hasisi park

Hasisi Park takes beautiful pictures.

I like her projects.

Take a look at her big blog.

She makes me really want an old film camera like this.

tiny hat

Last Wednesday it was Children's Day in Korea. We spent it strolling around the park next to our apartment building, gushing over the copious amount of cute kids (and their outfits). Particularly this little dear - red flats, beige skirt, navy cardigan...and that hat! I don't think I'll ever be a fan of tiny toppers for anyone over the age of 4, but I do think this little girl's miniature straw chapeau is fantastic. So much fun.

charlotte

'It's dead sexy, reborn.'
Pitchfork on 'IRM'

I've been listening to Charlotte Gainsbourg's new, Beck-produced, album 'IRM' on repeat lately. And I like it. A lot. I also really do like Charlotte herself. I loved her in the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There. I love this spread from Flaunt Magazine, which describes her as "France's favourite daughter." And her style. Oh, her style. I love the whole simple/androgynous/classic style very much, and here are some things that Charlotte likes - swoooon:

(Vogue Paris scans from here)

when Tommy met Tavi

Mr Jak and Jil shot little miss fashion blogger of the moment for Paris Vogue this month.

Would anyone who parlez francais like to translate this for me?

lovingly handpicked from lookbook

Ugh...isn't this so unfair. This girl has super long legs, Olivia Palermo hair and way better clothes than I could ever hope for....and she's only sixteen! She lives in Sweden of course (as all the fabulous fashionable people in the blogging realm usually do). Anyways, her name is Frida and if you've got a passion for fashion voyeurism then you can creep her here.

foxy lady

As mentioned earlier, I watched The Lovely Bones this past Monday. I wasn't particularly blown away by Peter Jackson's adaptation, although it did make me want to revisit the book (which I obviously deeply loved). However, I will say that Susan Sarandon was looking rather fabulous as the chain-smoking, alcoholic Grandma Lynn, with her big hair, fur coats, winged eye-liner, and no-nonsense attitude. I think she was my favourite part of the whole film.

got a girl crush

Claudia Kishi from The Baby Sitters Club

Meryl Streep (always)

Stacey Carosi (namely because this picture is awesome)

Kerri Russell (circa Felicity - ahhh, Ben)

Um, have you seen this blog yet? Got A Girl Crush is run by two girls who highlight some of their favourite girl crushes, and, I must say, they're pretty spot on with their picks for female admiration (and they also slip in some pretty phenomenal throw backs of girl crushes past - the post on Claudia Kishi had me thinking about the good old BSC, scrunchies, and secret junk food stashes all morning).

i love you la roux

If you like this...you'll like this too.

Is it the weekend yet? Because I really wanna dance. My girl crush on front girl (aka: Eleanor Jackson) of British electro-pop duo La Roux has been insane these past few months - I mean just look at that hair! Plus she kind of looks like the love child of Molly Ringwald and Rupert Grint, which makes me love her even more. Guess I have a thing for red heads.

Girl Crush: Georgia May Jagger

Just in case you didn't already have a major girl crush on Georgia May Jagger I'm here to enlighten you. At just seventeen years old (she was born in the 90s!) this it-girl in training has coolness pumping through her veins. Her dad is rock and roll icon Mick Jagger and her mother is blond model bombshell Jerry Hall - so, she's pretty much won the genetic lottery. Rock royalty status aside, her edgy style and trade mark pucker are helping this Bridget Bardot look-a-like conquer the modeling world. She's already graced the cover of Vogue and now shes the new face for cosmetic giant Rimmel London (see ya Kate Moss). All I wanna do is smear on black eyeliner, slather my lips in ruby red and not wash my hair for days.

florence + the machine

I haven't been listening to much in the way of music lately (I'm a bit obsessed with audio books), but I can't get enough of Florence + the Machine.

She sounds a bit like Kate Bush, she's got some fabulous red hair, and she covers one of my favourite Sex and The City anthems, You've Got the Love. I've been listening to it pretty much nonstop for the past month. Now she's gone and done it again with another one of my favourites, Beirut's Postcards from Italy.

Here are both:

Isn't she lovely?

niotillfem

I love Sandra Beijer's (Stockholm) blog, Niotillfem. I can't understand much of what she writes (only a small portion is translated), but the beautiful pictures she takes really speak for themselves. She has an adorable bow-tie wearing boyfriend, throws some pretty fabulous parties, and makes some absolutely delicious looking food. Plus she uses a typewriter, is a fan of outdoor couches and loves scrabble - I want to be friends with her.

winona ryder

Winona Ryder is sort of amazing: she's a total 90s indie movie starlet, not to mention an inspiration to pale girls everywhere (shoplifting incident aside). I made Carlos watch Heathers a few weeks ago, which reminded me how spunky and quirky she really is (and that Veronica Sawyer is my favourite Winona character, bar none: "Heather, my love, there's a new sheriff in town"). Her earlier roles are also quite delightful: Jo March in Little Women, Charlotte Flax in Mermaids, Lelaina Pierce in Reality Bites, Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice, and a very blonde Kim in Edward Scissorhands. I like this piece in Interview Magazine where Winona talks about The Wire, Heathers, and how Holden Caulfield was her best friend:

MOOALLEM: The Catcher in the Rye comes up a lot in your old interviews. Are you still a big fan?

RYDER: I was and still am. It’s weird because when you first read that book, it’s so personal and you feel like you’re the only one who feels that way, and then you realize that everyone has had that experience with it. But Holden Caulfield was like my best friend when I was a teenager. Salinger is someone whose work I just love so much, and I totally respect how protective he has been about his privacy. My dad saved every New Yorker that J.D. Salinger ever had a story in. Actually, one thing happened . . . I’ve never actually told anyone this, but when I was 19, some, um, [pauses] my boyfriend at the time bought me at an auction a Christmas card that Salinger wrote someone in the ’50s. It was literally just like, “Merry Christmas!” But Salinger’s signature was on it. I kept the card for a few years but I felt so guilty, like he wouldn’t want me to have this, so one day I decided I was going to send it back to him. I wrote this letter, and I tried not to gush, but I was like, “Dear Mr. Salinger. I received this as a gift because I’m a big fan, but I want to return it to you because I respect your privacy.” And then, sometime later, I got a thank-you letter.

Also mentioned was the potential of turning Heathers into a TV series or a musical - how very.

"Dear Diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count."