primrose path

collage: created by fashionable palette

images: clockwise from top left 1. david hamilton 2. park and cube 3. laura zalenga 

4. the very missed daul kim, unknown source 5. unknown 6. rosie hardy

playing around with the grid system and filling the spaces with inspiring photos

...does anyone else find this process therapeutic?

dew washed morning

collage: created by fashionable palette

...some inspirations for the ever nearing Fall

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice." - Dorothy Parker

leave a mark

A discovery that I had to share with my readers:

original literature-inspired illustrations by New York City based designer Evan Robertson. Check out his etsy website here for the full collection. Each illustration is 13"x19" and only $24. 

I'd love to see Robertson's take on two of my favorite lines from Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise: 

"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."

or

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want to pleasure of losing it again."

table talk

the "tablescape" -- a term attributed to the late British designer David Hicks (1929-1998) -- is the art of arranging beautiful objects beautifully...on a table, that is. Above are some tablescapes that please my eyes.

images: 1. (in)decorous taste

2. kelly framel of the glamourai

3. emese szenasy, director of global communications for diane von furstenburg, via the coveteur

4 & 5. photographer claire swanson frank for vogue

6. the coveteur

7. carolina engman of fashion squad

8. interior designer david scott

"Ah, good conversation -- there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton

blank stares all around

collage: created by fashionable palette

1. alexander mcqueen off-the-shoulder cotton poplin top via net-a-porter, $1,085.

2. brooks brothers elasticated woven braces via mr. porter, $88. 

(marketed for men...but definitely a garment for us females, too.)

3. diptique candle (a classic) via barneys, $60.

4. karl "abbey" faux pearl collar via net-a-porter, $115.

5. rabbit wrap vest by temperly london via net-a-porter, $1860

6. oatmeal saddle soap via jayson home, $16.50.

7. earrings via sue fisher king, $649.

8. kelly hoppen's picks for seek and adore, price unknown

9. ambrette no. 9 perfume by le labo via lucky scent, $145.

...because white is a year-round color.

a quoteless evening...enjoying the Olympics closing ceremonies.

welter skelter

images: all photographs by cathleen naundorf

...the very talented German artist known for her haute couture fashion photography

her medium: (most often) the polaroid

one of her techniques: long exposure times

result: the beauty above

"some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." - c. s. lewis

grammings, part deux

all images by fashionable palette

1. the elkins estate outside Philadelphia, architecture by Horace Trumbauer

2. rings and reading

3. the union league in Philadelphia, architecture by Horace Trumbauer

4. bracelets and coffee and reading, oh my

5. new balance sneaks - a great vintage find in my mother's closet

(nowifonlytheyfit)

6. gothic architecture on penn's campus

7. a Rittenhouse gem

(ihearyouknocking)

"If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two." - Marcel Proust

stumble into the spectacular

collage: by fashionable palette

1. cow skull art print (guilty - this is not stationery, though it should be) via society 6 

2. personalized stationery by katie derksin via minted

3. personalized stationery via charmandfig

...and a fabulous DIY from while the sun shines

"Only those with no memory insist on their originality." — Coco Chanel

a blindness that touches perfection

collage: by fashionable palette

all products via calypso st. barth

1. skull rabbit pillow by maison de vacances, $345.

2. gardenia bougie parfumee by calypso, $45.

3. faux fur throw by calypso home, $350.

4. vice versa throw by maison de vacances, $350.

5. glass skull flask by love this planet, $30.

6. the little dictionary of fashion, $20.

a colorful story

collage: by fashionable palette

1. tim ryan fringe jacket via browns

2. stella mccartney top via net-a-porter

3. felder felder belt via browns (on sale!)

4. j.crew denim via net-a-porter

5. avec moderation slippers via browns

some colorful picks for summer

...because sometimes it's okay to look like a rainbow or a scarlet macaw,

even better, a scarlet macaw sitting on a rainbow,

eating a funfetti cupcake.

behind the reveal

images: all photography by the great Paolo Roversi, all sourced from tfs.

1 & 2. "dream sequence" - W Oct. 2009

3. "family circus" - W Dec. 2010

4. "sound of silence" - Vogue China Apr. 2011

5 & 6. "powerful heads" - Vogue Italia Supplement Mar. 2005

7 & 8. "a white story" - Vogue Italia Apr. 2010

Roversi's work has a fairy-tale like quality and timelessness that draws viewers in.

It's easy to get lost in his photographs...

Now if only he'd make a short film...

grams of instant

all images taken by fashionable palette through instagram

loafers by charles philip shanghai 

pretty architecture around philadelphia

elysian fields

hospes lancaster: a gem of a hotel located on the champs elysees...discovered on this is glamorous.

all images via hospes.