Forever Fashion: Forever Art: Chanel + Jacobs

When I was living in New York City my dear friend, Lizzie Keach's, now husband, Mike, worked for a high-end construction firm. Mike's company built designer boutiques and stores. While remodeling the Madison Avenue Chanel store, Mike "rescued" the Chanel letters from being thrown away in the trash, and Lizzie brought the coveted letters to me!

I had them mounted in my West Village apartment, and they made my bedroom the quin·tes·sen·tial fashionista-space. Thank you Lizzie and Mike, those pretty six letters will always remind me of you guys...and singing karoke at some dive bar on the Upper East Side ;-)


While reading Jane Aldridge's fashion blog, "Sea of Shoes" I stumbled up the artist Danny Roberts (http://igorandandre.blogspot.com/) and I told Bob I thought Danny's prints would look nice hanging in my Beadle Box. Bob gave me Danny's print of "The Marc Jacobs collection", for Christmas -- it's even signed!!!. It is awesome and oh so fitting! I'm the girl who used to sign her emails to certain friends "Miss Marc Jacobs" and Brian knows that instead of saying "Thank you" when strangers complimented me on any MJ purses, apparel or shoes I had, I would boldly reply with "It's Marc Jacobs" -- yes, I am rolling my eyes at myself now! I was obsessed with Marc -- well, until I went to his Christmas party at the Rainbow Room and he was dressed as a Camel Toe ;-) No, he is still one of my favorite designers, and no one can touch Lagerfield's personality.



So I think it is only fitting that Chanel letters and Marc Jacob illustrations continue to grace my home and creative space. And just now I returned from getting the mail, and I received the cutest "Chanel-themed" card from Diana, congratulating me on my remodeled Beadle Box. And in my email in-box is an email from Danny Roberts himself! Thanking me for my words of inspiration and gratitude! How cool is that! I am printing it out and putting it behind the Jacobs print.

I will DEF be collecting more of your works of art Mr. Roberts!!!!

Art is in the air! Fashion is Forever!

Project Key Chandelier

Last fall I designed a barrette out of two keys. I have always thought keys were very ornamental and decorative, so why not wear them in your hair? The reactions I have received are funny and I often look at people and think "Did you really just say that OUT LOUD!?" But none the less the keys have become one of my signature hair pieces.

Bob and I were brainstorming different ways we could design a chandelier for my Al Beadle condo. One of my ideas was to stuff Voss water bottles full of all my headband making scraps (strips of ribbon, bits of pearls and charms, etc.) and have him then construct a metal base to hang them off of. Then one day while sitting at a traffic light I started playing with my key clip and the idea dawned on me to make a chandelier out of keys, I emailed Bob and he called me within seconds! He had the same idea dawn him moments earlier!!!!! WE were onto something! It was in the air. The two of us tend to have a lot of synergy when it comes to our design-art projects...

Here are the Sketch Up pictures he made for me of my "Key Chandelier". We are going to need over a 1000 keys and we would love to collect them from families and friends. We want the chandelier to have a story, to have depth and to have some soul. If you would like to donate any of your old keys we will gladly take them off your hands...message me...your keys can be a part of a larger art project.

-- The Key Girl