Surreptitious sneakings of surprise

This is how I would wear colour too.  Understated hints peeing through from the depths of a dark warm winter jacket. All my main man needs to do here is wear his hood up and it'd be parfait! 

Winter Wonderland Wishlist

After two days of rain I've resigned myself to the fact that summer is finally over.  Less daylight, horizontal rain, damp chucks after walking across the football field.

Winter, however, means  mulled wine in small bars, electric blankets left on three all night, flannelet everything, slow cooker casseroles and sitting in front of the fire at my parents eating apple crumble and ice cream. 

Attire wise, winter is a damn good excuse to don one's opaque tights every day (70 denier just doesn't work on a sunny day), chunky scarfs all up in your face, cold ears kept warm by beanies crocheted by your mum, and my absolute favourite, MITTENS.

I wish that all of these were mine,

as then I'd be looking mighty fine. 

Twenty Seven Names

Juliette Hogan

Karen Walker

Lonely Hearts

Nom D

Stolen Girlfriends Club

Sophie Burrows

Karen Walker Eyewear

Yeah, so there's not much sun.  Meh.  They're just too beautiful to not want. 

Senor Fat Cat

Cats are the funniest animal on this planet.  

How could you be sad, shitty, upset, down, bored, lonely or tetchy looking at Senor Fat cat here?  I certainly couldn't.

"MrrrroawcatfoodgivemecatfoodIcanseeitwithmylittlecateyesimreallyhungrymraowmraowmroawmroawiwontstopmraowingtillyoufeedmeeeemraaaowjellymeat".

I talk to my cat when I see him.  I often get caught by the neighbours launching into a full blown impression of him.  In most instances it's as he stands beside me while I try to unlock the kitchen door, edging into my legs trying to get in first, thinking he has me fooled with his little show of love before he zip zap zooms in as soon as the lock clicks.  My impression consists of one continuous long droning sound; it starts out low and undulates, weaving and winding in and out of various off pitch, nail on chalkboard octaves before petering off into a faint purr in the distance.  I've got it down to a fine art if I do say so myself.  No behind the hedge mutterings or peering glances through doily curtains is going to curb my enthusiasm.  

In the door finally

Monday 

colourful people

colourful cats

And then a bit of both

xx

Vada Via

Scribble me glorious

Sasha Pivovarova photographed by Craig McDean

Interview February 2010

Emerging Designers

A few shots from the show of some of my favourite bits and pieces x

Chris Sullivan - Seen in Dunedin

My wee camera 

Emelie Johannson: 'You Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve' - very fortunately this photo does justice to the stunningly beautiful colours she used in her collection.  I'm coveting a pair of the marbled tights something terrible. 

Chris Sullivan- Seen in Dunedin

Glenn Yungnickel: 'In the Red' - Again, I love the colour.  Glenn hand dyed all his own fabrics.  Such a clean collection.  I love the dual tone panels on the jackets. 

Chris Sullivan - Seen in Dunedin

Ryota Shiga: 'A I'- I LOVE the outfit on the front right.  I actually asked Ryota outright if I could buy it off him.  I think he had to use it for another competition but fingers and eyelashes crossed it will come to me one day and I can embrace my Azian tendencies in the utmost of style xx

Chris Sullivan - Seen in Dunedin

Laura Marshall: 'Men in Men's Clothing' - Laura used doyleys!  Of all things!  And made them look AWESOME. FOR GUYS. (Yes, enough with the fragmented sentences)  Now if she would just make a womens wear collection please.

Chris Sullivan - Seen in Dunedin

Sophie Hardy: 'Possession Obsession' - I am in love with this collection.  Sophie makes dressing all in one colour look so effortless and sophisticated. 

Finale, Finito!

xx

Turn around

A gaze be damned, the mirror be bound.

Lost treasure lost,

 never found.

I heart Hermione

Thunderc(l)ubbing

Thundercub, who I wrote about last month here, enjoyed a wee success recently.  Their song "Sex on Jupiter" was chosen to be used as the intro music for the 2010 iD Dunedin fashion show.  Yeah boys!

Tonight they'll be playing at a house party in support of Jeffrey Lewis.  Nothing like a good old house party.  Cask wine, couples feeling each other up in dark corners, a drunk chubby guy throwing up in the garden.  To be young, amorous and pissed. 

As Suzy P's telling us, if you're interested in Thundercub, check out the video below from Off the Cuff.  The project of a talented young man by the name of Daniel Alexander, it's a great mix of interview and performance footage; the tangents the boys go are hilarious, especially DJ's Banana, peanut butter and golden syrup sandwich in relation to the process of making music.  





The Biff Merchants were also involved in the project and are definitely worth checking out.  Fingers crossed Daniel's looking into continuing the project with other Dunedin/New Zealand bands xx

Great Scott!

So far this week has been crazy busy.  In between blogging for Runway Passport, modelling in the 'Back to the Future' show run by the Op Shop on Carroll Crew (ie Presbyterian support), interviewing some of the local and international designers for articles, helping out with preparations for the iD fashion show and doing my normal job, there's few precious moments to just sit down and enjoy the simple things, like Home and Away (yes, I love to hate to love it).  I really wouldn't have it any other way though.  So enough rambling, here are a few photos from the mischief I've been getting up to the last few days. Over and out [ccccccsshhhh].

It's tough being beautiful.

(Back to the Future Fashion show)

Ryota (Japan) preparing his girl's for juduging

(Emerging Designers Judging)

Every day should be one filled with diamante nails darling.

(Emerging Designers judging - Ryota, Japan)

Love love love

(Emerging Designers judging - Anne-Mieke Ystma)

They better be smiling with their eyes

(Emerging Designers show - Siobhan Moroney)

I want Zhandra Rhodes to be my grandma.

(Emerging Designers - Winner Igor Galas & Judges)

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