CG Design

i admit i love bravo. i know the station first gained popularity with the real housewives of wherever but i’m more addicted to the food shows like top chef and million dollar listings of some fabulous city and then who can turn the knob when jeff lewis is telling us how it his way or the highway.

but tonight at 9 cst/10est there is a new show on…jersey belles that was filmed in our little town.…

white hot . . .

the temperature here in birmingham has dipped into the 80’s for afternoon highs and it kind of felt like fall this morning. which made me think: this is THE perfect weather for white jeans. to help keep you looking white hot, i’ve hooked up with some white-jean inspo, below.

my favorite white jeans right now are rag & bone’s zipper capri (on sale right now at shopbopfor $93.50).  looking at these…

travel file . . . costa rica . . .

welcome to the jungle we’ve got fun and games we’ve got everything you need honey, we know the names

gun’n’roses, 1989

while i am pretty sure axel rose was not talking about costa rica, this verse quite literally and happily applies to a sunny vacation in that peaceful central american country.  my family returned recently to costa rica for a second time in as many years and, for a second time,…

just a hint of fall

no, not the weather. it’s hotter than blazes here but the first hint of fall fashion is starting to trickle in. i get so excited about this time of year, but it is too hot to wear any of the fall lines right now. also aren’t you, by this time of the summer, just a little tired of your summer wardrobe.

what is one to do. what about nail polish? i love chanel’s rouge noir polish or the 3.1 philip…

how bazaar? harper’s bazaar at the hunstville space and rocket center . . .

in celebration of the clearance of passenger space flights (richard branson’s virgin galactic is now booking!!), harper’s bazaarmagazine heads to huntsville space and rocket center this month for an out-of-this-world photo shoot with famed photographer terry richardson. thrilling the thought of fashion heavy hitters so close to home! a few of my favorite picts from the feature are below. you can…

cover girl . . .

blake lively is one of those girls you would just love to hate if she were not so gorgeous, awesome, and real, am i right?  she also has a knack for making good decisions, which really makes it hard to hate her.  she graces the cover of vogue this month and the feature pictures are amazing.  shot by mario testino on location in jackson hole, wyoming, each pict is a visual delight.  below are a…

if i had to pin my body type to a celebrity, i’d probably say britney spears — the later years.  i’d love to report it’s cameron diaz or even miley cyrus but . . . although i exercise, stay in shape, and watch what i eat, i think you can tell by looking at me, like britney, that i fall prey a bakery treat now and then and never look like i have starved myself.  “healthy” my mom might call it. . .…

i wanna rock n roll all night and party everyday…

this past weekend i went to the kiss def leppard concert and i felt inspired, especially when flipping through this month’s bazaar and saw a fashion layout on “biker chic”. how awesome is that because let me tell you you are going to see a lot of biker chic at a kiss concert. see below. just as an fyi, that’s me on the right just in case there was any confusion.

but how to incorporate this look;…

based on the popularity of lulu lemon, and the size and number of stores that have popped up in the past five years, it’s a pretty good bet that you, like me, spend a good amount of time during the week in work-out attire.  where martha and i live, it seems almost like an addiction — er’body wears them some work clothes er’where!   despite the amount of time i spend in work-out clothes, i have a…

jessica’s jeans . . .

you may have seen the feature in this month’s vogue on jessica de ruiter, a stylist from LA. . .

jessica’s feature in the back of vogue.

i will go ahead and admit that i am bordering on a SWF girlcrush on this girl.  her style is to die for.  what i love the most about it (and most want to emulate) is that it comes off as so authentic (please tell me how to blatantly copy her style while coming…

what i learned from my summer vacation

“rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time” sir john lubbock

on the way to our summer vacation, i read this quote in a magazine and i thought, perfect timing. it is hard to slow down. if it isn’t a fire at work, it’s home obligations, it…

#pfw . . . http://wp.me/s4kzl0-pfw

street style and celebrities . . .  did I get your attention?  there is no fash i love better than pics from the entrances of great events.  this week, paris played host to the couture shows for fall/winter 2014-2015.  the streets did not disappoint and the celebs killed it this time, for sure. 

street style pics always remind me of what i like about fashion:  individuality.  while these ladies…

sometimes you just want a stud

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prada -studded-leather-sandals

are these shoes not gorgeous? i saw them the other day and just swooned. i also love these. i’m not sure why i lean towards these studly shoes, maybe because they are strong and feminine, kind of how i perceive myself. i know one thing, i’m going to have work hard to save my pennies before i’m willing to pull the trigger but i’ll say this,…

miranda gives props to coconut oil . . .

more on today’s coconut oil post — below is an article that ran in british vogue almost three years ago wherein miranda kerr attributes her “flawless beauty” to coconut oil.  it provides a very helpful explanation from an expert on why coconut oil is a superior moisturizer. . . .  Also, Huffington Post posted an article today hooking you up with more 411.  enjoy!

xo, cg

VOGUE

Beauty Miranda’s…

i like coconuts 🎶🎶🎶. . .

you can crack them open and they smell like ladies lyin’ in the sun . . .

oh, to be back in my widespread days . . . when i did not have to concern myself with excessively dry skin. (exactly what you were thinking, right?).  these days, i am on a never-ending quest for the perfect moisturizer to keep my heels from cracking and my skin from getting scaly . . . (admit that you know exactly what i…

the maxi dress pairs well with fried chicken

shopswank-maxi-dress

cusp-maxi-dress-parker

cusp-maxi-dress-soft-joie

what? huh? that makes no sense. i know but hear me out. i was looking in my closet and trying to decide what to pack on an upcoming vacation. now honestly, i really don’t take too much time off and you know when you are on vacation, the diet and exercise routine is not one of the first things on your mind. so i was thinking…

figue in the hamptons . . .

this month’s issue of hampton’s magazine, out today, reports that figue “is back in Southhampton after a successful pop up shop last summer.”  you can read more of the article here and get a look inside stephanie von watzdorf’s favorite tote for her summer must-haves.  lucky for us, we can access figue on-line at www.figue.com.

xo,

cg

hamptons magazine july cover

check stephanie’s summer…