Outfit: Thursday

This beautiful winged blouse is from my lovely friend Karen, who is currently residing in Paris. I feel so very French when wearing this. Merci beaucoup, mon ami!

See the video above for how I feel when I'm feeling frenchie (and can only use my intermediate French skills to express myself).

LL

Sneak Peek

Yipppee! Finally- internet at the new place. We've felt a bit blue not blogging so we will probably be posting a bit more than usual to make up for it.
Here's a little peak of our decorating scheme for the living area: sage green, brown, creme/white. Well spotted to those Ikea fans out there. We love their cubicle shelves. We'll post more decor pics soon!

LL

No Internet Still-- Eek!

Dear Loyal Blog Readers,

We greatly apologize for this long delay! We still have no internet at our fabulous, new apartment (I am clandestinely typing on my work computer at the moment). That should be remedied today and then we promise you millions of blog posts (outfit pics, photos of the new place, the usual Decatur/Atlanta goodies, etc.).
We hope you all have enjoyed the last few days of summer!

The AsianCajuns (LL)

Moving on Up

We're moving up to the top floor in our apartment building this weekend. We'll post as soon as we're done!

CL

Peter, Bjorn & John featuring The Clientele

We saw quite a good show at Variety Playhouse tonight. The Clientele opened with some great tunes and self-effacing jokes. The band is from England, but they've played in Atlanta a couple of times. I hope they visit again soon. I'd like to see a show where they're the headliners.

Of course Peter, Bjorn & John were great in all their Swedish loveliness. Peter, the lead singer, really hams it up on stage and the band as a whole is really charismatic. Their fashion sense isn't half bad either. Peter wore a white button-up with a gray blazer and matching, tight jeans - a very nice outfit, but the jeans seemed a little tight for his scissor kicks. Bjorn opted for a shrunken motorcycle/bomber black jacket and I couldn't really tell what John was wearing, but he looked mighty nice behind the drums.

In the images below the blue blur is a shot of The Clientele and the orange blur is Peter, Bjorn & John.


We took some outfit pictures in the alley near Variety Playhouse. The painting below is part of a mural on the side of Seven Stages.


We were taken with the "Oh Jennifer mi amor" artwork on the Ragorama wall - so passionate...and such an upturned nose!

CL

Quick Outfit Pic

This is not my most comfortable outfit (look at them heels), but it happened to be photographed a few times today so I thought I would post it. I do love aqua + red.

Blurry photo at work...

Shirt- NY&Co. many moons ago
Skirt- Ann Taylor ""
Shoes- Le Tarjay
Scarf- Tarjay (proenza schouler)
sunglasses- Urban Outfitters

LL

This Week's Wish List

(Clockwise from top right)

• Tord Boontje Second Shadow Light from Heliotrope
• Sunglasses from Urban Outfitters
• Banana Republic's Malachite for Women
• Anything from The Body Shop in honor of Dame Anita Roddick
• IPod Nano in green

CL

Designer Runway Uniform - Spring 2008 RTW

Every fashion junkie in the world knows that it's New York fashion week for Spring 2008. For those of you who aren't aware of this fact, you've either been living under a rock for the past two weeks or you haven't been reading Vogue, Style.com and a ridiculous amount of fashion blogs like I have.

Needless to say, every angle of fashion week is being covered by a number of bloggers and publications, so I've decided to forgo any runway collection posts on this blog. Trust me, there are many more people out there that can analyze, summarize and review these recent collections better than I can. I find all the clothing a bit overwhelming, which is why I prefer to look at what the actual designers are wearing.

In general most designers keep their outfits simple during their shows (exceptions include John Galliano, Betsy Johnson and Anna Sui). In fact, there almost seems to be a designer day-of-show uniform.

Black and white:

Narciso Rodriguez, Doo Ri, Carolina Herrera

Blue button-up with jeans:

Marc Jacobs, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Derek Lam

Classic white shirt & khakis:

Jeremy Laing, Peter Som

Black cardigan:

Phillip Lim, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte

CL

Not Very Vera

Vera Wang's Simply Vera line for Kohl's came out today. Although I haven't seen the clothes in person, I'm a little disappointed with the overall collection. It's not nearly as feminine as her RTW line and even some of the shoes and pants have a very suburban/Kohl's feel to them. I think the strongest pieces are her dresses (top left) and sleepwear (top right and middle row). There are a couple of long knitted gloves that I really like - although I don't know if I like them enough to spend $35. The shoes in the bottom right image are the only ones I liked. The rest of the shoes seemed kind of clunky or bland. Also, unlike Target's Go International or Steve and Berry's SJP Bitten line, Simply Vera has a higher price point than other clothing at Kohl's.


I actually really like this Simply Vera color block dress (left) even though - or maybe because - it reminds me of the dress Julie Andrews wears in the opening scene of The Sound of Music.


At first I thought these knitted items were neck warmers (which are very popular this year), but they're actually headbands. I really like how they're twisted and better yet, I really like how I can make one of these myself. I might not be able to knit a sweater, but a Simply Vera knitted headband knock-off should be no problem!


CL

Atlanta Shop News

According to last week's Atlanta Business Chronicle, Urban Outfitters will be moving into the old Market One spot near the Majestic Diner at the corner of Virginia Highland and Ponce. This will be the second U.O. in Atlanta and closer to my apartment. So on a purely selfish level I'm glad to hear that I no longer have to drive out to Lenox Mall to shop at one of my favorite chain stores. Plus, it'll be right next to 7 Mississippi, a cute clothing boutique that opened up about a year ago.

JCrew in Paris

As I've mentioned before, I don't often shop at J.Crew. Nevertheless, I still like looking through the catalog every once in a while because I love how the fashion shoots are stylized. The 3 images below are from the fall campaign. They make me want to hop on a plane to Paris. Of course if I could find enough money to fly to the city of lights I would be staying in hostels and hauling a backpack around town. Come to think of it, one of these outfits costs about as much as a flight to Europe, so I'm content to just enjoy the images and save up for some travelling.

CL

Faulkner with Strings Attached

Marionettes and Faulkner. We're Serious, it's Genius! Trust Us...

We promise we will return to our fashionista selves shortly, but we beseech you, if you are anywhere in the Atlanta area this is not to be missed. Sept. 6-Sept. 23 at PushPush Theatre, Haverty Marionettes are performing an adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.

I know, I know, we thought the same thing that you're thinking now. We were not particularly big fans of either Faulkner or marionettes (or so we thought)... but we promise you, the creativity of Haverty Marionettes and (we hate to say it) the genius of Faulkner, really work. The marionettes, the shadow puppets, the musicians, the actors/puppeteers, the set design all kept us entranced for 2 hours of southern gothic greatness on strings.

PushPush Theatre is located right in East Decatur Station off of College Ave. Conveniently, one of the best restaurants around, Duck's Cosmic Kitchen (home of the most amazing doughnuts ever- yes better than bliss itself, the KrispyKreme) is located just by PushPush. We stopped there for dinner first and were pleasantly surprised to find it was half-price wine night on Thursdays. What are you guys waiting for? We totally planned the perfect evening for you and your eccentric, foodie buddy. Enjoy!

Festival Aftermath

I hope a lot of you got to make it out to Decatur this weekend: beautiful weather, funnel cakes, free t-shirts, and most importantly books and author talks. Can you think of a better combination? I know it might seem strange to mix carnival food stuffs and higher, intellectual pursuits, but take my word for it, together they are like bread and butter. Here are a few quick pics from the weekend:

Cath looking effortlessly chic and festival ready. See that light blue Book Fest tee? That means power, people... well she did get to walk around with a walkie-talkie (she's on the Festival's committee).

I'm wearing my new favorite t-shirt from the Wren's Nest (click here if you'd like to sport one yourself). Cath bought me these spiffy red "ray-bans" from Urban Outfitters.

This is the creation of our friend and book fest coordinator extraordinaire, Joe. This is one of the many centerpieces he made for the tables at the Book Fest VIP party.

A quick collage of some Book Fest remnants: (from top left, clockwise) Beneath the Neon by Matthew O'Brien, Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott, my new Wren's Nest tee (yep- same one I wore yesterday- it really is my new favorite shirt), the official Book Festival program.

LL

Decatur Book Festival!

Fellow Atlantans/Decaturites, we hope to see you this weekend at the Decatur Book Festival. Click here to get the inside scoop on all the hoo-ha. Apart from being self-professed book geeks, we also will be working at the festival.
Fellow Fashionistas, stay tuned for ways to stay somewhat presentable when wearing a volunteer t-shirt 5 sizes too big and sweating for hours on end... well, actually, I can't make any promises. We'll try our best to have some intriguing photos up before the end of the holiday weekend.

LL

Twinkle Toes

The fall Gap Classic Redefined ads that seem to be in every single magazine this month haven't really done much for me - they're pretty soulless. At least that's what I thought until I saw this one with famous American choreographer Twyla Tharp. Forget the fact that she's won Emmy and Tony awards - I just hope I can do a grande battement like her when I'm 67!

CL