Edgy is going right to edge of the cliff while looking all the way down and dancing anyways!

The blog neglect is completely without excuses. It's kind of strange that we were posting so regularly in the midst of AP craziness and cease when it all ends. Regardless, the summer months are long and largely uneventful so we'll probably be posting a lot. I just realizes that we've neglected a lot of major events in fashion (fashion week, mcqueen dieing, etc.). We'll get to that eventually, I am confident of that. Here's a majorly weather inappropiate post of Katie and I looking like wierd desert nomads. There's a lot of pictures of me looking stupidly angsty in the middle because Katie decided to squint excessively in most of her pictures, but I'm sure you'll all live with it.
Oh, I didn't injure myself or anything. The arm brace was Katie's and I thought it was vaguely Rodarte f/w 09 with all the straps. Forgive us if it looks stupid.

we're wearing way too many layers to try and bother with classifcations. Try not to cry in agony

Photoshoot

As you might know, we did a photoshoot a while back where we used a giant egg which we made. We later thought it would be a nice compliment to make a giant bird nest. We made this bird nest but, my mom threw it away so we had to make another one which hindered our ability to get around doing this photshoot.
It was a lot of fun to do this and we sort of brought our entire closets over to Katie's house and dumped it in her room and played around with some outfit.
Everything knit is coming from the etsy store(the collars and shoulder pieces aren't up yet) and so are the white hair clips.
There's quite a lot of them, but they're hopefully aesthetically pleasing enough to keep you interested.
I'm too lazy to write out what we're wearing because everything has too many layers and there's just too much clothes. Assume everything store bought is H&M, target or forever21. Anything else is thrifted or DIYd.
I find it amusing that we did this in a very public area. The passerbys were very confused.

Etsy!

This was said in the last post but, i will talk about it in more detail here.
We get bored easily so one day we bought yarn to expirement with which turned into us making these really long rope things that we would wrap around like scarves or harnesses. We then had the idea that these could be sold on etsy and we then started making these collar things out of the yarn so we then decided to actually make a store. Yay!
Here we have some pictures we were going to use for the store to advertise the products(hence the less ornate outfits)that for some reason never made it on there and Paula won't disclose the information.

Link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/intreegue
We will be adding more pictures and the collars on here as the week progresses so these aren't the finalized products

All the scarves are between 10 and 12 feet long. The pictures on the store show them more as neckalaces since it is spring and it seems more seasonally appropiate but they can be wrapped tighter to be more scarf like. They are all $15 and we're trying to figure out how to make it so that you can get two for $25.

And here we have some pictures we took in the woods(more like the Everglades). We were slightly horrified when doing these since the chances of getting attacked by some predatory animal were rather high.

Katie's wearing grey tights from target, a skirt from target, a white t-shirt and two scarves from the store

I'm wearing a scarf from american apparel, a thrifted vest, thrifted shorts, american apparel sheer shirt, and some irrelevant cardigan from mysterious origins

Dramatic posing

Hello children. Lately we've been excessively cohesive without trying to so expect a deluge of outfit posts this week. We've been in the midst of developing a huge project these few months that was officially finalized today, the formal unveiling on the blog will be tomorrow. Is my tension building appreciated?

here's an amalgamation of obnoxious and normal pictures of our outfits.

what we're all wearing:

katie: thrifted vest and shirt, target skirt, target socks that were tights but she's 6 feet tall and those would never actually be the appropiate length, payless shoes(she's wearing heels to be obnoxious) and self made collar

Renata: Target dress, thrifted lace dress underneath, forever 21 belt, payless shoes, bowtie as bow

Me: upside down jacket that has been highly contorted, thrifted vest, socks of mysterious origin, payless shoes, thrifted mesh shirt, thrifted shorts

I'll do some more extensive coverage tomorrow, but we're all itching to post it. The collars(like katie's here, these knit shoulder pads and the pleated one i wore two posts down)will be added tomorrow.

We knit everything and this is basically a product of extreme boredom over winter break and it blossomed into an etsy store!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/intreegue

Technology hates us

So, there wasn't a two month hiatus here or anything...
We had some issue and we kept getting comments in huge amounts in some asian language which had links to sex shops and porn sites and then they started to appear as posts in our draft area. Yeah, inconvenient, but it's all fixed now so homeostasis will return.
Nothing horribly exciting that you won't find out within this week happened in our lives other than school so here's some pictures we took last a few days ago next to the highway(interesting excursion...)

Katie is wearing a jacket from target, thrifted shorts and a shirt of mysterious origin and I'm wearing a self made collar contraption, american apparel cardigan, thrifted shorts and vest and pants from some place that sells pants.

Couture

Couture in general was kind of dissapointing this season but some collections were good, and some were disasters.

Dior

This collection was just bad. The color scheme is derivative of a prom dress catalogue and those gowns were all just so heavy, they felt like a chonga quinces or something. The purple skirt on Vlada is nice and some of the equestrian stuff will probably work in editorials. Overall, i feel like John Galliano's been using the same inspirations for too long and the same setting and same tranny make up. It made for a very boring, uninspired and not particularly aesthetically pleasing collection. It all feels like costumes.

John Paul Gautier

I loved this collection. The weaving techniques are beautifula and the colors are vibrant. I love the styling and the inspiration(mexico) was interpreted so nicely. It's rather literal but it feels young and fresh. This really felt like couture, it was theatrical and a fantasy. It does kind of feel like the same old Gautier collection but he's such a master with couture that it's not a problem. The palm tree leave effects are amazing and i'm curious as to what the material is.

Valentino

Complete disaster. I never liked valentino when it was all about "elegant, refined clothes for the confident women" or whatever with all the red and such, but it was always done well. This feels like a mixture of rodarte, balenciaga, and versace as seen by lindsay lohan and executed with cheap looking fabrics. This doesn't look like couture in the slightest, much less valentino. It was incredibly tacky and amateur.

Givenchy was good but nowhere near as good as lat season. The feather work is beautiful and the colors are perfect, especially that dress on natalia. I loved the jumpsuits despite my vitriolic hatred of jumpsuits. I hated the styling.

Chanel

Chanel might have been my favorite this season. The color pallete was like a crazy space easter egg with all the saccharine pastels and silver lurex and i loved the styling. The collection was futuristic, feminine and perfectly chanel without looking the slightest bit costumey. The techniques employed throughout are perfect and i love the seamless dresses, especially the yellow shift. The jackets and coats were cute perfectly and all the proportions are so elegant. Karl Lagerfeld might not necessarily be my favorite designer but he does know how to carry out Chanel in an innovative light. Everything had so much detail and at first glance, it all seems simple. It's the perfect example of practical couture.

buttons

So couture was pretty much awful and i might review the collections later on in the week since i'm in a rush now (salvation army outing). Chanel was nice even if there was those wierd cullote suits and dior looked like a tranny quinces and valentino was a travesty that i do not want to discuss, and i never even liked the "refined, elegant woman" valentino.
I will definitley review rick owens and cdg menswear since they were actually good. Especially rick, i definitley need to crocodile and fur in my life (i'm being a bad vegetarian).
Anyways, salvation army last week brought some lovely things into my life. The jacket i'm wearing here is particularly eventful and has all kinds of button options. I'm ejoying the ann demeulemeester f/w 09 vibe coming from it but the sleeves kind of scare me. I think i'll just make it a vest or something. I also got a very exciting striped vest that has become a vest with tails which will make its appearance on the blog soon as well as this dress with pleats that now is a vest thing with tails.

outfit!

d-tailz(i'm sorry, i couldn't resist the temptation)



I'm wearing black pants from somewhere that sells clothes, black patent leather cr. martens, black sweater from cos, black mesh t-shirt from american apparel, white t-shirt whose wherabouts are inconsequential, thirfted jacket, black cardigan that i buttoned amongst the jacket

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This weather has seriously been an impediment on our outfits. Lately, it has been warming up and the iguanas are no longer in comas on the grass. Here's what we wore on Friday. We have a very exciting project that has been actualized that you shall all know about at some point this week...

Renata


wearing a thrifted bouse, H&M pencil skirt , ameoba tights I got for my birthday.


Gabriel

I'm wearing black pants from american apparel(i think), black jacket(with cape) from zara, black drapey jacket from elsewhere(i don't remember), black patent leather doc martens, fringe scarf from h&m

pants do not fit me...

Side view!
I love these shoes and will never take them off! I also have since recieved a haircut and it looks less overgrown...

paula



Paula's wearing Thrifted blazer, F21 shorts, blingasuarous, and patent leather oxfords
(renata writing)I feel as if I shouldn't like these but I do. I tried them on while at Payless and am still contemplating whether or not to buy them.
they're on sale for $5