So honestly when I saw some photos from Lover’s new White Serpent collection from their runway show at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week I wasn’t really blown away. I got scared that Lover (my favorite label) was turning too fancy and out of reach. Well it’s always been pretty much out of reach to me as far as money goes, but what separated Lover from your traditional high fashion label was that I could actually imagine wearing their clothes. As gorgeous as their runway show was, I couldn’t really connect. There wasn’t anything that jumped out at me, nothing I cared to track down online for a good year until it finally got down to final sale on some online store.
Well, Lover just revamped its site and put up both its northern and southern hemisphere lookbooks, and I’m relieved to be loving Lover again. Especially its northern hemisphere, fall-focused collection. There are lots of super wearable things that I could imagine hanging in my closet, from perfect winter coats to velvet dresses to those white dresses that a Lover collection wouldn’t really be a Lover collection without.
Photos by Drew
1920s dress: gift from a Flickr friend
Necklace and shoes: Madewell
We didn’t go to Tennessee this weekend after all. Instead we worked on getting more clothes for the shoot, since my original outfits were way off base for the 14 year old I was supposed to be dressing. There were themes and references for every outfit, but I took a lot of creative license with them, and the outfits turned out to be the sorts of things an old person like me would wear: kind of plain and not nearly edgy or bright enough. But now we have it together and I think it’s good, and we’re all ready for the shoots on Monday and Tuesday, and it should be fun.
So no Tennessee stories. I miss my family and want to rest and get out of the city so much. But Atlanta wasn’t so awful–only hot. I still got to run on Saturday, and last night we sat outside at Fellinis with our friend Lightfoot (not his real name, sadly) and I had pizza and salad and cider. We went to the mall so much that I don’t want to go shopping for a long, long time, which is also a good thing. Plus I started another Ellen Glasgow book called The Sheltered Life, even though I haven’t finished with the other book I’m reading. I was just feeling too stressed out and tired to read Virginia Woolf, and so a 1930s southern women’s novel sounded like a much more relaxing read.
Anyhow this weekend I kept seeing Facebook status updates about the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governor’s Island, and it made me think of this ’20s dress that I received as a gift from an extra kind Flickr friend earlier in the summer. At first I was afraid to wear it, just because the oldest vintage thing I’ve really worn has been from the ’30s, and every ’20s dress I’ve come across has been way too delicate to go out of the house in. But this one is really sturdy and in the most amazing condition. All it needed was a slip underneath and a quick hem (just rolled up the original hem–no chopping up ’20s dresses here today), and it was perfect. So this is what I’d wear to Governor’s Island, though in reality we just went back to the Goat Farm (where Drew’s art show was last weekend) to take these pictures. Governor’s Island sounds like more fun.
PS– that last photo is a gratuitous elbow surgery scar picture. It actually looks a lot worse in real life, but still–my elbow is almost back to normal!
Brooklyn-based photographer Samantha Casolari does a lot of work for Dossier, which is where I first saw her photos. I think it was her set of fashion week photos that first caught my eye; they were all pretty and soft-focused, so different from your typical fashion behind-the-scenes pictures. They made me actually want to go to the shows, which is saying a lot.
Anyhow I love the flashes of light in her photos, and I especially love the summery feel in these ones. Some were taken from her site, and a few are from a new editorial up on Dossier called Absolutely Sweet Marie (I think that any editorial named after a Bob Dylan song must be good). They make me happy that it’s still summer (still don’t hate it), and excited about being lazy outdoors this weekend when we go see my family in Tennessee. I can’t wait. I’ve been working all week on styling a shoot (it’s more commercial and non Jamie or Silent Sundays-related; I’ll tell you about it later when it’s done so I won’t jinx it) and so the thought of going to a historic site with my mom or to a vineyard with my family sounds like the most relaxing thing in the world.
I’ve wanted to write about Drew and his paintings for a long time, and with his gallery show now done I figured it’d be as good a time as any. He’s been painting for years, but over the last year or so has gotten into collage-style wood paintings that I love more than anything he’s made. I love the colors of them and the shapes, as well as the idea of hanging them up in the house we want to build one day.
This last weekend he showed some of his work in a local show called Living Walls. For the whole summer he was cutting out pieces of wood and painting in the studio we share with Jamie. And then last week his friends came to town and they all painted this huge mural off of Ponce (It’s on the side of Paris on Ponce, if you’re in Atlanta). Then on Saturday we all walked to this place called The Goat Farm for the show. The Goat Farm is really a bunch of brick buildings that served as a cotton gin factory in the 1800s–I’ve taken blog pictures there and have written about it a little before, but I never really got around to walking around it until this time. It was a pretty good place for an art show–different artists showed in different buildings and a band played in a little courtyard. Drew’s friends were there, and Jamie and Rodney and Bobby were there, and the show really ended up being a lot of fun, and the whole weekend was so fun that I forgot to take blog pictures, and hung out with friends and swam and was social instead.
All photos, paintings by Drew Tyndell.
I always like the editorials on New Zealand site Always Sometimes Anytime, but my favorites have to be the ones in the Freedom series. Stylist Courtney Sanders and and photographer Sara Orme are pretty much a dream team, and when you throw in amazing New Zealand scenery and clothes by Lonely Hearts it’s pretty much impossible to go wrong. I love the dark mood of this shoot–even though most of the clothes seem to be from Lonely Hearts’ spring/summer collection there’s definitely a fall feeling in these photos.
