day 1

First day of the new job, wish me luck.

MINT DESIRE

Thanks to my final Manhattan purchase, I am now the proud owner of these little beauties. 

BIRTHDAY BASH

It's official: I am now in my twenties. 

My birthday was lovely. It spent the evening in Queens, eating Mexican food and accessorising inappropriately. Add to that indulging in one too many cookies'n'cream cupcakes and spending the working day at fashion publication, and you'll come to the same realisation I did: I am in fact, Ugly Betty.  I now have the sombrero to prove it. 

TALKING OF TEAL: STREET STYLE

 RIO/ RYOSUKE SUZUKI @ HTTP://RIGHTYRIGHTYRIGHT.COM/

STREET STYLE PAPPED ON MY LUNCH BREAK, BY THE EVER SO LOVELY RIO OF RIGHTYRIGHTYRIGHT. SOHO SETTING, COBBLED STREETS AND YES- NEW YORK'S UBIQUITOUS AMERICAN APPAREL SHEER SKIRT. PLEASE EXCUSE THE THROBBING HAND VEIN, NEW YORK IS LIKE, REALLY HOT. 

w/end

hello glorious weekend

OUTFIT SNAP

I'M NOT THE BEST AT OUTFIT POSTS, I KNOW. THEY HAVE A TENDENCY TO BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN, AS TO WHEN I CAN BE BOTHERED TO HAUL OUT MY CAMERA, OR ELSE PLUCK UP THE COURAGE TO ASK SOMEONE TO SNAP MY SHOT, WHILST ATTEMPTING SOME FORM OF MODESTY. NEVERTHELESS, HERE'S THE LATEST, TAKEN BY THE PERFECTLY COMPLIANT JULIE KOSIN TAKE IN WHAT YOU SEE, FOR IT'S BOUND TO BE A WHILE 'TIL THE NEXT. THIS WAS A PARTICULARLY COLD MORNING IN NEW YORK, HENCE THE FULL-LENGTH PANT. NOT COLD, COLD, HENCE THE TEE, SANDALS AND SUNNIES, BUT YOU KNOW, NEW YORK COLD.

empty?

I NOW HAVE FRIDAYS OFF, AND THOUGH I WELCOME THE START OF THE WEEKEND, I ALWAYS SEEM TO ARISE TO A NIGGLING FEELING OF EMPTINESS. NOT FOR A LONG TIME HAVE I HAD A WHOLE DAY TO MYSELF, LET ALONE 3 IN A ROW. IT’S ALWAYS BEEN DEADLINES, AND FASHION SHOOTS, AND ONGOING WORK STEALING MY WEEKENDS, AND FOR WHAT FEELS LIKE YEARS I’VE BEEN WAITING TO HAVE SOME FRESH INSPIRATION. FINALLY, I DO, AND NEW YORK- WITH IT’S DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS, STYLISH SIDEWALKERS, AND MEDLEY OF MUSEUMS COULDN’T BE A BETTER PLACE TO SATIATE MY NEED FOR CULTURE.

HAVING TRIPPED TO THE MoMA LAST WEEK, THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM A FEW DAYS BACK AND THE MET MUSEUM TWICE TODAY (YES, ONCE IN THE MORNING AND THEN ONCE IN THE EVENING) I’M BECOMING QUITE THE GALLERY ENTHUSIAST. SKIMMING PAST THE PIECES THAT I CAN’T RELATE AND IGNORING SOME OF THE MORE PRETENTIOUS ‘MODERN ART’, I’VE BEEN SPENDING HOURS ENGROSSED BY MY SURROUNDINGS. NOT THE BEST WITH GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ADMITTEDLY, I’M RELIVING MISSED GEOGRAPHY LESSONS AND HISTORY STUDIES THROUGH CHOICE, AND FINALLY BEING ABLE TO LINK THE TWO WITH SOME SORT OF CLARITY. (A BASIC SKILL I KNOW, YOU’D THINK.) I’M GATHERING MORE INSPIRATION FROM THE WIDER WORLD, AND MY STYLE AND CREATIVITY IS BEING VISIBLY INFLUENCED. I’M ON A TOTAL OCEANIA-KICK AT THE MOMENT, HELPED NONETHELESS BY THE PACIFIC ROOMS AT THE AMNH AND ARTS OF OCEANIA AT THE MET. 

HAPPIER THAN I EVER THOUGHT I COULD BE HERE IN NEW YORK, AND BUTTERFLIES IN MY STOMACH THINKING ABOUT MY NEXT RELOCATION, ANY EMPTINESS IS SHUNNED THE MOMENT I STEP OUT OF THE DOOR; FOR WORLD, I LOVE YOU.  

 (montages I've made, do not use without credit/ linkback)

oh, hello lovely weekend