Hedi Slimane's Photo-Frenzy... Me-likey!

So, elsewhere on Dazed Digital, I find something much nicer... Hedi Slimane's photos of London Teens. Amazing images.

I want to BE one of these girls... Please. Pretty Please. Pretty Please with Cherries on top!

I also made a collage of the best... JUST LOOK at that smouldering boy in the bottom left.YUM! (Is it just me or does he look a bit like Robert Pattinson from Twilight / HP?)

You MUST check it out... I wish I could take photos like this. They are going to haunt my dreams for WEEKS! And not just because I a) want those lace dresses, b) want a fringe like the girl third along, top row and c) want a boy like the one bottom left! ;-D

Note to self: try and find a January issue of Dazed and Confused... Damn me for being on an economy drive and not buying it!!! :-(

Xxxc

Barbour... Mixed Thoughts

In another fit of procrastination, I headed to Dazed Digital and chanced upon a story about SS09 Barbour... And ICK! 

The only thing I remotely like is the women's polo shirt, as it reminds me of my school netball shirts - in a nostalgico-kick kinda way - but even that is actually not particularly wearable, in my humble opinion... 

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm actually one of those wierd people who thinks Barbour jackets are cool (though I don't own one) and love the smell of them (waxy and yummy)... But WTF?!?! They just look cheap and far too try hard.

AND to make matters worse, they then go and describe the collection as this:

Use of the crest as part of the latest Barbour range is a definitive nod by the clothing house at the Brit prep culture, a quintessentially English lifestyle revolving around historical universities like Oxford and Cambridge, sports like polo and croquet and heavily influenced by affluent British families holidaying in the costal areas such as Cornwall and Northumberland.

Oxbridge? My arse. Anything like that round here is consigned to stash and thus is only worn on the sports field or when nursing a hangover... Noone wears it outside Cam unless they're proud of their sporting achievements more than they give a monkey's about their appearance!

Sorry, but it's hideous.

Ok. Rant over. Look at these lovely pictures of old style Barbour, before it's "makeover" (bleeeeeuuughhhh!)

Ok. I feel a bit better now... Especially after the chictopia outfit from jaja's chic blog made me happy :-D

Xxxc

Freaky Test Thing

Ok, so going through my blog reader, I stumbled upon a reference to Colorgenics, a personality test which tells you things about how other people see you based on colours 'you feel most in harmony with'... 

All but one blindingly wrong paragraph was spookily accurate, according to several of my bemused mates... 

Apparently I strive to make a good impression, like to understand how people react to stimuli, am decisive, proud and an emotional risk-phobe, and have 'strength of mind' enough to be 'true managerial material'. 

Haha. Good thing I'm (*cross fingers*) doing the Management Studies Tripos next year!

Have a go! 

Xxxc

Inspired by the Classical... Again

So, I'm sitting in the library, desperately trying to focus on this essay, and I find this mosaic...

OH THE COLOURS!!!

Really randomly, it clicks off a brain-link to an old Carolina Herrera collection I keep in my head purely for I-Want-The-Perfect-Silvery-Blue-Trousers-Like-This and J'Adore-Gold-Leaf-On-Dresses reasons... Fall 04 I believe.

Sigh... Procrastination over. Back to 'Etruscomania'...

Xxxc

M by MJ makes me want Autumn to be here again...

Since Cambridge is a city through which artic winds, that would be at home in Siberia, continually blow, from October through April, I truly loved the Marc by Marc Jacobs collection... 

It just LOOKED warm!

I can so imagine wrapping up in one of these outfits, Mary-Cassatt-style  sitting out under a tree, at midnight, in the slightly chilly, crisp not wet bit of autumn, toasting marshmallows over a camping stove, and trying to read by torchlight... (Yes, I actually do that!)

It was a return to grunge in a way, but the tartans and layering were not the ultimate touches for me... Those were the lace, the huge scarfs and the billowing trousers tucked into boots. The colour combinations are also going to haunt me for MONTHS! Be still my beating heart. 

 

And I SO want those knee patch tights... I'm thinking turquoise tights, cut up orange ones and LOTS OF UHU!!! ;-D

Oh for autumn leaves, hiking in the woods, and more than 3 months to exams... Sigh.

Xxxc

LOVE!!!

Marc by Marc Jacobs shoes, new in at Endless.com. A snip at $249.95! ;-D

Ok, so I probably can't buy them, but they're Oh So Cute in an Emily Strange-esque, Emo kinda way... Would blatantly make them sooper-saccharine-sweet or wear them with tweed!!! Hehe.

Xxxc

Oh How I Want To DIY

Philip Lim 3.1 catwalk show... Pics at Style.com

For some wierd reason that I don't really understand, I LOVE these Lim loafers.


SO ripe for a DIY!


Slippers (resole) at endless.com, studs at studsandspikes.com
If only I had more time...

Xxxc