Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Don't know why it's a big black rectangle, but it works if you click on it. The latest from Vampire Weekend, who are touring next year.
Nov 23
Nov 23
Present stickies
Quite handy at this time of year: don't get given crap presents you don't want - use these instead, in a madam-ish but effective way. £3.50 from NPW. Variants on the same theme also available.
Nov 23
A Christmas food memoir
(image from Flickr)
I've just been pointed to this brilliant piece about eating at Christmas - which it turns out my FANTASTICALLY TALENTED AND STUPIDLY MODEST SISTER wrote for yesterday's Observer and which I knew nothing about until various people emailed me about it today. It's made me feel slightly choked up because it's about a time when we were little(ish) and Everything Was Lovely. But it's also made me laugh because my God, how we loved our dinners (plus ça change). Anyway, here it is.
Nov 21
The perfect LBD
And another brilliant Anglomania dress. This one is black jersey, classic (i.e. won't date), sexy in a manageable way, and it can do the day-to-night thing. As I've written before, Vivienne Westwood in general and the Anglomania line in particular are particularly flattering if you're not skinny - they require you to have actual breasts, for example. £170 from net-a-porter, among others.
Speaking of which, I see that Westwood's gorgeous former model and muse Sarah Stockbridge (second picture), who subsequently became an actress, has also written 'a novel of the Victorian underworld', which was published last spring.
Nov 21
Inès de la Fressange's house
I felt like posting some nice images. This is Inès de la Fressange's Paris house/office, via The Selby. I especially like the third picture.
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interiors
Nov 20
Alltop is brilliant
Possibly I am incredibly late to the party (to use an expression I really don't like, though I do like "let's get the potato on the fork" and "let's open the kimono on this one", both learnt courtesy of Mrs Trefusis), but I've just discovered Alltop and it's genius. It's basically a huge, customisable repository of stuff from blogs and sites - so if you're after news, it's got all the news you could conceivably want, all in one place, but if you want cake recipes or techy stuff or interiors blogs or are interested in, I don't know, street food or romantic novels, or celiac disease or family law or makeup or scuba diving, or really anything at all, you subscribe (it's free) and spend a few moments clicking on the relevant sites so that you have a pile of stuff you like. Then Alltop puts all the stuff on one page - your page - with the latest five headlines from x site. And lo, you have news, and cake, and street food, etc etc. I'm not explaining it very well - watch the vid instead. But it's GREAT.
Nov 20
Where the Wild Things Are necklaces
via etsy.com
Solid silver Max and solid silver Carol (one of the monsters. Carol seems like a singularly inappropriate name, but never mind) from Roadkill on Etsy. "Carol has scaly feathery textured detail on his legs, a bushy tail, a slight overbite and some shiny teeth". Sold as a pair in a limited edition of 100. Click on the pic to go to the seller's page.
Nov 20
Undercover with a Michelin inspector : The New Yorker
via newyorker.com
Clicking on the image will take you to John Colapinto's fascinating article - it's the first time a journalist has hung out with someone from Michelin.
Nov 19
Pictorial Webster's
I just picked up a copy of this in Anthropologie and it's the most *wonderful* book I've seen in some time. Put simply, it's a compilation of all the illustrations that appeared in the C19th editions (1859, 1864 and 1890) of Merriam-Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language. The book is printed using the original wood engravings and copper electrolytes. It calls itself 'a visual dictionary of curiosities' and is basically a series of beautiful images of what was important to C19th America. It's amazing. You can read more about it, and about the painstaking, labour-of-love process of putting it together, here. Watch this, too:
Nov 17
The 100 best quotes from The Wire
via kottke.org
Like it says. Via kottke, as per the link. I finished watching The Wire a few months ago but this is making me think it's time to watch it all over again. NOTHING WILL EVER BE AS GOOD.
