Another pot o' tea.

2009-07-05T06:42:00.001-07:00

I'm so shit at blogging.
I resolve to change.
Back soon.
x

cheese, bordeaux & La Regine's

2009-03-31T05:41:00.001-07:00

2009-02-25T21:10:00.000-08:00

EASTER SOON.

2009-02-25T21:06:00.000-08:00

Late night (early morning) assignments, endless gauloise & n'espresso capsules

are leading to aching bones &

a desperation for returning to the City.

2009-02-25T09:24:00.000-08:00

(Hazy evening soiree in January. )

2009-02-25T07:51:00.000-08:00

Giles Deacon.

fall ready to wear collection '09
(photo: style.com)

OH.
I LOVE THIS.
&I am almost in Paris.

2009-02-23T12:59:00.000-08:00

Jaeger London Fashion Week

I would really love a cappucino.

I love everything about this look.

delicate & then pow! the shoulders! & yet...

2009-02-23T05:02:00.000-08:00

A delicous little breakfast of arabic sweet biscuits, clementines & apple and ginger tea.

New blazer.

Lilia Yip revisited.

2009-02-22T20:17:00.000-08:00

illustration: lilia yip

I first found out about Lilia Yip at Last summers RAC graduate fashion show. & fell for how she draped her models in pieces like landscapes, architecture, draped on slender frames - words are insufficient - browse away: Lilia Yip

A little window into our brief stop in Amsterdam.

2009-02-22T19:19:00.000-08:00

I could not zoom in more, but this man was so fantastically dressed in such a simple, chic, central european 'hip-city' way.

& the shop was filled with quirky arty pieces & books, filled with a more 'artistic' take on the subject matter of such things as the red light district. There were so many fantastic shops like this!

There was an incredible little shop filled with different coloured bow ties - & just down the road a vintage boutique where I acquired the most incredible black jumpsuit. I think I shall bring it out in paris. I cannot wait.
There were so many little bookshops & vintage dress up boutiques around the nine streets area.
& of course darling little bicycles parked outside every one!

After a day of exploring we stopped for a delicous coffee in this lovely little cafe overlooking the canals.

(who knew the netherlands knew how to create such a masterful cup of coffee, every single time!)

Refreshed we continued to explore & stumbled across this little junk/antique/retro pieces shop. Incredible.

had we not been attempting to hitch part of the way home, I would have purchased so many things here.

(it was, suitably, owned by a fantastic chic gentleman. Owning a boutique... I must.)

I fell in love with this little crooked house alongside the canals.

I'll be laughing too before you know...

2009-02-22T19:09:00.000-08:00

Lacrosse - Myspace

oh gosh everything scandinavian is so glorius.

I have stumbled across this little band, I love the album art work, I love the beats, the atmosphere, the delicously youthful feel, a hint of m83. mmm.

I have such fond memories of sweden. Two summers ago we spent a week exploring stockholm's cobbled streets, cutting edge design, fashion, art, little underground bohemian cafes, little junk shops off tiny forgotten streets. Were the krona not so unbearably high in exchange I would have hopped on a plane back there straight away since. For now I console myself with the unquestionable amount of talent which consistently comes out of scandinavia, which I can admire from afar. Return I shall, return I must.

twenty.

2009-02-22T18:31:00.000-08:00

2009-02-22T18:26:00.000-08:00

www.myspace.com/starwberrybones

I am hooked on: 'The Darkest Light'

I cannot get it out of my head.

It is 2.58am, I have the biggest desire to make cupcakes

but have not a little cupcake tray.

mmm.

Bruges.

2009-02-22T18:15:00.000-08:00

A few photos from a few weekends ago when we stopped breifly in Bruges on our hitch to Amsterdam from Zebrugge. The little cobbled streets of Bruges were positively enchanting & it inhabitants incomparably chic & sophisticated (yet, still willing to help students hitch to holland).

On our journey from Bruges to Gent we were driven by a fantastic couple who must have been in their early fourties, fantastically chic, who told us all about Gent & Antwerp as centres of culture, fashion & art. I cannot wait to be living in France, there is something so fantastic about the ease with which one feels connected to different cities in central europe.

2009-02-22T16:07:00.000-08:00

The Rosie Taylor Project - Maps for lost lovers

www.myspace.com/therosietaylorproject

A band from Leeds - The boy on the top right infact, i believe, works in the beautiful brotherton library. Nonetheless, any trivia aside, I am so glad I stumbled across their cd in crash, and made it to one of their shows at brudenell as it was utterly lovely. & this wednesday I hope to again, upstairs at the library pub.

So, now it is sunday, it has been a delightful weekend & next week brings with it - Paris!

I hope everyone has a wonderful sunday evening &hearts;

view from the bed.

2009-02-22T15:50:00.000-08:00

I do so love hazy sundays.

2009-02-21T07:45:00.000-08:00

draping black silhouettes with ciggarette pants & I am in love.

more bizzarelly I was browsing through the online boutique &

I stumbled across a best friend of my sisters doing the modelling for a few pieces.

A rather pleasant suprise & I just cannot wait until

I am in Paris, floating around in beautiful pieces & drinking all night in little cafes.

(http://www.alexandragroover.com/ - infact look at the whole site!)

Maps for lost lovers...

2009-02-21T07:07:00.001-08:00

L'Wren Scott. I want this more than words can relate.

City Slicker [slacker]

2009-02-21T06:50:00.000-08:00

(the man - isn't he edible?!)

How 1920's theatre glamour chic is this?!

I never understood the office girl chic, properly, I think, until this morning I woke up to the coverage on Stephen Burrows new collection. I have never seen anything so 'city' & sexually empowering. This has bizzarely coincided with last weeks purchase of a beautiful blazer/suit jacket-esque piece - similar to the Elizabeth&James one I posted a few weeks back. There is no need for an office high flying job, in my opinion, these looks are a neccesity for an empowered female of the city. I am ever more excited for my return to paris on friday! I think I Shall return without a penny...but hopefully a few wadrobe updates to post about & fill these winter days as they thaw into the fresh begginings of spring.

Helmut Lang, Fall 09

2009-02-20T08:46:00.000-08:00

photos: men.style.com

2009-02-20T06:30:00.000-08:00

I've never liked anything diesel much before. I remember reading about their ideology and thinking it was fucking briliant, but then looking in their stores and searching online and being dissapointed, everytime. Nonetheless, with fashion week coverage all over the web, I have stumbled across Diesel Black Gold's lovely little ensemble on this rather dashing boy. I like.

Hans Madsen.

2009-02-19T17:06:00.000-08:00

(Autumn/Winter 2008) A feminine twist on this look is exactly what I am craving.

Valerie.

2009-02-19T14:11:00.000-08:00

Ting?! How have i missed out on this thus far?!

crashing over the hillside.

2009-02-18T13:07:00.000-08:00

Folded light: http://www.myspace.com/foldedlight

incredibly
lovely to listen to.

Days & days & days & haze.

2009-02-18T07:29:00.000-08:00

My camera broke, I've been in Amsterdam, snowed under with assignments & forgetting about this blog, which I promised I would keep updated NO-MATTER-WHAT. Nonetheless. Here I return & I have a found a new love for cuisine! Above is step 1 of my Valentines lebanese feast creation. I hope everyone has been great, It is grey & cold here, I am going to drink red wine, check on my grilled haloumi with roasted red peppers & get some reading done. The next few weeks this blog will get alot of loving from my end, I hit paris on the 27th february, so until then I will study & save my pennies. I cannot wait to be back, perusing le marais, drinking delicous coffee, dancing all night near monmatre...

CIRCUS.

2009-01-28T19:20:00.001-08:00

The party was glorius. With a paddling pool filled with balls & balloons & a room of circus toys!

As the invite wrote: WE ARE OLD, THE CIRCUS IS YOUNG, and I cannot think of a better way to bring in our twentieth year.

The highlight was perhaps waking to find a male in a dress and fishnets asleep in the child's play tunnel in the basement. Only at the Circus.

you keep me by your side.

2009-01-28T19:14:00.000-08:00

This Elizabeth & James coat... It is everything a blazer should be. I truly believe I may need it.

Don't stop now.

2009-01-21T07:38:00.000-08:00

So, after 'Me and you and everyone we know' I developed somewhat a crush on Miranda July. & this project is beautiful. I absolutely adore stumbling across street art - watch this space for posts of discoveries from leeds to florence - & I think this whole project is wonderful. Go see:

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

photo: part of task #63, 'learning to love you more'

'We don't want to wait there's no time, no time."

2009-01-19T10:59:00.000-08:00

A mix between the kills & sultry synth pop beats. CHEW LiPS are a band you simply must look into. Despite their 'london club kid attitude' look, they are not all looks & 15 shows in are already creating quite the stir.

Get to them first:

http://www.myspace.com/chewlips

Don't go breaking my heart like you said you would.

2009-01-18T09:54:00.000-08:00

Waiting. I usually can't stand to wait, but the crisp icy wind & the skeletal trees in Leeds at this time of year call for a delicously content pace of life, sipping apple and ginger tea & spending day upon day finding beautiful things to occupy your time, whilst the new term creeps nearer. If you are at a loss for treats for the eye, I suggest: Wendy Bevan (a photograph taken above) for her ethereal, old era glamorous photographs, which feel like a mysterious misty morning in love.

Photo credit: Wendy Bevan Photography, http://www.wendybevan.com/

ELOGE de L'AMOUR

2009-01-12T10:58:00.001-08:00

Winter in England is Cold.

I have consoled myself with White company vanille candles & copius amounts of wine & gauloise.

& re watching endless Godard films, it has been perfectly wonderful.

bolli - stoli - bolli - stoli...

2009-01-03T11:50:00.000-08:00

Oh these holiday seasons!

I have watched more absolutely fabulous than I can even begin to describe. Incredible.

I won't dance.

2008-12-30T18:34:00.001-08:00

My dadou (mothers father) used to play fantastic jazz when he was alive. He used to tour with Fats Waller - being at home this christmas I am more than fascinated by all these eccentric musicians and artists and egyption great uncles living these glorius lives as if a different era in Cairo, and the stories of those who did so in the affluent 20's & 30's... How wonderful! The glamour & theatricality... gosh, to have lived then. I am feasting on ginger rogers & fred astaire videos, a use of time I highly reccomend.

so many ways to go now.

2008-12-29T08:04:00.001-08:00

Waiting for old friends at train stations in central london is delicous. Almost as delicous as the gigantic cakes & delightful tea & stories we shared amongst the hustle of londoners & parisians at St. Pancras.

http://www.peytonandbyrne.com

I love these fresh light days, crisp with a lingering autumn cold. I am so content to be home in London.

Life is cabaret-gay.

2008-12-29T07:57:00.000-08:00

Bourgeois & Maurice, bistroteque cabaret, tonight! At The Royal Academy. Having checked out the GSK contemporary arts exhibition at burlington gardens yesterday, I am overjoyed. Tonight, is the much hyped (and with excellent reason.) cabaret by Bourgeois & Maurice in a pop up bar within the Royal Academy's contemporary exhibition. An exhibition blurring the boundaries between art & theatre & performance... & generally wonderfully worth a visit! I have been meaning to check these guys modern cabaret out for months, with songs such as "don't go to art schooool." since a friend saw them in a little underground bar near waterloo & titled it one of the best things she has seen in london for years. I am most excited. I shall update with tales!
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-contemporary-season/about/

In the words of M-A-R-C.

2008-12-24T06:46:00.000-08:00

"Thats what I think everyone should aspire to in life—being shameless.” Marc Jacob's words of wisdom.

So christmas eve is upon as & there is much to say for red wine and port at this family filled time of year, if you are prone to emotional outbursts, or outrageous comments or indeed dancing on the coffee table in your christmas hat - sherry fuelled - at this festive time of year, remember what our dear Marc has proclaimed, and worry not. My aim with this new blogette, is to document discoveries of fun within the cultural world, exciting happenings, parties, fashion, anything to bring colour into the days.