Future Beauty

(Jenny Postle's Grad Collection from Central St Martins FAVOURITE COLLECTION OF LFW)

Whenever things are looking bleak I tend to surround myself with whimsy; I guess that means I'm a whimsical person. Lately things - quite important things, to me anyways - have been looking less and less hopeful. I don't want this blog to turn into a jar where I keep all my self-afflicting thoughts but at the moment I'm having more of these kind of thoughts than anything else. 

[No 'Don't worry! It'll all work out fine!' messages please. I get my naive 'eternally-hopeful' fix from Lady Gaga lyrics, thankyouverymuch.]

That doesn't mean you should think of me as some sort of self-absorbed 'woe-is-me' child; I don't feel like that at all. I'm just pissed off right now. I think my taste always reflects the opposite of how I feel so this post shall be full of brightly-coloured happy frippery; But don't worry the next post will be all choc-a with grungy angst-y curio.

How could I not have written a few words on #Bornthisway? Well, I plain and simply loved it, it was pretty and looked like what would've happened if Andy Warhol had a child with Dorothea Tanning and then their child took the place of Sig-Weave in Ridley's 'Alien'. I had to watch it a few times but I think I finally understand it... Except I didn't get that that thing on her chin was an eye until the third or fourth time of seeing it... I was convinced it was a cap from a water bottle....

I'm really feeling Petra Storrs today. Queen of intellectual whimsy, hang on. That sounds like I think of her as an architect of clever-for-its-own-sake fashion-masturbation; Which is NOT the case. I love these examples of her work mainly because I WANNA TOUCH IT. It's just so cute and light (whimsy) that it lifts my mood to the point where I might just add a little smiley face into this post... shall I? a little emoticon to brighten up my day?.....

..... :) THERE. I did it. Thats how happy her work makes me, I'm a smiley-face happy-chappy! I think why I like her so much could be relative to my special affection for 'paper designers.' Not all her work is paper but a lot of it is and I think her take on it is so FRESH! I mean, as much as I love Su Blackwell I've seen enough damn 'Alice In Wonderland'-esque pieces to last a few editorial seasons...

So that is all from this Blog-child; I'm sure my neuroses will sort themselves out soon enough and flare up about something totally different Quick. As. A. Bee. so don't you worry! 'til then... FLY MY PRETTIES, FLY!