I just took a walk around my home town, stopping at my old elementary school to participate in a little nostalgic hopscotch and swinging action. While on the swings I became a bit nauseous, and I am still not certain if it was the air I was catching or the realization that it has been nearly 20 years since I first enrolled at that school as a second grader that made my stomach hurt… Regardless, I felt rather old as I cut through the woods to take my childhood shortcut home. It was therefore fitting, as I sat down to check out what the fashion blogosphere had been up to the past couple of days, that I should stumble across these fantastic images of Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld as young women:

I love how Anna’s haircut is a 70’s version of her ubiquitous bob and how similar Carine looks to her daughter Julia Restoin Roitfeld, this picture was no doubt taken when Carine was close to her daughters age now. I also love how both women are wearing simple pendant necklaces in their photographs, yet the choices of pendants say so much about their disparate approaches to style, Anna’s a large gold disc and Carine’s a small silver pentacle. I find these choices very fitting as Anna’s seems a bit safer and status-quo while Carine’s pagan symbol is a foreshadowing of the subversive wiccan/ voodoo editorials that will someday grace the pages of French Vogue under her direction.

While I am a bit more inclined to emulate Carine’s style, I think the best way to wear these pendants would actually be to pair them together. I like the vintage feel of the oxidized sterling silver of this pentacle, and the organic look of Sheila Fajl’s large brushed and hammered gold pendant.

I hope you all had a lovely, safe, and nostalgic Thanksgiving.

Image Source: The Vancouverista