covered in stardust

Nanette Lepore RTW Fall 2013

Here's a quick look at Nanette Lepore's show at New York Fashion Week.
I love the first two beaded lace pieces, and I think there are also some lovely shapes in the collection; interesting necklines, a few sneaky cut-out details, and some lovely hemlines.
The collection is inspired by images from the Mars Rover, and there are a couple of nice prints which Lepore created using digital prints of slices of the earth. Not quite sure what that's all about, but they certainly came out nicely.

See more at WWD

Juicy Couture RTW Fall 2013

I've been perusing some of the fashion shows at this year's fall New York Fashion Week (online, of course, unfortunately)

The Juicy Couture show has a lot of really fun pieces; I especially like the combination of strips and florals. Anywho, here's a few of my favourite looks:

See more of the collection at WWD

currently coveting

Window-browsing online is highly dangerous. It can lead to all sort of troublesome fantasies about buying the beautiful evening dress that you have no use for and can't afford. Indeed, there's really nothing to stop you wasting away hours looking at clothes that are way too expensive to ever buy.
Case in point; I've just found a few items from net-a-porter that are beyond lovely, but are, sadly, also beyond my budget. But alas, I'll suffer through somehow.

*Note: Most of the items don't have links because when I went back to net-a-porter I couldn't find the items anyway in the store.

Sequined jersey top by Michael Kors

Ava dress by One Vintage


Floral-print cotton-muslin skirt by RED Valentino

Striped cotton dress by Dolce & Gabbana

at a glance: bedrooms

Am I the only one who gets kinda sleepy and just wants to curl up and go to sleep after looking at a really comfortable looking bed? Is it just me, I wonder, or do other people also have this visually triggered sleepy syndrome?

Psychological self examination aside, it is surely an undisputed fact that the bed is the most important object in one's sleeping quarters. However, there are some other things that can also have a reasonably profound effect on such a space; things like light, colour, ornaments, soft furnishings.

I've actually recently been doing a little work on my own bedroom; before Christmas I did a major overhaul and got rid of a lot of junk, put away a lot of ornaments that I still feel attached to but didn't want to display, and generally tried to follow the philosophy of Mr William Morris, who said "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." I didn't necessarily completely succeed (because getting rid of stuff is hard, man!) but it's a definite improvement. Doing all that means that there is some room for new decorations, so I've been making some cushions for my little couch, planning to make some art for my walls, and keeping an eye out for some interesting ornaments.
Unfortunately, the one thing I can't improve in my room is the light. But the whole house is on the dark side (hahaha!) so there's no use worrying about that.

Anyway, cue sparklingly inspirational bedroom photos!