STYLENADA

STYLENADA is a Korean shopping website, full of amazing things, including these cut out loafers! (I can't stop looking at cut out shoes and clothes!) At $163 maybe I'll get them next Christmas! 

All images taken from STYLENADA.

Cut Outs

Last year I discovered Balenciaga's cut out boots and searched for a cheaper copy everywhere! I went absolutely mental for Asos' black cut out version! At £65 instead of the roughly $1,200 designer boot I brought them instantly. Jeffrey Campbell also has a chunkier version pictured below, available in a mixture of colours. 

Anything remotely cut out is a must have, below are some further BEAUTIFUL boots I quite fancy.  

Senso Diffusion - Qimat Bootie

Senso Diffusion - Bertina Bootie

Christine Centenera, Vogue's Australian senior fashion editor.

 Crocodile wrap pointy flat boot - PixieMarket 

M.I.A - Bad Girls Video directed by Romain Garvas, came out on top at the UK MTV Video Music Awards. It was named Best Pop Music Video of the Year, named Best Video of the Year and awarded Best Styling in a video, (stylist - Hannah Edwards). Not normally a fan of this type of music, it's started to grow on me and after seeing the video, I love it even more.

The concept was a combination of ideas, M.I.A saw an image of a strong Iranian woman driving a lorry, and the director had seen videos of crazy dangerous drag racing across the desert...from this came the video!

I love the styling for this video.

Watch the Making of below

 

Django Django

Django Django - Default

Django Django's self titled album was shortlisted as one of the albums of 2012 for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize. The 4 piece band formed in 2009 whilst at Edinburgh College of Art.

Check out the other shortlisted albums of the year for the Mercury Prize here. 

P.Rose Fashion Blog

P.Rose Fashion Blog is a great blog for all things fashion, photography and style, run by my good friend Parris Lane, stylist wannabe - occasionally I photograph her looks. 

Giasco Bertoli – Tennis Courts

When researching my previous post about Ward Roberts photo series – Courts, I discovered a comparison to Giasco Bertoli’s -Tennis Courts.

“I started photographing empty tennis courts in southern Switzerland in 1999, on the border to Italy. The work came about by chance. Some time after I’d moved to Paris, I was back in Switzerland, walking in the woods near were I grew up and I came across an abandoned tennis court. I photographed that one, then courts around the neighbourhood where I grew up, and have continued to photogragraph deserted tennis courts ever since. In general I think about images from my adolescence and also think of the visual experiences I’ve had with film as an experience of real life.”
Giasco Bertoli, Spring 2009

http://www.giascobertoli.com

I find his images equally as eye catching as Roberts’ Court series, both shot in a similar way. There’s something about deserted places that I love, especially when shown un-embellished and simply.  Here are a selection of my favourites.

Ward Roberts

Ward Roberts series ‘Courts.’ 

Courts is a project photographed over 4 years, shot on film. Roberts documented sports courts around the world in places such as Hong Kong, Melbourne, Bali, New York and London. Photographed nearly always empty, these images feel stark and eery, emphasised or contrasted by their location and colours. I am attracted to the lines, colour and symmetry within them.

I think his book will now be on my christmas list!

Check out my other favourite Ward Roberts projects, ‘Minimum’ and ‘Billions’ on his website >> http://www.wardrobertsphoto.com

Brutalism

I’ve been researching architecture for my Final Major Project at uni. I have been looking at tower blocks, flats and oppressive buildings and I came across Brutalist architecture.
Brutalism is a type of architecture that came out of the modernist movement, this specific type prevailed between the 1950's - 1970-s.  It's hard to see past the dull concrete, blockish appearance, but when you do these buildings are quite impressive. Here are some examples... 

Brunel Uni,  London (above) features in A Clockwork Orange – which happens to be the subject of my dissertation. This location as well as the second below are included in the Top 10 Brutalist attractions in London. 

Alexandra Road Estate

Habitat 67/Habitat is a housing complex in Canada.