hello from Utah! Been taking care of my three nephews for a week...completely fun and completely exhausting.
In other news...
Poketo launches its Target line August 10th! Excited to see their latest offerings. I am disappointed with them sometimes...I've seen the exact smae items they've sold online for $5-$10 that I could have picked up at the $1 in Japan. I see this far too often.
Will be taking the AmTrak California Zephyr from Provo, UT to Denver, CO next week. I am excited about the beautiful sights to see crossing the Rockies.
Just found out about this fashion, food, culture site NOWNESS, definitely worth a glance. Love the article on LCD Soundsystem.
a French Yves Saint Laurant coloring book from my dear friend in France
The Petite Palais in Paris pays tribute to Yves Saint Laurant with over 400 couture outfits dating from his first Cristian Dior collection in spring 1958 through to his last collection for YSL in 2002.
To accompany the exhibition the Berge/Saint-Laurent foundation has released a picture perfect coloring book. I think it is adorable and completely sums up the YSL brand.
with my quarter life birthday less than one week away, 25 has been on my mind
these are they at 25 years of age
Queen Elizabeth I became Queen of England at 25
Famous 1960s mod designer, Mary Quant, opens her second Bazaar boutique in Knightsbridge; designs very short childlike dresses at 25.
The most popular single in 1960 was Elvis Presley's It's Now or Never, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the charts when he was 25.
Madonna released her debut, self-titled album at 25years.
Joan Miro created this at 25
Sir William Henry Bragg, won the Nobel prize in Physics for his work with X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction, and crystal structure at 25.
Andy Warhol (seated on the right) gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements in NYC at 25 during a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising.
Wes Anderson writes and directs his short film Bottle Rockets at 25, entered the short at Sundance and secure funding for a feature-length Bottle Rocket.
At 25, Amelia Earhart flew to an altitude of 14,000 feet), setting a world record for female pilots. Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license
EDWIN Jeans Levis were king of denim here in Japan for the past decade, but a recent Japanese company is taking them on...the name EDWIN is short for EDO (the original name for Tokyo) and then the English word WIN, meaning "Tokyo Wins", meaning they will outsell Levis with a Japanese made jean// but then they go and pay Brad Pitt to do this...