supertired

warm & fuzzy

2011-12-29T02:19:00.000-08:00

trying and failing to get on with college work. maybe i'll just stay huddled up by the radiator and try and forget my sins...

1 = detail of jil sander fall winter 2007/08 ad campaign by willy vanderperre
2 = by hlaus
3 = kwangho lee
4 = hsin-yao tseng
5 = northern lights, by steve & chris rocks
6 = gisele bundchen by perry gordon for petrole
7 = by sid black

pinky pinky plonky

2011-12-28T15:29:00.000-08:00

the farmer had a donkeythe donkey diedthe farmer criedpinky, pinky, plonkey
been missing my parents a lot recently, maybe that's why i've been craving the warm maternal fuzziness of pink. we had a beautiful christmas with everyone in brighton though, i got some truly lovely gifts, and my mum even made matthew a stocking! i'm sitting in his parent's cottage at the moment, sadly in a lot of pain (silly tummy) while he helps his dad rebuild their shower.
i hope everyone had a truly lovely christmas, and is looking forward to new year!!!

1 = unknown
2 = the new black mop tag by junobo
3 = unknown
4 = #ffd4c5
5 = unknown
6 = by areaofinterest7 = unknown8 = danielle kroll

red and yellow

2011-12-25T07:15:00.000-08:00

merry christmas one and all!

1 = unknown, via whiteteen

2 = via old chum

3 = uncredited, via electric-leopards

4 = ryugyong hotel in pyongyang by baikdoosan, 1992

5 = by felice varini

6 = #ffe70a

7 = via old chum

8 = by sveeta

feeling shapely

2011-12-15T07:14:00.000-08:00

1 = unknown

2 & 3 = david mramor

4 = torben giehler grey I

5 = zander blom

6 = unknown, via dumort

feeling icy

2011-11-17T06:41:00.000-08:00

not sure why, but i've been in a very weird/awful mood the last two days. maybe i'll be able to breathe easier post-portfolio pick up, if not we're going to the pub after so that will almost definitely cheer me up a little.
on a lighter note, i bought the shoes! i wore them yesterday to a photoshoot organised by a friend and, well, highlighted where they rub... oh well, masking tape + tissue = plaster 2.0 and my saviour right now! i also cooked a lovely bit of comfort food, which i'm about to have for lunch now (+ an avocado, some cheese & lettuce) - adapted from the ever-lovely julie's recipe for winter squash crumble. i added some bacon (catering for the non-veggies we are) and mushrooms, and used parsley in place of thyme as we had none. it was blooming good! part of my exploration of new recipes... tonight we're having moroccan meatballs and herby cous cous! yum!

1 = michael chrisman

2 = unknown, via idk sry

3 = unknown, via smites

4 = by axel rouvin

5 = unknown, via losec0ntrol

feeling warm (and sleepy)

2011-11-14T02:30:00.000-08:00

good morning! we had such a lovely weekend (late dinner last night of fish pie and matthew's "i did it the proper french way" chocolate cake (it was blooming good) and a lot of lusting over these shoes in topshop on high street ken)

anyway for now (must get back to work! assessment tomorrow!) here's my mood in pictures and matthew from sunday. have a lovely day!

The Boxer by Simon And Garfunkel on Grooveshark

1 & 5 = paintings by carly waito

2 = hanne gaby odiele in numero december 2008 by camille vivier

3 = #ff5d08

4 = unknown, via nakeshi

6 = unknown, via catacombes

feeling colourful

2011-11-13T03:03:00.000-08:00

sorry for the absence, i've been so busy with work and things! my portfolio is chugging a little too slowly for my tuesday assessment (panic panic PANIC) and i bought a new red skirt from cos. i'd show you but i'm too lazy to take a picture of it right now! today we've been wandering around high street ken, and i found some all together too nice boots in topshop (fantasising about selling some of my belongings to justify buying them) and covered myself in rose nuit de mai in l'occitane - total favourite smell for the last few months. might ask for it for christmas from matthew, my parents are getting me a landon metz painting!!!!!!! i'll spill the beans later.
for now, here's a song that i unashamedly dance to in cos. it's by a man named orlando higginbottom (the only name rival i've found to that was a man we met in cardiff called - and i kid you not (we checked his i.d.) nickodemus longbottom) and is pretty bloody fantastic. he also dances a bit like me (which i'm reassured by) and looks a little like eddie redmayne sometimes (serious famous-person-crush there). can't go wrong! enjoy.

1 = unknown, via harlemshuffle

2 = #6f0002

3 = matthew enjoying a bit of sun

4 = #ffd4c5

5 = unknown

6 = #eeffbd

7 = vanishing island, 2011 by kibong rhee

8 = #00403f

9 = unknown, via mini-mal-me

10 = #cffff7

lunch

2011-11-07T21:25:00.000-08:00

i found a lovely little square just up from selfridges to have my lunch in. i did get a few odd looks, sitting down with my back against the iron railings and reading a 5cm-thick book about stalin in his teens! it was lovely though, whipped out a bit of bon iver as well. i've been enjoying listening to my whole music collection alphabetically too, thanks to still not knowing how to set my iphone to shuffle, it's surprisingly fun to think "ooh i've hit p!"... or maybe i need to work less! i had leftover sausagemeat/vegetable/pesto pie... it's such a winning recipe, all you do is fry sausages, cut them up, add onions, then boil some carrots & steam any veg you like, add stock, grated cheese, a couple of spoonfuls of pesto & some flour to the onions & meat, mix then put it all together with the carrots mashed on top & some more grated cheese on top. and by the way, if you season the cheese before you melt it it's 34825 times tastier in any recipe!

matthew's drawing a very clever plan for a boat and we had quiche for dinner, with pattatine fritte made from some new potatoes i found in marble arch sainsbury's reduced to 24p, ahhh the satisfaction. he also just sold his vespa! sealed the deal tonight! so many £20 notes i have never seen.

good night!

feeling ruby

2011-11-07T17:50:00.000-08:00

found these this morning, by rights it should have been a yellow day, since i just spent 8 hours in selfridges! bloody heck that place is a maze, at one point i ended up next to a big sign that said "anyone found in this area without a valid reason will face disciplinary action" - slightly nervy moment. also had a completely accidental wander round head office, the buying department, conference rooms, menswear and the shoe department before i managed to find the cos concession! next time i'm taking a map...

1 = unknown

2 = carven autumn/winter 2011
(incidentally, the head designer's name is guillaume (pronounced gee-em), the same as my friend at cos who's last day was very sadly saturday. he's now back in paris with his girlfriend ca!

3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 = unknown - sorry i shall try and dig them out!

8 = friels - the absolute best cider since like forever. the only place i've ever found it is in the sainsbury's in the new england quarter of brighton (right by the mainline station). it's like apple juice only so much better! and 10 apples a bottle. sorry for the dreadful photobooth photo!

pavilion

2011-11-05T12:41:00.000-07:00

for our two week 3DDA project, we had the brief 'eat london', and in the spatial pathway (which i of course chose) the task was to create a space for a feast. i thought about birthdays - taking such a private affair and sharing it with everyone & anyone. what i was really interested in though was the crystallisation of pyrite and other gems, and carly waito's studies have been fantastic! i made solid lumps of raw plaster and used sandpaper to give them a multi faceted quality, and i also tried this in wood...

anyway, i used this method in the end to create my final model. it went a little wrong in the casting (i had to saw out the wood mould!) but it went alright eventually. i also added a cavity through to the ceiling, as well as the main area inside the structure, to give light and also a beautiful column of water when it rains. here is my final presentation...

our tutor fadi loved it! have a nice day everyone, i'm off to work for stockcheck with my lovely new necklace, white t-shirt and grey wool skirt. would rather sleep, it was katherine's 19th in clapham last night, but what can you do. (have bacon and eggs for breakfast, that's what!)

1 = carly waito

2 = from 'drawings which make themselves' by dorothea rockburne

3 = by m. lewandowski

4 = my final collage, all pictures from my tumblr

5 = unknown

2 = unknown, via procaine

8 = unknown

3 = by tat hase

peach

2011-11-05T10:00:00.000-07:00

peach is in the air, and to honour my scrolling through the html to recolour my tumblr layout i thought i'd put my influences here, along with the colours i used. sorry for the complete lack of any recent posts, it's been very hectic here! but now thankfully i'm on a reading week, and despite the 25 hours of overtime that i'm putting in in the next 7 days, i want to share with you my inspiration from the two week 3DDA project i just did. see you soon!

oh and i got an iphone last sunday. but more on that score later!

1 = luli sanchez

2 = #ffa36c

3 = fredrik akum

4 = vivienne westwood

5 = unknown

6 = #ffeee6

7 = unknown, via when-youareastranger

8 = unknown, via daily biens

thinking of jackets

2011-10-16T12:43:00.000-07:00

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!

1 = unknown

2 = stephane rolland

3 = unknown

4 = gustav klimt, birch forest

5 = unknown

6 = aleksandar vasiljević in shot by unknown

7 = lauren doughty

8 = unknown food photographer

9 = dries van noten autumn/winter 1992

10 = jil sander spring/summer 1996

11 = unknown

october

2011-10-16T12:30:00.000-07:00

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)

8tracks = october

download here = october

thinking of collars

2011-10-16T07:37:00.000-07:00

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...

1 = streetstyle shot, source unknown

2 = miu miu worn by bambi northwood-blythe on the cover of metal no. 25

3 = miu miu autumn/winter 2011

4 = via girlmeetcity

5 = junya watanabe

6= miu miu spring/summer 2010

7 = sonia rykiel spring/summer 2012

8 = stella mccartney autumn/winter 2010
9 = chloe autumn/winter 2010

10= dior menswear spring/summer 2012

11 = unknown, via tammerijn

12= unknown, via julia

a little more

2011-10-14T15:00:00.000-07:00

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!

1, 5 & 7 = pelayo diaz a/w 2011, via huh magazine

2 = david delfin s/s 2012, via katelovesme

3 = grace jones in a creation by jean-paul goude & antonio lopez, 1979

4 = from hussein chayalan's autumn/winter 2000 collection, via computational couture

6 = aysche tiefenbrunner by billy kidd

reconstructing the familiar

2011-10-14T11:54:00.000-07:00

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

1 = unknown, via insideinside

2 & 7 = pyrite

3 = claesson koivisto rune

4 & 8 = proenza schouler s/s 2011

5 = unknown, via scary mansion

6 = st brides

colour

2011-10-09T04:11:00.000-07:00

marbled paper

marbled paper

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)
good morning!

1 & 7 =lucy hutchings s/s 2011
3 = jonathan mess 4 = dansk f/w 2011
5 = jemma lewis 6 = rebeccalily

i-D

2010-12-06T14:18:00.000-08:00

from one of my favourite shoots ever, i found them on google! very little luck elsewhere and i've lost the specific issue they came out of sadly

think pink

2010-11-12T04:27:00.000-08:00

1, 2 & 3 = think pink by steven meisel, vogue italia, april 2005

STELLA MCCARTNEY

2010-11-11T13:43:00.000-08:00

from a variety of sources, sorry i cannot remember!

MULBERRY

2010-11-11T13:11:00.000-08:00

FALL/WINTER 2010/11

http://www.mulberry.com/#/thisseason/thecampaign

SPRING/SUMMER 2010

http://www.mulberry.com/

kron kron

2010-11-11T12:43:00.000-08:00

SPRING/SUMMER 2010

SHOT BY SAGA SIG

AUTUMN/WINTER 2009

SPRING/SUMMER 2009

USEFUL LINKS: http://kronbykronkron.com/

saga sig

2010-11-11T12:36:00.000-08:00

GARDEN OF ENCHANTMENT

SORCHA

DAZED & CONFUSED

TINNA

PELAYO & GALA

LONDON FASHION WEEK SPRING/SUMMER 2010

FALLEN ANGELS

MINNIE

VELVET DREAMS

BETA

SLIPPURRIN

TRAILER

CLARE

WALKING ON A DREAM

A DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS

WATERGODDESS

USEFUL LINKS:

charles anastase

2010-11-11T12:17:00.000-08:00

AUTUMN/WINTER 2010/11

AUTUMN/WINTER 2009/10

like a big orange tent/duvet combo. shape/colour/inspirations

SPRING/SUMMER 2009

SHOES (from s/s 2009)

USEFUL LINKS:

http://charlesanastase1979.com/

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2009RTW-CANASTASE