Australia

Oscar and Lucinda  1998

My new favourite quasi-Australian film. Ralph Fiennes is a vision of porcelain skinned, red-headed beauty. I don't think that any of the photos do justice. And a nice story too.....

[Lauren]

Good Acne

Obsessed with wedges by Acne. Want WEDGES!

[Lauren]

Romanovs

Fall 2009 Chanel

[Lauren]

Almost Pants

Love Carine Roitfeld

[Lauren]

Fairytale in the Supermarket

Last night I had a dream, that I served Serge Gainsbourg and Kate Moss at the supermarket checkout. Try living off energy drink for more than one week, it does amazing things for your subconscious.

[Lauren]

Shakespeare and Company

Shakespeare and Co. Antiquarian Books, Paris

Can you have a bookgasm? I think I could. There is something so welcoming to me about the smell of old books and the feeling of being walled in by them. Shakespeare & Co. would smell amazing, I just want to go there and breathe it in. This is how I want the interior decoration of my house, chaos, books everywhere lining the walls. It feels fabulous to be surrounded by so much wisdom. This would be a great location for a fashion shoot. Remember Funny Face?

[Lauren]

Le Baiser

Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville Robert Doisneau 1950

[Lauren]

Pretty in Pink

I really love this kind of pink in hair. Like fairyfloss (it looks edible). I think I might try it one day, in the near future. I especially love her hair in Marie Antoinette. I would have to redecorate my surroundings to match my hair.

[Lauren]

Linus Larrabee

My two new favourite films: All About Eve (1950) and Sabrina (1954). Check them out, they are truly amazing. I never truly understood bitch untilI saw All About Eve. And Audrey's Givenchy wardrobe in Sabrina is beautiful.

"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"

"Paris isn't for changing planes, it's for changing your outlook. For throwing open the windows and letting in...letting in la vie en rose"

[Lauren]

Second Skin

I have always been attracted to flesh coloured clothing, flowers, ribbons.... everything... as my (amazing)photographer J found out yesterday when I impulse-purchased fleshy sequined fabric that I now have to add to the list of things to make out of fabric I didn't need(a very long list- 7 bags-full, actually).

I also bought lots of fleshy/apricot toned fabric for my current assignment for uni, which has loads of detail in it, but because of the fleshy tones I can totally get away with it. Anyway, I thought I'd post my first work pictures, my gathered flesh dress and butterfly on fire, both of which I made for my sister.

And to make this post even longer- some Marios Schwab for you.

elyse

Bollyfashion

I think Lauren and I have both been hit by the Springtime bug(and I use that term loosely, because Melbourne's spring includes 35 degree heat, thunderstorms and clouds for miles).... COLOURSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I have loved Manish Arora since his Spring/Summer 2007 collection with the butterflies on the lips and the whole whimsical, garden of earthly delights-esque details, and I have been following his collections since then and his use of the many wonderful textile technologies available to him in India is amazing. He is the poster child for the Indian fashion industry's growth, I think. If there is anyone else out there using every possible textile processes in their country, I have yet to find them, but Manish is showcasing not only his own talent, but the possibilities of working with the Indian textile industry.
Love.

elyse

Jean Charles de Castelbajac

I want to party Jean Charles de Castelbajac style. These creations repulse me but also attract me at the same time.

[Lauren]

Sequins

Ever since I saw Juliette Lewis wearing skinny sequined pants (not leggings) on the Graham Norton show months ago I have craved them. Unfortunately I cannot afford these ones by Day Birger and Mikkelsen but.....

By the way the cemetery tour was good, great atmosphere including thunder and lightning overhead but...then it rained (heavily). I have to go back and take photos. It really reminded me of being in Peré Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

[Lauren]

Romance is Beautiful

Home, I am at home on Halloween, doing homework and listening to Home by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, who are my new favorite band. The clip is so cute and I have a feeling that is exactly what I would be like if I was in a band.

My homework requires me to document fashion through the ages(1880-today) and it's influences, and I have been discovering so many new things, one of my favorites being Romanticism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood(which Lauren blogged about with a beautiful John William Waterhouse painting). I am totally head over heels for the following paintings:

John William Waterhouse - Lady of Shallot 

 

John William Waterhouse - Gather ye Rosebuds while ye can 

 

Edward Burne Jones - The Beguiling of Merlin 

 

John Everett Millais - Cherry Ripe

It's really funny how most of the painters in the Brotherhood painted Shakespeare's Ophelia...

 

John William Waterhouse - Ophelia

  

John Everett Millais - Ophelia

 I love the intensity of the colour in these paintings, they are so romantic and beautiful. I want my summer wardrobe to feature all of these colours- rose, fleshy pinks, grey blues, lush greens and stark whites... Almost like these collections... *This pink is the colour of my dress that I'm creating for my last assignment

 

 

 

Stella McCartney Spring 2010

Givenchy

 

Dries(makes me want to travel)

 

 

Chalayan

I wonder how Lauren's cemetery tour is going?

elyse