"THE ANACTORIA POEM
BY SAPPHO
TRANSLATED BY JIM POWELL
Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers,
others call a fleet the most beautiful of
sights the dark earth offers, but I say it's what-
ever you love best."
Image: Vogue Nippon.
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Entries from January 2008
Windowlicker
"Sweet little sleeping eyes...A necklace that softly floats around your neck and does your dreaming for you." This reminds me of an exquisite mash-up of Miss Golightly's eye mask in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Victorian hair jewelry, a deliciously cautionary children's tale, and one of my fave regular reads, Sleeper.
[Pair of Eyelashes Necklace by Stephanie Simek, $38 at Stars + Infinite Darkness]
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.
Tweeter
Everyone's favorite venture capitalist has given me some spectacularly lavish gifts, but my favorite so far is this little pair of cup-edge-perching blackbirds that he found in a vintage shop when he was in Tokyo for the weekend. They don't make any noise, but in my mind, they sing of spring.
See also: The Birds of Shakespeare.
Talents II in French PHOTO
Talents II, the exhibition of new photography from Berlin that I publicized for the Goethe-Institut New York, is highlighted in the new issue of French PHOTO, courtesy of New York correspondent Eve Therond. Next Friday, Ludlow 38, created in collaboration between the Goethe-Institut New York and Kunstverein München, opens with the exhibition, publish and be damned. And on Thursday, Berlin-based architect Jürgen Mayer H. will kick off the "What is Green Architecture?" series uptown. I am publicizing both projects and having so much fun... and they haven't even launched yet! Please do join us if you're in the neighborhood(s).
Windowlicker
Spent the weekend chillaxing here in New York, snuggled under my fake chinchilla bedspread, and only occasionally, gingerly stepping out... for brunch, yoga, an opening at Danny and Russell Simmons' gallery. I adore the soft slinkiness of my "100% faux real" blanket, but it's not very warm and hasn't aged well. Lately, I've been drawn to the idea of Ouno Design's ingeniously reclaimed fur throws, patchworked from fallen-out-of-favor coats. Now that's recycling I can get behind.
[4'x6' Patchwork Mink Throw 2007, "100% genuine mink (5 fur coats), Backing sewn from vintage coat lining," C$895 at Ouno Design]
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.
Rebelle Yell
Are you ready for the weekend? It's no secret that I am. Today I went straight from my very Mucha dance recital to a meeting at Barnes & Noble for Upstairs at the Square (I had to buy a dress on the way; a $15 peacock feather-hued knit turtleneck with a calf-sweeping hemline and a brilliant black sequin belt that's so fun to cinch) to another confab to thinking on my way home that if the heat in my apartment was not repaired I would just grab my new weekender and go to the airport to catch the next flight to Paris for a couple of days (I was like, "If I flew back Monday morning I would arrive in time for my Monday evening meeting. How convenient!"). Drastic measures are in order when one starts to think of repose as a luxury good. Nonetheless, I got home, it was most blessedly toasty. I made a cup of tea and realized I was too weary to move. After chillaxing for an hour or so, I started doing work and sending email (Ludlow 38 is on Artnet! When it says "is said," c'est moi; Argentine poet Lila Zemborain is confirmed for Girls Write Now Day! Have You Found Her author Janice Erlbaum has a whole page feature in BUST! I love how she makes fun of her apartment when I thought it looked like quite a stylish backdrop. Her self-deprecating humor is a terrific and sophisticated distraction from the fact that she cuts straight to the heart), somewhat to my chagrin. I'm not going to beat myself up over it, though-- I can always go to Paris tomorrow, or just sleep in.
For the moment (and the immediate future), I'll let Cecil Beaton inspire me, as he often does, with the following: "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." Darling, let's do.
P.S. The January issue of Build Book Buzz features an interview with me.
Image: Cecil Beaton, The Wyndham Sisters, after John Singer Sargent (1950).
"Smart is Cool," She Said
Tonight at our Girls Write Now meeting, the inventive tag-team beyond Smart is Cool, a clothing line inspired by the sentiment (think: the precocious kid sister of Six Inch Heel meets kickin' it chic), dropped by to discuss our collaboration on our March 8th event at the New School (Save the date for International Girls Write Now Day, also featuring Anne Landsman). I'll fill you in later. Here's a snapshot of their "Kismet" dress, one of the samples they didn't expect to sell this evening. As though they were getting out the door with that one! On my way home, there was a musician on the subway platform playing an acoustic version of one of my favorite Bob Marley songs with perfect clarity:
I don't wanna wait in vain...
Windowlicker
I'd add this for a little zing in my ensemble before giving tours of the wunderkammer.
[Fendi Yellow Stone Belt, on sale for $465 at eLuxury]
Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish.