inspiration today: vintage magazine covers

wish they would do covers like this again. Magazines are so stale these days with rolling calendars of the same photoshopped celebrity faces - and not even well-photoshopped either. I would love to stroll passed a magazine stand sometime next month and instead of seeing Keira Hathaway Johansson or whoever on September's Vogue, I would die to see a vivid gouache painting of a model in a Dior Couture gown or a satirical cartoon of a department store salesman begging a customer to buy the new collections. But as that is never to be I guess I'll just have to enjoy the beautiful illustrations on some of these old covers instead and be thankful that we at least still have The New Yorker... I especially love A.H. Fish's whimsical social commentaries:

Issue: February 1921

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: A woman grows visibly annoyed with her husband, who refuses to put down his newspaper at the dinner table.

Issue: January 1921

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: A woman, at home leafing through a catalog of automobiles, calls up a man, maybe her husband, to discuss her potential purchase.

Issue: January 1923

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: Curled in a chair, a woman comes to tears over a stack of bills while her well-dressed husband nonchalantly has a smoke.

Issue: January 1922

Artist: A.H. Fish

Description: Stranded under a full moon, a motorist is defeated by a flat tire while his date waits in the car.

Issue: April 1928

Artist: Marion Wildman

Issue: July 15, 1935

Artist: Cecil Beaton

Issue: June 15, 1935

Artist: Jean Pages

Issue: October 23, 1989

Artist: Lee Lorenz

Issue: March 18, 1939

Artist: Barbara Shermund

Covers available for purshase at Condenaststore.com and Thenewyorkerstore.com.

inspiration: sartorial videos

enjoying the stories behind some great New York street styles:

Hudson Square

The Brooklyn Flea

Prince & Mott

Madison & 67th

inspiration today: stitch drawing

Was searching for cool illustrations online recently. One blog lead me to another and what I stumbled upon is a very interesting art form. Rosie James is a textile artist who uses a sewing machine as her drawing tool. Now, being a former fashion design student myself, I've definitely dabbled on a Bernina or two and broken more needles than I care to admit. So, to me, Ms. James' work is definitely an impressive feat:

Stitchdraw.blogspot.com

inspiration today: chanel

Chanel Fashion News & Trends

inspiration today: skeletal

Rodarte

inspiration today: a pop of color

caught up on some of my blog reading today. Learned about a brand from the Netherlands called "Lew" on Style Bubble and was so captivated by these pictures from their site that I had to repost them. Love the palette of "sherbet-y colors," as she calls them, and the silly jumping-on-the-mattress vibe. Reminds me of when I used to have sleepovers with my friends and we'd sort of dare each other to jump from a higher and higher step on the staircase into a pile of beanbag chairs down below. Not sure why...

inspiration tonight: fly me to the moon

40 years ago today we landed on the moon.

Found these pretty brush paintings that highlight our only natural satellite:

by Lin Li - Enjoychineseart.com - South Carolina

Purchase his artwork on eBay

inspiration today: my inbox

pretty pictures often come in the form of e-promos. Here's a little bit of M.A.C. artistry that I've received:

inspiration this morning: conversations

I've found a new guilty pleasure: nytimes.com/conversations. They're kind of quirky and funny and a pretty cool marketing strategy if you ask me. When you watch the videos on the real website and not the YouTube ones, links to NYTimes' articles pop up on the particular subject that the person in the video is speaking about -- genius. Here are some favs:

inspiration today: into the woods

a sunny summer weekend sometimes calls for hitting the sticks and reacquainting oneself with nature. Of course, I'd prefer to do it like this girl in Adrien Caillaudaud moon shoes:

T Style Fall 2007 Issue

Fashion Editor: Marie-Amelie Sauve

Photographer: Willy Vanderperre

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