I took these pictures at my favorite bookstore in DC. The dress is from Yokoo, it has the funnest print and awesome paneling on the front. Such a pretty color too. I'm like one of those weird librarians that has many cats and a husband that looks like Pete Seeger and tells you your handwriting needs improvement and has little artsy wooden painted cats sitting on her desk next to a The Far Side calendar.
I forgot how much I loved reading.
I forgot how much I loved reading.
these photos are great tavi!! i especially like the second one.
ReplyDeleteReading is one of my favorite things to do :D I tend to make up background stories about the fictional characters who wear my outfits in my head...
ReplyDeletethe third pic looks magical... with some looking like they are floating in midair. NOICE.
ReplyDeleteWell, I was about to say almost EXACTLY what Yvonne up there just said... it is pretty awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love the smell of old library books, don't you!? And PS- the giving tree always makes me cry a little.
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You look so tiny next to that second book! And you totally hit the nail on the head with your description of the librarians and their wooden cats. =) That just made me want to be a librarian right there!
ReplyDeletei LOVE shel silverstein
ReplyDelete"There's a Polar Bear
In our Frigidaire--
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.
With his seat in the meat
And his face in the fish
And his big hairy paws
In the buttery dish,
He's nibbling the noodles,
He's munching the rice,
He's slurping the soda,
He's licking the ice."
mmm yes
and i LOVE that darn dress plus the crinolinino thingy! go you
Awesome pictures. I love the dress :)
ReplyDeleteshel silverstein rules.
ReplyDeleteas a wee one, I knew the poetry section is dewey decimal system number 811 because that's where you find his books.
oh dudez! these photos are awesome. i love the second and third one the best.
ReplyDeleteThese pictures are amazing, very surreal.
ReplyDeleteBelle and Sebastian! Woo.
ReplyDeleteWhat a marvelous setting, and such lovely pictures :)
Welcome back, dear blogstress, I have missed your writings muchly.
The second is so photo-shoot like. And I do love The Giving Tree. It's somewhere at the top of my favorite children's books list.
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wrapped up in books=TOTALLY WONDERFUL SONG.
ReplyDeletealso, you would be the greatest librarian!
So totally agree that the second picture rocks! Maybe, try one with an even bigger book!
ReplyDeleteowww I love books!
ReplyDeleteLOVELOVELOVE the second one...it makes ou look like a cute innocent little kid!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures -- especially liking the third one.
ReplyDeleteShel Silverstein was a great songwriter as well.
ReplyDeletethese photos are beautiful, so is that dress, so are libraries, and so are you! but i never liked the message in The Giving Tree... ha.
ReplyDeletethose photos are great! what is your favorite bookstore there? second story? there used to be a great one on U Street called Atticus Books. They always had giant sales. I guess that's why they went out of business.
ReplyDeletethat dress is great, tavi!!!
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i love reading. and i love loving reading. it's a love-love relationship.
-Ash (tanggg)
the far side = my life .
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LOVE BELLE AND SEBASTIAN (I'm assuming it was a B&S reference)
ReplyDeleteI love the fuzziness mixed with clairty (did you edit it in, or set it up into the shot?) great lighting,great photos, they're magical.
-indigo
Tavi, I have been reading your blog since July and I was wondering when you were going to get the following widget. I have a hard time subscribing (it always gives my homepage problems), but I would love to follow your blog! Until then I will just have to settle with adding you to my blog roll. Keep up the awesomeness!
ReplyDeleteTavi, you are so talented. sriosly. So much of what you create is incredibly artful and evocative, not for a young person, for anyone, anyone who is a highly-paid style artist.
ReplyDeleteTeen Vogue's Blog: "Write on! It seems that bloggers are taking the fashion industry by storm. First, we reported that Fashion Toast's Rumi Neely is RVCA's latest model, and now Karla Deras of Karla's Closet is hitting the big time. The Simi Valley-based internet celeb is starring in American Apparel's newest campaign for their California Select vintage collection, thanks to a collaboration the SoCal basic brand has with Chictopia. What's next, Tavi of Style Rookie for Comme des Garcons? We sincerely hope so!"
ReplyDeleteThese pictures are fantastic! I love how humongous the book is in the 2nd picture.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos!
ReplyDeleteAw these piks look like they're from a fairytale! So sweet
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Tavi your pictures and words put a smile on my face and smiling is infectious so you are effectivly making lots of people in Port Macquarie, Australia smile. Thankyou.
ReplyDeletesecond picture is my favorite.. you look so small amidst of the books.. i love the color of your outfit, too!
ReplyDeletedo they actually let you take pics inside or do you sneak some snaps?
Lol, you just described me ;_;
ReplyDelete& I love the old granny dress-style. Grannies are awesome.
what lovely shots, some of your best yet!
ReplyDeletethe giving tree was one of my favorite books as a kid... my ex father in law used to work with shel silverstein, and said in real life he would write naughty rhymes. hehe.. i wonder if they ever got published.
That second pic was just magical....
ReplyDeletelovely photos....your dress is so sweet!
ReplyDeletei do love books, practically the only good thing about being in the UK is all the brilliant bookstores, espcially second hand ones...
that book in the second picutre is enormous!! also ive only just noticed that one of you sleeves is long and the other is short..so cute!!
These ar amazing.
ReplyDeletethough i think it may be better if the two books in the last pic are not in blur.
Those photos are amazing! Great colours and I love the way you edited them.
ReplyDeleteAmazing photos, Tavi! Are they self timer? Sigh, your updates make my LIFE.
ReplyDeleteLove the pixxes, like a lot of others here. I note the clever use of photoshop aura-fuzzing (???), esp, noticeable in the 2nd photo. Yer getting better, I doooo believe.
ReplyDeleteHey me too I love reading !
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are wonderful !
I love your blog !
this pictures are so great!i really love the second one!lovelly!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the B&S reference...and Shel?!?! Classic.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, the dress is sweet too!
So cute !
ReplyDeleteI love your style
these are amazing pictures!
ReplyDeletei love your photographs so so much! you are a constant inspiration!
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ReplyDeletei'm glad you had fun in DC. it's pretty much my favorite place ever, especially georgetown *points to post underneath*.
ReplyDeletecute dress too.
Great photos. I love libraries. I'm going to get dressed up and go tomorrow!
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I can't wait until you get you first campaign. So happy to have discovered your blog once again! You are a doll and will take this world by storm...watchoutworld!
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ReplyDeleteI AM SO HAPPY YOUR BACK! I know its a bit late but now I can .....well read your blog?
ReplyDeleteanyways that book "the giving tree" makes me cry
oh and can I use a picture off you blog or link you?
Email me - wondertoastgal@yahoo.com
I love the giving tree! its my favorite book!!!
ReplyDeletekeep on reading!!!
~tati~
u remind me of matilda... do u have any special powers by any chance..?
ReplyDeleteTruly inspirational.
ReplyDeleteTHE FAR SIDE REFERENCE = EPIC WIN.
ReplyDeletesorry, had to do that. (:
the far side + pete seeger + cats + tavi = coolest librarian ever, might i say?
love the photos, as always.
oh my god Tavi, I LOVE these pics- so awesome and inspirational! y'know i want to be a librarian when i grow up. these are my fave pics you have ever taken!
ReplyDeleteThe third picture is fantastic
ReplyDeleteAhhhhhhh, the dress is fantastic!
ReplyDeletereally nice photos! :)
ReplyDeleteThose pics look very professional! Almost like theyre from a magazine! Love em!
ReplyDelete<3 Sarah
the picture of you reading the large book on the floor with the hue of the blue dress lit by what appears to be as a constant flow of sunlight from a source from above..
ReplyDeleteis like kinda perfect.
what in god's name are you reading.
you rock.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteI am French therefore me understand nothing it that you write on your articles:)
I knew your blog by looking at a program this morning on television "La mode la mode la mode".
I have just ended up visiting your blog. As me have it you say to me understand nothing, but I love your photographs!!!
I veils think to have said everything.
then I leave you:)
Your blog is great! go on! kisses!!
PS: Grieved for my crappy English but if you consists of anything it is error to the translator whom I used:)
Tavi! So I am new on blogspot (just started one up today!!) and I just want to let you know that you are a huge inspiration to me. If I were three years younger, and lived three hours closer to you (Hello, Illinois resident. ;D) we'd be best friends. For serious. You are the essence of amazing.
ReplyDeleteSensational photos.
ReplyDeleteis that politics and prose?
ReplyDeletetavi these photos are amazing! did you use your usual cam? or a funky cam hehe
ReplyDeletesorry, this comment is on a super old blogpost, but i'm readin' back through, keeping myself busy. big fan, nirvana from australia ***
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