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Packed

2011-06-03T22:12:00.000-07:00

I knew I couldn't be the only freak to do this!!

Artist Adolf Konrad's packing list (1963) from “To-dos, Ilustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations” curated by Liza Kirwin from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art — that opened June 3 at the Morgan Library & Museum in NYC.

The other Nick Cave

2011-05-24T20:47:00.000-07:00

How rad are these?!

These "Soundsuits" are the work of Nick Cave (not of the Bad Seeds). Cave, a trained dancer, designed these sculptures to come alive and make sounds when worn performing. A little bit human, a little bit animal, a little bit tribal, a little bit Grandma Yetta, he explores themes of identity, costuming and masquerading.

He kind of puts my annual Halloween costume (cat-slut/mouse-slut) to shame.

Beautiful Decay/New York Times

(Prints) Charming

2011-05-24T16:55:00.000-07:00

ADORE these prints from Charlotte Taylor, especially with the styling of these looks. The colours, the baubles, the fur!

I'll take a head scarf in lobster, for those days I'm feeling like Little Edie on crack. That's everyday.

Fucking rockstars

2011-05-18T22:11:00.000-07:00

Stylish canine in Surry Hills a couple of months ago. Kind of reminds me of the stringy hair/fringey boots combo at Isabel Marant AW 11/12.

Paper bag it

2011-05-18T20:48:00.000-07:00

Sort of obsessed with this clutch by Marie Turnor right now.

First spotted on Bleach Black, but you can buy it for me from Mohawk General Store.

NOOD HOOF

2010-11-24T03:22:00.000-08:00

Ssense are having 30% site wide. If I wasn't so pathetically povo I'd get these:

Opening Ceremony, Kris Van Assche, Margiela

Beautiful day in Sydney

2010-11-24T02:44:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my life

2010-11-21T01:49:00.000-08:00

Pretty much.

Loving: Holly Fulton

2010-11-17T01:20:00.000-08:00

Scottish Young Designer of the Year Holly Fulton has been on my radar since Catkin and Teasel's picture post.

Fulton's greatest talent is her ability to adapt her undeniable influence with every collection in a way that seems new and exciting and modern, across a multitude of platforms (not limited to the clothing and accessories in her eponymous label, but also her capsule collection for Asos.com and her foray into stationery collaboration with Smythson).

I am loving her latest range for Asos. Will be eagerly awaiting the mail for this embellished beauty:

Just the skirt, but I love this entire look. Will probably go back for the shirt!

PS Get 20% off asos.com by entering GRAZIANOV at the checkout.

Look at these assholes

2010-11-09T02:44:00.000-08:00

The wonderful work of Rich Pellegrino.

Watched Darjeeling Limited again over the laziest weekend I've had in a long time. I didn't love it when I first saw it at the movies but with each viewing since, it's really grown on me. I am a Wes Ando fan girl at heart, but one piece of criticism: needs moar Bill Murray.

Aviator

2010-11-06T20:25:00.000-07:00

Love this image of Rianne Ten Haken in her moto gear looking like a modern day Amelia Earhart.

via Vanessa Jackman

Heartaches

2010-09-19T22:30:00.000-07:00

If you're in Sydney, come check out my boyfriend's show in Redfern on Thursday:

James Jirat Patradoon, the 25-year-old Sydney-based artist and illustrator, is known primarily for his neon screenprints and stylised digital work. With HEARTACHES, he shifts into a more organic and personalised gear. Using a bold kind of reverse engineering, HEARTACHES presents a taut exploration of authenticity and identity in the form of massive graphite-on-canvas drawings. Informed by Patradoon's observations of pop constructions of masculinity and of self-representation in a post-convergence culture, HEARTACHES is a sometimes bleak, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, but always insightful personal critique.

HEARTACHES opens at Boutwell Draper on Thursday 23 September from 6pm - 8pm, and runs in tandem with Ben Frost's ART OF NOISE until October 23.

Wed - Sat 11am - 5pm
www.jiratpatradoon.com

(Also, he's just babin'.)

Shorn

2010-09-19T17:32:00.000-07:00

Photo: Tommy Ton for Topshop Inside Out

I *think* the above vest is this one - It looks infinitely better open.

Whenever I see a fluffy sheepskin rug I just want to rip off my clothes and roll around in it. Similarly, when I see a shearling jacket on someone, I want to rip off their clothes and run away. Yes, similar.

SHINY NEW TOYS!

2010-09-16T23:45:00.000-07:00

Firstly, my iphone 4. SUCH TECHNOLOGY!! I have never actually owned an un-plastic mobile phone, so having a phone that has significantly more features than an alarm is a shock to the system. The default map app entertained me for a while as I zoomed in and out of suburban Sydney. I sit at work, feeding my virtual birds and it's like my 8th grade obsession with my tamagotchi all over again.

Secondly, these YSL boots. I picked them up at the post office 15 minutes ago, and I have to pinch myself to really believe that they're here and they're MINE! There is a semi epic story behind these, but lets just say there were some strongly worded ebay conversations, and I am grateful they made it here without harm.

Seeing Dita Von Teese tonight for her "Be Cointreauversial" show! Will be wearing my best nipple tassles in her honour. Can't wait!

Don't fall

2010-08-24T05:09:00.000-07:00

Incredible creativity.

From
(In)Decorous Taste

Frankenbabe

2010-08-01T04:25:00.001-07:00

Flyer for Trashbags in Melbourne, by my talented boyfriend James Jirat Patradoon.

I like everything Jimmy does, but I love this especially because this Frankenstein bears a striking resemblance to Anthony Bourdain! Honey, threesome?

What I Wore - My Homage to Hugh

2010-07-31T02:26:00.000-07:00

Little Red gig and house party in Slurrrrrry Hills a couple of weeks ago.

I wore a black dress of some sort, my Henry Holland suspender tights, and a lace headband from Japan, with wire inside twisted in a bow... It was chilly so I chucked on my ridic vintage floor length red velvet robe with fur collar... And YES I looked like a crazy person! Crazy like a billionaire media mogul! Gimme some of that crazy amiright.

PS Things Bogans Like: Playboy logos. Yikes. Yes, *i* with the velvet robe am judging you.

Yellow

2010-07-25T05:59:00.000-07:00

Quick nude study in yellow (2008), chalk pastel and ink

Going through old scans of my work... I wish I had more time to go to life drawing sessions. To be honest, these days I do fuck all with myself besides be awesome at Bejeweled! I kind of took some time off after I graduated, lost all momentum, and now I am in a creative rut. Love my job, but I need more to do! As Betty Draper says, "Only boring people are bored".

Lights On

2010-07-25T03:04:00.000-07:00

Amazing fibre optic textile shoes by Francesca Castagnacci. Puts your LA Lights to shame.

Via Yatzer

What I Wore - Karaokay

2010-07-22T20:59:00.000-07:00

Zara dress, sheer striped socks from Tokyo, Miu Miu platforms.

I remember a time when socks and sandals were so reviled, so revolting, they would only have been worn by fat tourists traipsing town with their backpacks firmly strapped to their front packs. Fast forward to post Burberry SS10. Nothing could stop me from wearing these damn socks and sandals last Friday night. Rain, hail, or... No shine. So so cold round here! Lucky I had my shoju jacket on - that's Korea-town's equivalent to a beer jacket - and enjoyed sing-a-longs with some furiously wasted friends at karaoke.

What is it good for?

2010-07-15T05:18:00.000-07:00

WAR HERO

Dazed and Confused July 2010
Photographer Richard Burbridge, stylist Robbie Spencer.
And a couple more here.

Now I'm a lover not a fighter but I do love a bit of military styling. Dazed takes it to another level with this editorial. Love the use of red. Love creepy babyface. And does anyone else feel like eating spaghetti?

POP UP

2010-07-09T17:43:00.000-07:00

Four words to get me off?

POP UP SALE STORE

(two more: FURTHER REDUCTIONS)

Dangerous times for the penny jar as two of Sydney's coolest fashion labels set up (pop up) shop. Both stores open til Sunday, so get in quick... After me.

Ellery: Goulburn St, next to Pablo's Vice and opposite The Lounge. Checked it out yesterday - prices start from $80 and there's a decent selection of stock from blazers (small sizes), to boots (big sizes). Unfortunately I'm big size, small size, that order. Dang!

And my favourite, Josh Goot: 433 Oxford St Paddington (Next to Max Brenner).

Here he is spilling blood sweat and dirt putting it all together.

joshgoot popup store 2010 from StyleMeRomy on Vimeo.

PS Aussie stylist Romy Frydman's blog StyleMeRomy is my new favourite read! The new Garance Dore?

What I wore... "Fuck yeah skorts" edition

2010-07-07T05:52:00.000-07:00

Black tee, Lover Zulu print shorts, House of Holland for Pretty Polly tights, Nine West Cuzza boots

I have been wearing this outfit, or variations of it, a lot.

Now, I hate the idea of stockings with shorts generally but in my mind these work because they're cut like culottes... Or SKORTS!! I love a good 90's throwback, and nothing is more 90's than skorts except maybe a white tshirt under a black slip dress. I am positive an Olsen/Sevigny is contemplating that very combination right now - if it hasn't already happened.

The House of Holland/Pretty Polly's are my favourite tights at the moment - they make me feel super sexual without actually flashing any flesh at all. I've already gone through 3 pairs - not because they're particularly delicate, but because I tend to gravitate towards lit fires.

Romance in Death

2010-07-07T05:18:00.000-07:00

Ricardo Tisci's Fall 2010 Givenchy Couture by way of Willy Vanderperre

"In obsession is born the cult of couture".

^This is truth. Glue gun does not couture make.

Image via Fashin(Formerly Fags)

¢hanel

2010-07-07T05:06:00.000-07:00

I wish pay day was every day!

Sky Ranger

2010-07-04T04:21:00.000-07:00

It's that time again! My favourite brand of undies that I never wear - Agent Provocateur - is now on sale... Enter AP10 at the checkout for an additional 10% off. I finally picked up the leopard body suit which I missed out when they were on sale last year. Rawr!

What I Wore

2010-07-03T09:39:00.000-07:00

H&M waterfall jacket, Camilla & Marc Christiana dress, Vanilla Suite shoes

Can't help but feel a little Beetlejuicy in this new favourite jacket o mine. Paired with lace-up wedges and a dress with just enough under-boob, the combination is more Footlocker Wench than undead miscreant, and perfect for a Saturday night dranking.

Olivia

2010-06-23T02:12:00.000-07:00

Illustration by Kim-Anh Ho

An illustration I did of a look by fellow UTS grad, superstar designer and general beautiful person Olivia Jung.

Thugshots

2010-06-22T02:18:00.000-07:00

If you're in Melbourne on 1 July, check out the opening of The Forty Thieves 3 at Gorker Gallery, featuring my bb James Jirat Patradoon, as well as a bunch of amazing Aussie and international artists like Ben Frost, Eamo Donnelly, Justin Lee Williams and Kareena Zerefos.

Look Four

2010-06-21T03:53:00.000-07:00

Photography: Jennifer Chua
Model: Timothy Tsipiras
Fashion, art direction and styling: Kim-Anh Ho

Continued from this post, another look from my 2010 graduate collection.

The look: studded wool vest with leather collar and merino hood; a merino long sleeved curve panelled tee with deviated side seams; and leather and denim chapped trousers.

Dear god, this outfit killed me. HOURS of hand studding the vest, which left me with black and blue fingers; studs falling off the vest on the runway; a reluctant but lets face it, WISE last minute (night before the fashion show) decision to line the vest instead of staple it together (not even kidding); (and for further insight into my fuck-this-shit attitude) another last minute decision, to turn a coat into a vest (oh yes i did!); leather man making my leather chaps, like, 3 sizes too big and then having to paperbag waist them on my model; a stud catching on the merino tee and causing a run in the fabric - the top has to be worn back to front now.

Stresssss!

But reminiscing now I kind of want to do it all over again... Watch this space.

Safety First

2010-06-14T06:18:00.000-07:00

© by Sense / Photography Junji Hata / Fashion Direction Tomiki Sukezane / Hair Hiroki Yoshimori at Super Sonic / Make-up Hiroaki Yanagisawa at Eight Peace / Model Petr Rehka

This editorial makes me swoooon.

DIY anyone? Safety pin refashioning ain't new (see: Outsapop's excellent blog for more ideas) but I love how the scale and layering of the pins works with the heavy metal hardware in this look. And imagine the jingley jangles as you walk!

Via Coute Que Coute Via Sense Magazine

M.I.A by Rankin for Dazed and Confused

2010-06-13T05:05:00.000-07:00

What a babe.

Cyborg loves Chachi: Notes on vintage in tokyo

2010-06-11T04:40:00.000-07:00

When you think about Tokyo, you think about a futuristic city, neon lights, flying cars, cyborgs. It was after all the city that inspired the city design for Blade Runner.

It makes sense that in such a chrome kingdom the counter culture - the fringe, the cool - is the rejection of that future and an embrace of all things retro: it's a hyper mythologised Americana. Leather biker jackets, Hawaiian shirts, 501's, college sweaters. I admit I got caught up in the madness of it all and picked up a teeny weeny cheerleader uniform that some poor Sally Sue lost her virginity in in the backseat of a Lincoln. Yikes.

Harajuku girls and boys know what's up. Harajuku is a playground for the hip and the less hip tween set. Beyond Takeshita Dori (the pedestrian street teeming with youth oriented fast fashion shops), you can find a variety of well stocked vintage and second-hand clothing stores.

Some recommendations (please comment if you'd like vague directions, I can't get my head around Japanese addresses) :
Kinji - opposite La Foret - huge vintage shop, very very cheap for Tokyo vintage
Vivienne Westwood secondhand store - off Takeshita Dori to the right as you walk down from Harajuku station - all vintage and secondhand VW. The shoes were to die for. They had a few pairs of pirate boots!
Chicago - two locations in Harajuku - Super vintage store, great mens section, also an impressive selection of old kimonos from $20. Lots of tshirts, jackets, iron on patches.
Kind - has a few branches over Japan - multi level mecca of second hand designer clothing. I bought a Balenciaga singlet for $60 and a Bernhard Wilhelm dress for $70.

Not in Harajuku but noteworthy:
Flea Market - To be honest, the flea market I went to in Shinagawa was nothing exciting. But you could get lucky like me: I found an old man selling his wife's Salvatore Ferragamo flats for $35.
Komehyo - Meiji Dori Shinjuku - Second hand luxury department store - This place blew my mind. Secondhand/grey market items (bags, shoes, clothes, jewellery), the kind of stuff you'd see at a great consignment store, with the kind of service and visual merchandising you'd expect from a high end department store. It's really a brilliant idea and a wonderful way to extend the life cycle of a high fashion product. I think it encourages people to buy quality goods that will last. Also, it's easy on the wallet! I picked up an Acne dress for $50 and spotted a Vivienne Westwood suit for $250 (WAY too small for me, what a fat shit).

I love shopping second hand. There's a sincerity to the vintage in Japan, it's kind of costume-y but fun and silly and cool in this context. And the second hand designer stores are just amazeballs. Take me back there!

Tokyo Rodeo

2010-06-01T03:56:00.000-07:00

Konichiwa ya'll!

Currently mid-holiday in Tokyo. I am enjoying it here... Obviously not working, eating well and sleeping in in any part of the world would be great, but there's something special about a place that heats up your toilet seat for you. It's in the bright lights of city living; the compartmentalising of ev-er-y-thing; how they like to say it with a cutesy illustration; buildings from the future; the food oh god the food; handsome hobos; and the quiet dignity of elderly people and the sass of the young.

Teens! What I'd give to be a teen again - purely to fit into the clothes here. As much as I'd like to traipse around town in a pink tutu, and believe me when I say I would, nothing here fits over my birthing hips, so I am relegated to the likes of Euro chain stores, which feels kind of inauthentic.

"Cowgirl Slut Babe" is the story in most Japanese teencentric stores this week, little hitched up skirts in ditsy prints, sometimes with bloomers when they're extra short. Short isn't really a problem, everyone wears stockings! Crazy stockings! Cowboy boots are obvious, but they're also pushing clogs - which to be honest, I don't know if I love or not. It's a little budget Chanel SS2010, and by little budget I mean pleather a-go-go. I want to vomit all over that plastic shit. If they were doing it right, with leather and shearling and all that good stuff I would probably be all over it, but the damn kids want it and they want it now and next week they won't so why bother trying?

Doing it right:

Richard Prince, Untitled (cowboy), 1989

Inky

2010-05-20T04:52:00.000-07:00

Ink + pencil.

Blue faced

2010-05-16T05:41:00.000-07:00

Trying to draw more frequently.

Stones and callouses

2010-05-16T04:07:00.000-07:00

Keith Richards’ hands by Francesco Carrozzini.
Rings: Forever 21 and Etsy. Haha!!

What a portrait of character. Fucking fantastic, no? This guy is rock and roll.

Via Hudson

Flap Low

2010-05-16T03:14:00.000-07:00

Haider Ackermann's Flap Low Boots

I'm wobbly at best in stilettos but after my recent Alexander Wang Hanne boot purchase I am developing a taste for precarious heights. These boots are the perfect accoutrement for that sporty/utilitarian trend of the moment and a great alternative to the now ubiquitous A.Wang SS10 lace up sandal boot. I love the haphazard straps and wayward tongue.

Via The Imagist
Buy them (for me?) at Luisviaroma

Fringe

2010-05-10T02:07:00.000-07:00

Quick ink illustration of Camilla and Marc "Fringe Dweller" dress.

Daphne

2010-05-08T02:07:00.000-07:00

Stills from Daphne Guinness' short film "Mnemosyne".

Via LOVE

Folk Devils and Moral Panic

2010-05-02T22:18:00.001-07:00

Look 6 - The Jumpsuit from my graduate collection FOLK DEVILS AND MORAL PANIC

Photography: Jennifer Chua
Model: Timothy Tsipiras
Fashion, art direction and styling: Kim-Anh Ho

This is my favourite piece from my collection. It has an asymmetric collar, quilted elbows and knees, zippered belt loops, a biker jacket style front opening with a hand screen printed stud motif, and a long double ended zip so you can rock out with your cock out. It's a wonderful thing.

Frankendenim

2010-05-02T21:51:00.001-07:00

Band of Brothers @ Easy Fashion

Dior Haute Couture SS07

2010-03-10T03:31:00.000-08:00

Christian Dior Haute Couture SS 07 Ink and gouache

Galliano's vision of Madame Butterfly for Spring 2007 was just... sublime.

Let's Get Married

2010-01-28T02:42:00.000-08:00

Chanel Couture Spring 2010

A Body of Work (Figuratively Speaking)

2010-01-25T03:42:00.000-08:00

One of 17 nudes from A Body of Work (Figuratively Speaking) (2002), charcoal and ink

Blue Body Lay

2010-01-18T03:40:00.000-08:00

Blue Body Lay (2004?) Ink, pastel and chalk on paper

I love life drawing.