Inspiration: Woven Baskets, Adams Morgan
Friday, March 28, 2008
Every time I walk past Bazaar Atlas in Adams Morgan I stop to admire these colorful woven baskets. I love the bright colors and the textural patterns and especially how fantastic they look grouped together. I really want to find a use for them in my apartment. There were wearable iterations of colorfully fearless pattern mixing and exotic, hand-hewn looks on the Spring runways, from Missoni’s iconic knits & prints to 6267’s woven-looking top and Prada’s oddly wearable patterned skirt-and-top combo (omnipresent in the Spring fashion spreads of what seems like every magazine). It all inspires me to think more about mixing colors and patterns in my wardrobe this Spring.
6267
Missoni
Wunkerkind
Prada
{images from Style.com}
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I love Bazaar Atlas – the first time I noticed the baskets, I was on the bus and actually got off just to ogle those baskets! I just can’t make up my mind which one to get!
is it just me, or does that last pic (prada model) look a little more healthy than usual? i think its great that shes not (or at least doesnt look) like a size 0…
Cristobal,
Yup, that’s Lara Stone. She’s the “properly sexy, big-booby woman with a whiff of the iconic Brigitte Bardot about her” who’s a “far cry from the much maligned size zero,” according to my March 2008 issue of I-D magazine….(what IS it about me that can justify purchasing an $11-per-copy magazine at Borders but hates spending on “extras” like sour cream?) She’s been doing some low-key modeling since the ’90’s but got her first big break doing Givenchy’s Haute Couture show.
Here’s more Lara!
http://www.style.com/peopleparties/modelsearch/thumb/person3653?page=1
Ellen,
I think they’d look best in multiples (I’m such an enabler), especially outdoors or on a screened-in porch or a patio. I really love the big urn styles, especially the ones woven to to have diagonal stripes (top right of my shot above). I like the idea of one of those and maybe one or two other ones, maybe all in different sizes. They’d be good for a larger bathroom too, as vessels for extra towels or toilet paper…..
wow, shes beautiful… thanks for the info and link rachel
and i get what youre saying about the magazine… ill drop $25 at borders for 10 pages of pretty pics, but you want me to pay 35 freaking cents for an extra pack of dressing for a salad?!?!?!!?
why cant we get more healthy role models out there for everyone? i know its a question with no answer and too much debate, but everyone seems to agree that skeletal is gross… yet a flip through any magazine features celebs/models with their ribs out and about… even more amazing when you consider the epidemic of obesity in america… wheres the (normal) median?