stolen images club

Meryl Streep / Man Ray's floating lips by Demarchelier / Backstage at Peter Jensen / Tommy Ton for Style.com / Anna's necklaces

big ted

what a muppet

Oooh look: an awesome Fozzie Bear sweater from Opening Ceremony.

dangle

Miuccia Prada's comment that "sweetness is a taboo in fashion" warrants a separate, more thoughtful post, but in the meantime: the earrings from her Fall 2012 show. Big, dangly earrings have been an obsession of mine for a while now - mainly because they're really ostentatious and ridiculous/fun; the opposite of being simple and French - and these are especially lovely.

sad suburbia

Alex Prager, Vogue US, September 2011, from here

Well, this editorial rules...but I'm a sucker for any shoot that plays on suburban ennui.

a smtty mixtape: september

Dedicated to the One I Love / The "5" Royales

Night Signs / Zomes

Damage / Yo La Tengo

Under The Boardwalk / Tom Tom Club

Tender / Blur

Hang On To Your Ego / Beach Boys

Sea Of Love / Del Shannon

This Wheel's On Fire / The Byrds

Stay / The Hollies

Celebrity Skin / Hole

Blue Thunder / Galaxie 500

That's The Way / Led Zeppelin

Wear Your Love Like Heaven / Donovan

There's An End / Holly Golightly

You can download it here. And find previous mixtapes here. Not doing too well on the whole monthly thing, but making a concerted effort.

formal invite

Photos from Fashion Editor at Large

The Meadham Kirchhoff show at London Fashion Week looked bloody bonkers, but the invitations? Wonderful.

the most wanted

Soft colours and deserted landscapes by Cameron McKean / Dresses and playsuits from Alone by Lonely Hearts 

i love peter jensen

Peter Jensen spring/summer 2012

"Peter Jensen recently dedicated a book to his "improbable sisterhood" of muses, but it unfortunately went to press before the most improbable of them all could be included. His inspiratrice for Spring 2012 is the legendarily badass jazz-soul singer Nina Simone. Legend she may have been, but Jensen didn't hear of her till he moved to London and read about a woman who fired an air rifle at a neighbor when he complained about her piano playing. "My kinda gal," thought the young Dane. To a soundtrack of classical piano (the music Nina would have studied at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute had she not been refused admittance due to the color of her skin), Jensen offered an abstracted vision in fabric of the singer's life, from the pure white church-worthy outfits of her youth in North Carolina to the showy Lurex and satin pieces she might have worn to perform in jazz clubs around the world."

- Tim Blanks, Style.com

girls girls girls

I visited the wonderful new Auckland Art Gallery recently, and a small painting of a black-haired, heavy-lidded girl caught my eye. Called Lizette (first image), it was painted by Christchurch born artist Raymond McIntyre, who clearly had a penchant for moody brunettes and melancholy - apparently, according to an artist who shared a studio, "in the intervals of dabbling masterpieces on canvas, he sobs out his soul on the sorrowful 'cello.'"

who the cap fit

 Karen Walker at NYFW, Twenty-seven Names A/W12, Lonely Hearts A/W 12, Miu Miu Fall 2011.

danse serpentine, 1900

I have most likely written about this before, but it is worth a million postings.

black and white film festival