| Venturing Out |
[23 Dec 2009|04:35am] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StyleBubble/~3/OF9lAvKV65M/venturing-out.html >> There's a few more days of staying put at home cosied up in my Gap knitted slippers but when January comes around, it will probably still be chilly chilly but I'll be out and about (travelling around the world to be precise...Paris-Florence-Sao Paolo all in Jaunary) and I'll be needing some cold warrior gear. The offerings of muted clothes that are itching to be layered up for venturing out into the crisp air complete with scarves, chunky boots and mittens continues with Topshop's latest set of collaborations with their stable roster of designers...
First up Jonathan Saunders and his take on mixed denim. I've done the mixed denim blues a few times but the light olive, black and indigo combo makes the mixed denim effect less detectable and far more subtle. I'm somehow feeling the matchy matchy ness of the bustier and skirt together...
I also love this devore geometric print on this dress that looks like it would be great for pulling over the knees when you're sitting with your knees up to your chin...
Ann Sofie Back (Yay! She's showing again at LFW in Feb!) has replicated the ripped motif from her ' Boo' A/W 09 collection into these ripped up sweatshirts, vests and dresses... a way more refined version of the bits of denim 'tails' that used to hang off the back off my very baggy, crappy jeans...
(Prices for Topshop x Jonathan Saunders' range £30-£50, for Topshop x Ann-Sofie Back's range £50-£70. Both in-store and online from January 6th 2010) |
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| Wheelin' Around |
[22 Dec 2009|12:53pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StyleBubble/~3/92y1xVB0yi8/wheelin-around.html >> I didn't get many toys as a child and it seems like I'm trying to desperately make up for this in my old age. I'm not usually one for 'gadgets', the word already conjuring up useless office desk toys, cheap blinking LED lights and general hunks of plastic that don't do much except to create more toxic fumes in the world. Only in a moment of madness during this Festive period did I manage to convince myself that this Shoe Wheel by Rakku could be the answer to all of my problems, the design solution where I could happily front a positive testimonial to in an infomercial. So I gifted myself this heap of flat pack plastic and screws in a bid to a) have some sort of a toy to play with - you'd be surprised how much joy I get from flat-pack anything and b) it's a feeble attempt at compacting my shoes into a space because there are only so many times I can pull the line "But my shoes are like objects! It's ok to have them strewn around the living room!" with Steve. The shoe wheel that was mean to fit 20-30 pairs of shoes (???) racked up 14 pairs of my shoes, which is fair enough given there are some monster heels in there. But the best thing about this less-than-pretty object is the spinning factor. If I was impressed by a cardboard box when I was six, then perhaps my toy instincts are catching up with me and a crappy bit of plastic spinning around is like...waaaaay cool... and for some reason, all I can think of is...Playbus! What's the sign on the lollipop????
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| Retrogading the 90s |
[21 Dec 2009|02:03pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StyleBubble/~3/BmbEeEcM9PQ/retrogading-the-90s.html  Everyone is getting in on the 'Let's look back on the decade' palava in addition to the usual 'end of year' round ups. 'Best of the Noughties', 'Noughties Review', 'What the first decade of the new millennium did for us' etc etc...
In my head, the year 2000 only seems like yesterday and thus looking back on the noughties in retrospect is a bit bizarre when so many things are still fresh and bubbling up at the top of the brain's cauldron. Actually, come to think of it, the 90s, containing my tender teenage/formative years also, only seems like yesterday but I think when I received this invitation to a 90s' Vintage event that will be held at Selfridges in conjunction with Rokit and Beyond Retro in January, it finally thrusted the nail in that decade's coffin. That the 90s wasn't 'only yesterday', that in fact, it was over ten years nearly twenty years (see what I mean about me forgetting that the noughties happened?) ago and that I've grown a lot older than I thought I had in my head. The event at Selfridges is really I guess meant to be an affirmation that the 90s as a period can now be considered somewhat 'old'.
In the typical referential nature of cycles that run in fashion, things were already starting to head in that direction anyway and for the past years, little nuances referencing the '90s' have been dotted about in various guises on the catwalks. The real fact of the matter is though, that people who were barely toddlers in the 90s are now able to pick out items of clothing and say very briskly "Oh, that's so 90s!", thus referring to the decade as if it were something before their time, something remote and distant. I'm not sure where these 90s impressions come from if not from pure memory but perhaps the re-runs of Saved by the Bell, Beverley Hills, ye olde Google Images and seminal films like Clueless etc help things out.
But what of the peeps who do remember that period in time and I'm not just talking about my generation either. It seems like all decades get attributed with style cliches. Sixties = miniskirts. 70s = flower power. 80s = legwarmers etc etc etc. Of course, any person living through each particular period will know that each decade throws up a plethora of style variations with lesser-known sub-cultures, micro-trends perhaps going undocumented. The internet will certainly lay bare the amount of stuff we were into during the noughties, so much so someone will probably build some sort of Wikipedia-like compendium. The 90s falls in that tricky in-between period and I'm hoping it doesn't go the way of decades before where pork pie hats, bomber jackets and Brit-pop parkas become the 90s cliched signposts.
Not being in any way representative of the 'generation of the 90s', I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you recall of the 90s. You can leave comments here or email me. It could also be an image too or perhaps an outfit made up of pieces from the 90s' that no doubt fill racks of many vintage stores today. (Please send images to twinkle260@hotmail.com)
For me personally, it was a pretty tumultuous decade that started with fake Disney printed tracksuits forced upon me by my mother (my sister had matching ones in a different colour...) and ended with pretty much the foundations of my personal style that hasn't really shaken much in spirit since 2000. By that, I mean that by the time I was 16/17, my attitude towards style was geared towards the sole aim of making myself happy. Somewhere in the years spent at an extremely enclosed girls' school environment, I started being fed on an inspiration stream of Camden markets, J-17, Japanese/Hong Kong magazines, Claudia Kishi, shopping in Hong Kong and DIY tutorials found in old Bunty annuals that I bought from jumble sales. Pragmatically speaking, I had also developed an affection for skirts over trousers and discovered that layering was one way of counter-acting the fact that I didn't have a 'sexy bod'. So the 'spirit' of my 90s memories results in something like this... an updated version of what I wore involving quite a few items originating from the 90s, what with all the charity/vintage fodder accumulated in the noughties that of course could only really be classified as 90s second hand rejects.
 (Vintage tweed blazer, vintage plaid shirt, vintage stripy top, vintage polka dot satin trousers, Cacharel skirt, plaid Doc Martens, Yokoo cowl)
 (Uniqlo stripy top, vintage 90s floral lace body, vintage floral trousers from Market Publique, Miss Sixty net skirt from charity shop, H&M knee highs, Vivienne Westwood Rocking Horse rubber platforms)
So, yes contributions please if you do happen to physically recall that decade... and well, for the peeps who can't remember a thing, perhaps if this blog still exists in ten years time, I'll have the urge to recall the noughties...
*I do realise that it's a bit crass of me mentioning Clueless without of course saying the obvious... RIP Brittany Murphy. I don't wish to bestow an outpour of false affection but it has to be noted here, that her famous Tai line from Clueless, "You're a virgin who CAN'T DRIVE!" did forever haunt my formative years up until I err... wasn't a virgin anymore. I still can't bloody drive though! |
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| Araks Does Pretty |
[20 Dec 2009|02:41pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StyleBubble/~3/D3RlE8LbBUc/araks-does-pretty.html >> I think I may have doth protested too soon when I said I wasn't a fan of Tumblr-style image blogs because as I stumbled across lingerie designer Araks' inspiration blog (from which the background images of this collage came from), I did think that it would be a great thing indeed if all of my favourite designers took two minutes each day to post up a flow of inspiration images. I'd then analyse them with waaaay too much depth and probably end up attributing things to the designers that don't have an ounce of truth to them. Still, I'm sure we'd all appreciate seeing a stream of image fodder that feeds the people we talk and read about in fashion, even if it is a wordless stream of consciousness, open to interpretation. Araks' image blog is decidedly eclectic but you can definitely see some roots of her delicate and simple approach to lingerie as well as elements of her ready to wear (I'm feeling all the moulded rounded shoulders in her S/S 10 collection). 
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| It's Cold Outside |
[20 Dec 2009|10:54am] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StyleBubble/~3/DiSy8NNWarM/itscoldoutside.html All the external signs are there. The Eurostar has been stuck for 16 hours plus in the Channel tunnel. Easyjet flights have been grounded. Motorways are chocker-block. Roads are slippy. Trains are delayed. My cheeks are threatening to go all floopy in the cold. Yes, the big freeze has forced me to do nothing but revel in central heating, endless cups of tea, needlessly fiddle about with home Chrimbo decorations and revel in my assortment of sofa softies (Emma Cook cushion, APC Madras patchwork quilt and Gap knitted slippers - thanks EJ!). Not that err... Eurostar, Easyjet or motorways are anything to do with me but that's not the point! It's all going to malfunctioning pot out there and I'm staying put. End of.
 
It's therefore highly invevitable that whilst at home, I'd go to my dependable sartorial home comfort. Yes, it's that old chestnut again. The grey jersey that so long as this blog exists, will always find SOME way of snaking its way onto the blog somehow whether it's relevant or not. First off, all the million and millions of lightyears away from The Moon and Mars (actually based in Scotland but even that seems millions of miles away considering the travel conditions at present...), this Teamo top is the grey jersey that wants to make some noise. If I stand in front of the Christmas tree and wiggle my shoulders about, I could very well be a one-man-jingle-bells-carol singer.
 
I confess, these Vivienne Westwood rocking horse platforms did take flight outside into the real world today but the added wings on the shoes did give me Hermes-strength to trudge home quicker than norm.
 
Even when I did venture outside (actually, it wasn't out of choice... I've once again left my Christmast shopping to the last weekend...), the shops were also telling me that I should be staying put at home. In Whistles, where I was supposed to be shopping for others, my eyes kept darting towards multiple pieces of grey jersey goodness. Skirt, trousers, sweatshirts (long and short)... they well and truly have the GJ stuff totally covered (with a lot of it on sale too right now). So along with gifts for other people, I also had to gift myself the zipper sweatshirt and skirt to add to the GJ kitty. I'm happy to be a sad home wallflower if I'm constantly blending myself into a Muji sheeted background with the central heating on.
In all honesty, I did hold back on the GJ buys in Whistles because both S/S 10 and current sale stock both have a lot of offer, that adhere to the specifics of grey jersey as well as grey loveliness in general. All pieces are of course, fit to be seen outside in because of the injected deets that the store seems to have made a conscious effort to inject since Jane Shepherdson has been helming the creative direction. The knitwear at the bottom aren't strictly grey or jersey but I had to throw them in the collage just to illustrate the awesome emphasis on interesting deets like the metal rings in the Simone Schailes-esque jumper and the textural patchworking in the hand knitted sweater.
I promise, I won't lock all this GJ away from external forces. I'm just waiting for the ice to melt...
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| Saturday |
[19 Dec 2009|02:24pm] |
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Anything!
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| Dolly Cape |
[19 Dec 2009|11:35am] |
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http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/12/dolly-cape.html As work is winding down and my time is freeing up, rather than concentrating on the recipe to the perfect roast potato (no point really as Style Salvage Steve has the formula DOWN to perfection), I'm instead going to be playing catch up with posts that have been hanging around my desktop for FAR too long. To take them beyond 2009 would frankly be a travesty to the very nature of blogging.
So Anna Heylen. Dolls. Antwerp. Right, Antwerp... wasn't it yoooooooooonks ago that you went there, Susie? You would be right and every other blogger who took part on the Antwerp Shopping Trail has covered this already but I a) wanted to salute the dolls that hang on the walls of Antwerp-based designer Anna Heylen's store (and maison) and b) give praise to this ickle cape that I like to swing about like an amateur matador.
It was interesting to learn that long before Barbie got involved in Roksanda Ilincic-clad limited editons or Lanvin had ceramic dolls made up as gifts, Heylen created a set of dolls in 1993 that started off an obsession where the designer can mess about with miniature versions of her clothes. They've also evolved from faceless, hessian-dressed identikit dolls to mutilated ones covered in red latex and now the ones that sit proudly on the feature wall at her store are swathed in luxurious fabrics. There's plenty of great prose that explains her dolls on her website but basically to sum up what her current incarnation of fashion dolls do... "Drowned in their vanity, they examine themselves in the reflection of the mirrors and pearls."
 
 
Unrelated to the dolls, Heylen has a small range entitled "Fur Recuperation", that uses salvaged vintage fur to reform them into different pieces The little strip of re-used fur on this blue pleated cape, which I bought, is just enough of the soft stuff for me though the jacket with this wood-like patternation was also fairly tempting.
It's not a rigid cape as such but the pleats in it keeps it in place so it doesn't floop about too much...
 
(Worn with New Look body, which is still in my possession for now, Swagga and Soul leather trousers, Acne shoes)
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| SHOW me the Shot |
[19 Dec 2009|12:23am] |
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http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/12/show-me-the-shot.html 
I feel really reallly geeky and not at all 'cool' in what I'm about to post. The reigning attitude that people are supposedly 'meant' to uphold in the fashion industry is to be blase, nonchalant and completely unaffected by well, everything. So, probably, for the majority of people who took part in the Nick Knight 100 Portraits i-D shoot, it was nothing whatsoever. Perhaps it was a slot in their schedule, a favour they were doing for someone or not that big a deal at all especially if they're already on first name basis with Mr Knight or have indeed already been shot by him many times over (La Moss...). Some of you may have caught my ten-fifteen minutes with him on SHOWstudio's stream and even through the stream, some of you on Twitter perceived how nice he was. Yes, the man is gentle as anybody you'll ever meet and despite HOW many people he has been shooting continuously over December, not once did he lose patience, sigh or huff/puff despite the fact I am a novice. Yet at the same time, he did push and direct to get to the err...more 'delicate' and 'graceful' side of me. Doh! Two words that I knew were never going to be in my DNA ever since my ballet teacher told me that I was not a natural when I was seven. So my arms were contorted, fingers were outstretched and with the help of a little wooden chair, my legs were also carefully positioned. Sylvie Guillem I am not alas...
However, having seen the contact sheets (can't post here obviously as the issue of i-D doesn't come out until February), I'm shamelessly chuffed... not at my own limb bending skills, but at the beautiful lighting, Nick Knight's direction and a spirit in the images I don't think I've conveyed before on camera. Needless to say I'll be egg-cited when the issue is out... even if I'll probably end up as a thumbnail on a page (they have actually shot over 100 peeps now... they're supremely shoot happy over at Somerset House...).
Post-shoot, I had a walk around the SHOWstudio Fashion Revolution exhibition which I didn't get to have a GOOOOOD look at the first time I went when it was exceedingly crowded. It's actually A LOT better when it is less populated but it is alas, coming to an end this weekend so I'm betting it'll be crowded again. It goes without saying that with the sheer amount of projects that SHOWstudio has undertaken over the past decade, that no matter how much descriptive prose you dedicate to the fashion in motion material you see, that it just doesn't quite do the exhibition justice. I filmed little bits of it just to give a taster but the good thing with the entire exhibition is that everything is still archived online on SHOWstudio and can be experienced in their original habitat all day, any day...
So we have here a mix of a film/installation investigating the sound of clothes (specifically THAT beautiful Balenciaga S/S 06 collection with all that Edwardian-esque lace...), stylist Jane How's sweet wrapper ensembles portrayed in 3D, Julie Verhoeven's naughty toile de jouey print, Gareth Pugh's fash off performances and Comme des Garcons' A/W 05-4 dress process documentation... backed by the soundtrack in my head that I had when I was wafting about the exhibition... Sergei Prokofiev's storming Cindrella finale score...
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| Nifty Stockings |
[22 Dec 2009|10:08am] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StyleBubble/~3/vCBGno8OKEg/nifty-stockings.html >> I'm a crazed woman on a mission to do ALL of my Christmas shopping all in one drop this weekend so I'll be flitting in and out of the blog and the mind will be rampant on wrapping, carding and err ribboning. With gifting tidbits in mind, I give you Natalie Marie Willis' new range of hand-printed tights that are odes to the ladies of East London and their style... so it's anchors, hearts, guns, roses and birds creeping up the back of calves (more pics on her blog)
At £12 a pop, it's not breaking the bank and seeing as I'm feeling especially flush today as I just got paid, I'd like to gift two readers a pair if you can drop me an email to twinkle260@hotmail.com with your name, address and the style of tights you want and.... here comes the fun part...
...an encouraging banner message inspired by Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher's Learning to Love you More project. It's assignment no. 63 but all you peeps who are after the tights have to do is send me the text of the encouraging banner (I'm not actually asking you to MAKE the banner!). My favourite two messages will bagsy the tights... and I'll carry your encouraging message with me into 2010 because there's got to be hope before this decade implodes on itself.
N.B. Yes Natalie's tights are also available at the Swanfield pop-up store in Kingly Court and will also be on Etsy too...
**EDIT** I've already chosen the winners (actually I chose THREE instead of TWO) so thank you for the entries and I will be announcing them soonish. Just to say though that I didn't realise Natalie's Etsy shop was already up and running... so here is the link but I think she is in the process of restocking them. |
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| As Seen On Stream |
[17 Dec 2009|12:14pm] |
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http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/12/as-seen-on-stream.html >> So today, if I'm somewhat absent from the blog it's because a) I'm prepping a heffer of a Christmas feast for friends which requires my full attention and from a more relevant fashion point of view, b) I'm taking part in Nick Knight's 100 Portraits for the March issue of i-D, mirroring the one he did for i-D's 5th Birthday in 1985. Yup, today, alongside Hussein Chalayan, Lara Stone and Simon Foxton (oh dear, just nearly peed myself thinking how embarrasingly wrong this could go...), I will have my portrait taken by Nick Knight and it will be *gulp* streamed live on SHOWstudio (I'm scheduled for 3pm but it might be later than that...). Now I haven't quite done the maths and I guess 100 people is a lot in terms of numbers and thankfully there are a lot of familiar faces in the selection but I still can't quite figure out why on earth I somehow made it to the list... and given that I got a week's notice on this, I'm think it's a case of someone dropping out and me being the filler (that isn't self deprecation by the way, it's just common sense). Still, being 'filler material' for a Nick Knight shoot is no skin off my back and the shoot could perhaps do with some very awkward posing on my part (Bishi is on at the moment and her Union Jack dress is blowing up a storm...). SHOWstudio's Twitter has been detailing proceedings with plenty of updates and Twitpics.... and the list thus far is both terrifying, awe-inspiring and a little random as well... Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Nicola Formichetti, Vivienne Westwood, Riccardo Tisci, Caryn Franklin, Sølve Sundsbø, Stephen Jones, Christopher Kane, Karla Otto, Phoebe Philo, Charlie Porter, Boy George, La Roux and err….Jedward (???) Tune in then if you're at all bothered and can in fact stream vids at work... at around 3ish to see me looking incredibly worried... 
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| Heal Suits |
[16 Dec 2009|11:01pm] |
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http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/12/heal-suits.html I'm glad that the Dressed up for Summer videos gave some of you some much-needed fashion chuckle time but despite all of the little spoofs and skits that Mademoiselle Agnès gets up to, at the core of it, serious points about fashion are being raised and in that particular series, she does try to question and answer in some part "Where are the next generation of French designers?". My favourite parts of those videos were probably the bits where she takes up this quest, going round all the showrooms, tradeshows etc and investigating the new generation (BIG UP Anthony Vaccarello who was also featured, albeit his jacket and swimsuits were given more credit than his 'discourse'). Like I said, it's all very deja-vu-ey for me as I too went traipsing around the Marais hunting out all the showrooms but one I did miss was Heal.
I wrote about Heal last season when they made a very sculptural start that involved a certain lobster dress that made a most striking talking point. From Mademoiselle Agnès's show, I learnt that Heal apparently had lost sponsorship for S/S 10 which may go some way to explaining why for S/S 10 they have considerably toned down the amount of handiwork that makes dresses cost around the £1500 mark. Or perhaps they are consciously going for a more commercial collection that will help them with the buyers and you can't get much more commercial-friendly than stripes. Yarsh. New French label. Does stripes. It's a win-win situation!
Without meaning to diminish Heal's stripes though, they haven't just ploughed through a French cliche and bunged some Breton stripe on some tees. They are a gradiated watercolour stripe and they are just one element of an entire collection which altogether makes me think Heal are trying to put some technicolour into early 20th century swimwear and bathing suits.
 
 
The illustrations that Alice, one half of Heal is reponsible for, still features heavily on the pieces, as well as their investigation into attractive exo-skeletons. However, the shapes that Heal have created for S/S 10 combined with the warped op-art stripes makes me think of a revved up version of the bathing suits of yesteryear. There's also an element that reminds m of Louise Goldin's juicy S/S 08 collection except with less emphasis on knitwear and more on sculpted shapes as well as tropical motifs that be seen in the piped shells and banana leaf applique. All in all, Heal may be down on moolah for the season but they've made a go of contributing to a) the new wave of French designers and b) the activewear reinvention and reinterpretation that S/S 10 is full of.
 
 
 
 
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[18 Nov 2009|11:50pm] |
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What is the biggest lie you live?
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| Hide Your Face, Show Your Feet |
[16 Dec 2009|01:14pm] |
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http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/12/hide-your-face-show-your-feet.html >> There are few shoe designers that I post about where I'm using lookbook images. Most of the time, it's flat pack shots that leave the imagination of onlookers to do the work and envision the rest of the ensemble to go with the shoes. Kron by Kron Kron however do like to take it a step further with their candy pick n' mix shoes that have had me in a flurry ever since I saw them on sweet Saga's inspiring blog. Now that I have a pair in my possession, I'm even more intrigued by what Kron by Kron Kron will do next given that my feet and my spirits stand to benefit from their shoe visions. Saga has once again brought KronKron shoes to life with this extensive shoot of their new collection that was done in Iceland a while back. Whilst my own imagination is perfectly capable of coming up with an outfit that befits KronKron's shoes, these images do provide stunning image fodder for the brain. Everything from the setting, the attitude conveyed by the models and especially the styling does much to define what Kron by KronKron shoes are all about and gives me a lot of insight into how the shoe designers Hugrún Árnadóttir and Magni Þorsteinsson see their own shoes. What with the shoes being quite often conceived as 'sweet' or 'cute', Saga and the designers' direction with these images pushes the shoes into a different context. On a more practical note, their e-store has been rejigged and I think is much-improved, allowing you to carefully make your Kron by KronKron selection. Bewarned, their other wares of Tsumori Chisato, Peter Jensen, Marjan Pejoski, Tata Naka and Yazbukey etc etc may distract you, but let's be honest, it's CLEARLY all about the KronKron feet...
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| Promotion roundup post |
[16 Dec 2009|08:17am] |
• ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) chambers_daily, a daily picture community for Justin Chambers.
• daily_addisex, a daily picture community for Addison/Alex.
• pdempsey_daily, a daily picture community for Patrick Dempsey.
• dempseydaily, a daily picture community for Patrick Dempsey.
• mark_erica, a community for fans of the Mark/Erica pairing.
• erica_leaves, a community for fans of Erica Hahn, with a focus on her life post-Seattle Grace, the exploration of her newly discovered feminine persuasion, and all the "leaves" she encounters out there in the world.
• mark_n_callie, a new community for fans of the Callie/Mark pairing.
• elliemonster, a community for fans of Ellen Pompeo.
• jcap_love, the first community for fans of Jessica Capshaw.
• seasonal_smut is hosting a porn battle for Grey's Anatomy & Private Practice.
• ga_angst_battle is a multi-character fanfiction community that runs on angst-related prompts.
• greysland is an interactive gaming community based on Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice where four teams compete in challenges to win the rounds.
If you have a community of your own that's relevant to the show and want it promoted here (because it hasn't been promoted already), the post to get us to do that for you is here.
Happy holidays!
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| favorite episodes? |
[09 Dec 2009|08:53pm] |
Since there aren't any new episodes on right now, I am planning on watching some old ones. I was wandering what people's favorite episodes are, so I have some ideas on ones to go back and watch again.
Grey's Anatomy <3
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| Contributed |
[15 Dec 2009|04:42pm] |
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http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/12/contributed.html I seem determined this week to litter the blog with a ton of animated GIFS, so much so that your eyes will start getting that tired double lidded thing , similar to when acidic pixels were all over MySpace back in the day (can't quite believe I'm already using 'back in the day' with MySpace...). Still, this is the way that Contributor Magazine have chosen to present their bitesized posts on their haute-blog/e-zine and in their case of frequently uploaded and strangely compelling imagery, it works a treat.
Contributor is contributed to by mainly Swedish contributors (count that word up there...) and it was launched at the last Paris Fashion Week and has been ploughing away with mini-shoots, arresting mono-image posts, and contributors' outfit posts that are not of the conventional WAYWT format. For instance 'Through the looking glass' focuses on Contributor's designer and his understated deets. 'What we're wearing tomorrow' results in haphazard GIFS...
The Beauty shots in particular are quite spectacular... which is abnormal for me to say seeing as me and beauty aren't the best of chums...
I'm also rather taken with key contributor Sara Litzen's visual style insights because a) she seems to have the most immaculately applied red lipstick I've ever come across and b) she has also seemingly bought all of my mother's early 90s reject clothes, the ones which I said no to a few years back and make them look spectacular... velvet padded headbands, oversized coats, many silk blouses etc...
Actually their infatuation with the 90s and mum's old things extends to this GIF here which declares 'You can never have to many old lady accessories"...
... and also an editorial dedicated to the fashion legacy left by Ab-Fab...
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