Ice-Cream Dress

Ice-cream dress - that's the lovely name that my favorite Etsy seller, Tortilla Girl, gave this item. With its delicate, playful shoulder straps, its seersucker grayish blue fabric and its perfect, perfect execution, this crisp and fresh dress has become my favorite. Becky, aka Tortilla Girl, adapted this design to my body (I emailed her my exact measurements for a flawless fit) and my color preference (I wanted gray or blue stripes instead of the pink featured in her Etsy shop, and she went to buy some fabric especially for me)...
The bliss, the bliss!


I may love it even more than the previous dress I got from her, the exquisite model below...Do you have an Etsy shop? Which ones are your favorites?
I'm already in full Christmas shopping mode and want to buy as much as possible from Etsy - and also from dear Marie's lovely new shop, Ici.

Naked... Or Not

At the corner of Melrose and Harper in Los Angeles lives a naked Kloe Kardashian. She exposes her spectacular body and mane for PETA, as part of the organization's ongoing struggle to ban fur, the I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur campaign. If you need convincing, read facts and watch videos here.
PETA's website is also a great resource, with a lot of info about brands to avoid - don't buy IAMS to feed your pet!

As for me, I was fully clothed to to welcome the new year. By now, everyone knows how much I love stripes... So I was delighted with this black and white super-mini dress from American Apparel my dear sister got me for Christmas.
Hmmmm, looks like I need a haircut...

Cleo And Coco In Paris

Introducing my lovely friends, Cleo and Coco. Californian Cleo, who like me loves stripes, as you can see, just spent a few extraordinary weeks in Paris with her doll Coco - and her mum Stephanie, a wonderful pro photographer. Here are some of Cleo and Coco's favorite places in Paris:
The Tuileries Fair
The Trocadéro merry-go-round
Petit Bateau, where she chose the denim mini she's wearing on these pictures
CSAO, 9 rue Elzévir, the colorful African arts and crafts store

A New Cap

I just received a new cap from a favorite designer, the adorable blogger Artycho, who had already made an exquisite bonnet named for me.
As you know, I love stripes - very 4th of July, no? And I also adore hats...

Let there be stripes! (4)

Last week's post about children's books got me thinking of the classics I loved as a kid, and among those is Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking.
As a tribute to the wonderful and zany Pippi, I wore thigh-high yellow, gray and black socks, with my Pedro Garcia Oxfords for a little more class and a wool mini-dress by master couturier Roland Mouret, one of my favorite designers, for Gap.
Amusingly, Yasu completed a fabulous Children's Book Week on her blog with a post about Pippi, featuring beautiful illustrations.

And apparently I'm not the only one who's into stripes: this little Scandinavian beauty, whom I met at the Swedish Institute last week, had a lot of style for a 1-year-old, and pretty much wore stripes from head to toe!

Let there be stripes! (2)

Let there be stripes, and also a string of baroque pearls. I love their ruggedness and radiance.

Let there be stripes! (1)

I just love stripes, and these socks, which a little friend calls 'your witch's socks', keep me warm in the winter...

On Sunday, I was delighted to meet Ronda from All The Best, a terrific blog about Stylish Living that features amazing profiles and interviews as well as an array of arts/design/fashion books that makes me drool...
Though both Ronda and her husband were disappointed I had not brought Benjy along to the legendary café Les Deux Magots, we had a great time over a glass of Bordeaux (me) and absinthe (an adventurous Ronda)...