Leather words and sentences

Back when I lived with Brian in the West Village, we flew out to San Francisco to visit Paul and Kelly and go snowboarding in Tahoe -- can you tell we are "West Coast Kids" we dragged our snowboards across the entire country to snowboard, when Vermont and other east coast snow spots were just hours away! Anyway, back to my story, so Brian leads me to his all time favorite boutique, ever, AB Fits, which is right near Union Square in SF. Granted we lived in the West Village steps away from Bleecker Street, SOHO and just a couple of subway stops away from Fifth Ave and Madison Ave. But no, Bri-Bri felt the need to splurge in California, and I wasn't going to stop him.

The girl at AB Fits was very snotty and I was determined to not give them any of my business. But then I melted when I tried on a distressed leather jacket with a hood by Mike and Chris. It was very rock and roll and the fact that it had a hoodie was beyond amazing. I whipped out my credit card and I did not look back, and ever since I have been drawn to little, leather jackets.

Fashion is a form of expression, and someone at Parsons once mentioned that clothes are merely external words and sentences...so even though I already own one great leather jacket, oh wait, make that three, I am looking for a few more words and sentences for the fall!

Headband Give Away

My very fabulous, fashionista friend Alex Evjen, is a stylist and has a super cool fashion blog. Check it out, and you can enter to win some of my headbands. I am doing a modern-day Marie Antionette photo-shoot at the Orpheum Lofts Penthouse apartment next month. I heart all my creative, artistic, fashion-savvy friends :-)

http://www.avestyles.com/blog/jennifer-paige-designs-giveaway/

Color Blocking

Now this is a fabulous example of color blocking. Shoes by one of my favorite designers : DSquared.

Bridal Pieces

Custom bridal headbands. Bride Heather Siedentop at the Camelback Sanctuary.

All That I Am After

"All that I am After" by Daughtry came on Pandora , and the line "All that I am after is a life full of laughter as long as I am laughing with you. " I love that! Life is short, I know that unfortunately first hand. Things change in a nano-second! My family was driving home from Tucson, my mother turned around to ask my sister where we wanted to vacation and a split second later the tires blow out on my dad's SUV. The car flipped over and seconds later my mother was dead and my dad died six hours later in the operating room. My sister and I literally crawled out of the upside-down car practically unscathed as we watched in horror as my dad screamed for help being pinned inside and needing the jaws of life to unleash him.

My parent's car accident is constantly putting life in perspective: Soak up all the precious moments, appreciate the good, learn to cut ties with the bad, pursue your dreams and don't think you have forever, because we don't. Seek quality over quantity and remember you are only responsible for you, you can't control other people's actions or feelings.

Furthermore it is making me realize what is most important and what brings me the utmost joy and happiness. If I had to list it would be the following:

This is all that I am after...

1. Laughing hysterically with my friends. The moments where our sides hurt and we are doubled-over in pain barely able to squeak out the next word
2. Being so inspired it makes me want to go out and create my own masterpiece
3. Design, Architecture, Art and Fashion, especially when all four collide
4. Being with the ones I have chosen as my favorites. Learning it is more than okay to walk away from the past and THOSE that no longer have a place in your life due to growing up and moving forward
5. Traveling to new places to explore and see more of this wonderful playground called Earth
   
6. Watching my niece Blake Emery giggle and play. Watching my sister be the most amazing mother to this incredible little person.
   
7. Being a source of light and inspiration to others

That's my list, if I can live that life...I'll be happy...

Hotness

Could Jared Leto get any hotter!!?? And he went to the fashion show of all fashion shows, John Galliano's presentation for Christian Dior Resort 2011. And Blake Lively of Gossip Girl was there too, sitting next to the gate keeper of fashion no less!!! So much eye-candy, well mostly Jared, but I'll take a piece of it all ;-)

Olympus Fashion Week Fall 2007

I have been organizing all my old photos and I came across these. I still can't believe I got to experience several Fashion Weeks while living in NYC. There is nothing like being inside the "tents" during Fashion Week. There is such a buzz and energy, you can almost get high from it.