A Treasury Of… Minneapolis Fashion and Interior Design Blog

At an almost fancy film-festival nearly three years ago my best friend told me about this girl named Saucy and I instantly hated her.

“Is her name seriously Saucy?” I asked.

“I think,” said my friend.

“And what did she say to you?” I asked.

“She had an accent and she said ‘Oh I saw the poster for your movie. It’s like a rip-off of Juergen Teller, right?” my friend recounted.

So, needless to say, I didn’t like some super skinny, stylish to the point of scary little thing slamming our movie’s aesthetic as a rip-off. (Stylish foreigners intimidate me, I admit.)

But a few days later, after having seen our actual movie, Saucy stopped using the word rip-off and started gushing on and on over our mini-movie, begging to buy the costumes featured in the film. So, egos being what they are, I stopped hating her just about instantly.

Although she looked sullen, super-styled, and snotty, she was actually friendly, fun and unfussy in person. She said she was an Australian photographer with childhood ties to America, her name wasn’t really Saucy (although her nickname most definitely was), and she had a blog about her life and her art called Cigarette Jeans.

So although I only knew her for five days and four conversations, I kept up with her blog through the past three years. Her love of photography seemed to ebb for a while, but her writing was always a stitch. Like if the CATHY comic strip was post-feminist and actually funny, or if Carrie Bradshaw wrote about idiots and omelettes instead of bags and Big. Really, the way Saucy can ridicule the tards of her day, or fawn over fudge brownies on Cigarette Jeans is top notch.

For a while, I kept meaning to post comments like, “Saucy, you should set aside photography and concentrate on being a wise-assed writer. I think it’s your true calling.”

But Saucy was recently sent back to Australia, away from her boyfriend, and is pouring her mourning into a reinvigorated barrage of flashy, fun photographic work. I keep dragging images off her site and wanting to design pretend cd covers with them.

For me, the best blogs are secret sneaks into someone else’s life and Saucy’s sometimes-Aussie life is droll and delicious and delightfully lensed.

I’m really glad I met her. You should meet her too.

The Fine and Dandy Shop has released a lookbook for its latest fancy finds.

There’s a lot of inspiration to be found in the sly styling but here’s my main takeaway: I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the beret is the next old-timey hat to make a modern man comeback.

I may just have to see to that myself.

Is your pooch a Made In The USA style-snoot who’d wear Red Wing boots and a Freeman’s suit if he had his way?

If so then your furry, four-legged friend can finally take rugged yet trend-right Autumn walks and refresh himself in boy-blog style via this Filson brand dog bowl available at Blackbird.

A little silly, huh?

But so is everything, really.

Having spent my life as a film-maker and then a fashion blogger, I tend to dress up doofy all year long. Creating a costume for Halloween became a chronic pain for me way, way back and I’ve basically boycotted the act altogether the past few years.

This year though, I realized if I could just quick pick a cowboy hat, I’d have an adequate costume created with immeasurable effort.

So, admittedly, it wasn’t so hard and it wasn’t so horrible setting aside my Halloween Scrooge-dom to dress up with the masses Saturday night. But, really, is my costume so different than half the cheeky things I suit up in for my regular Treasury entries?

(….no.)

So I rest my anti-costume case.