No need to camp inside anymore, it's getting warmer

photo by Tim Walker

Tim Walker meets Hermes

I love this photo found via Hollister Hovey from Tim Walker's spring ad campaign for Hermes, reminds me so much of an Andrew Wyeth painting! I also just checked the Hermes website and love the illustration on the home page- check it out here
Btw I keep forgetting to re-post about this weeks giveaway! Enter by Friday to receive a batch of my finest cat cards!! If you haven't left a comment already, do so here----->

Giveaway deux!

Your Bunny, My Bunny

by Tom


by Jamie

if you don't want this book you must want to be dead!

Great Art Exhibitions in NYC

I was so excited to read the NY Times today and find such great exhibitions on display in the city!! The International Center of Photography will be hosting 4 exhibitions throughout the year all regarding fashion portraiture in photography...

Roberta Smith writes:
The day comes when you realize you’re subscribing to all the wrong fashion magazines. A little bit of your world crumbles, or maybe a lot.

A visit to the International Center of Photography may cause such a day. The center is inaugurating a year of fashion photography exhibitions called “2009 Year of Fashion” — with four synergistic exhibitions.

Read Roberta Smith's review in the NY Times here-----> "Fashion Forward (Not for the Fainthearted)


Tim Walker

Then there is a great exhibition on at The Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled "Raphael to Renoir: Drawings From the Collection of Jeann Bonna" with over 120 drawings on display! Read Holland Cotters review in the NY Times here---> "Where Lines Become a Kind of Language"


Federico Barocci


Parmigianino

And finally "The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings" at The Morgan Library. With 2 stunning Ingres portraits on display which haven't been seen in over 100 years! AS well a number of modern drawings from Claude Monet to Ellsworth Kelly.


Mr. Morgan's library

ah I'm in heaven! If you're in the city I hope you get a chance to see all this wonderful art! I can't wait to get down there!

Red Coats

Band cat by Jamie Shelman click to purchase print from my etsy shop


Tim Walker photograph from I Love Pictures!


Mulford Red Coat at the East Hampton Historical Society


Sir Henry Raeburn, portrait of Mrs. Robert Scott Moncrieff at The National Gallery of Scotland


Sir Henry Raeburn, Colonel Francis James Scott, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

I love red coats, from the British military to band uniforms and 18th century wool frocks. I especially love traditional and classic red hunting coats. I know hunters plaid is all the rage but may I suggest a return to this classic deign? hint hint Cate Blanchett in the recent Vanity Fair...


Cate Blanchett, photgraphed by Annie Lebovitz, Vanity Fair Feb 2009 wearing Nina Ricci

Hope you enjoy these red coats on this white snowy cold day!