Caution: This might get weird.

Confession: I have a sick obsession with Daria Werbowy. Sure I have my list of favorite models - (in no particular order) Kate, Lara, Sasha, Natalia, Coco, Lily, Chanel, Anja, Alessandra, Freja... - but my love for Daria surpasses them all. She's not only stunning, but she has that "je ne sais quoi". She's just a beautiful badass. Her personal style has that laid-back-tomboy-i-look-sexy-in-this-baggy-t-shirt feel that I die for and every ad campaign or spread that features her coincidentally becomes my favorite. If I could be anyone else in the world it would be her. Her eyes and that hair.... ugh.... Creeped out yet?

It saddens me though a little bit to think that Daria might be on her way out. Correct me if I'm wrong - since I didn't have the privilege to be present at NYFW or LFW - but it sounds to me like she was MIA at both (that's a lot of acronyms in one sentence). Since Milan is still going on and Paris is next up hopefully we'll see her grace a runway or two, maybe Balmain or Dior? She was even missing from my magazines there for a while, so long in fact that I was both shocked and immediately ecstatic when I opened up my February 2010 issue of US Vogue to find her staring back at me. It gets pretty pathetic when I have to stalk out foreign magazines to see her - she seems to be featured in them more. I guess she has been around the industry for a while, I started following her back in 2004 when my first issue of Vogue came in the mail. But she is certainly not old-hat. She's timeless.

All of my doting has a point, I promise. Her style and personality inspire me so much that I named our sweatpants after her. They're amazingly comfortable and if you can wear them in public and not care you might just exude the same kind of confidence that Daria carries... probably not though.

Here's her featured in my favorite fashion film ever for Prada. It's perfect.

Japanese Vogue

British Vogue

V Magazine

Balmain S/S 2010

So I might have a slight lesbian crush on her, but at least I haven't gotten to the point where I devote an entire blog to her. (However, if you love her as much as I do, you can certainly visit that blog here)

P I E C E + love

alexis

ps. There was a massive earthquake in Chile today. It was devastating and killed many people. PIECE's hearts and prayers go out to all of those effected by this natural disaster.