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DISCO ON THE MOORLANDS

Ever since my mom bought these vintage pieces home, I've been dying to put them together. I find something intriguing about the flashy, tacky sequins (I mean tacky in a good way) and the cozy and classic tartan maxi.

This piece is available for purchase on Atlantis if you're interested! Sorry about the confusion on the jacket last time. If you're interested in the skirt, email me or my mom!

Wow, I've gotten the nicest responses to the news interview-thanks everyone for your kind comments and emails, you're so sweet! I'm camera-shy when it comes to being filmed so it made me feel a lot better.

Anyway, I had lots of fun trying on these peices-it'll be sad to say goodbye to them!

xo Jane

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Apr 16, 2009117 Comments

Sea of Shoes on the News

On Tuesday night this little short about Sea of Shoes aired on Channel 33! I missed it in real time unfortunately because I don't have a TV but it's online now! But wow, very honored and very excited.

I am really rockin' the double chin! LOL. Okay. Sorry, I am just so self-conscious about being filmed!

Thanks to my friend Maury for uploading this-he also did a nice write up which I am going to put up here:

Sea of Shoes' Blog Author, JANE ALDRIDGE [INTERVIEW/FEATURE]

KDAF 'The 33 News'

Dallas, TX

[orig. air date: 4.13.09]

Jane Aldridge [in her first television interview] is calm, composed and at home [literally].

Her CV includes 'Teen Vogue' and 'French Glamour,' and hundreds of blogs, whose readers track her every footstep–Jane is unfazed, but not immune to scrutiny.

This featurette includes shiny 'boot-y' from her closet [recognizable to readers of 'Sea of Shoes'–her industry-watched blog, described here as, 'One of the most popular blogs on the Internet'].

Jane Bites:

Most hits in a day? [61,000].

Kanye West 'Boot-y call'?

[Yes, but not what you're thinking. Rapper, turned fashion maven and SOS fan was all 'bout business.]

Got shoes? Affirmative!

Exotic, avant-garde; always chic; impossible to find this side of Paris [France, not Texas], Jane's shoes artfully parked in their own showroom–her bedroom closet, await her selection du jour for, either exercise, or their big break–a photo layout in 'SOS,' where one imagines serious late night multilingual bitch-sessions on who has more hits [CDG or AD]? And who's a played-out pump from the early '07s?

[As a reader of 'SOS' (she also posts very occasionally to my blog), I have witnessed grown women, teenage girls, and not a few men comment her posts, combining bliss, agony, deep-green envy, and obeisant supplication, with the rare Jerry Springer-reject thrown in for kicks.]

Jane, with insight beyond her years, and an easy Texas laugh appropriate to them [due in part to her mother, Judy Aldridge, former Japan-based fashion model, current designer and vintage retailer at 'Atlantis Vintage' http://atlantishome.typepad.com], credits Mom for inspiration and an early initiation by Kabuki [a time-capsule from Judy, stored in her attic, and labeled, 'for Jane'].

This three-minute clip [accompanied by awful techno], conceived as an 'human interest peek into Jane's closet,' finds Jane flipping absurdity into Zen pancakes.

Cocksure, not cocky, Jane [with a twinkle] begins, 'If I were a shoe…,' selecting a chic '09 Alaïa 'Maryjane on Steroids' and anthropomorphizing it with only a modicum of detectable bullshit into that which would normally define superfluity, but which here transforms a teenage puff-piece, tabled in Dallas, into a real fashion remote from Trophy Club, where suburban student Jane turns into 'Shoesea' Superhero– "Shoenami J"!

Most 17-year-old young women would have Tweet'd, Facebook'd and Myspace'd this item faster than you can say Demeulemeester. Ms. Aldridge was kind enough to extend me the favor. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank her for her permission to vicariously participate, witness and begin a viral phenomenon.

It's been a learning experience to clock a Ferrari's 'Zero to Sixty' Hits-Per-Hour next to my Hybrid, and I'm humbled.

p.s. While cynical observers doubt this wunderkinds' credibility; it seems that her age is proving just one of her assets in the quixotic, constant flux of the world which she chronicles and inhabits; however, that which fuels the her current flame, will only see her passion prove its limit.

~Nichopoulooza
~mrjyn

Thanks again Maury.

I hear this short might make it to CNN? Who knows! I'll update this post if I find out.

and thanks again KDAF!

xox Jane

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Apr 15, 2009213 Comments

MARTIN MARGIELA DEGRADE COWBOY BOOTS-warped classics

*love the signature Margiela stitch on the back of these boots.*

As I said in my previous post, there was something about this pair of boots that was immediately compelling to me. They spoke to me in a way that NO SHOE has ever spoken to me before.

And when they spoke they said a lot of things to me.

It's a beautiful boot, no doubt-and being born and raised in Texas, I've always had a thing for cowboy boots. These boots have a dash of Texas trash to them, with a heap of surrealismo lumped in. They are the prototypical warped classic.

Yes…a warped classic…kind of like these things.

The first thing that popped into my mind were some of my favorite David Lynch movies; blue roses (Twin Peaks: Fire, Walk With Me), blue nails (Wild at Heart), blue eyeshadow (Blue Velvet), blue curtains, , blue hair (Mullholand Drive), blue skies (most Lynch movies, but especially Wild at Heart)…and of course, Blue Velvet. These blue boots could have totally made a cameo in any of those movies.

Some stills from Blue Velvet.

Yes, these boots have something very surreal about them…in fact they wouldn't look so out of place in a Magritte…the suit the color scheme of Fair Captive quite well.

(Okay, I'm done with desecrating Magritte for the rest of my life. I apologize..really.)

I wore them yesterday, to our Easter dinner. My sister made a bunny cake. It was a delicious feast, you should go see it on my mom's blog. Here are some really lame pictures of my outfit!

Wearing a vintage fur and thrifted dress.

My friend Ronnie (he's in a super cool band called Vega) is playing with Crystal Castles at the Granada Theater tomorrow so I have to come up with something fun to wear! Probably with the Margiela cowboy boots.

TTYL, xox Jane

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Apr 13, 2009104 Comments

The week in review…

Something awful happened to my camera this week! My D80's light meter went haywire-I took it to the shop and it's going to have to be worked on there for a while.

Kind of frustrating, because when I asked how long it was going to take they said something like, "Uhh…don't know, m'am…anywhere from 1 week to 2 months." Alrighty then…so we'll see when I get it back.

Oh yea-In addition to computer failure and camera failure, add "biology test" to my list of failures this week. Oh man….

All of these crappy things could have made this a really bad week, but today is definitely making up for it.

Tonight I'm gonna see Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti at Hailey's tonight-I've been looking forward to this for a while. Cool shows also mean cool outfit opportunities. I haven't finalized my outfit yet but I'm thinking something with these things:

– Fur collar from Boulevards Boutique in Tulsa, Oklahoma

– Vintage pyramid necklace

– Junya Watanabe gold and green striped cardigan-the armholes, cuffs, and collar are attached with safety pins

– Crimped hair…just got a crimping iron and it's addictive. Hair straighteners, blow dries, curling irons are impossible for me to use. Crimping wands are totally fool proof and fabulous in a Kelly Wearstler/batty biddy sorta way.

Okay I promise no more webcam pictures, I was just lazy today and at loss without my D80.

Oh, and meet my new Margiela degradé cowboy boots.

There is something about these boots that I find wierdly symbolic and compelling-I don't know, sort of like something from a David Lynch movie. I have to do a post about these boots and everything they embody tomorrow. So expect more detail soon.

I had the most exciting email on Friday morning-from Danny Roberts of Igor and Andre.

I'm sure you're familiar with his work-he does beautiful portraits of models and has also immortalized the likes of Karoline and Rumi in his blogger portrait series.

He did this beautiful picture of me-thank you so much Danny!

Go visit his awesome fashion illustration blog!

So all of that scratch that-I didn't have a bad week. Nope, not at all…I've had an awesome week!

And tonight it's gonna get even better. So excited!

Okay I'm going to go crimp my hair some more and maybe do a little studying for biology…then to go see Ariel Pink!

Jane

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Apr 11, 200968 Comments

THANK YOU MONICA (aka Miss at La Playa)!

These super cool 'En Vogue' style spreads were made by Monica of Miss at La Playa fame-thank you so much, you're so sweet! What a fantastic spread-can hardly tell it from the real thing! :)

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Apr 9, 200974 Comments

ATLANTIS UNDERGROUND-the peasant blouse (TO BE CONTINUED)

I do have something very exciting to share, and that is that my mom got one of her first designs for Atlantis Underground not too long ago and some stuff should be available for purchase soon.

Here is a preview of one of my favorite pieces-the peasant blouse. This will come in white, off-white, and black and with short-sleeve and long-sleeve variations.

Today I'm wearing the black long-sleeve variation-so in love with these dramatic sleeves.

(Since Friday I have been going through technology hell-my camera and my computer are screwing up, and then today my SD card corrupted and I lost most of the pictures I took. I apologize for the poor quality of these pictures and wish I had more detail shots of the blouse to show you-but you'll see those later. Sigh. It is so frustrating though. Really, I wish blogging did not involve computers.

So these pictures suck,but they're all I've got. I'll try to fish some out of my SD card again tomorrow, and if I can't I'll just re-shoot them. Or just shoot myself, haven't decided yet. JK. I'll be getting my computer back from the shop soon.)

xo jane

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Apr 8, 200997 Comments

IMAGE FEED #1: for the guys

I wanted to start doing a series of posts that were just like streams of visual info. I spend way too much time image-hunting so I have a lot to share. I'm not the best at keeping track of my sources or even what some of these things are, I'd be so appreciative if you shared with me!