PALETTE

Chanel's incredible AW14 supermarket and a photograph of Hong Kong from Michael Wolf's Architecture of Density series.

SNAP!

Same same but (not that) different - Art Wednesday plagiarising Palace plagiarising Coco and Gianni. 

CRYSTALS

Crystals are having a moment. I picked up my own in Soho a few months ago. Chanel heels next...

Chanel AW12
Top left Celestite [image fyngyrz]
Bottom right Chrysocola [image Fool-On-The-Hill]

PILLS PILLS PILLS

I am curious about a lot of questions that can't be answered accurately enough to be satisfying facts.

The acutely personal are most interesting - for example how much money have I hoovered up by accident, how many texts have I sent to my dad, precisely how many vodka tonics I have consumed, emails written, nail polishes bought (too many)? Unanswerable and no doubt only interesting to me.

left A Cautionary Tale, 2007, right Cradle to Grave, 2003 [Image Pharmacopoeia]

However, the Pharmacopoeia collective come close to answering how many prescription pills we consume. Cradle to Grave is the lifetime consumption of prescription drugs by average Brits stitched into mesh while  A Cautionary Tale compares the annual drug intake of two middle aged men - an obese driver and a frequent cyclist.

As well as being educational pills also make some beautiful textiles.

Chanel pill dress SS07

  

Pill Scarf on sale to accompany the current Damien Hirst exhibition at Tate Modern

Not so keen on the Jeremy Scott x Longchamp pill-print bag.

A GIRL CAN DREAM...

YES YES YES

Oh no he didn't

THE SHOES!

are incredible. The rest, not so much. (Old Chanel, photo Scott Schulman)

REALLY?

There is such a big place in the world for silk bombers but it was definitely fifteen years ago, regardless of what pseudo-political shouter M.I.A would have you believe.

CHANNEL

In keeping with the ripped off designer theme, these (old) offerings from Better off Dead make me less fussed about the real deal.