electric blue

I just got the Bat for Lashes album, I listened to it 5 times today. She is magical.
I stood memorized in the crowd at Bestival when I saw her live over the summer, as she swanned around in an electric blue play suit across the stage.

"do look now"

I was looking through some old magazines I found under my bed from 2006. one of which was the observer fashion supplement by tank, issue 5: winter 06. Featured is a fashion story, do look now, shot beautifully by Wendy Bevan and styled by Alec McGhie

Ivana these.....

These are Ivana Trump's legs, they are currently walking around the Celebrity Big brother House. I want these leggings, they are totally awesome.

Check [this out]

This is Daisy Lowe wearing jumper by Christopher Kane and a body suit by Dolce and Gabbana. styled by Sam Ranger and photographed by John Lindquist for Today's Style magazine.

T.P.I.o.D.i.t.M.o.S.L.

A print designed from the research around the idea of "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" by Damien Hirst.

Space scales

Leather effect fabric with eyelets and Swarovski crystals

This is a jacket I made as a costume for Bestival the summer past. It took 2 days of agonizing pain caused by eyleting each individual silver scale to the jacket.

Stroll

Death by Chintz

Here is an outfit made with a hand printed length of fine wool from a project exploring taxidermy and the symbolism of flowers with with death.

Sarah knits....

Here is some pieces by knitwear designer Sarah Nicholls graduate collection from the University of Brighton.

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TAR

Cover by Damien Hirst

In New York, the magazine stores don't seem to dispose of out of date magazines. often resulting in 3 different months worth of Vogues on the same shelf. This however worked in my favour when it came to obtaining my copy of TAR. I had seen this edition months before in the WHSmith at Victoria station, and missing my chance to purchase due to long queue to the counter and my train departing in moments.

The opening fashion story styled by Alistair McKimm, Cedric Buchet and Philipp Haemmerle recasts supermarket meat, spaghetti and sprinkes as couture:

Briefs by DSquared

Tank top by DSquared, jeans by Ksubi

Tank top by Malo, jeans by Diesel

Celebration

Since going to see Madonna's A M A Z I N G performance at the O2 arena this summer, courtesy of my good friend Mr. Quinn Arthur, I have become a bit of a fan.

Madonna's Celebration video see's her wearing this pretty amazing studded mini dress by Balmain styled with some over the knee Louboutins.

BALMAIN, Fall 2009, ready to wear collection.

Watch the video here
and, the rest of the super sparkly, glitzy, fantastical collection here

stormer

Courtney is wearing dress by Mihara Yasuhiro; Fringing by Kleins
Photograph by Yelena Yemchuk; styling by Karen Langley for Dazed and Confused

Photograph and styling by Seana Stormer

Clueless

The shocking news that Brittany Murphy had passed away came to me through someone's facebook status update on my news feed just a few hours after it happened. She was so so cool, starring in 2 of my favorite movies, Spun and the groundbreaking Clueless, oh and she was pretty good in Girl, Interrupted too.

Here is some of her fashion finery from through the ages:

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Clueless, 1995
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Girl, Interrupted, 1999
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Spun, 2002
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Height enhancers.....

I found these whilst gawking through the windows around 5th Ave in NYC.

Wonderland

Marc Jacobs

McQueen

These are some details the Bergdorf Goodman Holiday Windows.

Shiny (happy) people

These human shaped mirror balls had my magpie eyes drawn to them immediately.
Miu Miu have mirrored up their mannequins to compliment their super sparkly shoes and detailing on garments from their Resort 2010 collection. This season, a sporty feel including deep v-necks with injectins of big bold prints contrasting the subtle pastels of the colour pallette.

"you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool,"

We didn't pay the cable bill so when the projector is fired up each day, we have DVDs lighting up the wall instead. Whilst indulging in these showings, I've come across some amazing silverscreen styling of the nineties.

"Leon- The Professinal"- Matilda's Mom

"True Romance"- Alabama Whitman

"Spun"-Nikki

"My Powers of Ten"

Here are some pieces from my graduate collection......
I started my research by documenting the scars on my body and where, how and when I got them. I then found great inspiration from the film ‘Powers of Ten’ a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames.

I represented the scale effect the film illustrates in the prints by layering imagery on top of each other. I used glow in the dark particles to create the effect of one image merging into another. The glow particles are near invisible in the light resulting in entirely different print in the dark.