Smokey is what smokey does

This is a print I have always been a fan of; it's so ingeniously dark, sexy and flirtatious. Alexander McQueen was truly mind-boggling.

I love prints that allow the product to be unique in it's own way - by this I mean that each piece is able to be somewhat one of a kind because no two smokey patterns can be the same. Not only did he create some very special designs, but the patterns leave room for the consumer's comfort in knowing they own something that is virtually inimitable.

Now that's exceptional talent!

Smoke-print dress at Net-A-Porter

Song of the day: Misstress Barbara - Dance Me To The End Of Love

Light-Up Choos

They LIGHT UP!

I've wanted a pair of light up shoes since my childhood days when my sneakers had little LED's that flickered red and green and blue every time you took a step. Now, the grown-up version has arrived - $2, 495, batteries not included.

Song of the day: Uffie feat. Pharell - ADD SUV

Summertime and the living's easy...

It's a little bit random, but it's been so nice out in the city recently that I thought I'd take some sub-par quality pictures and share. I love the park when it's full of people (never too many, though, because Strawberry Fields near Central Park South is so much nicer and less crowded than Great Lawn) who sit around in circles amongst close friends, chatting up a storm, playing music, having a bite to eat or even smoking a hookah. I love this city!

Song of the day: Florrie - Panick Attack (Bit Funk Remix)

Subodh Gupta

I first heard about Subodh Gupta via the amazingness that is TED. He was mentioned in Ravin Agrawal's talk entitled "10 Young Indian Artists to Watch", and spoken quite highly of as he is described the "Alphamale of contemporary Indian art". He "celebrates local and mundane objects globally and on a grander and grander scale by incorporating that into ever more colossal sculptures and installations." His works caught my eye, to say the least. I immediately had to Google him and see the pictures in a larger format than my iTouch's small screen. I quite love what he does and how he creates such a grandiose metaphor out of such seemingly unimportant everyday items. The messages he portrays about the health of his people and of the world are sent out via these glimmering sculptures and paintings that seems to be representative of both hope and despair. Recyclable genious.

Song of the day: The Aston Shuffle - I Wanna See You

Isabeli Fontana x Harper's Bazaar Russia

My favorite thing in the entire universe is the Eiffel Tower. If I could eat, breathe, be the Eiffel Tower, I'm pretty sure I would. I've always been so seduced by it for some reason. Perhaps because it's so uniquely grandiose and universal - if you were to transcribe it into a "he" or "she", I wouldn't classify it in either category. It's really aimed to please everyone, aesthetically speaking. Which is why I love Harper's Bazaar Russia's March 2010 shoot featuring Miss Fontana. Gorgeous girl with gorgeous monument, who could ask for more?

Song of the day: Killa Kela - Everyday (Allen Walker Remix)

Tomek Sadurski

Ever since that post about the Defragmentation of Beauty in 25 Magazine, I've been looking up Tomek Sadurski's work. I'm obsessed with his sketches - they're gorgeous illustrations created using thick black lines and slight touches of watercolor. Always feminine, but never obnoxiously so - tres chic.

Song of the day: Felix Cartal - Skeleton

The Neighborhoods Issue

I would like to quickly applaud New York Magazine for it's amazing "Neighborhoods Issue" - an issue described as "Fifty ’hoods from across the five boroughs ranked, considering factors from housing stock to nightlife, by the statistical analyst Nate Silver; the mutual contempt between Williamsburg’s two primary populations; the quest to define, create, and sell a new neighborhood in the middle of Manhattan; and much, much more." This one was particularly interesting - 50 New York neighborhoods are ranked (Park Slope is in first place) and given short captions explaining and analyzing said ranks, alongside snapshots of the locales. My favorite spread in the issue, however, is the "Locals (A neighborhood is nothing without its characters)" by Bennett Marcus (images shown in this post) - each one is unique and eccentric in his or her own way, not to mention photographed beautifully by Andreas Laszlo Konrath. Love!

Song of the day: Shiny Toy Guns - Major Tom (Coming Home)