redirection

Rediscovering my blog, after however many months it's been, is like finding the missing shoe in your pair of $300 michael kors red patent leather stilettos. Where I'm going now, I don't know. School, soccer, theatre, now dance and school soccer. Maybe a little art, not much time for fashion. Not really the trend setter anyway. Who knows. I could forget about this for another couple of months (I sure hope not). But wherever this goes, it's going to be real.

Let there be light

I love playing with light. It just makes the photograph.

Makeup and hair by me.

(taken at a recent sleepover)

Damn...

Are these crazy shoes or what?

The natural world

I was just searching through my pictures on my computer and I found these that I took in Spring 2006 at crowe's nest farm. Funny how it was march, and warm, and the weather these days is so spastic here it's trench-coat freezing one day and swimming weather hot the next... stupid global warming.

Fashion Photography - Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was an iconic fashion photographer. Not only did he capture the beautiful clothing, but his models had emotions. It was more than just a pretty dress. Avedon photographed fashion as well as inspiring portraits. Later in life he experimented with color, but I think his best work was his black and white.

A plethra of Plaid

The Dolce and Gabanna Fall 08 Ready to Wear runway in Milan was covered with sherlock and early 20th century buisnessman inspired attire. It was really sophisticated, which fits my style. I'm not too crazy with my fashion. I prefer the classic polo/sunday brunch outfits worn by aristocrats and people with significant income (See Ralph Lauren Spring 08 Ready to Wear, gorgeous stuff). Anyways, I really liked all the plaid, that also was excessively used in the Ralph Lauren Fall collection. Anyone see plaid trends for fall? That wouldn't be objected by me.

Do you heart Austen?

For the past 2 months my mom and I have been fascinated and obssessed with Jane Austen. She's read all the books, but I've only read Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I'm working on Northanger Abbey right now. We've bought all the books that were alluded to in her books, and watched every single movie version of each book. (Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly is still my fav, but Persuasion is not too far from it). Because our muse lived 200 years ago, and obviously can no longer write novels, we've, sadly, resorted to reading fan fiction such as Mr. Darcy's diary, Mr. Knightly's diary, and Mr. Darcy's daughters (which aren't as bad as you might think). The classic love stories will never fail in inspiring me, not to mention their fashion sense was great (that empire waistline is genius). I've always loved messing around with hair, and the movies have totally inspired (I love ribbons). Some days when I'm bored at school I pick out people who resemble characters from the differen't novels (I personaly relate to Jane from Pride and Prejudice, the classic, shy, good girl). But tonight I watched a movie telling all the stories in one. The Jane Austen Book Club tells the story of 6 women who make a book club and their lives end up following that of the stories. I thought it was extremely well done and is probably the best movie I've seen in a long time. (FYI, if you don't know all the stories, you won't get the full impact, trust me). Not to mention it has Hugh Dancy in it, who has become my hollywood hottie ever since Heath Ledger died, may he rest in peace (it was akward being in love with a dead guy).

On a side note, was anyone else extremely disappointed with the project runway tonight? I was under the impression that it was going to be the finale, but it was only a review! man, that was a bummer...