Let it swim
Last night, I was so happy to open my amazon.com order — my pre-ordered copy of Design*Sponge at Home had finally arrived! Grace and the team had been working on this book for the last two years and it really shows their hard work in every single page! Amazing!
Love these chapter opener pages — behind the scene post was very inspiring, too.
Congratulations, Grace and the team!!
I know what I’m going to be doing for the next few days… :) Happy Friday and weekend, everyone! xo Hijiri
On Tuesday, I stopped by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Alexander McQueen exhibition “Savage Beauty” — it’s ending this Sunday, August 7th (good luck to you if you are still planning to go) and it was WAY busier than I thought it would be, probably the busiest exhibition I’ve ever been and ohhh my god, it was THE exhibition of the year!!!
What a beautiful building…
When I went inside, the wait time was… 2.5 hours! (At this point, it was already 3pm, museum closes at 5:30pm)
but thanks to their membership program, I became a proud member of the MET museum and so I didn’t have to wait! (but now it says “Due to extremely high attendance, we regret that we are no longer able to offer Members priority access to Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.” — aww I really went there just in time! Because next day on Wednesday, the line was out on the street and the line closed by noon, who knows what happened yesterday and today, scary to think about this weekend!!)
You are not allowed to take any photos inside of the exhibition and so I respected the policy (some people were taking lots of pictures because it was packed so it wasn’t easily get caught — I hated it) so these photos are from their website, though, photos don’t do any justice… it was more than an art, the whole exhibition was his whole life, love, passion — Alexander McQueen.
Dress, VOSS, spring/summer 2001
Red and black ostrich feathers and glass medical slides painted red
(this room was, oh, so awesome… I felt like I was totally in a different world…)
Dress, No. 13, spring/summer 1999 (check out the video)
White cotton muslin spray-painted black and yellow with underskirt of white synthetic tulle
I could post all the images because each one was just so special, but if you are interested in seeing more, the website has a lot of images and information, please check it out.
(Shoes were all sooo amazing, too)
Inside of the exhibition was even more packed than the line outside… I felt like I was at some kind of jam packed concert… but because of that, I could spend well 10-20 minutes each piece (I’m not kidding, it wasn’t moving at all!) so I could admire all the details and his quotes, thoughts, materials… He really was a genius. I can’t even imagine what his real shows were like… I bet the words can’t describe…
I feel very lucky to get to go see it!
Came across this cute “Love (New York City)” card this morning and had to share :) By Kathryn Whyte. I love her style! Very simple and cute. Her hand-lettering is great, too.
and how cute are these baby cards?! Love <3
Very inspiring for my next card line, too… :) Happy Friday! xo Hijiri
When I visited Kinokuniya book store last Friday, I saw so many great stationery and paper goods besides Japanese books. And I had to get this “Origami” (in Japanese below, it says “Origami Origami”) — isn’t this so cute?!
Comes with a lot of everyday-use origami instructions like these:
and it comes with so many cute and fun patterns, I wanted to get more, but the ones I liked were all gone… but this polka-dots & bunny stickers sure came home with me :)
Hope you had a nice weekend… let the new week begin!