not related to fashion in any way

so... sometimes (well, most of the time) when i am at work, behind my frosted glass partition, when everyone else thinks i am updating financial statements, i am secretly online and looking at:

a. clothes
b. clothes
c. oh clothes
d. pictures of tattoos.

i found this one on some blog, this person is way into giraffes and got a connect-the-dots tattoo of her favorite animal on her calf. it's really weird. and really cool and just really not cool all at the same time. i just can't make up my mind about it.

i mean, i just, i don't know... first of all i would never get a tattoo on my calves or anywhere on my legs. i mean, i am an ardent fan of the killer calf shoes and i just would not want anything to come between me and my killer calves. what if, you know, i'm like standing on a street somewhere and wearing ankle boots and trying to show off my killer calves and someone is like 'oh, nice tattoo' and i would be like 'what? what about my calves?" and i'd feel all bad and shit.

but i like the connect-the-dots idea (i think)... it's kind of cool. you know, if you have a kid or teach kindergarden.

anyways, i have to stop looking at this during work. someone from accounting came over yesterday rather unexpectedly and got a glimpse of a giant dragon sprawled across a naked man's chest and i just got really red and made a lame attempt at closing the window. it took like two minutes. far toooo loooong.

want

found these alexander wang + superfine collabo jeans on oak. slouchy on top and super slim down the leg. and they are black. could i seriously ask for more? why do they do this to me? but its like completely sold out... why?

sometimes i opt out of purchasing super cool garments even though i am literally foaming at the mouth because of their super coolness. there is a retarded rebel inside of me and i just can't enjoy a good thing. its like a form of punishment. i just won't allow myself to have it.

BUT THESE!?! oh, the endless nights of yearning ahead. i'll think of you pants!

girl crush

i'v been working on a post of prefall collections and trying to do cool photoshop things but, ugh, its coming. one day. i found pictures of this editorial online. its so beautiful. also i love freja. rumor has it she is gay. and i would definately go gay for her. marry me!

shades of grey

pleasure principle

preen

t by alexander wang

vpl

gary graham

vivienne westwood anglomania

vpl

vivienne westwood anglomania

i've been wanting something floaty and wrappy and grey recently. grey is great! it's greyt! and there are so many different options. there's charcoal grey and slate grey, faded grey, don't forget graphite!, heather grey, light grey, dark grey, tar... you get the picture. in korean i've heard someone refer to charcoal as 'rat-grey' but i don't know, im just not down with that.

it seems like a good garment for april-ish weather and i can't stop thinking about the infinate outfit possibilities. since these are so slouchy i would do a really skinny leg (possibly all black or some blue maybe, or even pink if i'm feeling really good about myself) and tall tall tall pumps or boots. and if i had hair, it would be up! some really complicated, architectural earrings... and no bag.

if i close my eyes 3/4 of the way down, i can sort of, kind of see it... oooooh. good! good job fran!

(images from la garconne)

pradaaaaaaaaaaa

prada s/s 09 from style.com

i always find a way (by any means necessary!) to purchase one or two things (ok sometimes more) from each prada collection. if you haven't noticed yet i am very keen for prada. i can be quite the manipulative bitch when i am scheming my way towards these purchases.

now i know what i want.
only one question remains: how...
hmmm... crafty crafty

give me this outfit

givenchy couture spring 2009

i am preparing a massive post but i dont know why i am trying to find every possible way to procrastinate. but ive been thinking about these two outfits nonstop. they just won't leave me alone.

not related to fashion in any way

this has absolutely nothing to do with clothes or shoes but it is nonetheless awesome. i read about this in one of my mom's interior decorating magazines and just about hit the floor and did the homer simpson dance. not only do i love my good shoe, but i just love shit like this. what better place to click-clackle my good shoes to than a place like this...

it's a fucking tree house. A FUCKING TREEHOUSE! i have been obsessed with treehouses ever since i saw the old swiss-family robinson movie when i was a little kid. the fact that the movie is so ridiculously inappropriate and offensive in so MANY ways is completely made up for by that unbelievable treehouse they erect mere days after the shipwreck... its not even 'a treehouse' its like a tree village... all those levers and pulleys, and the window treatments the mom salvages from the ship! AHH! I LOVE IT!

this treehouse is actually built by a really cool architecture firm in new zealand and commisioned by Yellow Pages... weird, but it's true. i read on a blog that the tree house is actually made from stacks of the yellow pages books, but i don't know if that is entirely true... and also ITS A RESTAURANT. sadly for us plebians, the restaurant is not available and is completely booked for the rest of eternity.

don't worry, ill find a way to climb in there somehow. trust me.

look the tablecloth they use in the restaurant have all the plans drawn on it. wow. now i know my purpose in life. i need to get into that thing.

find out more at http://www.yellowtreehouse.co.nz/#

regret

so i "bought" these shoes at a major barneys sale in la last summer. they were very well-priced. they are from prada spring/summer 2008, which was, in my book, the best fucking collection ever. i already have a pair from this season so i returned them the next day...

now i have nightmares, about what this poor lonely child is doing all alone. or worse, all scuffed up on some undeserving, calloused feet. i'm sorry i had to give you up, you were just too impractical, even for me.

i feel like a terrible mother.

now that's just ridiculous, but i do miss them and could punch myself for not keeping them.

i love you shoe!

these are the pair with gold from style.com:

i also almost bought these too but they were like $3918231098 and i just couldn't justify it, not it any way. i think about them too.

i love you all! I'm sorry, truly, i am!

i though they might become irrelevant way too quickly and i hate feeling regret for actually buying something rather than not buying it. not buying it somehow still keeps the object in a certain realm of fantasy and i can still dream about them and glorify them. actually buying and then regretting is just... a really bad feeling. like looking at yourself in fluorescent lighting. just yuck.

but i am beating myself for being so shortsighted. these all would look so lovely this time of year and i desperately wish i could turn back time and purchase them.

oh well. see you in my dreams.

killings, cream black

oooh they look like five witches in the sky. these are the prettiest black things i have seen in a while. love!

(from left: rick owens one shoulder jumpsuit, rick owenskady jersey gown, christopher kane luca silk-gauze dress, preen cordula silk lace-up dress, preen veronica silk dress)

(all images from net-a-porter)

post it ambitions

so, some of the garments i chose might seem kind of boring, or on the safe side. but something about living here is rubbing off on me and i want to look like a lady ALL THE TIME. but not like a lady who lunches, more like a lady at the office who files things. there are many levels to the world of "lady".

i remember going to my dad's office when i was a little girl and just STARING at the his secretary. she was like the first "young woman" i had ever had any interaction with and the image of her cream blouse, black pencil skirt, permed hair and bad lipstick was and will forever be BURNED into my brain. i just really want to look like a korean secretary, y'all. i would come home and scribble jibberish on post-it notes and pretend coffee-make. i mean i dont want to be a secretary, just like pretend like one... i guess.

anyways, if you look at the clothes really carefully none of them are really that office appropriate. but this is MY fantasy office job, so yes, i would definately don a crazy christopher kane cocktail number with leather wires to work. i especially love the burnt/torn burlap sack (literally) from miu miu with the pleated apron skirt. but i kind of especially love anything from the prada empire. the kiki de montparnasse garter tank top is kind of.. sexy. but i promise, that's not what i meant by wanting to be a secretary...

(from top left: calvin klein silk origami dress, kiki de montparnasse white garter tank, christian louboutine ariella talon 120 boots, yves saint laurent sparkly jersey jumpsuit, paul and joe chameleon full length jumpsuit, vanessa bruno lace detail dress, christopher kane leather wire dress, vivienne westwood red label venus shell's fringed top)

(middle, from left: miu miu pleated burlap dress and pleated apron skirt, paul and joe sequined embellished dress, chloe asymmetric sleeve dress, alexander mcqueen silk blend printed jacket, chloe sally python bag)

(bottom, from ledt: givenchy leather shoe boots, alexander mcqueen side peplum dress, balmain embroidered mini dress, vanessa bruno asymmetric frill blouse, sonia rykiel sequin embellished bow dress, chloe silk draped skirt, givenchy leather covered heel boots)

(all images from net-a-porter)

dear lord

this is anna dello russo. i think formerly of l'uomo vogue and now of vogue nippon. this lady is hands down the best dressed woman in the world. i am actually really skeptical of people of who wear color. it just always seems like they're yelling "IM WEARING COLOR" really hysterically while skipping down the street... or maybe that's just how i feel when i try to wear color. but she is GOOD. and real clever. i especially like the green jade earings with the prada lace. and she is probs the ultimate killer-calf shoe wearer. look at her calves! even while wearing crazy bright colors, high heels and plus umm, eveningwear, during the day, she manages to look real polished and in control of her look. something i am constantly trying to maintain. usually for me by the middle of the afternoon i don't even care if my crotch zipper is zipped up all the way and usually end up taking off all my jewelry and stuffing it in my bag. jesus i just want to LIE DOWN somewhere. but something tells me that this lady is not affected by this midday spell. maybe it's because her clothes are so form-fitting and tight that makes her look super *alert* all the time.

(images from the fashion spot)

sandy colored

woah, this was so hard. i wanted to do something cohesive so i downloaded a trial version of photoshop and thought 'oh ill just piece together some pictures'. turns out, nope, NOT THAT EASY. after two hours of stitching this thing together i am so exhausted. i should have just printed it out and glued the damn thing together. anyways, look at my craft project.

haha, you like? anyways, i was super excited but too tired to think up of some snappy title. so all i have is... 'nude shoes'. haha, that's really all i could come up with. i really have been cravin' me some tan shoes recently. it goes with everything and neutralizes your entire outfit. it also gives you the greenlight to go completely buck wild with your clothes yet pulls you back just enough to say 'i am actually a very poised individual and capable of seeing reason'. you know, for all those judgmental fuckers out there.

the first one on the top left which is tipped on it's heal (haha i was so excited i could do such things when i found the tool on photoshop, i was tipping things left and right) is from ACNE. The shoe is called Strap Dark Sand DF. It's realll pret-pret. i'm really into hospital bandage-like adornments these days and the upturned triangle heel is an extra bonus. i always find that the quickest way to differentiate a 'good' shoe from a... not so good shoe is the heel. the heel is paramount! especially when you are buying knock-offs or copies. they alllways make mistakes on the heel. you can't just glue on a medium sized, stumpy ass stiletto on the heel and call it a 'good' shoe. who are you trying to fool? this heel, along with the bandage straps, instantly brings this otherwise traditional pump into new territory and makes it seem very contemporary. in other words, it becomes tres relevant.

the fringy sandal sitting on the cliff over there is Zucca. i actually have no idea what it is called and honestly probably would never buy it. it looks like blister town. ugh, can't you just feel the leather fringes getting in between the toes and you know, sweat, dirt, pavement. all equal bad times. but it is a beautiful beautiful shoe. i really like Zucca. i was recently in tokyo and went to the Cabane de Zucca store in omotesando and bought the craziest pair of boots. they are sitting in my closet, it has never seen the light of day, but i take it out once in a while and just stare at them. they are kind of bonkers, but they make me feel reallllly good inside.

the tan boot on the top right as well as the one on the bottom left corner are also ACNE. they are called Studio 3 and Studio 2, respectively. the gathered top and rather roomy trunk makes this a definate 'good' shoe. these are the kind of ankle boots that i am constantly on the hunt for. and the heel is a very manageable height. also an added bonus, these boots will give you killer calves. and killer calves are also paramount!

the little boots below Studio 3 are Vanessa Bruno Athe riding boots. probs the most practical out of the bunch. they're just really dependable and timeless, aka, your best friend forever! i love you shoe!

the one below the Bruno's, as i like to say, is Rachel Comey Bergen Tassel Clog. they are a really fun twist on the oxford/loafer shoe trend that doesn't seem to be leaving any time soon. i actually love this wave of 'how many ways can you loafer a shoe'. i think secretly i just really want to go to an english prep school and frolick about in a dusty, medieval library. and this definately helps fuel that fantasy.

the tan wedge in the middle is from Opening Ceremony and it is called the cross wedge. i love them. come to me! these are also killer calf makers.

the last one on the bottom left corner are Bernhard Willhelm Brown Rope Sandal. these i feel pretty much the same way as i do for the Zucca sandals. i mean, leather rope on feet during summer time? blister town! but they are really pretty and really sculpural. i like how the leather ropes are unusually thicker than you would expect. it screams 'im different, how 'bout you?'. but ow.

(all pictures were taken from creatures of comfort, la garconne and acne)

firstly

hi this is fran. i like garments and things. like shoes. shuz. i'm going to post pictures of pretty pretty things that i find online and have been collecting for some time now. and hopefully soon post pictures of my own pretty pretty things. sometimes i feel when i save an image on my desktop of something i like or rip a picture of something i like out of a magazine, i own some part of it. this, turns out, is not true IN ANY WAY. an image of a shoe on a two-dimensional surface will never ever magically morph into the real thing. no matter how hard you will it. trust me, i've tried. but you have to start somewhere. every once in a while i will find something in a store or online that i spotted earlier in a magazine and ripped out. and it will be a steal! and i will feel triumphant! someone out there is watching, and they're sending clothes my way. i figure if i post a million things i like online, sooner or later it will be raining prada. anyways, bear with me, i promise i'll show you pretty things.