Carousel: Week Ending 29th January 2010
[ 29 January 2010 ]
Hello from FREEZING COLD New York! “Right Now: 20° F. Feels Like: 3° F.” (That’s -6.67°C & -16.11°C to YOU!!!) I am so not going outside today. This morning’s coffee expedition was ridiculous, I felt like Roald Amundsen!
Like I said yesterday, I lost this week’s Carousel with my computer failure on Tuesday. BOO! Here’s what I came up with in the interim…
Let’s kick off with Black & WTF.
Why we should forget about world peace. Ugh, this is so good. David rules hard. He’s in NZ right now, too! You should email him & offer to take him out for coffee, ‘cause I would if I could.
The Scottish Male Virgo Cleaner is for hire…
What Is Couture? A very stylish lesson from Fashionista.
Lily Allen is really quite great. Check out Lily Allen Remixed & her official fan remixes. The best though is It’s Not Me, It’s Doctor Rosen Rosen. Why?
With a slow-strutting synth and mournful angelic hums, Rosen manages to convert the young croonster’s sing-songy discontent into something straight off of the Virgin Suicides soundtrack. Absolutely mesmerizing—don’t miss out on this.
See? Go forth & download. It is fantastic.
These shoes are madness. Like real, for real madness. They have the crazy. I love the Rancho & Palio. Amazing. Thanks, @wazzra!
Help find Cinnabun! Jesse James’ dog, Cinnabun, is missing. She is beautiful. I hope she gets found soon!
Anya alerted me to the Auckland Street Style blog! This makes me feel really homesick! I used to live on Victoria Street (above Whitcoulls!) so I recognise all of these places! I used to spend a lot of time on High Street. & look at the beautiful weather! Ahhh! Is there a Wellington street style blog? ‘Cause there should be…
I was sent a Giraffe Ink t-shirt not too long ago & it is adorable. Even better, 35% of the profits get donated to Daniel’s favourite charity, so it’s cute & ethical! Le bonus!
“Travel To Care is your intimate guide to an inspirational, authentic & responsible holiday.” There are hotels in Bangladesh, India & Nepal listed, it’s awesome, have a look! (Thanks, Latha!)
I love Karl Lagerfeld’s “neon baroque” SS10 collection for Chanel. See it here & below. “I saw it in a dream & I made the sketches… An electronic flash in my head at five o’clock one morning. Silver & pastel. It’s the first time in my whole career I’ve done a collection without black or navy. There’s not one gold button.” It’s all very psychedelic ladies who lunch, n’est-ce pas? Neon baroque is a wonderful way of putting it. I love you Karl.
PSFK presents Good Ideas Salon with Seth Godin on February 4th at Soho House. If you can swing a ticket, you should absolutely go. I have seen him speak before & it is magnificent.
LaterBro.com (love the name!) is a way of scheduling Twitter or Facebook updates to post later. Excellent. Though this would be best for psychics, I imagine… Hee.
Pants for kids & parents by Matt Brown. Oh my god, best.
Jacket + Bookmark. GENIUS. Love the Alice in Wonderland combo.
Crucifix shoes! Merci beaucoup, Luxirare! Also, she went food shopping in London & Paris, check out the pictures here. I am totally lusting over that key bottle opener, &, of course, the macarons.
Jane from Sea of Shoes was in Vanity Fair! So exciting. The photo is beautiful, too.
The Sartorialist shot Kanye West & got some flack for it. I think it’s a good portrait though.
Painting Coats — playing with other people’s art. “If you really wanna play with the Fafinettes, you’d better be either witty or talented…”
French correct British scientists: G spot does exist. Um… duh!
15 Places To Visit This Decade from le Huffington Post.
Bittersweet is a cooking blog with a sense of humour. “Bringing sugar, happiness and delights to one person at a time. And probably spreading diabetes too.”
If you’re in New York for fashion week, come to Evolving Influence! There are workshops & panels on fashion blog marketing, the business of blogging, navigating blog ethics & the future of fashion blogging. I’m speaking on the business of blogging panel at 1pm, & I’d love to meet you! It’s going to be an amazing day, with some real blog superstars, & I’m so thrilled to be involved!
I’m also presenting an award at Fashion 2.0 Social Media Awards & New York Fashion Week Kickoff Reception. Again with the would-love-to-see-you! RSVP at the link, & come say hi!
Pee-Wee gets an iPad... ahahah.
Surely this is the best book title ever… “Lady, that’s my skull!”
Hahahahah.
Via swissmiss.
Are you frigging kidding with me this packaging?!!!
Okay beautiful… Stay cozy!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Very good stuff this week Gala! Is your computer ok? My macbook wouldn’t turn on this morning so I’m worried. We have an appointment tomorrow at the Apple store so hopefully they’ll doctor her up & she’ll be happy to help me write all weekend!
Loving the Lily Allen mixes! Have a great weekend :)
Chanel gets so boring and repetitive sometimes, but this collection is beautiful. I’m loving that hairstyle.
Hey Gala!
Love love love the carousel this week!
I stumbled upon these tees at the danish internetstore YouHeShe, and immediately thought of you :)
www.youheshe.com/she/alle
Have a great weekend!
today it is -18 in montreal(my location, bien sur), and -30 with the windchill ( celcius of course)!! I went out this morning, and have since vowed not to leave the house for the rest of the day
Soooooo perfect timing for Carousel, to keep me entertained on this blistering cold day!
Thanks Gala
Love this week’s carousel! Especially Auckland Street Style…
I have a special place in my heart for kiwis ;)
Those shoes remind me of the Nina Ricci ones Victoria Beckham wore in Elle magazine back in October..
I haven’t even looked through all the links yet, but this week’s carousel really looks like it’s filled with lots of awesome!
And yeah, I wished we had the same weather as NYC over at my place right now. It was -25° C today (-13° F), and we had a horrible wind storm two days ago. The wind almost blew me away when I was waiting at the bus stop!
Whooaaa the Chanel collection looks amazing!
Oh and I love the Forget World Peace article, it gets me really fired up! You canNOT change other people but you CAN change yourself, and only yourself… It’s really one of the greatest things a person can be aware of, I think.
The Chanel collection is DIVINE! Really, the only word for it is divine.
You think almost -7°C is cold?
Try going out with -14°C! haha
At least that was the temperature last weekend… here en Berlin, you either go out WITH the cold and snow, or stay home forever! (well, not forever, but maybe until march or april).
Take care!
I’m sorry but I found the world peace article to be really offensive and naive, as an International Relations student aiming to work in humaniatian aid and conflict resolution, I find it pretty appauling to dismiss the suffering of so many people through horrific violence and inequality as a matter of ‘needing to find inner peace’ rather distastful and extremely uneducated. I know this is one persons view of the situation through their lens, but please, research the Rwandan genocide, or look up the living condiitons of the Palestinians in Gaza, and tell me that they just need to find inner peace. Also an individual CAN change others, it’s called being a leader, and if we refuse to take responsiblity for anything other than our lives than (IMO) we are selfish and immoral beings indeed.
Sorry but I feel very strongly about this… everything else is lovely though
I really appreciate the Chanel collection links. So perfectly pretty! Like a little box of petit fours.
That’d be an interesting article, sometime. “How To Politely Disagree With People On The Internet”. When people disagree on blogs, most often it’s either a slug fest or a tail-between-the-legs “I’m sorry” sandwich (take comment 13, for example). There’s got to be a happy medium that doesn’t involve either a shrieking fight or apologizing twice for having an opinion.
That Rhymesayers video goes to show … sometimes you really are missing out just downloading an album! A lot went in to making that, I think it’s cool that someone cares about presentation that fewer and fewer people bother about.
Not to say I’ve bought a physical CD myself in the past, oh, age…
i am so thrilled to see you featured my friend Rick’s blog (Bittersweet)! it is a huge part of his life, and i passed this along to him, it made his day (and mine!)
xx
Black and WTF is fantastic and rather unnerving. I love me some weird photography!
I agree with number 15, that would be a great article to read.
I’m happy you liked the shoes, they are SO MAGNIFIQUE!
I’m in Montréal too and it’s freeeeeeeeeezing!
Ahah, yes, this is about the time of year I reach my pinnacle of loving winter, & then jump straight off of it & start whining about spring. Do you think you’ll stay in NY through next winter, or was this enough? There are plenty of lovely American cities that stay warm…. (hint, hint!)
I really like the couture article, I always knew that it wasn’t a word you could just slap on things (Juicy, anyone?), but wasn’t really sure beyond that.
Thank you for this, Gala! If you hadn’t told us your computer pooped itself, I would have never known. :)
Ah, I love Bittersweet!
That World Peace article does raise an interesting point, yet it doesn’t mention all the people who work for Amnesty International, all the journalists out there reporting in Haiti, and everyone else doing what they can in the big world to alert people to violence and the subjugation of people’s human rights, so that we back here can sign petitions and send aid. Would it be more beneficial if human rights activists were all indoor navel-gazing and wondering how they could ‘be a more peaceful person’?
I strongly believe that change comes from within, and back up Ghandi that one should be the change they want to see in the world – after all, saying that you want less violence and prejudice in the world while you rage against others seem incongruous, but as someone’s comment in the original article read; there’s no saying that we can’t work on ourselves while also getting out there. Who says the room we can’t make peaceful isn’t one of the UN meetings?
I’m sure the author didn’t mean to suggest that aid companies and human rights activists aren’t doing good work, but there is definitely a balance which needs to be struck – as with anything.
xx
gala i want to thank you. i have always been sceptical about these dating websites thinking it was for freaks/desperados but then i was like..if it’s good enough for gala then why not give it a try..so i registered on okcupid..and it’s so much fun. lovelovexxx
I have to agree with others about the world peace article. He says “Peace must be more than just an absence of violence. It also must be an absence of ill will and angst.” Sorry, but my day-to-day angst about my friendships/relationships or my computer freezing does not cause suffering and famine and war. I think he’s got the entire thing backwards. Humans will always be reactive, have “ill will” and a lack of complete “inner peace”, but that doesn’t mean our government systems and international community should not be forced to come to a form of organisational consensus and operational system that aims to stop war, genocide, etc. We can’t change human nature. THAT is a pipe dream. Creating an international system of accountability, responsibility and law is something that is possible, eventually, and should be done to put a restriction on the extent of the destruction by our flawed human nature. Besides, there is a point where an interruption or change in other cultures is necessary, where there is genocide and grave injustices, and that is not just a liberalist standpoint or some attempt to create an “us against them” atmosphere.
“The best thing you can do for humanity, for peace….is to do your daily meditation practice and find an end to your own suffering.” “Those who do practice self-examination understand that cultivating a peaceful, composed state of mind prevents more suffering than any number of international sanctions, weapons inspectors, war crimes tribunals or cease-fires.” I find these statements entirely laughable, but also incredibly self-centred, and more of a crime than being someone who DOES get worked up about the injustices of the world and uses that passionate reaction to actually try and get something done. New age BS in my opionion.
I totally agree with you Lily.
It breaks my heart that people are so consistently focused on self-improvement as a way to give something positive to the world. Sure, it’s one facet, but as individuals born into countries that allow for us to choose to lead a life full of shiny, pretty things, I think we too have a responsibility to lobby for those who don’t enjoy such privileges.
One may not believe world peace to ever be entirely achievable, but this should certainly not be a reason to stop striving to achieve a more harmonious and just world. If you knew living happily ever after wasn’t going to happen with your current partner, would you give up the joy you are experiencing and the things you have learned to avoid not coming full circle in the end?
I love the youtube video ‘rethink scholarship’ its actually a simple great message put in this awesome video. I’m gonna send it to my fellow artsy fartsy’s to encourage them & their arts.
Oooh Lilly Allen love the music so thank you for the remixes, i’m gonna check them out!
I find the ‘Forget About World Peace’ article kinda depressing. Self-improvement and achieving personal serenity are great goals, but why can’t we aim even higher? Why settle for just changing yourself. We can do that AND we can change the world. We can stop human suffering. We can end wars. Maybe not ALL wars, ALL suffering, but why not aim high? Why settle for anything less than we are capable of?
This kind of thinking lets politicians off the hook. It leads people to stop bothering to vote, to stop reading newspapers because the reports of war disturb their inner peace, to stop donating to Doctors Without Borders or other organizations that are bringing a little bit of hope to people in the world’s shit-holes — places where people really suffer and all the composed states of mind in the world won’t stop their suffering. Only action will.
Come on, people. When did we stop thinking we could change the world?
I like the silver streaks in the model’s hair. I’m 24 and I already have gray hairs popping up in front and I like them (I’m weird yes.) I didn’t know it was going to be fashionable!
your -6.67 C is NOTHING compared to the -32 C we had here, in estonia. so be happy it’s relatively warm there :)
1) Couture – amen! I wrote this long winded, ranty response on the abuse of the term couture in agreeance with her, but my comp. froze and it didn’t go though. Maybe that’s a GOOD thing, haha.
2) I’ve always wanted a pair of ballet boots, but I’ve never wanted a broken ankle : P. So it’s window shopping only for me. I bet those other shoes aren’t too bad though. Leave it to fetish folks to have their own version of the Plato’s Atlantis collection!
3) Jane Aldridge is my favorite personal fashion blogger. And another Texan! So happy to see her getting more reckognition.
4) I really like that Kanye shot. It’s nice to see celebrity candids that aren’t unflattering!
5) Family Guy. Yes please.
-SJOh, and 6)
As much as I appreciate that guys sentiments on world peace vs. selfishness, I think that punk band Filth said it best, “How can we change the world when we can’t change ourselves?”. Other than that, Filth sucked, but it’s a great point! It’s putting the cart before the horse.I loved the “Black and WTF” site! thank you!
and: agreed with the others about “forget about world peace”.
He’s right, we should peace ourselves first… but it doesn’t mean that we have to give up petitions, social commitment and such.
Stay warm and believe.
Have you heard of Charlie & Improv Everywhere? They are a group that basically goes around & pranks the public; it’s very delightful. Here are some of my favorites:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIvi6W… (“Subway Yearbook Photos”)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnY59m… (“Grocery Store Musical”)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3P… (“Frozen Grand Central Station”)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nbkbs… (“Best Game Ever”)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=isK0qU… (“Will You Marry Me?”)
I saw the Chanel hair in Jezebel’s skeptical look at grey hair on younger women (http://jezebel.com/5459871/gray-hair-is-awesome-as-long-as-its-fake/gallery)
Not sure if it makes me a bad person, but I love the gallery.
Aaaaah, Gala, I mean this in the best possible way, but you would never survive a Canadian winter! Yesterday The Weather Network said that in my city, it “felt like -32” (celsius, of course)... as far as I’m concerned, if it feels like -32, it is -32! What can I say, though? Toughing out the cold winters is a Canadian point of pride. Do you ever watch How I Met Your Mother? There’s a scene in one episode, where Robin (the Canadian ex-pat) is sitting on her front stoop wearing a t-shirt and eating an ice cream cone while everyone around her complains of the cold… the gag made me laugh because it was so close to the truth. Anyway, thanks for another great carousel!
Gala! Thank you so much! My google analytics nearly had a hernia, your post about the blog sent us through the roof. We really, really appreciate it. I have not come across your blog before but definitely be making frequent visits from now on!
Thank you again,
your kiwi pals!
You’re freaking amazing
lol!im glad the auckland street style blog got a boost.and all through a little word of mouth!!xx
I love Lilly Allen too! Saw her live Yesterday at Perth BDO she was AWESOME! :-)
Love that candy coloured hair streaking at Chanel. I am yet to visit ANY of the top 15 places to visit this decade! x
I’m checking your Friday post from my desk on a Monday morning. I’m kinda liking this start to the week.
Temperatures have dropped almost as fast as the golden leaves have fallen from the trees. Fall has officially arrived,and we all know what that means: backyard football games with friends,Thanksgiving meals with the family and the disgusting sight of jeans tucked into UGG boots.UGG boots are the impractical suede boots?worn mostly by women. Shapeless and bulky,they are the sweatpants of the shoe world. Originally designed and created by Australian sheepherders,this style of boot has been used throughout history.
I have a few key-shaped bottle openers left over from my birthday party favors. Not as fancy as the one from France, but plenty cute! If you have a PO box, I could send you one. Love the blog!