if you want to be cool, buy this expensive shit

This is ridiculous.

you do not need a designer ping pong set.

Elle has a list of "future classics." If by "future classics" they mean "ridiculous overpriced things that are not even all that attractive," then sure. Reading through the list, I wasn't sure whether to feel repulsed, amused, or just really broke. It's nonsense.

No one needs Elle to tell them that there is a "new must-have engagement ring" with a big colorful rock like Princess Kate's. The fact that something as personal as an engagement ring would be a fashion item in general is ridiculous to me (shouldn't engagement rings be timeless?), and then there's the fact that the example Elle gives is a "sapphire stunner from Harry Winston."

Oh, yeah, I'll just get my boyfriend to run out and buy one of those real quick, he won't mind.

(I don't actually have a boyfriend. Also I'm nowhere near getting engaged. Also rings make me feel antsy so I don't wear them all that often.)

The list also features a $20,000 pair of reversible earrings. Pearl on one side, diamond on the other. How convenient!

This is why I have historically disliked fashion. It's always trying to sell you something you don't need. My communist friend and I have had long conversations about how the industry changes the ideals every few seasons so that we have to buy a new wardrobe, and with that a new "lifestyle," or even a new identity. 

Can we stop that now please?

things i am enjoying

learning to become a runner

this dress from zara

kinder eggs!

this fred farrugia bronzer

the conversation i had with my friend thomas on facebook the other night

me:

WET RAIN AND YUMMY PASTA

THAT'S MY LIFE

thomas:

yeahhhhh

i want that to be my life

instead i have clouds and average pasta

-.-

me:

PASTA IS SO YUMMY

ALSO NUTELLA

I JUST ATE SO MUCH NUTELLA ON BREAD

YUMMMMM

i'm going to sleep.

when you're with us you don't have to be quiet

I've discovered that my iphone, while I don't get service in Italy, makes a handy digital camera when I don't lug my DSLR around. These photos of Bologna are courtesy of Hipstamatic.

long live all the mountains we made

We walked around all day and now my feet hurt a bunch. White girl problems.
On the bright side, I've bought all the ingredients to caprese salad. I literally bought a type of cheese typical to Switzerland (Emmental), Italy (Mozzarella), and the states (Philadelphia cream cheese) at the grocery store. The three places I could say that I reside. And their cheeses.

OUTFIT

Cardigan - Nordstrom

T-Shirt - American Eagle

Jeans - BDG

Necklace - someplace

Shoes - Max Shoes

it's my only offer

I've been busy and on my feet all the live long day. I saw lots of churches, for which my shorts were entirely inappropriate. Luckily someone had a sweater I could borrow and wrap around my waist.

Anyway, this is all I've got today. Some photos of my closet.

OUTFIT

Sunglasses - Urban Outfitters

Tank top - Aeropostale

Blouse - stolen from my sister's school uniform

Jeans - Levi's

Belt - Abercrombie & Fitch

Shoes - I haven't the slightest.

another traveling song

This is the kind of shit I wear when I travel. It's comfortable and it has little else going for it. That is, until I decide on a whim to look cute with a flower in my hair.
Fun fact of the day: I wasn't going to take an outfit picture today (because, really) but then I felt distinctly anxious and I figured fooling around in front of the camera for a little while would loosen me up.
Anyway, now I've survived my seven hours of train travel and now I am here:

What an adventure this will be.

OUTFIT

Flower - H&M

Jacket - Burger

Tee - Urban Outfitters, via my sister's closet

Jeans - 7 for all mankind

Shoes - TOMS

sometimes i pretend i go to art school

Getting dressed this morning was fun because all of my basic staple-type items are in a big brown suitcase in the middle of my floor.

This shirt is from American Apparel, but I bought it at a thrift store, so I think that makes me a double hipster. Anyway, I refer to this as my art-school-shirt, because I feel like kids in art school walk around in oversized button-downs all the time.

OUTFIT

Sunglasses - Urban Outfitters

Necklace - Tiffany's (a graduation present)

Shirt - American Apparel

Tank top - BP

Skirt - Forever 21

Shoes - ROSS. (I bought them for a costume and they're not very comfortable.)

Purse - Urban Outfitters