My Leather Wish List

[Left-to-right, Burberry Prorsum, Marni, Comme Des Garcons Homme Plus]

Basically I'm mad about Leather and I want all of this. NOW. But before I can have a Freja-esque wardrobe of Leather goods I'll need some money...

Ain't No Place Like Paris

1.Ricardo Tisci for Givenchy

NEWSFLASH Layering black leather jackets is in... like MEGA in for next fall (which is just as well seeing as it'll probably be FREEZING) it also gives me another idea for saturday (more on that later)
2. Comme Des Garcons, Rei Kawabuko

Rei K is a babe, and this collection (in great contrast to her last) makes me all happy and fuzzy inside. The 30 Years of Japanese Fashion exhibition I went to last year might as well have been called the "Rei Kawabuko is a Babe" exhibition because it was practically all Comme des Garcons stuff... well, with a bit of Issey Miyake mixed in... anyway I thought that this collection was the most reminiscent of her earlier work, it's playful and light. And I think she's actually had it made a criminal offence to wear one of the pieces from this collection without Gold hair...
3. Gareth Pugh

Gareth Pugh rules my world, and this season he ventured into the unknown... COLOUR! And he really ran with it! He's done stuff with metallics in the past but electric blue!? it's so out of left field! and I believe that he's created the most elegant dresses of Paris so far with those flowing capes; the black and blue one is my favorite... Pugh jackets are, in my mind, as monumental as their Chanel counterparts. I actually saw someone walking down Park Lane in the same one as Lady Gaga and I very nearly threw myself at her screaming: "YOU HAVE THE GREATEST TASTE!" but I didn't seeing as I was with my gran at the time and she would've told my mum... 

Maybe it's presumptuous of me to do a 'best collections' post on PARIS before Chanel tomorrow; but hey; if it's monumental (if? hah!) I'll do a big ol' post about it and tell you just how jealous I am of my best friend's J12... GREEN with envy.

Instead of getting a normal camera...

Why would you get a normal, boring little red Nikon when you could get a camera that does a 360 degree photo of the entire room? or one that's made out of... LEGO?!

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!