Cute girls with cute horses

Samantha wears:
Cooper St kimono
Vinetti cutout leather top

Sarah wears:
Vinetti suede leather top
Provocator flare pants
Kobe Husk heels

Sarah wears
Neuw embroidered sundress

Samantha wears:
Ebony Eve skirt

Samantha wears:
Neuw cropped tee
White Suede lace shorts
Mister Zimi pony haired boots

Samantha wears:
Paper Skye sheer dress
W.E. by Whitney Eve necklace

Sarah wears:
Provocator lace dress
Provocator lace cardigan
Stylists shoes

Sarah wears:
Serpent and the Swan muslin dress
Vintage Alistair Tung cape

Samantha wears:
Therese Rawsthorne sheer button up

Sarah wears:
Serpent and the Swan dress with leather detail
Serpent and the Swan copper chain with signature bone

A little photoshoot I did with the talented Lucia Pang all the way in Penrith!

So what I originally wrote for this post  is going to be ignored, deleted and instead, I'm going to go on a little tangent, rant, passive aggressive post, life message that can be mildly linked back to the editorial that I styled.

Now I like to think that the two models represent me, because really, the amount of amazingness I am is equivalent to these two super hot babe models. Now you can see by the first few images that they are all like 

Hmmmm these cactus plants are dangerous but sadly they don't seem to be able to love me no matter how much I hug them. Why won't you lurveeeeeee me you stupid plants but honestly plants can't love you because they are plants and you can't make friends with salad let alone a lover so really all I'm doing is waiting to get pricked  but I like living life on the edge #YOLO

But then you come across this gorgeous white horse that accidentally dropped your knight in shinning armor at the wrong farm 3 blocks away but it doesn't matter because it loves you and wants you to be its best friend and won't stop following you even after you have your photo with it . 

So there you are forgetting about your stupid cactus loving escapade and just chilling on some farm with a horse that loves you and Oh life is so amazing with the nice weather and colour presets.

but then...

BAM

The horse backstabs you (the related photo was to gruesome to upload) and suddenly you are in some other weird run down farm clutching your body from the freezing cold. And it ain't just a physical cold sistah

Soon you are grabbing onto anything to support yourself and you are thinking that hmmmmm that cactus loving thing I had going on earlier was better because it would just prick me and not backstab me (because cactus can't backstab but horses can)

Soon you are just sitting down on some wall looking off into the distance thinking what if...

And then your life turns into a B&W photo

The end.

So if you are still with us, the point of the story is, if you had to play with a cactus or horse, pick the cactus guys. JUST DO IT.

*sponsored by the National Cactus Association*

The Hottest New Trend of 2013

Romance Was Born t-shirt (worn backwards)
Ksubi denim jacket
Edwin jeans
Timberland boots

Haven't you heard? The hottest trend hitting the streets next season is wearing your tops backwards. According to our insider source at Style.com*, all the big labels are preparing to shake up the fashion world with shirts worn the wrong way around. Yes, that's right, you heard it here first, Fashion Industry Confessions ain't got nothin' on me.

But can you guys imagine that? Collection after collection of models walking looking like they hurriedly got dressed in the dark. Imagine the stress of the poor little dressers back stage, putting the looks onto the models properly and then realising, no the right way around isn't actually the right way. Utter chaos, I tell you.

So I thought I would give it a shot, and I present to you my best Tyra Banks approved fierceness smize into your soul so you love me more when I look constipated lewk whilst wearing my Romance was Born top backwards. As you can see, the back of the Romance was Born top, which is worn in the front and not the back in the following picture, is simply divine. It's reminiscent of a really resplendently rendered Renaissance rartwork (+5 points for my alliteration).

werk, werk, werk it gurrrl

Honestly though, I actually prefer wearing the top this way around because the front image is a bit too feminine (even for me). But even so, whenever I do it I can't help but feel a little bit avant-garde.

*not really

Where Gelato collides with Fashion

My friend once recounted to me how she was overcome with gelato Messina cravings one day. Now anyone who's had Messina would know that such cravings are a natural part of life, like the sun rising or wanting to throw your naked body onto Ryan Gosling .But what was particularly funny about this story is that she had just woken up, and because she was no longer a child and by extension, wasn't restricted by the rules of her parents, decided

 "Yes. Yes I can have mother fucking gelato Messina for breakfast"

And off she went at 10:30am in the morning to the Messina store with a smile on her face to only be confronted with a closed sign. It turned out Messina doesn't cater for breakfast. Now you would presume that any respectable person would just go back home in defeat but no, not this girl. She was determined to stake it out and wait for Messina to open. That's real love.

Why am I retelling this story? Well I feel like I can draw lots of parallels between her story and my own predicament. And no its not my constant craving for Messina. It is however my insatiable hunger for everything and anything Serpent and the Swan. Having recently gone to their press showings, I literally hashtag totes died at their hashtag totes ah-mazzzing collection. And this wasn't the first time.

Serpent and the Swan are one of those labels that no amount of high resolution photos could really reflect the quality of the garments. All the amazing things, the small, subtle details are easily missed when you can't feel the material and inspect the garments up close in person.

Serpent and the Swan North Sea Shirt

Take this amazing North Seas shirt. You might simply say "oh it's a cool print shirt" however you are wrong. Very very wrong. Like how those people in the olden days thought the world was flat. That's how wrong you are. It is more than just a very very incredibly cool print shirt.

It's a very very incredible cool print shirt that's on a raw silk that doesn't look or feel like silk but more like boiled wool or some other very rare ultra luxe material that you will never see in Supre.  

And if you are like "OMG IT'S SO NICE BUT IT'S A GUYS SHIRT I CAN NEVER WEAR IT" well its labelled as "unisex" so shut up and just wear it. Like I do! And there's a bag to match!

I actually still can't get over how amazing it is. I think I'm going to need a Messina to calm me down. Or two. 

Día de los Muertos

Therese Rawsthorne shirt
Edwin jeans
Thrifted shoes

One of the things that cemented my undying love for Lola is the fact that she happens to work in the food industry (can't you tell? She's so fat), and consequently, takes me to all her amazing food-related events. So when the opportunity arose to accompany her to one of her Secret Foodies pop-up dining events, I squealed a little too loud over the phone. This resulted in her giving me a solid ten minute lecture about not eating everything in sight. Like I eat anything anyways, it's three months to fashion week!

So fast-forward a week later and suddenly here I am wearing this slightly creepy, overly revealing sheer top and low cut singlet, surrounded by people with faces either done up like a Gothic banshee or without makeup. As seen below, Lola chose the later. She suits the clean, natural look, no?

MinkPink kimono
Cotton On Body corset
Love skirt
Kani rose crown
Diva earrings
Necklace from eBay

This particular event was Día de los Muertos, a Day of the Dead themed warehouse party for Halloween. Following a secret text message with directions leading me to a random parking lot in St Peters, I found Al Carbon (Sydney's latest Mexican food truck!) camped there, dishing out all you can eat tacos all night outside the party. The food was so fresh and mouth watering, I'm ashamed to say, I ate until I could physically eat no more. Aside from the food (most important), there was margaritas, Mexican decorations everywhere, Coronas, face painting, sangria, a Mariachi band and it gets blurry after the tequila...

Almost everyone was in costume, but I guess that someone also failed to mention to the girls that in Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it. There was not one pair of mouse ears or skanky lingerie to be seen the whole night. I'm not sure whether to feel disappointed or relieved.

Photographs by Lola Li.