notes on becoming fearless

turn

Commes Des Garcons S/S97 photos by Jane McLeish.

DANSE

Love the look of these pointe shoe inspired flats from Monki.

Photo from Love Aesthetics.

a grand DESIGN

I love Grand Designs so much that I often bore Lewis half to death watching it on 4od. It fuels my (highly unlikely) dream of renovating or building my own home. I'm even considering subscribing to the magazine. I think I must be turning into my dad.

I particularly loved this house built by interior designer Kathryn Tyler, I would like all of her furniture! Plus she seemed so lovely. Often the subjects are a little annoying. I would like a house of my own one day! The episode is available to watch here.

All pictures of Corkellis House from Kathryn Tyler's website Linea Studio.

the modern HOME

Currently persuading myself to purchase this Handcrafted Modern book by artist and photographer Leslie Williamson. I have a feeling I'm likely to cave in.

 

Top to bottom: Wharton Esherick home & studio, Paoli, PA, Louis Kahn's Esherick House, Chestnut Hill, PA, Bertoia Barn, Barto, PA, Vladimir Kagan’s living room, NYC, JB Blunk's home, Inverness, CA & Walter Gropius' living room, Lincoln, MA.

want CANDY

Oooh looks like Topshop is raising its game...

Love this pastely bright blazer from the upcoming SS12 collection. Via Style Bubble.

making WAVES

I went to see the Yohji Yamamoto wedding dress on show at the Wapping Project when it opened a while ago. The dress is suspended upside down over a flooded boiler house room. The room is very darkly lit so you see a reflection of dress the right way up from the water which becomes clearer as the boat man takes you closer around the dress. The boat can seat 2 people and costs £5 but just viewing the dress from the entrance platform is free. I would definitely recommend the boat ride though - it was serene and quite beautiful and a much more interesting way to look at the piece. Wellies are provided although be careful if you're wearing anything long - Jennie's coat unfortunately got a bit wet from the water at the bottom of the boat!

 

CSM MA show

The Central Saint Martin’s MA graduates for this year deserve their own post – in fact some of it was the best of London Fashion Week. So at least there are some new designers who will hopefully be able to drag London out of the dull stupor it seems to have fallen into, for most part I’ve found the AW11 collections a bit dull, boring and well just a bit disappointing but more on that in a seperate post later.

Some of the collections were quite similar in style with long drapey sheath dresses featuring highly in the womenswear and very rounded exaggerated shoulder shapes in the menswear. My absolute favourites were Bethan Silverwood’s long black dresses with beautiful embroidered orange inserts and Charlotte Smith's incredible long fringe dresses. I think orange might well be my new favourite colour. Overall the standard looks incredibly high and puts the professionals to shame. I also was really glad to see a lot of colour and good print in the collections as well after a generally dismal display from the rest of LFW.

Bethan Silverwood

Charlotte Smith

Helen Bullock

Rejina Pyo

Maarten Van Der Horst

Yeori Bae

Phoebe English

 

Viktor Smedinge

 

 

anywho

Trying to resist buying one of these coats from Anywho's collaboration with Kobra. It shouldn't be hard as I have no money but somehow I'm having problems...

So should I / shouldn't I?

Available in the Anywho online shop.

wrap it UP

Pretty Liberty silk scarves for an incredibly low price - only £12.99 each £4 of which goes to Comic Relief. 

OUTNET picks

There are a whole selection of Alexander Wang bags on Outnet for half price now... Still not exactly a bargain but definitely more reasonable than at full price.