Gallery Pieces

Hello 2012: I Hope We All Die (Part 1)

Leith — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:59:56 +0000

A photo essay

James was sitting on my couch when I came home from the liquor store.

He was also the first to leave. Almost immediately after we took this picture.

Melissa changed her outfit almost as much as me.

At 17 and 19, they were the youngest (and the ones who stayed out the latest).

Katie and Mel had the same shoes.

AC's chronic case of bitch face.

The east coast wants Will back

My epitaph

Amanda Callahan & Leith McMenamin

The Worst Day to Be Born. (I’m not dead yet…)

Leith — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:30:02 +0000

My 21st birthday was New Year’s Eve. I had my own special countdown to midnight on December 30, and then went to the same bar I always go to.

At my New Year’s party I changed my dress roughly 6 times, watched someone on acid drink Hypnotiq, and had my best friend spill my gin and tonic into my eyeball at midnight. It was lovely. There are more pictures to come, but here is a preview.

My friends and I made cake pops and melted chocolate for fondu-cakepop fun (which turned into drunk people eating balls of cake with their hands).

Our first guest arrived before I got home, so I spent the first hour running around with no make up on trying to boil dumplings (frozen dumplings from Vanessa’s Dumplings are highly recommended!). And posing with cake pops and hats.

This dress I might have torn while chasing after the pig.

The next day I boiled our left over dumplings (there were too many people to count staying with me over the weekend) and all was right in the world.

In Which I End My Ban on Shorts With Tights

Leith — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:06:53 +0000

Here I am, definitely standing with a cart filled with MINI-PIG FOOD. But, I’ll get to that later.

Just a reminder: all of December is my birthday month. On New Year's Eve I turn 21. So happy 21 years of having me in your life.—
Leith (@LeithMaria) December 07, 2011

New York’s been shitting on my favorite month. Well, more like pissing on it. Le rain, le sigh. What’s a girl to do when her favorite wintery month feels more like early March than Christmas/Birthday magic time? Well, my sweet Holiday angels, I dragged out my cherry red tights in hopes of making the grey terribleness of New York City in December rain a little better.

I completed the look with a Ralph Lauren Polo wool tshirt (toasy warm!), thigh high socks from H&M, Hunter rain boots, and my vintage Versace cut-offs. Generally I really, really opposed to shorts and tights but, hey, it was laundry day!

There is no reason to have a cart of mini-pig food if you don’t have a mini-pig. I live with a fucking pig. She is the cutest thing ever. Sometimes she bites the cats, but even they find it adorable (or maybe they’re just confused).

For When You Love Me Like a Beautiful Corpse

Leith — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:38:33 +0000

“When he was very young, Thomas Mann wrote a naively entrancing story about death: in that story death is beautiful, as it is beautiful to all those who dream of it when they are very young, when death is still unreal and enchanting, like the bluish voice of distances.”

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

I will rest in peace, I won’t wander on the heels of my best friends shouting “booh” at their most tender moments, as long as I die in a wonderful way. This is something I’ve thought a lot about. Mostly in the bath tub, sometimes at parties. I really enjoy making frightening declarations about my death, especially over Kentucky Gentlemen and National Bohemian. Here is how I would like to die.

Stella McCartney silk Playsuit, $195

I have finally cracked and am living alone on some large estate. I wear only silk and lace. One day while wandering the grounds in a turban, a Chinese silk jacket, and far too much lipstick AC shows up. I know what I did. We duel with antique pistols. I die, she holds my body and cries, covered in blood. The official story is that I died while cleaning my beloved pistol collection. She knows what she did.

Halston Heritage shorts, $325

I am a retired assassin. Only 25, I have too much money and a whole life ahead of me. I move to Australia and open up a Mexican restaurant called Maria’s Taco. There are sequins everywhere. It is everything you want when you arrive in Australia immediately after watching Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. I made a lot of enemies as an assassin, but the Australian outback is the perfect place to hide out (even if you’re wearing Tribute platforms every day). I’m not very good at running a business. Due to an electrical issue I forgot to fix Maria’s Taco burns down in a glorious show of sequins, spicy ground beef, and Abba songs. I am trapped inside.

Egenia Kim hair clip, $88

I drain my bank account and book the Dior suite at the St. Regis. I buy the chicest black dress I can find, write a melodramatic suicide note, and die from a sleeping pill over dose on a fainting couch. But only after eating steak frites and a red velvet cupcake.

Sometimes I Take Breaks From Watching Breaking Bad to Have a Life

Leith — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:55:43 +0000

Betty's so into fall.

Last night I went to a pumpkin carving party. As a true fashion-victim, I go for gold rather than practical.

vintage purse and cape, French Connection top, Gap jeans

New York is so windy you guys! Not only this is cape ridiculous, but it’s wool and thus the ultimate in warm. Look at the draping, don’t I look so funky? When I showed up at the party someone immediately asked if I was dressed up as someone from Harry Potter. Rude much? Just because I am wearing a bright purple cape with a magical hood doesn’t mean I’m Professor Trelawney.

Okay, okay, I’ll accept my fate and I’ll go back to petting Betty and drinking pumpkin beer and playing with tarot cards. Fashion determines fate.

The Best of I Love Your Shoes

Leith — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:46:26 +0000

I GO TO PARTIES. I MEET STRANGERS. I TAKE PICTURES OF THEIR SHOES.

May she rest in peace. 2009-2011

You Will Never Wear Commes

Leith — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:58:01 +0000

Instead of going home between classes and work, I’ve been shopping. Here are some of my purchases.

Top and skirt from H&M

This is one of those outfits that fashion bloggers would normally have pictures of them buying flowers or holding a baguette or doing something else equally adorable in.

I wore this and sat on a street corner lamenting the fact that I missed Kanye West when he went to Zuccotti Park to check out Occupy Wall Street. Then I had to go to work. I WILL BE YOUR DIRTY WHITE BITCH KANYE! I PROMISE!

Dress from Forever 21, Shoes by Gap, Purse by Chanel

I originally went shopping the other day because I needed some disgusting pants to wear to work (I work in a kitchen, I am not even going to pretend that I look cute at work. I wear jeggings and sperrys to work. I spend all of my time there covered in butter) Whenever I’m looking for gross pants to wear I go to Forever 21. As I was heading towards the check out line with my acid wash jeggings, this silver dress caught my eye.

I had visions of Anjelica Huston dancing, high on coke, at Studio 54. I would be Ms. Huston. I would be her in every Halston dress ever, but mine would only cost $30. I needed that dress.

Kat from my roommate

Unfortunately, once I put the dress on I realized that i looked like a Slavic porn star and/or a teenager in the 70′s nervously waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up on prom night.

I don’t care though, I will wear this dress forever.

Coming Soon to Gallery Pieces

Leith — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:47:47 +0000

Vintage Versace cut-offs, French Connection top

Look, I can’t get away from le fashion. Today I made a video demonstrating how my dress matches my ceiling. I have a problem, and I want to share the love with all of you (again). Starting…soon, AC aka Amanda Callahan and I will be doing “outfit” posts and transitioning the I Love Your Shoes tumblr over to here.

This does not mean I will stop covering #OccupyWallStreet. This is a “lifestyle” blog (I don’t know what that means, but sometimes I tell people this is NonSociety for hipsters so there’s that) and I don’t think that fashion and politics are mutually exclusive. If you’re not interested in fashion then…I’m sorry, but this is also the same blog that has a post about seeing penises all of the time, so maybe you should learn to embrace something beautiful (fashion, fashion is beautiful).

I know that many people see supporting #OccupyWallStreet and being a fan of fashion as mutually exclusive things. These people are wrong. The corporatization of fashion has ruined a lot of houses, the constant need for profit has turned the true couture artist into an endangered species and made luxury goods nothing but wretched status symbols. One can appreciate the artistry behind design and still be behind economic reform. Don’t worry, I’ll elaborate on all of this at a later date.

Linking the Revolution part 2 (Occupy the Links)

Leith — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:37:36 +0000

Kanyesus

@OccupytheHood “If POC dont get involved once again your voice will not be heard” Whitewashing a movement will get you nowhere.
BLACK OUT! At Occupy Philadelphia
Transcript of Slavoj Zizek’s visit to #OccupyWallStreet Read it yourself and stop saying that you don’t “get” what the protestors want.
Protestors Against Wall Street: A New York Times Editorial
Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street Can Stay Indefinitely

Once again, if you have any great articles or youtube videos that you would like to share, please leave a link in the comment section.

Linking the Revolution

Leith — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:27:23 +0000

To be honest, most main stream coverage of #OccupyWallStreet is pretty offensive. If you were to believe a lot of the coverage, most of the people marching and participating are crazy white folk with bad hygiene and two much time on their hands (okay, I am sort of all except the last). But there’s a lot more to the story. When I marched I was standing next to a group chanting in Spanish, which moved my white Puerto Rican heart like no other. I wore a Calvin Klein and ran into quite a few men dressed for business, why weren’t we in the New York Times’ Protest Fashion Slideshow?

NYCs Judson Church supports #occupywallstreet twitpic.com/6wh6xo with homepage call to action. judson.org | facebook.com/judsonmemorial…—
(@Newyorkist) October 07, 2011

#OccupyWallStreet.org
The #OccupyWallStreet Tumblr
NewYorkist’s Twitter Stream Want to learn about the great chilli down at the parkand about police brutality?
#OccupyWallStreet on Reddit a good resource for those who want to get involved, you can get posters and information.
#OccupyWallStreet’s General Assembly Blog
Independent Reporting of #OccupyWallStreet I disagree with some of this, but it was written by someone who actually went down to the park and talked to people. So read it even though he’s a scary libertarian.
Capital New York’s #OccupyWallStreet Coverage
The Daily Mail’s Photo Essay about all of the Occupy Movements Pretty pictures! Scary Pictures!
TrendsMap Proves Scary Twitter Censorship of #OccupyWallStreet From Trending Topics
Yom Kippur Service May Expand Wall St. Protest
Bank Lobbyist-Run Front Group ‘Freedom Works’ Tries to Trick Protesters Into Only Protesting the Federal Reserve sometimes I love a good conspiracy

I am sure I missed some great resources, if you have any please feel free to leave a link in the comments. Remember to stay informed, there’s a lot more happening than what the news would tell you.

I’d also like to urge everyone, no matter how they feel about the protest, to take an active role in how they get information. Analysis is the most important tool you have when it comes to being well informed.

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