prized possessions: gypset style

I've been obsessed with Julia Chaplin's Gypset Style since my friend Rebecca gifted it to me for my birthday this year. She knew I had to have it when she saw it, she told me, and she was not lying.

But what is "gypset" exactly? Chaplin explains in the book's intro:

"Gypset is an approach to life that fuses the wild and unconventional ethos of a gypsy with the sophistication and speed of the jet set. It's a lifestyle that crosses high and low--a surfer who is also a fashion designer, an artist who traded the go-go New York City art world for Bali's low-key tropical shores, a jewelry designer who would rather work out of a town in Mexico than in the über-chic Saint-Germain-des-Prés."

This coffee table book explores the origins of the gypset lifestyle and the lives of those fortunate few who have elected to set up camp in seaside bungalows and tree houses wearing designer caftans and piles of bangles and silver and turquoise, producing gorgeous sun-kissed children and living like they're on a permanent vacation. Not too shabby, huh?

Here are some pictures from the book via Assouline Publishing and Factio Magazine. Check out Assouline's other gorgous books on fashion, art, travel and the like here.

Peace, Love and Neon,
Marisa