{ An (Extraordinarily Glamorous) Parking Lot In San Jose }

J Crew Camisole and Shorts | Anthropologie Button-Down

Zac Posen Bag c/o | Madewell Sunglasses c/o | Converse Leather-Lace Sneakers

{ MiH blouse | rag & bone Jeans | glam camp Necklace and Earrings }

Who’s ready?

I’m SO READY.

Coalinga, CA 

{ Vintage Betsey Johnson Top (similar); BooHoo Shorts (similar); Frye Boots }

There are many wonderful things about solo road trips.

This is the Hotel Lautner, in Desert Hot Springs, California: a tiny little place conceived of by iconic architect John Lautner and tucked away in the sleepiest desert town ever. It's all midcentury furniture and cowhide rugs and glamour and makes absolutely no sense sitting at the end of the dusty road where you find it, but that's part of what makes it so spectacular.

Francesca, Brie and I spent a good amount of our girls' weekend at the hotel: we were scouting nearby locations for an upcoming shoot I'm doing for Francesca, and I took a few test shots of her in the surrounding desert (hence the makeup and hair situation going on here). All this, of course, in between dips in the plunge pool and glasses of wine on the balcony and hikes and cactus shopping. (Like I said, "working weekend" is a slight exaggeration.)

It was good. This whole weekend has been good. I have so much more to show you, but for now: this.

{ ModCloth Dress }

I once had this dress.

It was red, and cut practically down to my bellybutton, and skin-tight, and was basically everything that I typically do not look for in clothing. But every single time I put it on (prior to, ohhhh, let's say October 21, 2011, the date after which anything cut down to my bellybutton was most definitely not going on my body), I felt AMAZING. I felt like I glowed; like when I walked into a room everyone noticed (which they probably did, because, like I said: skin-tight and red).