{white & gold for all hallow's eve}

. . . positively smitten with the idea of white and gold for halloween -- delicate garlands made of lacy doilies and white pumpkins among gold confetti, silver flatware on white linen and elegant packages for stylish guests, tied in the most charming polka dotted ribbon . . .

{p.s.} brushed in gold

{photography by andrea dozier for hooray}

{weekend + links}

happy halloween! hope your weekend is filled with the soft glow of flickering jack-o'-lanterns, spiced cider and far too much candy, and most of all, mysterious masquerades . . .

have a magical weekend, everyone!
xo


{p.s.} a few fun halloween links:
* DIY: snowflake pumpkins
* fun costume: mrs. robinson

{as always, some things you may have missed:}
* halloween inspiration: orange
* better in gold: gilded pumpkins
* grey skies + crimson leaves
* fall lookbook: lyell
* backstage photographs: more lyell
* paris in black + white

{images: valentino haute couture, photography by sofia sanchez & mauro mongiello for vogue italia september 2009 via a glamorous little side project}

{brushed in gold}

. . . a little halloween inspiration in shades of hazy blue and gold . . .

{images: 1, 3 martha stewart; 2 - flickr via design lovely}

Coco-Pumpkin Pie

Hahaha I did it!! Well, kind of.... haha
So I tried, key word TRIED, to carve a pumpkin today...
Yes, it was kind of a major failure...
Don't get me wrong, i had a blast attempting to cut that thing to pieces.
By the time i was done, the pumpkin was falling apart!
So, i regrouped and thought I would paint the back-up pumpkin.
And who better to paint than the pumpkin haired model Coco Rocha!
So, a few hours later, this was the by product.
Ok, so i know it's kinda trippy looking, but it was my first time painting on something spherical.
I hope you like it! Oh, also going to Gen Art's Fresh Faces in Fashion show tomorrow night.
Pretty excited to see the new designers.
Also, what do you think of the new site?
Well, it's kinda a new site. Spent the day working on cleaning the look of the blog up. :)
Well, my friends, i hope you like the pumpkin and Happy Early Halloween.

Wow, wait a sec!
I almost forgot to mention something...
Where are my manners?
I heard from Alexa Chung!!!!!
I got a message from her today, saying thank you for the painting.
Thank you, thank you friends for your help; really means alot!!!
And Alexa, if you're reading this, thank you so much, definitely made my day!
And if you want the painting, i would be happy to send it to you! ;)

Oh yea if you have Lookbook you can Vote for the look here ;)

{happy halloween!}

Hope you have fun things planned for tonight -- be certain to eat too much candy and snuggle up with the ones you love by the glow of jack-o-lanterns.

Have a magical weekend, everyone!

{image: via démodé}

{happy halloween!}

Couldn’t think of a more fitting artist for a Halloween post than Damien Hirst, an artist born in Bristol to a lapsed Catholic mother and a mechanic/car salesman father who left their family when he was only 12 years old.

Despite his humble beginnings, (or perhaps because of them), Hirst would later become the most extravagant living artist in the world.

Damien Hirst's work centers around death as its main theme. The artist is best known for his Natural History series, in which dead animals (a shark, a sheep or a cow) are preserved in
formaldehyde.

In May 2007, Hirst exhibited his latest work, Beyond Belief, at the White Cube gallery in London. The centre of this exhibition was a Memento Mori titled For The Love of God, which featured a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8,601 diamonds weighing a total of 1,106.18 carats. Approximately £15,000,000 ($30,944,726.60 USD) worth of diamonds were used. The work was based on an 18th century skull, with the original teeth incorporated into the artwork. The work's title comes from Hirst's mother who asked him, “For the love of God, what are you going to do next?”

This piece, which was cast from an 18th-century skull he bought in London, was influenced by Mexican skulls encrusted in turquoise. “I remember thinking it would be great to do a diamond one — but just prohibitively expensive,” he recalls. “Then I started to think — maybe that’s why it is a good thing to do. Death is such a heavy subject, it would be good to make something that laughed in the face of it.”
{from the NY Times}

On August 30, 2007, For the Love of God sold for £50,000,000 (100 million dollars or 75 million euros), giving the piece the auction record for the most expensive work of art by a living artist.

White Cube gallery sold several limited-edition silkscreen prints of this work, priced from £900 to £10,000, for one sprinkled with diamond dust.

{high-end halloween}

It's that skull and crossbones time of year again and what could be more fun than wearing posh, brightly-coloured skulls?

Dior Joaillerie's Coffret de Victoire collection includes: ring in 18K yellow gold, diamonds, pink sapphires, turquoise and mother-of-pearl (above left); and pendant in 18K yellow gold, diamonds, pink and green tourmalines, aquamarine, tanzanite, pink sapphires, amethysts, chrysoberyl, sapphire, emeralds, cultured pearl and coral (above right). Any piece from this collection (or anything by Dior, for that matter) will ensure you're the talk of the costume ball . . .


Not to be outdone is Tom Binns' Tough Chic collection of less precious, but still loads of fun punk-infiltrated creations (below). The Irish-born Binns was a one-time collaborator with Vivienne Westwood and favours rock and roll interpretations of jewellery classics, where diamantes and pearls sit alongside bullets and skulls.