Happy Friday!
I forgot to mention this way back when I was there and it happened. I got to “model” for NYLON‘s website one time. Click the image to read about why on Earth I did this and what I was wearing and to see more images of myself and my fellow model staffers!
So yesterday I decided to stop at the Alessi flagship store just up the block from NYLON as I left work to head to NYU. It was time for my every few weeks splurge on a soy latte from Joe The Art of Coffee. Once it was in hand though, I met with a familiar problem, one that never comes up until it’s right in front of me and promptly forgotten when the coffee is gone – I’m already being wasteful by not brewing the coffee myself and putting it in a reusable mug, do I really need a cardboard cup AND a cozy? Even at Starbucks, where they proclaim on every cup and cozy just how much of it was made from recycled post-consumer products (only 10%), I feel bad using and disposing of yet another coffee cup. So I always falter and think before I grab a cozy as well “is it REALLY to warm for me to hold all by itself..?”
It usually is.
So today I vowed to find a nice knitted cozy I could buy and carry with me, just in case such a situation should arise. A small knitted cozy won’t take up much room in my already bulging bag and could even be made of organic wool, but best of all, it would mean no more cardboard cozies for me and a tiny bit less waste for the landfill.
Amazingly enough, I’ve already found not only the perfect cozy, but a seller who makes “eco-friendly” products knitted from perfectly good repurposed clothing – ie. sweaters unraveled for their yarn and used to makes hats, mittens, scarves, etc.
Hilo Verde has a small stock of items with adorable and simple designs at reasonable prices.
My perfect cozy:
I love all the easy things you can do to cut down on your waste and consumption, and the fact that no matter what I think of someone has thought of the exact same thing. It’s good to have like-minded company.
So it’s pretty convoluted how I came about the VANE online store, but now that I’ve seen it, I’m determined to get this amazing camera necklace – although I haven’t decided yet if I like the antique gold or gun metal best. Maybe if I suddenly come into a nice new chunk of income next week, I’ll buy both of them as a congratulations gift to myself. Or someone can claim to be my secret admirer and buy it for me. Or you can all donate a few dollars each to the “Kelly Really Likes That Camera Necklace and Deserves to Have It” fund I’ll start soon because there are no holidays coming up in the near future.
Too far?
Anyway, this necklace is adorable, and so are a lot of the other things they have on their website. I may have to check out one of their store locations. Thanks to VANE for leaving a comment on NYLON Magazine’s MySpace page.
I just wrote earlier today about the Chelsea Rebelle lookbook I photographed for NYLON in my post “Chelsea Rebelle Lookbook Photographed for NYLON Magazine” and now the graphic I made yesterday is also live on the website.
Click the image to see some of the clothing in the lookbook on NYLON’s site.
We recently got a cute lookbook in at NYLON for the new Chelsea Rebelle line and I got to photograph it for the website. Since the photos were each printed separately as if they were postcards from the 1940′s (complete with postage stamps and wrapped in a brown paper envelope wrapped in twine), we decided it would be a good idea to set them up strewn about a bit like we’d just opened the prized package. We have a great loft office to photograph things in, so I just took them over to a naturally well-lit corner set up the scene.
Here are some of the photos that resulted. Click any of them to see the full album.
