laughter & forgetting

so today, after trying to retrieve my information off my computer's hard drive for the past 2 weeks, i came to the realization that it was all lost. all my contacts & addresses, all my emails, all my calendars. files full of quotes, recipes and the diligent notation of the dates of where & with whom i had dinner with, what jobs i worked on, what boyfriends i was with....all gone with the wind. it made me think of memory and how we hold it and shape it. did it really happen if i can't look back and see those words written somewhere? i finally let it go (or so i keep telling myself). i've lost so many things along the way and this too shall pass.

Please email me at sthenry7@earthlink.net so that i can start to rebuild...

i am reminded of two quotes from my absolute favorite authors:

"For after all, what can memory actually do, the poor thing? It is only capable of retaining a paltry little scrap of the past, and no one knows why just this scrap and not some other one, since in each of us the choice occurs mysteriously, outside our will or our interests. We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed."

-Milan Kundera

and....

"The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?

Matter, the thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?"

-Jeanette Winterson

i love heem!

off to meet the queen

natalie massenet from net-a-porter recieved the MBE from the Queen yesterday. She wore a roland mouret dress and philip treacy headpiece for the ceremony. massenet grew up in los angeles and has worked for w, wwd & tatler in london. she went on to start net-a-porter in 2000. Other recipients include Burberry's Christopher Bailey, who received an MBE, conde nast director nicholas coleridge and warehouse founder jeff banks who both received a CBE and london college fashion's head of college frances corner and professor helen storey both received an OBE.

prada, the book

"prada: creativity, modernity, innovation" includes a catalogue of every prada campaign since 1987 with iconic photos from stephen meisel to hedi slimane. it's 706 pages and $150 - that's a lot o' prada!

obsessed

i am officially knee deep in my beard-y obsession.....

j.lindeberg: the documentary and a dream look book autumn/winter 2009

nothing tastes as good as skinny feels

while promoting her new perfume "vintage", kate moss was asked by WWD what her motto is....kate replied: "there are loads. there's 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.' that's one of them."

so okay, i want to bust her but....you know, i kind of agree. i know, it's horrible....and as much as i love my cheese (mmmmm....cheese) nothing feels better than slipping on a sexy dress and knowing you look amazing in it. it's like ava gardner said: "deep down i'm really superficial".

cate the great

cate blanchett photographed by annie leibovitz for the december issue of vogue.

she is genius.

nine

i really hope this is as good as the preview looks. daniel day lewis....sigh.

papa was a rolling stone

georgia jagger by mario testino. stunning girl.

swing

marko brozic photographed by kia naddermier & styled by nik piras  for king magazine.

(i'm guessing it's not the american king magazine!)

wonder if andy likes this?

it is being reported in the sun that 38 year old david walliams from "little brittain" is dating 25 year old model lara stone. apparently they have been dating in secret for the past 2 months but decided to make it official as the are head over heels in love. kind of hot.

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fashion fantasy

mariacarla boscono by peter lindbergh for harper's bazaar, december 2009. styled by aleksandra woroniecka.

i can't drive 55

carine roitfeld at her son vladimir's art gallery show "the martus maw" last night in new york's lower east side. 

we don't need no education

ryan mcginley for purple magazine fall/winter 2009-2010

ungaro talks too....

emanuel ungaro, who hasn't had any contact with his label since he left in 2005, spoke monday night at the international film festival in estoril, near lisbon.  "lindsay lohan's collaboration was a disaster.  I am furious but i can't do anything about it." He also said he regretted that the fashion house he started "is in the process of losing its soul."

sacre bleu

what?  yves saint laurent was a high-strung bitchy diva?  never saw that coming.....

tom ford opens up about his stint at ysl in the dec 09/jan 10 issue of the advocate.  when he left the label in 2004, saint laurent said of ford: "i think he has a lot of talent for, what do you call it, marketing. but he never showed interest in the archives." ford, who has never publicly spoken about his time there until now says "being at yves saint laurent was such a negative experience for me though the business boomed while i was there. yves and his partner, pieree bergé, were so difficult and so evil and made my life such misery."

the world remembers

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 - 1918)

winter kate

nicole richie has launched her new line winter kate (her daughter's middle names) ... the best thing i can say about it is that vanessa traina is modeling it!  it's a little all over the place - there are 40 pieces that range from leather jackets to slip dresses and camisoles. 

dreaming of other places

boîte spéciale croix-rouge

to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the red cross, louis vuitton has created the boite spéciale croix-rouge.  the hard-side case in monogram canvas opens frontally to reveal red and grey aluminum medicine boxes arranged to form the familiar emblem of the red cross. the logo of the red cross is also painted on the front of the case.

leather bound

belgian designer natalia brilli is known for covering classic "covetable" items in leather. here she has wrapped a fake rolex in her signature soft buttery lambskin (the nolex) as well as a skateboard deck.  

on the run

jamie dornan photographed by cédric buchet & styled by anastasia barbieri

relics of the cold war

for the past 10 years, dutch photographer martin roemers has documented the remains of the cold war from both sides.

there is just something so beautiful and so sad about abandoned buildings - where did the life in them go?  

if you're in berlin see the exhibition at willy-brandt-haus from november 11 to january 15, 2010