Whoever said Christmas was the only holiday designers could sell seasonal merchandise for? This year, plenty of designers are delivering up delightful treats for Halloween! Splurge on these Halloween-themed pieces and perfect costume accessories if you dare!

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Olympia le-Tan Dracula embroidered book clutch; Charlotte Olympia "Trick or Treat" embroidered suede slippers; Jennifer Behr spider hair pin; Kenzo eye-print leather mini-skirt; Erickson Beamon gold-plated and crystal mask; ALL FROM NET-A-PORTER.COM

One of my favorite blogs during the autumn season has got to be Moon and Trees, a tumblr that always fills me with plenty of inspiration for fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and all the rest of the season. Especially because Southern California lacks that sort of leaves-changing-color feel, Hannah's blog helps me get into the spirit of fall!

So if you need any fall inspiration, definitely turn to Hannah's tumblr! It'll make you start craving some pumpkin spice lattes and cozy knit sweaters.

There is nothing more badass than a cool girl in cool leather, and right now I am kind of obsessing over it.

from left: A.P.C., Burberry Prorsum, Marni, Elizabeth & James

Skirts, jackets, dresses, shirts, shoes...anything can be leather and anything that is made with leather immediately ups your cool points by like, 1000%. (Or "vegan" leather, you know, if you are a better moral person than I am)

The great thing is that while a leather motorcycle jacket is so totally cool and badass, there are more ways to rock leather in a more subtle fashion, so if you want to wear some leather but don't have enough street cred to look like you just joined a biker gang, fear not! There are plenty of options for you!


Or, if you are looking for traditional rock-n-roll style leather stuff, there's plenty for you as well!

Band of Outsiders; Tommy Hilfiger; Tory Burch; Marni; Opening Ceremony

When you grow up in a vacation town, you learn to loathe any temporary visitors above all other things. They infiltrate our beaches and most-beloved hangout spots, they seem to have trouble grasping the driving laws, and they ask you embarrassingly-ridiculous questions like "Where is the beach?" (Seriously, guys. It's a mile-wide island, it is not that hard to find the ocean.)

There are a lot of things about tourists that drive us locals absolutely insane, but the worst thing in the world has got to be their god-awful fashion sense. Fanny packs, socks with sandals, unironic Hawaiian shirts - the whole thing is an interesting sight (but not in a good way).

Marc Jacobs; Marni; J. Crew

And then comes Spring 2014. I had already seen the beginnings of the troubling trend on street style stars and I hoped it would quietly come and go, but Marc Jacobs and Miuccia Prada, to name a few perpetrators, took many aspects of tourist wear and turned them into sartorial stars. People can't stop gawking over the bedazzled Teva sandals at Prada and the socks-with-sandals combo at shows like Band of Outsiders.

For so long I've been sure that these were the clothes of the outsider, the stranger, the person who comes and actually stays at the fancy hotel that my friends and I occasionally sneak into. And now the tables have turned, and these tacky tourist staples are actually cool? No freakin' way.

Of course, where the tourist wears these garments out of comfort, utility, and mistaken stylishness, the fashion-savvy artfully arrange their fanny packs and visors with sleek, minimalist jumpsuits and dresses to achieve the ultimate fashion equilibrium between utterly cool and hopelessly dorky. Not an easy accomplishment, I must say, but even I'll admit they look pretty awesome.