Brave New World

 

  

Camilla is wearing a dress, head muffler and over the knee socks all designed by A Butterfly by Day! Shoes by Jeffery Campbell, tights by American Apparel, Bracelets by J Crew and Anthropologie.

Hat is mens Abercrombie and Fitch, Ring from Anthropologie

Shoes Tick bootie Jeffery Campbell

WOW, It's been a long time since our last post! Hopefully you all have been enjoying your holidays. We've been wrapped up with spending time with family, going to movies, shopping, gifting, baking and sewing. I can't believe it's soon going to be 2010! We wanted to get in our last shoot of the year so today rain or shine we were going to do it. It just so happened to be raining when we awoke but we ventured out anyways in the mist, over wet rocks with umbrellas in hand down to the beach. It was actually fun and peaceful, not too cold and it never really rained that hard so I guess I'd have to say it was a success : )

We also wanted to say thank you to Jessica Wu from the blog Fascinationdrop for the beautiful drawing above and write up on her blog. Go check her out she is a very cute stylish girl who is also a talented illustrator. We are sure you will enjoy her blog as much as we do.

 

Wishing you all a safe and Happy New Year filled with Love, Peace and wondrous possibilities.

Happy New Year Paris!

  Happy New Year London!

Happy New Year New York!

Happy New Year Dubai!

Happy New Year Las Vegas!


And Happy New Year to everyone else :)
XX Valerie and Camilla

RODARTE hit Target!

I was told Rodarte was arriving in Target stores on December 20th but today I was at Target to return something and low and behold it was there! I asked a girl working if the line was just put out and she said it was, and they were allowed to put it out anytime between the 18th and the 20th. So that means check your nearest Target to see if they put Rodarte out early. I wondered if that was really the case or if the store was trying to get more holiday purchases, but who cares right? Anyways, here's what I came home with, basically all for Camilla an early Christmas present. For myself I just got the sheer cardigan it's really cute on and I ended up getting it in two colors so Camilla and I can share:)

 

 

 

 

Camilla has on the xray sequin dress and the sheer mustard cardigan

tights and socks are Free People and boots Jeffery Campbell.

 

 

 

 

  

Camilla is wearing the mustard Rodarte dress with the bows at the shoulders which is also so cute in the blush color it was hard to decide which was better.

We also wanted to give a BIG Thank you to the cute blogging team from San Francisco REFUSES to LABEL for the Beautiful blogger award and anyone who is reading this must check out their blog because it is wonderfully fabulous and I am sure you'll thoroughly enjoy it.

 

I think we are supposed to give this out to more amazing blogs but, we love so many that it's hard to pick just a few. So, to ALL of our readers we appreciate you SO much and so many of you have the most inspiring blogs that we read faithfully please paste this to your page and know that it is from us to you :)

One last thing before goodnight I received and email from a Jewelry design team

and it has some really cool stuff and they said they would give 20% off to all our readers all you have to do is go to the site, shop and enter the word "holiday" when checking out in the promo section and you'll get 20% off!  That even includes their new collection. It is now until New Years! so check it out 

 Digby & Iona

These are just a few of many beautiful pieces. Hope you have fun shopping :)

WOW! what a long post! Hope you all made it to the end! 

Happy Holidays to you! May you all have the most wonderful season filled with love and peace, spent with family and friends!

XO Valerie and Camilla

New York Dreaming...on such a winters day

Every year at the Holidays I get Nostalgic for the days of living in the city. As the Holidays approached there was excitement and anticipation of what Barney's and Bergdorf's would do for their Holiday windows. During the time we lived in NYC Barney's was downtown in Chelsea on 7th ave, which was just down the street from our apartment. Their windows became a tradition to see if they could top themselves from the year before. Living in California is just not the same as New York at Christmas time, so I've had to resort to the internet every year to get my holiday window fix. Thanks to Racked.com and Zimbo.com I found what I was looking for, Hope you enjoy!

 

  

Barneys Celebrated SNL's 35 years with their Holiday windows

 

Bergdorf's Windows were a fantasy of beauty! I'm not sure of the theme maybe you New Yorkers might let us know, they are amazingly beautiful! 

"Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas time"

Here is Santa's Helper an Illustration I did for the holiday.

XO Valerie and Camilla

Stone Fox

 

 

 

 

 

We just received our first winter storm which means tons of rain for Los Angeles. Thank God we did this shoot on Saturday well before the storm hit. But with the Holidays now in full swing we have been busy, busy, busy and that's why we are finally getting around to posting.  When we came home and looked at the photos I immediately recalled Sophia Coppola's movie Virgin Suicides, Which explains the name of the post. I am not sure if it was the light in the photos or just Camilla who seemed to resemble the young Kirsten Dunst but, we both loved the movie.  Sophia Coppola did a wonderful job of capturing the mood of story from the original novel written Jeffery Eugenides who we think is brilliant.

 

I am so happy the holidays are here and Camilla and I have decided to make most of our presents this year so hopefully we will get around to shooting holiday photos. Hope you enjoy the shoot it was at our new favorite Emmett spot again.

Camilla is wearing a vintage dressing gown as a dress with a tube top and leggings from Free People and boots by Miss sixty.

XO Valerie and Camilla