Author Archives: Ashley Staples
Everyone give up and go home.
Perfection has been achieved and it wasn’t by you. Rooney Mara shot by Thomas Whiteside for Calvin Klein feature in Elle September 2013.
Birthday Month means rationalizing everything I buy.
In grad school, I started this not-uncommon annual tradition of rationalizing a purchase by classifying it as a birthday present to myself. Tons of people do this. But I tried to rationalize it even more (I shop a lot, guys), by focusing on an item I knew I’d have for a long time. Four birthdays […]
Zara outerwear makes me wish LA would get cold.
I miss cold weather only because I miss all the coats I could be stocking up on right now. With a good coat and a great pair of boots, it doesn’t even really matter (too much) what you have on underneath. It could be a Hanes tee and jeans, but your flawless wool coat, statement […]
Open-Toe Booties are Like the Vests of Feet
This fall is being dominated by two types of shoes–the smoking slipper and the cutout/open-toe boots. Let me start by saying I like both of them. If something looks good, it looks good–I won’t question the function of it, because really, it’s fashion and at a certain point its function is solely to make you […]
Pajama Chic: Making your Walk of Shame less obvious since 2013!
I ignored the pajama trend at first because I figured it was initiated by chic stay-at-home moms. Or something. Back in January, I came about thisclose to buying a silk shirt that resembled pajamas and decided against it because surely that couldn’t actually be a lasting thing?! But I was wrong. I understand the pajama […]
Narcissism (Selfies) as a Marketing Tool
I used to find the whole selfie trend (or, what I originally thought was only a trend) to be incredibly embarrassing–that is, I was embarrassed by the complete narcissism of my social media friends. It seemed to me (and still does, in some cases) that some people spent ridiculous amounts of time in the mirror […]
Put That on a Sweater and Wear It: Graphic Sweatshirts
The graphic crew neck sweatshirt trend is still going strong from last year, and I’m totally on board, but it makes me wish I had the motivation/creativity to buy cotton crew necks and put clever words and phrases on them. I like how, depending on the graphic, there’s potential to turn a casual sweatshirt into […]
Paradise Lost: New Zoe Karssen and Everlane
This week is good for two reasons. I’m sure if you’re going back to school, that isn’t one of them, but at least you have Fall, my favorite of the seasons, to look forward to. Fall itself brings two pieces of goodness, the first being Halloween, and the second being sweaters. Actually, in order of […]
Nipple is the New Black
I had a friend who was always very fond of saying “nipple is the new black.” This was about three years ago, and while I thought she did have a point at the time, I’m not sure I could have anticipated the current reality of boob trending. And I’m not saying I’m exactly complaining. Since […]
The Wrong Coast 