Valley of the Dolls... and a winner!

I don't know what took me so long but I recently Netflixed this campy, candy-coloured, Elnett-scented, pill-popping gem of a film and I loved it! Check out the trailer below.

Aaaaand... the winner of the 100$ Shopbop gift card chosen by random.org is Jen of Haute Whimsy! Sooo happy you won, Jen, let me know what you get!

Valley of the Dolls by idlefascination featuring leather shoes

Girl Panic!

Moves Like Dempsey

It's Friday, it's Halloween weekend, and I have the day off. Let's dance!

Back to the Fuschia

Mmm.... October... this means only one thing: I can dial my Halloween obsession up to 11. Especially since I did virtually nothing last year aside from watch lots of old-school horror flicks. Actually I think some of my friends still haven't completely forgiven me for exposing them to Sleepaway Camp. But digress.

Costumes: at first I was thinking Dexter victim. Then I went to the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit and fell back in love with the flight attendant costumes from The Fifth Element. Then I started wondering if I could do a realistic Kat Von D. But now I kinda just wanna go back to my roots and be Jem. (And yes, the Misfits were better but I've been there, done that. Twice. What can I say? I'm an 80s girl through and through).
Check out this Jem-inspired 2008 editorial from Dazed and Confused. If this doesn't make you want to slap on a pink wig and smear the entire contents of your make-bag all over your face then I guess I just don't understand you kids these days... via

He-he-hello-ooo!

Ah, Party Girl. I Netflixed this the other day because the beat up VHS copy I had flew up to the great Blockbuster in the sky... and I loved this film as much upon the 87th viewing as I did the very first time.

If you haven't seen this (for shame!) then you must ask yourself: Do I loves myself some Parker Posey? Do I have a deep appreciation for falafels with hot sauce, the Dewey Decimal System and 90s house music?  Do I truly feel in my heart of hearts I should have been born a drag queen? (Oh wait, is that just me?)

 Regardless, for now, let's revel in Mary's style spectrum from lady-like to totally bonkers and everything in between:

“I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance, preferably something that will make my unborn children grow gills.”

images via here and here

Watch them all fall down...

Lil' ode to the hotness that is Donna Bottman in the Pet Shop Boys' Domino Dancing video. I've loved this song, and this video since my permed and bespectacled childhood... and still do!   images via

 
 
 
 

You know, sometimes I get so flushed, it's interesting. Do your palms ever itch?

Currently obsessing over Twin Peaks and my new/old style crush Audrey Horne...

images for the most part from here, others remain a mystery...

Cat Power

In keeping with the sweetly sultry Sixties vibe of my previous post, I thought I'd go straight to the source this time: to the original sex kitten, Brigitte Bardot. Seductive, but never vulgar, BB projected at once an air of innocence and undeniable sex-bombery. I'm making up words. It happens sometimes. Where's my coffee?
Look, pictures!

Clearly Bardot's talent for turning men into blithering idiots extends to me as well.

images via tfs

All Wrapped Up

I love me a wrap dress, they're probably one of the most universally flattering garments a woman can wear. So here's a little ode to the Queen, Diane Von Furstenberg...

via ru_glamour