WHAT TRUTH?

{Image: From the sculpture "The Wave" by Kay Worden, from Fotopedia.com's "Feet in Art"}

MAKE SOME TEA, BUSTER

{title: In the film Closer, Alice says this to Dan before she leaves him.}

SHE KNEW SOMETHING WAS COMING HER WAY

Listening to George Bruce

THERE IS LITTLE WISDOM BUT MORE THAN ENOUGH PLEASURE

10 wows from Spanish Moss Vintage.

  

Don't even get me started on their vintage band tees...


{Title: From an album review of Lana del Rey's "Born to Die" in the New Yorker}

THE WORLD DOESN'T OWE YOU ANYTHING

{Title: Quote by Mark Twain}

GON' HEAD

I haven't been totally truthful - I actually have been to London Fashion Week this season. I was invited to EcoLuxe by the lovely designer Ilya Fisher, who makes beautiful handmade silk shibori skirts (more on her later methinks). 

I was really curious to go because EcoLuxe is full of designers who have committed to making sustainable clothing - a good cause. Also, lots of them are quite interesting; my favourites by far were the co-founders of Etrala, Emilio Portes Cruz and Maria Rodrigues Liñan. The clothes they make remind me a little of Monki - very playful, with bright whimsical details - like bright lining in the coats, pockets and hoods, as well as contrasting trim on collars. First pics below (all from their fb): 

{Maria and Emilio}

{Pieces!}

{More pieces}

IN MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS

{Image: Statues in a Nevada Ghost Town, from Fotopedia}
{Title: From a war memorial statue I saw through a window at London's Euston Station}

I WON'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE

{The sky over Java, from Fotopedia}

HERE'S A THEORY FOR YOU TO DISREGARD

Someone recently asked me how my blog was going in the light that it's fashion month around the world. I (obviously) didn't have much to tell her. You see, just like most fashionistas worth their salt, I've recently become more interested in acting. (Of course later on, I'll probably just want to direct but we will cross that bridge as and when).

This is far from the end however, and I actually have been dressing as decadently as before - just ask my coworkers. My favourite brand of the moment has got to be Spanish Moss - I'll be a good blogger now and show you why...

{Title: A quote from Lester Bangs in Almost Famous}

OH GURU!

{Images: Leif Podhajsky}

TURN THAT ALOOSE

{Video Art : Leif Podhajsky}

THINGS WHAT I LIKE

{clothing from Nasty Gal  + American Gold}

RIVER FOG MORNING LOOKING AT SUN

{image source}

WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?

{Title: Quote from the film Donnie Darko}
{Music: Little Richard, "Rip it Up"}

INSANITY IS DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS

{Title: Quote from Albert Einstein}
{Music: Johnny Cash, Get Rhythm}

PHENOMENOLOGY

This Navajo print bag from Bershka is almost perfect. If only it were a rucksack. Life would be that much better.

TO CALL OR BE CALLED

I have a fetish for elegant cutlery and tableware of which Zara Home is very much an enabler. Now see here:

Roger Decanter

Dafne Tumbler

Alhambra Jug
Silver Plate Charger

Alhambra Water Tumbler


Carmen Bread Plate


Badrick Butter Dish


Cactus Coasters
{Title: The definition of the Mandarin word 叫. I was in class and thought 'How beautiful!'}

KAVEKE

One of my favourite new designers, from a recent show at London Fashion Week - Kaveke. Thanks so much to the team at La Geneve North for the kind invitation to come along. All images taken by the lovely Rosie Allt.

BE STRONG

{images: Art from Pakpoom Silaphan. Photo from ida.freshnet.se}

SHE COME GROOVIN UP SLOWLY

   

{images: Eduard van Amstel, Obscur and one of Gustaf Mantel's amazing cinematic GIFs. Watch the eyes...}

{title: From The Beatles' song "Come Together"}

OH LORD MAKE ME PURE, BUT NOT JUST YET

{Title: Quote from St. Augustine}

{Music: Cecilia Bartoli - Vivaldi - Bajazet - Sposa son disprezzata}

LIKE HONEY AND TROMBONES

Jenny Grettve and Ravishing Mad had a showroom far away from the center and in that showroom, on the 2nd floor of an apartment building, I met with them and spoke to them about their collections for S/S 12. So, I went into the elevator

up the stairs

and down the proverbial rabbit hole.

Jenny Grettve is both an architect and a fashion designer, a fact which comes through in her sculptural pieces. She's got something interesting to say about eco-friendly fashion which stuck with me: "Make fashion you can wear for a lifetime."

So true - why don't we just get it right the first time?! If you produce quality, well-made and classic pieces, then people will love them for years and won't need to buy more or waste the ones they have already. Right on, Jenny! Her pieces stand up to the rhetoric; have a peek at some of my favourites (including the perfect wide-legged trousers she's wearing herself):

Also, have a look at an art video she produced of the entire collection below:

Anna from Ravishing Mad was an exercise in contrasts. Her style is irreverent and her ideas are complicated - when describing her denim she said "I intentionally do everything the denim world tells you not to do." I could see what she meant - instead of distressing her jeans, she paints directly on the fabric. Her creations have high waists and ample thighs, and she even uses denim to create sculptural haute couture pieces inspired by evolved skeletons and and rorshag tests. I only wish I'd gotten a picture of the amazing 3/4 length navy silk jersey dress she embellished - with burn marks.

My favourite piece of denim from her S/S 12 collection below:

And a few more pieces from the same collection which I found on her website:

   

A great fashion collaboration made in Malmö (pronounced "malm-oh"), the 2nd city of Sweden, which these girls hope to make as much of a fashion hub as Stockholm. They may just be on to something.

{title: From Anis Mojgani's poem "These things are how you make me feel" - like honey and trombones! This is the very first of his poems I ever heard, and still one of the most beautiful. Video above.}