Theme Fridays: Flower Power

Welp, it's another theme friday, and compared to last week, this was is so totally up my alley. This week the theme is Flower Power, which we had done once before when we did the themes the first go around. I told everyone to interpret that as they please, last time I took it as all floral, I wore like 5 different floral patterns, it was crazy and super cool. This time I'm going for more of a hippie vibe, but I think that's just mostly because I wanted to wear this dress today! And to compliment that I got on a daisy flower crown that I got at a costume store around halloween for like 4 bucks, and this sick ass daisy bracelete that my wonderful friend Sam gave to me. It's currently one of my favorite things, and always gets me a lot of compliments. I love how well the two match!

Theme Fridays: Club Kid

Remember last year kinda around when I first started working at Beacon's Closet, and every friday was Theme Friday? Where we wrote out different themes and drew them out of a hat and each week we had to dress in the theme? Well it sort of faded and no one was really doing it anymore, but I have decided to reinstate it! However, this is my first go at it again.. and I have to say I don't think I pulled it off too well. This weeks theme is Club Kid... which in this case I just looked at images of Grimes on tumbr to try and get inspiration. First I wanted to go all 90s club kid style.. but it was quite outrageous back then and I couldn't really come up with anything. I didn't do too well here either, I have some out there stuff, but nothing that totally spoke to this style. But I am wearing pink eye shadow and glitter and put some green in my hair, so it's a start, no?

Atlas Genius- Trojans

Trojans- Atlas Genius from celia rowlson-hall on Vimeo.

Back in December I worked on a music video Directed by Celia Rowlson Hall for a band called Atlas Genius which I styled and stared in as well! Although I didn't do too much real acting, it was my first time really being in front of a camera that wasn't just taking photos, and it was a load of fun! I used all my own clothing to style myself, and took advantage of my job and styled my on screen ex-boyfriend with duds from Beacon's Closet. So please check it out! I am quite proud, and it was so lovely to work with Celia, she's a super talented lady with great vision and so easy to work with.

Amanda Henderson

Friday night brought not ony our first blizzard of the season, but the wonderful success of my friend Amanda's knitwear presentation. This was her first time presenting her handmade knitwear to the public, some of which she has been working on for a few years. Amanda is crazy talented on so many levels, playing with needle felting and hand beading techniques to many truly one of a kind pieces. Even her illustrations are awe inspiring, she had a whole bunch of original art work hanging on the wall so you could really get a look at all the work and detail that went into this collection. Please excuse my crappy iphone photos as I forgot my camera at home, but I am so wildly proud of this girl!

Samantha Pleet FW13

Last week some buds and I started NYFW out right by stopping by our friend Samantha Pleet's studio in the garment district. It was my first time getting to visit her new digs up on the 16th floor of a pretty building with a wonderful view! It's a cozy little space where she greeted us with cookies and tea, and maybe the best wardrobe ever to play dress up in! Emma and I for the most part were the ones real giddy about getting to try on all of Sam's beautiful creations. It's fun getting to mix and match some of the separates in ways that she hadn't thought of yet, that has to be a pretty good feeling as the designer to know that someone can come at your collection with a fresh set of eyes and se many possibilities. Sam's use of silks and her own prints make these pieces feel extremely special. And one thing I can say is that the girl knows fit! Each piece fit perfectly, and in the most flattering ways too! She's got some great blouses this season with a great ruffled cuff, you all know I was dying over it! 

striped

What I wore yesterday for my first day of NYFW. I was a simple and relaxed type day, took some of the girls over to Samantha Pleets studio for a little sneak peek of her collection that she is debuting tonight as she has a little party. It was really fun, ate cookies and drank tea and got to play dress up in her new beautiful creations. That girl is damn talented, and her studio is so cozy and beautiful. I need to make a point to drop by more often! I have some photos from the visit I will share soon!

So my outfit here consists of some current favorites, have had this black hat for a long long time, thrifted it out on LI and it's been a favorite since. Got this coat pretty recently at my job and it's a dream! So warm and every time I get a hug from someone they pet me like I'm a teddy bear, it's cute. Everything else I also got from my job, this super cool Catherine Malandrino top is one of my favorites, the sleeves kill me! Been loving this Jack BB Dakota striped skirt. All I have been doing recently is wearing stripes it seems.

And now I have to bundle up and get ready to brave the blizzard to go to my friend Amanda Henderson's presentation. It is seriously snowing out right now, the first real snow we have gotten all winter. So excited, but bummed because I want to wear cute shoes, but I know that's not practical!

Amanda Henderson

Come this friday to see my super talented friend Amanda Henderson's first presentation for her knitwear line. I met Amanda when we were both taking the Summer live program at FIT the summer before our senior years of high school. I met her in my sewing class, then ran into her getting off the train on Long Island. She turned out to live in the neighboring town and so we would ride the train together 4 days a week for 3 weeks and became fast friends. We then went to FIT together and I came to see very quickly that Amanda had quite a bit of talent, her illustrations always left me with my jaw on the floor as well. I'm so happy for her, having her first presentation, and she has been getting some good buzz too! So come by and check it out if you can, it will be a great show! RSVP to the show at RSVP@amandahendersonknits.com