Toronto Under Water

July 9, 2013July 9, 20131 Comment

1. Striped Monki Top … 2. Madewell eyeglasses … 3. Madewell Arrowstack Necklace … 4. Nars Blush in Orgasm … 5. Nars Pierre Hardy Nail polish Duo … 6. Spurr Walker Cut Out Booties … 7. Topshop Moto High Waisted Denim Shorts … 8. Veda x Madewell Black Leather Moto Jacket … 9. Flannery O’Connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge

Last night Toronto got hit with an insane amount of rain, and everything flooded. If you google image Toronto Flood 2013, some pretty crazy pictures of the flooding come up! For the most part I stayed safe and dry – my block lost power for about an hour, and then it came back and I walked down the street for pho. Mostly I’m just jealous of all the people whose office buildings are closed cause of power outages/floods/road closures, cause I got caught in the rain on my bike and am sitting here under neon lights shivering, wishing I was curled up reading any of these books and dressed in far warmer/comfier clothes than I am!

1. Tibi Colorblock Silk Cami … 2. Young Frankk Halfmoon Stacked Necklace … 3. Rachel Comey Fero Sandals … 4. Bumble & Bumble Surf Spray … 5. The Madewell Drawstring Bucket Bag … 6. Chanel Rouge Allure Lipstick … 7. Essie Resort 2013 Nailpolish … 8. J Crew Garret Leight Brooks Sunglasses … 9. Joan Didion’s Blue Nights

1. 3.1 Philip Lim Cropped Sweatshirt … 2. White Low Top Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars … 3. J Brand Midrise Boyfriend Jeans … 4. Graf & Lantz Parker Boat Bag … 5. MAC Lipstick in Ladybug … 6. Ray Ban original Wayfarers … 7. Hudson’s Bay Company Travel Mug … 8. Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot

1. Roksanda Ilincic One Piece Swimsuit … 2. Echo Design Floppy Sunhat … 3. Yashica Electra 35 Camera … 4. Karen Walker Number Ones … 5. Kelly & Kate Straw Tote … 6. Essie Nailpolish in Brazilliant … 7. Madewell Slingback Boardwalk Sandals … 8. Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls

1. Madewell Super Lucia Sunglasses … 2. Madewell Cami Dress in Chevron … 3. Madewell Golden Pennant Necklace … 4. NARS lipstick in Autumn Leaves … 5. Essie nailpolish in Maximillian Strasse-air … 6. The Madewell Transport Tote … 7. The Madewell Louie Sandal … 8. William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses

Posted by Meaghan

Larkspur Summer 2013

June 20, 2013June 26, 20181 Comment

Photography and design by Kira

Styling and Modeling by Alex and Meaghan

CLICK THROUGH FOR THE FULL LOOKBOOK

After a few hours of banging our heads against a wall trying to figure out how best to upload this thing – we’re finally ready to share the final Larkspur Summer 2013 lookbook with you all!

Kira worked her magic, like she always does, and managed to create a Lookbook Alex and I are so in love with, and so excited to share with you, and right in the nick of time, because we were starting to feel like all the odds were stacked against this shoot ever even happening at all!

We also updated the shop with a lot of the Summer items in the lookbook – check it out here!

You can view the full Lookbook by clicking on the photo above, but we’ve also added a Lookbooks section to the main page of the blog. Click here to get to it.

The photos are also posted to our Tumblr and Facebook accounts.

Clifton Hill

June 17, 2013November 11, 20142 Comments

Niagara Falls is one of those places that is ultra touristy, and could make me feel really overwhelmed and anxious, but instead it makes me really, really, unbelievably happy…

Alex and I have had to postpone shooting our Summer lookbook about a half a dozen times for a million scheduling and weather issues. Sunday was the day that we decided – rain or shine – it had to get done. The weather network spent the week terrorizing us with stupid little lightning bolt symbols and obscenely high P.O.P.s. When Sunday finally rolled around, we woke up to what felt like a monsoon, which put a bit of a damper on our plans to shoot at the Scarborough Bluffs (an escarpment by the water in the East end of Toronto). Luckily, we have a genius by our side, and Kira turned the whole miserable day around by suggesting we drive out to Niagara and shoot a road-trip themed lookbook – which is exactly what we ended up doing, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the end results with you (soon!).

All lookbook related excitement aside though, once we were in Niagara, the weather seemed to take our side again, and we had an absolutely perfect day. We explored the strip with all the weird tacky motels and campgrounds, and ate at a diner shaped like a flying saucer, we shopped at kitchsy souvenir shops and rambled up and down Clifton Hill drinking Slushies and letting ourselves get overwhelmed by all the sights and sounds of the Midway. By the end of the day we had new freckles and frizzy hair from the sun and the humidity, and we were exhausted in a way that only perfect days with best friends can make you feel. We made dinner together and looked through the photos and I went to bed feeling extra sentimental about how much I love my friends.

Posted by Meaghan

Shop Update

June 15, 2013November 11, 2014Leave a comment

1960’s Floral High Waisted Pencil Skirt

Shop update is a little late this week, but that is quite alright. We’ve got some goodies in the shop today! A little 1960’s, 70’s and 90’s. I just watched the whole Before trilogy in the last week, so the maxi dresses we have in the shop today seem quite fitting (well, if you are watching Before Sunrise). And of course, I always love some good 60’s and 70’s vibes, so this update is pleasing to mine eyes. Pop on by and take a gander for yourself!

1990’s Brown and Floral Autumn Print Maxi Dress

1970’s Navy Polka Dot Ascot Blouse

1970’s Long Sleeve Ascot Blouse

1990’s Striped Drop Waist Maxi Dress

1990’s Grey and White Striped Short Sleeve Blouse

1960’s Style Striped Sleeveless Top

Whitehern House, Hamilton

June 10, 2013November 11, 2014Leave a comment

I’ll take any chance I can get for trips outside the city. Since leaving Montreal and giving up my car, it isn’t as easy to run away on a whim for the day. This week though, Kira left me her car while she flew off to visit her fiance for ten days in Chicago, and I took full advantage of it. On Saturday, Alex and I drove out to Hamilton to do some thrifting for the shop (we’re really excited about our next few shop updates!), and while we were there we took the opportunity to check out Whitehern and take some pictures. There’s a place in Dundas (allegedly haunted) that we were hoping to get to, but the weather was spotty, and we were on a schedule, so we stayed close – maybe next time.

Whitehern was home to the McQuesten family, a fairly influential Victorian family in terms of industrial development in the area. There’s a great family history here, with links to all the children and what they did with their lives, as well as some pretty amazing bits of letters between the family members. My favourites are the ones from the Mother, who sounds like she was pretty sassy. The house itself is open for viewing, and from what I read, it still contains a lot of their original belongings. As usual, I went on a day when it was closed, so we weren’t able to get inside to visit, but it looks like it might be worth a tour.