serge

"Mr. Iceberg"
Serge Gainsbourg
1979

I now have permission to not wear socks until the fall.

joan

Joan Smalls
Fall/Winter 2010
I love it when a model with honest looks has a breakthrough in a season. Joan Smalls doesn't look like an alien, baby doll, depraved Eastern European, or Sarah Plain and Tall. She's a total babe, but high fashion babe, and sometimes that's all you need.

dries

Dries Van Noten
Fall/Winter 2010

If only every woman had a closet full of Dries Van Noten and the score from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" as the soundtrack to their daily lives, we could only be so lucky.

staying alive

I'm back. I promise. To make it up to you, here are five songs that I can't live without at the moment:

Hot Chip, "We Have Love"


Miami Horror, "Make You Mine" (Fred Falke Remix)


Hercules and Love Affair, "I Can't Wait"


Holy Ghost!, "Hold On"


Kid Cudi, "Enter Galatic (Love Connection Pt. 1)"