Marisa de los Santos | On Love


"Even if someone isn't perfect, or even especially good, you can't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all it's own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness."
Love Walked In 
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* Finished this book on the flight home. De los Santos has the most wonderful writing style - the whole thing is like a song

Fall, Most of All . . .

"To the outside, the dead leaves, they all blow.
Alive is very poetic.
Fore before they died had trees to hang their hope."
Band of Horses

Published : Tarina Tarantino



I finally did my interview with Tarina Tarantino today, and it was fabulous (and totally worth all the talk with her PR department!)

"Imagine everything you ever loved as a child: from Barbie to sparkles. Now turn those sparkles into Swarovski crystals, and join Barbie with the likes of Hello Kitty, Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz. Sound like a childhood dream come true? Enter Los Angeles designer, Tarina Tarantino."


You can read the whole article on the USD Vista Website

Ruby Slippers


"I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it. You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes, let it go"
 Glinda to the Elphaba. Wicked

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* A new pair of vintage shoes to remind me that there's no place like home.

As Lush as Hope


" And there they were: two dozen, in full bloom. Sent by a man to whom, in our whole half-hour conversation i had never breathed a word about flowers. An aria, a glory of peonies, as lush as hope. A cloud, a flock, white as promise. I nodded at them, and twenty snowy heads nodded back. Sign number 3." (28)

Love Walked In,
Marisa de los Santos

Erin Fetherston

"and the word butterfly made him blush..." J. Safran Foer
These images are from Erin Fetherston, one of my favorite favoriiittteeee designers. They're from her spring line, and don't they just exude spring to you? They remind me of Easter - minus those shiteous bonnets and itchy lace. Okay, maybe I'm just a sucker for anything that looks like tie dye. Erin graduated from UC Berkeley (... probably the source of her tie dye usage) and took her degree with her over to France and went back to school at Parson's. No wonder her whole line looks like a fairy tale - she is a couture cinderella. The whole show was full of sequins and lace and it just reminded me of butterflies. It's soft, romantic, and feels like falling in love. Is there really anything better?

Thanksgiving = Thanksgendering

Quick observation: Thanksgiving is the most anti-feminist holiday on the face of the planet.
When i grow up, rest assured that it wont be just women's day in the kitchen. I want to have a progressive thanksgiving full of lots of laughter, intellectual discussion, and good wine. Shouldn't a holiday where we are thankful for all that we have be spent with eachother - not divided by stereotypical gender roles?

... you didn't think we would get 3 days into this blog with out having some sort of feminist rant did you? first of many !

Jonathan Safran Foer | On Love

"This is love. When you notice someone's absense and hate that absence more than anything. More, even, than you loved their presence. " (121)

Everything is Illuminated

Overheard at USD I

inspired by Overheard in New York. Going to college at a private school in southern California is unlike anything else...

[forward: the word "Euro" and the word "Gyro" are pronounced the same by the two speakers (the G is silent). ]


USDgirl #1: "oh. my. god. did you know they have Gyro's at la paloma?"
USDgirl #2: "what?"
1: "yah. i guess they just started this year or something"
2: "i don' get it. why are there Euro's at la paloma?"
1: "i don't know. i'm not the cook."
2: "cook? what? why are they taking the Euro at la paloma?"
1: "GYROOOO. you know the sandwich"
2: "ohhhhhhhh..." (lots of giggling)


apparently USDgirl #2 thought it would be reasonable to assume that La Paloma (the cafe on USD's campus) has succeeded from the US, with out causing a second civil war and joined the European Union (even though they won't even let Turkey join, much less a whole sandwich place) and is now taking the Euro. I l o v e USD

Luella Bartley II (fall)

fall [images f: The Cut]
I'd be interested to find out her main design influences because here it appears that they are film Auteurs (yes, i learned that word from my Comm Criticism class last semester, and linked it up in case you, dear reader, don't know what that is!). This whole runway show reminds me a lot of Tim Burton.

Not so much these two (these were just my favorites) but if you check out the rest of the runway show the color palette is spot on, down to the sanguine colored tights. The hair, make-up, complexion and demeanor of the models is so reminiscent! Check out the rest of the slide show at The Cut.

p.s. found this image when looking for the one i linked-up above. Isn't it funny the way life imitates art? Tim Burton & his family look like a still out of his own movies.

Luella Bartley I (spring)

Alright, Luella Bartley won the British Fashion Council's award for designer of the year. I just die (D . I . E a la Rachel Zoe) for her stuff. She does such a great job mixing elements of classic pretty + preppy with edgy street chic. Here's a little peeksy of her Spring and Fall lines

spring [images f: The Cut]
Doesn't the color palette and feel of this on this remind you of the Wes Anderson Film The Darjeeling Limited?
Its so reminiscent of train stations (used a lot in the film), and India (the setting. obviously)

Always Ourselves

"went down to the beach (to play one day)
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it is always ourselves we find in the sea"

e. e. cummings


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* at home for thanksgiving, and maybe already missing the beach. but finally feeling hopeful.

Jonathan Safran Foer | On the Will to be Happy


" He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, h a p p y. And during the course of each day his h e a r t would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over. I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or convince others - the only thing worse than being sad is for other to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad.

Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of the bed and each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping.

And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be some where else, someone else, someone else, somewhere else. I am not sad."
Everything is Illuminated

Right now I'm reading this book called "Everything is Illuminated" and I read this passage and it was if i was watching my own words write themselves on a page. Incredible. I started this blog just to share it.

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