Staple dress, Cotton On cardi, vintage Oroton handbag.
I wore this while running errands around the city. It was incredibly hot today, but I almost always wear some kind of cardigan to protect myself from the sun. The Staple dress is from a diffusion label by Mink Pink, it’s lightweight and so comfortable.
Hopefully I’ll have the Internet by next week and I can post again more regularly.
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I found a cd of photos from Peru that I thought I had lost. I love this one, it was taken one night after teaching with the adorable Juan-Paul! (:
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I’m composing this mess of an entry from my iPhone, because I still don’t have internet at my new place. I’ve been incredibly busy lately with a whole bunch of things, the most demanding of my time being music video editing.
I have barely had time to properly settle into my new room, but I did make this cute little wall feature using string and miniture pegs from Kikki.k – it’s a kind of inpiration wall, to hang my favourite photographs and editorials of the moment. I’m going for a clean, white bedroom theme with dark wood and lots of soft, warm light.
I’m thoroughly enjoying living in Brisbane so far. Earlier in the week I checked out the vintage shops in Paddington and yesterday I went to see an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art. There was a huge pile of recycled objects (see below) and you could make whatever you wanted, but there was no tape or glue. My twin sister and I made a Japanese Robot Fisherman.
I went to the music video wrap party earlier in the week and wore my Charlie Brown cream dress with rossette details on the hem.
I like natural-looking makeup, so this is about the most you’ll ever see me wearing on my face.
I am wearing: Everyday Mineral Foundation (I love EM because it feels so light and fresh on your face, I use the Semi-Matte formula in Fair Medium), YSL Touché Éclat highlighter, Clinique mascara, Bobbi Brown Gel Liner, EM eyeshaow and Nars blush in Orgasm.
I still feel very foreign to this city, so if your in Brisbane and have any suggestions on places to go and things to see, let me know in the comments.
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I find Hirokazu Koreeda to be incredibly talented, but someone I admire just as much (if not more) is Yutaka Yamasaki, the Director of Photography of Dare mo Shiranai (or Nobody Knows), a Japanese film about a single mother who abandons her young children in a small apartment in Tokyo. The lighting and camera work in this film is absolutely breathtaking.
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I love this film for the incredible Production Design, classic Wes Anderson deadpan humor and the overall brilliance of Bill Murray. Like The Science Of Sleep, The Life Aquatic seems to be widely hated, which I can (sort of) understand from a storytelling perspective, but I can’t help loving it anyway.
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I always loved Cassie’s eclectic, theatrical style on the British television series Skins. I was very sad to see her character go after the second season. Although I absolutely adore the fashion in television series like Gossip Girl (or The OC, back in the day), I feel that they represent outfits that are very composed and deliberate. Skins, on the other hand, presents fashion-savvy audiences with something very different; more erratic, untidy and probably more realistic of most teenagers. Below are a collection of a few of my favourite Cassie outfits.
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This illustration is for Maximillia Fashion Boutique.
The dress is by Vivetta and retails for around $680 AUD.
I’m moving to Brisbane on Wednesday. The house is nice and cheap, but it has a dark green carpet! Why why why? I am feeling inspired by twinkling lights today, so that’s going to be a main feature of the new room. I also want to decorate with those cardboard/recycled-look desk organisational items from Kikki.k – I am crazy for stationary. I’m also planning to put in an order for my new quad-core iMac with i7 processor on Monday. Very exciting!
I just can’t get over that green carpet!
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Here’s the finished commission. I’m fairly happy with how it turned out.
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Well, I’m back from my camping / rapiding trip. It was so much fun, but now I’m covered in bruises and scratches. I look a bit like a domestic violence victim. I’m also very sunburnt! I have extremely fair skin and hate getting sunburnt. When I first got back from Colombia, my family and friends were so shocked at how brown I was. I’m not quite as brown as back then, but I’m getting there.
Here are some photos:
Pre-warning: they are very unglamorous and I was not wearing makeup or regularly showering.
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