FIVE YEARS OF LADYLIKES
As LadyLikes celebrates its fifth year, allow me to recap the places, events and things that have not only become quintessential to this blog, but also quintessential to the second half of my twenties. When I started blogging in 2009, I was 25, had never been to Europe, or fashion week, or at all been featured in a magazine. I had little-to-no notion of Louboutin or Ladurée, Godard or Gaudí, CSS, RSS, modern art or molecular gastronomy, among other things. I smoked too much, exercised too little, spent many nights in dark, noisy places, and many days at a fluorescent-lamp-lit desk. As you can assume, much of that has changed tremendously.
Perhaps change is the quintessence of life after quarter life. As for LadyLikes, well, it is five years old! For ever coming by to read or browse or look around, thank you for being a part of this journey. I look forward to seeking and sharing even more inspiration with you in the years to come.
QUINTESSENCE: From ancient, Medieval Science, the fifth element, called aether, ether or quintessence, was the essence that filled the heavens above the terrestrial sphere. It meant "pure, fresh air" in Homeric Greek, and was thought in mythology to be the pure essence which the gods breathed. Today, quintessence refers to the most perfect or typical example of a particular person, place or thing; the aspect of something that is most intrinsic and central to its character.
As LadyLikes celebrates its fifth year, allow me to recap the places, events and things that have not only become quintessential to this blog, but also quintessential to the second half of my twenties. When I started blogging in 2009, I was 25, had never been to Europe, or fashion week, or at all been featured in a magazine. I had little-to-no notion of Louboutin or Ladurée, Godard or Gaudí, CSS, RSS, modern art or molecular gastronomy, among other things. I smoked too much, exercised too little, spent many nights in dark, noisy places, and many days at a fluorescent-lamp-lit desk. As you can assume, much of that has changed tremendously.
Perhaps change is the quintessence of life after quarter life. As for LadyLikes, well, it is five years old! For ever coming by to read or browse or look around, thank you for being a part of this journey. I look forward to seeking and sharing even more inspiration with you in the years to come.
A SELECTION OF
this, that,
these AND those:
this, that,
these AND those:
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| Finding Cool in "The Original Cool" |
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| An Interview with Photographer J. L. Blondeau |
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| Delon, Beautiful Delon |
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| Paris Late in the Spring |
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| Pintô: A Garden of Artly Delights |
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| Jordi Labanda Forever |
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| French Entrance, French Exit |
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| Flutterby Spring-Summer 2013 |
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| Unforgettable Nat |
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| Rainy Days in Monte Carlo |
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| Shoe Obsession, Yale University Press |
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| Disney Origins |
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| Summer Views from Alma, Barcelona |
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| Reinvention + Preservation: Bilbao's Balancing Act |
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| In the Barri |
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| Flutterby Launch at 10 Corso Como |
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| Winter Style for the Tropical Child |
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| Sacred, Serrated Montserrat |
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| Off to the Races |
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| The Art of Clothing Selection |
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| Canal House: A Dutch Design Wonder |
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| The Blushing Buildings of Toulouse |
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| Madrid's Palacio de Cristal |
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| Houndstooth Flutterby Takes Flight |
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| Ski Season |
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| Budapest the Beautiful |
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| Katharine Hepburn Shutterbugging Away |
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| Belgium Beyond Waffles and Chocolate |
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| Summer Cocktail 2013 |
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| Adobo Magazine Interview, June 2012 |
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| Hedonism in Bordeaux |
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| Rethinking Summer Style |
Here's to the next five years or so!
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