If This City Never Sleeps...

I honor my promises. Broadcasting direct to you from Seattle, WA (home of plaid flannel shirts and Ben Gibbard, don'tcha know?), is a brand new post full of goodies and pretty clothes!!!! Wooohoo! Yippee! And another such exclamations of joy.

First order of business.
I have sprung for it, used the credit card that the lovely parental units have provided for me for use in Washington (for all the LOVELY clothes I can buy) and bought me a House of Holland t-shirt!! Eek I'm excited! I'll feel undeniably stand out in my "Do Me Daily, Christopher Bailey tee. Even though I'm miles behind on the trend, at my school it will seem quite original!

Here it is, in all it's neon glory (I do hope I bought the right size, I can't be bothered converting centimeters to inches!)


Yay! I can't wait for it to come and for me to have the chance to explain the purchase to my parents...joy.

ANYWHO

My constructive post of the day shall be a gallery of light, swishy, happy summer dresses! Yes! Just because it's August doesn't mean that it won't be nice and hot for a good 2 months more for us LA girls! Summer isn't over! They will lie to you, they will say it's true, but summer isn't over! (If you catch that reference, you're my new second best friend :P)

So here's a lovely mix of floaty summery dresses and bathing suit coverups. Perfect for strolling down a beach at sunset with a certain someone...


C&C California Kara Dress $84 www.shopbop.com


C&C Starfish Claudia Dress $118 www.shopbop.com


Day Birger Et Mikkelsen Cotton Voile Sundress $174.50 www.net-a-porter.com


Free People Bandana Dress $128 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Free People Printed Paisley Silk Dress $49.99 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Gap Striped French Cuff Shirt Dress $69.50 www.gap.com


Karen Zambos Vintage Couture Print Shift $330 www.shopbop.com


Leaves of Grass Tristana Hand-Printed Dress $195 www.net-a-porter.com


Lux Knit Voile Dress $48 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Lux Mocked Sweetheart Dress $58 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Lux Tropical Ruffle Tube Dress $34.99 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Miu Miu Voile Sundress $602 www.net-a-porter.com


Paul Frank Printed Gemma Dress $66 www.urbanoutfitters.com


See By Chloe Silk Blend Peasant Dress $260 www.net-a-porter.com


Sparkle and Fade Parfait Slip $32 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Twelfth St. By Cynthia Vincent Shirred Slip Dress 165 www.shopbop.com


See, I told you it was a grand collection ;). I hope this makes up in some way for the absence of my biting wit for so long! I will try my hardest to keep up the posting through the summer and into the school year. While I'm aimlessly online window shopping, what's the trouble in delighting a few others with my finds?!

Love and kisses
Scarlett

We're Coming Home Again...

It's been a while my fashionistas.

And in this time I have grown...away from fashion momentarily, but I'm on my way back. I had a revelation last night. I can love music, I can be a musician, but I can be a wonderful dresser as well. So, in keeping with my transformation/revelation, I will be posting much more regularly (which I'm sure will please my FAN. Notice, I say fan in the singular sense...I know who you are missy) and hopefully garner more readers.

I'm at work at the moment, but as soon as I get a spare minute, I will come up with something worthwhile to post. In the meantime, let the excitement that I shall be posting again stew for awhile until it builds to dramastic proportions (dramastic, it is its own word, in the dream world shared by a certain boy whose name starts with J and myself)

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Ruby - heretofor referred to as Scarlett

SPRING IS HERE!

yes, that's right, it might not feel like it to you but summer's more temperate cousin SPRING is upon us! while some parts of the country are still stuck in the dreary winter bits, spring will be coming quicker than you imagine! so time to fill your dreams (and wardrobes) with floaty chiffon dresses in bright colors!




speaking of:

SPRING MUST-HAVES (PART UNE)




3.1 Philip Lim Lace-Style Shift Dress $490 www.net-a-porter.com









Miu Miu T-bar Flat Sandals $245









Missoni Isotta Strapless Dress $3620









Marc by Marc Jacobs Pop Flower Dress $428









Michael Kors Maize Metallic Leather Sandals $345









Jimmy Choo Cairo Karung Mules $535

update later!

infinite x's and o's!!

Ruby

update from behind the tragically unfashionable lines....

It's worse than I ever could have imagined. *Shudder* malls are populated by Abercrombie only shoppers, over-the-top punks that would make even Leah scream, and ugly boys giving you the "you'd love it if I loved you" eyes. The excursion to Disneyworld (land of the thick southern accent) did nothing to soften the blow. The grandparents are out in full force mode. I have been awake a total of 1 hour and I have been guilt-forced to drink a bottle of water. I didn't even care about it, I just wasn't thirsty!
My only connection to the living world is Cowgirl Cutie, and I am desperately thinking of a way to nicely explain the dangers of a logo'd Coach pouch. No, I'm not really sure what a Coach pouch is either, but I fell into the dungeon that is Coach purses myself a few years ago, and I am still recovering. Pictures from that dark period in my life still make me cry. I have an intense want to go Asian Leprechaun on her ass and yell at her for wasting 34 dollars on such a purchase. I am afraid, however, that I am an influence on this current trend of hers, I must find a way to educate the masses!

Do's and Don'ts to Easy, Acceptable Style
I get that not everyone can look as fabulous as me everyday, it does take a certain je ne sais quoi not easily replicated, but there are some steps that anyone can take so their appearance is at least acceptable.
Don't
- logos, they are tacky. never, ever ever ever ever...
- dress like Cory Kennedy, that phase was recent, and scarring, dirty is not in people, wash your hair and clean your clothes please
- too tight clothing. this goes for tops (tummy rollls, so not attractive), skirts, and most of all jeans. just because you don't want to shop for the next size up, doesn't mean that everyone else wants to be hurt as the result of it.
- Uggs beyond the ski slopes. That trend was bad enough around the first time.
- all in one brand head to toe
- slutty for the sake of slutty...*cough cough* Julia S. *cough cough*

Do
- experiment


Tonight is the dreaded temple service for grandma's 80th birthday. There's a bat mitzvah too so I cannot wait for the 7th graders in Uggs and pastel colored dresses to parade past. I'll be the one in the corner taking pictures, hoping a remotely attractive person my age will come to laugh along with me.

hey hey baby, we gotta get out of L.A.

AHH just watching Barbara Walters' most interesting people...yeah yeah, but it's only because she has an interview with Anna Wintour!!

December 12, or otherwise known as: The Day Devil Wears Prada finally comes outttt!!!!!! yeah and smart me, totally forgets about it even though I've been counting the hours! Literally, in math class, I counted the hours...don't judge me!

I'm making a concerted effort to post as much as possible, hope the posts don't get boring :P

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Fashion/Socialite World, But Were Too Afraid To Ask

If you are a nouvelle entre to the fashion world and all that goes with it (as all of us were at some point), I’m sure there are many questions you have. Hopefully this list will assist in any confusion. These are modifications of questions I have asked myself, so sorry if some answers seem obvious, but I’m very blonde sometimes, no matter what my hair color insists is my IQ.


People
Who is this Anna Wintour?
Okay, let me just breathe for a second as I pretend that you didn’t ask that question. Just kidding, there was a time, sadly, that even I didn’t know who Anna Wintour was, and I heap thanks upon the best friend that informed me. Anna Wintour is the infamous editor in chief of Conde Nast’s US Vogue magazine. Equally as infamous are her encounters with PETA, where she is usually assaulted with paint, in protest of her approval of fur for Vogue’s pages.

Conde Nast? I’ve never heard of this before.
Simple, Conde Nast is like Hearst publishing. An umbrella corporation that owns most major magazines that Hearst doesn’t already own generally. Think, Elias Clarke in The Devil Wears Prada, or Meade Publications in Ugly Betty. Conde Nast also oversees W, Lucky, Allure, the New Yorker etc.

Bee Shaffer? Why is she always with Anna Wintour??
Bee Shaffer is, hard to believe, Anna Wintour’s daughter. Anna was married to David Shaffer a few years back and Bee (real name Katherine) and Charles (or Charlie) are the products of the union.

Andre Leon Talley?
Editor-at-large at US Vogue. One of the longest survivors in the Fashion World, his stay at the top has lasted more than 25 years.

Tinsley Mortimer? Fabiola Beracasa? Dylan Lauren? Lauren Davis?
All fall under the generous umbrella of “socialite.” Born into the glamorous and fashionable life. I.E. they never had to read one of these because they’ve lived it their whole life. Search any of their names on google or wikipedia and you’ll find their whole story.

Plum Sykes?
Anna Wintour’s protégée, she cultivated her. Successful novelist (Bergdorf Blondes, READ IT), and fashion it-girl.

Karl Lagerfeld?
I can admit, these designers designing for names that are not their own can be somewhat confusing. I’ll put them all down here.
Karl Lagerfeld – Chanel, Fendi
Francisco Costa – Calvin Klein
Nicolas Ghesquiere – Balenciaga
John Galliano – Dior
Tom Ford – hard to pinpoint, mostly Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent
Marc Jacobs – Louis Vuitton as well as his own Marc Jacbos and Marc by Marc Jacobs
Matthew Williamson – as well as his own line of the same name, Pucci
Alexander McQueen – Givenchy

Amy Sacco?
Club owner. Heard of Bungalow 8? Yeah, that’s her.

Patricia (Pat) Field?
Infamous costume designer. Costume designer pfft. She dressed the girls for Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada, she is genius. She is god, worship accordingly.

Yeah I've been having a bit of a blonde moment and can't remember at all what other things I didn't know about fashion, PLEASE comment with some other questions I can answer. Some things I realize that I don't know either and the research helps me!


Now, since I am just beyond proud of how amazing it is, I'm gonna post my FABULOUS playlist. Hopefully it'll inspire others, since I always play it while getting dressed in the morning.
9 Crimes (Demo) - Damien Rice
A Great Big Sled - The Killers
Alfie - Joss Stone
Amie - Damien Rice
Be Born - Tally Hall
Blind Leading the Blind - Dave Stewart & Mick Jagger
Coconut Skins - Damien Rice
Eddie's Gun - The Kooks
Father Christmas - The Kinks
God - The Gents
I know - Jude
Just Apathy - Tally Hall
Kate - Ben Folds Five
Lonely Without You (This Christmas) - Mick Jagger
Naive - The Kooks
Ooh La - The Kooks
Out of LA - Jude
Seaside - The Kooks
Sweet Talk 101 - Cute Is What We Aim For
Taken for a Ride - Tally Hall
The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
The Curse of Curves - Cute Is What We Aim For
You Don't Love Me - The Kooks

Shoot me now, Diane Sawyer has pronounced Anna Wintour's last name wrong about 10 times already and she's been talking for less than a minute!

Ooh I spy Andre!

For some reason, I'm getting more and more excited each day for Florida. I mean, it's shopping, shopping, shopping, moisturized skin, and Disneyland with a pinch of being nice to grandparents thrown in.

Loves and Merry Christmas (from the little Jewish girl who ADORES Christmas)
<3 Ruby

all the lights are coming on now, how i wish that it would snow now...

Although we've been having some crazy weather in LA lately, I'm still enchanted by tales of snow in other places. If only I were going somewhere lovely and wintry for winter break instead of bland, humid Florida. At least my skin will get some much needed moisture, in the meantime I should really get to cleaning that humidifier.


Just because I'm obsessed with buying a pair of flat boots, and because the girls in front of me in line at Pinkberry wore them SO adorably...

Ways to Wear Flat Boots

The Boots =
Frye Tall Calfskin Boots $400 www.saks.com
I'm sure I've posted them a million times, I'm just obsessed and there's no point in trying to hold it back any longer. I need these boots, they are perfect in every way! Flat and the perfect shade of supple leather. I could wear them so many ways, which I will demonstrate now.

Outfit #1:

True Religion Stella Skinny Jeans $195 www.net-a-porter.com
Skinny Jeans
+

3.1 Philip Lim Exclusive Tuxedo Blouse $365 www.net-a-porter.com
Floaty Blouse
+

Marc by Marc Jacobs Clara Trapeze Jacket $298 www.net-a-porter.com
Swingy Jacket


Outfit #2:
Skinny Jeans
+

Karl Lagerfeld Snake Tee $121 www.ronherman.com
A plain old baggy t-shirt (standing in for us today is a piece by the master)
+

Marc by Marc Jacobs Jasper Check Jacket $428 www.shopbop.com
Defies description (you have to buy this one) jacket of fabulous proportions


Outfit #3:
Skinny Jeans
+
Plain old baggy t-shirt
+

Mike and Chris Clark Leather Jacket $878 www.ronherman.com
Kickass Leather Jacket

Sorry for the plethora of skinny jeans, but I want to wear this look so badly, it has taken over my mind! I NEED BROWN FLAT LEATHER BOOTS. I might cry if this season passes by and I don't have a pair :(

On that note, I bid you adieu!

♥ Ruby ♥

dr. feelgood

The back and forth flirtation between the taken Luscious Lad and Cowgirl Cutie during English continues...and I continue to be caught in the middle and take the blame when they get caught talking. It's okay though, who am I to stand the the way of true love :).



On to more fulfilling things...here's a list of online shopping sites!

Cashmere:
www.net-a-porter.com
www.saks.com
www.shopbop.com
www.bergdorfgoodman.com
www.neimanmarcus.com
www.intermixonline.com
www.ronherman.com
www.shopkitson.com
www.eluxury.com

50% Cashmere:
www.anthropologie.com
www.yoox.com
www.victoriassecret.com
www.urbanoutfitters.com
www.americanapparel.com

100% Cotton:
www.bluefly.com
www.delias.com
www.alloy.com
www.forever21.com
www.topshop.com (UK only sadly)

I'm severly lacking, I know, any suggestions owuld be lovely!

And for our last contribution today, a semi-regular feature...

DIFFERENT TAKE ON A CLASSIC

This time around we're taking a crack at the LBD, (Little Black Dress to all you fashion freshmen)

Option #1: Classic with a Twist
Start with one simply shaped black dress.

Alice + Olivia Sleeveless Cowl Neck Dress $198 shopbop.com

Add a funky necklace in a bright color.

Moon Slice Collar $448 www.anthropologie.com

Mix in with a funky bag in a slightly coordinated color.

For evening -

Lauren Merkin Lousie Woven Leather Clutch $395 www.shopbop.com

Or day -

Yves Saint Laurent Muse Oversized Bag $1295 www.saks.com

Blend thoroughly, mixing in a pair of classic shoes for night-

Dolce and Gabbana Eel Pumps $515 www.saks.com

Or a pair of funky boots for day -

Dior Cannage Leather Boots $970 www.saks.com

Wear over an offwhite long sleeve or throw on a neutral trench coat (a la Audrey herself) if it's cold and you're good to go!

Stay tuned tomorrow for another take on the LBD!

so sick of all the needless needing...

By request, here comes some more life reports your way.

So Pudgy Peter has become even more undesirable. He's a loser that obviously doesn't understand the fact that no one likes him, so he is a loser that's mean to people. Not to mention his redciulously hipocritical "gangsta" outfit today. Who told him that pale white kids are allowed to wear enormous jerseys and *shudder* bling.
I have to go to this stupid political film festival with my parents on Friday, any takers? It's going to be insanely boring alone, but with someone we could take beyond cliche myspace pictures at the Design Center! Now wouldn't that be fun!


CHIC COLD WEATHER CLOTHES (precipitation nonexclusive) Part Deux
Sweaters -

Alice + Olivia Long Circle Shrug $399 www.shopbop.com


Chloe Oversized Wool Cardigan $1465 www.net-a-porter.com


Issac Mizrahi Cashmere Cardigan $49.99 www.target.com


Lux Heathered Deep V Cardigan $54 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Lux Shawl Collar Fleece Dress $39 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Marc by Marc Jacobs Myra Cardigan $248 www.saks.com


Nikola Sheer Tunic $32.50 www.delias.com



Silk Cashmere Boyfriend Cardigan $39 www.victoriassecret.com


Ya-Ya Francis Cardigan Sweater $395 www.shopbop.com

Scarves -

Two Tone Knit Scarf $28 www.urbanoutfitters.com


Marc by Marc Jacobs Daphne Scarf $158 www.shopbop.com


Marc by Marc Jacobs Felted Stripe Scarf $158 www.shopbop.com


Burberry Cashmere Check Scarf $225 www.saks.com


DESIGNER PROFILE - Karl Lagerfeld



"Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion - it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere."

A Catholic baptismal record indicates his birth date as 10 September 1933 but Lagerfeld states he was born in 1938, as all people in fashion should fight for those few extra years.

He made his name as an independent creator who collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, including Chloé, Fendi and Chanel. In the early 1980s he set up his own label, called Lagerfeld, which launched perfumes and clothing lines. He has also played a role in equipping leading artists.

Together with his mother, Karl Lagerfeld emigrated to Paris in 1953. In 1955, at the age of 22, Lagerfeld was awarded a position at Pierre Balmain, after winning a competition for a coat sponsored by the International Wool Secretariat. Yves Saint Laurent also won the contest for a dress award. "Yves was working for Dior. Other young people I knew were working for Balenciaga, whom they thought was God, but I wasn't so impressed," he recalled in 1976.

After three years he moved to Jean Patou. "I became bored there, too, and I quit and tried to go back to school, but that didn't work, so I spent two years mostly on beaches -- I guess I studied life."

With money from his wealthy family, he set up a small shop in Paris. At this time, he would often consult with Madame Zereakian, Christian Dior's Turkish fortune teller. Lagerfeld later said, "She told me I'd suceed in fashion and perfume."

In the early 1990s he once employed strippers and an Italian adult film star to model his black-and-white collection for Fendi. He has produced legendary pieces like the shower-dress, with beaded water streaming down the front; a car-dress with a radiator grille and fender, and a multitude of outstandingly eccentric hats.

Lagerfeld, along with Calvin Klein, was the target of a pieing by PETA in 2001 at a fashion premiere at Lincoln Center in New York City.^[1]

In 2004 he designed some outfits for the international music artist's Madonna Re-Invention Tour, and recently designed outfits for Kylie Minogue's Showgirls Tour.

Recently, Lagerfeld collaborated with the international Swedish fashion brand H&M. On 12 November 2004 H&M offered a limited range of different Lagerfeld clothes in chosen outlets for both women and men. Only two days after having supplied its outlets, H&M announced that almost all the clothes were sold out. Lagerfeld has expressed a lack of fear that working with lower-end brands will taint his image, although in the past he has worked closely with the exclusive hosiery designer Wolford.

Lagerfeld is also a photographer. He produced Visionaire 23: The Emperor's New Clothes, a series of nude pictures of South African model David Miller. Lagerfeld is currently the chief executive of design at the House of Chanel.

The designer was also the subject of a French reality series called "Signé Chanel" in 2005. The show covered the creation of his Fall/Winter 2004-2005 Chanel couture collection. It aired on Sundance Channel in the United States during the fall of 2006.

Lagerfeld is also famous for a dramatic transformation of his body, when he lost around 36 kg (80 pounds) in one year. “I suddenly wanted to dress differently, to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane,” he said. “But these fashions, modeled by very, very slim boys—and not men my age—required me to lose at least eighty pounds. It took me exactly thirteen months.”

The diet was created specially for Lagerfeld by Dr. Jean-Claude Houdret, which led to a book called The Karl Lagerfeld Diet

from Wikipedia.com


Karl.Lagerfeld.Is.A.Genius
That's ALL you need to know.
Really....I didn't even need to copy and past all that crap from wikipedia