considering the colour for my jacket. to go with autumnal oranges and rusts might be slightly risky though, maybe i should just go with black! still very very tempted by bright yellow though...
hopefully soon my knitting machine will cheer up and work, i think it's sulking because i've been too busy to use it much these last few months!
first mix! just a few songs i couldn't live without these past weeks, i hope you like it. good night, tomorrow i might tell you of the new hand-glazed bowl i bought at carluccio's, and share my colour inspiration for the upcoming coat, but then again i will be back at central st martins and working at cos in the evening! i'll see how i feel, matthew's cooking quiche (his pièce de résistance)
i am making myself a coat! largely in frustration at not being able to find one warm enough to voyage out without a jumper, coat alone. i'm hoping to get back on good terms with my knitting machine, and if not knit the whole thing (a thicker woven outer material may be more functional) at the very least knit a fantastically warm quilted lining. i think the evolving design for this that has been floating around my head can be thanked for my current obsession with collars!
my favourite is the stella mccartney (also loving the grey) but that first streetstyle photo (if anyone knows who this is by, please let me know!) is very very on the button. the bigger, the better, i'm thinking. expect a post on colour soon, right now i'm almost glowing with the thought of yellow, a la sonia rykiel... also, i've been raaaving about the new bombay bicycle club album, matthew doesn't approve, but i adore this song so so SO much. also, 8tracks playlist on the way...
just a couple of additions to my initial thoughts for our jacket project, more colour!
pelayo diaz's autumn/winter 2011 collection is just mindblowing - i came across this shoot a few months ago when it was tagged as streetstyle, but recently i decided to dig a little more! fantastic inspiration for the idea of deconstruction and reconstruction, and also a palette that suits me well (pink! pink! pink!)
the jean-paul goude creation is also the campaign image for a new exhibition on postmodernism at the v & a, which is just across hyde park from us. fingers crossed my enrolment slip will let me in with student discount though, i don't hugely fancy splashing out £11, no matter how many angles and primary colours there are!
exploring my ideas for the project on jackets that we're doing at central st martins this week - reconstructing the familiar. thinking of angles, lines and folds.
slightly tired, hoping for a little trip to the pub in a short time, worked overtime today, i'm hoping for a few favours from my lovely managers! matthew's currently googling welsh terriers, hoping for one to be our alarm system on a wonderful 1919 motor yacht that we've been given.
i shall update you in good time, when we've been to oxford and visited it! for now, a little song from cos that almost makes me cry with happiness
the weather is miserable and i am tired. we are about to go on a walk around hyde park, and i would love to take some photographs (still hanging on to that film from venice, in july! - in need of justification to get all my rolls developed) though weather the grey skies will make a pleasing backdrop is debatable. i suppose we'll have to trust the park's autumnal trees, and if all else fails bury ourselves in the serpentine gallery bookshop. i always leave with something (last time it was a book devoted to documenting the equilateral triangle, very interesting but arguably slightly superfluous)
