SPRING

Bearded dragons 

Shoot by Tyrone Lebon styled by Max Pearmain

Robe à la française, ca. 1765 from the Met collection

HAPPY ST. GEORGE'S DAY

I'm wearing my favourite new T-shirt to celebrate:

GIF c/o T-SHIRT PARTY

FUR TEA CUP

Ahh Phoebe Philo you're so great.



Meret Oppenheim
Object
Paris, 1936












Céline S/S13

BODEN

Boden, is that you? I did not expect this campaign from a brand I usually associate with women who love their dogs more than their kids. Great styling and not a postbox or stately home in sight. 

GREY SPRING

Editorial from Marie Claire Australia 0812 (left)

This images have been lingering on my desktop for a long time and suit this non-Spring we're having.

LUFTBOBLER

A few weeks ago I went the launch of Dinos Chapman's* album Luftbobler. My initial scepticism about the transferable skills between painting swastikas on toy soldiers and making music was rapidly dispelled: the album is good. You can hear more from DC and listen to his music here.















*Dinos (with glasses) is the older of the Chapman Brothers - artistic duo of Goya-defacing, Hitler-exhibiting, YBA fame.

RICHARD BURTON

I mean to post this on Valentine's day but forgot. A letter from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor I hastily scribbled (hence the many mistakes). I love that he, like many great people, seems to have a stationery fetish.

SISTERS FROM ANOTHER MISTER?

Did anyone else see Kate Moss' hair at Louis Vuitton and immediately think Liza Minnelli? Because I did and I really don't think that's what Marc was going for.

AW11 wow, SS12 wow.

CRACK

Image c/o Style.com

THIS look from Wang's debut collection for Balenciaga. Sophisticated art student/technician/studio assistant. I can't help the dull practicalities that spring to mind - whether the paint would flake off, how it could be washed. Such a dry cleaner's nightmare.

RECENT SPHERES

PINK BIGGIE

A rare similarity between a Biggie video and a vase of flowers. 

KOREAN BOJAGI

Korea Korea Korea! Kang-choo! So hot right now. So hot that it is Opening Ceremony's 'Featured Country' (we will ignore Gangnam style).

These images are of traditional Korean 'bojagi' - silk squares used to wrap or carry virtually anything. Such a great alternative to all the wrapping paper festering in landfill. I want some! The fabric shops of Shepherds Bush Market call...

SUN SEA SND SEX

An unnamed facebook friend has a habit of posting tremendously annoying statuses detailing his drinking habits and proposing the end of the BBC along the lines of 'what do they even do?' Where do I start. His latest status laments that when he was young January advertising wasn't about Weightwatchers, online bingo and dating but SUMMER HOLIDAYS!  

I hope this witty campaign for Expedia pleases him. It makes me super excited for holidays without the gut-wrenching misery of looking at images of sandy beaches on the tube in January.



p.s. I lovvvvvvvvvvve that Namibia has an airport called EROS.

LAURYN HILL AND ROHAN MARLEY

PINK BIRDS

Elad Lassry's Chilean Flamingo 90028, 2007

TROMPE L'OEIL

Is this trompe l'oeil? Probably not quite but it is a beautiful low relief. Can any architects tell me? It's on Carthusian Street EC1, duh - the corner of Charterhouse Square.

WIEN

Writing my dissertation completely squeezed the joy out of looking at or reading about the work of Egon Schiele. So severe was this feeling, I reached the point where the only pleasure I took from my research was the great colours highlighters make when they overlap.

Happily my Schiele fatigue has gone and I am trying to plan a trip to Vienna to see the Leopold Museum's collection of his works. While I'm (theoretically) there I would also love to see their current exhibition exploring the Male Nude as subject which looks fantastic. 

BJORK POLAR

Bjork photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino - teaser of a serious Polar post coming soon.

AROUND CHARTERHOUSE

WEDNESDAY'S CHILD

Is full of woe. Last night I savaged my hand - perfectly in time for Halloween. OUCH.


Queen Wednesday below.

VOLUME

THE ULTIMATE INSULT

I'll save extolling the virtues of how great Clueless is because everyone knows already. If you don't, there are literally no words. 

LANDINGS

I grew up in a flat that was on one floor and as a result have always found landings very pleasing. The angles outside my bedroom door are particularly great.

PLUMAGE

This image/quote of Elton John I tore out of a supplement a while ago reminded me of my favourite advert which never fails to get me excited about the most fun weekend of the year. Elton's stage time is akin to the pigeon's macawnival (sorry).

When else is it acceptable to spend two solid days rum-punch drunk dancing in the streets?
Elton's sentiment is, I'm sure, how most revellers feel on the tuesday morning.

FOGGY TOWERS

The epic London fog obscuring Barbican's (wonderfully named) sixties monoliths Cromwell, Lauderdale and Shakespeare.

GORY EYE

Dad's eye looked spectacular last weekend. 

GILBERT APFEL

The new cover of Dazed & Confused featuring Iris Apfel reminds me of an old drawing I did of Gilbert Heron, father of Gil Scott-Heron.

RISPEK TO GAD

 

As someone who likes to think they can completely understand the accents of all the Jamaican relay team (I can't) this appeals to me a lot.

MANICURES

Saturday manicures at work.

MILKY PUDDLES

It's definitely autumn. I can't work out what  causes the colour of these puddles, to me it looks as though somebody has poured ouzo in the gutter. 

Milky eyes, watery clouds, street cleaning, petrol, bleached puddles.