Bijouu Ballerina

TOUGH BALLERINA

Every-once in awhile or probably more, I get a mind like a steel sieve, and this editorial by Craig McDean and Freja Beha umbrages that feeling, in a caps lock voice EXISSORATING EDITORIAL SAVOIR-FAIRE.   

Tough Ballerina

Photography by Craig McDean

Model: Freja Beha

Magazine: Interview, April 2010

Via Fashionising

MARIA BIJJOU

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Omelle SS10 Shoe Line

PUNCHY THIRSTY GUNMETAL

When I first laid eyes on Omelle's debut S/S09 collection, back in August last year, I was chuffed to see a new fruitful shoe line develop, created by a partnership between Nicole LaFave and Cherise Angelle, and its that time again to harbinger the Omelle S/S 2010 shoe line. The collection grants a distinctive aesthetic, according to LaFave, Omelle’s colour palette is “punchy and thirsty with some hints of gunmetal, bumper and wooden accents. The playful mixture includes colors such as speed yellow, black tire, tin snake, snake tread and vapour. The variety in surfaces and textiles ranges from painted python, tree snake and conductor stripes” 

Jaewon, Conductor Stripe

Kendall, Black & White

Illy, Sunset

 Kelsey, Blue Mix - Kelsey, Speed Yellow

Kiran, Vapour with yellow band- Isabelle, Vapour  

To have a look at the rest of the collection 

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Vogue Korea May 2010

FORSOOTHERY OF OBSESSIONS KNOW NO BOUNDS

The product of my obsessions include but not only confine to E.shopping, colour schemes, house decorating Magazines, Vintage, history of architecture, fashion & life, fiddling around with the settings on the D-SLR'S, Local, National going ons, Art Illustration, bonzai trees and Japanese water garden landscapes, foreign souvenir collection, World Cinema, film votary or anything vulpine and curiously experimental in Artificial Stupidity or ANYTHING as much use as a hedgehog in a condom factory.

Barring that babble, I have never commented on what a MONDO of a sports fan I am, of Football (soccer to the U.S) Tennis, Cricket and anything else I can get to grips with, It's mostly spectating, because playing doesn't bode well, unless I want to amuse myself and others......When I came across this VK editorial with the sport theme, it occurred to me, just how sports free this blog is and I probably haven't shared with you what sort of things make this hyena pulsate in life.

So I have decided to update this blog with all the happenings going on in Football with Liverpool Football Club & Derby County FC and Tennis with Rafael Nadal and co the next time I watch them play...Just jesting :-J  It has been an ordeal of a football season anyway, and I am now looking forward to forgetting it and moving my thoughts onto the World Cup in South Africa, I wont be going this time round, so look forward to enjoying that period of time soaking up the carnival atmosphere her in England. 

On the subject of obsessions, I have been rinsing this song by Hurts on my playlist.

PLAY GOWNS AND GAMES

Hyori is photographed with Jeremy Scott shoes, she’s also wearing clothing and accessories from Christos by Amsale, David Yurman, Diane Von Furstenberg, Bulgari, Juicy Coutoure, Fendi, Dior, Jamie&Bell, Kang Hee Sook, Jardin de Chouette, Ann Demeulemeester, Missoni, Ash, Repetto, Amsale and Gucci.

It will be likely I wont be updating this blog until the end of this week, I have decided to go on a trip up north and visit some friends and just Live instead of Exist! much love to you all and have a great week and weekend folks! εïз

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Shoes ♥ Sparring ♥ Gowns

DUNJA SESELJA

I didn't expect to find these teeming shoes, whilst mooching around on deviant-art, these engaging shoes were created by Dunja Seselja whom Is currently accomplishing her PhD in Philosophy of Science at Ghent University in Belgium, it seems Owl Shoes, Flash Shoes and Silver Helmet Shoes are not her only forte in life and in addition these shoes are cruelty-free vegan footwear.  

SPARRING SCHWÄRMEREI

Magazine: VOGUE RUSSIA May 2010 

Model: Alessandra Ambrosio 

Photographer: Alasdair McLellan

The play on masculine versus feminine, and of course sexiness, definitely shines through in this boxing inspired editorial, along with Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio, adorning a glorious white gown.  

MADAME X

Photographer Sacha Rovinksi & Illustrator Veronique Meignaud

DARK FAIRY TALES 

                                                                                                                   //Photographer Rovinski 

The above photos amalgamate illustration from Meignaud and photography from Rovinski, together to create a vivid dark fairytale, containing appealing pieces of clothing and styling.  

SACHA ROVINSKI STEAMPUNK

STYLE: EVA KOEGENBOEG

MAKE-UP & HAIR: GRIPHEE 

MODEL : CANDICE @ KARIN

DIGITAL RETOUCH : YAN SENEZ

Born in 1979, Sacha Rovinski, as a present for his eighth birthday, received a small Super 8 film camera. This is how everything began for him, he discovers that this camera enables him to capture both images and moments onto miles and miles of film, much to his parents’ displeasure. Capturing here called steampunk, some eye sparkling jewellery, mouth stopping magnality and safety pin hérissé.  

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Sonny Vandevelde

BACKSTAGE CATWALK BAISEMAIN

For those of you, who may or may not been aware, plenty of my photographic sources are from Sonny Vandevelde's fantastic collection of backstage catwalk photos, and his exhibition opened backstage in Melbourne as part of the L'oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival and for those who missed my previous post on Sonny Vandevelde.

Janet Burns quoted from the Sydney Herald, about Vandevelde whom 'doesn't work at the sleek, neat, choreographed end of the catwalk where models pause and pose prettily before twisting away, job done. He works at the other end, the "wrong" end, behind the catwalk's scenes, in the cacophonous storm that rages at the back of a fashion show's relative calm. He shoots amid the racket and chaos of a hundred or more models, make-up artists, hairdressers, stylists, dressers, designers and assistants, all hell-bent on their part in producing those perfect moments at the "right" end of the catwalk.

I every so often, don't embargo a same feel of an outfit just via looking through the catwalk photos. The photo's Sonny captures behind the scenes, brings out a more personal aura of an outfit and focuses more on the personality of models whom are often seen smiling backstage, providing energy to the photos and letting the personalities of the models shine through. 

And what I like about Sonny Vandevelde is that he seems to have a dedicated relentless ethos with 'surfer dude' free spirited approach of making backstage models feel at ease, in order for us to see more natural photo's of the models being themselves, and it would be fascinating to see Sonny receive more creative control whether it may be on an editorial or backstage arena.

 

Alexey Gabilo & Hair Cabochon

SPRING SUMMER COLLECTION 2010

   HAUTE COUTURE JEWELLERY

Alexey Gabilo is the only one designer who makes haute couture jewellery in Russia. He devotes himself to construction of new forms and seeks advanced media of working with metal, glass, crystal, acrylic, fiber and leather.Today Gabilo brand is specialized in producing the bijouterie (presented by several lines) and art objects.

GABILO MASK 2010

Gabilo's activities includes co-working with various designers and artists, organizing exhibitions, cinema and visual art projects and the like and some funkdafied ornated face masks. 

 Jewellery - Gabilo Starring    Muse- Dancing for you (Danila Polyakov)

HAIR CABOCHON

// Photographed Ryan Ayash // Styling Nadia Pizzimenti // Muse Irina F. 

The tasty headpiece above reminds me, I need to searching for a unique head piece of jewellery to wear to a wedding in June, the search is on! and I think I may start browsing  on Etsy, and  I nearly forgot to mention, I have had some comments and an email wondering about the wall decorations on the photos I have taken. On the photos shown, they are both wall decals I brought from a French online store called Acte Deco, one of the reason I ordered from them is, they can customise wall decals for you and you can request what style design colour you prefer. 

Anyway hope you all have a Scintilla of a Sunday! Much Love to you all..........

Tiny Tribute to Alexander McQueen

It's still very sad, to think of Alexander McQueen's tragic demise, but I wanted to share with you all my white and gold Alexander McQueen coat I purchased back in 2004 during my uni days. This is still currently one of my favourite items in my wardrobe today. (Although I still need to wear it more often!) Slap on the wrist time It has this detailing in a gold piping and small eyelets with strings conjoining the top bodice and bottom bodice together, with a showing of scattering pieces of lace strings.

I thought I'll take a few snap shots of my muse Jou Jou Hyena wearing the coat, note it is probably more of a closer fit to myself, due to being slightly bigger than on my sister, and I thought I'll team the coat up with some new white wedges I requested from a friend of mine from Tokyo.