Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka
I just came across a quote from Toni Morrisons Nobel Lecture in Literature (1993) as quoted by Judith Butler. Morrison said,We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be th...
My friend Jes is an exceptional photographer and she took these photographs of her friend Belle. So beautiful I had to share.
Image: Arthur Elgort for Teen VogueWell hi nerds. Yes I am suitable shamefaced for having neglected you so long but I have a very good reason, I do. Or... dozens of reasons, each of them small, itchy...
This is one of my favourite fashion images of the 1930s, taken by Hungarian photographer Martin Munkácsi and published by Harpers Bazaar in 1933. I love her smile, her free flowing run and her b...
Can we all please take a moment to celebrate Vogue Australias Meg Gray? Her way with colour and prints often gets sleeked aside on the streetstyle blogosphere by the suave of your Centeneras, the das...
"To live at home, to think at home, eat and drink at home, to love at home, suffer at home, die at home seems boring and inconvenient to us. We need publicity, broad daylight, the street, the cab...
It took an effort and a half to get to the Cristobal Balenciaga: Fashion Collector exhibition yesterday. Not only is the Musée Galliera (la Musée de la Mode et du Costume) closed for renovations and ...
The most hipster cafe Ive ever been to, arguably the most hipster in existence. They had lego stirrer holders, posters torn from the pages of TV Hits featuring all my Nineties favourites like S Club ...
Why wear one clashing-colour number when you can wear three? I always say. So here you see me in the little gated garden that annexes the back of the converted Victorian terrace house that has been h...
As a writer, I tolerate error, poor performance, failure. So what if I fail some of the time, if a story or an essay is no good? Sometimes things do go well, the word is good. And thats enough. ...
The ceiling of the Borough markets. Apparently a market of some kind has existed in this part of the city since 1014, which predates even the Battle of Hastings. Crazy. But if the organic, ethically ...
Ive been reading a lot lately and as is probably only fitting, my thoughts have been rambling over into what reading is. What makes someone a reader? And when we are drifting or skimming through word...
Self portrait in Liberty with Alexander Wangs.You know, this always happens to me. I dont need a new pair of sunglasses, and I didnt try them on to really try them on, you know? I just wanted to see ...
I just saw these beautiful images shot by Craig McDean and styled by Karl Templer for Interview magazi ne. Featuring the Stella McCartney collection that went viral like this Céline&nbs...
So yes, I think we can all agree that this is the most ridiculously sweet deal. To come to London for "research" and to take every experience that occurs here as inspirational... I must be jo...
Nothing says Good Friday like your favourite dress, a church service with friends in a church that was built in 1820 and a wander around Piccadilly. And it was the perfect day for a wander- blue, sun...
I feel very proud of myself that not only did I remember to put my camera in my handbag both yesterday and today, I also remembered to use it a number of times. What follows are some highlights of th...
I went out to buy some meringues for Good Friday lunch and the cold slapped my cheeks a few times. I got home to find my face in full English bloom. I call this one self portrait with smea...
Im in London, nerds! Clear and grey and crisp here. Long cool days that hint at rain- Ive been caught in one torrential downpour already. I had no umbrella so just folded my arms around myself, put m...
The first air show at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. September 30th, 1909. Photographed in Autochrome Lumière by Léon Gimpel. - AnOther MagazineI love the soft colours, the momentary stilln...
"A true masquerade of space- that is what the British embassys ball on May 17, 1839, must have been. "In addition to the glorious flowers from gardens and greenhouses, 1,000- 1,200 rosebushes...
Image by Deborah TurbevilleWhen all else fails, theres Roland Barthes lovely Camera Lucida. I really needed this book today- just like I always need Benjamin and Bachelard near at hand, to catch me u...
This dress-! I actually gasped the first time I saw it. The top panel is a photographic print of the Los Angeles skyline at night, stripped down to pinpoints of light in the darkness by James Reeve, ...
my outfit,my smile today.
Sometimes when reading, I come upon a sentence that coalesces seamlessly with an idea Ive been toying with. It will overlay itself on my fledgling thoughts and cast a depth, an insight that propels m...
I woke after brief sleep and it was still raining. No, not raining- it was like the end of the world coming down outside my window. Strange somehow for it to be torrential first thing in the morning;...
Technology made possible an ever increasing spread of that mentality which looks at the world as a set of potential photographs. - Susan SontagAka The Instagram State-of-Mind.Curious to me our modern...
Last night I was walking to where I was going and suddenly it was winter. Summer has been a teenager all season, all mood swings between thrumming heat and torrential rain, but at least we have still...
I was having a conversation with an acquaintance recently and she told me that she had never shopped online. She is not of my generation (actually, she was a hippie at Woodstock when she was younger ...
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