Minnesota's Very Own Fashion Star

Wayzata-native Alex Davis may have made it big (judging this by the fact that Jessica Alba is just ONE of the celebrities to frequently be seen wearing her shoe designs) but what I like most about this chick is she doesn't forget her roots. Every year she comes back to Wayzata to host a Cobra Society trunk show with friends and family. 

"I'm a boots girl, I wear boots with ev-ery-thing."

I was lucky enough to talk to Alex for about five minutes at the trunk show and have never developed a girl crush so fast.  Wearing leather leggings topped with her signature boot, a white blazer, and no makeup that I could see (she doesn't need ANY) this girl was just straight up cool. What was even more cool was how obviously passionate this girl is about what she does. As she was talking to us about individual designs and inspiration behind this collection she'd excitedly run over to grab each shoe so she could show us exactly what she was talking about. 

Her collection is North Africa meets Morocco meets Santa Fe — probably because this girl has traveled EVERYWHERE; she's a serious nomad. Wanna peek at her worldly bad-ass designs? Here were a few of my favorites: 

(You probably saw a picture of these on my Instagram, I was in love)

The picture of this purse does not do it justice. It was the most magical purse I had ever come in contact with. 

Please. Please. Can I HAZ IT?

Visit thecobrasociety.com for more global shoe and purse goodness. 

Midwest is best (tee)

This is actually my third day in a row wearing this shirt (LALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU SAYING "EWW") so let's discuss the functionality of said item. Sunday - with sweats (SEE, so versatile), yesterday - under blazer for work, and today - with polka dot skirt & bling (cheap-ass bling, but bling.)

I am not above selfies. Mostly because I don't have a boyfriend photographer to take outfit shots of me everyday (SHOUT OUT TO MUCH COOLER BLOGGERS!) so you're going to have to deal with iPhone shots in a dressing room. But I am DEFINITELY not above selfies for 'Midwest is Best' t-shirts because I am hometown proud, and home region proud, and mom proud because Kelly Welle sent me this for Valentine's Day — thanks, mama! 

Want your own? Cool, they're available at this etsy shop. (Gentleman, there are male sizes as well.)

One polka dot dress, three ways.

Bee is to honey what Liz is to polka dots so I'm not really sure how I don't own some sort of black and white dotted dress. This one in the two left pictures is from Madewell and i'm KICK-ING myself for not buying it when I had the chance. Here's to finding a look-alike and styling it as so. 

1. With a floppy hat and brown leather accessories

2. With a totally cool moto jacket, minty accessories, and red lips

3. A cool cut blazer tossed casually over your shoulders. 

1. Atlantic Pacific 2. Mattieologie 3. Madwell.com

Summer Lovin

I've never been so "I need summer RIGHT. NOW." in my life, so let me just daydream a little about a summer wardrobe while I currently can't have (even CLOSE) to summer weather. 

Dress // Brogues // Bag