Two of my faves: scented candles and a Jackie Collins book! That candle is actually bigger than it shows; I bought it last year (found it for cheap in the clearance shelves at TJ Maxx) and it took until this fall for it to burn half way. The smell from it is divinely autumn. And I should be reading the books I bought at my recent thrift store run, but I prefer to finish JC’s LA Connections series…even if I’ve read the whole series before. Nothing wrong with a reread!
One of my idols of style, beauty, side-eyeing, and classic Hollywood: Sophia Loren, who turns 88 today. I hope to age a tenth good as she has. A living legend in the truest sense!
“You know, I didn’t have a thing with butterflies when I was a kid,” she says during a phone interview. “I wasn’t one of those little girls who had a fascination with butterflies, even though I knew children who did. It is just something that happened. When I made that album, I was leaving a point in my life that was extremely stifling and I had to go through an actual metamorphosis to become a grown woman who was strong enough to get out of that situation. It was me breaking through, to become free enough to fly…”–legendary singer Mariah Carey, on the making of her Butterfly album (MSN.com via Variety)
And happy 25th anniversary to this forever amazing album today! It was on heavy rotation in my CD walkman back then, and teen me also wanted to have my hair colored that exact light golden brunette shade she was sporting during that era. A music and hair icon! I will always ❤ me some Mimi!
Because it’s National Read A Book Day today! Currently reading (or should I say re-reading) Murder from the L.A. Connections miniseries (which I also own, as you can see) by the legendary Jackie Collins (RIP), one of my all-time favorite authors! LOVE her books.
The work of the late legendary photographer Herb Ritts (pictured above with model Alek Wek) has always been delectable and refreshing eye balm for me. Also, why don’t fashion photographers shoot like him these days?
Some of my favorite captures of his, after the cut. (some pics NSFW)
As in Debbie Harry and Missy Elliott, two of my favorite women in music who also happen to share a birthday today!
How ’bout some Miles Davis in honor of the summer solstice, shall we? His trumpet here just sends me.
And you can’t argue with me on that! I aim to write these types of characters in my work.
Pictured: Grace Jones, Mae West, Kylie Minogue, and Dame Joan Collins as Alexis Carrington (Colby Dexter Rowan)–four of my icons!
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