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Something about designers at Copenhagen Fashion Week really attracts me. The best of them have a laid back yet put together elegance that works because of a strong sense of proportion and colour. Here are my favourite pieces from the labels Bitte Kai Rand, and Baum und Pferdgarten:

REAL COOL HOLY BUDDHA

In a Temple's Main Hall
  -written by Ko Un
  -translated by Brother Anthony


Down with Buddha!
Down with handsome, well-fed Buddha!
What's he doing up there with that oh so casually elegant wispy beard?
Next, break down that painted whore of a crossbeam!
A dragon's head? What use is that, a dragon's head?
Tear down that temple, drive out the monks,
turn it all into dust and maggots!
Phaw!


Buddha with nothing, that's real Buddha!
Our foul-mouthed Seoul street-market mother, she's real Buddha!
We're all of us Buddhabuddhabuddha real!
Living Buddha? One single cigarette, now there's real cool Holy buddha!


No, not that either.
For even supposing this world were a piece of cake, 
with everyone living it up and living well,
in gorgeous high-class gear, with lots of goods produced
thanks to Korean-American technological collaboration,
each one able to live freely, with no robbing of rights,
Paradise, even!
Paradise, even!
utter Eden unequalled, plastered with jewels, still even then,
day after day people would have to change the world.
Why, of course, in any case,
day after day this world must all be overturned
and renewed to become a newly blooming lotus flower.
And that is Buddha.


Down for sure with those fifteen hundred years
rolling on foolish, rumbling along:
time fast asleep like stagnant water that stinks and stinks.

STAND AND DELIVER

Amazing video art fashion film from Minimarket for Stockholm Fashion week A/W 11.

HOW WILL I KNOW IF IT'S WORKING?

Very quickly done FOTD from last weekend. Recently I quite like wearing stuff I'm not sure works. Open toed clogs and tights? 70s prairie dress to a post-Christmas Christmas party? Something to amuse myself thinking about. (Sorry about the white balance! I got GIMP and I'm working on it, I swear.)

Randomly reminds me a lot of This dress from Ida Sjöstedt A/W 11. I'm on trend baby yeah.

[Image from elle.se]

[For today's music, I started listening to Computers and Blues by The Streets. So far, so good. Here's "Outside, Inside"]

A SWEET NATURAL EYE TO THE NEW HIP MOON

I realised I don't have any opera on my blog, though I studied it for a while. I took voice lessons, travelled around performing like some teenage minstrel, and even went to those camps in the mountains where you sing for 7 hours a day. Completely hardcore. So it made me really love classical and opera music.


[Music: Sumi Jo singing "Oh! Quante Volte" from the opera I Capuletti ed I Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini. The opera is basically the story of Romeo and Juliet, and this song is about how sad Juliet is and how much she misses Romeo, etc.]


Also, although the words Lola Re, Stockholm and February do not belong in the same sentence, I am still excited about Stockholm Fashion Week A/W 11 (I'll probably go again in August like last year).


So don't worry. There's nothing more exciting in this world than Swedish clothes and Allen Ginsberg quotes and baby, that's what you'll be getting from me over the next few weeks. And Copenhagen too.


[Title is taken from a line in the poem "Sunflower Sutra" by Allen Ginsberg]

GEORGE HARRISON IS MY FAVOURITE BEATLE

I even read his biography... If I could have a dinner party, comprised of all kinds of people living or dead (but not fictional), he'd definitely be there, along with Daniel Johns, Nuryev, Corrine Bailey Rae, Madam CJ Walker, River Phoenix, Oprah, Janis Joplin, Leonardo DiCaprio, James Lipton, Robert DeNiro, a bunch of my friends from all different times and places, and my entire family. What about you?

[song: Here Comes the Moon by George Harrison]
[title: The truth]

THE OVERALL SHOW WAS CONSIDERED FAIRLY HUMOROUS, BUT DESPITE THE SLICE-OF-LIFE APPROACH, THE PROGRAM WAS CONSIDERED ONLY MILDLY REALISTIC AND BELIEVABLE, AND MANY DID NOT IDENTIFY WITH IT. NEGATIVELY RECEIVED.

[This post's title is an excerpt from the network testing results for Seinfeld's pilot show, which aired on 5th July, 1989. They were wrong. Ha.]

[First and third images are screenshots from the Pedro Almadovar film Dark Habits. Second Pic is one I took of Stonehenge, and last pic is a random tiger from here]