agnes b. on grant street is closing–15 years! an institution for classic french everything! SO SAD! i stopped by during lunch, just in time for a mad rush of japanese tourists and passersby scrounging for 80% deals on anything left they could get their hands on… i befriended an old italian lady who said...
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my mom and i love the mt. sinai hospital thrift store on halsted & diversey in chicago. we always raid the designer room. while i was there in august we picked up some books and checked out a few old copies of holiday magazine, a fancy travel magazine that (based on google searches) was...
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upon returning from my trip, nico had a few lovely gifts waiting for me- michael jordan t-shirts and some awesome flip-front sunglasses. he kept raving about this store that just opened a block from the house… …on the corner of 22nd & folsom next to our oft-frequented corner store, is THE GOOD SHOP. now...
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ok i know etsy can be kinda crafty and a little too olympia sometimes, but i have found some amazing vingtage craft supplies and other cool handmade doodads…..LIKE THESE incredible pom pom masterpieces: from shop66 from nerdburger from absolutelysmall
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our travels in georgia pretty much consisted of eating a lot of incredibly unhealthy food. my best friend from chicago, dorothy, lives in athens, working as a tech in one of the uga botany labs. she rules! we stayed at her place and cooked delicious vegan meals (the only guilt-free thing we had), shared...
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i fell in love with lost in translation in 03–the soundtrack, japan, scarlett johanssen, etc etc. the best song was always phoenix’s “too young,” but i couldn’t find their records anywhere! that soundtrack was #1 on my itunes list forever…and last night i FINALLY saw phoenix live! so nerdy! so rad! so FUN! went...
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at rodarte… i’m OVER shredding and leather and studs and sweatpants and black and grey and 90s (not that that was ever my look anyways….) that’s not fun! grunge went out because everyone grew up and out of their teen depression. at helmut lang… so let’s get OVER IT and WELCOME THE FUTURE!!! a...
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jen had her trunkshow at the silverman gallery a few weeks ago and spilled these photos onto facebook. martha davis provided shoes and we munched on crumbled pringles while the surprisingly impressive fashion set mingled and polished off case after case of wine. good times, even if you’re the shortest model on display.
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nico and i spent a night on the way to athens with alex, a good friend of dorothy’s who is a potter’s apprentice in the appalachians outside of asheville, north carolina. we saw spiky spiders, shot bbs at tin cans in the woods, wound through the mountains at 2am, and breakfasted on local-egg sandwiches....
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lisa cut my hair last week into vidal sassoon’s firefly. she showed me the awesome book that vidal used and still uses as a training guide: a-ma-zing! metier is right next to vidal and everyone has the best hair. my girl debi at di pietro also worked at vidal for years…crazy geometry! so innovative!!!...
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