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Lauren Michelle Smith, Socialite

Creator of the Nation of LaMerica. A gathering place for my fellow citizens. A visual and interactive place for the inspiration and musing of Lauren Michelle Smith.

Morning has broken. #fromwhereilay #nofilter #sunshine (Taken with instagram)

Morning has broken. #fromwhereilay #nofilter #sunshine (Taken with instagram)

pleatsareforlovers:

iamsangsouvanh:

No big deal, just Kasia Struss and Arizona Muse looking breathtakingly elegant at Christian Dior Spring 2012 Courture.

I so, so hope women dress more like this in 2012, than little mini versions of their #menswear heroes. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the latter, but I’m around enough dude-stuff already. There’s a strength and allure in this that isn’t captured when women wear menswear-inspired clothing. Is it weird to just say I miss this classic styling on women? No? Good. Because if it were I wouldn’t care. Ladies — dress like a lady. There. I said it. 
Holler if ya with me!

pleatsareforlovers:

iamsangsouvanh:

No big deal, just Kasia Struss and Arizona Muse looking breathtakingly elegant at Christian Dior Spring 2012 Courture.

I so, so hope women dress more like this in 2012, than little mini versions of their #menswear heroes. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the latter, but I’m around enough dude-stuff already. There’s a strength and allure in this that isn’t captured when women wear menswear-inspired clothing. Is it weird to just say I miss this classic styling on women? No? Good. Because if it were I wouldn’t care. Ladies — dress like a lady. There. I said it. 

Holler if ya with me!

(via bourbonandpearls)

A Political Obituary of Etta James
Kenyon Farrow, colorlines.com
It’s a damn shame that many peo­ple were intro­duced to Etta James in the years before her death last week through Bey­once’s por­tray­al of her in the 2008 biopic “Cadil­lac Records.”No one under­stood the awk­ward­ness of that cast­ing choice…

A Political Obituary of Etta James
Kenyon Farrow, colorlines.com

It’s a damn shame that many peo­ple were intro­duced to Etta James in the years before her death last week through Bey­once’s por­tray­al of her in the 2008 biopic “Cadil­lac Records.”

No one under­stood the awk­ward­ness of that cast­ing choice…

Seth Godin, typepad.com

… and that’s the prob­lem.

I was pick­ing out the mat for a framed photo and there were a thou­sand col­ors to choose from. The framer uttered the scary invo­ca­tion, putting the choice back to me.

So many things are now com­plete­ly up to u…

I have to learn how to not be paralyzed by this statement.

Today she would’ve turned 88. This was her first look at the iPad a little less than a year ago. Happy birthday, Grandma. #apple #family #grandma #ipad (Taken with instagram)

Today she would’ve turned 88. This was her first look at the iPad a little less than a year ago. Happy birthday, Grandma. #apple #family #grandma #ipad (Taken with instagram)

I love this coat posted on All The Pretty Birds today.
(via COTTON CANDY COAT)

I love this coat posted on All The Pretty Birds today.

(via COTTON CANDY COAT)

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilites, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - These are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

—C.S. Lewis (via avriel)

Couldn’t have said it better myself, B.

b-nasty:

And that’s why he’s a boss…

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