17 Blocks from Barneys

tip of the hat

2012-01-25T10:28:00.000-08:00

left hat | right hat | images

It's time to take back the hat.

xx,kk

fishing

2012-01-19T12:21:00.000-08:00

via wardrobe stylist Lisa Moir

67,000 points to the person who can identify this skirt.

xx,kk

bare all

2012-01-19T11:23:00.000-08:00

via Rue Magazine

One can't turn 30 years old...or 28, as my ingenious backward birthday-ing goes...without this vest.

Or a headboard. Real adults have headboards, I think.

xx,kk

insider

2012-01-18T12:58:00.000-08:00

top image via Like the Boys

My car registered -1º this morning. I didn't even know it could show negative numbers. So today, I'd rather be wrapped in an oversized sweater, sipping (boozy) tea, and snuggling up with this little guy.

-1º is messed up, yo.

xx,kk

cookery

2012-01-17T10:43:00.000-08:00

I bet nothing ever burns in a kitchen like this.

xx,kk

JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER FEELS PRETTY. OH, SO PRETTY.

2012-01-17T10:21:00.000-08:00

xx,kk

tinker

2012-01-17T10:02:00.000-08:00

The ideal Sunday morning coffee accompaniment or a happy place to retreat to when the only real solution seems to beat your co-workers senseless, I give you Jason Beck a.k.a Chilly Gonzales a.k.a. Gonzales, a Canadian-born electronica producer who turned to his lifelong piano training to create blissfully minimal pieces like this.

Bonus points are also due for his footwear and jewelry selections.

xx,kk

puppy love

2012-01-17T09:43:00.000-08:00

Meet my new puppy, Barnard! Tom Ford, himself, could not design a better dog.

(Lots) more pictures to follow.

xx,kk

how a gentleman cooks breakfast

2012-01-09T14:09:00.001-08:00

You may think that a fried breakfast is something that doesn’t need a recipe, but I guarantee that if you follow this one you’ll never regret it.

1. Wake up in a Georgian country house with a hangover of biblical proportions. Slide your arm from beneath the slender alabaster neck of the recumbent debutante and silently pick your way through the detritus of last night’s party to the kitchen.

2. As soft golden sunlight arcs low across the paddock and gilds the chromework of the Aga like melted butter, find a big pan.   

3. Heat an unconscionable quantity of oil to a gentle simmer and slip in the freshly made local sausages. Sausages should not be pricked and never fried. The intention is that they should poach in the oil.   

4. As the sausages poach make tea. If it is a proper farmhouse there will be a gigantic ‘Brown Betty’ teapot of the type used to fortify British battalions throughout the last Great Unpleasantness. Add a spoonful of leaf tea (need we mention the sordid subject of bags?) for each person and ‘one for the pot’. At this point the kettle will start its song, beginning the process of gently awakening the recovering partygoers. Pour the water over the leaves. The tea serves the same purpose to a hungover Englishman that chicken soup serves to a Jewish New Yorker with a headcold and hives. This is not cooking…it’s an emergency clinical intervention. An Englishman’s mother will offer him tea as first response medical aid even if his arm has been severed by a combine harvester.   

5. Move the sausages to the warming oven, pour off all but a light glazing of the oil and begin to brown the bacon. Much has been written about good bacon and I do not propose to repeat it. Suffice it to say…smoked…streaky…thin…crisp. Place in the warming oven when done.   

6. Open a can of Heinz baked beans -accept no substitute- these are not so much a foodstuff as an architectural element of the finished plate. Think of beans as colour and a concealer of disheartening flashes of empty plate between meats.   

7. Mushrooms and tomatoes may be grilled at this stage but no gentleman would consider eating them. They are vegetables. Vegetables are a form of table decoration. They aren’t food - they go next to food. As the great Dr Johnson should have said ‘Vegetables are what food eats’ and I have no intention of disagreeing.   

8. Americans eat hash browns at breakfast. They are disagreeable to an Englishman. I understand that the French, who can make food out of almost anything, use them to sole espadrilles.   

9. There are many different ways to cook eggs but most of them are purely of interest to invalids, children and the feeble-minded. The correct or ‘proper English egg’ is fried with lightly browned edges in the fat left over from the bacon. At the last minute, oil is flicked over the top of the yolk to seal it. This dangerous procedure causes the yolk to form a perfect, golden, viscid capsule, the violation of which with a rough shard of toast, is the nearest that an Englishman will permit himself to unbridled sexual ecstasy.   

10. While the eggs are being coaxed into tumescence the first of the walking wounded will have arrived in the kitchen. Ignore the bashful looks and tousled hair and administer tea in large quantities. Mugs enable fingers to thaw and many a tryst has been sealed by a coy glance over the chipped china rim. The more robust may be set to the simple task of toast.   

11. Working quickly, lay down toast, top with an egg, flank with bacon and sausage and fill the spaces with beans. Serve forth.

jam on this

2011-11-17T10:42:00.000-08:00

If, like me, you are busily preparing for the upcoming Eatpocalypse 2011, then you will, no doubt, also be contemplating its corresponding playlist. Lucky for you, I've got you covered.

After scouring the internet for a decent medley and continually coming up with the inaudible or hokey, I plugged in my earphones and took DJ-ing into my own click-happy hands. Playlist serving instructions: pour yourself a big bourbon, grab a fork, press play and stuff your face like leftovers don't exist. Enjoy!

Cocktails

1. "Bennie and the Jets," Elton John

2. "The Walk," Mayer Hawthorne

3. "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," by Amos Milburn

4. "Wade in the Water," Ramsey Lewis Trio

5. "It's a Shame," The Spinners

6. "You Send Me," Sam Cooke

Dinner

7. "Since I Fell for You," Gladys Knight

8. "A Sunday Kind of Love," Beth Rowley

9. "Shine on Harvest Moon," Rosemary Clooney

10. "Blue Moon," Bucky Pizzarelli & Skitch Henderson

11. "You Always Hurt the One You Love," The Mills Brothers

12. "Some Strange Rain," Cotton Jones

13. "Blood Red Sentimental Blues," Cotton Jones

14. "I'm Sorry," Eric Clapton

15. "Be Yourself (Nash)," Robin Pecknold

16. "Harvest Moon," Neil Young

17. "Walkin' After Midnight," Patsy Cline

18. "I Only Have Eyes for You," Flamingos

19. "Bluebird," Paul McCartney

20. "Ballad for My One True Love," Mason Jennings

21. "Flight Attendant," Josh Rouse

Dessert

22. "Samba da Bencao," Bebel Gilberto

23. "Queremos Paz," Gotan Project

24. "Tane Mahuta," Ruby Suns

25. "Space Kay," Daniel Lanois

luminosity

2011-11-14T11:43:00.000-08:00

I liked the picture of the chandelier so much, I decided to replicate it for myself. Just bought this image, now all I have to do is find a suitable frame and hit print.

Stay tuned for the results!

xx,kk

jam on this

2011-11-14T11:29:00.000-08:00

Because, the truth is, the Guards are good.
xx,kk

furry friend

2011-11-02T14:37:00.000-07:00

I'm currently working on adopting my very own puppy-face-smudge-love-schmou (did that make you pukey?), but first he's going to need some nice things: 1. dog bowl by Bauer Pottery 2. collar by Found My Animal 3. squirrel! 4. rope leash by Found My Animal 5. dog bed by Suzanne Kaiser Collection

xx,kk

boo

2011-10-31T08:30:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween! (P.S. If you don't put Worcester Sauce on your pumpkin seeds, then I just feel sorry for you.)

xx,kk

do you baggu?

2011-10-27T11:06:00.001-07:00

This little delight arrived in the mail yesterday, making me a happier girl. Do yourselves a favor and check out what's new at Baggu.

xx,kk

hermès afterlife

2011-10-26T11:46:00.000-07:00

Even Hermès' scraps afford an afterlife. On November 3-23 their new line, Petit H, will be on display at the Madison Avenue flagshipstore in Manhattan. From what my rusty French gathers from their website, Petit H is a sort of laboratory where leather scraps, slightly flawed tea cups and other "leftovers" are metamorphosed, turning trash into treasure. A demi-tasses' handles becomes a necklace; scraps of calfskin leather transform into a Panda...

Who would of thought you'd suddenly want a stuffed bear more than you ever wanted a Birkin?

xx,kk

ride pine

2011-10-25T11:35:00.000-07:00

I don't want you to be jealous, but this is my bench (see? That's my finger in the upper left corner). Three days ago, this bench only had a piece of plywood as a seat and it looked like it was worth the 60 dollars I paid at a rummage shop in Door County (that's the Hamptons of Wisconsin, look it up). But that was three days ago...

Look at her now.

xx,kk

update

2011-10-21T09:18:00.000-07:00

Oh! News! I updated my fashion resume because more fashiony things have happened to me since the last time I did it! Make yourself wiser here.

xx,kk

mentionable unmentionables

2011-10-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

Just in time for a 34° Wisconsin morning: London marque, Under, and their masterful remake of the classic long johns.

xx,kk

hibernate

2011-10-20T11:20:00.000-07:00

my guess is, if you sat down here, you'd likely never get back up.

xx,kk

WHEN YOU ASKED FOR A "STRIPPER," NICHOLAS HOULT FIRST THOUGHT YOU MEANT FOR WALLPAPER.

2011-10-20T11:16:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

tricolore

2011-10-20T11:02:00.000-07:00

C'est la manière française.

xx,kk

double bag it

2011-10-20T10:39:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

ink on paper

2011-10-07T08:39:00.000-07:00

works by visual artist Niall McClelland

xx,kk

weekend wear

2011-10-07T08:35:00.000-07:00

[via Oyster Magazine]

enjoy!

xx,kk

wonder wall

2011-10-07T08:31:00.000-07:00

[found here]

xx,kk

jam on this

2011-09-26T14:32:00.000-07:00

Because I sayer so.
xx,kk

open fire

2011-09-26T08:24:00.000-07:00

Hello, fall.

xx,kk

true love

2011-09-26T08:21:00.000-07:00

I'm in love, I'm in love and I don't care who knows it! Meet my new man, Guillaume Canet.

xx,kk

welcome, weekend

2011-09-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

I only drink champagne when I'm happy, or when I'm sad.

I sometimes drink it when I'm alone.

When I have company, I consider it obligatory.

I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am.

Otherwise, I never touch it – unless I'm thirsty.

– Mme Lily Bollinger

It's Friday. I want to see you party.

xx,kk

GRAHAM SHEARER REGRETS TO INFORM YOU: BATTERY'S DEAD. YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO BE JUMPED

2011-09-23T13:38:00.000-07:00

[via Driven]

xx,kk

oh, isn't it good, Nantucket wood

2011-09-23T08:57:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

ms. brooks

2011-09-22T13:08:00.000-07:00

[via The Cut]

She did New York Fashion Week proud.

xx,kk

red, red room

2011-09-22T12:50:00.000-07:00

I like you. You be my bedroom.

xx,kk

time to go

2011-09-14T09:20:00.000-07:00

[via Buchanan-Smith]

back next week!

xx,kk

JIM STURGESS WAS WEEPING AND THUS, AND SLIPPED. HE WAS THINKING OF YOU. I DON'T KNOW.

2011-09-09T14:33:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

I once met a man

2011-09-09T14:02:00.000-07:00

[photos: Jason Frank Rothenberg]

And his name was Jason Frank Rothenberg. And he took exquisite pictures.

xx,kk

father of invention

2011-09-09T07:41:00.000-07:00

[through the back door]

"Dudes think they're hot shit when they tuck in their ties. One-up them by cutting a hole behind your breast pocket and looping your tie through so it doubles as a pocket square."

[the sock-it square]

"Tuck in a pocket square at the heel of your shoe and have it stick out. This practical device soaks up sweat, thwarts blisters, and lets you accessorize without acting the fool and wearing ankle bandanas."

GQ Magazine (quite brilliantly) offers the male dresser some sage fashion week advice with illustrated sartorial inventions ... guaranteed to land you on the screens of street style blogs everywhere.

See the rest here.

xx,kk

it's all party, party

2011-09-07T13:01:00.000-07:00

Nothing to celebrate but pictures that make me want to celebrate. So, yay, I guess.

xx,kk

just a bite

2011-09-07T12:14:00.000-07:00

[via 101 Cookbooks]

I made these cookies this past weekend and I believe them to be very good (and good for you!). Here's the recipe -- pardon the re-name:

TINY TUSHIES

3 large, ripe bananas, well mashed

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup olive oil

2 cups rolled oats

2/3 cup almond meal/flour

1/3 cup coconut, finely shredded & unsweetened

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

6 to 7 ounces chocolate chips or dark chocolate bar, chopped

---

Preheat oven to 350º, racks in the top third

In a large bowl, combing the bananas, vanilla extract and olive oil. Set aside. In another bowl, whisk together the oats, almond meal, shredded coconut, cinnamon, salt and baking powder. Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients and stir until combined. Fold in the chocolate chips/chunks. The dough is a bit looser than a standard cookie dough but don't worry about it. Drop 1 tablespoon scoops, an inch apart, onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes but be mindful you don't burn the bottoms. Makes about 3 dozen bite-sized cookies.

Bon appétit!

xx,kk

IT'S KEVIN COSTNER, OH HAY.

2011-09-02T10:42:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

how the mighty fall

2011-09-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

[via Heidi Merrick]

xx,kk

feast

2011-08-31T14:25:00.000-07:00

[Falcon Enamelware]

Ice white with a blue rim, Falcon Enamelware has been an icon of British home life since the 1920s. Now the classic kitchenware is being revitalized for the 21st century through a collaboration between designers KIWI&POM and Morse Studio.

Afterall, in cooking, presentation is everything.

xx,kk

how graphic

2011-08-30T13:20:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

lilogi

2011-08-30T13:13:00.000-07:00

[via lilogi.com]

Know this! Lilogi is a digital fashion gallery, now molesting eyes all over the world daily online. Each week they pick a theme and then create videos, slideshows and features on said theme. It's a magical discovery I just made and, because I'm so nice, I am now sharing with you.

Boy or girl, I suggest you start with this intoxicating view.

xx,kk

to: tunic

2011-08-30T12:10:00.000-07:00

[Ayana tunic by Lemlem]

I will like to have you.

xx,kk

out of Africa

2011-08-26T09:27:00.000-07:00

[found via here]

All the pretty horses from Mali, Africa. The question is: how do you get one of those necklaces of your own?

xx,kk

kitchen dream

2011-08-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

[found via Owens & Co.]

It's all about the backsplash.

xx,kk

jam on this

2011-08-26T09:05:00.000-07:00

Because "I've no love for cats."

xx,kk

come hither

2011-08-25T12:46:00.000-07:00

yon Penfield vest.

xx,kk

MATTHEW GOODE IS HIGH ON HORSE

2011-08-25T12:17:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

il pleut

2011-08-25T11:50:00.000-07:00

[available on Etsy]

xx,kk

gear up

2011-08-24T13:28:00.000-07:00

hey, stick shift knob. get out of my dreams...

and into my car.

xx,kk

pochette

2011-08-24T12:23:00.000-07:00

Paradise in a pouch, by Samudra.

xx,kk

busted

2011-08-23T13:54:00.000-07:00

[click to enlarge]

Very truly yours,

your search is over

2011-08-22T14:54:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

wedding belles

2011-08-19T09:55:00.000-07:00

As a girl who scrolls through WAY too many wedding blogs, pours over lace-covered spreads in numerous magazines and has helped plan a few real-life nuptials, I'm going to go ahead and consider myself an expert on all things "big day." (Don't let my aggressive single-status fool you.)

So when I said before that – were I ever to get married myself – the delicious dot creation above by Isaac Mizrahi would be my choice for aisle-walking wear, I think I should have known I was 100% right.

[via The Aisle]

Because now, thanks to the members-only online bridal shop The Aisle, every girl can wear it (in blinding white) on their own wedding day. That is, if you've got a chunk of $2,850 change.

Looks like I've got to take me out some ad space and put myself back on the market. Then dye this sucker down to a reasonable, and more appropriate "not-so-freaking-pure" shade.

xx,kk

true bohemian

2011-08-19T07:46:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

couture

2011-08-19T07:44:00.000-07:00

by Christian Dior.

xx,kk

CLINT EASTWOOD TOOK CARE OF BUSINESS

2011-08-19T07:42:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

two, please

2011-08-19T07:33:00.000-07:00

I will have both of these things, please. bag and print

xx,kk

carry along

2011-08-10T13:20:00.000-07:00

[via Nivaldo de Lima]

Linen and leather were meant for each other.

xx,kk

IT'S AT SUNSET WHEN ZACH BRAFF REALLY SHINES.

2011-08-10T13:13:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

Missoni for Target

2011-08-10T13:04:00.001-07:00

Me-wanty from Target. Coming 9/13.

xx,kk

the kooples

2011-08-04T13:47:00.000-07:00

[via The Kooples]

Real couple ads by The Kooples. A French clothing brand, bien sur.

xx,kk

Plug in

2011-08-03T15:13:00.000-07:00

[via Best Made]

I never thought I would covet an extension cord – until this day.

xx,kk

one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

2011-07-30T13:19:00.000-07:00

inspiration:

execution:

Go fish! xx,kk

Jam on this

2011-07-22T07:52:00.000-07:00

Because Deer Tick has officially become my all-time favorite band.

xx,kk

walk this way

2011-07-22T07:50:00.000-07:00

[via StreetFSN]

From this delectable collection of small style details.

xx,kk

dude.

2011-07-20T11:48:00.000-07:00

via Apolis

xx,kk

DOMINIC COOPER DOESN'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.

2011-07-20T11:40:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

Jam on this

2011-07-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

Because I'm going to see them perform on Saturday -- and I need to practice my dance.

xx,kk

Before the computer virus, there was the termite.

2011-07-20T11:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum...

...home to 1.5 million pieces of wood type, each salvaged from the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, which was once the largest wood type producer in the country after it began in 1880. If you find yourself in Two Rivers, WI (which, other than to see this place, I don't know why you would) I urgently suggest you help yourself to a self-guided tour. Still operating today, you'll find young printmakers who, while noodling around on the overly inked machines, will -- in typical Wisconsin sincerity -- eagerly tell you all about the company's overwhelming history and refer to the museum's founder simply as "Jim."

You'll also walk on the rickety floors, meet the rest of the dedicated staff, admire dusty letter presses, and snap a pic of a brilliant pile of used rubber gloves. And you'll hope, deep down, that none of that will ever change at all.

xx,kk

MICHAEL CAINE GONNA KNOCK YOU OUT

2011-06-30T13:42:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

ahoy

2011-06-30T13:38:00.000-07:00

[vai Chucs Dive & Mountain Shop]

Nautical items from Chucs Dive & Mountain Shop, launched earlier this year by film producer Charles Finch.

xx,kk

The place to be

2011-06-27T14:36:00.001-07:00

xx,kk

American woman

2011-06-22T14:22:00.000-07:00

[All photos via Claiborne Swanson Frank]

There are some women who are so cool, you can't even be jealous of them.

Meet Claiborne Swanson Frank, budding Voguester-turned-photographer and daughter of the beyond-cool family behind Swanson Vineyards in Napa Valley. She is the eye behind the lens of Vogue.com's celebrity interior snap-shoot series, "APT with LSD" (see her own Napa cottage here) and soon will be releasing her first Assouline-published book of portraits entitled American Beauty. And, of course, she's insanely beautiful (that's Claiborne in the top photo).

Alright, so maybe it's okay to be a bit jealous. Or, a lot.

xx,kk

Sweet ride

2011-06-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

[Honda Spree by artist and surfer Jay Nelson]

For I.P. (freely). Please get/build/steal this now.

xx,kk

Jam on this

2011-06-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

Because if you don't know about Robin Pecknold or Fleet Foxes, I don't want to know about you.

xx,kk

Magical

2011-06-15T13:23:00.000-07:00

[Tom Ford Fall 2011 collection (crappy) video look book]

As promised, Tom Ford released images of his Fall 2011 collection these four months after his private presentation for Beyoncé and other less-significant people. I will apologize on Tom's behalf for the lousy video format. I will praise him, however, for his design mastery.

xx,kk

JAMES FRANCO THINKS BROWN BEARS ARE BEST

2011-06-15T12:51:00.001-07:00

[in honor of below's post]

xx,kk

Morning woes

2011-06-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

[via Elle.com, photography by James Franco]

There's nothing quite more soul sucking than, after a morning spent convincing yourself that despite the clock actually reading 7:30 am, it's only 6:30 am and you can, because you deserve it, sleep in another five minutes, then getting visibly angry at your electric toothbrush for taking so goddamned long, grabbing whatever clothes are on the top of the laundry pile and breezing past your house guest as you fly out the door...hungover...there's nothing - NOTHING! - more soul sucking than finding out that, meanwhile, James Franco managed to add yet another hyphen to his already vomit-inducingly long wikipedia title.

James Franco, American actor–film director–screenwriter–film producer–author–painter–performance artist–(and now) fashion photographer.

And I forgot to put on underpants.

xx,kk

good winter

2011-06-13T14:45:00.000-07:00

[via Vanity Fair]

Fact: Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is originally from Wisconsin (point, me).

Fact: Bon Iver's new self-titled album will make you more blubbering and wistfully weepy than you were when you watched Liv Tyler say her final good-bye to Bruce Willis in Armageddon.

Grab some Kleenex and have a listen here.

xx,kk

THIS IS HOW TOM SELLECK LETS HIS MOUSTACHE DRY.

2011-06-09T10:45:00.000-07:00

[via Get Kempt]

xx,kk

Not too sh*tty

2011-06-09T10:36:00.000-07:00

Nestled among lush rolling hills and pristine Midwestern farmland, in a town called Spring Green, there is a barn. And it's a pretty sh*tty one, at that. But, inside this sh*tty barn (aptly named "The Sh*tty Barn"), musical guests are welcomed, Furthermore beer flows, BBQ grills are a-fire and general merriment abounds.

This, my friends, is Wisconsin. And it's pretty f*cking cool.

xx,kk

GERARD BUTLER IS CHANGING INTO HIS BIRTHDAY SUIT.

2011-06-07T07:48:00.000-07:00

[via W Magazine]

xx,kk

Jam on this

2011-06-07T07:30:00.000-07:00

The new Arctic Monkeys album - because Tuesday is a day for British rock 'n roll.

xx,kk

{ : - 0

2011-06-07T07:14:00.000-07:00

[via The Cut]

Shocked face! The design duo for Proenza Schouler BEAT Marc Jacobs for the CFDA womenswear designer of the year award.

Also! Pant suits are back! So are bright neons! And, apparently, Judith Light! See all the goodness here.

xx,kk

I want to hang out with Billy Reid

2011-06-02T15:46:00.000-07:00

[via Driven]

xx,kk

There's two "o's" in Goose, boys

2011-06-01T07:30:00.000-07:00

[via A Time to Get]

This is brilliant: artist Olly Moss takes pop-culture icons and puts them into age-old silhouette form. Get scrolling here.

xx,kk

Jam on this

2011-06-01T07:23:00.001-07:00

Because it's finally summer and that means you should be shaking some hips.

xx,kk

BRADLEY COOPER IS PRACTICING HIS EXTREME SITTING.

2011-05-31T13:11:00.000-07:00

[via Details Magazine]

xx,kk

Mirror, mirror on the wall

2011-05-31T13:02:00.000-07:00

[via Cristina Rodriguez Interior Design]

Ooo! Mirror memos. I like it.

xx,kk

JUDE LAW JUST LIT YOUR FIRE.

2011-05-27T09:38:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

FREE AI WEIWEI

2011-05-27T09:24:00.000-07:00

World-renowned artist and courageous human rights advocate, Ai Weiwei, was detained by Chinese authorities last month and, despite growing international support, still remains to be seen or even heard from. Here's a glimpse into his "Sunflower Seeds" exhibition at London's Tate Modern -- a vast carpet of 100 million (!) handmade porcelain replicas of sunflower seeds. The sound they make underfoot alone is enough to amaze.

xx,kk

Jam on this

2011-05-26T15:15:00.000-07:00

Because if you aren't bumpin', then you're definitely not grindin'.

xx,kk

Plunge

2011-05-26T12:30:00.000-07:00

I just need roughly 30 more degrees of Fahrenheit.

xx,kk

CLEMENT CHABERNAUD IS LOOKING FOR HIS DINGHY.

2011-05-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

[via Vogue Hommes International]

xx,kk

Flying colors

2011-05-26T12:01:00.000-07:00

xx,kk

Seamless

2011-05-25T10:24:00.000-07:00

[found via Get Kempt]

Do this now: lift up your arm and look down at your shirt. More than likely, you have a seam running straight up your side all the way to your armpit. Don't be sad, but that means it was made on a flat loom that only runs back-and-forth. It also means your shirt is probably not made by Germans.

Now, look up and check out the century-old Deutschland clothing manufacturer, Merz B. Schwanen. Born from the Swabian Mountain regions' forced occupational switch from farming to knitting in the mid 1800's (stupid infertile land), the company continues the tradition of employing old-world style circular knitting machines to create cotton sweatshirts, classic Henleys and the odd smock or two. Circular knitting means, the fabrics come off in circular sheets and side seams simply don't exist. What's cooler than that, though, is the entire operation. So until you can go seamless yourself (which, you can. Merz B. Schwanen shirts will be in stock next season here), you can still feast your eyes on authentic German engineering at its finest.

xx,kk