With so many great things going down, I’ve gotta give it up for my lady.

The other week I read an article in the Huffington Postby David Wild, a contributing editor of Rolling Stone, that in his opening line stated : “I’ve Just Heard the Future of Singer-Songwriters and Her Name Is… Diane Birch, apparently.” Combine that with street glamour aficionado and lifestyle superblogger Marcus Troy referring to Diane as “super dope!” After seeing her perform in his hometown of Montreal he blogged “Her musical style is truly like 70’s Carol King and it was refreshing to hear a young woman lay it down like that.” Nice range of press, to say the least.

Also see her in this months issue of Paper (see image below) and Rolling Stone, look out for her next month’s Nylon (she was in last months Nylon too), the New York Times- and a slew of other stuff, not to mention her album drops June 2nd! Its crazy to be riding in the passenger seat through all this!

Stay tuned, duh!
Diane’s Myspace
Blog
Twitter

Trickling down from the 501-obsessed consumers to the influx of selvedge, ‘considered’ denim has now very much hit the mainstream (Case in point: see my Gap 1969 jeans post), so for the moment its time to consider the easy alternative- chinos.

Heed these words, with everyone from APC to The Gap oversaturating the denim market- jeans are going to be pushed to the backseat until further notice.

Need some inspiration? Check out Heavy Tweed’s real deal chino search(clearly my purchase from Uniqlo didn’t make the list) and put yourself ahead of the curve, or see how much the keyword “chinos” comes up with when you search resident cool-guy Ryan Willms (hyr)-collective daily blog or click here for an example.

My world and work…