!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAGIC!

-joanna newsom




I love the idea of being inspired by obscure Breton legends. It's every bit as esoteric and "up in the clouds" as i would expect from her. There is something very poetic in her lyrics, the words resonating to craft a very tangible world to be wrapped up in. Everyone listen to Ys its like the album name- enchantingly faraway, but with alot of heart. She's matured so much as a singer (and i adored her the first time around).

vintage Lydia

dug up some ooold polaroids of Lydia Hearst- isn't she a cookie?!

Guy Bourdin

So subversive!-

Guy Bourdin was born in 1928 and during his youth in post-war Paris, he showed precocious artistic talent and fierce ambition. He presented himself to Man Ray in the early fifties and was then spotted by French Vogue, where he went on to create some of their most sensational editorial images for over thirty years. His advertisements for Charles Jourdan shoes and Bloomingdales in the mid 1970s were the high point of his career and landmarks in the field of advertising. Throughout his life, Bourdin created images at a relentless pace and his work calls to mind the surrealist films of Bunuel or David Lynch. The impact of Bourdin’s imagery on the realms of both commercial and fine art photography continues to resonate today. He made radical changes in both the style and the meaning of commercial imagery. His fashion shoots are mysterious, hypnotic, surreal, exposing the true and unnerving nature of desire. He shows us that, within the context of fashion, it is rarely the product that compels us. It is the image – the carefully staged narrative of sexual fantasy, the quest for the unattainable, the suggestion of danger – that stimulates consumer desire.

sad and sweet

what an increadible set of photos!! so dreamy, you would swear these were real nymphs and mermaids. The photographer managed to capture such a wild and fey quality.





see the full set here and what a great name! Sous La Mer

The Science of Sleep

I'm so excited about this!!! Gael Garcia is a hottie and Charlotte Gainsburg is such a sensitive actor. Looks beautiful!

20s Excess.

We are in the midst of a 60s and 70s revival. Exemplified with the revival of Biba and the new 60s/mod silhouette, its a new attitude that is evident in many designers.

I'm not saying that like its a bad thing! The 60s were such a free, innovative era- i'm really glad designers are forming modern translations of it and there are some truly gorgeous things as a result of this revival.

However, i really hope that it won't go too far. I think that by the time this trend trickles down to high street (indeed SUPRE ) it will have just died for me. So i'm looking ahead and an era that i really love and have such a great feel for is the 20s. The Roaring 20s or the Jazz Era.

To be honest i dont know too much about the 20s fashion aside from the ubiquitous Flappers. But seeing as i've just read The Great Gatsby i think that it conjours the mood very well.

mmmmmmmmmmm....

bubble bath- what a floaty ethereal dream!

Mystery girl..

It was the struggle of the century
and all the grown men came to see
the girl who tamed the tiger yeah yeah
the heart of southern Lovebirds

....

they found her under the sea
she said she came from cell block three
the girl hit hot like a barracuda baby
she floated on air like a crest of wave


.....



Mad loving by the cold hearted
Take a big breath cos we just started

Mystery Girl
Mystery Girl
keep on faking your mystery world
Cos the mystery boys will be your toys yeah
Cos the Mystery boys will be your toys



Mystery Girl-Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

the adorableness of it all......

I've always had a thing for impossibly impractical things. Designs made for the pure joy and beauty of it rather to be very practically sound. So shoes made of the creamiest leather or the most fragile tulle make my heat go at a zillion miles an hour.

so- take a look at these...
(bottega veneta)

She's the Man!!!!!!!!

let them eat cake!

having said that- i now just HAVE to post about Marie Antoinette. This is for the benefit of fellow Southern Hemisphereans- hopefully there is the same build up and anticipation in OZ but that doesnt seem likely. The majority of the people i talk to dont know who Sophia Coppola even is.

I dont think MA should be taken as a period piece as such. I think that the costumes and decadent styling may hav lead people to have false expectations of a more (BBC?) type production. I can see why this was booed at Cannes though, the rock music is really jarring and the american accents (....quell horreur!) but this is Sophia coppola's vision of Marie Antoinette-as a vulnerable and giddy teenager. Its designed to reach a modern audience, connecting with the young queen as a person rather than to really convey a very authentic detailed historical account.

So taking that for what it is, i think it will be great! I'm not expecting a brilliant plot; i mean we all know how it ends but i think that the empathy and moods created have its own magic. The movie stills (Like everything else by Sophia Coppola) are incredibly intense and ethereal and so even if all else sucked there is still the gorgeous eye-candy to feast on.

oh drooooool. the shoe for the modern Marie Antonoiette and her cotouriers ...

when you're surrounded by fashion...

hahahahahahaha literally- "Social X-Ray"



Samsonite Black Label line, designed by Alexander McQueen- bones to accessorise bones.

sydney was 38C today. boy are we gunna roast!

Sigur Rós

Really they are the most amazing band. Their music transcends you into the heavens-into a tangled complex web of unbearable beauty. Check out Hoppipolla and Glosoli at Youtube:

She's just so damn cute! I have a soft spot for her.

Gawker! Gawker! Gawker! Oi! Oi! Oi!

Gawker is the next shakespeare.

There is no-one more cutting, more withering than the hilarious people at Gawker in the media at the moment.

http://www.gawker.com/news/blue-states-lose/blue-states-lose-this-is-it-213953.php

Marianne Faithfull has successfully completed treatment for breast cancer and described the experience as “extremely positive” overall.

The 59 yead old musician had to cancel a European tour after being diagnosed in September but her spokesperson has now confirmed she’s making a “rapid return to full health” after surgery.

-google news

I'm glad Marianne is better, i didnt even know she was diagnosed with breast cancer! Another reason to support the cause.

(a little homage to the icon)

"You didn't eat? You want some of my steak?" [Shoves steak toward us with knife. We shake head no.] "Are you sure?" [Grandmotherly look of concern, inches steak closer and closer.] "It's really good."
— Kirsten Dunst

(thanks nymag.com)

ok. i officially love her.

the wendybirds.

the wendybirds, they fly, they flit, on bridges of sunlight.

i probably would have been a better english student if....

the school used these classics in the classroom. gorgeous!!!!!!!

Madame Brovary;Gustave Flaubert- Designed by Manolo Blahnik







Lady Chatterly's Lover;DH Lawerence- Designed by Paul Smith


Limited Edition designer classics by penguin.
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/designerclassics/

Camilla Nickerson.

Former fashion editor of US Vogue. She is amazing. I know that some might say she is ugly with her extreme features but i think she's gorgeous in a very regal, poetic way. That and her extraordinary personal style and eye.

that strange, incandescent, ephemeral quality

with wich i seek.

Is apparent at the periphery of my vision.

is in the shadows between now and never.

is so strange, silent and ethereal.

flitters between islands of whimsy.

is nowhere to be found.