Style Icon: Audrey Horne from Twin Peaks

I introduce to you the seductive, sultry, charming, misunderstood Audrey Horne of Twin Peaks fame. If you don't know what Twin Peaks is, go out and experience it. It's hard to put into words, but I'll try: after a high school student is found murdered in a small logging town in Washington, the whole city seems to unravel. Ahh! But there's so much more to it!! The complicated web of relationships and secrets in this town is ridiculous and hard to keep up with, but the beauty of the show is that mystery and the quirky characters and the campy way they're portrayed. The show is humorous but can also be very dark. David Lynch, the creator (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead), was, and still is, known for being funny and thoughtful but also for being a little fucked up.

One of my favorite characters is Audrey Horne, the daughter of a hotel owner and classmate of Laura Palmer, the girl who was murdered. She smokes cigarettes, loves an older man (FBI Agent Dale Cooper meow...), and wears pleated skirts. How bad ass is she? Plus that little mole and her sex kitten soundtrack that plays whenever she saunters into frame? Ahh!! I love it...

Bette, I'm telling you, you should watch this show. Even if you don't like it, it's definitely something you need to experience.

Next week, Log Lady.

-Anna-

bonus!

these cool paper sculptures by Megan Brain

Style Icon: Rachel Berry!

Yes, we'll admit it, Bette and I are gleeks. I'm not sure how proud of it she is, but I consider it my guilty pleasure. I feel like it shouldn't like it because of how ridiculous things are on that show, and yet... I love musicals and stupid teenage drama and Kurt and Blaine.

But this is about Miss Rachel Berry, the Barbara Streisand loving, attention mongering, Finn dating (Finn marrying..?) shining star at McKinley High School in little ole Lima, Ohio. Sure, she can be somewhat abrasive and a hog for the spotlight, but she has gotten better. When the show began, Rachel Berry was at the stop of my list of most annoying characters, just behind Terry, Will Schester's crazy ex-wife (who faked a pregnancy. WHO DOES THAT?). But she has since toned it down. That or I'm getting used to her...

However you feel about her, you can't deny the girl has style. What did she call it? Sort of a sexy school girl librarian chic? Yeah, there's something so girly and dainty about her frills and cutesy prints. And yet, the short hem lines make the cute just a little more mature. I am all about mid-thigh hems, if you couldn't already tell... Somethings are a little exaggerated, but thats TV... no... that's just Rachel Berry; she can't do anything just a little bit.

 

Rachel Berry, you keep on singing your heart out. You're fabulous and you know it. Don't settle for anything less than stardom, darling.

Anna and Marybeth

Style Icon: Cassie from Skins

Cassie Ainsworth is the angelic, misunderstood, on-again-off-again love interest of Sid from the original UK version of Skins. And Skins, if you don't already know, is the amazing teen drama based around a group of students who love to drink, party, do drugs. But it's never really as simple as that, though, is it? These kids deal with relationship drama, stalkers, death, accidents, homosexuality, heterosexuality... The first two seasons are my favorite. The show changes its focus to other characters in the later seasons and I just don't seem to care as much, but that's just me. It's available on Netflix if you'd like to look into it.... I'd highly recommend it.

Cassie, especially, has her fair share of drama. She's a free spirit with an eating disorder who has parents who just don't care enough. She loves Sid, but they have a very complicated, sometimes awkward, relationship. She's passionate and thoughtful, but probably a little bit crazy. The thing is though, everyone is a little bit crazy, she just doesn't give a shit who thinks so, which I find admirable. Cassie's style is a bit schizophrenic and eclectic. It's playful and funny and she doesn't follow any type of "rules". She reminds me of what a child would dress like in an adult body (even though they probably weigh the same in Cassie's case).

"oh wow, you're lovely"

So thanks, Cassie, for being you at whatever the cost. 

Adios mis amigos,

Anna

bonus!

cassie and sid. d'awwwww!

Style Icon: Charlotte "Chuck" Charles from Pushing Daisies

The lovely Chuck from Pushing Daisies! While this was a short lived show (only 2 seasons!), it has become a cult classic. The show follows a pie maker who has the power to bring things back from the dead. But if left alive for more than a minute, the closest living thing take it's place an dies instead. The pie maker, Ned, brings back to life his childhood sweetheart, Chuck. But they can never touch, because then she'll die. First touch life. Second touch, dead, again…forever. So Chuck and Ned make googly eyes at each other and figure out other ways to be intimate without touching. Kissing through cling-wrap anyone?

The show has a slew of other charming characters and no shortage of beautiful visuals, including a fanciful wardrobe, most of which belongs to Chuck. Her clothes are sweet and colorful, like candy! She also has a real knack for vintage inspired outfits, a lot of 50's and 60's style dresses.

 

So here's to Chuck, the prettiest and most well dressed zombie I've ever seen!

Enjoy!

Anna

p.s. You can watch free episodes here!