A Private World, Tim Walker

Red hair nostalgia. Another of my favourite editorials.












This last one pretty much sums up my taste exactly.

Cobwebs

Not a day goes by anymore where I don't regret giving my mother the go ahead to give my 14 year old self's mohair sweater to the charity shop. Albeit the thing was pink and black horizontal stripes, but it was the perfect sweater to laze around in. I think after breaking up with my boyfriend of the time in 2007 I went out of my way to give myself a new image, something that wouldn't associate me with him. I even dyed over my signature red hair to black (although, the years of dyeing it red were really taking its toll). Since then I think I've regressed back to who I really am. I'm grungey, messy, scatty. And I'll be attacking my hair no doubt with bleach over the summer.

I've seen a lot of DIY versions of the Rodarte Spring/Summer 2009 collection, and I think it's about time I tried my own. Since I've been on the waiting list for the embroidery project for 3 weeks now, I switched to the knit project which focusing on garment construction which is even more reason to give it a go. Now to work out a colour palette...

make me confess, shut your mouth, rip my dress

I love this trainwreck of a woman. She is everything that is ugly about women, but still so scathingly beautiful.

















(polaroids from Katie Jane Garside's exhibition darling, they've found the body at the woom gallery)

Tomorrow I need to get out of the house for sure. Today I'm just content sat with one of our cats Jessica nibbling on my fingers.

Wonderland & The Disappearing Dress

The lectures at University of Ulster were so much more interesting than the ones I get now at Manchester Metropolitan. For one, my lecturers then didn't rely so heavily on their thesaurus'.

"They are humid prepossessing Homo Sapiens with full sized aortic pumps."
Honestly, it's like listening to Joey's adoption recommendation letter for an hour every Monday.

That aside, the lectures at UU introduced me to Patricia Belford (who ultimately helped me make the tough decision between Textiles and Jewellery Design) and consequently Helen Storey.

My biggest regret of 2008 was missing out on her exhibition of Wonderland at The Ormeau Baths. She teamed up with Tony Ryan (The Polymer Centre at Sheffield University), and Aoife Ludlow & Patricia Belford (Interface at University of Ulster) to create garments constructed of a water soluble polymer which gradually dissolve over time. Gives new meaning to disposable fashion! (nevermind hopping between four-season-a-day Northern Ireland or rainyrainy Manchester).























I repeat. BIGGEST REGRET.

Mix I

Beirut - Nantes
♥ Bob Dylan - Billy 1
♥ Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain
♥ Indigo Moss - Suicide Song
♥ My Brightest Diamond - Tainted Love
♥ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity
Nine Inch Nails - Not So Pretty Now
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Venice Queen
She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
♥ Sonic Youth - I'm Not There
T.Rex - 20th Century Boy
♥ The Black Keys - The Breaks
The Coral Sea - Fell
The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
The Kills - Fried My Little Brains
♥ The Urges - The Urges Theme
♥ Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock

I could really have kept going with the Dinosaur Jr. I'm having a real relapse on them (not that that's a bad thing). The ♥ are my absolute must listens at the moment.

Scarves

If I could only wear one accessory for the rest of my days, it would be scarves. They make an outfit to me. I feel so naked without one. I need to invest in more chunky knit scarves (I have either lost mine or had them stolen in shitty bars), but since they are out of season now I may just try handknitting a few (if I'm going to continue being a knitter, I need to tackle my fear of knitting larger things - although I'm doing quite well with the machine knits).


I adore this girls look. I find neutral, muted colours so much more exciting (this proves to make my textiles colour book rather tough since my tutor reckons my colour palettes always look the "same").









1. Mira Jakobsen 2. Slåinmejifolie Doepel 3. Marla Singer 4. N ! 5. Paul-william De silva

La terre n’est pas assez ronde pour m’étourdir autant qu’toi

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(closed for the moment)

This lady's handmade parcels are stunning.

















More on globes and maps later. I'm hopefully doing a short 3 week embroidery project on them when I get back to Manchester, if I didn't sign up to late.