…of what's on my mood board (and otherwise on my mind). All captions are left to right.

Zöe Kravitz's t-shirt game in High Fidelity was unparalleled. Related: Lenny Kravitz's stunning, breathtaking, “soulfully elegant” Paris MANSE was featured in Architectural Digest last month; the man's taste level is simply out of this world.
Having come of age during the early 2000s (an era in which every woman was encouraged required to be enthralled by “French girl” style), I wound up Breton-allergic—but striped boy tees à la this SATC ~classique~ are always big on my thrift list.
A Darrow Montgomery photograph that I ripped out of a 2012 issue of Washington City Paper, framed, and have subsequently been staring at for the last 13 years.
If summer isn't The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill season I don't know what is. See also: the perfect 90s ringer tee…and while we're on the topic of “perfect 90s,” let us all rejoice in this.
Ok, yeah, summer is Thelma & Louise season, too.
I deep-dived into vintage pins online and had an ASMR-style fantasy of pawing through a giant bowl of them in real life: pressing my hands down through to the bottom to mix them up, plastic and metal clanking against each other; flipping one over to read it, then tossing it to the side and going for another one. Does that not sound like a satisfying way to spend the next few minutes?

This photo—from a 1995 Patagonia catalog—makes the internet rounds every few years. I love it. Some fun background on it here and also via @patagonia.
Did I mention that the imaginary pins in the imaginary bowl are all slightly cool to the touch? That part feels important.
This is one of three 2014 V&A Museum x Harper's Bazaar covers, each featuring hand-drawn Pucci prints from the brand's archives. Wow.
Bauhaus Milhaus, lol. Artwork by Jim'll Paint It.
Your public library might have Gap-Toothed Women, a 1987 documentary/short film by Les Blank, available on Kanopy (mine does not, so I went the Criterion Channel route). Light and sweet and charming, it's a quick 31-minute watch.
These colors are doing it for me. Art by Julian Stanzcak.

Diana Ross at Studio 54, giving pure summer-of-1979 joy. Very related: Diana and Tracee Ellis Ross, giving pure FACE in a 1991 Gap ad.
Also from 1979, this Robin Williams photo is providing me with an energy I didn't realize I needed.
I just finished the second of David Sedaris' journals, A Carnival of Snackery (Theft by Finding is the first one). They're both breathtakingly hilarious, and also sad and great and awful and relatable. He's touring this year, btw.
An inadvertent second plug for Gap-Toothed Women, but this Lauren Hutton image is an absolute forever-favorite.
The Righteous Gemstones ended and I can't stop thinking about John Goodman's range; he scared me so badly in 10 Cloverfield Lane that, midway through typing this sentence, I realized that I actually don't want to talk about it. As a palate-cleanser: a pre-final-season interview with Danny McBride at GQ.
CHOMP!

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