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I want to be this:

It’s part of the new fall/winter collection just released by APC. It’s all pretty great, for both men and women, and in typical simple APC style… But I have just two questions.

After looking over the most recent Nordstrom catalog, I have a few requests for people who design clothes for the hoi polloi. These are they.

This could be the steps of Faunce. Or a spread in the most recent Urban Outfitters catalog. But it’s actually one in a series of photos called California Trip by Dennis Stock… taken in 1968.

I watched Cléo de 5 à 7 (lovely French film, set in 1962 Paris) today. All I can think about is this dress. Look at that swingy silhouette. Look at those contrasting pleats. Il faut que j’aie cette robe, tout simplement.
And I wouldn’t say no to a platinum blonde pageboy, either.
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Postscript: I was confused by [...]

I forget where I found this picture. Somewhere on Flickr, probably. I just love what everyone’s wearing on their feet. Look at all those wingtips! Look at those T-straps + ankle socks! I wish more dances like this existed. (Or that I knew about them.)

Les Incroyables et Merveilleuses: “literally roving bands of angry dandies” in post-Revolution France. An anti-rebellion fashion statement from the upper class. Cutting your hair à la victime was in — that is, cutting your hair short the way the executioners did before they guillotined someone. Yeah. Fashion.
L’inconnue de la Seine: the most famous face in [...]

Created by a 73-year-old man in Everett, Washington. Sometimes I think I’ve witnessed the height of American absurdity, and yet there’s always room for more!

I declare this shirt — and this guy — a winner.
Via Videogum.

People are always asking me, “Robin, how do you have such impeccable style?” People are asking me this all the time. I have decided to save everyone a few hours by providing Robin’s Rule of Fashion below.

It’s easy! When shopping, you need only ask yourself: “Will I feel stupid in this?” If the answer is [...]

buy boots (every Parisienne has gorgeous amazing wonderful leather boots, and I want some too, particularly because I did not bring any waterproof footwear and it has rained every other day we’ve been here)
laundry
move into my apartment in Neuilly (tomorrow morning! Totally calling a taxi; there is no way I’m taking 80 lbs of luggage [...]