pretty city, paris 2012: sweet stuff on la rue de babylone

how much do i love this couple?

note:

her dress, with cupcakes and tarts

her patterned tights and trimmed shoes

her lipstick (perfect, pink)

his cool kicks and button-fly

best of all: their sweet smiles

june 1, 2012 on rue bablyone, paris.

all photos © anita aguilar

read a good poem: what we want

i liked everything about her: the pose, the patterns...

union square, nyc.

feb 23, 2012

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and: i hope you like this poem (it took a lot of reading to find this one tonight)

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What We Want

What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names--
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache.
We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table,
as the stars are there
even in full sun.

-by Linda Pastan, via the poem hunter

fashion week 2012: a little night-stalking

behold:
the flash and mob
the curious and cool

the weirdly exciting energy around pretty things and people...

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the larger set, if you are so inclined:

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i hope you like them...

fashion week 2012: style icon

...and who I consider the "IT" woman of the week (the fashion industry?), and probably the only person i personally wanted a photo of:

kate lanphear

(i snapped her outside the mark jacobs show last night)

ms. lanphear, feb 13, 2012, nyc.

both photos © anita aguilar

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hooray! that's all i need from fashion week 2012!

(but i've actually got more fun ones of "the scene" to post, which i'll hope to share soon)

pretty city 2011: good looking

my favorite twosome, taking in the view at mile 22 of the nyc marathon...

@ marcus garvey park, east harlem.

nov 6, 2011

© anita aguilar

paris postcard: lefty style

a trio of favorites from the left bank:

matchy-matchy is really such a no-no. but somehow these frenchies really pull it off...adorable

outside the bon marche...a girl with a flower in her hair and a brownie in her hand? perfect.

paris postcard: right moment

on the right bank

may 27, 2011

© anita aguilar

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a few more...

paris postcard: "paris cool"

on a sunday in st germain...

rue de buci

rue grégoire de tours

rue de buci

rue de buci

may 22, 2011

© anita aguilar

paris postcard: roland garros style

shades

i mean, what is more parisian than this pose, with the ciggie and the cafe?

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hats

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flats

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prints

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reds

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pinks and purples

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and posies...

all photos taken on may 25 and 28, 2011.

© anita aguilar

paris postcard: roland garros, a favorite shot (day 1)

the most absolutely adorable usher and usherette at the french open...

i love everything about these two, especially her uniform dress...and their smiling faces.

may 25, 2011 outside philippe chatrier stadium © anita aguilar

and for more local color, read monsieur tignor's wonderful paris post: the grandest dirt.

paris postcard: pretty city, day 2 - pretty with pink

a favorite shot from versailles...

may 21, 2011

photo © anita aguilar

tartan day parade 2011: flirty skirts and below the knee action

serious boot envy. favorite plaid pattern, too.

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i must have been in the right place...look who was there, too: mister bill cunningham...

all photos © anita aguilar