Random dose of Newton

Helmut Newton, Kiss from “The Bordighera Details”, 1982 Filed under: fashion, photography Tagged: black and white, helmut newton, kiss, lips, photography

Anna Dello Russo by Helmut Newton, 1996

Love how much a departure this is from both their styles. [via] Filed under: fashion, idols, inspiration, interesting men, Interesting women, photography, Uncategorized Tagged: Anna dello Russo,...

Daily Inspiration: The Thin White Duke

[via] Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: black and white, david bowie, photography, portrait, thin white duke

Helmut Newton, Monte Carlo, 1994 [via] Filed under: art, inspiration, photography Tagged: 1994, brace, chain, gloves, helmut newton, monte carlo, nude, photography, sea, stocking

New shoes new shoes!

New shitkickers by Elisanero. To aid my surviving any impending apocalypse. Awesome. Unrelated: a small child I know recently asked, “Are you a witch? You only wear scary black clothing.” Love...

The Generation Game

Family resemblances are uncanny things. It’s magical seeing a friend’s nose or gestural tic mirrored in their mother or sister. My mother and I always laugh about this, because while, taken feature...

Milan turns into a ghost town at the holidays, with all of its residents fleeing to the countryside or to the mountains or someplace warm. Right now, the city seems to be populated by me, a couple...

Finishing touches

I took an intensive haute couture sewing and patternmaking class last fall, taught by a tiny old seamstress we called Signora. We sat at workstations in serried rows for hours at a time while she...

Daily dose of the surreal

[via] Filed under: art, inspiration Tagged: bird, bizarre, dresses, girls, hummingbird, mask, photo, surreal

What’s your sign?

I don’t know about you, but early January always has me heading straight for the astrology sites to read page after breathless page about the Year Ahead. I try to be a skeptic the rest of the time,...

Fireflies

I’m floored by the beauty of these time-lapse photographs of golden butterflies in Japan. Their neon trails against the backgrounds creates images that look almost as if they were done with...

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

I saw this portrait of Joan Didion by Annie Leibovitz on the Vanity Fair website and instantly fell in love. It’s truly remarkable how this image manages to conjure up the same emotions that I’ve...

Inspiration 1.14.11

Yohji Yamamoto catalogue cover, 1986. [via] Filed under: fashion, inspiration Tagged: black, bustle, colour, fashion, graphic, inspiration, red, silhouette, white, yohji yamamoto

Coveting 11.3.10

I would like this bookcase, please. Thanks. That will be all. Oh, and an apartment to put it in too, please. Think you can take care of that for me? [via] Filed under: books, coveting, design,...

Dia de los Muertos

Much as I utterly love Halloween, I’ve always just been the teeniest bit more intrigued by the Dia de los Muertos, with all the sugar skulls and other trappings. There seems to be a spirit to the...

‘Morning!

Sometimes I really wish I had pink hair again… just for a little bit. Maybe I need some wigs in my life. Definitely some red converse. [via] Filed under: inspiration, mood, photography Tagged:...

Coveting 10.30.10

I love, love, love this blouse from Norwegian Wood‘s shop. I’m love with unusual pieces based off coat details, and so the trench-coat-like box pleat on the back of this blouse is really appealing...

Coveting 10.29.10

I don’t know what these pants are, but I’d like someone to find them for me and buy me a pair. Yes? Yes! Or I think i might just be able to settle for being best friends with the guy who wears...

Inspiration 10.29.10

Can you tell I just re-watched Blue Velvet? David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini by Helmut Newton. Filed under: art, idols, inspiration, interesting men, Interesting women, photography Tagged:...

Neverland

Anyone who knows me knows the recipe for appealing to my aesthetic: dark, preferably some sort of urban dystopia, with good lashings of dress-up and make-believe. Tattered finery and all that....

Coveting 10.20.10

Shoot, October 20th already?! I need to get off my butt and start upping my game. Enough protracted vacation and vague stabbings at productivity. Time has come for WORK. But there is still room in...

Coveting 10.13.10

Dear Gareth Pugh, If you could just messenger me over the following looks from your new collection, that would be great. You’ve even sold me on the colour white. Smooches! Alex (Seriously, I would...

Inspiration 9.20.10

I’m so very much in love with this page from Vogue Hommes Japan 5. I’m completely inspired by the palette, with the shades of cream and pink and red against the charcoals and other shades of gray....

New shoes

Sexy, sexy, sexy badass Prima wedges from Surface to Air. I got them yesterday, and immediately started planning out outfits around them. They’re infinitely wearable, both under pants and on their...

Coveting: Debra Baxter

Debra Baxter‘s phenomenal Crystal Brass Knuckles did the rounds of the blogs a while back, but I find myself mentally revisiting them from time to time when I look for the perfect combination of...

I’m baaaaack!

And boy, has a lot changed. In the past few months there was a lot of introspection, followed by a whirlwind decision to up and quit my job, spend a month packing up my life in the States and...

Chau Har Lee

The girls I work with are occasionally bemused by my taste in day-to-day footwear. Most of the time I’ll stick to ballet flats or classic pumps, but then on occasion I’ll bust out something tall...

Stalking Vidal Sassoon

My hair is curly, and I look like a pin-head with short hair but if I could pull it off, I’d march straight to the hairdresser right now and demand a replica of one of these sleek Vidal Sassoon...

She hit pause

I bought the picture above at some holiday fair as a Christmas present for my stepfather. He likes the sea, art and pretty girls, so I figured it would be a good match. The picture was duly...

Coveting 4.27.10

Antimatter in a can. I could control the universe if I got my hands on a couple of these bad boys. And of course all the other requisite trappings of an evil genius. Should be easy, right? [via]...