And over on Opening Ceremony...

Once I'm east-coast based, alternative department store Opening Ceremony in Soho will be my undoing.

Carrying hip labels like Band of Outsiders, Rodarte, Proenza Schouler, and Chloe Sevigny's exclusive line, this shit is expensive. But delicious.

Photos: Proenza Schouler, Girl by Band of Outsiders, Boy by Band of Outsiders, respectively.

Quinn's street hottie of the week.

The sun was blazing this weekend, and as usual, photographer Emily Quinn was out snapping loads of adorable babes on Grafton Street.

Via the Weekly Edit: Street Style.

Keeping up with the Aislings.

My mother has "fascinator fear" with regards to our upcoming Irish wedding. She knows that all the Irish ladies are going to be wearing massive topiaries on their heads, kind of a requirement for an Irish wedding. But as American women, we neither 1) get it, nor 2) have the slightest clue where to start.

My recommendation to her was JUST DON'T DO IT. Somehow I think it's like western men wearing ties, or Scots wearing kilts. It's culturally specific, and where we think they all look the same, only an insider would be able to detect the subtleties of how we'd gotten it completely wrong.

But as mother of the bride, I don't think she wants to be upstaged by everyone else's massive headgear (she's the type of woman that would never admit to something so vain. But I can read between the lines.) I suggested a little tiara? A big bow?

What's a woman to do?

Pictured headpiece by Vera Wang, via The Weekly Edit.

de la Renta.

There's nothing to say about this really. It's simply transported me into a bridal dreamworld.

Thank you, Weekly Edit.

Frock around the fucking clock.

Also in the world of delightful vintage events, Belfast's beautiful Georgian mansion Malone House will play host to the next "Frock around the Clock" Vintage Bridal Fair, on Sunday, June 12.

Lots of vintage (and vintage style) wedding dresses, bridesmaid's dresses, and accessories, in some pretty stunning surrounds.

(These bridesmaids are lovely, but why so sleepy?)

Vintage by the sea.

This Sunday, from 11.30am to 6pm, 40 dealers of delicious vintage gear and antiques will descend on the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As will I.

Also: spot prizes, vintage cocktails, jazz band, DJ, and olde style barber (for the mens).

More info: http://www.vintageireland.eu/

Springtime on Net-a-Porter.

Net-a-Porter can be an intimidating place. But the following dresses are all under 200 euro.

With more sensible shoe choices, they are all perfect for a sunny afternoon drinking at the Pav.

Aubin & Wills, $100.

J.Crew, $130.

Juicy Couture, $230.

MICHAEL: Michael Kors, $130.

Fancy a pedal?

Located on 147 Reade Street in Downtown NYC, Adeline Adeline is a bike store for dreamers.

Mostly because you could only afford one of their bikes in your dreams (such as the Kate Spade model pictured above, which costs $1,100).

But just browsing through their website can be enough to inspire you to maybe drop $200 on a vintage bike, and trick it out with some of their much more reasonable accessories. The beautiful baskets below are anywhere from $30-$80.

Can I get an Amen for androgyny?

Okay, so US public schools have never been known for their tolerance toward LGBT students. Nor have they been known for their awareness of fashion trends. (My mom and I learned this when I was sent home from school in 1993 for wearing shorts in the wintertime. They were corduroy shorts with brightly coloured wool tights underneath: SO on-trend for 9 year olds in the early nineties. Bastards.)

And now, in 2010, this girl in Chicago is the latest in an endless line of ladies who had to fight for her right to wear a tux to her prom. Obvious issues at play: LGBT discrimination, conformism gone mad. It's HER prom too, and she has the right wear whatever makes HER feel stunning. (Somehow it's not ok to wear a hot tux, but it's perfectly ok to look like a psychedelic cupcake made of tulle and nightmares.)

But the stupidest bit to me--in that it's the most obvious--is that women wearing tuxes is actually very mainstream! I mean, this image is on the J.Crew website RIGHT. NOW:

Michelle Obama wears J.Crew. There's a J.Crew on every major shopping street in Chicago, for Pete's sake. You show the above image to a straight guy, a gay girl, a straight girl, a gay guy, or an engaged-to-a-guy-bisexual-girl like me... no matter what way you spin it, I think everyone can agree that a chick in a tux is not only nothing shocking, but in fact, pretty de rigueur. (And also tres sexy!)

Get with the fucking program, school.

Original story by the Chicago Tribune, via Coco Perez.

First image by Emily Quinn, second image by J.Crew.

Designist.

If we weren't moving and were having a wedding registry, I'd want one of everything from designist. on George's Street.

Simone Rocha.

Pics of Simone Rocha's pop-up store last week in Havana Boutique in Donnybrook.

All photos posted by the lady herself (shown here in bleedin' deadly gold sneakers) on facebook.

Collars at Airfield.

You might think this is a picture of an adorable hipster girlband, but actually it is Sonya, Katie, and Natalia, selling handmade crochet collars at the Airfield Vintage Craft Market.

Check it out on the last Saturday of each month at the Airfield estate in Dundrum.

White & Cowley.

A magical day, a STUNNING dress, a beautiful bride.