With Style: Women at Work (1930′s)
Wide pants.
Black sheep skin collar.
Coveralls.
Aviatrix style.
Silk scarves. It’s all about how you wear one.
I’ve just been thinking about the handkerchiefs.
The Land Girls.
Gardening. (Overalls!)
The stripes and plaid.
Wool skirts with the inverted kick pleats.
The office.
Cute uniform.
-N.
With Style: Women at Work (1920′s)
This outfit is amazing. Look at those shoes and the pant width.
I really want to find a nice military skirt this fall/winter. Definitely army green.
Technology! (I like the old headphones.)
(Above images via here.)
Long skirts.
Long skirts and typewriters.
The Office.
Workwear. Off white, I prefer.
Neckties!
Pin curls and overalls! What a charming combination.
(Don’t forget the red lipsticks!)
-N.
Out of Office
Hello.
It’s been a while…… How are you?
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I’m sorry I’ve been absent from the blog for a while.
It’s been a lot for me to think about lately.
There will be some exciting news to share with you when I get back.
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Hope you’re doing well.
-N.
(Photo: Albert Einstein’s office shot by Ralph Morse. 1955.)
Simply Beautiful
Last Week 4
-N.
Last Week 3
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Last Week 2
This is how we usually like to start our day in NYC.
-N.
Last Week 1
Hi!
Veronika and I came back from our business trip last night.
1 week in hot NYC.
I feel like I’ve just woken up from an afternoon nap.
-N.
Rocks Off
Summer Colours
My last Sunday afternoon was spent pleasantly at a poolside with my good friends, and I was happy to discover Richmond Country Farms on a way home from their house. This place is so charming and unique. The Lower Mainland climate is known for excellent growing conditions for an incredible variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables. Richmond Country Farms grow and sell the fresh produce from across British Columbia at this market (12900 Steveston Highway). Their farm and local, small-scale, family farms cultivate many unusual, heirloom and unique varieties that cannot be found in regular grocery stores.
Every colour, shape and smell of the fruit and vegetables couldn’t be more beautiful in the warm orange sunshine and my basket was quickly filled with lots of summer goodness. The vibrant atmosphere there made my grocery shopping experience very pleasurable.
Visit Richmond Country Farms
-N.
Pool (Puru)
Pool (Japan, 2009)
A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand.
Leaving behind her daughter and her mother four years ago, Kyoko (Satomi Kobayashi) moves to Thailand and begins working at a guesthouse in a customer-less resort outside in Chiang Mai. Just before the graduation of University in Tokyo, her daughter Sayo sets foot on Thailand to visit her mother carrying resentments as heavy as her suitcase. Seeing her mother for the first time in a while, Sayo struggles to come to terms with the sight of her enjoying a life among the strangers. Around this guesthouse (which features the pool), each person faces their reality and accepts it, all while continuing to think of those around them. Emotional experiences with the people living there changes something inside Sayo and such mixed feelings toward her mother.
Quality cinematography by Mineto Tani captures the allure of Northern Thailand with a comfortable balance of light and colours in its natural beauty. Not only this film makes me want to take a vacation, but also inspires me to visit my family that are living far away from me and discover something I don’t know.
-N.
Nap
I haven’t been able to blog as often as I’d like to lately.
I’m allowing myself to take a little nap.
Hope I feel refreshed when I wake up.
-N.
Objects
Time of the Assassins
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Time of the Assassins
I walk in a line
I see where I’m going
I turn inside out
The days that I’ve known
I face to myself
And give up the ghost
I turn in my mind
What time already knows
In the Time Of The Assassins
They say hallelujah
It doesn’t take a miracle to raise a
Heart from the dead
I sift through the ash
I look for a sign
I open the wound
That keeps me in line
The shoulder that turns
The flame that goes out
The chapter I close
In the Time Of The Assassins
They say hallelujah
It doesn’t take a miracle to raise a
Heart from the dead
And can something change
But still feel the same
-N.
Somewhere
Somewhere (2010)
Writer/director Sofia Coppola reunites with the film company with which she made the Academy Award-winning hit “Lost in Translation.” Her new film is an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles; Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning), Johnny is forced to look at the questions we must all confront.
I’m looking forward to seeing this film.
-N.
