Leathers

Making wearing no trousers look cool... I want everything. Alistair McKimm styles Anok Yai, Adut Akech and Eniola Abioro for I-D magazine last year, shot by Ethan James Green

January sparkle

Sofia decked out in Louis Vuitton seems like a pretty good guideline for January dressing?

The campaign showcases Marc Jacobs' last collection for Louis Vuitton and features women he found most inspirational during his tenure with the fashion label, including faces such as Gisele and Edie Campbell.

Friday at an Exhibition

It seems that I am making a habit of spending part of Friday at an exhibition. At the end of last week I made the journey over to the Tate Modern to see the vast display of Yayoi Kusama's work. Unfortunately the glorious weather of Thursday hadn't stretched itself to morning of my visit, although the mist and clouds over the Thames really did seem to have a silver lining

Most people who take any interest in what goes on at the Tate will probably have seen images such as these below to advertise Kusama's show

And rightly so - these two rooms are amazing. Absolutely disconcerting but thrilling. A weird psychedelic disco. I loved it. Dots are repeated again and again throughout the exhibition, especially in the final rooms: 

'My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of the unbounded universe, from my own position in it, with dots - an accumulation of particles forming the negative spaces... I wanted to examine the single dot that was my own life.'

But I also really enjoyed the first room of Kusama's early work too. These were beautiful drawings in improvised materials (she was unable to get hold of oil paints, so mixed household paints with sand and used seed sacks as canvases), often odd but delicate and intricate.

 

Top: Leaves, 1954

Bottom: The Germ, 1952

I liked this one from her 1970s NY years too

Man Catching the Insect, 1972
Quite like that this one is stuck on a page in my scrap book with a £2,430 pair of shoes - coincidentally the exhibition is sponsored by Louis Vuitton....
As a new week starts I am buoyed by Kusama's statement of unquestionable girl power 
'Bring on Picasso, bring on Matisse, bring on anybody! I would stand up to them all with a single dot.'

Woah

I am entirely missing the point of Luis Gispert's 2011 show, 'Decepcion', in admitting that although I sincerely understand and admire the aim of the pictures (read the press release here), I would also quite like to own one of these cars.

Hi There Louis

I found a fake Louis Vuitton coin purse in some drawers in my room over the summer. It was a present from a friend at school, and I hadn't seen either friend or purse for years until recently. I have been using the purse ever since I rediscovered it, and bumped into the friend who gave it to me completely randomly in Manchester last weekend. Fate? I also really like the new campaign.

A Gift From Preston

Some friends went to Preston Flea Market at the break of dawn one day this week. Amongst the treasure was this Claddagh earring (only one) that Hannah picked from a tray of trinkets and gave to me. Its made my week. (Maybe month). Hannah also bought 3 pairs of socks for a pound - the Louis Vuitton ones are amazing.