model's own: September 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Oscar de la Renta Show Summer 2010 Video

Went to the Oscar de la Renta Show earlier today. Here is a little video I took from the finale.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Fashion Show for Pink Dress Collection

Did a charity show today for the Susan Komen Foundation for the Cure for Breast Cancer.
I loved my dress! to find out more http://ww5.komen.org/

picture source: p.sicular

Sade - Nothing can come between us

Sade - a truly chic performer. These videos are from 1996. Only thirteen years ago and fast forward about how the most recent MTV Awards and that it was all truly riff-raff. Truly mediocre artists dressed like clowns, putting each other down. The lowest common denomiator. True Style will never die.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Alexander Wang S/S 2010- Prarie Hair

This is classic Americana... and probably works best on unwashed hair. Easy.

Picture source WWD.COM

Friday, September 11, 2009

Fashion's Night Out 2009. Oscar de la Renta sings !

I went to Oscar de la Renta's Event at the Madison Avenue Store. It was a special treat to be serenaded by the handsome Mr. de la Renta, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Barbara Walters. What a glorious New York City Moment!

Albert Einstein Quote

source: www.justbeautifulthings.blogspot.com

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Lyn Devon S/S 2010 “Roman Holiday” 2010

I really love this collection, exquisite materials and it looks and feels so fresh.
Must-have!

Lyn in her Broome Street, NY Studio
www.lyndevon.com

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The day before: Fendi by Karl Lagerfeld

Hilarious hysterics.
Watch it on the Sundance Channel.

http://www.sundancechannel.com/fullfrontalfashion/video/

Monday, September 7, 2009

History of Beauty by Umberto Eco

The seventeen chapters documenting the history of beauty include:
1. The Aesthetic Ideal in Ancient Greece
2. Apollonian and Dionysiac
3. Beauty as Proportion and Harmony
4. Light and Color in the Middle Ages
5. The Beauty of Monsters
6. From the Pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata
7. Magic Beauty between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
8. Ladies and Heroes
9. From Grace to Disquieting Beauty
10. Reason and Beauty
11. The Sublime
12. Romantic Beauty
13. The Religion of Beauty
14. The New Object
15. The Beauty of Machines
16. From Abstract Forms to the Depths of Material
17. The Beauty and the Media

Published by Rizzoli, New York (2004)

Labor Day Thought

" One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdowns is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If I were a medical man, I would prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important"

by philosopher Bertrand Russell

Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose and the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met. Observed since 1982, Banned Books Week reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

5 Book that have been banned somewhere in America over the past 124 years.

- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Marc Twain.

- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

- The Color Purple by Alice Walker

- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (and all the other books in the Harry Potter series), by J.K Rowling

Celebrate the Freedom to read during Banned Books Week from September 26th 2009.

Go to the American Library Association's website, www.ala.org , for more info.