Kelly Hoppen Launches An iPhone App

Even though I smashed the shit out of my iPhone screen last week AND had my iPad stolen (true story), I'm still pretty much allllll about the apps. Which works out well, as apparently, so is U.K. Interior Designer Kelly Hoppen who just released one that looks pretty friggin cool: Home Style.

Now, here's the thing: I can't download this shit right now cause I'm decidedly NOT rockin out with my cock out on my ghetto fabulous 2G iphone that I had to dig out of a drawer once I smashed my 3Ger.

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So V. Lavish

I decided to dress up as Alexis Carrington Colby from Dynasty this morn, so now I'm sitting here on my couch in my silver, ruffled lamé gown, poofy hair, and tear drop 5 carat diamond earrings, you know, just blahgging.

Why, you might be wondering? CAUSE THAT'S HOW WE ROLL AT THE LAVISH (UN)CONFERENCE, BTCHZ!

Ok, so that's not really true. I mean, I'm pretty sure I don't *have* to dress up as Alexis Carrington Colby if I don't want to...and when I say "we" I actually mean "I." BUT, the important thing to note is that my ass is gonna be speaking at Lavish in Atlanta this Dec!

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Tavi And Jane Pratt To Start Sassy Magazine 2.0, Only Not

Ok, *this* is the sort of magazine news I can actually get behind: former Sassy Magazine editor Jane Pratt and 14-y-o fashion blogger superstar Tavi Gevinson are starting a magazine inspired by Sassy for "wallflowery teenage girls."

Ok, despite the fact that I am way the fuck too old to be reading a mag for teenage girls, Sassy was pretty much the first magazine that "spoke" to me in a real way. And kind of made me, a little bit, think that maybe I could actually be a writer too. And that probably makes all y'all want to barf, so I have happily provided a motion sickness bag along with this post [just scroll to the bottom and print out the pdf that says "barf_bag_001.pdf...ok, KIDDING, PPL. Totally just kidding).

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[LINKED] Evil People In Modernist Homes in Popular Films

Holy shit, how awesome is this!?

You know how all the meanie people in movies who are plotting shit like taking over the world, or blowing up babies' faces, or drinking unicorn blood or some shit alllllll seem to live in cool, sleek modernist homes? Usually up in the hills or something?

Well, a smarty pants graphic design student at Yale noticed this too and started an entire fly ass zine to explore and document this idea: Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films.

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The Dictionary of Cliched Design Speak

Whenever I think about the decor in my imaginary weekend house, I think "hunting lodge chic meets warm, vintage modern."

Like, I swear...those are *actual* words that go through my head, right before I realize that I want to punch myself in the face SO HARD.

Cause these design-y phrases that we all use ad nauseum are so cliched...and soooo annoying. And after awhile they seldom mean what they were intended to, as everyone is constantly reinventing these imaginary styles and they're morphing into variations of variations. And yet we ALLLLLL use this bullshit to describe interior design, on our blogs, in our tweets, on our soon-to-be-canceled talk shows, in our brand-new, I wanna be just like Domino online mags. EVERYWHERE. And truth time: we all pretty much use em like it's our J-O-B.

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