Summer Camp
Every morning since we’ve been in Montauk, we’ve been having breakfast at Ruschmeyer’s, a new restaurant-hotel with a super great surf-summer camp ambience – It’s the same team from the Surf Lodge, remember ? The food is healthy and delicious and there’s this backyard with tons of summer games, ping pong, badminton… the only thing I miss is a foosball table and then I would be the happiest girl as I could kick everybody’s ass. Yep. I am a foosball pro.
Old + New
I was walking in the streets of Brooklyn with Zuzanna and she was telling that when she is putting on an outfit, she always tries to follow these rules :
One thing new, one thing vintage and one thing from her mother*. Then I wonder if she added one inexpensive thing and one luxe thing because as she was talking a big truck went by making a huge noise that covered her voice and then she had to jump on the L train to go to a casting.
So here we go, Zuzanna’s math : Alexander Wang top, vintage Armani short/skirt from Poland, Celine bag, shoes from J.Crew (I think that’s what I heard, big truck again) and a pair of vintage YSL sunglasses.
Let’s talk about fashion math again, I find it a very interesting subject. Kisses !
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* She is lucky she has a super stylish mother that lives in Poland, where you can make incredible vintage finds.
Self Service
… an opportunity to tell you how much I love the magazine since its beginnings – the vision, the incredible artwork, the interviews and the perspective on fashion.
I also recently fell totally under the spell of the Ipad edition. To me it’s one of the best I’ve seen around, and for the first time made me think “Oh my god, I think I prefer to read the digital version rather than the paper one” (I felt so ashamed for a second – In fashion you’re supposed to say nothing will ever be better than reading your magazine on paper.)
If you have an Ipad I really encourage you to download it, and then let me know what you think.
Here is my selection of images with a small interview.
Oh and the picture of me was taken by Ezra Petronio, Self Service’s editor in chief and creative director for their 32nd issue. Kisses !
A Drink At Andi’s
Now that I’ve FINALLY taken an interest in figuring out how to decorate my apartment, I’m taking an extra hard look to see how my friends decorate theirs.
Here’s a little tour of my friend Andi Potamkin’s place. She’s an actress, has a really cool apartment and we had the nicest afternoon together. Remind me to tell you about her man, who’s a hairstylist and totally fantastic. So many superlatives and so much fabulousness!
Click on the photos to see more and have a great day ;-)
Your Best Worst Advice / Love
And finally, here we go, here’s your worst pieces of advice you sent me to win a t-shirt!!! So yeah, since there were millions I had to comb through I have to apologize but it took me 20 years. So sorry – but we’ll start with the ones that talk about love and sex, just because I love this subject and nothing makes me laugh more.
Ooookay, so to be an amazing lover, listen to these impossible little pieces of advice you were given…
Move your body :
Cool Summer
It’s not always easy to bring stuff back from your travels that’s able to pass the test once you’ve gotten back home. I’m a licensed expert at bringing back the weirdest stuff, especially wicker baskets, and the kind of wicker baskets that take up tons of space. Absolutely impossible to compact them. And then it costs me millions of dollars in excess baggage fees because it counts as an extra bag, and in the end, I just end up tossing it in the airport as the basket itself was only 8 dollars.
My friend Ashley is exactly the opposite. She wears tons of stuff that she got from various trips. Like in this photo, her bags and her jewelry (chic AND compact, ahah). How cool is the little bag?
So much so that she made it a part of her job. She works for L-atitude, an amazing online fashion shop put together by her globe-trotter friend Alisa who shops around the world. Things like this awesome bag from Bogota. I just love the concept.
It goes without saying that Ashley is the queen of the haggle and this weekend we went with a few friends to Brimfield, a flea festival (C’mon now, A FLEA FESTIVAL ahaha! I’m imagining fleas jumping every which way -So we’ll just say it’s a giant flea-market that happens three times a year, three hours outside of New York, and voilà, it’s called Brimfield) and we haggled prices like crazy. If you want, I’ll pass along our unstoppable techniques to break the flea-market.
We came back with tons of stuff, which is good considering it’s been almost a year since I got here to New York and I haven’t had any time at all to think about the decor in our apartment which, before Brimfield, consisted of little more than my bike.
Should I stop with my life story or should I show yo some of my purchases?
(Side note… I hope you appreciate the creativity of my titles. Well. It’s not like you can spend an entire week-end flea-marketing AND be creative with your titles. Okay… Sorry. Ha! Big hugs!)
Translation : Tim Sullivan
