This weekend's theme: Mad Men.

Looking at this weekend's activities,  my excitement for the two-hour season five premiere of Mad Men has been obvious the past few days:

 

peacock blue early 1960s bridesmaid dress (with removable over-skirt and matching veiled fascinator!) / bar stash for tonight's vintage cocktails / Art & Copy (a great documentary about the creative rise in advertising in the 1960s) / vintage-themed Newsweek 

Star Signs: Vogue UK December 2010

British Vogue did a gorgeous shoot for their December 2010 issue based around the signs of the zodiac.

Here's mine:

View the rest of the shoot (and your own sign) at Fashion Gone Rogue. 

New Yorker Style

The cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker, the style issue, is just stunning.

I need to frame this.

I'm totally in to...

Hellooooo, Michael Caine.

• GQ's "50 Most Stylish Leading Men of the Past Half Century"

• How to Make It in America The main character is a cute guy with good style who wants to make clothes. Need I say more? OK. The soundtrack is all over the place, in a good way. Download a mixtape inspired by the show here (check out the remix of Phoenix's "Rome" featuring Devendra Banhart).

• Speaking of music, have you checked out PureVolume's 20 Top Unsigned Bands of 2009? Go to the site and get a free download from each band.
  

• Southern Flourish, the latest digital magazine for you to swoon over, has premiered. My favorite Charleston blogger, Olivia, has two articles in the mag.
  

• Charleston Fashion Week. I can't wait for tomorrow's Emerging Designers show!
  

Organizing Clippings?

I am absolutely mortified with the state of my magazines/magazine clippings. I'd like to be someone who doesn't hold onto entire magazines unless they fall into the following categories:

* They are an issue of domino magazine
* They are an entirely perfect issue from cover to cover (i.e. September 2008's Vogue with Keira Knightley on the cover)

I've realized that among the many magazines I've hoarded, few of them fall into the above categories. Until now, if I have managed to go through a magazine to find all the inspirational photos, I've ripped them out and shoved them into an accordion folder while making myself empty promises about when I'm going to actually make a system of all of those pages.

I am now at the point where I really, really need to start organizing this stuff before I start becoming one of those people who lines all the walls in her home with magazines, old newspapers and junk mail from six years ago and breeding cats by the dozen. See what a slippery slope this is?

I need help, though. Does anyone have a good system? I'm thinking a cool binder like this:


from SeeJaneWork.com

I figured I could use those fancy clear plastic thingies and I could make sections for "fashion" "home decor" "food/recipes" "how-to" and "cool haircuts."

Is there anything I'm missing? Anything more efficient? If I come up with a cool, functional system, I'll share it here.

Ohhhh, domino...

Every interior design blog on earth has commented on the news that domino magazine is folding. I won't get into it too much, but I AM DEVASTATED.

It seems like every time I start to love a magazine it shuts down:







I now need a replacement magazine or two to keep me inspired in the world of interiors. I got Dwell magazine in the past and I liked it, but their aesthetic is far more modern than I'm in to. I'm still willing to consider it, though...

Here's some of my possible replacement ideas:







I need to know if any of these would be a decent replacement for domino, and opinions of these, in general. For example, I've heard that Elle Decor can be too "decorated" so I need to know the downsides of these other mags as well.