Santa Cruz, CA
What you are seeing here is - apart from Kendrick's graduation - the first time I've gotten actually dressed (meaning, selected things from my closet that were things I actually wanted to wear, rather than just opening a box, going "that looks fine and marginally clean" and getting on with it) in about a month.
It was fun.
You know what I've been wearing for two solid weeks?
I mean, you totally do. (Or at least you do if you follow me on Instagram.) Let's just say fashion has not been a big part of my life for the past fourteen days.
Right now I'm sitting in a West Hollywood Airbnb with two children who are extremely confused about what time zone they're in and thus think it's an excellent idea to wake up around 5:15A.M. Which isn't ideal because Francesca and I went out last night to a Sunset strip bar with DIY sundaes on the menu (oh yes) and mom could use a little extra beauty sleep, but is also kind of nice because they're now both fed and settled down, and so I have a semi-peaceful hour to putter around on the computer before we get on the road.
One of Kendrick's little -isms that I've always loved the most is his habit of collecting things that he finds wherever around his wrists, and then leaving them there until they fall off and get lost. Concert admission bands, those Lance Armstrong-style stamped bracelets, rubber bands, the colorful little bracelets I sometimes make him when I'm watching The Bachelorette (which sssssh nobody tell me what is happening please because I have some major binge-style catching-up to do when we finally land in California).
On this trip, I thought I'd start my own collection, and so we've been picking up wish bracelets (the kind that you make a wish on when you tie on) and beaded bracelets from roadside stands and cheesy rubber souvenir bracelets from Route 66 cafes. I love it.
And rainbow bracelets, generally.
Excellent news to battle those day-after-the-long-weekend doldrums: SSense is having a massive, massive sale right now (everything is up to 50% off).
Some of my favorite on-sale pieces - from brands including Balmain, Jacquemus, Chloe. Proenza Schouler, and Comme des Garçons - are pictured above (absolute favorites: those Toga Pulla white leather sandals and that J.W. Anderson puzzle-piece choker, oooooo). These are splurges, for sure, but this sale is such a cool opportunity to pick up that major investment piece you've been dreaming about for ages (for me personally, that would be the YSL fringe bag or the Saint Laurent platform sandals).
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