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Sweet Bird of Youth
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The Grounds

Words by Hannah Rose"Some places - (and people, and things) - really are overwhelming. You finally make it there after an epic 30 minute walk during which you are sure you went around in at least...

4 days ago 1 person likes this

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Attention please all you friendly blog readers! You know I dont post things I dont like...in fact just last night I was involved in a discussion that had me refuting the fact Ive never done anything ...

6 days ago

EPIC

Mind has been blown.I had people in my ear the whole time Gatsby was filming in Sydney trying to explain the epic proportions of the sets, the costume, the precision, the details, the money, the beau...

23 may 12 1 person likes this

something old something new

Anyone who knows me well has probably sited that maroon journal, which rather conveniently disguises itself as an old french novel, hanging out of my bag at any given time. For the past year or so it...

22 may 12 1 person likes this

Romance

What is there for me to say about Romance Was Borns MBFWA show that hasnt been tweeted, instagramed, blogged, printed, facebooked about already? Well, not much really. 36 hour time lapse during fashi...

22 may 12

Camilla

Walking backstage at Camilla was overwhelming for any number of reasons; flowers, colour, children, feathers, jingly bells, bangles, turbans, sparkles, embroidery, beading, models, tassels, prints an...

17 may 12 1 person likes this

familia

I see what I dream when I look at these photos. Not aesthetically so much as I do in spirit and sentiment. Its Mothers Day and whilst people like to harp on about the load of crock that occasions lik...

13 may 12 2 people like this

Benah blog

How honoured am I to be thought of as a "Benah babe"? So honoured! I put together a list of 10 things I love this May for their delightful blog and realised I had an unpublished number 11 &am...

09 may 12

violet wildfox

Words cannot. I really just cant even explain howww good perfect these are too me in every which way. I feel like I need to vomit some askjdbjhdbfgjsdvbljshdvbjhsdfb jksdgfvsdfwerijvnslcvygelf on my ...

01 may 12

dressage

Kate Sylvester was the latest, coldest and probably most anticipated (perhaps because of the aforementioned factors?) off site show of RAFW 2011. I missed run through so winged it and shot from the s...

27 apr 12

miss

This time in a week! Miss Unkon really was a dream to photograph last year. Body paint, braids and all the prettiest, fresh faced models. As Im going through my RAFW 2011 archive I realise I must hav...

26 apr 12

bunny

What a beautiful weekend it was. Laying in the grass, drinking tea and sangria (not always in that order), frying polenta, poaching eggs, sitting on the balcony, staring at the fields, chasing cows, ...

17 apr 12

wandering

My memories of this night in New York are so beautifully chaotic it makes my heart race. I was exhausted from playing Mum (to 3 gorgeous but consuming children) in Manhattan for days prior, but was w...

16 apr 12

Rovos Rail

I like the photos Misha Taylor takes, and I like even more that his bio states "lives between New York, Paris and Africa". Dream. This set (featured on Nowness) documents a trip Taylor took T...

05 apr 12

getaway

I love being away from home. I love the way time passes without your knowing, without that anxiety or thought or guilt of counting the nonproductive minutes slipping through your fingers. I love the ...

26 mar 12

Pucci pants

Have been waiting for an appropriate break from my own travel rants with Valentines posts, end of summer posts, pastel posts, ballet posts all lined up (in my head) but nothing quite kicked off.But h...

19 mar 12

me and....

Photographs that Matt Jones, offspring of i-D founder Terry Jones, take are the hardest kind of photos to track down on the internet...and also the best. I am challenging myself to find something he ...

16 mar 12

in ma belly

I dont know why it took me so long to investigate this place. But I now have a new go to when Im looking for a stimulation of all senses. You seriously see peoples eyes oggle when they walk in not kn...

14 mar 12

like

  Hard day in the office // Home // Magic tree // My happy little baby // Relics // CRAB! // View from my bed // Starting the week walking down my favourite street   Follow me @rachelkara1 ...

12 mar 12

bouquet

  I drafted this last night and went to sleep hoping Id wake up with something new to say about this frosted pastel, sweet as sugar, flower toned thing that is unavoidably and undeniably ev...

06 mar 12

Monday morning

We met at about 930am on a Monday morning which was too early, like 5 hours too early if youre operating on New York time, to see the "long lines of Sigerson Morrison addicts, mustachioed artiste...

29 feb 12

go on

Im about to loose my shiatsu at the way that either Photoshop, Photobucket or Blogspot is messing with my nice warm contrasty images and swapping them with flat, green toned blobs of mess. Without an...

17 feb 12 1 person likes this

white on

Clearly I am just another small speck in the mass of photographers, bloggers, fellow models and just about everyone else who crosses Hanneli Mustapartas path to have one not-so-small heart warming cr...

16 feb 12

over the bridge

Blue Bottle Coffee Berry St, Williamsburg - as recommended by every coffee educated Australian living in New York I knew. The line was long but passed quickly as me & Hannah caught up on the basics o...

10 feb 12

rolling

The respect I have for people who keep up to date with editing and posting whilst on holidays is pretty big right now. With the excuse of 3 children under my care I am going to save time on writing o...

09 feb 12

see

It was a rather chilly Vancouver day and I was on a jet lagged fueled mission - coffee, the good stuff. None of this Blenz or Starbucks shiz that I must say was very conveniently on every corner look...

01 feb 12

classic

Almost better than dancing at Oxford Art Faxtory on a Friday night is getting photo booth at Oxford Art on a Friday night. These people make family a non biological term. Love

26 jan 12 1 person likes this

wear else

It has been recomended I dont share publicly how much I cried during Bill Cunningham New York...so I wont - but I did. He is such a treasure...and I like his voice and his laugh so have been obsessin...

23 jan 12

lover.

I want to start posting outfit photos again but frick I get awkward. Think Ill have to get into the selfies. Feel a lot more comfortable with just me, my 5D and a remote.We decided he looks like a we...

20 jan 12

birthday suit

My biological clock flips over to start my 24th year on Thursday and I havent been particularly supportive of the retail environment lately but I broke the cycle in honour of my birthday and have bou...

17 jan 12

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