Download From – With You.mp3

With You’ is the first single off THE SECRETS THE WHISPERS, the upcoming EP by From, available on iTunes and other digital retailers May 17, 2011.

She performs the song live with a choir, which gives this video live action visuals, but I still prefer the lush studio version of the song:

I miss blogging!  I’ve been at least posting on Thursday Friday‘s Tumblr, but that feed’s mostly fashion.

So – Dante’s the drummer for The Concretes, and he’s debuting a solo album in September.  “Next to You” is a Clarence Carter cover from this 1973 LP.  Dante turned the soulful, mellow R&B track into a synthy take on The Concretes’ reggae-adjacent vibe, picking up some queues from the beats in “In The Air Tonight” along the way.  (By “beats,” I mean the actual beats/rhythm tracks, not the whole instru track.)  Sometimes I don’t know if the songs I’m into are legit or not until I blog them, but these insights are mostly fleeting since I rarely keep track of ratings.

Do it:

Rebecca & Fiona – “Bullets”

Rebecca & Fiona – “Bullets (House Edit)”

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Get my Skeletons at Eyegoodies

Jil Sander image via Style

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I’m gonna wear white – white’s huge for SS11; it’s inevitable/trivial – but I won’t try to force it into some functional citywear paradigm.  I won’t fight it at all; I’ll be all froth, no cream.  I’ll be so bright that every color I wear will look white.  I’ll radiate enough innocence to get away with allover sheer cut to short hemlines.  I’ll do a lot of laundry.

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I’ve so far resisted getting a USB flash drive – shouldn’t my phone do that?  won’t I always forget files anyway? – but these Clés are making me reconsider this idealism in favor of  a super cute object.  Clé USB comes in pink, black, yellow, navy, and white:

byAMT is the design studio that also makes these amazing flat diamond acrylic rings:

Visit/shop byAMT

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Visit the Jardin Majorelle site

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There’s an eco angle, too, since this collection utilizes fabrics that would otherwise go to waste and doesn’t incur waste that results from the making of cutting patterns.  Generally, you can count on 20% fabric waste for clothing production, and that’s without the yardage left behind on the bolts once a season’s production halts.  Might be easier to sell this fabric at retail than to produce this line, so it’s admirable that people at YSL are dealing with these logistics at such a small scale. I still prefer to think of this collection as YSL doing covers of its own earlier works rather than an economic model for eco practices in clothing manufacturing.

I wonder what the pants’ brocade was first used to make.  These simple silhouettes work well with the rich fabrics.

The iconic Le Smoking goes ivory:

How easy is this button down:

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