When I sing karaoke they turn down the volume on the microphone. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen here.
This weekend, like last, I’ll be at Metropolis at Metrotown sharing a few of my favourite fall trends and tips for wearing them. So when you’ve shopped till you’ve dropped, come say hi — I’ll be in the Love It or Lose It Lounge at 1:00, 3:00 and 5:00 on Saturday, August 25 and Sunday, August 26.
I promise I won’t sing.
[Photo by Amy Podrasky.]
The Anthology’s Pinstagram column brings together highlights from Kelsey Dundon’s Pinterest and Instagram feeds. In other words, the dream and the reality.
Red earrings by Moss Handmade from Tender Loving Empire in Portland + a stunning red-to-toe look.
One of my favourite lunch spots in Vancouver Nuba + one of my favourite fruits.
My outfit of the day when I climbed the via ferrata to the peak of Whistler + trees that look an awful lot like what you’d find at the base of the mountain.
A succulent on my friend Briony’s porch + brooches I wish I had in my jewelry box.
A purple hazy view of Vancouver from the Cambie Street Bridge+ a purple hazy (and kind of creepy) shot by Swiss Photographer Chantal Michel.
A golden picnic spot at Vancouver’s Spanish Banks + golden brocade at Balmain F/W 2012.
A filing catinet (haaaa!) + purrfect wallpaper by Eric Bagge (haaaa! x2).
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More often than not I’m the one operating the wind machine, but the other day, I was the one getting winded. One of my very favourite Vancouver-based fashion photographers Evaan Kheraj snapped my picture (can’t wait to share them with you!).
He was all “Don’t move, stick out your neck, lower your chin, shift your gaze over there and smile.”
I was all awkward as heck. “Now you know how the models feel,” Evaan said. And now I know why they get paid the big bucks.
Thanks again, Evaan!
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The Anthology’s Workspace column takes us inside the creative spaces of some very creative people.
Lisa Wong is the red lipstick-clad beauty who writes about fashion and beauty for her blog Solo Lisa, and her mother’s closet and virtual BFF breakups — OMG! — for FLARE Magazine.
In her own words she takes us through her workspace, cat prints, tequila glasses and all…
1. I’ve had the flowered Hello Kitty candy tin on my desk since I was little. It used to hold Crayola markers. Now it holds an assortment of pens and a pair of scissors, while the teal box underneath corrals all the random business cards I collect at fashion events.
2. Yup, I’m a PC girl at heart. I bought this Sony VAIO laptop to replace its ancient predecessor shortly after my first FLARE article was published; it was part reward and part incentive to get started on the next one.
3. I loved this Stila Cosmetics <3 Lisa sketch so much, I framed it for the home office.
4. Since buying a condo and moving in with my boyfriend, I’ve been asking my parents for all their recipes so I can replicate their home-cooked Chinese dishes in our new place. I’ve handwritten their recipes for steamed fish, black bean and ginger chicken, and black bean and garlic spare ribs in this doggie notebook is from Lola Home & Apparel. Considering how my home office is right next to the kitchen, the desk seems like a logical place to keep the recipe book, as well as any jewelry I take off before cooking.
5. A magazine file full of lookbooks and press kits, and a cat print from Wild Rabbit, hide the unsightly wireless router from view.
6. There’s usually a mix of beauty products to be reviewed on my desk. Right now that mix consists of goodies from Estee Lauder, Philosophy, and Make Up For Ever.
7. This tequila shooter set is from a charming colonial town in Mexico called San Miguel de Allende. During my first trip to Mexico, my boyfriend at the time took me everywhere: Guanajuato, Puerta Vallarta, Oaxaca, Taxco. When we weren’t travelling around, we explored his hometown Mexico City. I’ve never had a drink out of it, but I like having it on my desk to remind me of my travels.
P.S. Click your way to Solo Lisa to see the stylish fruits of Lisa Wong’s labour.
P.P.S. Check out the first post in the Workspace column and find out how Niki Blasina of A Haute Mess smells when she blogs. Click through the second post to find out where Anya Georgijevic of I’m the It Girl started her footwear obsession. And find out how Kumiko Ide of Tribal DDB keeps her workspace fresh to death. Jewelry designer Justine Brooks shares her works in progress and her favourite places to work very, very remotely.
What do Mick Jagger and I have in common (aside from the fact that we’re both rock and roll legends)? We both enjoy the same drank: Ex Nihilo’s Sympathy for the Devil ice wine.
As I sipped and swirled my way along the Kelowna Wine Trails — where I visited wine cellar pyramids and played vineyard frisbee golf — I couldn’t wait to try the nectar of the rock gods.
(Hi Mick!)
It was one of my favourite parts of the series I hosted for Tourism Kelowna and Vitamin Daily (you’ll find a behind-the-scenes recap here). So take a look and see if you can’t get no satisfaction…
Thanks for having me, Tourism Kelowna, Vitamin Daily and Ex Nihilo! Thanks again, Bent Matter Productions!
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P.P.S. Watch the first instalment of the series at Summerhill Pyramid Winery here and the very psychedelic second instalment at the Vibrant Vine here.
In The Anthology’s Bookmark column we explore some of the most inspiring places on the wild, wild web.
Turns out jealousy can be a beautiful thing. Especially when it comes to The Jealous Curator, a blog filled with art that “inspires & depresses” Vancouverite Danielle Krysa.
She’s a designer and artist herself, ya see, and her entire blog is based on the “Damn, I wish I thought of that” feeling we all experience from time to time.
Being neither a designer nor artist myself, I get nothing but joy from scrolling through the photography, paintings, sculptures and embroidery collages she finds.
Never has the green-eyed monster been so beautiful. So bookmark The Jealous Curator already and bookmark The Anthology while you’re at it.
[Images via The Jealous Curator, obviously. First by Philip Barlow, second by Anna Duthie, third by Geoff McFetridge, and fourth by Larissa Haily Aguado.]
A manicure by Christina Culver at Beauty Mark isn’t really a manicure at all — it’s more like watching her transform the tips of your fingers into tiny little canvasses. Here, the nail artist takes us step by step through vibrant leopard print nail art, which is something you just might be able to replicate because the whole point is to get all Jackson Pollock-y.
So how does she do it? These four easy(ish) steps…
1. Like any manicure, start with a base coat (you have no idea how long it took me to realize that this is the key to long-lasting nail colour — I use Revlon’s Quick Dry Base Coat at home). Then pick your bright. I chose Butter London’s Come to Bed Red, but a bold pink or blue would look smashing too.
2. Start your leopard spots, painting them randomly on each nail — two on one nail, three on another, four on another, etc. They trick is to make sure you vary the size and shape of the spots so you avoid a matchy-matchy look (“There are stickers for that,” Culver says). The silver she used is Tart with a Heart.
3. Layer more colours in the same family, like West End Wonderland, Diamond Geezer, and The Full Monty. Again, make sure you vary the size, shape and number of the spots.
4. Transform the spots into dots with thin sweeps of black polish, like Union Jack Black.
Add a top coat (I love Deborah Lippmann’s Addicted to Speed Ultra-Quick Dry Top Coat) et voila! Juicy nails!
Thanks again, Christina!
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P.P.S. You know what I did after Christina painted my nails? Climbed a via ferrata and they didn’t even chip(!).
I love this shot, taken in Ukraine by fashion photographer Aleksandra. And the more I looked at it the more I realized it reminded me of something.
Play of Sunlight, a bromide print by American photographer Louis Fleckenstein circa 1912, at the Museum of Photographic Arts. The mood of each shot is so similar, no?
They make me want to put on an ankle-length dress and go chill in a field with the sunlight in my hair. Want to come with?
The Anthology’s Pinstagram column brings together highlights from Kelsey Dundon’s Pinterest and Instagram feeds. In other words, the dream and the reality.
Flower power on my desk + a flower-powerful fashion editorial.
Bedazzled earrings from H&M + a bejeweled poodle.
Criss-crossed lights at Phantogram’s recent Vancouver show (love them!) + a criss-crossed dress.
An anchor befitting the navy (shot near Vancouver’s Waldorf Hotel) + a navy blue-clad monarch.
My summer reading (nerd alert! I’m currently working my way through Game of Thrones) + a summer reader.
Windswept trees on the side of the Sea to Sky Highway (en route to Whistler) + windswept hair.
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I’m no rock-climber, but when you scale a via ferrata you don’t need to be. What you do need to be is willing to face your fear of heights. I climbed one with Whistler Guides the other weekend (read my recap on Vitamin Daily riiiiiiiight here.) and although this route wasn’t quite as terrifying as the via ferrata I climbed in the Rockies last summer, it seriously tested my resolve to reach the peak without taking the chairlift.
Boy, does it make you feel hardcore. See that pole falling sticking out of my backpack in the photo above? That’s an ice axe.
P.S. You know what else I had in my backpack? My tweet machine so follow The Anthology on Facebook and @TheAnthology.