Skirts and pastels and shorts, oh my.

J. Crew's Spring collection has hit the web site . . . 

and this sweater is, as it claims, darling.

See any standouts?  I can't even begin to fathom wearing these airy pieces when the thought of going outside with skin exposed takes my breath away.

Paris in the Park

For the Chicagoans out there: tomorrow night in Millennium Park, the Harris Theater for Music and Dance will be "simulcasting" the Paris Ballet Company's live performance of Giselle on a huge screen at the Pritzker Pavillion.  (You can read about the ballet itself here.)  

The showing is free and starts at 7:30, so bring your wine and blankets out early and stake out some space.  Prepare to be wowed.

I'll be there with some ladyfriends, having my mind blown.  Isn't ballet amazing?  

Every once in a while I end up blocking traffic on the sidewalk at the corner of State and Randolph because I'm staring up at the ballerinas practicing at the Joffrey (you can see them from the street!).   

PS: Ballerinas in slow motion, and a fascinating peek inside the closet of the National Ballet of Canada.

(Images: Les Derniers Réglages by Jean Claude Sanchez; Dane Shitagi for the Ballerina Project; The New York Times; The National Ballet of Cuba, 2001 by Isabel Munoz.)