She's Having Her "Dot"*

thrifted t-shirt, shorts, and Docs // Marc Jacobs jacket // "Psychedelic Fleurs" necklace c/o ViviDot

This is what I wore out to have a Romantic Dinner with my boyfriend in Chinatown yesterday. The lovely Lily from ViviDot sent me this necklace, and after accidentally being placed in my neighbor's mailbox for a week or so I finally got to put it around my neck. I rarely get excited over jewelry, but I'd never seen anything like this. I dig the weird shape of the pendant and Peter Max-like print of the fabric, and got tons of compliments on it while I was out.

I'm sure dots are due for another resurgence this fall—thanks in part to all this LV + Kusama business—but I like that the dot here is a unit of construction and not merely part of a pattern. ViviDot designs are all made from standard one-inch pinbacks ingeniously and thoughtfully assembled (I wish I had taken a picture of the back of the necklace - the dots are backed by a thin, laser-cut piece of wood that gives it a nice weight). I had a pinpack machine in high school, but I never thought of doing anything so creative with them; we mostly made pins printed with inside jokes and quotes from Amélie. Now my mind is reeling. Like... I want a chainmail-style dress made out of these.

*this is a Tom Robbins reference. Do you know where it's from?