People We Love: Susan Miller

Just an FYI for anyone with an iPhone, Blackberry, iPad or whatever that is also completely obsessed with Susan Miller's AstrologyZone...yes there is an app for that! So amazing, for a mere $1.99 you can have daily gems of astrological wisdom delivered to your phone. Aside from a daily forecast Susan also lets you in on important upcoming dates (new moon in Aries 24 degrees tomorrow guys), stress busters based on your sign as well as vacation tips, gifts guides and even the type of car that would suit your personality. Need I say more?

*the dreamy psychedelic illustrations above are by Kime Buzzelli and were featured in the first issue of Chelsea Magazine. They currently reside on my bedroom walls and I love them to pieces.

CAT HIGH

Allow me to introduce you to the most amazing yearbook spoof ever - Cat High! A delightful book by Terry deRoy Gruber made years before Photoshop when people had to actually dress up cats in tiny outfits (oh teh funniez). Don't worry, there's also a variety of cat heads pasted on human bodies to make up the clubs and sport sections if cut and paste is your thing. There are way too many amazing senior photos for just one post so I'm going to go ahead and try to make this a weekly Cat Party installment. Here's the first dose!

 

  

  

Chaka Khat!? Seriously!? Eternal thanks to the lovely Sarah Meadows tipping me off my new favorite coffee table book. 

*click the photos to enlarge if you'd like to read all the ridiculous text! 

Cool Cat

Did I really buy these last night? Yeah, totally. Here they are in red if you also feel like you can't live without obnoxiously bright sunnies that fold up into the shape of a cat head. Somebody is going to knock these off in like....two seconds.

 

 

Spring Cleaning

Time to clean up the old desktop and sort through the 10,000 random photos saved from late night blog binge black holes. One of these adorable new wallpapers courtesy of Frankie is inspiration to keep things a bit more orderly...wouldn't want anything cluttering up that cute kitty face.

 

 

 

Things I Like: Scalloped Edges

I've been racking my brain trying to come up for a clever title for this post and it's just not possible. Mollusk jokes don't really seem appropriate for fashion blog, right? Anyways, scalloped edges have always been a favorite of mine.

Recently my passion for the dainty trim was re-ignited by this crazy-adorable Inari Chemise by featherbone that I picked up at Anthropologie:



Why limit my favorite edge to clothes? Behold a vintage Tea Rose Stationary Set:



A snowy white Faux Fur Cape, fit for a Mad Men Christmas Party:



I know a lot of girl like to wear bike shorts under skirts to prevent over-exposing themselves due to windy conditions...I'd prefer these scalloped Tap Pants by Lyell any day:



Of course I couldn't bring up the subject of scallops without mentioning Chloe! I wish I had been able to get my little mitts on this perfect Scalloped Skirt:



There's still hope if you're feeling crafty! Vain and Vapid has an informative tutorial, complete with a gin and tonic reward upon completion. All you need is an old skirt, sewing machine and some motivation. Oh and probably a lot of patience, too.

Lisa Mayock's "Things I Like"

A lifetime supply of lipstick from a Polish 99-cent store in the freezer? Check. A tiny Pee-wee doll donning a Day of the Dead mask? Check. A white porcelain monkey hanging from a rope in the living room? Check!

Lisa Mayock (of Vena Cava) gives Refinery 29 a tour of her awesome Williamsburg apartment, be sure to have a look at the rest of the images and accompanying interview here.

Things I like: Satanists, The View, Michelle Obama's Prom Photo

I have a million a photos on my computer that I always intend to work into a post at some point but this rarely happens so I have decided to introduce a new feature titled "Things I Like" which showcases a vast assortment of gems culled from the depths of my hard drive. Enjoy!


If this is what satanist chicks looked like in the eighties I'm sad that I missed the boat. I found this photo in the "other religions" folder at the mid-manhattan picture library.



The Czech poster for Juliet of the Spirits . I am too inarticulate to describe how brilliant I think this is.


I got this biker chicks postcard at a truck stop in Arizona. It's propped up on my windshield in this photo. It's really amusing to me that the clothes that these girls are wearing are so outdated that they have actually come back into fashion before this postcard has ceased to be produced. Five years ago this would look have looked atrocious but now everyone's like, "Oh my god, where can I get a studded leather bralet???"


Michelle Obama's prom photo. I'm totally into the Emmanuelle chair.


The cover of the Christine Perfect LP. Also with the Emmanuelle chair. Does anyone know what those chairs are actually called? FYI this is Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac. Her name used to be Christine Perfect, which sounds so much cooler than Christine McVie. Not to knock Christine, she is amazing and happens to be the celebrity who I most closely resemble.


How unfortunate is Elizabeth Hasslebeck's outfit? She probably saw the Grey Gardens HBO movie with Drew Barrymore and was really inspired. That said, the point of this blurb is not that I hate Elizabeth Hasslebeck (which I do), but rather, that I love The View. I highly suggest that you watch it.


This girl from Garance Dore.