Long Live McQueen

Death Leaves a Heartache No One Can Heal, Love Leaves a Memory No One Can Steal

I just couldn't make a post today without giving tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen. Any morsel thing related to Fashion Art Design, floods forward to my mind the tragic death of Lee and I'm sure its the same for many others. 

 [Photo from Vogue Paris] 

 In front of the store, fans yesterday started to pay their respect to Alexander McQueen

Lady Gaga remembered her friend and fashion icon Alexander McQueen on Friday by tweeting a photo of them in a happy embrace. 

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R.I.P Lee Alexander McQueen

Gone Too Soon  

With much sadness Alexander McQueen was found dead today at his London home after committing suicide. I’m shocked and saddened with the loss and because you never realize how big of a part fashion, designers, art, can be in life, and then thinking about how his nearest and dearest must be suffering right now, is further saddening, my prayers go out to his family and loved ones. 

Your art and stunning visionary will be heartachingly missed - You'll Never Walk Alone................

Ring Horned Student Liberty

STUDENT LIBERTY MINIMALISM

   

My room is a agglomeration of mess!.... a mound of clothes thrusting against my wardrobe doors, I have never been one for neatly picking out an outfit the night before and having it ironed and neatly folded ready to be worn for the next day, the only time I have ever done this, was for my first day at high school! The most prep I have ever done since then is, is to subconsciously imagine a rough guide to what I could wear. the night before, The trouble is some of them items I imagine don't live in my wardrobe but are neatly hanging in some boutique or department store. 

Anyhow these photo's taken by Gianni Mosella are called slug passion and the rooms have a curiously scrambled expressive charm to it, evidently this room is not spic and span, but has a ambience of liberty and filled with free spirited expression. My room looks nothing like this! when its a mess, it is simply a mess and nothing more! no expression of liberty just an expression of dishevelled disorder, sadly.  

  

JENNIFER BEHR HEADBAND HORRIPILATION

Some of you may already be aware of Jennifer Behr's previous accessories collections,  her signature headbands have been worn + adorned plenty by Gossip Girl Blair Waldorf and her collection has a healthy dose of studs gems spikes and other tasty embellishments. Her bridal collection would on the nose add a touch glint and glamour to the day. 

I unequivocally have botheration wearing headbands, as to plenty of the time, my hair lacks volume and planting a headband on top would just seem I've suppressed my hair to thin vermicelli, but I would still smack my lips together and snap up these hair couture chandeliers.    

This 23-karat gold-plated silver ring set from Maison Martin Margiela will give all your urban looks an Acapulco gold directional twist. Wear them across your fingers for a nod to the avant-garde. Or hint hint to your other half, Feb 14th not long away!! To the price of £185 valentine pounds. mmmmh would have to skip the dinner + the chocolates + flowers.

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Wedge Wegotism

FRINGED YOUNG YOICKS

All aboard the RAPHAEL YOUNG translunary ! 

The black patent leather cork wedge heel with silver chained fringe detail and deep blue leather interior. YOUNG who lives in Paris but is of Korean descent guns an edgy, sexy, powerful fresh footwear for strong women and strides into S/S10 with his most confident and commercially accessible collection to-date. What is special about YOUNG is that he produces every single shoe himself from start to finish which allows his unique vision to translate perfectly into the finished product. 

GUO PEI'S Winter 2010 collection

Holey Wedged Heels

China's GUO PEI'S Winter 2010 collection earmarks these platform wedged heels that are full of intricate patterned, textures and gobs of height, the collection showcased during the HK Fashion Extravaganza 2010 show. The most fascinating part of these sky-high heels is the Herculean hole in the middle of the wedge that gives them a fresh look.

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Infelicitous What Not

INKHORNISM B&W

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This is quite possible the most slap dash intermixed post, because individually  I had all these random photos in all four corners in my folders on my laptop, which needed boshing together......feels like I lightened the clutter!  

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Cyber Tribes Bow Ties + Tattoos

BOW BONBONNIéRE

French Designer Baptiste Viry once again presents design prowess, with delightful quirky bow tie necklaces, pomped with part militaristic, part preppy. Viry uses gold and bronze metals against the luxury leathers in shades of brown, black and navy. 

Keep your eye on the Baptiste Viry website for more information on when this collection hits the stores.


TATTOO TARANTELLA

Tattoos have never really appealed to me, the main reason as to why?.... is I can once in a while get turned off bored from an item I have purchased, I sit and have a look around me and often feel like practically changing the whole layout and decor constantly, I easily lose interest in something what a few weeks earlier I had liked. I like Change! Contentment is also the issue here and I am slowly learning how to be content.

Back to Tattoos it would be reckless of me, to have one! as I will completely hate it later on and would prefer to change it to another design or altogether would want to remove it. But I have to agree the tattoos above by Amanda Wachob are alluring creating beautiful abstract paint like tattoos, presenting a quite elegantly delicate look moving from cloth to skin as primary canvas. Wachob partners with Daredevil Tattoo in Manhattan's Lower East Side, which has flourished as one of the premier tattoo parlors since New York legalized tattooing in 1997.

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Backstage Smiles + Delubrum

GREY GOOSE & WEDGES 
One of the few rounds I do online is often visit Fashion photography extraordinaire's blog by Sony Vandevelde! presenting us all the glimpses behind the scenes, and a scoop full of new collections in its natural backstage form, I every so often, don't embargo a same feel of an outfit just via looking over 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.

Sonny himself is a European-born, Sydney-raised photographer. Fed up with the unimaginative “tunnel vision” of his photography instructors, he dropped out of college and learned his craft his own way. And hasn't he just!

+ WEDGES 

ACNE AW 10/11 - MINIMARKET AW 10/11 - CARINE WESTER AW 10/11

Photography Courtesy of Sonny Vandevelde Typepad 

A lot of the Swedish labels consistently develop some excellent shoes to kudize their collections each season, especially the likes of Acne and Minimarket. Most of the shoes they produce, like the Acne Atacoma wedge and Minimarket zipper wedge, end up becoming highly sought after on an international scale. I'm sure the shoes above will continue with this trend.

+ GREY GOOSE CHEAP MONDAY

There has always been one fixe I have never got around to doing! and that is colouring my hair white! I have always wanted my hair plantinum blonde white, a medium short choppy white haircut. I have practically changed my hair to every other colour besides white, but I have never got round to changing it white simply because it will likely will not mesh well with my skin colour. I have a caramel skin tone and dark black eyebrows and in the end could end up looking like a crazy old scientist or just simple colour dye done at home, gone complexly wrong......but maybe one of these days when I have a larger collection of hat wear I might take the leap! 

I have dyed my hair to gray against black in a bob before, but not as funkdafied as the Cheap Monday collection presented below. showing the many hues of grey hair with the splash of black and white, One of the more trends seen outside and inside the shows.

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Kirkwood Land + Vintage Land

ALICE IN KIRK-WOOD LAND

 

Alice in Wonderland inspired shoes by Nicholas Kirkwood, made on commission for the French department store Printemps, which is giving over its windows to all things Alice through March. Kirkwood is joined by Ann Demeulemeester, Alexander McQueen, Bernhard Willhelm, Charles Anastase, Christopher Kane, Chloé, Haider Ackermann, Manish Arora, and Maison Martin Margiela, each of whom were given a window to fill, 

 The windows are on view through March 14 at Printemps, 64 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, 33-1-42-82-57-87

CELEBRITY CRAY CRAY

Is it a cliché that we're sinking into the prostrate of celebrity famed culture? are we drugged into this neon lited celebrity fame engrossed coma, I like anyone else can be fascinated by the lives of the celebrities, curious to know what they wear, how they live, and even to who's dating who, but is it just me who finds the lurking of celebrity gossip into serious news broadcasts disturbing. Are we like the Ancient Romans who made celebrities out of gladiators and like them idolise celebs when they're popular, pry when they're suffering, jeer when they make a mistake and revel when they sometimes look stupid and make judgement on every morsel of there being. Celebrity fame culture has a place its fun in moderation but it can be lethal if its all we consume. 

Although I prefer to keep this blog mainly celebrity circus free, as there's plenty of it everywhere else to keep us quenched.  I'm going to briefly muse about a celebrity who's not widely known called Nicola Roberts, who's from a pop girl band in the U.K. Nicola has always faced rough treatment from the media and critics, she has been known as 'The Ugly One' from the group... nice huh!....I have to admit I don't really care for her music, but I've noticed over the past few years she has gotten a taste for some unique vintage styled apparel, which has still been mocked by the tabloids, and I thought you know, why not post about someone who is not widely recognised and not favoured for her dress sense by many.  

See what you think..........

Looks very demure lady like inspired by the 1950's -1960's vintage look and has embraced her naturally pale skin and is wearing the sheer knee socks with open shoes, which no doubt we will see many folks wearing. 

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