claire emelia

anything but diamonds, articulate people, azzedine alaia & basso and brooke, bustles crinolines and puffed sleeves, expired film, cameras without flashes, staying at grey-coat in cape may, compact spy cameras, horseback riding, extremely slow film, green trench coats, turn-of-the-century haute couture, helmut newton & hussein chalayan, latin, manic dancing, my doppelganger, nerd-chic, new york city, nights on the town, eccentric elegance, old stationery, other decades and eras, paint over pencil, pancake mornings, solipsism, photography, poetry, the genius of viktor and rolf, soho afternoons, vacuuming as exercise, vintage gems, well dressed men, wildly impractical clothing, wind-up sushi, admiring yves saint laurent, soirées, cartesian skepticism, pie which is obviously better than cake, tazo chai tea lattes, afternoons segueing into evenings in kensington market, photoshoots where they use film instead of digital, early sunday at the saint lawrence antique market