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the most Painfully Hip Site of the Week

September 27, 2007 – 11:32 am

although i’ve heard of Daddy Likey many times, it has somehow thus far avoided my mousal exploration. i don’t know why. maybe i have dad issues. thank jeebus i got over them though, because this blog makes me very happy. and by happy i mean silly with delight. and i quote:

“My reaction to this sweater–an involuntary squeal followed by hyperventilating followed by ransacking my house to try to find an extra $275, only to find 30 damn cents–made me realize not only that I am extremely materialistic, but that this sweater is my style, epitomized.Let me just call up my old calculus know-how to put together a quick formula here…let’s see….Slouchy grandpa + flamboyant showgirl = Winona. Yep, that’s about right.

Nanette Lepore Sequin Cardigan, $275, nordstrom.com

p.s. How rad would it be if there were a lost episode called Mr. Rogers Goes to Vegas? I wonder how many times he changed his shoes in that one.”

her name is Winona, she’s beautiful, completely hilarious, has amazing thrifting luck and mad (mad!) writing skillz, she’s like the Heather Armstrong of fashion blogs. she recently marched in a peace march in DC! thanks Winona! Painfully Hip will come right out and say that Bush’s War Sucks Balls. yes folks, you heard it here first. i need to make some bumper stickers.

anyway, definitely check out her Don’t Show-cha your Chocha series for hilariously wardrobe malfunction (oh hell no. i didn’t just do that, did i?) worthy dresses. She’s also running a contest for the most embarrassing junior high fashion stories (uh, i’m having devastating flashbacks of my tight white denim cut-offs with plastic shit glued all over them! help!). vote on the hilariously heartbreaking finalists here.

so Winona of Daddy Likey? i’m gonna go ahead and give you a Painfully Hip Site of the Week M.I.A. badge because she’s the only girl in the world who can pull off the ghastliest junior high fashion of my generation and still be worthy of the Painfully Hip masthead. nice work, Winona. how hip are you?!

if you’d like your site to be considered for this feature, please submit it to painfullyhip @ painfullyhip.com. you’ll get a large banner in our sidebar (and exposure to 2,000 views a day) for the week. also, if your site has already been featured, please feel free to choose your badge, post it and nominate only your most deserving blog friends for the honor! we also have lovely badges for anyone in our blogroll.

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the most Painfully Hip Site of the Week

September 9, 2007 – 8:06 am

…is Ringo, Have a Banana!

a wardrobe remixer and thrift star of the week regular, Ringo (do you mind if i call you that, hun? the alternative would be Banana, or worse yet RiHAB, and we know you’re no Amy Winehouse…) can do no wrong. she has been featured multiple times in Neet Magazine, has such a cute, matter-of-fact writing style and her blog design is always inspiring and changes for the seasons. she recently up and moved to New York and so lately her posting has slowed, but now she’s back and writing about her Bryant Park tent stalking hi-jinx!

“After long hot hours in the city sun, our spirits were a bit worn out. To be so close to fashion week and not actually be able to go in! But then! A mysterious stranger sporting nerd glasses and an afro drew us aside and, out of the goodness of his golden heart, showed us a side entrance where we could just waltz right on in. He disappeared into the subway before we could ask his name, but he did give me an especially enthusiastic thumbs up as a parting gift.”

she sure is making a go of it over there in the big apple, but the best part is her outfits, which are lovely, and quirky in the most covetable way…
green tights stripey shoes floral
so, Ringo, Have a Banana, because of your fearlessness, i dub thee painfully hip, Kirsten Dunst style, because we all secretly adored that outfit she wore with the chartreuse tights and lavendar scarf…

wear your badge with pride, you’ve earned it.

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The most Painfully Hip Site of the Week

August 27, 2007 – 4:02 am

it is appropriate that this week’s site review was written in a 3am insomniatic fit as it is the probably the most dreamlike real life blog i have experienced. there are very few corners of the web i feel i can go to for true inspiration. the moldy doily is one of those precious veins of digital nectar.

“When I was little I liked to write plays and puppet shows, creating all the different characters. I would daydream about the beautiful dresses I wanted to clothe my fantasy characters in. I then learned I could paint the clothes I would never actually touch. The things I daydream are still the same… floating feminine fantasies, x-ray vision, magazine pages freeze-framed, tea parties, voyeurism, stolen words from overheard conversations, tear-drop Lolitas,ghosts, decomposing wallpaper flowers, merging fiction and reality, the eyes of vacant models, and the murmur of tiny stuffed animal clusters.”

kime is a painfully talented artist who writes beautifully about what inspires her, includes consistenly stunning photos and is an amazing photographer herself. the party photos of her millions of ridiculously stylish friends will make you feel like you’re in the great gatsby. oh and just forget about her paintings and clothes. they’re the sorts of things that will just send you into a pleasure coma:

she’s also extremely accomplished:

“Kime Buzzelli who are you?
I’m a painter-clothing maker, shop owner. My art has been published in books such as Fashion Illustration Next by Laird Borrelli- Vintage L.A. due out this spring. I have done illustrations for magazines such as Lula (UK), Bust, PAPER, W, Front Desk, Juxtapoz, and BPM. I create clothes- that have been featured in Elle, Venus, Jalouse, W, Apparel News, WWD, PAPER, Visionaire- and more…”

it makes me simultaneously want to either manicly create or give up completely. her artwork reminds me so much of my most favorite fashion illustrator, julie verhoeven (i hope she doesn’t tire of the comparison). my envy of her talent and lifestyle might lead me to madness, were it not that she is such a seemingly pure soul and a real person (she gave Superbad a thumbs up!). i loved this post about how she met her dreamy boyfriend, as if in a movie.

but really, i need to stop talking now. see fer yerself (i very much hope she doesn’t mind my pirating her precious images but i just can’t say enough). that’s her on the left:
crafty girls

oh and i don’t believe i mentioned the best part. the best part is that she has an etsy store!!

so, Kime Buzzelli of the Moldy Doily? i dub thee as painfully hip as my hero Louise Brooks because you appear to share my obsession with all things roaring…

forever and ever. amen.

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the most Painfully Hip Site of the Week

August 16, 2007 – 6:04 pm

i’ve decided to start highlighting my most inspirational blog reads of the week. i just get this feeling sometimes that i want to spread the love. because you know what? i love love. and i also love this blog:

The Vintage Society

it’s about a girl named Beth with a dream to open her very own vintage boutique next year in Santa Ana, CA. I am so inspired by her drive…

“The Vintage Society will sell a wide range of vintage clothing that will be current with each season’s trends. There will be a “girls only” policy inside the store that will create an enviroment where there will be freedom to design and inspire an individual style.”

I love the store concept, she keeps us updated on it’s progress and i really love her weekly features like the Society Girl of the Week feature which spotlights style icons like Bridgitte Bardot, Jenny Lewis, Lou Doillon, Kirsten Dunst and even other bloggers.

But my absolute favorite feature of hers is the Society Challenge of the Week. here are the rules:

1. We choose ONE store for each challenge.
2. Once inside the store, I choose one item that we both have to build an outfit around.
3. We split up to grab everything interesting in sight.
4. No peaking!
5. Outfit has to consist of all items from chosen store, with the exception of shoes and accessories that we are already wearing.
6. We enter the dressing room and seperately begin to create.
7. No peaking!

although there have only been two challenges so far, i wait with baited breath (and smelling of garlic at the moment, just so you know) for the next one.

Beth of The Vintage Society, i hereby declare you Painfully Hip and bestow on you the Painful Badge of Hipness, emblazoned with one time Society Girl of the Week, Chloe Sevigny.

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