Paper bag it

Paper bag it

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

NOOD HOOF

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

Opening Ceremony, Kris Van Assche, Margiela

Loving: Holly Fulton

Loving: Holly Fulton

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.

SHINY NEW TOYS!

SHINY NEW TOYS!

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!

POP UP

POP UP

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?

¢hanel

¢hanel

I wish pay day was every day!

Sky Ranger

Sky Ranger

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!

Cyborg loves Chachi: Notes on vintage in tokyo

Cyborg loves Chachi: Notes on vintage in tokyo

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!