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SLEEVES!//glorious sleeves!

SLEEVES!//glorious sleeves!
This shirt was thrifted but it's very new I think-it's by Alice + Olivia.
Kinda feel like Stevie Nicks with my big hair and big sleeves in this photo…
I was googling her and came across this page, and it has a few of quotes from her about her style-funny read.
Skirt from Anthropologie.
Belt from my mom's old store.
Miu Miu dragonfly pumps
Multi charm necklace from Urban Outfitters.

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WHAT TALENT, WHAT STYLE//a stream of images, a little info

WHAT TALENT, WHAT STYLE//a stream of images, a little info
MUSE: Masami Tsuchiya
-member of Japanese New Wave band Ippu-Do
-released solo album 'Rice Music' in 1982 (great album, Ryuichi Sakamoto plays on the song Kafka…it's hard to find, but well worth the search…WHAT A FANTASTIC ALBUM COVER!)
-tour guitarist for Japan 
-a stylish guy, a striking face
(Images from Japan's website)
Masami
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AMERICAN DESIGN ICON: Tony Duquette
-set designer, jewelry designer, costume designer, artist, and interior decorator
''Decorating is not a surface performance,'' Mr. Duquette once said, ''It's a spiritual impulse, inborn and primordial.''  
(taken from his obituary in the NY Times)
(pictures from his website)
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NO ONE SO PERFECT AS: Tina Chow
(1950-1992) 
-model, jewelry designer, and friend to many.
This is a good excerpt about her style from her Wiki entry:
"An Asian-American, Chow represented the new diversity and universalism of modern beauty, but her fashion intelligence was even greater than her beauty. One of the most important collectors of couture clothing, Chow's practised eye is still regarded as the paradigm of collecting and connoisseurship. Chow knew the great designers of her time, but demonstrated her interest in the past by choosing works of Madeleine Vionnet, Cristobal Balenciaga and Christian Dior for her astute collection. Her initial collecting interest was Mariano Fortuny, whose 'Delphos' dresses, capes and mantles were a syncretist interpretation of East and West"
I have an issue of British Vogue from 1984 that has an excellent feature on her style, and I will be scanning that to post on Sea of Shoes this week.
Images from her thread on the Fashion Spot
Tinachoww
Tina
TChowHBMar902ed


Tinachoq
Tinachowww
Tinaa
  

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HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY//it’s 2009!!!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY//it’s 2009!!!!!!!
The pants I am wearing are a recent eBay purchase, I can't stop wearing them since they've arrived. Also, I am wearing my new basket weave Givenchys, and holy moly, they are by FAR the most painful shoes I own. I wore them to go shopping and they totally lacerated my feet-oh well, better suck it up! I'm in love with these gorgeous shoes.
2008 was great! I'm sad to say goodbye. 
But the new year looks bright! The future holds exciting things!!
What were you dancing to last night?
I can't get enough of this song!
(Raquel is such a babe.)
HAPPY NEW YEARS, EVERYBODY!
Thanks to everybody who takes time to read Sea of Shoes and thank you to the people who write me such sweet Facebook messages and emails-you guys have made my year really amazing and I hope all of your new years are filled with wonderful things :)
xox Jane

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