Boys Girl

J.Crew Skinny jeans, ASOS Vila Longline Duster coat, Monrow Jersey Basic Oversized tee, Madewell Quilted Baseball hat, Converse Hight Top sneakers

Jewelry || Goldbug Collection Large drop earrings c/o, Jennifer Zeuner Sasah necklace, Jane Pope Thin Twig ring c/o, Daniel Wellington Classic St. Andrews c/o, Dana Rebecca Lauren Joy necklace

photography by Molly Miller

I was a slight tomboy when I was younger. Or at least I pretended to be for a few weeks. I loved a good costume and playing a character, so for a few months I was a tomboy (haircut and all), then for a few months I was a super girly girl, and then I was a posh horseback rider, a prep, and skater… the list goes on and on. But the moral of the story – I liked playing dress-up. I semi chalk that stage up to being nothing more than figuring out who I was. You have to test out all of the waters to really get a good grasp and I can tell you – I wasn’t really one of those but maybe a slight bit of each! The one thing I can tell you about what I have learned about my style over the years – I dig basics. I mean, I reallllllly dig a great look built around basics. Why? Because it is comfortable, chic, classic, and timeless. I pound this into all of your brains but it is so simple and so true – a closet built around solid basics is a closet that will last you years and years. So maybe the greatest lesson I learned during my time as being a fashion chameleon was not only who I was but also, just how expensive it can be to try to be something you are not! So if you love a great preppy look, do it! If you love a great grunge look, be that! But if you are like me and love a great mimimalistic look – do it the best you can! Moral of the story, be who you are! It is just so much ~~cheaper~~ easier!

J.Crew Skinny jeans, ASOS Vila Longline Duster coat, Monrow Jersey Basic Oversized tee, Madewell Quilted Baseball hat, Converse Hight Top sneakers

Jewelry || Goldbug Collection Large drop earrings c/o, Jennifer Zeuner Sasah necklace, Jane Pope Thin Twig ring c/o, Daniel Wellington Classic St. Andrews c/o, Dana Rebecca Lauren Joy necklace

Artisan Inspired – Budnitz Bicycles

Read more about Paul Budnitz and Budnitz Bikes

All images and information via Budnitz Bikes

Artisan:

noun

1. a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.

2. a person or company that makes a high-quality or distinctive productin small quantities, usually by hand or using traditional methods

I came across these beautiful bikes while on a flight back from Charleston. I love traveling to new places and learning about local artisans you otherwise might not hear about. And if you can’t always travel to the places, a travel magazine is the next best thing! Artisans are incredibly ambitious, passionate, and insanely talented! I absolutely love learning about them and finding their pieces for the perfect souvenir. I found Paul Budnitz in one of these magazines I happened to buy for my flight. His bikes caught my eye immediately. They were sleek, modern, and beautiful built – really the key elements to any bike! Not only do Paul’s bikes have a cool story but so does he! So, let’s get to know this artisan.

Paul owns and runs Budnitz Bicycles, a luxury bicycle company, Ello, a social network, and is well known as the founder of Kidrobot. He is also an author of several books, exhibits as a photographer and filmmaker, and has founded over a dozen companies. And if that has you feeling quite unaccomplished, get this! He is the son of a nuclear physicist. I am sorry, what?! This lineage of intelligence was put to use as he was professionally coding safety analysis software for nuclear power plants by the time he reached high school.

Budnitz studied photography, sculpture, and film at Yale University, earning honors and a degree in Art in 1990. His first two films, 93 Million Miles and Ultraviolet won awards in Berlin and many other film festivals and were distributed worldwide. Artforum magazine hailed 93 Million Miles as “one of the best films of 1998.” Now fast forward a few years and a few successful business ventures and in 2011 Budnitz created Budnitz Bicycles, following his lifelong passion for bicycling. His bikes are often called the Aston Martin of bicycles. Remember how I said they are beautifully made? Well Budnitz uses titanium and cro-moly steel to create the fastest, lightest, and among the most beautiful urban bicycles in the world. Ya, he is truly an artisan! His bicycles have been featured in Vogue, V Magazine, Forbes, Uncrate, Coolhunting, and many other online and offline publications. In 2012 Phaidon called Budnitz, “The man who made bicycles beautiful again.”

So there you have it! This months incredibly intelligent and insanely talented artisan! May we all be riding around on a Budnitz Bicycle soon!

LA VIE PARISIENNE – Paris Views

all photos via Gail Albert Halaban - Paris Views

There is always something I find so mesmerizing about voyeuristic photography. I know that sounds so incredibly odd and I might lose some people after saying that but I don’t mean it in a creepy way, more in a I am interested in the way others live, way. When we go home and close the door behind us, our lives our completely our own. Whether you walk around your home naked or sing extremely loud in the shower – these are all quirks hidden behind your walls. So when photographers like Gail Albert Halaban capture peoples lives “behind the walls” I am always extremely fascinated. In my latest art find – Paris Views – Gail Albert Halaban captures la vie parisienne so extremely well! You almost feel like you are there, sitting in the room across the way taking in everything the people of Paris are doing. I absolutely love this series and so did a lot of others as GAH followed this session with a NYC series, Out My Window! Her work is incredible and she is definitely one to watch! If you are as captivated with this series as I am you can have a little piece of it via her book Paris Views (Aperture).

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