tuesday eye candy: painterly patterns

With Fashion Week about to kick off, I'm swooning over photographer Erik Madigan Heck's images of Mary Katrantzou's Fall 2011 collection...

(All photographs by Erik Madigan Heck via here)

happy monday + prints charming

Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend...

While I wish I had spent the weekend lounging around in an extravagant floral caftan, with big jewelry and even bigger hair, I actually found myself cooking and gardening, which offer their own mood-brightening effects. Now if I had a million dollars, I am certain that these boldly-graphic dresses and chairs would do an excellent job brightening up my closet and home. A girl can dream...

(from top: photograph by Garance Dore; dress by Jil Sander; bespoke YSL scarf-print chairs by Suzan Fellman; bottom left dress by Mary Kantrantzou)