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Licentiate Column 17/05/12: Olympic Spirit

Fashion and Sport – the two don’t really mix, do they? The marriage of fashion and sport reminds me of an uncomfortable photo op taken with a now-forgotten (by me) ladies soccer team, all looki...

3 days ago

‘I think I’ll write a post about my new bracelet’, I said to my mother. “You can’t’ she said. My grandmother owned the bracelet. It’s large, silver, chunky. ...

5 days ago

Licentiate Column 10/05/12: Tomboys Forever

Tomboys are vastly, miserably underrated. In a world where more credence is put on celebrities in bikinis and the best way to conceal the decidedly unfeminine flaws of body hair and non-fruity smells...

12 may 12

Underwater Love

You could easily be fooled into thinking that photography from a certain decade will always look the same – rough and ready Utility women in the 1940′s, elegant, poised women in the 1950&...

09 may 12

A sure sign I need to streamline my wardrobe

It was my and my sister’s birthday on Friday, so we all came together for a weekend of food (lots of it. Lots and lots) and the odd burst of hysterical laughter. I came into my room one evening...

08 may 12

The Reading List: Tomboy Style

‘Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion‘ is the hotly-anticipated new book from Tomboy Style blogger Lizzie Garrett Mettler. I love the Tomboy Style blog. If I was an overweight k...

07 may 12

Licentiate Column 03/05/2012: What to wear when your clothes don’t fit

Weight goes up. Weight goes down. If you carry enough excess weight, you can move it all around (especially if you’re on a trampoline or using a pneumatic drill). Unfortunately, clothing doesn’t have...

03 may 12

Licentiate Column 26/04/12: Dressing for homeless people.

I’m an itinerant. In the inevitable picking-over that happens when a relationship dies, someone has to lose out. I lost my flat. My lovely (mouldy), well-situated (tiny), rooftop (freezing) flat. I’m...

26 apr 12

Today’s mood…

… a little bit frazzled. Portrait of Bronislava Nijinska by Man Ray (via retronaut) Filed under: Art, Inspiration, Photography Tagged: artsy fartsy, bronislava nijinska, Inspiration, man ray, m...

25 apr 12

The Reading List: What I Wore Today…

… Doodle yourself into a style icon by Gemma Correll. Whenever I think of Gemma Correll, I don’t think of her massive What I Wore Today Flickr pool or the cult following she inspires R...

24 apr 12

Ghost World Screencapped

Having a post adolescent existential crisis? I know I am. Watching Ghost World always makes me feel a bit better, even though ultimately, it’s quite a depressing film. I don’t know what i...

23 apr 12

Licentiate Column 19/04/12: Girls dress for other girls

“Girls don’t dress for guys, they dress for other girls,” said the girl checking her eye make-up in the smeared, scarred mirror in the toilet of what may possibly be the grottiest bar in Cork City. H...

19 apr 12

Cork, I love you, but you’re bringing me down.

Not strictly true, but ‘Oh Cork, I love you, but all this constant travelling and all these prohibitively expensive bus journeys are bringing me down’ didn’t have the same ring. I&#...

17 apr 12

The Reading List: The WAH! Nails Book of Nail Art

The WAH! Nails Book of Nail Art is the latest installment in WAH! owner Sharmadean Reid’s latest world takeover plan – one expert manicure at a time. With their idiosyncratic take on nail...

16 apr 12

Licentiate Column 12/04/12: Titanic Centenary Style

Everyone has their nerdy pop-culture peccadillos. Alan Moore graphic novels. Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The Titanic. As a dedicated Titanorak (pre-dating James Cameron’s epic film, I’ll have you know)...

14 apr 12

Getting Glam in Cork (with super Benefit Giveaway)!

I would LOVE to know what Im saying here It’s that time people – time to reveal my debut turn as the face of Diet Coke TV for Cork. I had a really great time covering the Get Glam event ...

11 apr 12

The Reading List – Lillian Bassman: Lingerie

Lillian Bassman summed up herself and her work as “completely tied-up with softness, fragility and the personal problems of a feminine world”. In this retrospective work of her seminal li...

10 apr 12

Barcelona: The Instagram Edition

My sisters in the airport lounge… …and at the cocktail hour. Dad showing me the best places to shop Self-explanatory, really. Huevos and veg for breakfast Purchases – pin-up prints ...

09 apr 12

Licentiate Column 05/04/12: How to dress for a break-up

The Vogue UK website has dubbed the success of the french ‘affordable-luxury’ fashion house Carven, ‘The Carven Effect’. The clothes are simple and classic, but with a twist, with clean lines, sheer ...

05 apr 12

The Reading List – Saint Laurent Rive Gauche: Fashion Revolution

Saint Laurent Rive Gauche: Fashion Revolution is a large, generously illustrated book that charts the inception and rise of the YSL Rive Gauche label and the massive impact that (initially) one small...

03 apr 12

The Reading List: Wishlist

It’s my birthday in a month or so and I’m going to take a Noel Edmonds approach to it. No, I don’t want bad-taste jumpers (I’ve get enough of them) – I’m going t...

02 apr 12

The Reading List: Deborah Turbeville, The Fashion Pictures

Deborah Turbeville is an enigmatic woman who doesn’t fit well within the typical jobbing fashion photographer mould. Her photographs are heavy in their sombreness, atmospherically frayed and a...

30 mar 12

Licentiate Column 29/03/12: Fashion for Hypochondriacs

This morning I woke up with terrible stomach cramps. Terrible. Let me tell you, it was like an army of indigestion imps had pitched camp on my large intestine,lit a monster bonfire and started throwi...

29 mar 12

Ooh, pretty pictures…

It is far too sunny today to be cerebral, which is a shame for me because I have several pitches and a book review to write… and all I want to do is sit outside with a lemonade, painting my toe...

27 mar 12

Diet Coke x Benefit: Outfit Post

The very last Diet Coke x Benefit Get Glam event took place at Mahon Point last Saturday and I was there with the lovely Thinkhouse team to document the impossible, oh the impossible glamour of it al...

26 mar 12

Licentiate Column 22/03/12: What to expect when (you don’t want to look like) you’re expecting

I know this woman who is pregnant. She could be a friend or a family member – she could even be a friend or family member of a friend or family member. Let’s just keep the water as muddy as p...

22 mar 12

The Reading List: Colour Forecasting in Fashion

Colour is often something that people blithely breeze through without thinking too much about it. Yet colour, or the lack of it, has a profound impact on peoiple’s lives. Why do colours influen...

21 mar 12

Some thoughts on H&M x Marni

On the 8th of March, I joined the queue for the newly released Marni x H&M collection. I managed to get a proper look-see three hours later, once the queue had abated. Only I wasn’t at one of the...

20 mar 12

Madame Yevonde: Society Women as Goddesses

Be original or die. There are worse lines to live by, but this was the credo of surreal, creative photographer Madame Yevonde. These photos are from her ‘Goddesses‘ series. Lady Anne Rh...

19 mar 12

Storyville

Photo by John Bellocq, c 1912 via Filed under: Inspiration, Photography, Subculture Tagged: Inspiration, john bellocq, new orleans, Photography, pretty baby, prostitutes, red light, storyville, sty...

16 mar 12

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