Holy Holly

Holly Garber shot by Tommy Ton.

Black Magic... en point.

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Inferno

 

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Flapper flipper

'Prohibition' theme this Saturday.
Nicely timed video for inspiration.
Via Vogue Paris

Fafilicious

Fafi sketch for her latest wall art in Mexico.
Via Fafi's blog on CoolCats.

Astro Taureau

Siri Tollerod as 'the bull' in Dolce & Gabbana, featured in UK Vogue Dec 2010.

Photography: Tim Gutt
Styling: Kate Phelan
Set design: Shona Heath
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Paris vs New York

La Romantique

Le Café

Le Réalisateur

Artwork by Vahram Muratyan of Viiiz design studio. A Parisian living in New York City.

Paris vs New York site

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New Cuts

Your Job, 2010, Rob Ryan

New work by amazing paper artist Rob Ryan, part of the series entitled The Stars Shine All Day Too.
Jusqu'a November 20 at The Air Gallery, 32 Dover St, London.
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Boater beauty

Pic from Seafolly archives c/o Russh

Lanvin for H&M

Mad Hatter

Strolled past this store on Rue de Rivoli today, took the obligatory photo out front, posted it on facebook via the blancberry, and meandered away dreaming of having one of theses hat boxes sitting on top of my wardrobe.

Then Scott takes a photo and posts it the same day that I've walked past.

You like this.

(FYI-my surname is 'Bate'. And I was wearing my new chapeau not dissimilar to the 'Newbury' above at the time.)

Embrace the ridiculous

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

Arlecchino

Pierrot

Inez Van Lamsweerde

Inez Van Lamsweerde.

Front cover of the latest 'the gentlewoman' magazine.

Wearing a moustache.

Wardrobe Emesis

I love this. Not each individual item, per se, but how the entire ensemble has been thrown together in a very "I love this, and this, and this, and now cross your fingers and let's hope it works" kinda way. Of course it works. For her. She's Taylor Tomasi Hill.

You can't get away with dressing like this here. Not without being stared at. The fact that I am un-Gallic in every sense of my being means I've noticed, and since become accustomed to, the staring, which the French are very good at I might add. Add to this the fact that I throw on what ever hat, shoe, jumper, short, dress etc that takes my fancy, and do not conform to the navy suede ankle-height 1 1/2 inch lace-up boot, gray skinny jean, long-sleeve stripe tee, gray knit, navy pea-coat/ trench ensemble that all French girls adopt as their unofficial street uniform, I scream expat. And the staring continues...

At the beginning I tried to conform. I didn't want to be considered an outsider. I wanted people to think I was a local and one of them. I wore stripes, a beret, sometimes, shamelessly at the same time! But I was naive. Because I'm not French. Nor should I want to be. Even my darling flatmate, who is French, reminds me, when I am spoken to in English without being prompted - "People know you are not French". "How?" I ask. "Because you don't look French". But, HOW?! I don't live in China, or Africa, where the exterior features of the people there are quite clearly different to my Anglo make-up and it is quite obvious I am from a different part of the world. No, they know.
Like an inbuilt 'Gaul-dar', they know.

And, so, I stopped trying. I wear what I want. Yes, I sometimes look absolutely ridiculous. Yes, I am an outsider. No, I am not English, or American, but yes, I am not from here. I stopped caring. The staring doesn't phase me any longer. And I'm happier.

'Wardrobe Emesis' is, and kind of always has been, my dressing mantra. I buy clothes I like. Not in any one particular style, genre, type, designer (although if I had the funds I wouldn't hold back on an entire wardrobe of Wang). And then I wear them. And cross my fingers it works. Sometimes I strike gold, most times I don't, but always I don't care.

My realisation of this came one day when I decided to wear to work white Converse sneakers, black tights, a black baby-doll bubble-skirted viscose-jersey halter-neck dress, with an "I heart NY" tee-shirt underneath. They were the favourite pieces from my wardrobe at the time. I thought it worked. My very minimalisticly chic co-worker/ best friend didn't. I received a finger-waving "Please, explain" from her, and the internal questioning about conformity vs creativity began...

If you can stand the staring, wear what you wish. And be happy.

image: Vanessa Jackman

Erin Wasson for Scanlan and Theodore

Scanlan and Theodore Spring '11 lookbook shot by Nan Goldin featuring Erin Wasson.

All images on the Scanlan and Theodore site

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Take it like a man

I donned a man's costume one night at work last week. I wore a waist coat and drew a moustache on my face. I thought I would go weird and be uncomfortable. But I liked it.

So ever since I've been drawn to a more masculine dressing aesthetic. But without loosing the girly touch. Just like this.

image: The Sartorialist 

And, as a shout out to my place of residence, here's the Parisian gender bender dressing guide c/o 'Do it in Paris'... (click pic for link)

image: Do it in Paris

Eclectic fantastic

Gillian Zinser.

Who? Precisely. Apparently a new-90210 actor.

Care factor... just the 0 - She dresses as if all four Parisian Frip' stores threw up on her and still looks shit hot. Bravo.

image via

Anne He

She's 15.

I only hope that one day I, too, could be able to catch the light as she has done in this image with my photography. Some day.

Anne He via Hello Sandwich