Mad Woman

Am off to Cornwall for a couple of days where I am looking forward to not caring AT ALL about how strange I'm going to look in this get up:

Now I just have to hope that the weather holds out....

Have a lovely weekend one and all.

Sophie Calle, The Hotel

I came across these photo montages by Sophie Calle last week when flicking through the pages of a photography book I always keep near my desk. The Hotel pictures show the various belongings of anonymous hotel guests and were captured secretly by Calle who worked as a temporary chambermaid in Venice during the early 1980s. I find these secret photographs so intriguing as I'm interested in all the different parts that make up who someone is. Clothes, jewellery etc are so central to this, which is one of the reasons I enjoy doing One Off's Style Profiles so much. And so my book tells me: 'The importance of Calle's art has been to raise questions about just what it is that interests us: the ordinary fabric of other people's lives'.

Packing

Daisy's going on holiday to Italy tomorrow. I'm insanely jealous and I also really like her shirt and skirt.

Old Shirt

I am going to Spain next week for a couple of days and am avoiding digging out my Primark black bikini that I have had for 3 years, incase I find it has finally perished. I would quite like this Michael Kors bikini if money were no option. Although maybe without the weird cape thing. I generally find sarongs quite offensive so tend to wear discarded shirts from my parents. I love these two because they are massive and have great prints that for some reason don't look so garish in hot countries.