Schiaparelli & Prada

I had a great day before noon. I got up and walked over to The Met at opening time to avoid crowds, for the Schiaparelli and Prada exhibition. I didn't expect to be so moved by these powerful, intelligent, creative women.


This is the best thing I took away with me. This quote: 
Prada: Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder. Thinking about age all the time is the biggest prison women can make for themselves.

Isn't that so amazing and true? I could have left then, but I kept going. Soaking it in. I know that my eyes are going to be bleeding when I get to Arkansas. I won't see beautiful garments that are pieces of art up-close anymore. I'll have to just see them online and in magazines, which is fine. I appreciated being near them this morning. May be my last time for a while. 

I was just so pleased that a big, attention-getting exhibit was all about two female designers. I was happy that there was so much focus in one exhibition on two ladies. Feminist pride took me over. 

Then I took in some modern art. I jotted some names in my tiny Lisa Frank notebook to look up later of art I was jealous of. I looked at the Ellsworth Kelly plant drawings and decided to look away because it was tainting the lady-vibes from the previous. I got a little resentful that a male artist's simple sketches would get so much square footage. 

I'm going to miss living so close to Museum Mile. I don't even take a bike. It's a short walk. 
I decided to go to a restaurant I saw every day on my bike commute to work. I passed by it tons of times and never had time to stop and always felt a little envious of the people who did have time to partake. It was nice; not amazing, but I'm glad I solved the mystery and took the time to visit. 


I also went by Frank E. Campbell funeral home. I'll miss seeing it on the regular. It's where Joan Crawford's funeral took place (and in the movie Mommie Dearest, which I love.)

Hair/Buying Stuff/Wearing Stuff

My hair was uncooperative Friday evening, but I didn't want to wash it and start from scratch. It looks much better in these photos than I felt wearing it. I did not fully believe in this hair.



This is MAC Full Fuchsia Lipstick- But it's from a seasonal collection and is now discontinued. I was going to say you can buy Amplified if you need a color just like this, but Amplified appears to be discontinued too.

But wait- my skin looks AMAZING! I've been using Pond's Cold Cream (Seriously and I started using it before it was a story line on Mad Men, so I've been using it for months. My grandmother uses it and I think she's had the same beauty routine since she was 35 and her skin looks great, and she's now 87, so I'm going with her plan.

I don't let "soap" or anything soapy get on my face, and Ponds is like $7 dollars and it's got the goods to dissolve all my crazy mascara and eye-liners. I'm using this Olay Moisturizer with SPF 20. I rarely wash my face at night. Sometimes I moisturize my dirty face at night. Yep, I just admitted that.



So yeah, the hair is all back.

Then today it's all, like, down in the front. I felt more confident with this, but it looks crappier in pics.

Thursday was my last shampoo and Monday will be my next. 


Saturday mornings lately, Matt plays basketball with a motley crew of scientists. This is a great time for me to do whatever I want.

My itinerary went in this order with great success at all points:
1. MoMa - Film Screenings of: Nine from Little Rock, which was awesome because it was 4 years after the big show-down and it showed that they all went to college, Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - It was cool to learn about him and see his cool house he built by himself, and A Year Toward Tomorrow, about the VISTA volunteer program of the sixties.

2. Andy Warhol's Polaroids of Celebrities at Danziger Project.

I went through another small gallery over there in Chelsea, but I didn't notice the name.

3. The MAC Wonder Woman pop-up store.

4. Unplanned SoHo shopping at Roxy/Quiksilver and CB2.

I saw a sale sign at the Quiksilver store. I don't see many girls/ladies wearing Roxy in New York City, but I've loved it for a long time so I do- Even though I've clearly read articles stating that they expect my age group to grow up and start buying the Quiksilver Womens line, but they don't seem to have that at the Quiksilver stores in the city.

I got this Roxy Nick of Time coat for much cheaper than they have it online. I paid $40.  I already have so many coats but I'm able to retire two coats because of what this one does. This one is a CHAMPION Dime Piece because it's going to provide major visibility when I ride my bicycle! I swear I notice drivers being nicer, less aggressive, and more polite when they can clearly see that I'm a girl.

On the Roxy website, the color is called Rose and looks like a demure pink online, but this thing is bright and its going to have me feeling extra safe on the bike.

This awesome GUESS Jeans Sweatshirt marked 1990 is an Arkansas Thrifted/Goodwill piece, that I got on my last/December trip to Arkansas. I'm so happy I did such a great job cutting the neck out of it to make it more girly-sexy style. It's little kids size.

All day through my movie, galleries and shopping I almost always had on all my coat, scarf, etc., so I almost forgot what I had on under there.

I also wore my Sugarbunnies McDonald's Happy Meal watch to show that I'm serious.

Too Cold to Live

We are sitting on this couch-

-Watching the Golden Globes!
I love Claire Danes so much, and her and Kyra Sedgwick's outfits are my favs.

See the gossip bench? He's hangin' over here.


This weekend New York City is so cold! It's not even freezing. It's like 20's or in the teens. So sad. Definitely no bicycles. Bus/Subway/Taxi/Feet were used.

Friday night I came home from work to find out apartment without electricity. We have warmth from our radiators. It was just boring because of the darkness and lack of TV, but our friend Gail came over and we talked & talked gossiped until bedtime.

Saturday morning I had to whoop some ass on the electricity situation. Matt played basketball with some boy-friends while I took care of biz'nazz. After I got our power back on (with the help of emergency electricians) I got dressed and headed down to Chelsea to catch this little Robert Rauschenberg show. It was very nice. I feel inspired to make some fabric/sewing/cardboard art.
-But we'll see if I get around to that. 


I realized I was not terribly far from the FIT Museum, so I walked. I saw these 2 exhibits and it was GREAT.

I read about the museum because the Japanese fashion exhibit was in something I was reading, but the "His & Hers" stole my heart. I love clothing exhibits. I was listening to Feist on my iPod. Just a lovely time.

Saturday night we thought we were going to pick-up tacos and watch our Netflix movie, but we got invited over to the Upper West Side by our new couple-friends. We rode the bus over there. We tried out Dive 75 and Cafe Frida. I had a really fancy Chile Relleno with pumpkin seeds and all kinds of stuff in it. We took ourselves to the bus stop to head home and dear god it was freezing so we jumped in a cab.

Today/Sunday we rode the bus to MoMA! This was our first time using our new membership we received for Christmas. We caught the Andy Warhol video portraits thing and did a few floors, got exhausted and left. We are going to burn a hole in our membership cards come spring & summer time!

Continuing Education My Way

I get way too many email lists telling me cool stuff to go to. Time and Money are the main prohibitors. This caught my eye and it was affordable:

Constructing Classicism in Fashion
Tuesday, December 7 @ 6:30 pm

Patricia Mears
Deputy Director, The Museum at FIT
Between the world wars, women such as Madeleine Vionnet dominated fashion design in Paris and New York. Charting the embrace of classicism, Patricia Mears, a renowned costume historian and style expert, discusses clothing innovations that defined fashion in the 1930s, changed the course of modern dress, and continue to influence couture today.

The lady who gave this lecture was impressive and intimidating and I loved every minute of watching her. She pronounced words like "Couturier" and "attellier" beautifully. She was so smart and excited about her subject matter. It was exciting when she told us revelations about people cutting fabric on the straight-of-grain, rather than the bias. Oh, my!

It was a lesson in history, fashion history, women's career roles during war times, and essentially couture clothing construction and draping. She gave it on a Power Point and it was funny because my life has had so little Power Point in it- Ever. Just one summer-school class was taught on PP. She put up slides of patterns to dazzle us. I was dazzled and excited.

I wanted to see her after the lecture so I could tell her how much I liked this. The whole evening was so neat. Not only did we get her cool lecture, but we got to tour the rotunda - the swirled part of the Guggenheim - and there was wine & snacks. My ticket was $12!

A very lovely, affordable, educational time. And everyone in attendance looked great!
It was a wonderful crowd of fancy ladies & fashion students. Fantastic company.

I was nervous because I know I'm the only person who had on a Keroppi watch from a Happy Meal.


There were students there talking about strange suite-mates' behavior. That made me feel like I was back in school.

Oh! So I did get a chance to tell the lecturer I loved it and she looked me up and down and commented on my BICYCLE HELMET BASKET! It was cute.

I thought it was also neat that I could see the Empire State Building from up here at 89th Street.
My camera didn't really capture it - I could point it out - but I swear it was (freezing) crystal clear out tonight.


It was SO NICE being there after-hours with a small group. I've never been there in these wonderfully desolate circumstances. This is the way to go. I feel like I figured out an amazing strategy. I think I just really, really, really like museum events.

Let's go!

I'm over this winter-


Let's get dressed and get the hell out of the apartment!

Bunny Bin Laden t-shirt that I got in the mail for free after I sent the leader some photos I took of her (I assume it's a girl) work.





I'm pretty happy I can wear brown now. This tweed Roxy hat wouldn't have been OK at PF.

I got the Glovettes at the Bust Magazine craftacular in Dec. from LamiaDesign.com

Today I felt the tiniest bit "unemployed." I was home alone and went to a museum on a Tuesday in the middle of the day.
I feel like I've been finding good positions to apply for and I've only been officially unemployed for one business day. Hopefully, I'll quickly find a job that doesn't need me to start for a week or 2, so I can go to museums and buy some fancy nail polish or whatever bullshit will feed my soul.

My college photography instructor gives me tips on exhibits that she would like to see, so I go see them. She would never mislead me.

She sent me to see Tichý at the ICP - Int'l Center of Photography. The Tichý documentary alone was well-worth the $12 admission fee. Also, the French exhibit with a good heap of Man Ray photos was a good thing. Tichý was a super-dirty, as in filthy outsider photographer who literally made home-made cameras out of junk- cardboard tubes & bottle caps. His photos are grainy and sometimes blurry and he really did THROW them around his shack. He lived in a dirty little shack like a hoarder. He didn't have front teeth. He's awesome. He said you need a bad camera to take artistic photos. He said the flaws are part of the work. Lovely ideas.

After the ICP I went to the Mid-Manhattan Public Library! Good times being out but not spending any money, while getting to take something home with you. I got a Suze Orman "Women & Money" and a Gore Vidal book. I hope Bonnie can read to me.



The weather is shit-tee


This one looks cooler sideways-


Tomorrow I'm living like a Jersey Shore tot- GTL - Gym, (self) Tanning, LAUNDRY!
I can also do GTL as: Gym, Tap-Water, Laundry! The cheap life.