paper crown

Fashion week is always a blast. The same designers never fail to impress. There is one new designer that caught my eye this year and I can't say I am the biggest fan of her outside the fashion realm. I never got into The Hills and thought rather poorly of the whole reality TV frenzy but Lauren Conrad is grasping my attention on the runway. Her co-star, Whitney Port, released her Whitney Eve clothing line in March 2008 and I have yet to be impressed. I mean, honestly, who you would trust to create a tasteful line... Whitney Port on the left of Lauren Conrad on the right?

In order to remain fair to Miss Whitney, I must mention the line Lauren created before Paper Crown. The Lauren Conrad Collection was released in 2008 and was not successful enough to stand on its own. The biggest downfall was overplaying her LC name in the label. We get it, you're famous and can pay people to put a line together which sells basic clothing but that doesn't make me want to buy it and/or wear it.

This second time around, Paper Crown wins over the target market of an older twenty-something crowd and has its own sophistication with a laid back take on trendiness. The pieces are traditional and timeless but I love the confidence and subtle youth it exerts. Here are my favorites from the Fall 2011 collection:

me and my summer

I've been reminded several times and it's a bit troubling. Summer is coming to an end and the leaf falling, costume wearing and apple cider drinking season is on its way. The best part of fall is hands down the fashion. I get a wind sweeping tingle at my first glimpse of boots.

Despite the delights of this dual named season, nothing fathomable will ever come between me and my summer. If the shorts and sun-kissed skin don't get you maybe the beach and this chair where I lay for part of my summer will...

I only get a few weeks out of the whole year with this chair and then we part our ways. There's a certain falling in love which develops while I lay there. It has nothing and everything to do with nothing and everything. I know it sounds silly but it's the truth. There are moments when I consider it a cruel love because I won't ever feel that way again until I return to the chair.

And that, my friends, is the poetic story about me and my summer. Hope it made you feel a little warm inside.

Fast forward through the long nights and senseless conversations, several ice cream cones and beach towels later, and you have found yourself at the end of summer. You're so excited to start wearing your new fall clothes but also want to live up the 80 degree weather still playing by mother nature. I say, give your summer wardrobe one last hurrah and pick your favorites to wear (or the ones with the tags still on them- oopsies).

 For the last call, I choose these from my imaginary closet...

                                                                                                                                                                     

a few of my favorite jcrew things

Morning Obsessions with Headphones and Hemlines

Coinciding with the one and only Headphones and Hemlines, here are our morning obsessions. Rizzle Kicks and swimsuits... I don't see what else you would need.