Get To It

Get scholarly on Monday during the Graduate and Professional School Fair at GW. Dorksville, you say? Whatever. If you're just tuning in, I am an avid nerd and legitimately excited for this event.

Get serious on Tuesday when Dan Higgs plays at the Velvet Lounge. Never have such scary songs been so soothing.

Get wild on Wednesday when These Are Powers play at Civilian Art Projects with the Apes and Food for Animals. See above flier for further vibe details.

Get on Facebook on Thursday and join the Listopad Facebook Group! We are so very plugged in.

Get hungry on Friday at the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church's Greek Festival outside Baltimore. There will be FOOD.

Get the most excited you've ever been on Saturday because Listopad is having a party! Jiggle that!

Get crafty on Sunday at Crafty Bastards. (Keep your eyes peeled for a more extensive post on this later in the week!)

LL Cool D

Listopad loves cool Diane (Kruger).


(Yahoo! Movies.)

I love how Fashion has been riffing on this jacket for the last five years. It should never go away because it is very cute and flatters many a body. DK is working gray-on-gray so gloriously here, and she gets, like, 100 bonus points for her fishtail braid - one of our current obsessions.


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D (or D's stylist - the identity of whom the Internet has yet to reveal) has discovered what the middle-aged, fun-pursuing women of America have known for a minute now: the combination of red and purple is fucking John Blaze. Seriously: is world domination far behind?


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Cute. Just plain cute. Notice the dainty little bow at the collar! But f. you for those legs, woman.


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I like that she likes gray, stripes, dresses, and being ever-so-slightly tousled. These are all things we like.


(Marie Claire.)


Ok, this outfit is kind of whatevs but she has accessorized it quite nicely. Could just be plain old black dress (for which there is a time and a place, I know), but then you look closer and it's like, bam! Cutest little straw hat. Bam! Small-but-sculptural bracelet. Bam! Karl Lagerfeld. Well played.


(Go Fug Yourself.)

Um. Where can I get literally everything that she is wearing?? Go Fug Yourself needs to cool their jets because this outfit is off. the. chain.

Friendship

Listopad recently spent some time with Ellen Van Dusen, who makes clothes.



Ellen is on the right. (Look at her cute hair!) She made both of these dresses. The one on the left is from a collection based on badass Color Field painters like Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Rothko, and Morris Louis.



She made this one, too.



And this one. (You may have spotted this dress in the window at Meeps. She has a bunch of her stuff for sale there under the label LN.)



Ellen told us that she considers the way the eye works when she's designing stuff. "I think a lot about shape and color," she says. "Your brain takes in flat shapes all at once -- when I look at an image, I like to know that my brain is processing it all at the same time. I work with seams and shapes for a flat look."



Ellen and I went to high school together here in DC. It was really fun catching up.

(If you want Ellen to make you something, e-mail her: ellen.vandusen@gmail.com.)

(Photos: Cathy Chung.)

Merrily we roll along

Dolce and Gabbana is a party animal.


(justOne!.)


(Apron and Irons.)

(Fashion had this weird collective Marie Anoinette moment maybe 3 years ago? I have to confess, I really loved it.)

But look at how crowded these ads are!


(Advertalog.)


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(Kitmeout.)


(Christonium.)

This I fucking love. Look at those floating psycho magpie women!

Site Unseen

(from the sweet vintage guide on nymag.com)

Trailing behind Kata's fab neutral post, I present you some male options. Khaki and plaid are not just for preppies anymore (also, can someone tell me what is the definition of "preppy" these days)? It's a great way to look cool and keep cool during these treacherous D.C. heat spells. In order to prevent looking like one skin tone without looking like you are trying to impress the college board, add a splash of yellow. I haven't seen one man this combo looks bad on. Visit Meeps for a great selection of fitted dude's vintage shirts and colorful ties!

Pleats 'n' folds

From Lyell's spring collection.



From Donna Karan's resort collection.

Etrosexual

Etro is spot-on this spring. "Ethnic" prints + commune mom + early-nineties palette + menswear-y blazers and button-downs? Listopad is pleased.



Aggy, there's nothing wrong with being 25.





Behati is supposedly the new Victoria's Secret girl.



Dear, I didn't catch your name, but I love your haircut.





Look at stunning little Veronica Etro. Hi cute girl! Work!

Endless yummer

I am digging on these lil' puffy culotte-ish jawns from Greasywaitress Vintage.



They'll go with my summer uniform of huaraches (or maybe Kata's ballet flats) and shrunken, paper-thin button-downs---that rarest of thrift-store birds. And hoops, of course.

Jesse Kamm

Hand-numbered clothes? Limited production with the environment in mind? Yes, please! Jesse Kamm produces only 50 garments of each of her design and preaches quality over quantity.


pic by abbey druckere