Celebrating

Welcome 2012

(visually not so different from 100 years ago)

Vie Parisienne 1916 and 19__

Heidi Slimane 2011

Escape to Shek Oh and Big Wave Beaches

Oh sun, water, and soft sand

We had a milk tea and pineapple cake picnic

Merry Christmas

from Hong Kong

Poinsettias are starting to flood the flower market

for Christmas

The red flowers start on the street, pavement

in huge abundance

and end up in tall vases or covered in ribbons

in the fanciest hotels and shops around Hong Kong

looking very precious and exclusive

Color bordered by gray concrete

Color saturated by the cloudy morning

and wet from the night

Hong Kong

My grandmother has

incredible style

She wore a Leonard to lunch today

and matching purple glasses

LOVE.

APC in the 10s (so far)

Venetia Scott

Summer 2011, Summer 2011

Winter 2011, Resort 2011

S/S 2012

Color, light, snapshot

Travel, outdoors, places

Clothes as an accessory to a certain perfect looking life

that gets blogged about a lot

Garance Dore comes to mind

So far, not much of an edge

It's almost commercial

APC in the 00s

Bruce Weber 2008

Terry Richardson 2004

Constance Anee 2003

Homma 2000 and Bailey 2005

Clothes to be a certain type of

person and personality

APC through the 90s

Ellen Von Unwerth 1996

Chemetov 1992 and 1995

Winter 1990

Unclear what the theme is here.

I've always felt that the 90s were fashion's low point

in really beautiful things

We had grunge without the cool (ugly)

and

minimalism without the silhouette or edge (boring)

To be fair, these styles then evolved into personalities

hipster, i.e. Williamsburg (super cool),

off duty model rocker, i.e. Eric Wasson (also super cool),

perfectly dressed NY girl, i.e. Serena and Blair (gorgeous and cool)

Happy Birthday Gaby!

Let's start with funfetti cake

Plus big flowers

A tad of leopard

And end with a fancy evening candlelit party

Have the most lovely day!

The edited wardrobe

Takes a lot of discipline.

But it works.

Emmanuel Alt. Carine Roitfeld are the masters.

French vouge oct 2009 -- Heidi Slimane.

They do look pretty cool.

Coolitude attitude

Rocker, effortless, black

Parisian by the Sartorialist

Blondie by Warhol

Lou Dillon

Alexander Wang

Just Kids by

Patti Smith

(photographed by Robert)

About love and

becoming artists

I cried

Never Let Me Go by

Kazuo Ishiguro

There are two of you

Only one lives a real life

The clone lives a life of

self imposed

exile, isolation, and work

Invisible chains as a theme in photography.

Female bondage and objectification by Araki

Twins by Diane

Class and societal constraints and expectations by Penn

(it's Wallis Simpson)

Self portrait by Arbus

VELOUTE DE COURGETTES

In my notes I have written "zucchini, small amount of potatoes, onions, garlic, oil." I think you can substitute almost any vegetable or leafy green for the zucchini. The onions and potato base is classic and can take you almost anywhere. The end result is creamy and thick, even though there is no cream. The key piece of information I am missing is I'm not sure if Baptiste added any stock or water while cooking the vegetables. This type of soup merits further investigation.