Nina Garcia Knows a Dior Can Change Everything

---- Marie Claire Creative Director, Nina Garcia, on her start at Mirabella Magazine and keeping perspective in this wacky career of fashion journalism  

My Dream Home Just Found Another Sofa

You know that dream house you have tucked away


 in your plans for the future? 



Well mine has enough living rooms and

drawing rooms I can buy a sea of sofas

This diamond jacquard mid-century stunner at 

Venus on the Halfshell right now would be one of the collection





Get it, Get it:

Diamond jacquard mid-century sofa, $495 at Venus on the Halfshell  301-662-6213 

Thakoon Once Worked as the Fashion Features Assistant at Harper's Bazaar

One of my favorite parts of going back home to Maryland is looking through all the things that shaped my youth / adult ambition. I knew I wanted to work in fashion after a lifelong love affair with magazines.

And I kept a religious collection of them. 

Some of my favorite covers are from the Kate Betts' era Harper's Bazaar

But the funny part is glancing over the masthead I saw a familiar name



             

(Forgive: this is my very first attempt at Vine and I've got a shaky hand) 

From "Fashion Features Assistant" to Michelle Obama favorite. Guess I wasn't the only guy with a dream. 

My Color Psychic MUST Know I'm Home in Maryland

Laur

Laurie Cabot ‏@LaurieCabot 

Friday, April 19: Wear Royal Blue. Stir your coffee with a cinnamon stick for success.

Cuz my momma made me some cinnamon rolls and coffee this morning (minus a stick though... hmmm....)

Sometimes Your Things To Do List Has Hidden Messages

Tilda Swinton Has Us Clutching Our Pearls

On the cover 

of May's 

W Magazine 







A vision of rounded shoulders and chiffon nun habits 






PS: sunscreen totally matters! Just ask Tilda, honey. 

Joan Collins Tweets about her Namesake Cocktail

(How could this not be of relation to a Tom Collins, I ask you???) 

Glamourpuss Joan Collins tweeted this namesake cocktail from the London Book Fair (dear, I HOPE that's a fair for authors and author's sisters to mingle at and not a new gig selling books to British school children) 

Just like Ms. Collins, it's full of effervescence and tang. 

But £9?! Jiminy, that's $14! 

Even Alexis Carrington finds that a bit steep for a bunch of ginger ale, honey. 

More Bight Ass Ish for the Garden That is Our Park Slope Apartment

The one time yellow showers are

100% acceptable 

   

This Home Depot (yes, Home motha-f-in' Depot, folks) 4-liter aluminum watering can is vintage grace and masculine construction all rolled into one 

All the better to water the jungle that is taking over Mr. Taurus and my Park Slope home this Spring 

(Who's that sexy fauna in the flora?)

                                                     

Umm...This Be Good: Dino-Lite!

  
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This weekend, Mr Taurus and I were doing our gay couple best to find trinkets and doo-dads for our ever growing jungle housed in our guest room. 

Perhaps my mind was putting T Rex vibes out there but I stopped dead in my tracks at CB2 and realized I need three (at least!) of these dinosaur tealight holders 

Oh how this little guy will creep around the cactus, slink around the stacks of books and hunt over the haberdashery 








Man, did CB2 see me coming or what???


Aluminum with powdercoat tealight holder, $9.95 at CB2 http://www.cb2.com/dino-candleholder/s618659

This Mid Century Signed Raymor Square Vase is Calling My Name

I've been on a fresh flowers / plant kick lately 






And this signed Raymor square and square print vase would look great with those wacky cottony spider looking flowers I have currently



Ooh or some light branches... 

Raymor hand signed Mid-Century ceramic vase, $230 at Fab.com, http://fab.com/sale/19708/product/367787/