happiness is a warm gun.

also... completely and utterly off topic, but check out the new blog i'm now a part of: Future of Fashion.

and also, also, you can now reach my blog from www.dani-d.com!!

fresh prints.

woah wholly amazing print excitement!! seriously... i think these were done in the late 80s/early 90s (durr) but how friggen relevant are they now?? sort of Jeremy Scott referencing his old high school French books (or maybe that's just a Canadian/French Canadian reference?). the artist is named Nathalie Du Pasquier, but by the look of her website, she's sort of over the whole 80s/90s bold, graphic, colour explosion, print loveliness.

more than anything, these prints remind me of the intro theme song to...

(duh!)

(and Preppy's all like, "TIMEOUT.... you think you're sooo smart.")

but also a little bit of...

(oh my gosh and this is just like a TOTAL bonus addition to the post... totally rad, huh?)

i know it sounds mental, but sometimes I have more fun vegging out than when I go partying. maybe because my party clothes are so binding.

of the scene, as she turns, we are strange in our worlds.

i know i mentioned this before in my best of NY fashion week fall 2010 - according to me, but i'd just like to reiterate how much i love Chris Benz. there's something about his collections each season that always gets me drooling. i think what i appreciate most about his clothing is that it's really about the girl who's wearing it... she's clearly edgy and spunky and loves clothing, but she's not necessarily a trend stalker. he obviously took the 90s trend this season and decided to play with that but he's doing it completely differently here then, say, A Wang, or Richard Chai Love... i also love that the Chris Benz girl is somewhat of a chameleon and she's clearly excited by pushing the envelope a little each season... sometimes i even wonder at first if i like something at all only to realize, "shit, that's actually freaking awesome!". and despite all that, these are just freaking awesome clothes, everything fits beautifully! and anyone who can get me to admire intense over-beading and pailettes, and tolerate fur, has succeeded in my books!

i feel like if i were to wear any of these outfits i'd need to listen to this song:

but your lips when we speak, are the valleys and peaks of a mountain range on fire.

with her insanely intricate, imaginative, and colourful mixed media work, London-based graphic designer and illustrator, Nikki Farquharson puts my doodles and collages to shame effortlessly.