Kelly Wearstler's Shop

FINALLY Lonny has made a new issue. I was gettin' a little worried there for a minute. Kelly Wearstler is one of my favorite designers to look up to. Yes, she started out in Playboy and I'm thinking that's probs not where I'd like to follow in her footsteps (plus I think Playboy prefers curvaceous women of which I am not in the slightest unless you count after I eat a large breakfast), but I do love how she's managed to make a name for herself outside of interior design. Although her quirkiness in design and fashion is a little more than I'd go for, what you can take away from her aesthetic is bits and pieces of her bold style. Anyway, getting back to Lonny, her new store in LA was featured, and it's gorgeous.

Now that is a fashionable interior...

Here's what Style.com had to say about her fashion collection:
Kelly Wearstler has a new book coming out this summer featuring seven recent interiors projects. But at a presentation of her Fall ready-to-wear line, she admitted that she's scaled back her decorating work somewhat. Fashion, as any designer will tell you, is a full-time job.


Wearstler's collection just turned one, so it's no surprise that she is still defining her niche. Prints, colors, and textures have counted for a lot since the beginning, but the sweet sensibility that characterized her debut a year ago has for the most part been replaced by eccentricity, edginess, and more than a twinge of nostalgia for the eighties. Wearstler launched denim this season, but you won't find basic blue jeans at her Melrose Avenue shop. Instead, think acid wash in six different colors. Knits are new for Fall, too, and, again, the same rule applies. There were yarn-fringed shoulders and a blue and black pattern inspired by a vintage tapestry she owns. Even an otherwise plain cashmere V-neck came in searing yellow.
In a savvy bit of timing with the upcoming Costume Institute show dedicated in part to Elsa Schiaparelli, Wearstler inserted some surreal motifs into the lineup. A burnout sweatshirt in an abstracted lip pattern might've been the simplest, easiest thing about the collection. It was also the best.

I can't say I'm crazy about her Fall collection, but I love her accessories. How amazing are these clutches!
 

And her scarves:

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Someday, I'll get to the restaurant she designed for Bergdorf in NYC:
 

 

 
But for now, I'll drool over her interiors from the pages of her books...