Palma Violets

Palma Violets performing 'Tom the Drum' on Jools Holland. The band also performed 'Best of Friends,' and 'Last of the Summer Wine.' I can't wait for their debut album '180' to be released 25th February.

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.