February 2011 Archives

To tell you the truth, I haven't done much of anything in the past three weeks but wooork, so if you came here looking for something knitting-related, you're SOL!

But if you came here looking for a distraction, I've got one for you. Below is a stylish video by the one and only Tom Ford of his Spring 2011 collection. As always, his clothes are fabulously sexy, and the women modeling the clothes are amazing, but it's the music that really reinforces the glamorous sophistication of his clothes. Titled Pretty Babies, it's by model-turned-singer-turned-model Karen Elson (she's the redhead in the blue dress at 0:37), and it's got great rhythm. In fact, it got me standing up from my desk in the middle of design projects (but not for long, it's just over 3 minutes), dancing like a fool with my headset over my ears, and prompting my husband, taking a break from studio work, to ask what the hell I'm doing.

Inbetween booty shakes, I was able to tell him that I just found a nicely edited short by way of [fashionable friend], with a sensual beat. His response? To duck his head dramatically and slink back to his studio. Oh, silly husband. If you watch the video, I'm sure you'll agree with me. Have a good weekend!

PS: Karen Elson's original version is here. Vogue's writeup of the collection is here.

I'm sooo ready for the weekend. I'll bet you are, too.

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This was taken sometime in April last year, somewhere in Bavaria just south of Nuremberg. Memory serves me well: it was a beautiful Spring day, typically sunny and filled with nothingness. I helped weed the flower beds and water the garden, then I wandered around in the forest looking for early berries. Total silence, total bliss.This year is such a contrast. Having moved back to Southern California, I look forward to weekends where I ride my beater bike to the beach, have a lazy, hours-long breakfast at the teeny French café, and walk along the shore, the sand and ocean swirling around my feet. It's crazy to think that elsewhere people are hunkered down in their houses blanketed by so much snow while out here it's warm enough to go out in short skirts and flip-flops. Having lived with low temperatures in Germany and France, I'm so very grateful to be here.

Still, there are things back there that I love and miss, and I think another trip back to the continent is likely. If not this year, then perhaps next. We shall see...

There has been some knitting: test knitting, knitting for myself (and painfully frogging every last bit of it), a bit of finishing, and lots of swatching. I'll save it all for another post. Have a good weekend! Do nothing at all!