Green has been my favorite color for as long as I can remember, but I'm not a big fan of St. Patrick's Day. In first grade, I had just gotten this super cool pair of shorts – blue and calico with denim ruffles, about as high fashion as a six year old girl in the suburbs could get in 1994. I wore it with my favorite blue button-down sweater and got pinched all day – I hadn't known it was St. Patrick's Day, and I've sort of resented the holiday with it's perfunctory green dressing ever since.
It's always nice to have an excuse to assemble a collection of favorite emerald-hued things, though.
1 & 2: The Emerald Gorge in Oregon's Oneonta Canyon, Kim Novak in Vertigo.
3 & 4: A favorite street style ensemble, Climbing Leopard rug by Diane Von Furstenberg.
5 & 6: Colette Vermeulen, the prettiest antique emerald ring.
7 & 8: La Perla green silk lingerie set, Maggie Gyllenhaal wearing something similar.
9 & 10: Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2010, a photo of me by my friend Anja from last summer .
11 & 12: Dieppa Restrepo oxfords that I covet, charming swan tights from Italy.
13 & 14: A deeply saturated emerald room, my new favorite food, aka kale.
(I hated kale until a few months ago, now it's practically all I eat. Miracle food.)