The Unveiling of the Paisley

Last Thursday I attended the exhibition of Infinity by Cassandra Scott-Finn in Chippendale for Art Month Sydney. Her artwork was a semi-transparent structure of radiant mirrored acrylic, that continually changed colour and incorporated both the viewer and environment into a mesmerising kaleidoscope. It was an interactive sculpture which you could enter and become a voyeur of the outside world through rose-tinted lenses.

Leather jacket from some random Asian store
Thrifted knit jumper
Jack London silk tie
Thrifted shirt
Ksubi jeans
Doc Marten boots

For such a cool event, I thought I would try my hand at wearing print from head to toe. The print in question? Paisley. You can never go wrong with paisley. Even when you have three different prints of paisley, layered one on top of the other. Paisley jeans, top and silk tie. Over the top? I think not.

Shedding layers as we go... I know, I know. I was one picture away from being topless and scaring away my whole audience base of two readers (thanks mum and dad for reading my stuff <3). Luckily though, those X-rated images will remain in my hard drive and life's greatest mystery of what I look like underneath my garments will forever be a secret. Unless, by some chance, the contents of my computer get stolen by some hackers, preferably by Anonymous and then leaked onto the Internet. Then I'll soar to stardom and relish in my fifteen minutes of fame. Muahahaha...

But in all seriousness, that probably won't happen seeing as me topless is not going to have the same effect that Taylor Lautner gets. Quite the opposite in fact. And lets spare a moment to consider what was going through the photographers mind while I continued to undress. I would like to think that she was enthralled and captivated in a trance like state, unable to stop documenting such fine form. Though she has since deleted me off Facebook, I don't know why. I kid I kid. But no really, she can't even look at me:

Plastic Island knit dress
Wedge boots from eBay

Photos courtesy of one distressed photographer, Lola Li.
PS. If you want a closer look at the paisley jeans print, you can try here and here.

Marchesa Fall 2012

So as New York Fashion Week 2012 draws to a close, I decided that I'd do a feature of a designer who I thought had stood out. This year, it had to be Marchesa. The Marchesa Fall 2012 collection was simply breathtaking, there was not one single garment in the entire collection that I didn't love. If I possessed one of these dresses I would honestly wear it everywhere, every day - while shopping for groceries, doing chores, I would even sleep in it too, just so I could feel like a million bucks every second.

This is what I love about Marchesa. Collection after collection, they produce these gowns which look as if they're worth their weight in gold; the delicate lace embroidery alone, would've costed thousands of dollars. Admittedly I have a serious weak spot for lace (gift me lace and I'm all yours), but these ornate details have a timeless beauty beyond their material value.

The inspiration this season was the late nineteenth century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau's 'A Soul Brought to Heaven', its aesthetic evident in all the beautiful feathers, winged embroideries, lace and the softness and femininity of it all. These were juxtaposed by select "darker" pieces, featuring elaborately laser-cut black leather, dark tulle details and intricate skeletal embroidery designs, in a way which I felt harmonised the whole collection. This having been only their second runway show, I thought they put up a stunning production.

I can just imagine it...

Yay for Codie Young! YAY AUSSIE MODELS!

Rottweilers

At first when i saw the GIVENCHY fall/winter 2011 Rotteiler shirt i wasn't that impressed. I've never been a big fan of graphic tee's, insisting that they were more suited towards the 13 yr old fashionably unconscious teens of society. Yet it soon grew on me and suddenly it turned into an OBSESSION, a piece of item that i must have. This obsession may or may not have been assisted by the fact that Kanye West wore the same shirt.  And then with relentless searching and complaining, i finally found one at a non ridiculously expensive inflated price.

Givenchy Rottweiler Top
Random leather jacket
Levi Skinnies
Jeffery Campbell Boots

I decided to wear it to Sculptures by the Sea in Bondi for the first time with my friends Katrina and Louise. It was so freaken windy, I felt like a hurricane was about to spring out of no where. I was getting whipped constantly by little pebbles and rocks all over my body the whole day. Luckily I was more than fully covered, unlike my friend Katrina who had the pleasure of being pelted by those rocks all over her legs. To add to her shame her skirt kept rising up as well. I was also quite disappointed by this years work, with very few sculptures that caught my attention.