Mark Allred has been having a low-fi renaissance of late. While the rest of my workplace (including me) is getting caught up in megapixels and the basic science of digital photographic reproduction – Mark is wielding his Diana F+, clicking, hoping and waiting till the shots get processed and posted back.
maybe I’m just a control freak and would prefer to do this kinda stuff in photoshop – but then again, i don’t ever get around to it. In that spirit - Mr Allred, I salute you. Beautiful shots too.



check out more on Mark’s flickr page
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posted: March 17th, 2010 |
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I was just about to press ‘publish’ on a post about Patrick Hruby’s other work, when I stumbled across this on his blog.
They’re working roughs of the cover of his favorite book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding. While just 3 independent mock covers, when placed together they show an evolution of style and treatment that not only makes a great triptych, but inadvertently conveys the transformation that occurs to the characters in the book. Great when things accidentally fall in place.
Patrick has the Conch.



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posted: March 16th, 2010 |
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I’ve been a bit of a Chloe fan recently, their last few collections have been so inspiring for me. It’s so refreshing to see a whole collection which is so strong and that oozes style and sophistication. Twenty shades of brown = yes, drab = no.
Here’s a few of my favorite looks.








Nico XX
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posted: March 15th, 2010 |
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We’re baaack. Lady Worthington and I have just spend a most wonderful week skiing in Italy. Can’t recommend it enough. So, sorry about the dire lack of posts but, a laptop on a chairlift didn’t seem like a good idea.
anyway, before we left mydeco.com went all Alice in Wonderland gaga. Stylist Jenny Cooper designed fantasy interiors featuring over-sized furniture and accessories, using the mydeco 3D room planner tool. Each ‘look’ was created using 3D models of real furniture and accessories, from retailers including John Lewis, Heals, Barker and Stonehouse and independent designers such as Blaue Blume and Love Eco.
I’ve always been a big fan of messing with scale, so these creations are right up my alley. or down my rabbit hole… or in my tea cup.. or something :)


mydeco.com
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posted: March 14th, 2010 |
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A: He would totally wear these threads.
Another amazing collection from Ann Demeulemeester




Ann Demeulemeester A/W 2010
Nico XX
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posted: March 14th, 2010 |
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lay like a kitty in a sink!
it’s caturday! you can do what you like!

cats in sinks from cats in sinks
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posted: March 6th, 2010 |
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Here’s a sneak peak at the shoot I styled a couple of weeks ago for Page Magazine. The magazines next issue will be available online from April 1st.

Photographer: Junichi Kikuchi
Stylist: Nicole Freeman
Hair: Akio Nishiyama
Makeup: Louise Dartford
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posted: March 5th, 2010 |
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I love birds; those fluttery, flappy fellows of flight. In their natural form they come in a zillion different shapes and colours – pass those variations through the creative prism of man, and BOOM you’ve got a whole flock of wonderously beautifully creations.
I guess that’s the idea behind the vogelsang blog. or perhaps it’s curator, Ellen just really, really, really likes birds.
Anyway, here’s a couple of my faves – you’ll have to check the site proper to get the sources for each (I’m feeling a lil lazy)



![Cool tea packaging concept designed by Natalia Ponomareva from Russia. Each creative tea bag looks like a beautiful origami bird [via]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx7xqublaO1qzgv1ho1_400.jpg)


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posted: March 4th, 2010 |
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dolce and gabbana, i usually bemoan your creations, passing them off as trashy solutions for women who want to look cheap, sassy and snag a rich man… or indeed any man. i don’t like.
but this, THIS!!! this i LOVE!
i confess! i am completely in love with the a/w 2010 ready to wear collection. i have never felt such affinity with a collection.
i just wish it were ok for me to go out on to the pavement in big knickers and transparent skirts. maybe it is? tomagotchi? may i?
oh i thought you’d say yes! of course i’ll hold your hand.
how do you say tres chic in italian?!
“bella!”





thank you vogue for all your wonderful covergage of milan fashion week.
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posted: March 2nd, 2010 |
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When Ashish said “I saw a gypsy girl outside the Gare du Nord in her pyjamas and a granny knit… I just thought she looked really cool.” in regards to the inspirations for his latest collection, he wasn’t joking.
Maybe that’s where I’m going wrong. When I see a gypsy girl outside the Gare du Nord in her pyjamas and a granny knit I think, “what would your mother say?”.






Nico X
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posted: March 2nd, 2010 |
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The professionally named Alastair T. Willey sent us some shots to feature in this week’s triptych Tuesday.
When I first recieved them, I wasn’t sure – too much negative space, too dark, too ethereal. But, like a good album that takes time to become aquanted and find the nuances – these shots have warmed to me.
In his note, Willey professed he’d been “contemplating methods of printing, framing and how they will become more than digital files.” I guess that transformation happens in a personal sense too.



check out more of Alastair’s work (along with a very cool way of displaying a folio).
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posted: March 2nd, 2010 |
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posted: February 28th, 2010 |
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i used to be a fan of whistles. i was a fan when i was about 21 and had penchant for quirky, lady-like pieces and everything had to go with my boot-cut earl jeans. (EVERYTHING went with jeans back in 2001, remember?) and then i think somehow i decided that i wasn’t really a yummy mummy from wimbledone and i didn’t aspire to be one either so i stopped going in there. besides, i remember all the little eccentric bits i would have flexed the plastic for weren’t in stock anymore and all i was left with were the yummy mummy bits. i realised whistles had no edge. it was all a bit blah.
well, after jane shepherdson left her chief exec position at topshop in 2007 after 20 years (and transforming it into a crack-fashion empire) she has since been employed as chief mastermind of whistles, after a brief trip over to oxfam as a volunteer advisor. and boy is she breathing some new life in to the declining british boutique chain!
instead of boxy jackets and wide cut trousers, whistles seems to be taking it’s inspiration from the east (that’s shoreditch, not china, just to clarify) and suddenly the collections are awash with patterned playsuits, tuxedo jackets and a youthful, independent confidence. and these changes follow through to every detail of the whistles chain. from the store facade, store interiors, to the website, everything about whistles is hipper, more self-assured and well, just a whole lot cooler. think less cutsy, but with oodles more charm.




all images via whistles. first 3 from s/s 2010, last image from a/w 2009
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posted: February 28th, 2010 |
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