Fashern Tawlk - perfect prints

here's some perfect clothes:

Mary Katrantzou can do no wrong,

so Mary for Topshop is probably the best thing happening in high street fashion at the moment

See the collection here and see how much you can't buy here

Also - please to be looking at her Autumn Ready-to-wear 2012, it is angular amazing

Then of course there's Tsumori Chisato s/s12 

The show started with bubble cute clashing fabrics and ended with a spectacular Tropical Wonderland in the Orient:

Leit-Motiv from Italy have some fabulous prints, particularly for men

And Louise Gray Autumn 2012 is geometric punk clashdom

PS. 

I forgot Meadham Kirchhoff, their aesthetic has always been more-is-more girl punk, this season a bit more subdued but with some fabulously wearable highlights

fashFasHfASHfasHFAshfAsHfASHfAshHFAsh

Bullshit

TeenDaze

So just now I was doing that teenage girl thing where you look through 90s pictures of Kate Moss and think about how cool she is

and then it hit me

As of this weeks birthday, I'm not even a teenager

Bloody Hell

I'm not only just not a teenager anymore, I'm now older than Kate Moss where she wore that see through slip at age 19

(such a super team, here's another 90s Naomi x Kate for good measure)

But then I found these pictures of Kate aged 21 and I thought 'well hey, still super bangin', it will all work out for the best'

I mean, I recognise that in a year I might not be at a major award ceremony trotting down the red carpet with a cross generational heart throb, but there's a good chance. 

What Colour's Your Brittany?

Oh No! - that day marked on ALL our calendars in pink biro and love heart stickers

VALENTINES

(awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

so, Obviously you know what's coming next...

LET'S ALL DYE OUR VAGINAS A DIFFERENT COLOUR!

Thanks Betty! 'Hair for down there'

BEST THING EVAHHHHHHH

am I right?

I totally should have screen capped the one targeting Valentines day but I was so excited by the idea of a MALIBU BOX that I forwent common logic.

Seriously though, there are Great Minds doing Great Things every day

who knew they could do it with brightly coloured bits?

The question now is - malibu blue? sexy lilac? lucky green? a rainbow (no question - rainbow)

that should brighten up this festive season

Aesthetics

All the pictures I to have no place for at the moment seem to share some sort of mid 90s aesthetic

VIBES VIBES VIBES

It's only right to share - The Nanny, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet are all Key Players

And then Sometimes it's just like HONEY I don't wear Clothes I wear Outfits. And if you don't Know the Difference you really Don't Know

gagadom

Trigger happy book buying finger

50% off

Absurd

I should russel up a job

to earn money

to buy beautiful things

GAGA X TERRY RICHARDSON

ENTERtheVOID

featuring the word 'peripatetic'

Blogginglove has not rekindled. Is it unkindled? Is it merely whelmed?

Where did 'whelmed' go?

I am UNDERwhelmed by fashion blogging now.

It holds LITTLE INTEREST in a world filled with So Many things beyond my sartorial desires

READ ON

off the coast of Papua New Guinea there is an island called GOODENOUGH ISLAND and they used to have a really fabulous breed of mangy wild dog that I read about in

the 1945 edition of The Observers Book of Dogs

which also states that the 'Tasmanian Dog' 'is now found only in the mountainous areas' even though I'm pretty sure the Thylacine was basically declared extinct after this one died in the Hobart zoo during the 30's.

(if you like a doggy disco you'll love...) 
Fun WITH Values!

My favourite childhood VHS - TREASURE ATTIC, bought by my mother in the mid 90s off a travelling salesmen is strangely and HYPNOTICALLY RELIGIOUS. The fact that I am not heavily indoctrinated is a MIRACLE FROM GOD. lol jks logic4eva. It featured some puppets, one named 'BunnyBigWords' and a suspicious character named Uncle Jim who would spring forth from a cupboard to share the word of God with a capital G. 

you should probably use the word MAJUSCULE in favour of 'Capital Letter'

(and the word SAGACITY is just GOOD FOR BUSINESS)

So while we're talking about important things I should obviously mention the biggest issue of the moment - 

THE WORLD WILL END THIS YEAR 
no it won't

So much for all those people hoping for an Arrested Development movie in the next decade or 3.

That's basically all I have to say. It's all very pointless. Personally I find it all very informative. We learnt about things like Fan Death - the belief widely held in South Korea that a fan left running overnight in your room will kill you, despite that "this phenomenon has never been reported or ever heard of in any other country." We also learnt about Bill Murray's moustache, and that really, is Everything.

PS 

a touch of FASHTAWK here is my fun new gold corset as worn with a fur skirt

It's a two man job to put the corset on, which is why the photo is so average - I'd have to wake up a cohort to put it on to retake the photo yadda yadda I'm lazy/considerate.

Yayoi Kusama Nails It

And if I open a nail salon what will I call it? ***Nailed It*** duh.

Festive Spotted Nails!

I already know what you're thinking

'For the love of Cheeses the world Needs your nail salon!'

But the sad thing is, I am just not as benevolent as I appear, and will continue to keep my talents to myself

The lucky thing is that Yayoi Kusama hasn't been keeping it to herself for years near innumerable

spotted dick.

and I'm not even being rude.

PS I know that the nails are chipped. But they're probably older than you.

PS this is Amazing

Yule Time Productivity

Did you know that the capital of Greenland is called Nuuk?

Maybe I was channeling some of my new found interest in Greenland this week when I did some Christmas crafting and made these very-reminiscent-of-landscapes pendants - 

(there were more but some have already been gifted)

 The ridges and contours are formed by the medium of the mould. Which of all the bloody things, is cuttlefish. Though no marine life was injured in the making of this jewellery.

 

I'm considering selling some of these funny little trinkets for pocket money, so I will keep you posted my fine young honeybees on the future crafting endeavours.

Until next time, Yule time spirit abounds.

Yohji Yamamoto : on a man in black

A few months ago I was lucky enough to wander into London's Victoria and Albert museum on what happened to be the last day of the 

Yohji Yamamoto retrospective.

“With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future” 

It was a gorgeous array, with Yamamoto's designes scattered around the museum in unsuspecting corners, culminating in a vast white gallery chamber. 
The garments ranged from over the 30 years of his career - 

from his debut Paris collection in 1981, and included video installations, beautiful books (including My Dear Bomb) and catalogues to be pawed over. In the central gallery alone over 60 of Yamamoto's greatest designs could be viewed, not behind glass, but with intimacy, the way it was intended.

With the many seasons of fashion that Yamamoto has weathered, in the collection there were punk stylings, elegant gowns, maritime, renaissance, clergy and amish influences, men, women, androgyny, bursts of colour, waves of black...

but all with the overarching focus on Textiles

"Fabric is everything" says the Japanese icon, and there's no doubt that he has truly exploited his medium over the past three decades.

"I'm searching for a new proportion. What interests me is the 'space' between the person wearing the clothes and the clothes themselves - the airiness, the movement, the silhouette"

YOHJI YAMAMOTO:

Born: Tokyo, 1943

Studied at:   Tokyo's Keio University (law degree)

                      Bunkafukuso Gakuin School of Fahion (1966-1969)

First label: Y's (1972)

First collection: Presented in Tokyo (1977)

Launched the Yohji Yamamoto label (1981) in Paris (In 1981 With Rei Kawabuko debuting Comme des Garçons the two were met with general disgust in Paris)

Yohji Yamamoto pour homme (1984)

Collaborations: 

Photography: Paolo Roversi, Max Vadukul, Nick Knight, Inez Van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin 

Film: Takeshi Kitano, Wim Wenders, Heiner Müller

Choreography: Pina Bausch

and more, that list doesn't even include adidas or his music

There's just one last thing
the short film This Is My Dream is just lovely


xxx

"start blogging again already you little bitch"

Honeys I'm Home!

My lovely tulips 

I have returned home after months of voyaging.

I am reunited with my laptop and although I had mostly decided to let this blog die a natural death I have decided upon the urgings of a few sweet humans to give it another run.

It will take a while to ease back into this, for one thing I haven't paid attention to anything 'fashion' for six months, and for another - all my clothes currently smell of mothballs which reduces my urges to wear anything other than the bare minimum.

Which leads me to say that this little brain dribble may not be all that 'fashion' for all that much longer. But who knows... I most certainly don't

And so, I will leave you with the background of my computer, which is mostly a marker of how totz behind the timez I am- 

Gaultier Couture s/s 2011

until we exchange html coding again... Love Love

Bitches ain't shit

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks

Lick on these nuts and suck the dick

Get the fuck out after you're done

And I hops in my ride to make a quick run...

Remember the season finale of ANTM recently where the girls got to show the Vivienne Westwood Anglomania collection?

of course you do

Well, when I was kicking about London a month back I was lucky enough to try on this Amazing renaissance dress from the collection which fit like a loved thing and looked even better. 

One day I will have enough pennies but for now I can only dream.

I'm sorry I've been so shit at blogging the last few months,

For four nights last week I slept homeless in the south of France being a general vagabond and just last night in sunny Barcelona stumbled into a street festival where my honeys and I joined a band parade through the streets, dancing with cute Spanish drummer boys while eying off tapas

Life is very sweet little chickpeas, so forgive me and I will love you again when I can

xxxx

Busy Timez

Babes! I know I've been terribly remiss, but I've been bloody busy being bloody fabulous since we last spoke. I spent three amazing weeks in Vietnam with two of the most divine gals sent to earth where we traveled from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi up the coast seeing Nha Trang, Hoi An and Halong Bay along the way. I won't bore you with the details of paradise for a few reasons, mostly because I am terrible at typing on these French keyboards.

this is how one shops for underwear in Vietnam

these are the shoes I had made

and one of many dresses also made in Hoi An. Now let me tell y'all something - if you ever happen to be in the sweet town of Hoi An on the coast of Vietnam follow the example of my companions and I and go bloody nuts at one of the hundreds of tailors and shoemakers in the town. Two pairs of shoes (above) (plus a pair of uber lush denim platform studded sneakers - not custom made but amazing), two silk dresses (not shown but maybe I'll remember to show you one day), that floral shift dress (above), and a wool and ski lined duffle coat - all made to measure and desire little sweet peas.

I'll get around to telling you of my tales in London and Paris soon

mwah mwah on both your cheeks xx