I'm Off...

I'l be blogging from New York Fashion Week!! I hope to meet some of you there :)

STAY TUNED and don't forget to follow me on twitter @TheShoeGirl to see what I'm up to.........

stinky little buttcrack of a town

So I want to say something about Mysterious Skin, partially because I just wanted to watch a Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie and ended up crying for like half an hour while watching this, partially because I'm on a serious JGL kick right now (Aha! A kick! "This would be a kick."), and partially because I just want to post these JGL GIFs.

1. Younger!JGL is delectable, but I will take JGL in a 3-piece suit and slicked back hair over JGL in a wifebeater and almost-mullet-bowl-cut any day. (Face it: Arthur has some serious swagger. Yes or yes?)


2. I don't know why some of the online forums I clicked through were discussing this movie as if it were made for shock value. I don't think this movie is supposed to be mysterious or primarily about pedophilia or hustling at all. I don't even think it's about "tackling a controversial topic." I think it's about how people deal with their past, and how the past affects who we become. A universal human experience. And I think it looks at it eloquently.
   


3. Parts of it are cheesy. Pretty much every scene with Michelle Trachtenberg or Jeff Licon is cheesy. But the parts that aren't cheesy are really awful and beautifully done.
   


4. I haven't seen 500 Days of Summer or 10 Things I Hate About You, but I'm guessing most people have. I suspect Mysterious Skin will totally change your opinion of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and what he can do. Just saying. (I am including this point mainly because the only time I've seen him onscreen is as the point man (God I love wordplay) in Inception, where his character was completely one-dimensional. Or two-dimensional at best. Although it was a damn good-looking two dimensions.)
   


5. If you've never watched graphic sex of any kind, this movie will probably disgust you. Not that it's graphic. But isn't sex always... just this side of violent?
   


6. JGL is butt-fucking-naked (also fucking butt-naked) in this movie, but I promise you'll be uncomfortable about it in a bad way. That being said, here're some JGL GIFs:
   

THAT RIDICULOUS HAIRCUT. And a screencap that basically sums up Neil McCormick:

from the heart

In which I deeply enjoy Le Cheval, the dulcet tones of Berkeley's myriad a cappella groups, and that forgotten sensation of a long skirt against my bare legs.

Above, dress: The Limited, mother's. Belt: thrifted. T-shirt: Secrets of Mensa via Threadless. Flats: Kork-Ease Isabel.

recent acquisitions

Sweater and belt: $4.50.

ultragirl

These look like they came out of a fairytale-themed Vogue photoshoot. LOVE!

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania + Melissa Ultragirl V flat, $134 at Zappos

cards & shuffling

I wore this for the first day of fall semester. Thanks to Ben for informing me that I didn't have to wake up at 7:30 for my first day of class because discussion was canceled; to Stephanie for convincing me to shuffle my fall schedule last-minute so that I had to wake up at 7:30 anyway to add/drop classes as soon as possible; and to Eric for being Eric, even though we didn't have enough time to go get a set of Set cards.

This semester is either going to be epic or exhausting.

Probably both.

Check out my knees sans dirt but not sans bruises:

Above, t-shirt: Old Navy men's. Shorts: mother's + scissors. Boots: Steven by Steve Madden.

Family Matters

This month my amazing friend/co-worker/sisterfromanothermother Jess and I were interviewed by Footwear Plus Magazine. It's a cool article- you should check it out. You can read it by CLICKING HERE and going to "current issue" then go to page 18. Unless you have super human vision... in that case, here you go. Read it here....

I've told you guys about Jess before and I've asked her to be a contributor to this blog but she's kinda shy ;) 

Jess and I have been friends since we we can remember and now have the amazing privilege of working together and being married to two amazing dudes that genuinely get along like long lost soul mates. It's super cute.

It's amazing to have grown up together and to now travel to China together to design our respective shoe lines. I love her and am so proud of her!! 

This is one of my favorite photos of us as kids. We were in Hawaii and I remember saying something like "Take a picture of us and I'm going to pretend like I've been massaging her all day!" 

What a dork.

I LOVE YOU JESS!