building blocks

How well do well all know the feeling of having put essays and assignments on the long finger only for that finger to suddedly stick out and poke you really hard in the stomach? You can no longer put things off until tomorrow because there are no tomorrows left! Dreaded drasted damned deathly deadlines...

In the midst of my busy toiling I did however come across these photos from iD october 2008, from a shoot styled by Robbie Spencer that was inspired by Bauhaus performance art and architecture.


The idea of the Bauhaus was to create a 'total' art where all the arts would be brought together; designs were to be created according to first principles and thus avoid following precedent, every idea was to be a new idea. And that, was a good idea.

ALOHA summertime!!!!

Today around 5pm I noticed something was different... What was up?... IT WAS STILL BRIGHT OUTSIDE hurrah for the coming to an end of wintertime! At last, the dark dreary evenings are drawing to a close and I can look forward to endless days and long summer nights of fun fun fun. Waking up at 7am without it feeling like the most unnatural thing in the world, going to sleep at a bedtime that doesn't matter because your body clock isn't in hibernation mode slowing down by six pm. Lying in the grass doing absolutely nothing whilst forgetting to worry about all the studying you should be doing. And going out almost every night because it's just so easy to! Gone is the effort of having to brave the shivers of getting dressed up then drag yourself out of doors further into Siberea, and come has the time of finding abounding adventures after hours because everybody knows it's too nice of a night to go home yet

I'm feeling along the lines of this:



and this



What's that you say? I'm getting carried away with myself? Ptish, stuff and nonsense



See, these guys know what I'm talking about

oh yeah!!!



Lets look to pretty things in nature for inspiration for our summer wardrobes:









Or when all else fails, there's always good old TOPSHOP





are you feeling it?

bringing it back to 2007

the style of the Beales

The original 1975 version by Albert and David Maysles documented the fall from glory of Edith Bouvier Beale and "Little Edie" Beale, the cousins of the former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onnassis. Here, read the IMDb review


Grey Gardens was the name of their East Hamptons holiday home where the mother and daughter ended up living alone together with the house slowly falling into a state of disrepair, existing in a disabling co-dependent relationship with their lives haunted by memories of glamorous days as Manhattan socialites and unfulfilled dreams of happiness.


In 2009 a new movie was made about Grey Gardens, based on the original documentary. Drew Barrymore played Little Edie and Jessica Lange had the role of Big Edith. The situation was truly tragic, Little Edie had her life snatched from her by her controlling mother whose bitter resentment at her own unfulfilled life made her keep her daughter from the world... A complex relationship complicated by enormous loss.

Little Edie








Drew Barrymore as Little Edie












Big Edith and Little Edie (2009)











The family fell apart and the house was so dilapidated that they were eventually forced to live in only a few of the rooms as there was no heating, the roof was falling off and the windows falling out, the empty rooms were filled with stray cats and racoons, there was no money to pay the bills or to buy food.

Yet all the while they lived under an air of proud glamour from their upper class background. Despite their impoverished situation Little Edie is a style inspiration; many of her clothes were worn so she could move with ease and dance around and she had an ingenius way of wrapping scarves and items of clothing around her head to cover the fact that her hair had traumatically fallen out.

pink to make the boys wink

Five days in Paris showed me how a person's style can be emanated through simply dressing in black. It's simple, it's beautiful, but it's a little bit dark. I'm not saying dull, it's actually an inspiring achievement how they can look plain yet still interesting. Unfortunately my camera broke on my first day (what are the chances??!) booooo so I have next to no photographs, but I'll do a post on it next week when I get copies from people in my class.

Black looks good on Parisians. And black looks good on Swedes. It probably helps that nature is on their side giving them amazing genetic makeup, but what about the rest of us Joe Bloggs? In the gloom of the recession we are being advised to be smart about how we dress, sensible investment pieces and key wardrobe items that are versatile before they are anything else. And black is always a safe option, it’s timeless and it looks good day or night.

But like I said, it’s a little bit dark.

Our Celtic Tiger was like the Roaring Twenties, all round wealth, success, good times. Then in 1929 it came crashing to a halt with Black Thursday. Dun dun duhhhh... A day after which Elsa Schiaparelli sent shockwaves through the world of fashion with the launch of her extravagant fashion label, bringing eccentric designs into clothing of the time. It is she who we can thank for the colour 'hot' or 'shocking' pink as she called it; a colour “life-giving, like all the light and the birds and the fish in the world put together, a color of China and Peru but not of the West”. And with everybody weary of the pervading darkness the current economic situation is casting over society it's nice to see a bit of pink poking through the winter gloom.

Alexis Mabille

Marc Jacobs

Dolce and Gabbana

















There was one coat in this collection I really don't like. I mean really don't like it. The shape reminds me of Cousin Itt from the Aadams family. Plus I think if you're going to wear fur at least WEAR FUR.What's the point in taking the life of an animal if you're only going to drown it in chemicals so it no longer resembles what you killed it for in the first place??

















And we can look forward to springtime with rose tinted glasses, quite literally heehee. I love the Moschino cheap and chic collection. It's pink and features the word "shocking" on garments and a necklace, Schiaparelli would be chuffed:


I am ESPECIALLY in love with the henry oxfords, if only a prince charming would come along looking for his cinderella with a size five pair of these in his hands...

we'd live happily ever after, me and my shoes together. la la la

inter-library loan

This was my "i'm not really a nerd" outfit for today





the quality of these photos is abysmal

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listening to:

love through a lens

just because.







- all photos by Waldemar & Max -

kawaii

Kawaii: cuteness, in Japanese.

In relation to Japanese fashion the first association that always comes to mind are the Harajuku girls. I can appreciate their originality and the cultural resistance from which it formed, but it's simply not my cup of tea. I find their quirky, manga-inspired, colourful, patterned, somewhat gothic Lolita, style just a bit excessive.

So it was a pleasant surprise to find myself liking the designs of Eri Utsugi. She has taken the fun aspects of Japanese fashion and brought them to a (slightly) more mature level.



Yes there she is popping out of the stage. Heee

Her label, Mercibeaucoup, is run under the Issey Miyake company and yeah, it's cute.





really comfortable life sized dolls much?





and this is what I wore today; today being a day where I left the house only to go to the shop to buy milk and the rest of it spent feeling sorry for my hungover self



a cut-up flannelette nightdress from a charity shop over an american apparel dress with grey cable knit tights from topshop. Frilled with heart patterened lace: my very own cuteness.