travel: italia

Mama and I are off to Italy for a few weeks. Follow me on Instagram to check out our travels. Ciao babes!

empire state of mind

I'm off to NYC with mama for a few days! Hoping to scope some NYFW action while we're there. Photos to come.

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leaving on a jet plane

Off to Toronto for a week. Later, lovers!

little dutch girl

This seriously adorable shoot features Lara at home in The Netherlands (she even poses with her parents) wearing casual denim looks.

Lara Stone by Angelo Pennetta for T Magazine Travel fall 2011

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le jardin

I had to post this photo of a garden in Marrakech, Morocco. Too beautiful for words.

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the library

The Library hotel in stunning Koh Samui, Thailand. This looks like it could be the setting for a Tarantino film or something.

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la neige

Paris de blanc vêtu (Paris in the snow). Could there seriously be anything more beautiful than this? You know when you see images of a place and you want to go there so badly you can actually feel it? Yeah that's me right now looking at these photos.



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LV travel

You know when people say "Travel in style"? This is what they mean. Louis Vuitton has released the 2009 edition of their travel guides for metropolitan cities including Rome, Paris, New York and Mumbai. The paperback guides include a protective box, and illustrations by artist Ruben Toledo.

$38 each at Colette

Light

Beautiful morning light, somewhere in Europe...the perfect backdrop to an all-black ensemble. And I um, forgot the source.

rambling

I was perusing The Sartorialist last night, wandering aimlessly through the hundreds and hundreds of photographs trying to find one in particular. Its of a French girl in Hyères wearing different tones of blues and greys. She is standing on a street where the light and shade, exposed brick and crumbling walls perfectly compliment and even further highlight her clothes. She is quintessentially "French", meaning she has that certain je ne sais quoi...a quality I've never been able to distinguish in girls of any other country. Its that girlish, playful smile and big, knowing, sparkling eyes...she reminds me a little of Audrey Tautou in Amélie. Ever since I'd initially seen this photograph, it was basically stuck in my head and I would return to look at it again and again and subsequently find something new to admire about it.

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