bits and bobbins

some interesting things of note around the ‘nets i have noted:

-sly mai of the fashioni.st managed to take a photo of me when i was out with her for a photowalk! i happen to be rocking a dries van noten (menswear?) vest i found for $4 at thrifttown. SCORE! also, it’s interesting to note that i am one of many happy vest wear-ers around sunny SF this week!

-i am LOVING my aim is true’s weekly fashion installment, fat fashion thursdays! amber has a very sophisticated eye and modern aesthetic, and reiterates what i believe to be a Truth (with a capital-T, thank you very much!): that scintillating style is not limited to the skinny.

-too cool: obsessive consumption is a compilation of drawings by kate bingaman-burt, wherein she details her daily purchases via pen and paper, resulting in the most revealing doodles. see also: kate’s obsessive consumption blog and flickr stream.

-kayte of love forever’s food softie sculptures are brilliant. the depth and texture she uses to make such work just perfectly to approximate the illustrated foods. you can tell me to buzz off, kayte, but it’d be amazing to see a whole dinner party spread or refrigerator full of these things. woo, an installation of faux food! congrats on the plush you show.

whoa, it’s been a crazy week on my end! i’ve been working A LOT and going to bed early! such is life. finances before fashion (and art and design and…everything!) sometimes…gotsta pay bills, right?
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last week, i spent the better part of a sunny, late summer afternoon walking around the mission with mai, of the fashioni.st, the SF street fashion site i’ve mentioned here a few times already.

mai was lovely to talk to. she graciously filled me in on her m.o. for selecting, approaching, and photographing her subjects. our walk was peppered with fun talk of fashion, life, and beyond, and was punctuated by moments where i was able to watch her at work. i observed that she has a great system for selecting people and gathering images of said people, and it works amazingly for her. and the results are clearly apparent: the diverse individuals featured on her site appear to be full of personality. her website brims with the record of her astutely observed details she includes with each post.

the way mai adorns herself also speaks of a person who delights in the details of fashion. continuing her graciousness, she let me take a few pictures of her.

she was wearing the most amazing super-high-wasted jeans with cartoonishly large but superbly amazing yellow buttons. as she pointed out at one juncture in the conversation, she felt that the circular shapes in her thrifted blouse went conceptually with the circular buttons on the jeans.

other definitive details to note in her ensemble: the puffed caps of her sleeves, the pintucks on the sides of the aforementioned jeans, and the ruching on her pointy toed shoes.

thanks, mai!