The Wisened Words of Riley Cantina

we have to stop and pick up my...date.

i met her on the "live journal." which i kept in prison. i have been BLOGGING. i posted a picture of my prison sculpted abs. she commented that i was not only "p0ing" but was "teh sex". whatever that means.

as said by the most deadly villain of all time: the monarch.

the salesman looks at the stamp on my hand. "did you go out clubbing last night?"

me: "uh, no. this is from butterfly world. i went this morning with my nana." casts eyes downward. no, not really. i wasn't ashamed. i was more embarrassed that he assumed, nay INSINUATED, that i was the clubbing type. in florida. which i am most certainly not. ESPECIALLY not in florida.

but the salesman was kind enough to sell me loubs flats for $80. and why the hell else shouldn't i love florida for that reason? oh yeah, lovely weather. not enough to get me to stay. too many hurricanes.

apu nahasapeemapetilon was right on some level when he mistakenly thought karma was a brand of bologna. because it is. the cliche goes: when one door closes, it opens a window. or was it that another opens? i think i like the window idea better. because when i close a door, i like to see the window open.

turns out, karma works. go fig.

i'm just always so impressed with how chloe sevigny pulls anything off. she can do no wrong in my eyez. even with a cat mask on.

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la rok has a jacket out called the "weekend warrior". are they THAT tapped into music culture? i guess if mgmt is cool enough to be used during a runway show, then they're cool enough to have a jacket named after them. props to be had.

(image via tobi)

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oh man. this just makes me heart coco rocha so much more. not only is she canadian (and i have a soft spot for 'em) and her accent is just too cute for words, but she also dances. her contemporary flailings on the runway just make her look so j'adorable. JPG giggling throughout isn't half bad either. his french-infused english is just to DIE for.

(image via fashionologie, style.com)

these remind me of my good friend emily's work that she did back in college. it was all artwork based on her pain levels in her joints and legs. the really eerie ones depicted pain from the future, wherein she foresaw herself in a wheelchair within the next few years. the artist's name is Gwendolyn Huskens, who graduated from the design academy eidhoven. mummy-tastic.

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(images via design boom)

i love these one offs that garance dore does. she's an illustrator who is heavily in the paris fashion scene. sorta like my dream life. oh, those parisians. get me every time. the jacket is one of my favs from the balmain collection (see post below for some of my NOT-favs.)

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apparently the rise of adults dressing as pirates is greater than i first imagined. and no, it's not just due to halloween nearing. some folks just make it necessary to dress up and congregate together at a pirate festival.

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now this begs the question on whose side you're on:

pirates or ninjas?

(image & article via nytimes)