Mallary Catherine Sullivan!

 

Everyone has a best friend; Someone who will always have your back, no matter waht. Someone who knows you more than life itself and would never stop to judge you, instead they love you unconditionally.  I've been lucky enough to find that someone, the one person who was there for me through everything; MY best friend, Mallary Catherine Sullivan. She has been the person who has never left my side ever since we became instant friends the first day of fourth grade.  Through everything: using up my erasers in one day of school, to first loves, thick and thin, after all these years she still makes me feel important from hundreds of miles away. She has taught me trustworthiness, patience, and most of all the value of friendship.

Poop, you are an amazing young woman and I'm so happy to have you in my life. I will always be there to catch you when you fall, protect you from Ians, sneek out in the middle of the night, play teacher, fall off scooters with you, and clean up your pee whenever you need me! haha And remember: fart it out. It works for me everytime!

 I named this one Bubble gummm girls. haha

Have an AMAZING 20th birthday little stinker

I LOVE YOU

You and Me when our tits are to our knees

... and we will still be FABULOUS!

Closet Diaries

Hello Lover

Today I am wearing an Organic Cotton, blue and white striped t-shirt from H&M, a-what looks more like perry winkle-blue collared button up from H&M, my sparkly black leggings from Forever 21 (I wish my phone camera could pick up on the sparkles), and blue suede pumps from Forever 21.

Eco Fashion

"Untamed" Photo by: Jazmine Estze

I loved this photoshoot. I felt like Neytiri from Avatar.

Wouldn't it be amazing if our world was like Pandora?

I love being green, eating organic,

and doing what I can to help the Earth!

I don't know about you, but I dont want to lose our forests, the animals that live there and I definietly dont want the beauty of nature to vanish because of our selfish ways. I think we should start adapting to our ecosytem instead of changing everything and ruining it in the process.  Our society is thankfully creating eco friendly products, and we are constantly trying to find new ways to help save our planet.  I've always supported the saving our planet but recently it's hit hard and I realized how bad it really is. At the rate we are using Earths resources, for America alone, we would need 7 (yes, SEVEN) planet Earths to sustain us. Even with all the advances in trying to reduce pollution, and recycle more, there are still sooo many people who don't give a shit.

Ghandi said "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." It's such a poweful quote and I truly believe it. So instead of getting upset, I will instead do what I can to help the enviornment. I am going to start riding my bike to school and work when I can, use a reusable bag- instead of plastic- when I shop, recycle my paper, re use bottles, the little things that can make a huge difference.  I posted some great tips for going green on one of my previous posts:  HAPPY EARTH DAY.

 My Newest Purchase from Ecotools .

A reusable, FABULOUS, tote made with natural cotton.

Even the tags were made with recycled paper <3

Check out the cite: ECOTOOLS Earth-friendly beauty

There are other problems going on in the world as well, including children in Africa who dont get enough food and are mal nurished.  Along with being eco-friendly I want to help as much as I can. The FEED Projects are co-founded by UNICEF Next Generation who provide nutrition to children through the sale of FEED bags.  Purchasing this bag help change a child who is suffering's life!

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  For every FEED 1 pouch sold, FEED donates $3.50 to the U.S Fund for UNICEF to provide daily nutrition for a child in Guatemala.
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  For every FEED 3 Guatemala bag sold, FEED donates $10.50 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, to provide daily nutrition for 3 kids for a year

 

Lauren Bush wears her Feed bag from casual street style to fancy parties as part of her involvement in the U.N. World Food Program’s School Feeding operations. Just recenty, The Feed bag is set to fill the Whole Foods stores in U.S., Canada and U.K. The chain store has bought 430,000 bags. Each bag sold means 100 school meals to Rwanda children.

My sister has a couple of them and they are absolutley fabulous! Want to learn more about this bag and how it works? Click here 

You can also visit the FEED Foundation website

Please, to show your support, Become a fan of FEED Projects on Facebook.

Help make a difference!

1 Picture can say 1000 words

I'm sitting here listening to Miranda Cosgroves' new song "Kissing U" looking through all these amazing fashion photographs from various photographers. They are absolutley amazing and I am so grateful for my sister, Zenita Hill, because she has truly opened my eyes to the world of photography and has helped me appreciate it and how much talent and creativity goes into making a moment special. She's going to school for Digital Photography and is so talented! I can see how much passion she has for it and I truly beleieve that she will go very far in her future. Anyways, I'll stop my blabbering, heres some of the phenominal photos that I've been obsessing over. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

A Message for You

Photographer: Guy Bourdin

Guy Bourdin is a very well known fashion photographer who

had worked, for nearly thirty years, at Vogue where he

constantly redefined fashion photography.
*My personal favorite!^^^

Photographer: Melanie Pullen

Photographer: Mari Sarai

EDITORIALS:

"Game Girl"

Vogue Paris May 2009

Photographer: Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin

"Lara Fiction Noire"
Vogue Paris February 2009

Photographer: Steven Klein

"Graffiti Couture"

Vogue Paris November 2009
Photographer: Mario Sorrenti

"It’s A Madcap World"
Vogue US February 2009
Photographer: Steven Meisel
*I LOVE VOGUE!!
(I would die without my subscription) ...seriously

"Fashion does Scraphead"

V September 2009

Photographer: Mario Sorrenti

Tim Walker

Tim Walker, no doubt, one of the worlds most promonent fashion photographers.  He has an eye for beauty, and uses it to create beautiful compositions that captivates and amuses his viewers with his personal creative journey through fashion, art and photography.  He is known for his very British, fantastical and whimsical photo shoots and has worked for some of the top fashion magainzines in the world including: British Vogue, W, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair as well as British and Italian Vogue. His spectacular photography is the most imaginative and lively of those being produced today- Just incredible-take a look for yourself- he really knows how to capture the eyes of his viewers...I immediately fell in love- SO BEAUTIFUL I cant help myself, I have to share his talent with you!

 

 

Tim Walker for Vogue UK Nov 2006

featuring the beautiful model Coco Rocha

Tim Walker-His work is absolutely stunning. I could stare at them forever!

To see more of his photographs go to his website

Tim Walker Photography

Princess and the Frog

When I was little my dad would bring home a new Disney movie everynight when he came home from work, and everynightand my family and I would sit down and watch it together. Pretty soon we had every single Disney movie there was; I'm about certain that I've watched all of them more than 5 times.  Anyways, my sister and I have been wanting to watch Princess and the Frog not only because it's a Disney movie but because Cinderella was one of our favorites when we were little. 

We would put tights over our heads and braid them, slip on our pink Cinderella dresses with puffy sleeves-one that my mom made us- sneak some of my mothers lipstick and slip on a pair of her high heels.  It was a little girls dream-i loved dressing up and playing princess- and I always dreamed of being Cinderella and finding my prince charming.

Princess and the Frog was even better than I expected. It wasn't about finding true love, it was about following your dreams and working hard to get there.  It was very moving to know that children will be watching this because movies make a big impact on young kids.  It will teach them to never give up on your passion-pursue your dreams- and dont let anyone get your down or tell you you cant, because you can! 

I feel in love with The Princess and the Frog. It's an incredible story of a beautiful girls dream that she had since she was a little girl.  She never lost sight of what she wanted, never gave up.  Of course, At the end of the movie she realized that love was a big part of her dream whether she liked it or not.  She grew up never wanting to waste time on boys or on the thought of marriage.  She fell in love, unexpectedly, and the true meaning of her life hit her in the head-when she fell in love.  She gave up her dream for the prince, but thats exactly what she needed! When you give up something you want, you give more room for it to come back.  She got her prince and her dream.  What an amazing movie!! Never give up, and never lose sight of what's really important....LOVE!

Merchandise Paradise

I'm Accessorie Specialist at XXI Forever aka Forever 21.  This means that I'm in charge of Merchandising the accessories and make them look full and bedazzled all the time.  My jewlery and I have a close bond (haha).  A perk about my job is that I get to spend alot of quality time with all the fabulous shoes as well, all day long! Anyways, I'll stop making you jealous- Here is a peak at my recent work ;)

ACCESSORIE TABLE

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SHOE WALL!

Be sure to do some online shopping for all the trendy new summer clothes Forever 21 is getting. We have a HUGE sale going on too so don't forget to check it out!

http://www.forever21.com/

Closet Diaries

Summer shorts

Ahhhhh, Spring is in the air and I was so excited to see the sun shining.  I decided to show my appreciation by wearing shorts that I got from a thrift store back home.  I paired it with a loose shirt that I borrowed from my sister and belted it over the waist with a skinny gold studded belt and wrapped a light knitted scarf around my neck just incase it got a little chilly (afterall, this is Chicago, so you never know).  The shoes are from Bakers and are just fabulous! I hope everyone is enjoying the weather!!! <3

Trend Forecast Board

FALL/WINTER 2011

Neo-Primitive

So, what do you think?! I made a trend board for my Apparel class at school.  A trend board is basically forcasting trends for an upcoming season.  I had to choose an up coming season, pick a theme, and create a poster that shows the idea, inspiration and key elements of that season.  I wanted to pick something that was me, a style that I would wear.  Neo-Primitive caught my eye right away! It's inpired from the Raw Luxe trend of this last winter season, slightly more alive and abstract.  For those of you who aren't aware of what Neo-Primitivism is; It's the Russian Art movement proposes a new style of modern painting which fuses elements of Cézanne, Cubism and Futurism with traditional Russian 'folk art' conventions and motifs. As a modern art form, neo-primitivism is a radical and influential movement within the realm of body modification.

In the world of fashion, they construed this concept into a style for fall/winter 2011.  Each fashion city interpreted it differently but along the same lines.  This trend has lots and lots of fur, but it's mostly long fur and they went places beyond just coats and jackets.  Neo-Primitive style is a mix of wilderness and luxury: lots of texture-suede and leather- with punches of crafty embelishments and metal chunks and accessories. The colors are from Russian art, modern but mostly neutrals.  Any color accent would be a primary color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue) but the colors that you see alot of are: black, gray, camel, chartruese, brown, honeysuckle, blush neutrals, and metallic accents!  There are lots of layers and texture and besides fur and leather, heavy knits are also popular.

When I was doing this trend board I got my inspiration from a European church. To me this style was dark but I invisioned more of a rustic, authentic history- like stain glass windows and old, cracked wood holding up the structures of the amazing architecture.

Let the Count Down Begin!!

JUNE 30th

The books brought me back to life. The movies get me so excited!  I dont know what to say other than

OH MY GOD I'M SO FREAKING PUMPED FOR ECLIPSE!!!!!!