better than bradshaw

This Carey is better than Carrie Bradshaw. I am completely smitten at how elegant Carey Mulligan is. Here she is at Cannes promoting Wall Street 2:

(images via Just Jared, here and here)

Perfection.

in recovery

I've been feeling under the weather these past weeks, hence the long absence. Time has been spent recovering both physically and emotionally. It's because last week The Grandmother told me I looked fat. She's a mean son of a bitch.

doctor, doctor

Had a consultation with a new doctor yesterday. Very, very cute. I have to return for a follow-up consultation next month and am already planning an outfit to wear. Something that says "feel free to examine me" in a non-whorish way.

Anyway, have a good weekend.

animale + neon

There are two labels in Brazil that really rock my boat. First up is Animale. Here are a few of my faves from their Fall/Winter 2010 collection:

(images via Elle Brasil)

Then there is Neon, which has really grown on me, especially due to their use of prints and colour. Again, some faves also from their Fall/Winter 2010 line:

(images via Elle Brasil)

50 years old

Yesterday Brasília, Brazil's capital city, turned 50. (Read about its creation here).

I lived in Brasília for 8 years and it has meant a lot to me.

This is a picture I found of French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud (on the right) and some guy in Brasília, probably taken in the 1960s. Léaud is the star of one of my favourite films of all time, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), by François Truffaut. The Brazilian National Congress, with the white columns and large dishes on the sides, is behind him.

(image via Jean-Pierre Leaud)

There's no place like it on earth.

pen pals

(image via we heart it)

I really, really miss having a pen pal. Used to have one, this girl from Australia. We were friends in school, but we both moved away and maintained our friendship through e-mail. Then she came to visit me some years later and turned out to be this colossal bitch. Some relationships should remain only in writing.

Anyway, I really want a pen pal again.

apiece apart

This morning I discovered apiece apart on 2 or 3 things I know, and I have fallen in love.

I want to dress like this all the time. Here are a few of my favourites from their current and past collections.

FW 2010

SS 2010

FW 2009

SS 2009