vogue:

by Sarah Mower

SEE THE SLIDESHOW

“We want to do something which is about fragility and beauty,” said Maria Grazia Chiuri, “something light—a reaction to the time we’re in.” She and Pier Paolo Piccioliwere working in the Valentino showroom on final fittings for their couture…

Salivating.

I promise I haven’t forgotten about any of you.

In fact, I’ve been trucking along slowly behind the rest of you, reading posts as I find time. Time, now, is something I recently gained more of. I made some major decisions that have drastically altered what my schedules look like on a daily basis. That alone is taking some getting used to and can be a struggle some minutes, but tonight I gained some newer perspective from a potted plant. I received the most beautiful flowers from a dear darling friend of mine and smiled a geninue smile for what seemed like the first one in weeks. The flowers alone were enough to make my night, but the time it took to make the selection? To order and organize the shipment?

The sentiment? Good lord, how beautiful.

Driving home, recoiling from an intense workout for the night, I sat back and saw the sleet cascading itself energetically against the windshield wipers, I smiled again. And because of the potted flowers sitting in the living room, waiting for tomorrow’s sunlight for its first bath, I gained a fresh perspective from a potted plant.

I’m happy to be alive.

itsjakethough:

superheroes used in breast exam awareness ads. brilliant.

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vogue:

Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2012

Photo: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton

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withoutmelissa:

I hate when we argue, but most often, it is the thing that reminds us we are human. For so long we were a couple and then our eyes blinked closed and they opened to us with a baby on each hip, an official new title: mama. daddy. and less time than we’d ever had before for our individual selves and…

“So we go on, being human. Living with our imperfect selves. Recognizing each other’s weaknesses and loving despite. Creating our balance. Fighting sometimes. Forgiving always. The day in, day out of for better and for worse.”

During one of the hardest, darkest, and most exhausting periods of my young life, Melissa’s beautifully honest and poetically written post about marriage indirectly reminded me that we go on being human. We do, don’t we. When I pout and stew, and you shut down, and when you get stern and I shut down, when things are so hard and strained, we go on being human. Creating that balance, that balances it all out. The one we strive for every day, the one that’s so difficult to find sometimes through the smog. But the balance, it’s there.

Through all the shit and ugly cloud days,
we go on being human one forgiveness at a time.

vogue:

Preen Pre-Fall 2012

Photo: Courtesy of Preen

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whiteelephantintheroom:

I knew we’d meet one day, I confess. But I had this definitive idea of where I hoped to be when we did.

Laurie nods.

And though I’m closer to that place than I’ve ever been, I haven’t quite arrived yet—

But you’ve lived, she interrupts. You’ve traveled the world—and written a book!…

I love reading White Elephant posts. I’ve said it before, I know, but I do. The hurt, the triumph, the pain, the success - we’re lucky to be a part of reading the details of the ups and the downs she so defiantly, yet still so bravely fronts, puts up for us to soak up as a part of her life. The meeting of the  daughter has been an just-starting installment that we’re all eager to read about. The love between two souls connected still in the greatest way, and we’re never quite prepared for such an indescribable bond. And yet, she has the words. The best words, the right words. Words that link together so perfectly that things I’ve never experience feel like digits on my right hand. Like I said, I feel so lucky to be a part of reading these experiences and I feel so blessed to read of a highly anticipated meeting gone so triumphantly well in ways we’ll never know of but get to read pieces of. That’s a blessing. I feel like a fan girl most of the time when I go gaga over reading a post she’s written or liking a photograph she’s taken and paired with a reading, but it makes me feel stronger, braver, safer, and happier to see someone who has gone through the utmost struggle brave each experience and let us in on pieces of that daily journey. I feel blessed to be one of the many cheering her along, feeling that she can accomplish and bless many with the words she writes from the life she lives and lives that touch her and lives she has touched. So so gracefully and wonderfully done, she tells of what is and what was in a way we hang onto for hope and know there’s triumph and love and connection and truth through it all. Bear with me, I’ll warn you ahead of time, because things aren’t going so well for me right now. They just aren’t. I haven’t suffered major loss but I feel like I’m losing bits of myself right from underneath me. I want to pull out all the melodramatic fibers from my hands that type out sad stuff because it really isn’t all that terrible. But some days are hard when I feel lost, some minutes or even seconds become difficult to bite down and carry on because there’s a weighty lump resting its weighty self down on my feet as I walk forward and try not to look back on memories of kisses through tears or hand holding or body swaying or hugs when The Yuck comes and am just left with The Yuck and its terrible terribleness and feel alone. And on days like this where I nap for hours in the middle of the afternoon because my soul is tired from supporting my head and body and mind and heart, it helps to get up, read a post like this, take a deep deep breath in and feel okay to continue on for awhile more, to push past the awful second and hang onto the less terrible next minute. Onward and upward. Onward and upward.   

vogue:

Erdem Pre-Fall 2012

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the mynabirds - la rain (live)

natashanicole88:

I Would Do Anything For You - Foster the People
Remember all those times I was hoping for something, and shaking my head from all I have done.

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georgiegirlnyc:

For the love of boots.

tallgirltales:

A nice lineup.

[via epapaion]

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devincastro:

amomentsindulgence:

”I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree or off a tall building or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe. It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.” - Florence Welch

This is why I listen to Florence + The Machine.

all girl summer fun band - new in town.