Waiting for Spring

Despite the fact that Christmas passed long ago, the weather outside is still frightful!
So rather than snow, let's think instead of marigold.

Remember how memorable it was in Slumdog Millionaire, where saffron wove its way through various scenes like a beacon of hope for our hero?  It's a truly gorgeous color that complements nearly everyone, and it's a bright spot of cheer for us too, in these blustery last days of winter.

1. the gorgeous freida pinto as latika, slumdog millionaire /via
2. navy blue & marigold /via
3. saffron cocktail /via anthropologie
4. latika & scarf, slumdog millionaire /via
5. saffron orangeade /via martha
6. moonrise kingdom poster /via
7. michelle williams at the oscars 2006 /via
8. saffron lussebuller /via

Perfect Outfits no.1: Clémence Poésy

perfect outfits :: looks, clothes, & expressions of style we just can't get off of our minds

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God bless the French, really. No one else can ever make the basics look quite so chic.

Watch as Clémence Poésy take a workday classic - black pants, white shirt - and by picking beautiful, well-fitted pieces, turns them into something unforgettable.

le commence

via brittanickel, source xavier encinas

tous les rêveurs come from a desire not only to stand back and admire the beautiful things in the world - but to uncover those lovely, oft-forgotten moments in our own lives, and to add to that which is excellent, honest, and true to the side of that cosmic balance of good and bad that is life.

So whether it's something simple (a recipe for a soup to comfort the winter-hardened soul),
something delightful to behold (the sweeping curve of a couture gown),
something thoughtful (an article to consider),
something aspirational (a voyage to distant lands),
or something entirely practical (boots that weather the salt-crusted icy grounds),

I hope to learn to cull from the often overlooked, seemingly mundane material of our lives - mine, yours, and everyone in between - such wonderful and brilliant things that we will never take ourselves either so lightly or seriously again.

After all, we are made of both stars and dust, flesh and hopes.
So let all of us rêveurs come, and share our dreams & visions,
and spin them into some good, true material for our real lives.

As is said, we are all stories in the end - so let's make them good ones.

- Hèlene