Hi I'm Ken I'm Scary

dis frightens me

Barbie's 50th birthday will be celebrated at French retail store, Colette, from March 9th to 28th. For the celebration, Karl Lagerfeld shot a series photos featuring a life-size Barbie posing with Baptiste Giabiconi (duh) as Ken. The photographs will be displayed at the celebration and then sold as silkscreen prints. I wouldn't want these hanging in my room, though.

so much odd

Thanks Karl, for yet another project featuring Baptiste.

More DIY, Mannequins as Mannequins

I started this bag a while ago, but I finally got around to finishing it.

I'm quite happy with it and it actually cost me nothing to make. I got the tote bag from the back of my parents' closet and found the floral fabric at school. The fabric paint used to make the straps white is from school as well, and I made the copper pendant thing at FIT's jewelry making workshop.

So all you need is a tote bag (if there is a logo on it, you can cover it up with scraps of colorful fabric), fabric paint and little patches/charms 'n stuff to pin or sew on.

And lastly, my friend showed me a short movie titled, "Window World" by Karl Lagerfeld. It features models Baptiste Giabiconi, Magdalena Frackowiak, and Barbara Dvorakova as mannequins in a store window. The video's freaky, horror movie music makes you want to look away, but that's probably the point. Also, it's kind of hard to tell the difference between the mannequins and the models. I mean you can definitely distinguish between the plastic figures and the human beings, but it's a lot more difficult than it should be. Oh, models.

This movie is actually probably just an excuse for Karl Lagerfeld to drool over Baptiste.

Sometimes I Hate Tumblr. And Man Shorts.

Why do people feel the need to post like 10 badly-taken photos a day that have song lyrics by Taylor Swift or All Time Low as captions? Usually, these so-called "deep" and "artsy" photos are meant to express the angst felt by 13 year olds, and the rebellious social lives they apparently have.

I mean, I guess this is cool...

not really.

Yeah, bye.

On another note, thank god for the snow day. I lolled around and ate and occasionally did my homework. I was at H&M earlier, and apparently Baptiste Giabiconi agreed to do the S/S 2011 campaign for them.

Karl Lagerfeld needs to get over his infatuation with Baptiste, who, by the way, is an awful singer (clickity). Just saying.

Hei thur nice outfit..

And lastly...

T-ster at it again. GAWD.

Photos: Tumblr 1, Tumbr 2, Baptiste 1, Baptiste 2, Tommy Ton

Inferno Prints, Grapefruit Scrub and Baptiste Giabiconi Sings.

I ordered two prints from Black Baroque, a store on Etsy that prints images over vintage book pages, and they arrived in the mail last week. I still need to buy frames for each of them, but they are so rad!

 This one is a vintage page from Dante's Inferno.

Little Red Riding Hood

Yesterday I made this Grapefruit-Olive Oil-Sugar scrub. Our fridge is in excess of grapefruits, since our neighbors offered us a full carton of them a few days ago. The scrub ended up looking like orange vomit but it worked well!

Basically, you just use a spoon to scoop out half a grapefruit. Then, pour in some olive oil and add sugar until its consistency is sort of gloopy and not too watery. It ain't rocket science.

LASTLY. Maybe I'm slow, but I just found out that Baptiste Giabiconi (ranked #1 on models.com, muse to Karl Lagerfeld) sings? He looks like a mainstream, mother-friendly version of Adam Lambert, at least in his music video for "Showtime," a painfully teeny-bopper Disney-lyrics song. The story of the video is probably what you'd expect: Baptiste meets this girl, who conveniently has an abusive boyfriend. Even though Baptiste and this girl have never spoken, but simply exchanged a few intense looks full of LOVE AND LONGING, the girl wants in with Baptiste (I mean he probably makes a lot more money than Abusive Boyfriend). So, much to Abusive Boyfriend's dismay, Baptiste runs away with her. Abusive Boyfriend has two fat cronies that help him search for Baptiste and the girl, but they don't have much luck. They're like Draco Malfoy and Crabbe and Goyle. 

Also, Baptiste has superpowers that allows him to blow stuff up when his eyes glint red. I am like, sitting on the edge of my seat now because at the end of the video it says "To Be Continued" and I can't wait to find out what happens next. Karl (Lagerfeld) thinks Baptiste has a beautiful voice though, so I guess I can just suck it.

I laugh at this picture.

Watch "Showtime" HERE.

Photos: 4, 5, 6, 7