January, 2012

This!

Wednesday 18 January, 2012 / Fashion / Comments { 22 }

one of my new years resolutions should probably have been to stop complaining about the heat. i live in africa, i have done for 28 years, i need to get over it. WELL. that will never happen. i actually day dream about the cold. i look at pictures of girls wearing crisp camel coloured coats and actually get kind of weepy. i am particularly drawn to the lovely dark mix of blacks, browns and navy… accessorised with beautiful leather bags and jaunty hats. sigh.

the sartorialist: left &  right

hel looks & all the pretty birds

streetstyle aesthetic & the sartorialist

la belle oiselle & style sightings

jak & jill

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Steven Alan Resort 2012

Monday 16 January, 2012 / Fashion / Comments { 22 }

oh, gosh. oh, sigh. oh, steven alan.

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Anna & Marek

Monday 16 January, 2012 / Photography / Comments { 18 }

some more beautiful photographs from Anna & Marek Strachan, who i previously posted about here.

Using digital and analog cameras (35 mm and 120 mm film) we try to take advantage mainly of daylight and to avoid extensive image postprocessing.

all photographs by Anna & Marek Strachan

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Bumper Fashion Special No. 28

Sunday 15 January, 2012 / Fashion / Comments { 8 }

i used to do these posts called the bumper fashion special, usually on a sunday, as a round up of great fashion i’d been seeing around. the last one i did was in october 2010 – i think it’s time for a comeback.

CC KUO SS/2012:

dieppa restrepo luca rose gold shoes at totokaelo:

colenimo s/s 2012 sneak peak at honey kennedy:

3.1 philip lim shirt seen at park & cube:

louis vuitton pre-fall 2012:

beautiful ensemble from atlantic pacific:

the sartorialist & street peeper:

alexa chung for vero moda:

half & half via hila:

naomi simms at tomboy style:

new stuff to shop at lawrence:

this outfit from 9-5 chic:

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Butter Your Popcorn

Friday 13 January, 2012 / Music / Comments { 22 }

i have a special treat for you. truth is it’s a special treat for me too. i have been nagging my boyfriend to make an extra special funk music mix for the blog for some time now. when i say nagging i mean, i make him coffee and shower him with chocolate speckled eggs and sweetly ask if that funk mix he’s working on is ready yet. it’s finally ready, and it’s here.

a little background story to this – when we were first getting to know each other we exchanged various bits and pieces online (as you do when you’re sussing someone out, wooing them as it were). he sent me a funk mix in a zip file – which is basically the modern day equivalent of making someone a mix tape – and it was all stuff i had literally never heard before. Anton knows his funk. you can have a discussion with him about funk. well, i can’t – but he can teach me. and now he can teach you a bit, too.

Butter Your Popcorn - a guest mix courtesy of my guy, Anton. download it here.

Funk is my favourite kind of music. It’s like the extroverted, more fun cousin of jazz, with some soul and R&B thrown in for good measure. Some of the best vocalists, guitarists, drummers and musicians who ever lived played in funk bands, but as skilled as they were they rarely took themselves seriously. Every time I hear funk I picture a group of people in a recording studio having the time of their lives. The mix starts with Miles Davis’ ex wife Betty who was a pioneer in her own right and pushed Miles into his later, funkier experimental work like Bitches Brew. It also includes one of my favourite artists, Sly Stone, who was a heavy influence on Prince. And then we end with a more soulful moment from the godfather himself.

  1. Betty Davis - If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up
  2. Carlton Basco - Don’t Chain My Soul
  3. Hank Ballard - Butter Your Popcorn
  4. The Meters - What’cha Say
  5. The Sweet Inspirations - Slipped & Tripped
  6. Cold Blood - Kissing My Love
  7. Round Robin Monopoly - Life Is Funky
  8. Cymande - Brothers Slide
  9. Sly and The Family Stone - In Time
  10. Roy Porter - Party Time
  11. Co-Real Artists - What About You (In The World Today) *
  12. The Fatback Band - Do The Bus Stop
  13. James Brown - That’s Life (Live)

* my favourite. all music is for sampling purposes only – please go out and buy the artists’ records.

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