I Spy Fashion: Heartburn

The movie Heartburn epitomizes an aesthetic genre of New York movies from the mid-80's through mid-90's that I am obsessed with (think Kramer vs. Kramer and Husbands and Wives). It was filmed on location in my two favorites cities: New York and D.C. It stars two of my favorite actors: Streep and Nicholson. And it combines two of my favorite things: history and gossip.

Based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel of the same name, Heartburn shares in great detail Ephron's second marriage that went desperately awry when she found out her Washingtonian writer-husband had an affair with someone in their circle while getting her hurr did. You'll just NEVER GUESS who that husband was. None other than....Carl Bernstein! The SAME journalist who was immortalized by Dustin Hoffman in "All the President's Men" for blowing the cover of the Watergate scandal was ALSO immortalized by Jack Nicholson in "Heartburn" for being married to Nora Ephron, having an affair, and ruining their marriage while she was pregnant with their second kid. This movie is a thinking woman's Us Weekly in film form.

In addition to the locations, actors, juicy gossip and political history, the interiors and fashions are to-die-for. I wanted to wear ever shoulder-pad-having blazer and woven colorblock purse Meryl Streep donned. The ethnic dress/blazer/bag/necklace combo in the above photo gives you a taste. Very Thirtysomething. Very "My mom in the 80's". Very me. I'm INTO it.

We are NOT discussing the sweater on the woman on the right. We just can't go there right now. But I WILL join you in a conversation about the over-sized sunglasses it looks like she is carrying.

Ate This/Listened to This/Watched This

This weekend I...

Chick peas, leeks, brocolli, garlic, onion & coconut oil

Our Elton John collection on vinyl

Ate this.

Listened to this.

Read this.

Roasted these.

Watched this.

Roasted pumpkin seeds with olive oil + sea salt

I Spy Design: Annie Hall

I've always LOVED this floating bed on the white shag carpet in the cool loft space in Annie Hall. Just CAN'T take my eyes off of the shag/floor pillows/brown chairs/OTHER shag. Now I am upset that I don't live in a loft. And in the '70's.

I Spy Design in... 

Frankenweenie // Ghost // Amour

I Spy Design: Amour

Amour is heart-breaking and subtle and beautiful and an enigma and SO VERY French. An exquisitely painful story told in subtle sweet frames amid a backdrop of the perfect Parisian apartment. VERY Woody Allen in Paris from Austria. One of my favorite nooks in the film is the above kitchen table area with the cluster of oil paintings and photographs, warm lighting, and classic tiled floor. 

The stand out feature is the gorgeous herringbone wood floor throughout the entire apartment that are layered with vintage ethnic printed rugs.  Each room is framed by detailed molding and anchored with classic pieces like a piano or floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves. Parisian apartment perfection if I have ever seen it.

More Film Interior Posts:

Woody Allen Style // Husbands and Wives // Ghost

David Bowie's New Single

David Bowie just released a new single along with a short film starring the perfectly-weird and rad Tilda Swinton, The Stars (Are Out Tonight). Feast your eyes and ears on it here.



So, it's cool to crush on a 65-year-old riiiiight?

More Bowie:

Bowie + Arcade Fire // Bowie Halloween Make-Up // Cool Parents, Cooler NYC Apartment

Made This/Ate This/Watched This

This weekend I...

Made this.  Here is a little sneak peek of a fun DIY that I made for small fries. The project and step-by-step tutorial will be a part of the April launch of Well Rounded NY, a cool urban pregnancy blog and the new endeavor of friend, Kaity Velez.

Ate this. Will makes his famous "Megg McMuffin" for us on weekends sometimes and they are always delicious. Make your own with this easy equation: Egg + Faux Bacon + Cheese + English muffin/Roll/Bun = MEGG MCMUFFIN

Listened to this. As I've mentioned, The Pixies are my all-time favorite band and I LOVE me some Al Green, so when my friend Emmie shared this next-level mix of the two I kinda had a MAJOR MUSIC MOMENT. To say the least, I dig. I am into it and life is a little sweeter for hearing it.

Photos from Hollywood Reporter and The Washington Post

Watched This. We finished our plight to see ALL of the Best Picture nods in time for the exciting Academy Awards.  The highlights for me were the wins of Jennifer Lawrence and Ang Lee last night, as Life of Pi and Silver Linings Playbook were both incredible films. Two of the very best. As for Oscar Couture, yes Amy Adams, yes Jane Fonda, and YES Charlize Theron. No, Seth McFarland. Just no.


What did YOU kids get into this weekend?

I Spy Design: Ghost

 Photo from Loft Life Magazine

Saturday morning started with our down-right refusal to leave bed, thus creating an opportunity to scroll through old movies on Netflix. We landed on Ghost, most likely due to our recent obsession with Scandal, starring Patrick Swayze's best friend in Ghost. I have been wanting to re-watch this since moving to New York (TEN years ago) because the memory that resonated the most of this film is the couple's SOHO loft space. I did a little research on the space and it turns out that the loft belongs to sculptor Michele Oka Doner, and the blueprints of her home were recreated on a Paramount Soundstage for the film. You can see a full gallery of the Doner's home here.

The apartment lived up to the memory and had some elements in it that I didn't recall, like this geometric black and white screen. At first I thought the grid was created with paint, but then realized it is a solid white wooden screen that has cut-outs of negative space, creating the grid look. The screen serves as a sliding room divider that can create a separate room when closed, and while open keeps the energy flowing throughout the space. It could easily be DIYed for when we get our huge artist's lost in SOHO. Because it will happen.

Ghost came out in 1990 and serves as a style time capsule of a cool, yuppy/artist couple living in downtown Manhattan in this period. Sam and Molly's aesthetic is very "modern 1990" aka AMAZING. If this was circa now, the fridge (below) would be stainless steel, all glass, or a retro Smeg fridge. But as I said, this is 1990, so a beige standard refrigerator is what time it was. What makes this fridge special is the house-shaped structure that it lives in. I mean COME ON. Now my sad, standard beige fridge wants it's own house.

More Fashion + Design in TV + Film: 

Thirtysomething // Dallas // Moonrise Kingdom // The Royal Tenanbaums // Frankenweenie 

The Little Mermaid Fascinator

Photo by David Gazzo for The Nickle Series  

In my weekend wrap-up I mentioned Daisy's Little Mermaid fascinator and it has gotten quite the response. Here it is in all it's glory adorning her head at the She's A Rebel screening, and below are some gorgeous detail shots Daisy took so you could get a better look. The Dinglehopper really seals the deal for me.

Weekend Wrap: Daisy, Pi, + The Golden Girls

Two girls on a train. Photo by Will Cole

One of my closest girlfriends and favorite humans, Daisy, came into town this weekend and it was A DELIGHT to have her. On Friday night we attended the She's A Rebel screening at The Nickle Series where Daisy and her film sweetly stole the elegant show. The films were all incredible and the location, The Player's Club, was classic Old New York. 

One of the night's key moments was Daisy's Little Mermaid Fascinator that she wore. It so perfectly complimented the blue in her hair and the turquoise faceted gem earrings that I made for her.

The rest of the weekend involved resting/vegging/movies/tv. Specifically Life of Pi. OH. MY. GOD. It's an amazingly gorgeous film on every level. Watching it was a thrilling cinematic experience and I am continuing to experience and process the film in the days since in a beautiful, sad, and moving way. 

Golden Girls t-shirt

On Sunday, Daisy and I strolled the hood and ate a delicious brunch at Cafe' Collette. Their Southern Sea cocktail is to die for and their breakfast sandwich (I always go with bacon) is worth the egg running down your hand. So very worth it. I was too engrossed in satiation and conversation to snap a photo of the food but I came to my senses upon seeing this Golden Girls t-shirt on a waiter on our way out. 

I Spy Design: Frankenweenie

Photo from my Instagram

The Frankenstein's enjoy dinner using a vintage Catherineholm fondue pot in Frankenweenie.

//More Catherineholm posts//

Girls

"I get worried for young girls sometimes. I want them to feel 

that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and 

smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled." 

-Amy Poehler

I love you Amy Poehler. I love you Tina Fey. I love you Lena Dunham and Jodi Foster and  ALL OF YOU GIRLS OUT THERE. If any of you are still feeling the pain of youth, I swear to goodness it gets better. 

Image and quote liked by me after it was pinned by Joanna Goddard after it was posted by Tomboy Style after it was originally from Mindless Entertainment. Oh how the internet really IS A WEB. 

"That sounds like poetry."

You know when you meet someone for the first time and it feels like coming home and you wonder how you lived your whole life without them? That is how I felt when I saw Moonrise Kingdom.

Before I even met you, perfect film of mine, I loved you.

 Aesthetically PERFECT with a story and characters to die for, before it was even half-way through this film jumped to being tied with The Royal Tenenbaums as the TOP Wes Anderson. MAYBE it has the top slot overall, I don't know, it's overwhelming to EVEN THINK ABOUT.

I guess I'll just have to watch both films forever and ever until the answer is perfectly clear. 

Beginners

This is what an exquisite film looks like.

Wrong!

I would have picked Ducky.


A die-hard best friend who loves you through your angst, bad-boy-faze, thrifted fashions and rocks snake skin loafers of his own? All valid reasons but the clencher is a four-letter word that rhymes with Potis Pedding.

Moonrise Kingdom

THIS IS HAPPENING.

DATA

I THOUGHT I would marry Mikey (when I was 5-10ish), even based a first-grade friendship with Marissa O'Grady on our mutual love for Mr. Walsh. Alas, he grew into a hobbit and I married a rock star who bought me this. I win!

Spoiled

Thank you santa, moms, husband, brother-in-laws, dads who know me very well/shop my Amazon wishlist. There were so many sweet gifts that I absolutely LOVE including:


-The above and below bunny lamp from the sweetest husband in the world.

-The Year of Magical Thinking that I already ate up in three beautifully painful sittings and can now basically barely leave the house. I am reeling from this raw, exquisite book and now I must read Blue Nights.


-My FAVORITE films of the year Blue Valentine and Somewhere. UGH. Obsessssed.



-My label maker! Expect labels on everything immediately. OCD much?



-2 Glass orbs that I coveted to hang and put succulents or air plants in to add to our new bedroom.

What are some of your favorite gifts? Any beautiful additions to your home?

DIY 80's Halloween Costumes

With our favorite holiday approaching, here are 5 rad 80's costumes to DIY in time for Halloween!


I worked with Savers again to combine thrifted pieces with Halloween accessories and my DIY creations to bring you back to the bodacious 80's.



The Goonies map is coming soon! To be a true Goonie, print out your very own treasure map!

3 DIY Halloween Costumes: Bridesmaids, Zombie Bride & Carrie

Halloween is just around the corner and we want to look amazing without breaking the bank, so I teamed up with Savers to bring you 3 different looks with one trip to the store. Here is my spin on the movie Bridemaids, Zombie Bride with a full make-up tutorial, and the classic horror film Carrie.

Flashdance Welding Video

In this epic video, I show you how to transform a vintage typecase into an industrial table. You can weld, as I show how, or add sweet mid-century hairpin legs. Uh, be sure to relish the epic Flashdance dream sequence. Yeah, you read that right.



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