primadonna

i'm thisss excited about the debut issue of prim magazine dropping..

editor Kristen has been behind the scenes, compiling the online magazine for us to feast our eyes on.

and with a community of bloggers and journos, photographers, vintage thrift queens, street stylers, well known bands and a strict ban on table dancing it girls, i have more than a strong feeling that Prim is set to be your (and my!) cup of tea.

the profile of online magazines is now on the rise signalling a very interesting change in direction for journalism. my magazine stylist fantasties maybe hanging in then balance and I'm waiting in anticipation, but it looks like the online magazine may well be the way of the future and i'm excited to cop a look at the zine's offspring.

i shall leave it there before i get all fashion sci-fi, and create images of i-robot style mannequins and models taking over the world. oops, i just did.

the "location" (ahem, thats URL to you and me) is still undisclosed until the release (1st April), but check out the magazine's myspace page for up to the minute updates.

Prim Magazine:

www.myspace.com/thisisitmagazine

and uhh, just a hint, you might want to flick around and find the columnists page. i hear things are looking up after the downhill turn columns took after carrie b kind of died.

he, i kid!

when it rains, it pours

who knew that alexander wang's denim trousers had a waterproof finish?
solving the jean/rain dilemma and taking genius to a whole new level.

busybusy

work, the birthday get together of an old friend, a trip to the local art centre, a poke around the record shop..

i love weekends.

i'll be back soon to post and reply to comments.

have a good one yourselves!

pictured: the paris vogue team. put your hands up if you want to be part of this family.

carine and julia , emmanuelle, melanie and also mario s.

pic: jak and jill

Virgins Play Dress Up

Coco is right. The Kirsten Dunst void must be filled.
By Kiki herself, not some 19 year old "Hottest Newcomer in Hollywood".

So I waited around a while for something to materialise.
Tapped my fingers up and down on the table.
Wrote a list while I waited.

And then it happened.
This delightful yet over so teensy bit dark (or is that the monochrome?) video popped up on Dazed's page.
Directed by Ellen Von Unwerth.
But even better; styled by the fantabulous Leith Clark.
Turns out it was a short for Erin Fetherston (yawwn) back in '06.

Kirsten and The Like-esque patients channel drowsy Louis Vuitton Nurses until they stumble across a magical dressing up box.

Slightly Virgin Suicides reminiscent in terms of childlike sisterhood, except these girls look kind of cherrypopped. Not a verb, but should be.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/features/birds-eye-view-film-festival/

soft nature/ugly urban

i know i'm not the only one who occasionally will be lead down a path of lovely links and inspiration when wandering through the micro-universe that is myspace. and for me one of these delightful trails lead to the page of solo act Golden Mallets where these images gave me much enjoyment.

i know, this post isn't fashion related (a first!) but surely the prettiness of the contrasting rural/urban scenes is worth sharing.

myspace.com/goldenmallets

nightbird revisited/

familiar?

and we all heart lara stone

i love lara stone.
in magazines, she's this glossy, angry woman, a smoker with big boobs, who looks like she is quite capable of beating you up.

but then she hits the runway with her trademark wobbly walk and when she opens her mouth it's a surprise to hear she sounds like a teenage boy.




oh and the ultimate reason to love her?
she got kicked out of school aged 16 and sent away to paris by her mum because she was "trouble"

uhhh, her mum thought paris was a punishment?
wow, i'm so going to post a myspace bulletin about having a house party and see if i get sent to paris for being trouble, too!

girl, i love you!

and i always kind of imagined her as american even though she clearly isn't/

petite mademoiselle (perfecte)

clemence poesy in german magazine zoo.

we've seen her looking better, but that just shows her greatness.

the sixth picture is the best in my eyes. et toi?

[small pictures]

picture source, tFs

Quote of the Day

'We're French! We smoke, we show flesh, we have a lot of freedom ... ' - Carine Roitfeld

She's a fucking genius.

Ps, Uhmm, Carine in a hoodie and jeans? Love it.

Happy Saturday.

Sevigny Said What and F loads of Facts

If you're feeling like a particular magazine nerd, be sure to read below for F loads of useless but lovely facts and the answers to the "Say What" post.

It was Chloe Sevigny that said this about her Daddy "Always wore a trench coat, always wore hats... he was still very masculine, and very manly and rough and tumble, but still very elegant at the same time."

If there's anyone out there who inherited their style from a bow tied, sock suspender wearing sailor, it had to be her, didn't it?

Well, I thought it was a pretty hard question, but lots of you got it right (see, i knew font nerds read this blog..)

1.) the clue "you'll be sent to the Gallos, Kids!" was a reference to one time collaborator director Vincent Gallo and Kids was tacked on at the end to drop a hint about her first film.

2.)And then anyone really in the know, may have nodded their head in smugness that the song "Daddy never understood" which was on the music player is also in kids.

3.) The quote came from an interview with Chloe Sevigny by Humberto Leon for i-D magazine. Chloe was also Photographed by David Armstrong and styled by Benjamin Sturgill.

4.) Well done to sunni muchacha, d e n i z, Lola Eliza., flashy_shades, marie-kristine, editor and thesearchforchic who all answered correctly, you clever folk!

5.) but allure revealed her true nerd credentials and you're right, you are a "super freak" but we love you for it.

5.) if all of this is going over your head, click here for the original post

6.) Now playing: bennie and the jets by elton john

Additives

I am sick of the word "accessories".

It makes me think of lone earrings separated from their other half in the summer sales, and dodgily patterned silk neck scarves.

So I've come up with a suitable alternative.

Additives. Think of throwing some additives into your outfit as a joy, it's the style equivalent of skipping to the pic 'n' mix stand at your local Woolworths and throwing some pink shrimps and cherry lips into your paper bag.

Additives are organic (no, not those additives) and give the finger to the matchy matchy connotations that accessories have. No, my sunglasses most certainly do not coordinate with my shoes and bag, cheers.

Did I sell you my new expression? Anyone got the number for the bespectacled guys at Oxford Dictionary?

Say What?

Can you guess which ladee is talking about her daddy?
..you'll need to click on the image.





Extra points if you correctly answer the magazine (only font nerds will know!)


Oh, so you need a clue? Well, it's won't be a nice one, because if you get this one wrong..
you'll be sent to the Gallos, Kids!

post comments in the post below, yess.

now playing: daddy never understood by folk implosion

Abbey Lee: Dancing Nymph in an urban setting

It often seems that (generalising coming up..) amongst all these hoards of east european models that have been relentlessly hitting the catwalk, it's hard to match a name to a face and it's even more difficult decipher any kind of personality beyond "heyy, i'm just a beautiful face, that's alll..".

So when a model comes along who's a little different, with a wacky spring in their step or bubblegum in their mouth you know there's something about them.

It has struck me before that COACD often champion this type of girl, snapping poloroids of them goofing about in turtle shaped sunglasses or hiding behind potted plants.

Abbey Lee is like the Australian version of Darla Barker. But blonde. And cooler. And as if she wasn't lovable enough, she has a gap in her teeth.

but you want to know a secret? it's her birthday in a couple of months. she'll be 21, but she's actually being "marketed" as a 17 years old. That's how the fashion industry rolls, kids!

The following mini-torial is from The Sunday Times Style Magazine (UK) a couple of weeks back, and thought it was rather cute.

Postscript

Just a quick note to say, thank you very much for the comments on the last post.

Gave me a nice confidence boost and a big goofy smile to hear some of your thoughts.

And rather funny that some of you imagined me as a blonde.. it's bizarre that we all build up mental images of other bloggers isn't it?

Until I saw a picture of Coco, I imagined her looking like Selma Blair with a cute pixie cut.

The Fashion's Coolest Couples post is takin longer than I'd hoped; mainly because I'm having troubles with resizing my pictures. So that's still in the pipeline.

Also..breaking news.. it seems that Ms Sevigny is set to be Nylon's next cover start. Yay or Nay?

What Nylon say.. Then April brings a certain style icon with a TV series, a clothing line, and a perfume campaign. Can you guess who she is?

Semms a bit odd that she hasn't starred on a cover of theirs before, she pretty much is Ms Nylon, but I'm worried about the amount of magazines her pretty face is popping up in. Did she ever hear of overexposure? Don't do it, Chloe! I can't lose you, too!