Thrift Eye

The awesome folk over at LookMazing have been on a roll here in San Francisco throwing events where attendees can participate in the ultimate shopping experience. It gave us the opportunity to visit the Gap and local boutique Azalea, and do what we all dream of: dress up in their clothes from head to toe. Once your picture is up, you get a chance to link to the products you are wearing and share it with others. The platform seems to be quite useful for those that don’t have blogs already, it was always fun to try it out for ourselves.

Here is my outfit from the Gap

Head to toe in the Gap: jacket, dress, belt, shoes, bag. Only the tights were mine. Now I really want these shoes.

My other outfit was put together by the lovely shop gals at Azalea. In fact, if you watch their promo video of that night, you’ll catch a glimpse of me at the sales associate putting this outfit together and its transformation (she made me try on some super duper short shorts at first).

Top: Liv, similar. Skirt: Azalea. Belt: Cheap Monday. Shoes: Mine, from Target. Tights: mine as well.

Both of the outfits are completely different and don’t belong to me, but I definitely could see adding both into my wardrobe. Playing dress up like this can be dangerous to your wallet.

I got back from the Cindy Sherman photo exhibit at the San Francisco MOMA a few hours ago, and I can’t get the whole thing out of my head.

I got to see this very short film she made called Doll Clothes, and found it very interesting (ps. there is no audio)

But the week before, I had seen Catie’s post about being inspired by Cindy Sherman and her own photo escapades that resulted. It made me realize that the line Cindy Sherman has drawn between artist and that of a fashion/style blogger can be very thin (not implying that I’m an artist).

Sherman creates her sets, finds her wardrobe, does her own hair and makeup, on top of it all, her own photographer. When my boyfriend isn’t helping me with my photos, I’m doing the exact same thing and I know many bloggers that do the same. I use each outfit post as an opportunity to explain a story of where I went or why I chose to wear what I had on at that day or time. It’s all harder than it looks because it is time consuming (plus I work and go to school). But once you see the final results of the photos and when the post comes together, it becomes very rewarding and worth it. When I’m starting to feel exhausted by the tribulations of blogging, I’m going to remind myself of this post.

You can read a little more about Cindy at her own website, or just browsing the internet to see lots of her amazing photographs and the hundreds of Cindy’s she’s turned herself into. Have you seen her exhibit already (it ran in NYC before coming to San Francisco) or viewed her photographs somewhere else, I would love to know what you think about her but also about photographing yourself.

Things had slowed down here because I was at the end of wrapping up two final papers and my internship, both of which are over for this semester. Which now means having actual time to take photos (of myself, of anything! I’ve put down the camera for too long). I have a few ideas in my head that I’ve been wanting to find time to create and post, now I finally have the time! (or if there’s anything you’d like to me to post about, please let me know!)

I can’t stop watching this video with Coco Rocha, and maybe I have Top Model on the brain (anyone remember her short appearance on ANTM?). But gosh, does she look absolutely gorgeous but so energetic. She’s one of the few models who looks like she enjoys her job! I’m sure all of us taking blog photos could learn a thing or two from her.

via Racked

Hope your weekend is going great :)

What would you do if your flight turned into a runway show?! I was just blown away by this video from Banana Republic

This is also why I love Virgin America. Flying never looked so good. AND a little sneak peek into the Mad Men collection? I love how some of the passengers were still acting like nothing was happening – I mean, I wish this would happen when I fly instead of crying babies!