material concern

pretty little liars

So: a bunch of pieces from Curatorial and Popomomo will be showing up all season on The Hard Times of RJ Berger.

Last night, the Curatorial self belt dress was in the student council scene….

This dress in different prints is currently in UO and available online here.

totally into the UK show skins tonight while catching up on work….

so far i’m rooting for Amy Sarabi to win project runway! her pieces from her senior show a couple years ago: shown below were so beautiful!

weird question: the images now say lifetime: not her name. anyone know if project runway owns your designs if you participate? or do you?

i love rayanne graf.

I’m watching My So Called Life on hulu while I’m working on design work.

I’m in love with the whole show, and probably like most people think it actually relates to my high school life. And in many ways it does.

Except for the girl who was my Rayanne Graf definitely wasn’t as awesome as the real one. Similar to the real one, she had real problems, slept with my popular friends’ boyfriends and got into a good deal of trouble.

Perhaps luckily for me (and unluckily for my so called life life comparison), my Rayanne got either kicked out of school or transferred or her mom came back or something. She disappeared from my life in the way that kids do when they don’t control what they do and where they go.

And ummm: full disclosure: I definitely never got to make out with my Jordan Catalano in the boiler room (or ummm: anywhere else for that matter).

I was the one who dressed like Rayanne Graf. And on good days, days when I don’t really know what to wear, so I wear everything: I still do.

I love her.

does that mean that tomorrow, at a college somewhere in the US, is Chuck Bass Day?

after doing a couple perfunctory google searches, i found no such event. However,  quoth Eric Daman, the Gossip Girl costume designer….on dressing Chuck Bass:

“Bass goes beyond my personal style, I wish I had the money and youth to carry off his looks. It’s just un rêve (a dream) to dress a womanizing straight boy in such dandy apparel. I’ve read blogs from different colleges that actually have Chuck Bass Fridays. There is a whole movement behind him and his wardrobe which is sooo gratifying because, lets face it, men really should dress better. There is no one favourite look, I just try to keep him up to par each episode, which is no easy task.”

via.

as a related side note: when chuck was sighing about the comments his father used to make to him, the “why do you have to wear so much purple,” issued in a sigh-whisper was probably the best line I’ve heard in a really, really long time.

so we’ve heard about a gossip girl spin off…

and we are excited it will be in our backyard:)

I might have to start trolling craigslist for when they ask for extras like some of you (you know who you are!) do in ny….or veering crazily onto side streets when i see those yellow filming signs with the arrows.

xoxo…..

i swore off dvd-tv after than unfortunate “alias period” when i had a broken arm and all we did for the whole recovery was watch alias.

however, i had a lot of sewing to do this weekend, and i figured a show that gets so much satorial love: i should watch.

I definitely got sucked in: but i kept feeling like i was watching the dinosaurs before the meteor, or a group of german jews before hilter. You get so drawn into these people, and they are pretty much all horrible or sad people, but their way of life is going to be so irreparably changed in a couple years…so it almost doesn’t matter.

it was a bit like watching a really sexy archealogical dig.

I know that vignettes can be meaningful and lovely, but at times i’ve felt like I’m watching the characters and its a horror movie (for them: not for women’s rights), and i’m like, “OH NO! look out! 1968 is coming and it’s totally going to eat you!”

and i hate the fashion. hate it. i do however like the glasses they always drink out of in Donn’s office: i got them at a philly thriftstore and they now reside in my old bed stuy apartment.

oh i do like her but i think she might be only in the first season:)

so, a lot of my friends know that i like Days of our Lives.

It all started in high school: with the off campus lunch: timed perfectly with Days. Looking back now, I realize we watched the in the home of a very typical suburban family: i think the mom probably had Days on when we got here.

But i digress.

then, in the summers, my brothers and i would be at home in the morning doing whatever kids do and then Poof! at 12 we’d make our little lunches and watch Days: all three of us. we loved it. If our parents came home for lunch from work, they would tell us to “turn off the TV and have a conversation!” but sometimes we would beg and then…you guessed it: Days hooked them too.

How could this soap completely enchant a family like mine (opera every saturday on the radio, one hour of tv a week, nothing but pbs till we were in middle school, art museum a couple times a month, “a 97% on a test still means you got 3% wrong”, vacations based around architecture not…gasp…fun, type family) that really had better things to do?

um, pretty much because its weird. this town of Salem (probably next to springfield, and river heights, outside of metropolis) is haunted by the specter of this evil man, Stefano….its kinda David Lynch-esque in the duality and surreality of the lives of the characters. also its just good.

but, imagine my horror when I found out Marlena (once she was possessed by the devil) and John Black  (he’s good at looking into the distance) are OUT! fired! kaput! wtf!they have been married like 5 times or something: and it looked like they were going to get married again: even though john still has amnesia!

below is great Marlena possession/exorcism scene: throughout: shots of the two’s constantly embattled love.

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while i’m always interested in cross over ideas in tv or movies and reality: in reality: they rarely work.

Lorick, for example, is a real clothing line that is a fake clothing line on gossip girl.  of course, smart on Loricks part: major exposure and press…slightly less smart is that you are connected to a tv show as opposed to standing on your own.

and quite honestly, before this season: i thought it was all a little blah. even for tv. 

however, I just came across some of the fall dresses here, and i have to say, i think they are great. xoxo.