Lovely Liv

I'm pretty sure I have told you about my #womancrush on Liv Tyler here before...Well she is the cover girl in this month's Violet Files. A monthly fashion editorial that premieres, on the beautifully curated beauty edit site and store, Violet Grey. As if I didn't want to be her gal pal anymore than I already do. This quote below stated by her in the interview, just made my day!

photos: guy aroch

"It's a competitive world. I guess, but all we can do is feel our best. I'm not a competitive person. I love women, I'. intrigues by them. I think they're fascinating and complex."

~Liv Tyler

Modern Manners

I’m pretty sure I have mentioned here before, that I've had a girl crush on Liv Tyler for sometime. Well…if you haven’t heard the news yet, she just released her first book in collaboration with her chic grandmother Dorothea Johnson. It is called Modern Manners, and it is a perfect guide for the modern day lady, who likes to keep her bygone etiquette in tact.

If that’s not enough to make you giddy, there is also a style guide put together by Lovely Liv herself, currently up on the One Kings Lane site. I just love all of her picks and am happy to say, that we share a similar decorating aesthetic, and a love for tid-bits of eclectic- one of a kind- vintage pieces spread throughout the home.

Here are just a few of my favorite things from the style guide selections….

equestrian bar tools | mod lighter | portrait | cantilever chair | murano ashtray | malachite paperweight | vanity mirror | geometric abstract | entry table | playboy catch all | blue lacquer boxes | brass peacock letter opener

And the book is on it’s way….

xo~syd

Lovely Liv

I have had a girl crush on Liv Tyler since the days of Empire Records. Oh! and remember the Aerosmith video Crazy, starring her and Alicia Silverstone? Yeah well.... I was twelve years old at the time (on the verge of becoming a teenager), boy crazy and completely obsessed with that video (and song!). I swore that my dad would give me his 5.0 mustang by the time I was sixteen (wishful thinking). Believe me, the signature style that I had planned out for school the following fall, was already in the works. It was going to be a mix of vintage floral print dresses, plaid flannels (to tie in a knot), denim cut-offs and combat boots. Mom and I spent a lot of time thrifting that summer. Needless to say, I was thrilled to see her in the recent online net-a-porter magazine The Edit, she was just as beautiful, glowing, timeless and down to earth as she always has been! I love how she talks about her special relationship with her son. Raising a son is a wonderful thing and something I can totally relate too. I think we could be good friends……

xo~syd

photo via: the edit