The Palace

Its close to the holidays and my fiancé , myself and future father in law went to meet up with my future mother in law,  and her best friend at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco for cocktails.  This Hotel is drop dead gorgeous and rich in history. The architecture is pure glamour.

 

 The Palace is a landmark historic hotel in San Francisco. It is located at corner of Market and New Montgomery street.  Originally in 1875 Palace Hotel (which had been demolished after being gutted by the fire caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake) the present structure  was rebuilt and opened on December 19, 1909. We ventured in the hotel taking in his beauty.

The hotel was beautifully decorated for the holiday season, I could've worn a dress that represented the season but I felt my Bernie Dexter dress in Poppy's seemed much more my take on rebirth by taking in the spirit of rebirth, of the building and with the state flower represented on my dress. This inspiration is also mirroring the rebirth of my life on the west coast. Ok so I'm getting a little cheesy with the poetic nature of my inspiration this week.

 

Look at these cute ginger bread houses, they were three times the size of me. I contemplated eating them.

 

Poetic License makes for Happy Feet!

 

Outfit details:

Dress: Bernie Dexter/ Chelsea Pinup Dress in Essex Poppy Field

Sweater: Banana Republic (older) / Similar Modcloth 

Shoes: Poetic License/School Girl Shoe (Shoeful of sugar heel on Modcloth) (black and white version only)

Purse: Vintage

Petticoat: Va Va Voluminous Petticoat In Black -Short / Modcloth

 

How are you embracing the holiday's this year?-Fairfawn

Friday Favorites #2

My Friday favorites are a day early because Modcloth has a 30%off code on full priced dresses. So I am into these two beauties..........

I adore the Spectical Spectacular Dress.

And the Cottage Bound Dress.

The dress code on Modcloth is DRESSUP. Only available on full priced dresses.

Both are darling, which one would you pick?-FairFawn 

Starry Night

Today's inspiration is from one of my favorite painters. Ok this painting below is not the original Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. My fiancé and I painted this reproduction for our living room together.

 

The real Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art In New York City. It is Van Gogh's best-known painting and one of the most recognized paintings in the world.

The Beauty in Van Gogh's work is the fast paced emotionally driven textures in his brush strokes.

 

As you guessed it those brush strokes of Starry Night have been captured and printed onto this dress. So my nerdy art teacher ways said, "ummmm I need that".

 

This Beauty was made by a company named Geode and is it even has a built in petticoat.

I got this dress on Modcloth, It's called Down to a Fine Art. There is even a video on the dress and its movement check it out here.

 

Outfit Details:

Dress: Geode Down to a Fine Art/ Modcloth

Shrug: Mossimo /Target

Shoes:  Backlash in mustard Poetic License (Older)

 

Close up of shoes: when in doubt I choose the color mustard.

 

What paintings inspire you?-FairFawn

Fall leafs : Gobble Gobble: Part Deux

 So here it is my second thanksgiving day outfit. The inspiration from this one is simple, its my favorite season which is fall and although it feels like fall I'm missing the bag loads of leaves that fall of off trees. Wait a minute, Im missing a leg..........

......oh wait there it is. This dress by Retrolicious thankfully caught up my memories of fall on the east coast and put them on this dress to remind me of the ever so powerful seasons.

I got this one off of Modcloth, it is called sights of the season. I fell for this dress and knew I had to have this one. Its a cotton dress and the circle skirt flows nicely.

 I paired her off with a lil black open cardigan shrug and some nice heels to contrast with the bright fall leaves.

                    
    These are Clark shoes, The Indigo line and they are so comfortable.

                                                                    Outfit Details
                                                        Dress: Sights of the season by  Retrolicious / Modcloth
                                                        Shrug: (older) Exhilaration shrug/ Target
                                                        Shoes:(older) Clarks Indigo/ Clarks or here

                                                          Whats your favorite season?

A Dot Of Fall AKA Gobble Gobble Part: Uno

Well we are well into the season of winter now, however it still feels like fall to me. I am in a new location and it is not snowing, a lot different than my usual Thanksgiving/fall. I miss the fall leaves but feel extremely thankful because I got to celebrate thanksgiving four times this year with my fiance's family.  I do miss my mom's apple pie made with local apples on the east coast, but I must admit I feel really lucky to have an east coast and west coast family in which both have such warm inviting homes for me to celebrate holidays with. I'm going to miss the snow on Christmas thou.

Today's outfit was one of my Thanksgiving outfits. This one may look a little turkey like but it was actually inspired by the children's book The Dot. The Dot was a book I would use in my art class when I heard a lot of students claim, "I Cant Draw". The Dot is a book written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. The Dot is about a girl named Vashti who thinks she can't draw.

 One of my favorite quotes in the book is when the teacher says "Make a mark and see where it takes you". In a way I felt like Ive been living that quote by moving to the west coast.You can check out a video of the book here.

 This dress has a lot of orange dots so it made me think of fall naturally, and that made it perfect for thanksgiving dinner. I think of all my past thanksgivings and I smile in memory of my father carving the turkey and the wonderful food my mother prepared. My brother and sister being silly. I miss them tons. I am happy I have those memories and that I am creating new ones too.

                                                                   Outfit Details
                                                          Cardigan/ Banana Republic older Similar at target
                                                           Dress/Anne Taylor (older)Similar on Modcloth
                                                           Tights/Target
                                                            Shoes/ American eagle -Payless

What were you thankful for this thanksgiving?

Dizzy Rhythm

Last night my fiance and I went dancing, we have been taking dance classes where we are practicing our moves, we do a variety of different dances however my favorite is Swing. The twist, the turns, the rhythm, the dancing equivalence to a roller coaster. It can sometimes give me a case of the dizzies from the spins, but its exhilarating and I love it. So I thought about what to wear and it was easy.

I wore this little Cynthia Rowley number and it's a lot of fun because it has the movement of a swing dress. The print reminded me of Op art artist Bridget Riley.

     Bridget Riley
       Descending, 1965
       Emulsion on Hardboard, 36x36 in.

Op art, also known as optical art, is a style art that uses optical illusions to give the impression of movement often using rhythm and pattern.

  This dress was chosen to reflect not only my admiration of Riley's art, but the rhythm in the music, the dance and movement from the dress both visually and physically.

 Outfit details:

Dress: Cynthia Rowley/ Nordstrom rack (older)

Shoes: Clarks Indigo /Clarks or here

Purse: Vintage/ Similar

Where do you find movement in your wardrobe?-FairFawn 

Friday Favorites

Here are some pieces I've been lusting over, since its Friday I'm going to give you my current favorites.

 

This little number is from Pinup girl clothing. Her name is Ava and she's a swing dress and I have a serious crush.  I'm obsessed with the color and the cut.

 

I also  have a crush on another girl her name is Jenny.  

Her print is Harlequin in turquoise.

 

I also have a few separates from Modcloth that give me the butterflies.

Good Times, Plaid Times Coat

Elegant to Your Interest Top

 

 

But I'm saving my absolute favorites for last, These two are Bernie Dexter dresses and I am beside myself in their beauty. I have a few of her dresses they are really well made and I feel my loveliest when wearing them.  I'm obsessed and full blown in love with these two!!!!

This one is above is Jessica pin up dress in Happy Valley. I love the vibrant greens and am a sucker for landscape dresses. I even prefer a landscape dress to a landscape painting. Yes, you read that right from this art enthusiast.

This one another landscape dress that reminds me of my home, we just made the headlines in the news recently for getting a Snow-nado and Thunder-snow but my usual winters looked like the scene on this dress, although I'm not a fan of shoveling snow I do have a little warm place in my heart for look of the colder climate.  This dress is the Bernie Dexter Veronique Pin Up Dress in Winter Wonderland Print.

 

So what are your favorites? -Fairfawn

 

 

Petal Power

It may be fall but I saw this beauty today. As you may have guessed it......Inspiration struck.

 

My artist inspiration today is Georgia O'Keefe.

She made a lot of painting's but is best known for her large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens. Some people see other things in her paintings however I see the fluttering elegance of curved form and she captured that oh so well.

Georgia O'KeeffeOriental Poppies, 1928 oil on canvas
30 x 40 1/8 in.

When I look at her artwork I see so much detail on the brush strokes that form the petals, When I got this little number I knew deep down in my subconscious it reminded me of O'Keeffe's work.

I got this dress for a steal at Target about a year ago. It is made by the designer Prabal Gurung. Although its no longer in target stores you can still find it on Ebay.

The ruffle petal like pieces of fabric flow with ease and feel airy when you move.

 

I paired this neon yellow dress with red because when you are wearing color, you are bold so I figured .....why not.

 

 

Outfit details:

Dress: Prabal Gurung for target

Shoes: Report / TJMaxx

Belt: Betsy Johnson /TJMaxx

 

What Flower makes you feel powerful?

-Fairfawn