sart really outdid himself; the woman above is a lesson in life-long style for all of us, and the kelly/cobalt combinations below are a really sharp approach to an old favorite color palette. . . and who would have imagined a sweater tied 'round the waist could be so cunning?

{Images via The Sartorialist}

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Rain, Rain, Go Away

. . . though I suppose if the world looked like this during a downpour we'd be hoping for it a lot more often.

{Images via Phil Poynter}

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Living the Life

This is quite possibly the chicest little (dorm) room I've ever seen. Maybe it's because I've recently been in an actual dormitory that I cannot image the great lengths Maximilian Sinsteden must have went through to get this single room at Drew University into this shape. I can only hope that in some point in my early adult life I will live in a place as stylistically cohesive as this pad

{Images via New York Magazine}

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Target Does GG By Anna Sui (Got it?)

Anna Sui is doing a capsule collection for Target based on Gossip Girl characters (!) Some of my favorites below. . .

{Blair}

{Jenny}

{Serena - also top photo}

{Photos via New York magazine // Authors Note: "Vanessa" inspired clothing not included due to ugliness}

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What to Read Now. And Why

Newsweek recently did a cover story about the future of reading, and one of the most interesting articles was the "50 Books For Our Times." Predictably it includes oldies (The Way We Live Now, Leaves of Grass, A Good Man Is Hard to Find) and more contemporary works (The Botany of Desire, Persepolis, The Elegance of the Hedgehog), but generally it's a nice round list for those of us, ahem, who may have fallen behind in our readings. Could also serve as a good summer reading lineup.

Excuse me while I update my Amazon wish list

{Image via The Book Design Review, a great site dedicated to one of my favorite topics. The Milk cover above was one of Mr. Sullivan's favorites of 2008. Pretty, isn't it?}

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obsessed.

Janet Hill would be one of the few artists I would grovel with to paint my portrait. Though I love the history and intimacy of portraits, I don't know that I could sit still for hours just to end up looking like myself. I'd prefer the more utterly romantic and glamorous look favored by Mr. Hill, just like her lovely Etsy shop. I can only imagine how I'd look to posterity if I was lucky enough to be featured like the ladies below

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Practically Perfect in Every Way

Isn't this what every girl hopes to look like during the breezy summer months?

Count me in, please.

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Whimsy

I (secretly) love Teen Vogue. The little sister to the fashion bible typically has great styling ideas and interesting shoots (though unlike it's older sibling, things are usually pretty hit or miss)

Loving Emma Watson in the British-country-aristo-running-amok-at-the-family-manse look.

{Images via Teen Vogue}

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obsessed.

I frequently become obsessed with things. Though I joke about my obsessive personality, I really can't get something off my mind until I've become bored of it. And so begin my "obsessed" segments. First up. . .

Ballet! Cannot.get.enough. Who would have thought after all these years I'd be locked in my room reading Balanchine books again. Watched two documentaries in as many days (Étoiles - Dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet and The Dancer, both quite good), went to see a performance of the New York City Ballet, and can't quite stop returning to Ballet Alert!, a website dedicated entirely to dissecting dance in it's many facets. In honor of my favorite pasttime, a few photos

{Suzanne Farrel, then of NYCB, with George Balanchine during rehearsal}

{Yuan Yuan Tan of San Francisco Ballet on stage}

{Irina Dvorovenko of ABT in rehearsal}

{Chopiana}

{Images via ABT, Ballerina Gallery, Marc Haegeman}

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Check Out. . .

. . . The Lens, the photography, video, and video journalism blog of The New York Times. Extensive photo essays are published constantly; at the least they're interesting, at best stunning. Readers' photos and archival images are also published frequently.

{Photo by Damon Winter, a "Road to Office Picture Story" winner at the Best of Photojournalism 2009 awards, presented every year from the National Press Photographers Association}

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Excuse Me, Sir? May I Have a Kiss?

(phone home.)

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Good Girl

Always loved Ginnifer Goodwyn, who changed the spelling of her first name to it's pronunication in her home state of Tennessee. I'm not much for midriffs, but that's a phenomenal cover shot. Cute girl, good actress, racy photos.

Try anything once, right?

{Images via W magazine}

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Gotta Love a Jewel Tone

My grandmother used to have a jade green vase filled to the brim with peacock feathers in her home, and I cannot think of a more glamorous way to dress up a sitting room. Obviously the motif has become very popular, as Matthew Williamson's (not so new) line for H&M, sported several of the feathered creatures, as have more than a few feathered headbands at Urban and the infinity classier ban.do. Beautiful, chic, and flamboyant, they have nothing but glamour attached to them. Flannery O'Connor had a life long obsession with them, and I love the association with masculinity. Any way to figure some peacock into your life, and wardrobe, sounds a-okay by me.


{Print via midcenturyjo}

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