Saturday 30 March 2013

For the Price of a Cup of Tea

^ Belle & Sebastian

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vintage jacket
N's shirt
Asos jeans
Primark shoes
self-made book bag

This bag is my favourite thing right now. Made from this tutorial on Rookie, it's just so adorable. And I found the perfect book to make it out of - a book about games called "Organised Fun"! Wore this to the theatre last night. :)

Thursday 28 March 2013

Inspiration - Tripppin

 




Images from Wasteland lookbook, Arvida Bystrom, Topshop, Rookie,
 Natasha Lilipore, Devore Le Beau Monstre, Tumblr, and unknown

Rookie has seriously got to me. I keep making pins and dreaming in creepy pastels! :)

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Crazy Beautiful Life

^ Kesha

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Topshop dress
UO hat
Asos belt
platform Converse
self-made earrings
 
All those days when the photos turn out horrible are worth it when you spot the last of the golden hour sun and run out to catch it. :)

Sunday 24 March 2013

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

 ^Douglas Adams

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thrifted shirt
H&M trench coat with eyes drawn by me
Topshop jeans ripped and cut by me
River Island boots
self-made necklace

No prizes for guessing that I love cartoon eyes! Ever since visiting the Dali museum in summer, I've become more and more interested in Surrealism. My favourite of the painter is Rene Magritte but I really identify with Dali's (and others') experiments with fashion and jewellery, and Elsa Schiaparelli's work. (Honestly I much prefer Schiaparelli to her contemporary Chanel, and I wish I could have seen the Prada/Schiaparelli Impossible Conversations exihibition in NY last year waaah.) So, when I saw this DIY eyes trench on The Clothes Horse, I knew I had to do it. It makes me feel like a female Dirk Gently! :)


Friday 22 March 2013

Life on the Nickel

 ^Foster the People

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Asos "mom" jeans
platform Converse (!!!)
  mother's belt and necklace
really old earrings
Asos cuffs
long lost  (N borrowed it) H&M shirt

An homage to the 90s that turned out more 80s.... Wearing my new babys - pristine white platform Converse, and my now not-so-pristine (see almost unnoticable blue and red paint splodges) jeans. And some of my mom's supafly jewellery that I dug out. I'm not sure why she has a white leather chain belt but she does and I love her for it. :)

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Shoot me out of a canon

^ Arctic Monkeys

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Asos dress
Primark jumper, DIY skull cut out

Strange how I'd never thought to wear these together before. They made a wonderfully grey, gloomy and doomy pair. :) 

Sunday 17 March 2013

Ojala Que Llueva Café en el campo

^ Juan Luis Guerra. This song reminds me so much of The Sims (1) for some odd reason

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badges made by me
mother's necklace
Topshop earrings
father's sweater
vintage scarf

It's art exam season again so apologies for sporadic posting. I have a build-up of outfits to post because I'm feeling sartorially inspired, but no time to shoot them! So, super inspired by this photo taken by Petra Collins, I made some googly eye badges for me and V. :)


Wednesday 13 March 2013

Black Water

 ^Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes

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velvet top from Blue Rinse
American Apparel skirt (worn as dress)
I's converse
old denim jacket jazzed up by moi

Another oldie but goodie. I've been wearing a lot more of what I call normal (ok I admit it, I mean boring) clothes ie. simple shapes and patterns. I think my best friend's self-professed minimalism is rubbing off on me. Or my stress-laden art project on colour is sucking the colour out of me. Either way, expect a lot of grey, navy, black and white. :)

Sunday 10 March 2013

The Only One

 ^Manchester Orchestra

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Zara skirt
father's jumper
Topshop shirt
DMs

A photo from last year that I never liked but I do now. :)

Friday 8 March 2013

The last days of wonder

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bow clip made by me

Googly eyes are cool ok. :)

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Wise and uncontainable as a windy-haired child

^ Dar Williams

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vintage tshirt
USA Pro skirt
Miss Selfridge tights
necklace from India
Asos blazer
beanie from Ebay
Underground creepers

Springtime with a heavy dose of pessimism. :)

Sunday 3 March 2013

Qué Sería

^ Francisca Valenzuela

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vintage shirt
necklace made by me
H&M skirt
Docs

This is what I wore to my interview this week, my last one thank god. Complete with messy hair. The climb over the monkey bars was hard in a skirt ok, so be glad that I'm determined to procrastinate in the sun for this blog. :)