Aftelier: The Aftel Archive of Curious Scents
Monday Mini Mix: The Power Of Love
No joke these two songs came on back-to-back once when I was running and listening to music on shuffle. This speaks not only to my appreciation of music that encompasses both angular Manchester post-punk and daffy yacht rock, but also to the wide ranging powers we ascribe to love.
People Have The Power
If we keep writing it. Keep saying it. Keep singing it. Keep feeling it. Keep doing it, then it’s true.
New York Fashion Week Favorites
Sies Marjan — The colors on this show were amazing. Varied and subtle yet totally saturated and vibrant, from sea foam and mint to khaki and peach to shocking pink, dusty rose and coffee brown. The silhouettes too had this beguiling mix of ease and shapelessness that was
Crystallize Your Ideas
Have you ever loved a book so much you wanted to freeze time so it wouldn't end? I was feeling that way about Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. When I finished it I looked it up, as you do these days I guess, on Instagram. I was rewarded with these beautiful, warped, crystal-covered tomes by SF-based artist Alexis Arnold. She's invented the perfect way to stay in your favorite book forever. No kindles.
Women's March
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Gauzy yet powerful images by @clairelindsay of the 750k-strong LA women's march 💪🏽
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Two weeks ago, along with hundreds of thousands of other women (and men), I traveled to D.C. to be at the Women's March on Washington. It was an overwhelming experience that's hard to encapsulate, but here are a few thoughts.
Monday Mini Mix: More Baltimore
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I've never been to Baltimore, but these two songs give me lots of feelings about it. The dichotomies of city life versus country life. Trying to make it in the city. Plus, The Wire. Plus the way that Baltimoreans seem to pronounce the name of their city with the 't' somewhere between a 't' and a 'd' in a way you can't really achieve unless you're from there. Plus, John Waters.
Streets of Baltimore was written by Tompall Glaser and prolific Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard (whom I'm reading a lot about in this Waylon Jennings autobiography) and has been covered a lot. I haven't heard every version, but I'm still pretty sure GP's is my favorite all the same.
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"It’s powerful sometimes, to take up all the room with your outfit." Love Rachel Comey's designs and take on fashion shows and this article underscored that on the 15th anniversary of her first show. Plus, her boots? Swear by them.
We listened to Pitchfork's top 200 songs of the '70s for an entire weekend on a roadtrip down to Joshua Tree and I highly recommend. It's a diverse and interesting mix of hits, originals whose covers were way more popular, funk, punk, foreign language songs and more. I know I couldn't, but I found myself seriously wondering if I could survive without music from any other decade.
Love these concrete cylinder earrings.
And the recently launched vintage site Petra Von Kant. Great styling and reminds me of the heady days of eBay vintage stores before the big ones got big. I often think vintage styles don't get the credit they deserve for influencing modern designs, but you can see it ins contexts like this.
For fellow La Croix addicts: design your own La Croix can. Not sure where it went, but they had a 'top flavors' section with some hilarious names. Maybe they'll bring it back.
Photo via Petra Von Kant
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I've been a big fan of Linda Rodin since I first encountered her amazing style, and I'm excited to try her new line of lipsticks. Especially now that my lip balm ring has run out.
Would you drink a coconut ice cream and ginger kombucha float? It sounds weirdly good, but then again, I'm a fan of weird things. Probably defeats whatever macrobiotic point there is, but I don't think rum would be misplaced here.
A cute affordable plant stand.
There is now a Baggu in Temescal Alley! Love their practical bags. Might have to pick up this puppy.
Art + roadtrips+ gas stations+ words + the American west: definitely want to check out this Ed Ruscha exhibition at the De Young.
New commute shoes I have my eye on.
Song on repeat: this
Rodin lipstick photo via Mille
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What an original Bill Cunningham was. Not just his eye, his whole ethos — doing only what he loved every day, eschewing attention, fiercely maintaining his personal and creative freedom and always impressing everyone with his kindness and humility while being incredibly revered and powerful. We won't be able to see New York fashion and personal style the same way without him.
Two obsessions combined: James Rowland Shop and the Moroccan babouche.
Stoked on discovering this band via kalx that's described as a Croatian Os Mutantes.
Are you a Dennis Hopper fan?
Speaking of Dennis Hopper, this David Lynch-curated music festival happening at the Ace Theater in LA looks amazing!
The Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana is another far flung art site it would be cool to road trip to someday.
Why I Would Take A Philosophy Class On Personal Identity Taught By Didion & Tarantino
"I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad might and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were." — Joan Didion
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Adding this to the itinerary of the land art road trip I fantasize about in me head (someday!).
Slowly making my way towards greater Grateful Dead appreciation via this comp. Right now it's all about Box of Rain.
Everyone should read this powerful letter. Down with rape culture.
New pic-a-nic blanket vibes.
Digging the new Steve Gunn album.
Loving the mineral and desert themes of these art and photo prints.
These perfect sandal have been restocked.
Photo via NY Times
Flax Affirmations
The Flax by Jeanne Engelhart line doesn’t just traffic in oversized, low-key chic linen, it traffics in positive vibes in the form of label affirmations. This is how you know you’re not only comfortably dressed in sensible, made-in-Lithuania fabric with an easy cut, you’re
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Very into the shapes of Rachel Saunders' ceramics. Someday I hope to get back to the wheel.
Would not have guessed they could make vegan leather out of this. Love the texture.
Dolly on tour! I've never been to the Hollywood Bowl — how cool would it be to see her there?
In love with this art piece from the site. #artgoals
This candle sounds like it smells amazing, and it turns into a succulent planter.
Digging this Nirvana-goes-country cover. Makes so much sense.
Photos via Rachel Saunders
Spirit Wind Joshua Tree
Spirit Wind Joshua Tree is an exceptional place. My brother and sister-in-law recently made it theirs and are finishing and restoring it. It was originally designed and built in the early 2000s as the dream home of a talented architect. After he lost it in the recession,
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