{monday, monday & all in a day's work}

. . . after one of the most relaxing weekends ever, overflowing with excitement for a new week, and over time, have begun to fall in love with mornings over late evenings, for their hazy early light and their miles and miles of new hours yet to be filled, and have always, always adored new weeks for this very reason, and for all the promises of new and undiscovered things . . . and this week is lovely projects, meetings and appointments, unruly inboxes and long lost letters, and little things that will comprise, at the end, enormous and enormously life-changing events in a few months' time . . . and so, for now, a pair of elegant wide-legged jeans, a chic carry-all, a chignon, and today's paper, and it's back to work . . .

happy monday! it's lovely to see you again & hope your week is off to a perfect start, roséline xo


{images: les composantes via pretty stuff}

{runway inspiration: derek lam, new york}

"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."

~ Yves Saint Laurent

. . . a little sad to gracefully decline so many new york fashion week invitations as we've only just returned, but still and always wonderfully exciting to pore over the spring 2011 ready-to-wear collections for new work by favourite designers such as derek lam . . . there were clean lines and floaty dresses, linen twill blazers and silk crepe blouses, but most of all, there was that wonderful seventies sophistication that am so adoring these days . . .

{p.s.} more sexy seventies style:
* blouses & blazers
* scarves & pencil skirts
* fedoras & leopard print
* stripes & secretary blouses
* turlenecks & tweed

{images: vogue}

{have a fantastically fun weekend + links}

. . . hello! it's the weekend and what are your plans? . . . currently out of town to breath in every last moment of one of the last of the summer weekends, an ivy-covered country house and floral bed linens, italian coffee and pale morning sun, vibrantly lush english gardens and azure august skies . . .

hope you're having a fantastically fun weekend and that it's beautiful where you are,
xo

{a few lovely links}
* summertime: a perfect afternoon
* sneak peek: a beach cottage
* first love: monet & giverny
* travel: the augstus hotel, forte di marmi , italy
* décor inspiration: stairways & headboards
* at home: stylist tricks
* let's picnic: french willow baskets
* photography: artist kotori kawashima's daughter {via scout-holiday}
* architecture: sand beneath your toes
* summertime: fireworks & forests
* décor inspiration: blue velvet
* colour inspiration: streets & reflections
* design: air lamp
* wedding inspiration: white lanterns
* architecture: beach wood

{as always, a few things you may have missed:}
* happy monday & thoughts for a new week
* lookbook: lover, spring/summer
* utterly romantic: feather clutch
* décor: unapologetically pretty
* lookbook: lover, autumn/winter
* shoes, shoes, shoes: pink suede & bejewelled
* colour inspiration: falling for fall
* travel: new york city

{& new for the weekend:}
* photographer: ellen silverman

{images: editorial - americans in paris, daria werbowy by mario testino for us vogue, may 2010; fashion editor, marie-amélie sauvé via absinthrill}

{have an extraordinary weekend}

. . . a perfectly wonderful week and so many things still to look forward to, but for now, dreaming of enchanting weekend things, of saturday morning crêpes and sunday afternoon light . . .

hope it's beautiful where you are,
xo






{a few lovely links:}
* lovely, lovely: jackie in spain
* everywhere: but just so charming
* collection: bedside tables
* fashion photography: natalia by poalo roversi & more natalia
* wit + delight: mis-matched china & flowers for a spring wedding
* spring things: spool vases
* summer inspiration: the cherry blossom girl
* interior inspiration: fancy foyers
* thanks so much for: this & this & this & this & this

{lucky magazine guest posts:}
* monday: pretty pastels
* tuesday: the classic trench
* wednesday: little white dresses
* thursday: weekend carryalls
* friday: nautical inspiration

{as always, a few things you may have missed:}
* spring things: bicycles
* two lovely things: mirror, mirror
* utterly charming: the colour of cherry blossoms
* perfectly ornate: shoes, shoes, shoes
* colour inspiration: glamorous gold
* & of course, a million thank yous

xo

{images: scans, glamour uk august 2008}