Malamorphos.*

the lovely ladies of malamorphos they had their launch party today for their line of beautiful, handmade dresses made from repurposed vintage fabrics. melissa maldonado and florencia carrizo have created a line of superbly crafted clothing. their one-of-a-kind dresses are feminine, detailed, beautiful, and the vibe inspiring and free. check it. love it. rock it. whirl around in it on a warm summer day.*

E-Bay-Bay Vintage Party.*

the downsizing continues. i wince as i part with these items. more listings next week, but there are 3 days left, so happy bidding! visit my ebay store here. xo.*

floral boho skirt:


leopard print booties:





vintage jessica mcclintock lace and velvet dress:


....y mucho mucho mas.*

Tropical Future.*

so the lovely homegurl rochelle of mapache jewelry hosted this month's flea market at SPACE 15 TWENTY in hollywood. vintage paradise, good music, and a great art space installation by sprfkr y mapache. check out her interview on the space15twenty site as well as this fashion blog that kindly featured yours truly, my friend nicky lee of repose vintage, and other fashionistas/fashionistos of the day at pazzesca. stephie and i also finally got the pleasure of getting our nails done by the ladies of kleur. the tropical future took us over.*

The New Gypsies.*

in the heat of the summer, each day has been driven by a relentless momentum, and it's wonderful. one day last week, one of my closest and oldest friends came to visit from new york on one of her cross-country gypsy adventures. we went to a bookstore and i stumbled upon this photographer, ian mckell and his book the new gypsies, which documents nomadic tribes of people at stonehenge during summer solstice. they are breathtaking and make me just want to pack up and go. plans for the future, where time stands still....*

90s Lust Strikes Again.*

i keep thinking about how much i miss being a teenager and watching "my so-called life," relating to angela chase and having these posters from seventeen mag up in my purple room as i dyed my hair red for the first time circa 1994. thank you, claire danes, for embodying our glorious teenage angst of the 90s. poor millennium kids got no role models as worthy as ours were, but maybe that's just my generational bias talking. whatever.*

Medicinal Botanical Wonders.*

so now that i'm preparing myself for graduate school for botany and plant biology, i am trying to teach myself chemistry. yes, this is as hard as it sounds, but i keep getting distracted with the pretty pictures, as usual. it's pretty cool to think that botanists were illustrating these well over 100 years ago, but the plants are still exactly the same. if anyone knows the original botanical illustrator, please comment, since as of the moment i can't hunt his name down anywhere. thx.*

80's Goth Nostalgia.*

so i stumbled across these images on this blog called nowthisisgothic and fell into a momentary lapse of the age-old "remember when..." nostalgic haze. i wasn't even old enough to be into this until a decade after it passed, but it still feels like a part of my heritage in a weird way. i wish real goth kids still looked this cool....*



thorston & friend, cermany. (who knows who this kid is, but he is only of the only non-band-related faces on the web from this time period.

@the bat cave in 1984.

skinny puppy.

bat cave, london, 1980's.

holly, vancouver. (i definitely wore this outfit recently.)

siouxsie