Pick a deadly creature! Personally I love the giraffes and the wild bores…although the ducks are kind of hilarious. Thoughts?

Deadly Creatures collection by Zoemou. For some reason I am reminded of Skelanimals…heheh :P

I love Devon Aoki…she has such a striking, different look. I think she and Milla Jovovich were my first favorite models before I really started getting into fashion, mostly because I’d seen them in movies. In Devon’s case it can mostly be atributed to the fact that I loved Sin City and 2 Fast 2 Furious (only because Ludacris was in it! I swear).

I just discovered Tai Jewelry on Gilt, a line of adorable boho-chic bracelets and necklaces. These are my favorites:

Just saw this film, I highly recommend it. Model Lily Cole holds her own and delivers a performance worthy of her co-stars.

Every one keeps referring to the film as “surrealist”, but I definitely don’t consider it a surrealist film. Theatrical and fantastic, yes, but not surrealist. It follows very traditional narrativc form…but it’s a beautiful story about a very disfunctional family of traveling performers and the importance of storytelling. And Tom Waits is a badass :)

I’ve had an interesting start to the new year…I’ve been in three countries in the past 24 hours and now I’m finally at my mom’s house in Switzerland. I passed out and ended up sleeping through the New Year’s festivities…and then woke up at 4am to find a little wrapped Chanel box by my pillow.

It’s “Black Satin” by Chanel…so pretty! (It’s not the crappy chipped polish I am wearing in the picture though, that I did on the plane).

It’s so pretty in the bottle I almost don’t want to use it. Almost.

Happy 2010!!!

Up until now, my favorite shoe lines were TUK, Eject and Jeffrey Campbell…but I may have found a sole mate in these Irregular Choice wedges.

“What an Angel” wedge (top) and “Flashing Lights” wedge (bottom) available online at Irregular Choice.

Today, I went to the eye doctor’s for a check up. Not only did he tell me I had the “best eyelashes”, he also taught me something really awesome. While I was getting my pupils dilated, he told me that back in the day, rich fancy women would dilate their pupils for parties as a fashion statement. In order to get their pupils huge and dark, they would use droplets of the datura flower (which by the way is a really dangerous hallucinogen and is poisonous), which is also referred to as “hell’s bells” or “belladonna”. The term belladonna, which means beautiful woman in Italian, came from this trend.

He also said that his theory on why this became stylish is that babies have really big pupils that get smaller with age, and so women used belladonna drops to get a more youthful look. It could also have to do with the fact that when you are feeling in love, your pupils dilate because of the dopamine levels in your brain.

I found this whole story very mystical and awesome! I used to be really fascinated with these flowers and I had no idea they related to fashion. You learn something new every day, eh?

I love love love these photographs, “Wild Boys” by Ben Toms (styled by Robbie Spencer). Its very…London punk school-boy I guess?

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is my favorite…and so is Audrey Tautou. Therefore you can’t go wrong with this video. Oh yeah…and there’s Chanel No. 5 too. All that’s missing is Dominique Pinon, really.