Summer of Pixar Look 10: Up- Russell

Good afternoon. My name is Russell, and I am a Wilderness Explorer in Tribe 54, Sweatlodge 12. Are you in need of any assistance today, sir?

Disclaimer: I had a very high fever when writing this post, but honestly I wouldn't change a thing about it.

I feel like more often than not, many aspects of the film Up are overlooked. Yes it's a beautiful heartwarming tale of an old man and his dead, baron wife, but it's also a super fun action adventure story about a kid that just wants to earn his last Wilderness Explorer badge and ends up looking for some bird in South America and almost gets murdered by some other old guy who's time in the sun is long gone. Also Kevin is a girl. I think this is a fairly good synopsis of the film. 

For this bound, I decided to overlook the old guy and the dead wife and focus on the real star of the film: the small Asian boy. It seems to be a huge challenge to most people to recreate Russell's Wilderness Explorer look without wearing a costume, but to me the key to the look is this: to just not wear a costume. For the top, I chose one of my closet staples: a yellow peasant top from Pinup Girl Clothing. While I've seen many designers recreate this peasant top, I have yet to find one as high quality as the ones they sell at Pinup Girl Clothing. For the pants I picked these super cute suspender, elephant legged pants from Collectif Clothing. I thought the suspenders were a perfect way to bring in the idea of Russell's sash without actually wearing a sash. For shoes, the only option to explore the wilderness were of course, hiking boots. To accessorize the outfit, I added a yellow beret, an orange neck scarf from Sidecca, and of course, a Wilderness Explorer badge.

The wilderness must be explored!

  

Seconds of Style: Wall-E

Let's all continue to destroy the Earth so we can live in a Wall-E like utopia.

Summer of Pixar Look 9: Wall-E- Wall- E

And that is all that love's about...

One of the best things about this challenge is that I get the opportunity to go back and watch films that I have not seen in years. There is no question: Wall- E is my favorite Pixar movie of all time. It's such a beautiful love story told in such a simple way. With almost no dialogue in the entire film, it manages to make you feel emotions you didn't even know you could feel. It's visually stunning, it has an incredibly moving score, and it conveys an extremely important message. Also, no doubt about it, Wall-E is the cutest robot in the galaxy. The way he just goes about with his job a la Dodge in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, despite the fact that the world around him has ended, is the most lovingly pitiful thing I've ever seen. I have not one bad thing to say about this absolute masterpiece of a film.

Wall-E was one of the bounds that I was most excited about. Since Wall-E is such a curious little robot, I decided that this look should be something slightly bohemian and artsy. Believe it or not, I was actually inspired by someone I knew, or rather used to know, for this outfit. In high school, my best friend was the most incredible girl I had ever met. She did not care in the slightest what others thought of her: she dressed how she wanted, said what she wanted, and always smelled like spearmint and eucalyptus. She was always kind and nobody ever had a poor word to say about her. So this one's for you, Brinn.

I started off, believe it or not, with a bathing suit. Yep, that's right, my black and white striped top is in fact a bathing suit. On top of this, I layered a mustard colored skater skirt, and an incredibly comfortable dolmen sleeved sweater. All three of these pieces were purchased from Amazon and you can find them in my Amazon storefront here.

To accessorize this look, I picked a Betsy Johnson bag with stars on it because, ya know, Wall-E is in space. I also added some brown boots that reminded me of the boot that Eve transported the plant back to the Axium in, and some fishnet stockings for flair. Because Wall-E has goggle- like eyes, I wore my Moonshine Deluxe sunglasses from Crown Deluxe Sunglasses.

The absolute crowning glory to this look, however was the Directive pin from Fan Flaire. Fan Flaire honestly makes some of the cutest accessories that are perfect to support your favorite fandoms in a subtle way.

 I consider myself to be a fairly creative person. I love art and being able to express myself through various avenues such as music and fashion. I often times get ideas for projects at the most random times, so I always carry a notebook with me. There's always one in my purse and one by my bed. I'm not very good with technology, so to me this is the best way to keep my thoughts organized. It just so happened that one of my idea notebooks had Wall-E on the cover, so I thought I'd use it as an addition to this look, and as a fun way for you to get to know a little more about me.

Seconds of Style: Linguini

Find me a more stylish chef, I dare you.

Summer of Pixar Look 8: Ratatouille- Linguini

Anyone can cook...

All Linguini photos were taken by @nicwise

When I was in high school I wanted to take ASL as my language elective, but ASL was full and I would be damned if I took Spanish like all the basic kids, so I took French. My freshman year, Madame Deich was our teacher. She was German and taught us next to no French. My sophomore year, things got interesting when Madame Taylor was hired. She was young and beautiful and engaged and we spent the better half of the year planning her wedding. She would project her computer screen onto the board and we would help her pick things like bridesmaids dresses and flowers. Then Madame Taylor got fired for sleeping with a student, who also happened to be my boyfriend. So we ended up having subs for the entire rest of the year while the school struggled to deal with what just happened, and our class watched Ratatouille on repeat every day for almost an entire semester. So Ratatouille is just not my favorite.

There were really only two options for bounds from this movie: Remy, and Linguini, and I actually had bounds picked out for both, but when it came down to it I figured that Linguini was just the cuter option all around. But who knows, maybe one day in the future I'll pull out that Remy bound and you'll have heard about it here first.

For my Linguini bound, I decided to go full pin-up. I started with my white peasant top from Pinup Girl Clothing, and these adorable checkered shorts from my friends at Tatyana Boutique. I especially love the button details on these shorts, it  gives them that little something extra. Instead of Linguini's classic high-tops, I once again reached for my TUK Starlet peep toe heels, this time in red. For my hair, I went with a relaxed poodle-do to mimic Linguini's curly hair. To top the look off, I found an adorable true vintage mouse broach to be my personal "little chef".

 A very special thank you to Chef Goofy for allowing us to borrow your kitchen for this shoot.

Seconds of Style: Lightning McQueen

Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts is a beautiful song and an emotional experience. Rascal Flatts is better than Billy Joel. Fight me in the comments. 

Summer of Pixar Look 7: Cars- Lightning McQueen

KACHOW!

All Lightning McQueen photos
by Nicole Wiseman
@nicwise on Instagram

I have to be honest with you family, I have never seen Cars all the way through- KACHOW! I remember trying to watch it with my mom, and she left about half way through because she "could not take it anymore", shortly after I lost interest. My mom also left my sister and I in the theater during Chicken Little to go to Office Max because it was "the dumbest movie" she had ever seen. I love my mother so much. KACHOW! I also have not seen Cars 2 or 3 at all*, and I refuse to even acknowledge the existence of Planes.

*It stands to be noted that I plan to watch both sequels as a part of this Disneybound challenge, and that the first Cars movie is playing as I write this. The movie is approximately 4 minutes in and I've already heard "Kachow" seven times. 

Cars is one of the only Pixar films that I did not see in theaters because, even as a child, I had zero interest in a film about talking cars. I understand that people "love Cars" but let's put our opinions aside and get some actual perspective for a second. In 2001, the Academy Awards introduced a brand new category: Best Animated Feature. The first movie to win in this category was Shrek. Shrek won an Oscar. In the 17 years that Best Animated Feature has been a category, Pixar has been nominated 12 times. Of those 12 nominations, only 2 movies have lost. Cars is one of them. And yes, Cars did win a Golden Globe, but the other nominees were Happy Feet and Monster House, and anyway the Golden Globes are just a knock off of the Oscars. Life is a Highway wasn't even written by Rascal Flatts, it's literally a cover song.  KACHOW!

For this look, I was inspired by the one and only Lightning McQueen, because he's just about as full of himself as I am, and my headlights are also just stickers. Being a car, Lightning has a pretty basic color scheme: red, so I took some creative liberties with this one. In all honesty my biggest inspiration for this bound was Cha Cha DiGregorio (the best dancer at St. Bernadette's) from Grease. Any interest I have in cars whatsoever (which is little to none) originated from my love of Grease. 

I started this look with my red Deadly Dames capri pants from Pinup Girl Clothing, and added a red tie up top from Hemet Clothing. I was having a particular skinny day, so I decided to just go for it and not wear a top underneath (oh she's so daring). I broke up all the red with a black belt which FUN FACT: I forgot at home, so we edited in later. Because Lightning has tires and not feet, I picked my black peep-toe Starlet Heels from TUK footwear, 

To accessorize the look, I picked some lightning bolt earrings, and a hair scarf that was reminiscent of a checkered racing flag. I also added some black and white bangles because I'm a bangle type of girl, and some cat eye sunglasses because Lightning is a celebrity and if he were a human, and not a car, I firmly believe that he would wear sunglasses at all times.