Have a happy weekend.

What are you up to this weekend? My cousin Jeremy and his girlfriend are visiting, so we have some little adventures planned. Hope you have a wonderful weekend, and here are a few great posts from around the web...

Wes Anderson's inspiration.

Vogue's June issue has a rad wedding shoot.

Ballerina spotting in New York!

Funny money.

One tank getaways for seven cities.

Polaroid photographers plead their case. (Go Porter!)

Reading rainbow.

Beautiful wedding dress.

Kate just opened a pretty etsy shop.

Four people squeeze into a genius 700-square-foot apartment.

Vintage sunglasses and shark pants!

Brooklyn-based Bamboo Bikes Studio has a weekend-long workshop where you build your own bike with bamboo, a renewable resource. How amazing would that be?

A sweet image of model Natalia Vodianova and her daughter.

The 10 best lobster shacks in Maine. Yummy.

Alex wrote about how "nice" is back. Agreed!

Plus, four videos:

Fifth graders rock.

New Jersey in the summer.

The Black Hole.

Paris + a rooftop + a song.

(Photo of Serge Gainsbourg)

Anja Rubik - French Vogue Cover

Anja Rubik lands her first French Vogue cover, shot by Inez and Vinoodh in Paris on April 17.


Yum, a famous Next covergirl cake!

Myf - Australian Vogue Cover

Myf graces the cover of Australian Vogue's July 2009 issue!

Feeling Smitten...

My dolls, here's a weekly round-up from Smitten, my Glamour Magazine relationships blog...

Do you want to have a baby by a certain age?

What was your first word?

An adorable love tee.

Whose hand do you want to hold right now?

Bridesmaid dress horror stories.

What size bed do you have?

Who watches more TV: you or your man?

Reader's dilemma: "I'm awkward around my boyfriend's friends."

Help! What cheers you up when you're cranky?

High schools are outlawing hugging!

Do you and your boyfriend share a bank account?

Do you ever eat your boyfriend's food?

Sexy outfits--thoughts?

(Photo by UnterbaraClara via Smitten)

A picnic blanket caper

I've been searching online for a picnic blanket, but I'm weirdly stumped. Do you have a favorite picnic blanket? Do you have any shop recommendations? Thank you so much!

(Photo by Emilie Bjork)

A Day in the Life of Abbey Road

A day in the life of Abbey Road. It gets a workout!



(Via Perpenduum)

J. Crew wedding dresses

J. Crew just revealed four of their new fall wedding dresses, and they're beautiful. See the photos on Smitten...xo

Fashion Inspiration: Red Skirt

As much as I love wearing T-shirts and jeans, I'm going to try my best to branch out this summer. I'm inspired by this pretty girl in her red skirt. Isn't she lovely?

(Photo by Style Sightings, via Camp Comfort)

Bow Ties

The achingly hip boutique Opening Ceremony just hired two dashing bulldogs to model their new bow ties. So cute!

(Via Refinery 29)

Wednesday Giveaway!

Today's giveaway is from Pearl of Maya & Ruhi, a beautiful jewelry shop. She's offering a pair of gorgeous leaf earrings handmade with deep green malachite.

For a chance to win, please visit Maya & Ruhi and leave a comment below. A winner will be chosen at random tomorrow. Good luck!

Update: Jen is our lucky winner. Thanks for playing. xo

June 2009 Fashion Magazine Covers

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on June 2009 magazine covers of Life & Style and Girlfriend Australia


Left: Bar Refaeli for Elle Italy June 2009 Issue
Right: Reese Witherspoon in Elle UK June 2009


Left: Renne Zellweger in Marie Claire Czech Republic June 2009 Cover
Right: Beyonce Knowle in Glamour Russia



Left: Elizabeth Hurley in Tatler UK
Right: Edita Vilkeviciute in Vogue Autralia

Mix-and-Match Fashion: Bags and Shoes OR Bags and Sunglasses

Years ago, women were fond of accessorizing their wardrobe by wearing accents to match the pieces of their outfits. It has been noted that during 1950s, women acquired bags, belts, gloves, hats, shoes, jewelries and cosmetics in matching colors. They became so obsessed of this mix-and-match fashion statement that the legacy still lives on in today’s fashion trends. In addition, fashion styles in complementing colors is also a big hit nowadays.

Here's some of the perfect mix-and-match of bags and shoes and sunglasses for this summer!

Bags and Shoes from Instyle




Bags and Sunglasses from Vogue

New Yorkers at Home

A few weeks ago, the incredibly sweet French photographer Valerie Dray came to our apartment to take photos of Alex and me for her Men's Style story, 15 Creative New Yorkers. We were so honored to be included! A few others who were in the piece...
Brooke Williams, a photographer, writer and former Domino editor, and her husband Josh Liberson of Helicopter graphic design, and their adorable daughter Ada.Kendra Smoot, a prop stylist, and her husband Seth Smoot, a photographer, and their sweet little girl Stella.
Hollister Hovey, a blogger and publicist, and her sister Porter Hovey, a photographer. I'm in awe of their fabulous Williamsburg apartment.

See the full slideshow here. Thank you again, Valerie! It was really fun!

(Photos by Valerie Dray)

Graduation wrapping paper

Wouldn't this wrapping paper be perfect for a graduation gift?

Happy puppy

How was your long weekend? Did you have any adventures? This puppy and his floppy ears had a great time in Devon, England. Don't these photos make you laugh? (And is that a chicken in the first photo?)

(Photos by About Last Night)

Dish towels

When I was little, I felt so bad for my mom when she got things like soap and tea towels for Christmas. How sad! I thought. But now that I'm a grown-up, I understand the appeal. Don't you love these dish towels from Tas-ka?

Unsung heroines of WWII finally get their due

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- From the time she was about 8 years old, Jane Tedeschi wanted to fly.

Jane Tedeschi when she was in the Women Airforce Service Pilot program.

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"[Charles] Lindbergh was flying across the Atlantic, and a lot of other people were flying air races and things like that. It was very romantic," she said.

Flight was still relatively new in the 1920s and 1930s, and female pilots were few.

But Tedeschi was determined.

In 1941, she found a childhood friend who taught flying and started taking lessons. After the friend was sent off to war and the airport near her home in Bethesda, Maryland, was closed to private flying, she traveled about 40 miles to Frederick and spent nights on the floor of a farmhouse to continue her lessons.

Around the same time, Deanie Parrish was working in a bank in Avon Park, Florida, and kept seeing aviation students who were attending a flying school there.

"I asked an instructor 'Why can't I learn to fly,' and he didn't have an answer...so I decided to find out for myself."

Click here to read the rest of the article

Still looking for the western feminists

"Despair can coarsen one's judgment. I knew enough about what Saddam Hussein and his talented son Uday were doing to women to want that regime toppled. The price of doing so might have seemed too high, but at least now, six years later, it is no longer official policy to rape a woman in front of her family. There may be unofficial forces still on the loose in Iraq who would like to do that, but the government no longer does it.

"Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan still seems worth it when you have read about what the Taliban want to do with any woman who seeks an education, but it's easy to despair when you think of how hard it is to stop them. "

Read article in full here