Geometry was the only part of math I could tolerate in high school. Had it involved triangles like those at last night’s Met Costume Institute Gala, I might have been a better student. These cut-out dresses are certainly not as punk as some of the looks on the red-carpeted stairs, but they add up to some kind of spectacular.
Clockwise from top left: Emma Watson in Prabul Gurung, Carey Mulligan in Balenciaga, Taylor Swift in J. Mendel, and Dakota Fanning in Rodarte.
My walls are covered with massive photos. One that Vancouver-based photographer Braden Paul took at Sasquatch Music Festival, another Barry Gnyp took for the Freedman Shoes SS/12 campaign I directed, and some I took travelling.
If I were to add to my collection, Barbara Cole’s ethereal underwater prints would be a (wet) dream.
The Toronto-based photographer’s Underworld series will be showing at Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver, May 16th – June 1st.
[Images by Barbara Cole]
What does a newborn need a billion of? Diapers, obviously. And blankets.
Of the latter there are two kinds I love most — bamboo muslin swaddles by Aden and Anais and organic cotton blankets by Vonbon, a new line of luxury baby accessories handmade in Vancouver.
I love their prints, I love their soft durability and I love their brilliant burp bandanas. Spit up never looked so good.
Thank you, Lewis family, for introducing me!
[Images by Vonbon]
I’m not typically a lipstick kind of girl — in fact, I’m more into Kiehl’s Lip Balm #1 than anything. But when I sat down with MAC Pro Team Senior Artist Caitlin Callahan I got to play the pick a colour, any colour game.
What did she recommend? MAC Mineralize Rich in Everyday Diva. It’s bold, feels more moisturize-y than lipstick-y and lasts for hours. It might just make a convert out of me.
You can’t send han ecard on Mother’s Day (the woman birthed you, for crying out loud).
These cards by Toronto’s Paper Society Co. are printed on actual paper, fit into actual envelopes and have just enough attitude to make you forget this is a Hallmark holiday.
I’ve been thinking a lot about tiling my kitchen walls. Not just the backsplash, but the entire walls — floor to ceiling, corner to corner. It would be quite the undertaking, but it would be beautiful, no?
It sure looks great in this mid-century home on Apartment Therapy, and these homes on Remodelista.
[Photo by Elle Decor, found here.]
In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.
For those who like their veggies clean and their language filthy, I give you Thug Kitchen, a recipe site that’s as b-b-b-bad to the bone as vegan food gets.
The language? Not so suitable for work. But the recipes? So full of veggies even Gwyneth Paltrow would approve. UPDATE: She does.
So bookmark Thug Kitchen already and bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it. Thank you, Tolek, for sending it my way!
[Image from Thug Kitchen, obviously.]
P.S. Beef up your list of favourite links with The Anthology’s Bookmark picks.
These, I love. When a real celebration is in order there’s nothing better than a bouquet of balloons. Or, in this case, a single, gigantic, tassel-tastic balloon hand-decorated by Vancouverite (and a former colleague of mine) Amy Cheung of Confetti and Co.
Sure beats the ones you get at the grocery store.
[Photos from Confetti and Co. and Amy Cheung’s Instagram]
Does hanging out with someone as enlightened as author and speaker Gabrielle Bernstein rub off on you? I don’t know, but I figured it was worth a shot.
You can find my interview with the New York native here.
[Photo from Kelsey Dundon’s Instagram]
The Anthology’s Pinstagram column marries the dream (Pinterest) and the reality (Kelsey Dundon’s Instagram photos of the best places and faces in and around Vancouver).
Visions in black and white. Kendra Hagerman, Mana Mansour, May Globus and Sunny Shum at Holt Renfrew’s spring trend presentation + a look from Carolina Herrera’s pre-fall 2013 presentation.
Colour pops. A few of MAC’s many lip colours + one of Inaluxe’s vibrant prints.
A (class)room with a view. Spaceship-like windows at Simon Fraser University where I lecture on Digital Communications + a very dramatic lighting fixture.
A case of the pinks and blues. A nameless new shop on Vancouver’s Main Street (which I wrote about here) + a detail from Kenzo’s fall 2012 collection.
Not-so-pink panther. My favourite desk accessory + Cartier’s killer cat ring (which costs as much as a mid-sized sedan but is totally worth it, I’m sure).
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