OFF AND AWAY

THOUGHTS! has now come to an end. A happy ending. THOUGHTS! and PROM THEME have now amalgamated into... MACHINE.

THOUGHTS! may be used in the not too distant future as more of a personal portfolio, but we'll see about that.

For now, head on over to MACHINE, where I will be posting as usual.

ANOTHER ONLINE MAGAZINE! : 160g

160g is another fantastic online magazine. It has quite a few fashion shoots per issue, and a great layout. The styling varies which I think makes it even more appealing.

Images : 160grams.com

JEREMY LAING

I just discovered Jeremy Laing, a Canadian born designer. Apparently he is self taught and had an apprenticeship with Alexander McQueen, and then went on to make showpieces for some of McQueen's collections. I'm really enjoying his Fall/Winter 2009 Collection.

Images: jeremylaing.com

THE FACE #1

Some images from The Face magazine 1997, Issue 200 (Volume 2 No 100). Photog: David Sims, Styling: Anna Cockburn

AVATAR

Amidst all the fuss, I finally decided to go and see Avatar 3D and I loved it. I was especially fond of Neytiri's leggings or pants or whatever they are. They had some pretty good jewellery too, but I can't find any pictures that adequately represent it.

La Planete Sauvage

La Planete Sauvage (The Fantastic Planet) is an animated sc-fi French film from 1973 Directed by Rene Laloux. Apparently there is a remake planned for 2010, I really hope so. I remember seeing it on SBS a few years ago and thinking it was awesome. Here's the beginning of the movie.

I've come across it again because Planet Sauvage is the name of the new season of P.A.M. which includes some amazing jewellery.

I dont really know if the new season was influenced by the movie or not, because the name Fantastic Planet on its own without the aspects of the film is enough to describe the new season. Here is a pic of the P.A.M. "Rock Necklace" I'm quite fond of.

And on the theme of fantastic planets, I really want this digitally printed "Glory Scarf" from Trust Fun. Apparently the (I assume digitally printed) scarves' patterns are mathematically valid fractals that they have created, each one uniquely different. I love fractals. When I was younger my Dad always used to show me pictures of different ones in his New Dawn and other alternative science magazines.

Trust Fun is run/creatively saturated by Shane Sakkeus and Jonathan Zawada. They are the same peeps that did Petit Mal of which the first issue is now available to read online.

As far as I remember, my limited understanding of fractals was that it was a geometric shape that on its edges had smaller versions of itself and then those smaller shapes had even smaller versions of themselves on their edges and so on and so forth. So they appear pretty often in nature, eg snowflakes. Snowflakes have ever decreasing scales of themselves repeated throughout the form. Apparently Jackson Pollock (the artist) used fractals in his artwork. Here is a fractal.

A. F. VANDEVORST

A. F. Vandevorst SS09. I missed this before, but i quite like the legs. They seem to be white stay up stockings over full black stockings. Interesting.

Images from style.com

PASTEL

The following few posts are from Issue 8 (Winter) of Karen Magazine. I quite like these two shots. Photographed by Alan Chies.

I FOLLOW

Thanks to Mafia-Hunt I had a look at this website, Joan Shepp. Here are a few things I found on there that I thought were worth a mention.

Kilt sandal by Trippen

Strap boots by Rick Owens

Ann lace up boots by Ann Demeulemeester

Leather legging by Ivan Grundahl (these are so frikkin amazing I WANT THEM)

Solitude draped top by Ann Demeulemeester

Draped dress - grey by Rick Owens

ECLIPSE

I like this dress. The zip placement is awesome, and the fit looks great.

black/white eclipse print moto dress by Ideen available from Oak.

D.U. #4

This isn't really much of a dress up but, this is my new leather jacket. It's the first one I've ever owned. This outfit is what I've been wearing all the time lately, black singlet black bike shorts, black gladiator sandals and this jacket.

The jacket is by Australian brand Tigerlily. I love how the front is cut and the raw edges are left raw, and then it sort of hangs. It's amazing. And the inner front bit is suede so it shows there on the hanging collar part. The underside of the sleeves are made from a stretchy fabric which is awesome because that makes it heaps easier to push up the sleeves if need be. And the cut of the bottom edge is high at the back and then lengthens at the front, as you can see.

90s PART 1

Here are some pictures from a magazine called FACE, it doesn't exist anymore because they got sued by Jason Donovan a while back I think. But I managed to get my hands on some old copies from 1995 and 1996 and it is VERY much like i-D magazine, even the font is the same.

This image amuses me because if this guy's haircut mostly, but his whole look I guess too. It's a very jocky look that there is heaps of around at the moment.

I just thought this was an interesting way to feature jewellery.

A random page. Pretty odd.

In terms of fashion, this is very close to what we have happening now. All the mesh and black.

Again, very similar to now. The wet look leggings that were quite popular a few months ago, the cropped lace top which is very much what is being worn now.

And here too. Mesh top, bra/bustier thingy and leather jacket, all in at the moment. I think silver is used more than gold now though.

Guy on the right, those glasses are making the hugest comeback right now. And so are the puffy jackets.

I just like this image.

And this one too. Making fun of tans and fake tans. I suppose. But I think the top is ok too.

90s PRELUDE

This picture is awesome. Found it here. They seem to be images from a book of photos. Go to the website for a bit more information.

http://coilhouse.net/2007/10/24/torture-garden-portraits-by-a/

BLACK SHOES #2

Bought these a week ago, from Wittner. Never thought I'd like shoes like these. But APPARENTLY I DO.

SIREN

Here are some shoes from Siren Autumn/Winter 09. They're pretty good, reasonable. The left ones right at the bottom remind me of a recent pair of Margiela's shoes, with one side open, one side closed. First ones are obviously Balmain influenced.

I really want some thigh high flat leather boots though. Anyone know if anywhere has nice ones?

F2009RTW

Here are some pics from style.com from the Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear collections by Central Saint Martins, Topshop Unique and Giles. There are so many amazing looks I couldn't put them all in here

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS

Quite simple looks, some amazing black boots, and awesome colours.

TOPSHOP UNIQUE

I am completely in love with the sequin pants. They look amazing. The pic on the right looks all futuristic and awesome and the knee high boots are really working with the outfit, usually I don't like knee high boots, but these are really doing it for me. The other shoes are awesome too, if you look through the collection you'll see that they've used pretty much the same shoes all the way through the show, maybe in 2 colours but with heaps of different coloured socks and laces. Im really enjoying that and matching the sock and lace colour to the pants.
    

GILES

This dress is fantastic. I think I might have a shot at making it. It's so elegant and simple yet flattering.

Images from style.com by Marcio Madeira.