two of a kind

proof that two girls with concentrated style is always more rewarding:

foto decadent, vogue, tfs, google, stylesightings, noirblancetrougepartout, wildfox, saganendalausa

chris moore

happy friday.
back soon, i promise!

hip hip hooray

When the Katie Holmes for Miu Miu ads were revealed and quickly met with little sighs of disappointment, the Pamela Anderson for Vivienne Westwood campaign remained the light at the end of the spring advertisement tunnel. a glimmer of hope sparkled, as surely such a pairing, along with juergen teller as photographer could be executed in an imaginative and humorous way..

When the first of the photographs (see the third here) hit the internet this morning, I thought it had all gone a bit, ahem, tits up. i wanted to see Pamela looking cutely trashy. maybe in a gushing pink dress with one of her tits out on a sofa in a trailer park (that's the setting we were promised after all) surrounded by cheeto packets. and what stared back at me was pam on, rather predictably, a beach, with the boring outfit taking a backseat to her boobs.

But hoorah, the other adverts have saved what i thought was a shattered dream (forgive the X Factor contestant style metaphors) with her prancing beside Mr and Mrs Westwood; what a twist that Vivienne herself is featured! Juergen Teller's photography, now instantly recognised (or just associated) for it's "marc jacobs haze" tones down the deliciously bright orange colour palette that is Pamela's life and makes it all the more high fashion.

Take one unfashiony type star, add some trashy imagery and the forgiving arty focus of a hazy camera and hey presto, one top notch advertisement is the result!

refinery29

advent season: day six, winter wears

VOGUE NIPPON
Missy Rayder
Styled by Camilla Bidault-Waddington



and the biting cold continues.
let's not leave our houses until the january sales!

but if you do, I recommend a high collared cocoon coat ala this vogue nippon editorial. i have mine in deep purple.

i'm curious to know what shapes you're all rocking in the coat department this winter?*

*and to those guys in the southern hemisphere, apologies for seasonal discrimination! you could tell us about your swimwear but I think you'd make us all too jealous..

team hack lepere

saturday 28th november 2008

dear diary.

this is how i want to be when i am older.
this is how all relationships should be.
(minus the phones) but who knows, maybe they're calling each other.

i'm cold.

the end.

pic the sartorialist

girl on roller skates

I have two days off of college, so i'm taking the opportunity to head to london for the weekend, where I shall unsuccessfully resist vintage shopping (i need to buy christmas presents instead!) and have a general snout. having a slight day of losing my fashion mojo (in the words of kirsty lee) and feel a much needed people watch to get some outfit ideas!

possibly no posting until monday!

pic nicolas lawn

schoolboy fantasties make the cut for paris vogue's calendar

images from next year's Paris Vogue annual calendar have just surfaced. while i like the whole "sexy pin up calendar for girls" aspect, (as it kind of gives those calendars of women rolling in oil that you find in garages the finger) I prefer last year's which showed the models covered in colourful body paint. While at a glance it appeared that the models were covered in tattoos, on closer inspection, the illustrations of body organs and naked women were a little high fashion meets frida kahlo.



this years' edition is fun enough, with a couple of tongue and cheek poses (see erin heatheron holding her "pussy") but in my eyes, it doesn't live up to last year's standards. The calendar sees carine's styled interpretations of male fantasties, so naturally we have jourdan dunn decked out in louis vuitton nurse garb, a little questionable as come the new year the outfit will be two seasons out of date.
and gasp! where oh where is lara stone? is anna selezneva the new girl in town?

pics, fashionologie, see more here

amanda laine

an ode to amanda

cute as pie,
and her eyebrows are killer,
kickass and fly,
her portfolios iller,
though lara stone has the #1 spot,
amanda comes close
and is hot to trot.



Sign: Aquarius
Hometown: Orillia, Ontario
Favorite food: Mashed potatoes
Favorite drink: Shirley Temple
Favorite song on my iPod: Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop the Music"
Earliest fashion memory: America's Next Top Model

inspiration on this overcast sunday

it's been a while since i did a good old fashioned inspiration post.
so what better way to spend a lazy sunday than absorbing pretty images and planning wardrobe ideas for the week ahead?

rough streets

sequinsroughdenimshinyleggingsthoseemmacookbootstherollcuffedblazer





furlatticedlacingtightabrasionalexanderwangbeaniescontastedtexturelayeringgrungeluxe

Harpers Bazaar UK November 2008

Model: Jeisa Chiminazzo
Photographer: Alexei Hay
Stylist: Alison Edmond

the look of winter 2008, this is how we'll remember it when we look back.
who's with me?

hazy sun, girl in the red dress

via mila-loveology.blogspot.com

snakeskin and cobweb knits

ali stephens in 10 Magazine

"because things that are sheer and have lots and lot of holes are like, going to be so big."

models.com

(end of) summer girl

all of these interesting things to touch and see.

the catalogue for sally scott.

lou's house

Yes, it’s lou doillon.

But is it her house?

Surely, yes!

Martina Hoogland Ivanow via scoutholiday