summer reading list

wow.  i'm not the only one reading this book,

apparently.

(it is really good)

what? of course they're LOUBOUTIN! go away!

all your shoes can be louboutin.  see, anything is possible.

TADA!!

+you won't fall on your face (rubber looks grippy)

cobblestone shoe repair

best pillow

xpress urself

haha, amazing, huh? thanks emily!! 
wendybrandes

open your wallets, asian pacific americans!

nordstrom presents "asian pacific american month"

we are dubious

wait, she ain't asian at all

Help us commemorate Asian Pacific American Month by purchasing one of these special limited-edition tees. Available in army/navy or antique white/red. $85 each.

All after-cost proceeds directly benefit OCA, a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States. For 37 years, OCA has worked with its 50 chapters around the country to embrace and fulfill the hopes and aspirations of Asian Pacific American children and their communities. Learn more at http://www.ocanational.org/.

buy a phillip lim $85 t-shirt if you believe in your heritage, buster! 

is this a ploy to target us open-wallet open-heart asian shoppers?  i've never been called to celebrate my asian-americannness. (am i an "asian pacific american"? wait..) except for like AASA events in college.  but that was just to meet asian guys, right?
 

don't they know asians won't buy an $85 t-shirt?  (it is kinda cool though...ooh they know my vulnerabilities)

don't hate me! (st. pat's pix)

but u look so cute and happy with phil's "little buddy" (he brought him to trumpet auditions)!!

here's some more, so emily doesn't feel singled out...ha..

yes that's the powell stage! (+phil with his buddy)

various entertaining mustachioed pics:

(did i post these already? omg early onset)

davin

dave deriso

shannonigans

josh

andré

hello moto IV

thank u emily.  so cute. love houndstooth.  and the professorly elbow patchy look.  u should buy.
hellzbellz at karmaloop:

HELLO MOTO part deux

PRPS

PRPS grey leather (on forward)

RAG & BONE bowery leather moto

Helmut Lang

combo cracked moto

kinda unrelated to moto:

this snowboard jacket by Holden is what i want.  it is super-insulated and has warm hood, apparently.  it is on sale.  it is still cold and i'm getting a really wussy phobia of going outside.  i want to wear something that feels like a huge puffy sleeping bag but looks like a cropped mini moto.  HHAHAHAHAHAHA.  i just cracked myself up.

ah, this looks springy, and while we're off-topic

SEE BY CHLOÉ

belted parka on lagarçonne

and, again, off-topic:

Proenza Schouler

perfect one-button blazer

HELLO MOTO

fashionably impractical!  cropped !  unnecessary zippers ! shrunken!  you LOVE, don't you?
*for those ppl who live in LA/bay area---places where there's just that boring (yawn) beautiful weather all the time.  brrrrrr, 60 degrees?  better put on my moto jacket...

these are on sale at revolve!

bbdakota bergman

$216 from $308

eryn brinié double zip

($120, down from $244)

jolie elianna

gar-de venus

$176 from $319

rails casey

s.w.o.r.d. barletta

(this is $$$$$, cuz it's suede leather. boo)

g-star raw harvard

charley 5.0

caroline moto ($130--62% off)

dealio:

charlotte ronson black moto

$95 (prev. $279)

surf now

sydney beach fashion---profound dedication to here and now (and fatalistic teddy bears)
cute snap on the back so you can always look slim/not slobby---
(thanx emily!)

INSIGHT on reversereverse

on sale for $16---that's 55.555555% off people. i did math for you.

for emily

(u likey?)  u look the BEST in the haute stuff!!

(the stuff i love but make me look like i'm trying too hard to be cool like u)

roberto roberto roberto

 FUNKTIONAL.

learn chinese

shopkitson:

thanks emily.  you are the best!!

clothes swap update: SARAH

SUCCESS!!  certain magical forces allow miracles to happen once again...
Sarah, bassist and beautiful supermodel (she's like ~6'11 or something)... has raised my ill-fitting (on moi) PETITE ann taylor loft dress to heights (haha, i did that by accident!) of cool never reached before for a petite-sized garment.  thank you sarah!  i knew this dress had capacity for greatness. (i think also i can safely say this is the only petite-sized article she has ever owned) HA! the magique of clothes swap!!

knee-length unflattering dress on me = so cute tunic on sarah!!! YAY

thanks also to EMI (my blog idol as you know) for encouraging clothes-swap, which i never did before.  much more gratifying (sorry) than giving to goodwill. 
props also go to EMILY for giving me beautiful CNC shoes and guh-guh-guh-gorgeous silk top (too nice to wear for orchestra)...clothes-swap RULZ!!
btw, sarah is modeling my petite dress (now adult-size tunic) in the SLSO bass room, which is no doubt a glamorous setting, non?  when do u get to see the SLSO bass room, right? recently it's been beautified, GILDED, be-dazzled to grandness by another bassist, associate principal and seamstress (and world-beautifier) carolyn w., who you can see faintly behind sarah)

for emily

1. question:
what are these shoes?  where are they?  do u know?  (nighttime lisa and daytime lisa don't communicate sometimes)  i copied this pic last week sometime and  now i have no recollection.  revolve? reverse? rewind? (according to that nytimes article we both--haha !--sent to davin my brain should be able to retrieve this information EVENTUALLY, but i don't have the time to wait... i'll count on your younger and more powerful brain)

???












2.  commiseration:

i think i'm bidding farewell to ice cream for real.  it's been fun.  i'll never give up half and half though!

perfect. black. blouse.

tis truly hard to find

oooh silk....luxury...thank u emily!!  (obviously cannot convey the perfection, hmm..  but it is from the sky, beautiful.  clothes-swap (like emi does) only works if you've friends with excellent taste (*mwah!*).  i'd like to truly swap, but everything in my closet too big for emily boo!