Listening To, Written by Isabel Grover

I’m baaaack. This week we will be discussing music (again) because I’m broke and can’t afford a $13 movie ticket. Snaps for YouTube for being free. Without further adieu:

Saint-Laurent

Coeur de Pirate

This song is old(ish), but it’s beautiful, so it deserves recognition from an under qualified reviewer such as myself. Coeur de Pirate is from Quebec and all of her songs are in French, which makes them 10 times better. Duh. If you are ever searching for inspiration this song, a pack of 27’s, and a mason jar full of merlot should do the trick.

Matt Corby ft. Bree Tranter

Big Eyes (Live)

If you haven’t heard of either of these artists, do yourself a favor and download all of their music immediately. Anything I say will not do this song justice, so drop whatever you’e doing and listen. Now.

WARNING: It might put you to sleep.

Terraplane Sun

Get Me Golden

These guys are cool beans. First off, they spell TERRAPL ∆NE like so, which I dig. Their sound is slightly reminiscent to that of The Black Keys, with more blues-y vibes. They’re still establishing themselves so their concert tickets are $10. Seriously, I just googled it. That’s amazing and music (literally) to my Jew ears.  If you can ignore the fact that the guitarist, Johnny Zambetti, quite possibly wears eyeliner, I think we’ve got ourselves a pretty solid listen.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have better things to do. Enjoy, fools. 

Style Icon: Olivia Palermo

The mark of a style icon is when you would never wear what they wear but recognize their genius anyway.  This is how I feel about Olivia Palermo.

Olivia has no talent, no personality, and she's just a socialite (and model).  But she dresses better than most of the people in Hollywood and she doesn't have stylist.  She's amazing.

In addition to being simply gorgeous, Olivia rocks everything from ultrafeminine dresses to skinnies, blazers and flats.  She frequently wears black (which is fine because she lives in New York) and wears a lot of fur, which I would never do, but she pulls it off every time.  Let's review her best looks.

Formal:

Feminine:

Less feminine but still amazingly (arguably more) chic:

No matter the season, Olivia Palermo makes fashion her b-tch.  

Women Who've Shaped History: Audrey Hepburn

In addition to being my favorite person in the world, Audrey Hepburn is responsible for perhaps the most iconic piece in fashion history.  If you are a human and English is your native language you have seen the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

Well, Holly Golightly wears this dress:

The dress was made for Audrey in 1961 by Hubert de Givenchy.  They were close friends and he not only designed and made the dress for her, but styled her accessories, which included a huge string of pearls and her trademark cigarette holder.  

So you are probably a woman.  And you probably own a "little black dress."  And for that, you can thank Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy.

Footnote: This dress went for auction at Christie's in London in 2006.  They estimated the dress would sell for between £50,000-70,000.  The dress sold for £467,200.  That's $923,187.