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. 
I get sad every now and then when I think of John Jr. and Carolyn.
One of my favorite photographs is of the two of them:
I guess it’s the casual wear they have on, Carolyn’s long lovely hair & that it seems like they didn’t have a care in the world at the moment this photo was shot. It looks like Carolyn threw on some of John’s sweatpants.
These images shot for vanity fair make it hard to not think how she and John left us much much too soon.
Filed under: Iconic
Betsey Johnson gave her rendition of the cartoonish large red lips that Alexander McQueen once used on his catwalk.
Long live McQueen!
Just devastating news. Sad day. RIP Master McQueen.
McQueen recounted in an interview that he once wrote the words “I am a cunt” into the sleeve lining of a suit he was working on for Prince Charles.
I caught a documentary on cable the other day about Apple and the mad scientist behind Apple, Steve Jobs.
I have to say the old photos of Jobs captured my attention. Jobs is intriguing as he managed to greatly influence how we communicate and absorb culture with the most stylish tools imaginable.
It’s been noted that Jobs in the past put strain on projects because of his intrinsic need for great design and beautiful composition. At NeXT, he pushed his hardware division because of the magnesium case used on the NeXTcube. Functional Elegance.
In 1972, Jobs enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, such as one in calligraphy.
Jobs later stated, “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.”
After browsing and seeking out old pics it’s easy to see that he has always been stylish. I like the idea that his style and his smarts combined have created magic.
Even with a mustache…I’m still diggin his look.
Today Jobs is famous for his uniform of a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck
made by St. Croix, Levi’s 501 blue jeans, and New Balance 991 sneakers.
RIP Jeanne-Claude.
I felt fortunate when I was able to visit the Gates in NYC’s Central Park in the winter of 2005. For a period of time prior, I had my love affair with the collaborative works of magical Christo. It started when I saw photos of their pink islands…then it grew and matured with photos and videos of the blue and yellow Umbrellas scattered along the hillsides in the US and Japan.
The couple gave us largely wrapped presents and allowed us to share in the glorious process of wrapping nature and man-made structures. Bringing in the community to share and become part of the work itself. I like to imagine what they were like in private and it makes me smile.
Whimsical. Whimsical. Whimsical.
From their site:
Christo and Jeanne-Claude met in Paris, France in November, 1958, sharing the same date of birth and have worked together for 51 years creating temporary works of art.
This is the latest project they were working on, Over the River, still a work in progress on the Arkansas River in CO.
Some of the funnest videos show us the projects from start to finish.
Here is a sped up start to finish view of the Wrapped Reichstag in Germany, 1995.
