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{ reliably styleable }

today, i present (a bit bittersweetly) my fourth and final costume, as inspired by my partnership with ralph lauren and the big pony collection scents. over the course of this collaboration, i've channeled sporty, seductive, adventurous ~ and today's motivation is stylishness!

now, labeling one's own outfit as being stylish can feel unnervingly presumptuous, so i decided to stick simply with those things i consider to be stalwarts of my own personal style. i always feel at ease in: bow-tie blouses, subtly textured layers, slim-fit, collarless jackets, slouchily tailored trousers, and classic gold pumps:

this collaboration's finishing scent-spiration, as i mentioned in THIS POST, is the collection's most abstracted. it mixes energizing hits of kyarawood and mandarin ~ essences i attempted to recall in the colors of this ensemble (ie: woody taupes met with saffron pops)!



while the ensemble itself felt inherently my style, i loved stumbling across this flag-mural garage art ~ as it seemed so rightly ralph lauren! it felt like an appropriate location from which to conclude the collision of our visions.

{ vintage yves saint laurent sunnies, gifted hare+hart leather trench (also seen HERE), borrowed ralph lauren cashmere cardigan and printed pussy-bow blouse, michael kors watch, prada pants, vintage clutch, miu miu bird brooch, manolo blahnik pumps }

if you'd like to win your own bottle of this stylish scent, please leave a comment below, letting me know what you consider to be your own style standbys. and please give a congratulatory clap to hilaryinspired*, who is the lucky winner** of scent number three!
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by the by, if you haven't already, please be sure to check out my GIFT GUIDE FOR GUYS, which was inspired by this and the other three big pony collection colognes!

*hilary, please email me your shipping information so i can send you your prize!!
** once again, i use random.org to pick contest winners ~ i can't bear to choose myself! xoK

{ glamourai gift guide } love for the lads

i have absolutely no problem buying gifts for the ladies in my life ~ it's like shopping for myself! however, the men i love are much more challenging; they just don't need all the stuff that we (read: i) do.

however, they do seem to appreciate the occasional, thoughtfully selected accessory, album, or experience. in case you also have trouble deciding what to buy for the fellows you're fond of, here are a few ideas inspired by the big pony collection colognes (and the men who wear them well):

{ the sportsman in your life might like / clockwise from above left: apc checkered scarf, super sunglasses ($175), tickets to watch a favorite sports team (plus an assurance that he doesn't have to take you with him!), lark+wolff by steven alan striped pullover ($48), queens of the stone age's rated r ($10), digby & iona hunter + hunted cufflinks ($120), ralph lauren tartan belt ($75), ralph lauren big pony collection cologne ($50), west elm ipod speakers ($45) }


{ sexy is the man who has the perfect music for every moment, can rock horn-rims and a bowtie, and knows his way around the kitchen / clockwise from above left: matthew dear's black city ($12), jenson wood turntable ($88), chronicles of never glasses ($277), banana republic bowtie ($60), ralph lauren big pony collection cologne ($50), private collection photography book ($70), what to cook and how to cook it by jane hornby ($26), ralph lauren slippers ($75), leg lamp ($40) }


{ for the rugged and roguish / clockwise from above left: plaid sweatshirt, antler bottle opener, pendleton picnic blanket ($78), amphigorey also by edward gorey ($15), dude no.1 beard oil ($65), stanley flask ($18), urban outfitters boots ($78), ralph lauren big pony collection cologne ($50) }


{ inspired especially by my own special someone / clockwise from above left: ralph lauren big pony collection cologne ($50), in between by guy bourdin ($50), nixon watch ($60), eskuche headphones ($58), omega shaving brush ($12), chronicles of never boots ($400), anthropologie haberdasher's candle, the horrors' primary colors ($13), ralph lauren tartan wallet ($375), banana republic collar stays ($12.50) }

{ scout's honor }

you may recall that, this holiday season, i'm periodically coordinating my costumery with each of the four big pony collection scents, as part of a collaboration with ralph lauren. you've already seen sporty and seductive, and today is all about adventure ~ glamorous girl scout style!!

in support of that theme, i accessorized this trench-coat/cape/caftan hybrid with a "bird-watching merit badge" and canvas camp-style belt.

as we started shooting these photos, snow flurries began to fall. against the bright white backdrop, i felt as if i were foraging through an urban tundra.

with that cold air all around me, the woody cologne felt enveloping and warm ~ like the after-glow of an evening fire.

{ lanvin for h+m sunnies, rachel rachel roy ear cuff, borrowed ralph lauren dress, lanvin brooch, f21 belt, gifted coach bag, no-name boots from 14th street }

if you'd like to win this sizzling scent for yourself, leave a comment below letting me know what adventure means to you ~ in style or otherwise (incidentally, i'm pleased to announce that sauvage* is the winner** of scent number two)! bonne chance to everyone on this current go-round!!

*sauvage, please email me your shipping information so i can send you your prize!!
** i use random.org to pick contest winners ~ i can't bear to choose myself! xoK

{ a hudson holiday }

this holiday season, i teamed up with hudson jeans to gift one reader with all four of my favorite denim styles. over the last couple of weeks, many of you voted on which you'd most like to see me wear as a holiday look ~ and each vote became a chance to win!

today, i'm pleased to announce that the signature bootcut in black ice won the popular vote...




{ vintage ysl sunnies, reworked vintage jacket, elizabeth+james top, vintage clutch, hudson jeans, dolce+gabbana shoes }

...and that marieta* will be the recipient of every one of the styles in my hudson shop-in-shop!! congratulations to our lucky lady** ~ and thank you to everyone who got involved!
*marieta, please email me your shipping information so i can send you your prize!!
** i use random.org to pick contest winners ~ i can't bear to choose myself! xoK

{ seduced by sparkle }

over the course of this holiday season, i'm intermittently channeling the auras of each of the four big pony collection scents, as part of a collaboration with ralph lauren. for the first round, i was challenged to style myself sporty ~ and empowered to gift the coordinating cologne to one glamourai reader! as such, i'm pleased to announce that valerie friedrich* has won** round one ~ but it's not too late for the rest of you to get in on the action!

speaking of getting action: this week my scent's instruction was to summon seduction, to which i naturally responded with sparkle! truly, i've never met a sequin that didn't turn my head ~ now, if that's not the definition of seductive, what is?!




{ kelly framel earrings and ring, vintage + coach bracelets, vintage boy's blazer, gifted aryn k. sequin tank, borrowed ralph lauren sequin pants, lanvin for h+m shoes (a total surprise from my sweet boyfriend!!) }

it just so happens that i feel most alluring all covered up, with a generous splash of shimmer and a musky cloud of cologne about me. and you? let me know what you think in the comments, and you'll be entered to win scent number two ~ the duskiest, sultriest of the bunch!
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*valerie, please email me your shipping information so i can send you your prize!!
** i use random.org to pick contest winners ~ i can't bear to choose myself! xoK

{ glamourai giveaway } playing paper dolls


{ above ~ hanging at home in: forever21 beanie, gifted elizabeth & james kimono (+ beaded blouse, below), lanvin silk t-shirt, vintage belt & jewels, gifted hudson signature bootcut jeans, manolo blahnik shoes }

the holiday giveaways continue!! and this one's really exciting: i've teamed up with hudson jeans to gift one of you with my four favorite denim styles of the season ~ all of which are available now in my own hudson shop-in-shop:
#1: devon bootcut in st. martins blue // #2: milman flare in west hill dark blue // #3: signature bootcut in black ice // #4: may skinny in devonshire dark blue
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here's how it works: let me know in the comments which style (1, 2, 3, or 4) you'd most like to see me wear, to help complete the holiday ensemble above. on december 3rd, i'll post the finished, winning look ~ and choose one reader* (at random) to win the entire suite of styles! thanks for voting ~ and bonne chance!!
* only one vote per entrant, please // PHOTOS BY GREG.
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PS! check out my guest post for the hudson jeans blog HERE.

{ costume of the day } sporty spice

as part of the collaboration with ralph lauren that i mentioned yesterday, i'll occasionally be posting outfits inspired by each of the big pony collection fragrances over the next couple months ~ then gifting that scent to one lucky reader! my first outfit assignment is to interpret scent #1, the sportiest of the bunch. methinks this one will be the hardest of the four, but i'm always game for a fashion challenge!

before my real-life friends start chortling about my limited (mental or physical) knowledge of anything sports-related, let me assure you i immediately eschewed all notions of making a mockery or a martyr of myself by shooting pictures in the gym. nobody wants to see that horror! instead, i imagined channeling angela lindvall in 'sporty chic', an april 2004 editorial for harper's bazaar:

unfortunately, it turns out i don't look nearly as fierce with an anorak round my waist as she.

instead, i did a little digging through the ralph lauren sample closet (what a dreamy place that is!), and found this much-more-my-speed czech-glass beaded sweater...

...to pair with my favorite pants:

i reconciled myself to the fact that my preferred version of 'sporty chic' looks a lot like what one would wear while lounging in a slickly-modern ski lodge, sipping hot toddies by the fire. which may actually be my favorite sport this time of year?

{ tom ford sunnies, self designed necklace, borrowed ralph lauren sweater, miu miu pants }

anyway, clearly i'm no expert on the genre! so tell me, what's your favorite way to release your inner athlete? do you gear up and get physical, or work the references more liberally, like me? let me know in the comments (sometime between now & november 23rd) and you'll be entered to win this wonderfully citrusy scent!!

{ inside my studio } scents + spaces

to follow up on yesterday's perfect place post, i thought it would be fun to share a teeny peek into my own perfect-for-me place: my studio! specifically, the wall in that room where i store my favorite art books and other assorted necessities. like my closet, it's not nearly as big as i'd like it to be (oh, the things one gives up to live in new york!!), but it has lots of happy little corners:

as a workroom (where anything from sewing to soldering to computing occurs), my studio is a lot more casually adorned than my living/entertaining space. because i've got to be able to stash some not-so-lovely stuff in there, i need lots of nooks for books & odd objects (gadget cords, things i use for jewelry still lifes, file storage, etc). of course, it's also a room where i need to be inspired, so i try to keep things well-organized and pleasant to look at!

right now, its shelves are strewn with fun, numbered bottles from ralph lauren's big pony collection of colognes ~ i love the way they complement my color-coordinated book collection:

in the coming weeks, i'll be regularly partnering with ralph lauren to debut (and host giveaways of!) these fragrances. i was attracted to the project for two reasons:

1. i almost exclusively wear men's scents (which these ostensibly are, though i think they would appeal to almost anyone!)
2. i love spritzing scents to subliminally enrich a room's decor ~ and thus like keeping a melange of bottles around different parts of the house, to complement the mood & use of disparate spaces.

during the years that i worked as a clothing designer, we would pick a scent every season to spritz the tent with ~ so when guests began to arrive for a show, they would subconsciously start to settle into the spirit of the collection that was about to debut. that's one runway trick i love to apply to my everyday life!

every one of them instills a new mood. the first fragrance (which i'll be giving away tomorrow!) is sporty and dynamic, with fresh hits of lime and oak; the second is more seductive and musky (the sort of scent i like wearing best), with dark chocolate undertones. these two bottles flank a flea-market-found plastic giraffe ~ my absolute favorite animal:

number three is geared for adventure, a woody aroma enriched with ginger and mint. it sits above a beloved box of andy warhol's 'red books' ~ a collection of polaroid flipbooks from his factory days:

number four is the collection's most stylized: a mix of kyara wood and grapefruit. it sits just above a 'glamour monster' doll i made several years ago from a no-longer-worn toile de jouy skirt:


scattered about the surrounding shelves, prada, miu miu and alaia shoes boxes are used to store old documents/receipts, and my twitter followers may recognize a certain ebay-binge-begotten porcelain unicorn:


as always, my trusty sidekick/mascot/assistant/troublemaker is never far from the action:

{ the holidays hereafter }

now that we're nearly a week into november, there's no forgetting that the holidays are fast approaching. shops everywhere are gearing up with tinsel, prematurely blasting christmas songs ~ and yours truly is loving every minute of it!

i'm definitely not one to ho-hum the holidays; i adore this time of year! i love the increased odds of mashed potatoes being served at any dinner, the gluttonous deserts that don't 'count' until january 1st, the ritual of family traditions, and the giving and getting of gifts.

in anticipation of the season, i've been looking for fun ways to celebrate with all of you. thus, i've got a slew of giveaways planned, starting next week and continuing until december 25th. but to kick things off properly, let's start with a party:

back in july, i was asked by coach to join nine other bloggers and appear in their holiday campaign, which is slated to launch on november 17th in stores across the country. but before it's officially unveiled, you're invited to the preview event on november 12th in nyc! i can assure you from experience that coach really knows how to throw a fancy, festive fête! i hope to see you there; let's start off the holiday season in style!!

{ pinkpony }


{ tom ford sunnies, ralph lauren pink pony polo, f21 skirt, badgely mischka shoes }

today i'm synching my costumery with 100 other bloggers (including my dear friends the beckermans, who wore their polos so adorably!) + ralph lauren to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their pink pony campaign, which spreads awareness and raises funds for the fight against cancer.

{ above via caillianne beckerman }

since its founding in 2000, this organization has raised over $40 million, and tomorrow, ralph is kicking off a three-week-long charity auction HERE, with 100% of the proceeds going to benefit this important cause. you can also send just $10 to the fund by texting PINKPONY to 501501. i hope you'll find a way to get involved ~ big or small!!

{ personal shopper } habitat shoes

today's post comes to you courtesy of habitat shoes, who have asked me to pick my favorite things from their store and share them with you. easy peasy!! now that i've crossed most apartment necessities off my list, and a new season can be felt in the suddenly-crisper air, i'm in full-on wardrobe replenishing mode.

of course, i don't believe that overly-hoggish acquisition helps anyone in the long run (i'm all for considered consumption!), so i've been giving a lot of thought to which pieces i really need to make my fall/winter wardrobe most functional, comfortable, and current.

and that is exactly what's cool about habitat shoes: it's the most ascetically edited e-boutique i've ever seen. the husband & wife-run shop is almost monastically free of excess ~ everything in there has been carefully vetted, and only those things you can honestly imagine living in remain. this restraint on their part leads dangerously toward indulgence on mine; they've made it so easy to convince myself that each of these pieces is an absolute can't-survive-without-it style staple:

{ clockwise from top left: the perfect goes-with-everything, 24-hour clutch; universal-staple trovata trench; layer-with-anything wrap bracelets (i'd buy both the studded & simpler iterations); the perfect everyday, all-weather heeled boot & matches-most-anything evening shoe }

{ clockwise from above left: the next shape in sunnies; a just-special-enough black bag; the most brilliant tux/cardi/kimono hybrid of all time }

{ costume of the day } upintheclub


{ gifted club monaco blouse (last seen HERE / it's quickly become a favorite staple!) and wrap dress, vintage belt + jewels, dolce vita shoes }

i actually wore this look several weeks ago (my hair was so summery-short!) and sort of forgot to post it ~ which weirdly worked out because it's almost all club monaco, and putting it up now gives me a relevant reason to remind you to come by the westchester mall for tomorrow's event! i think it's going to be a lot of fun.

the new store is gorgeous ~ it's just been revamped as a women's-only super boutique, and features a special assortment of achingly beautiful vintage baubles (that's where i got the first crystal-fringe piece featured in THIS POST). plus, there will be yummy food, good music, and a really great cause! be there?!

{ save the date } a glamour-eye styling soirée

pen it in!! this saturday, september 25th, i'll be hanging out at the newly redesigned + reopened club monaco in westchester, new york ~ doling out free styling advice to anyone who's interested!

i'm really thrilled to be a part of this party. it's going to be a delightful day full of dressing up AND doing good, because 10% of the event's sales will benefit go pink ~ an amazing organization created and run by westchester-area teens to combat breast cancer. i met the (17 year old!) founding members at a recent planning meeting, and was so moved by their maturity and sense of social responsibility. so, if you don't come out for me (or the fun festivites, or the gorgeous clothes), please come out for them!! their cause deserves all of our support!

let me know in the comments if you think you'll be able to stop by. i LOVE meeting readers!

{ tonight }

tonight, starting at 7pm, i'll be hosting a livestream on juicycouture.com, from their fashion's night out event. i'll be chatting with chicly dressed guests (maybe you?!), as well as the brand's new designer, erin fetherston and the superstar band, metric! // what kind of questions would you like erin and metric to answer? let me know in the comments, and follow me on twitter to get up-to-the-minute updates on the streaming circus!

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PS: the event itself IS open to the public, so if you're in NYC, please stop by and say hi!!
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