I live in Chocolate City, Work for NPR, am currently working on an MA in Interior Design, Love my roommate, friends and Kitteh, "Bits." Day to day I find more and more beauty lurking in the oddest spots. Rouge My Knees is an accumulation of notes on what I find whets my curiosity for all things toxic and pretty.
I love sharing my view of the world through the photos and links posted here. 
Mr. Pearl
a documentary is on it’s way…currently part of the
a shaded view on fashion film festival in Paris. traveling the world to a city near you should you be so lucky.
Sunday June 7th, 2009 – Vienna
Dita * thierry mugler *irving penn
Mr. Pearl————–{self taught master of the corset and feminine curve}
Dita admits to owning over 350 corsets (her faves by Mr. Pearl) and a large collection of taxidermy.
the list of reasons one should move to europe, let alone paris, is in my view endless…though burlesque diva, miss dita von teese, does make a great argument when she recently was quoted in Inked Magazine:
Paris. As an eccentric, I feel most comfortable there. I was having tea in one of my favorite restaurants there recently, and I was wearing a 1040′s turban. I looked around, and I saw two other women in turbans. They were like, 90 years old, but I thought, “This is the place for me!”
So lately I’ve been contemplating first, where does one buy said turban and secondly, can I pull it off? Thirdly…what do I wear a turban with? So, I was happy to see these photos posted on two of my favorite blogs, garance dore and the sartorialist (published by none other than newly happy couple Garance and Scott Schuman). The purple one is just divine. I should hope to find something as special and pull it off so well. Spring is a time for new beginnings!
I just love how she works the turban and the awesomely large frames.
Always in style, the fashionable jewelry designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia:
