Although I suppose he might, if you ask him nicely…
I met Anthony Friday night for a screen-printing workshop in John Sarah John’s multifunctional West Main St. shop of wonders. The Miami transplant has been in the screen-printing business for like, years (journalism!) and is so successful that he doesn’t even need a day job. Anthony spends his time scouting for new and interesting images (he majored in art history or something – journalism x2) and then, of course, prints them on fabric using his wizard powers. {An alternative explanation for how screen-printing happens may be inferred from the above pictures…an interesting factoid I recall is that the print is not, in fact, silk-screened onto the garment, but is printed using a mesh screen. The more you know.}
Sarah mentioned this workshop to me back in June, so I had plenty of time to plan my own screen-printing adventure. I originally figured I’d just have a t-shirt done, but while on vacation in New York I picked up some army surplus at Beacon’s Closet as well as the book Stylist: The Interpreters of Fashion. What do the two have to do with each other? Well, it was in my newly acquired book that I found inspiration in this Craig McDean portrait of Kate Moss, wearing an Edward Enninful-customized military parka:
And my finished product:
My interpretation involves no display of devotion to the British royal family, but it is rather evocative of McQueen with its morbid/romantic graphic – that X-ray is actually of some guy’s wife’s hand (that’s her wedding ring you see on the finger!) Underneath I’m wearing my Jimmy O and the Ready Ted’s band t-shirt from Low and my Lion pendant, courtesy of Judy at the Greenwood Country Store. The head is actually a belt buckle that I put on a chain – c’est fantastique, no?
P.S. Stop by James Anthony Apparel if you like what you see!
Because I’m just a simple country boy…
If boys were cleaner and had good hair…oversized sweatshirts and baseball jackets and shrunken blazers, oh my! It’s enough to make any young man stop shopping for jeans in the ladies’ department.
“I don’t have anything designer,” Lucy warned me. In the words of Cher Horowitz, as if! Labels don’t matter when you’ve got an eye like Lucy’s – she’s the merchandiser for 
As you can see above, Lucy keeps some of her to-be-worn outfits on hooks on her wall so she can do some off-duty merchandising for herself!
When Lucy lived in London she shopped at chain 
At this point Lucy literally took a dive into her closet…which, as you might imagine, has a lot from UO and 
And then we ended up with this shot.
I mentioned in my previous post spotlighting 
Because a friend of mine commented on the inspiration for this post, “no one dresses like that in the Southwest,” I give you my outfit and declare it officially inspired by what I’ll label a fallible fashion fantasy. Blame Ralph Lauren! The bracelet and extraordinarily controversial fringed pouch (i.e. everyone thinks it is comically ugly, but I love it) are from 
My spin on the classic color combo…which hopefully does not bring to mind private school uniforms…
My posting schedule got a bit wacky last week so I wasn’t able to put up these pictures of “
Last week my apartment underwent the ritual known as “Spring cleaning.” Since I live in a cube this was a fairly easy process that involved mostly sweeping and a little scrubbing. The biggest issue I have with keeping my apartment in order is making sure my clothing doesn’t spill out all over everything, dominate my couch and turn my floor into an obstacle course. I tend to get dressed by pulling out everything that could go with anything and trying it on with all of the above. It isn’t very efficient. What’s nice about the seasons changing is that I can finally put away some of my heavier items – sweaters, cords, coats – and free up room for other things for which most people have closets. I can also start using some of my lighter bags – I’m putting away the brown leather 
