Monday

une métropole


(tote bags from atsuyo et akiko)



(picture by souther salazar)



"
chapter one. he was too romantic about manhattan, as he was about everything else ... - no, no, corny, too corny for a man of my taste. can we ... can we try and make it more profound?

chapter one. he adored new york city, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. how hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television ... -
too angry. i don't want to be angry.

chapter one. he was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. -
i love this! - new york was his town, and it always would be ..."

- woody allen,
manhattan

un phonographe



(see also: band of outsiders)
suppose someday we all run away to the americas!

Wednesday

une mascarade


perhaps my liking for this
digby and iona mustache necklace means that i've finally accepted nature's course for olive girls. more likely though, i'll never tire of playing dress up. (i even keep all of my ripped black tights because they make me feel like a storybook street urchin.)

after all, one can't tell when they'll want to travel incognito. with this, forged documents in the name of phileas fogg, and a dubious cockney accent, the possibilities for mustachioed mischief are endless.



Tuesday

l'ennui rêveur

dreamy ennui, first as illustrated by julie morstad:





then by andre fromont:



and finally, ladies and gentlemen, the lusciously unkempt louis garrel - (please see:
love songs) - in the new hedi slimane diary:


brood on, playa.


les .. goosebumps


don't you just love a good power ballad?

Friday

photographies des femmes préoccupées


schemes and daydreams by aya takano:






(she's a part of kaikai kiki, a warhol factory for the new day and age)