I’m going to start puking up bunny rabbits this is so cute.
(FYI, Similar shoes can be acquired at your local Rite Aid for about $5.)
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It’s been said before that M.I.A. has some irrepressible personal style. That fact cannot be denied…  So it’s totally effing awesome that she’s starting her own clothing line of bomber jackets, print leggings and T-shirts! [source] But really? No more of this…?? A friend of mine says that the fact that she can’t dance worth a can of chickpeas is like the effect of a cooling tower on preventing a nuclear reaction of cool. Ok, you guys at Wardrobe Remix are seriously killing me. I kid you not, I had to (was forced to!) look through almost 1,000 photos today before I got through the week. That’s 30 full pages worth of thumbnail-sized amazingness. I’m starting to get very skeptical emails from people who don’t believe I actually manage to go through them all. Well I do, only because I’m getting anal about the possibility that I might uncover most perfectly layered sartorial confection in the history of man. So really, I suppose it’s actually my fault. But Jeebus help me, I’m pretty sure I’ll soon have to just start doing Thrift Stars of the Day. Two or three every few days… What would you think of that? I think it’s either that or I end up a hunched over screen-squinting old lady. This is not good for my back. I interrupt this spoiled brat whining session with a totally fashion-unrelated shameless bragging announcement: OMG, my dog is the SMARTEST. She just learned how to do the Downward Facing Dog yoga pose on command in mere milliseconds. I credit her dome-like head and her neverending lust for cheese. That concludes this totally fashion-unrelated shameless bragging announcement. We will now resume with the regularly scheduled, totally fashion-related eye candy.               
Film is a great place to go for fashion inspiration in my book. So many actresses coined iconic looks–take Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, or Gwyneth Paltrow in the Royal Tenenbaums (maybe that’s just me though.) Even Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz gets a nod sometimes! However, inspiration struck me the other day upon viewing another iconic film, Mike Nichol’s 1967 adaptation of a post-collegiate’s first novel… can you guess?
So the Graduate was a well-written, well-acted, Oscar-winning legend–if we can all just put Rumor Has It out of our minds. But what really stole the show for me was Katharine Ross, who played Elaine. There is something about her style that strikes me as everything that was good about the 60s, with a lot of suprisingly modern elements. She took the fresh-faced All-American-Girl-of-the-60s look and ran with it, with her crisp white coats, miniskirts, and lovely big Bardot hair.
Check out her oversized sweater here, with white skinny jeans and roomy bag. If I’m correct, she’s also wearing some great riding boots in this scene, my obsession this winter.
How to apply to everyday life:
Top, American Apparel
Dress, Forever 21
Coat, Urban Outfitters
boots, Frye Who’s your unexpected movie style icon?  the hippest kids (as deemed by me) on wardrobe remix this week. enjoy!  i loove how she makes a forever21 dress look like vintage w/ that cardi and belt. love the print! parfait!
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