The Corner Shop x Claire Inc.

Last Thursday evening was spent swanning (the only appropriate verb) around The Corner Shop's Strand Arcade store, happily stroking the wonderful textiles that made up Claire Inc.'s wonderfully curated collection of vintage pieces from a B for Betsey to a Y for YSL. After some convincing from dear Emily, I did end up trying on the most stunning Karl Lagerfeld coat/jacket/hybrid-or-other and am very much in love. I've given it almost a week. If it's still there when I return, it was definitely meant to be.

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The textures and colours were such a divine experience (and magical to shoot!) - I'm definitely going to have to recommend that you pop in. Even it is for just a touchy-feel.

*love*

xx

Shop. Vote. Drop. Vote.

So today, I had the absolute pleasure of sprinting for the 423 into the city for a happy shoot with the lovely Dee (and team) at Shop Til You Drop magazine. Though flash doesn't do much justice to anything (just for the record), this is the hair and make up that happened in 15 minutes flat. Not kidding. I never thought I'd enjoy darker eyebrows and verging-on-curls, but I have to say I'll be thinking about eyebrows more often.

And I was almost swayed from getting a haircut next week. I think.

I'll keep you updated on when the shots pop up in print or inboxes!

And to the second exciting piece of news for today:

I'm in the running to be HP & Intel's Front Row Blogger for RAFW!

And I would so love for you all to pitch a vote for me and spread the word over at the HP Australia page right HERE (or the banner at the top of my sidebar). There are so many other fantastic bloggers up there and I'm so excited to be a part of it all! Voting closes next Wednesday, April 27, so get in fast :)

*love*

xx

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." ~ Noelie Alito.

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I'm currently sitting here, philosophising about the self and illusions and the mind, as you do. Needless to say, I'm feeling ridiculously uninspired by all this and don't particularly like that what I'm reading challenges my existence. :) See? I even speak differently when I'm reading Dennett or whatever.

SO here's some fun inspiration for you all to belatedly kickstart your weekend, because that's the way we rock, that's the way we roll, that's the we do it d-do it do it do it d-d-do it.

Strangest mood :)

Happy Saturday all!

Party hard :)

*love*

xx

So walk a little slower.

My favourite model-off-duty photos from 2009 - I couldn't bring myself to delete them when I was trying to clear my computer of unused things. Both of these girls have the most flawless personal style. The best piece in both has got to be the blazers.

Note to world: I have always wanted to cycle around the streets of Paris with such a bike. Some day, some day.

Hope everybody's Monday was bearable!

*love*

xx

Marie Claire Italia February 2010.

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This has to be my favourite editorial so far this year. The lighting is just amazing, and those sunbursts and bubbles make me want to fly to a European Summer and walk down the street in pretty things all day. But then again, I want to do that all the time :)

Photographer: Taki Bibelas, Model: Marlena Szoka. I haven't been able to find out who styled, but if anyone can, I'd love to know! I can't get enough of each shot's 'The' piece, surrounded by complementary ones. And now I shall list them because I love them so much (shots 1-5 respectively):

PRADA High-waisted Cropped Culottes - Alberta Ferretti Grosgrain Net Apron-Coat - Moschino Sunflower Print Minidress - Chanel Silk Petal Blouse - Fendi High-waisted Silk Twill Shorts

That's what I gathered from my limited Italian (zero) anyway - they may not be the actual product names, but that's how my combination of French and English and Mandarin (oh so useful in translation of Italian :D) churned it out to be!

Hope everyone's weekend has been awesome! What did you all get up to??

*love*

xx

"Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on."

Some of Tommy Ton's coverage outside the Spring Couture shows in Paris.

*love*

xx

"... an electronic flash in my head at five o'clock one morning."

Chanel, Chanel - perhaps Karl's first ever collection with no navy or black. Romanticism, space age, and intense amount of hand-worked optical illusion on the tiniest scale - take, for example, the ruffled skirts and dresses that took a significant chunk of the show: the edges of each tier were frayed just slightly, then hand-tinted in such a way that it looked almost like fur. Similarly, lots of playing with textures went on - molten, frothy, liquid... and embroidery that looked like shattered glass. Snaps to stylists too - all the jewellery somehow worked itself into the clothing, so it was hard to tell if it was accessoire or embellishment. And would you look at those collars!

One thing. Make that two. The whole time, I kept thinking of Zac Posen's 'naughty Minnie' hair from Fall 2008. Two: is it just me, a trick of light (quite possible) or nothing at all, or did Mr Karl pull a softer metallic Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2009? I'm talking tights here. Not just tights. The tights I'm still hunting for 10 months on. *sigh*

*love*

xx

And so, no rich citizens lost their money, and no poor citizens were bitterly disappointed.

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A happily bizarre collection of images to make Monday afternoon seem less dehydrated and slovenly. More so, to make me feel better about my final year at school and my unsuccessful opshopping today - thankfully the failure was brief... so I've some energy left to try again tomorrow someplace else :)

The double up of Chanel is completely unintentional.

*love*

xx