i went home to houston....

and had myself a lil fashion shoot!

i actually went home over spring break to shoot my portrait project and what is becoming my thesis. i was working on a video documentary on new orleans debutantes but lo and behold, one william eggleston show at the whitney and i've realized that i want to photograph the south. i've actually know that i've wanted to do that for a while but it took seeing his (eggleston's) photographs to realize that is what i want to do. i am still working on my documentary but i dont really want my senior show to be that. i'll finish that for another class next semester i reckon.

anywho.

le photos!

all taken with my mamiya 7 or rollei twin lens. (medium format film cameras)



tsumori chisato dress
vintage belt
repetto flats
(shot in my mom's bathroom)


rachel comey shirt (from raye)
vintage belt
skirt i found in london at a random sample sale, no tag
slow and steady wins the race- canvas birkin bag (from raye)
my sister's fake tiger was sleeping in our living room

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our formal dining room
a shirt from opening cermony during their US vs Tokyo
an old prada skirt (my first designer anything from my dad. he bought it the weekend i came to visit NYU for pinic in the park or something. it was for high schoolers who had been accepted to NYU)
chie mihara shoes given to me by a friend
vintage belt
pearls from a trip to china



outside my house
thrift store jacket
slow and steady wins the race canvas birkin bag (from raye)
Pierre hardy shoes for Gap
mayle dress


in my room. or my balcony.
built by wendy (they were having a huge sale- this dress was 30 bucks!! it was a little worn but its my new favorite spring dress. it looks vintage)
vintage belt
marc by marc jacobs jellies


more to come later!
*c*

long time no see

sooo
school has been quite intense! hence the lack of updates until now. in fact, i had just put this on the backburner. but now, im back!

so why has school been intense?
well, i've been working on my thesis. but caroline, you say, you're a junior! right you are, but there is no time like the present to start my senior thesis. and i kind of switched topics. i was working on a film documentary of new orleans's debutantes but now i am working on photographic images of the south and my family. i'll post my images soon.

im also in a rather intense but utterly fascinating class on children's cinema and my portrait class, which i can't rave about enough, is eating my time. but b/c i give these things my time, they grow into time eating monsters and just get rather large. but i like putting work into these things.

i also got an internship at Maxim. yes, the magazine with the near nude ladies in it. i rather enjoy it for these reasons a) i'm not a fan of the magazine so my hopes aren't dashed when it's not what i expected it to be, B) b/c i had no expectations, it ended up surpassing said expectations and C) i'm given actually photo work to do. find these images via stock agencies is way better than hey intern (note the no name) update this blog. or just sit there.
its fun and i work for the photo dept and its full of rather cool ladies.


so this is a picture of me and some classmates



the cute asian girl is esther. who dresses very well. and the other lovely lady named marissa. she is doing this awesome project on old women in new jersey. quite cool.
this was a flash exercise. so we took a vivatar flash and bounced it off the ceiling and then the whiteboard. i think this is bounced off the ceiling.
what i'm wearing
a delias sweater
a marc by marc jacobs shirt
a marni skirt
3.1 phillip lim belt
american apparel tights
jeremy campbell shoes (oxford style)


more to come soon! we just had spring break and i held some fashion shoots.
oh yeah.
*caroline*

happy christmas!!

sorry about the lack of updates.
it's been a crazy month.
got back from the london, went to NYC for two days, then houston for four days, then new orleans for liek a week, back to houston, back to new orleans and am still in new orleans until dec 30th.
see....i'm working on my senior thesis right now (yes yes i am still a junior). i am making a video documentary about southern debutantes. i am also making my new orleans debut, hence why i've been so scattered and not updating!
but happy xmas to all.
my gifts were being able to debut and then i got a lot of mayle clothing!! yay.


but here are some clothes i've been wearing.
the weather here has been crazy. 30 one day but 80 0r 70 degrees for the rest of the time.
all i can say is like whoa.


some clothes.



my best friend jon and i were filming a ninja movie during my short interium in houson. this is our fake fragrance ad.
i am wearing oriela kiely




prada shoes
ebay phillip lim dress
american apparel tights




jacket from urban outfitters
anna sui sweater
sunshine and shadow scarf




steven alan shirt
thrifted tie
my dad's tie bar
sonia rykiel shorts
chie mihara shoes



must get back to attending all the debutante parties (not the balls. though i'm having two balls right now. one was on dec 19th, and one dec 28th) but there are parties to celebrate girls who are debutantes. they are like christmas parties (ie cocktail wear) but for debutantes


love,
c

long time no update

so finals have descended and are over ish tomorrow. my portfolio is done, my paper is being revised, so i've come out of the hole that was intense work.


anywho, prague was lovely! i spent my twenty first birthday there and just hung out.
here are some photos!
we went out, i got wasted on my birthday (a rite of passage). met a cute boy, took some pictures for my final and did some amazing vintage shopping. prague was beautiful and i found myself wishing i had done study abroad there instead... not that london hasn't been great but two of my good friends were in prague. oh well, i had a wonderful time in london and in prague! now im just gearing up to head back to nyc in 9 DAYS!!









also. this is what i've been wearing during finals. its either cheap monday jeans, an APC sweater, red keds or this little outfit. its all about comfort and the fact that sleep is really just for the lucky.



comme ca play sweater
topshop dress
topshop hat
knock off keds
american apparel leggings and socks


off to slow club show tonight!
love,
c

on the way to prague

so im off to prague tomorrow! i should be sleeping but honestly i have to be at victoria station by 4:30 am so i am waking up at 3 am. so in two hours. ahh. yes, i shall be sleeping much tonight.
anywho, i am uploading my pictures of paris onto flickr and a couple onto here! so paris was great and i just went for a day to visit taylor and take some portraits for my class. but we ended up exploring. i was feeling a bit down and i wasn't sure why. i thought maybe i just wasn't happy with london or central st martins. NYU's photo lab is just better than CSM's. however than makes sense, b/c CSM is just a fine arts program but NYU is specifically a photo program. thus, my tution money goes just towards photo. anywho, the lab at CSM, the equipment is rather old. and that has made things difficult. but seeing taylor, a close friend of mine from nyu, made things better. maybe i was just homesick. but taylor is one of the nicest people i know, she just cheered me up. i really missed her. we are going to hang out in texas over christmas break! we ate pain au chocolat and cafe au lauits and lemon tarts and falafel. we also took pictures at taylor's friend hannah's apt and i went and bought some lovely shoes at repetto. all in all, a lovely visit!

me in paris




pants prada
shirt urban outfitters
shoes thrifted marc jacobs
jacket built by wendy

i wanted to look influenced by europe, if that makes sense? at least, thats how i viewed the pants. it was a more sophisticated look for me. the pants remind me of charlie chaplin but arent as retro inspired as i normally dress and they are pants. they are a drop crotch with pleats on the front and a high waist. tapered at the ankle, they are made of stretch silk and hit three inches above my ankle. kind of awesome. all in all, i really loved this look.

some pictures of france. which can also be seen at
so i pretty much walked around and took pictures of things i thought were interesting. it's been a long time since i've done that. just taken pictures for the hell of it. not with any sort of idea in mind. it was nice.
tonight i went and did some night photography for myself. with photo, it's something i love and want to do as a career but also as a hobby. it stresses me out when i have assignments but also calms me down.



here are some pics of paris.









also here are somethings i wore this week ^^

shirt: james coviello for anna sui
skirt: marni
shoes: repetto jazz shoes that i purchased in paris!





headband: marni
shirt: comme ca play
skirt: phillip lim
shoes: christian louboutin


anywho. i should sleep. i'll get about two hours (woot). my trip will tire me out. i'll post bout that later.

love and such,
caroline who is bringing a disposable camera to prague and is turning 21 on teh 22nd (!!)

it's been a long, long time. since i've seen you smile

so i've been bogged with work! i completely forgot (well not really) that i have an essay due the 2nd of dec. along with most if not all of my work due the 28th of nov. looks like i shall be up all night tonight.
oh!
last saturday i went to paris for the day to visit my lovely friend taylor. i took a ton of pictures with my leica, which i shall post quite soon.

anywho. last week i had my big tutorial meeting, it was a six hour crit. on friday, i went out with my friend thomas, and made a new friend, martha. we went to some club/dance thing called 93 feet long, then to another club, where martha and i got in for free and so did thomas. we danced to some terrible music. the dj had no idea what he was doing. after that i slept for two hours and caught my early train to paris.
and i've been a-workin' and a-prayin' since then.


on to the outfits!

so this is what i wore to go out in on friday. i was so silly to wear heels b/c i had to wear them dancing for five hours! that's pretty intense for me.
top is from top shop
vintage belt
rachel comey "eye" skirt
repetto heels






these outfits are what i wore to class and to work in the photo lab during the week.

dress- lorick
vintage belt
topshop undershit
miu miu shoes



i just love winter shorts (thick wool with pleats and a rather boxy shape) in the colder months.
l to r
vintage thermal fuzzy pajama top
sonia rykiel shorts
vintage necklace
bunched up american socks
apc boots


monday after returning from dubai (my flight left at 3:00 am dubai landed at 7 am in london) i was so dead that i slept and just threw this on to go out and run errands.
lyell sweater shirt
american apparel tank top
apc shorts
american apparel leggings
repetto black flats



so my six hour crit. it's really all about comfort b/c i am just sitting or standing for six hours viewing people's work. and we are expected to give enthusiastic and in depth criticism for each person's work. but it's also the one of the few times i see everybody in my tutorial, so i like to look really awesome, you know, on the top of my game but still comfortable.
this is what i wore

sweater- marc by marc jacobs
shorts sonia rykiel
shirt- rachel comey "eye" shirt (i'm just in love with rachel comey)
socks- americal apparel bunched up socks
boots- vintage



so that's about it! i've just been catching up on lost sleep. which i guess is pointless now b/c im about to lose so much more sleep this week! bah. and oh well. as long as the work get's finished.

love,
c

worker bee

so apparently
i have a six hour crit on thursday and i need to show my work! so tomorrow, i will be printing all day just to have 6 working prints done. i want to have nine or ten images in totally but big prints. gah. i hope the crit goes okay. i think my work is going to be slightly off topic but veering towards a new topic. it was going to be about the gestural language of women. now it's portaits of women based on classical portraiture which is unfolding in a non linear narrative. it's a touch fashiony but i feel its more rooted in the work of vermeers paintings and inspired by fashion work i wish i saw but it is mainly portraiture.


so dubai was great! made some new friends (luke and ross, they work with my dad and stepmom but are 23. are a touch bro-ish but they seem quite cool). it was so warm, around 70 degrees Fahrenheit. i'm still getting used to the weather there. i honestly used to not enjoy dubai but i knew if i just had some people to go out with, i'd like it. which is true. so i proved myself correct. hah?
anywho.
some pictures.
i realized i left some summer dresses there, thank god, b/c i packed tights. so i packed for colder weather. but it worked out in the end.




so my first night in town, ross took me to his friend, daliah bin laden's graduation party. yah, she's a distance niece of osama. welcome to dubai is all i can say. she was super nice and was wearing a black shirt, flared jeans and a fedora.
i wore a betsey johnson slip dress and repetto flats.





so i wore this my first day in town to go to the mall- where there is an inside fake mountain that people go skiing on. its call the mall of the emirates, i want to say.
anywho, its a steven alan skirt i left there. a phillip lim skirt and miu miu shoes.



my dad and lamees (my stepmom) got invited to a dinner party being thrown by some of their friends. i met a cousin of mario testino who said if i emailed her my CV (resume) she'd try to help me get an internship. fingers crossed, b/c i love to be his paid assistant. that would a dream come true.
anywho, its a clue shirt, my trusty repetto flats and vena cava shorts.
after the dinner party, i went over to ross's apt and watched pineapple express and gone baby gone with ross, luke and ross's room mates.
all in all, quite a fun night.

though, one of ross's room mates, gareth, has appailing taste in women. he brought home this very drunk and dumb 31 year old who didnt know what the eastern seaboard one. i was a bit of a smart ass and was like you know...it touches water, the atlantic ocean, eastern sea board?
ross was like dude. where you trying to start a fight? and i was like...no...i was just explaining it.


my last day in town, thats my step sister cutting up and mugging for the camera and her friend with her
i am wearing a vintage skirt, fred perry shirt and the repetto flats.


anywho.

tomorrow, i shall print!!!
oh my.

*c*
but for now, i'll finish watching silence of the lambs on tv. jodie foster has such an unfortunate haircut in this. o

ps. some pictures of my dad's backyard in dubai.





so i got bored in my room in dubai. and took this...