Favourite of S/S09 so far...

This collection by Charles Anastase is just perfect...Huge block heels, gorgeous colour-combos, frills, layers, silly glasses, leather, demin, suspenders, patches, ruffles, ribbons, socks, knits... ILI!

Images from Vogue.co.uk and others

Songs that inspire ...

Elevator straight into my skull

The escalator rises as it falls

I swear our jet is crashing in my mind

You can hold on but I wouldn't waste your time

Farewell my black balloon

Farewell my black balloon

I've stood in a thousand street scenes

Just around the corner from you

On the edge of a dream that you have

Has anybody ever told you, it's not coming true?

Farewell my black balloon

Farewell my black balloon

The weather had its way with you

Farewell my black balloon

Let the weather have its way with you

Farewell my black balloon

Black Balloon - The Kills.

(I can't get enough of this song at the minute)

The Giving Tree

These beautiful illustrations are by Em Lewis and from a one off book entitled The Giving Tree, written by Shel Silverstein. You can flick through the pages of the book here

Bears love fashion too

I wish I could afford a Karl Lagerfeld teddy bear! $1,500 though... yikes!

Japan Fashion Week

I was inspired by my friend Ele's blog to check out some of the images from this week's "Japan Fashion Week" in Tokyo. There seem to be a lot of 80s style power jackets going on... but here are some outfits that caught my eye...

First is Kamishima Chinami's collection - I love the textures, colours, fabrics and subtle embelishments...Then there's Ritsuko Shirahama's simple red dress with a splash of colour . . .

And here are a couple that make me go "wha-wazz-zat?!" lol.
Not keen on the hair/make-up for these by Hiroko Ito for Hisui... and I'm not keen on the clothes either tbh. . .

After the fury Topshop's "Love My Bones" tshirt caused, I can't see that a dress with bones actually attached to it would go down very well anywhere except a Halloween party.

More to follow!

One, ah-ha-ha, one Count!

Shoegazer creative:I made this hanging decoration of The Count from Sesame Street for a friend.
It hangs by a ribbon and is about 10cm wide.

Materials: Felt, card, ribbon, glue.

Fashion: A/W 08-9

I'm not normally a fan of Gucci as they seem to have been taken over by the wannabe-WAG generation, but I have to say I absolutely LOVE their Autumn/Winter 08-9 collection!
From the smokey eyes, peachy checks and gorgeous tousled hair, to the fabrics and prints, right down to the fringing and embelishments - I can't get enough of this Russian inspired collection.

Images from various websites