tacky, and delicious, luxury

No, it's not a piece of that ubiquitous Louis Vuitton luggage that you're looking at. It's an
edible cake! My friend knows the happy couple who had the remarkably authentic LV-looking
cake made for their wedding shower. How lucky for luxury brands when they can just sit back,
while the mainstream gladly take on the task of free and volunteer advertising for them!
Here is another one I found online, and another; this one from Truly Scrumptious Designer cakes in Scotland. At $950, the edible version is still cheaper than the leather one! How much would you spend on the cake of your dreams for a special occasion?

Leonard Cohen

Pictured above is my friend, Tamara, (on the left), and in the middle is Mr.Leonard Cohen. Tamara ran into "Leo" on the street in Montréal the other day. They had lunch together the following day. It's a bit bizarre to see my friends pictured so nonchalently next to the talented musical icon.

white hot summer

two of my favorite people in the whole wide world. shown above here, vogueing/grime'in and dancing the hall recently. the fellow on the right, sports one of my favorite vintage ghettotastic finds - a circular gold medallion with the profiles of a boy and girl facing one another, two hearts touching beneath them. I know, it's just too perfect.










and this is Oscar and I shakin' it in our summer whites. it was the debut of my new white-on-white perforated buttery-soft leather Chuck Taylor high-top booty beauties. studies have shown that they make the dancefloor hot... real hot.

fashion in berlin? how ideal!

This is one of my dearest friends, Jennifer Ann Gilpin, a Montréal-based clothing designer, featured here in a photo taken on the weekend at the fashion tradeshow, IDEAL, and posted on the streetwear blog, Stil in Berlin. Jennifer's wearing her own garments here and the ones hanging on the rack behind her are also from her most recent (and brilliant) collection which, I happened to do the styling for. Her collections are the perfect symbiosis of the stylish and the conceptual. Here are two of my favorite pieces from the new collection - a black jumpsuit with adjustable leg length, and a morphable dress/shrug/cape in stretch twilight gray.



Photographs by Jason Sanchez & Elena Willis.

Attack of the YSL nerds

photo source. I was comforted when I saw this photo of these irresistible nerds. Mostly because on the day I stumbled across this photo, I too happened to be wearing my own version of the uniform above - a pair of clunky Kio Yamato glasses and a voluminous vintage Lanvin cream blouse, with my long hair tied back - but felt a bit more frumpy than this duo looks. I'm not sure that their outfits are so amazing so much as their demeanor is, absolutely charming.

Galliano garb

Couture week is ON. Dior versus Valentino. Classicism versus Modernism. You know the drill. John Galliano is celebrating a decade as being the genius behind the latest era in design at Dior which would normally warrant a triumphant mini-retrospective but instead the collection (as seen in these lovely images from Style.com) appeared to be pulling inspiration from all over the place - literalizing the work of painters like Degas and Picasso and fashioning them into garments.

This won't be his most memorable collection for me, but lassoing in the old supermodels such as Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell, Giselle Bundchen and Shalom Harlowe added grandeur and a sense of Gallaino's influence on the fashion world over the years.