f-all

the fact is: it is autumn, survived another bloody summer without turning orange and straighthaired like every other girl/boy in this most silly of cities. defiantly pale, and chesnut hair growing outwards and onwards daily. feeling the urge to cut excessively long scarves from fabrics which can be wrapped several times - the best amount of times - around myself and also others who like that sort of thing...or who don't but I feel they may be deserving. around and around it will go, until the fabric hangs and clings like tides.

currently researching into the development of perfect pitch in children. who knew the circumstances needed to be so specific? are you independent and focused and did you play the piano as a three year old? you might be one of the lucky ones.

Observations of a fanatic

Oh salad guy, scruffy salad guy,
Your beard is much too shaggy,
Dear salad guy, tasty salad guy
Don’t try so hard, you may seem daggy.

Try and ask me out, you may get lucky
But head this warning I’ll only say it once
I’m hard to please and high maintenance.

Neo Baroque

It amazes me the way the mall- a universally generic zone has the ability to revive my spirits. I suppose though the magnificence of the experience is heightened by moments of consumerist frenzy and their aftermath. Walking out of a store, bag/s in hand connects me to its shiny streets and neon glow and I am compelled forward to the next meaningless, consuming encounter. Acts of display and consumption are central to mall culture and there is a consequent feeling of belonging generated by these. Having no money at the shopping centre does feel pretty empty and shop assistants suddenly become vile beasts clawing at my skull (I guess this is always true) when an exchange can't be done.

Strange parallels exist then between this space and the Baroque courts I am currently studying. Funnily enough I purchased totally pointless little receptacles with louis chairs printed on them without even thinking about it. I guess malls make me vacuous too! Oops.

introducing me

Hello. Thankyou to lovely Sian for bringing me in.

I am loving this coin purse:


haydenharnett.com

I don't actually like using coin purses. I don't see they are particularly useful, as any good wallet comes with a zip section to put your cash in. And if you carry cards in your coin purse, they are forced to share the space with all the heavy jangly silver & gold, and they become scratched and dented.

But let's just say you had a small amount of something that warranted being carried around in a delicious little sack of fabric. Like beads. Or seashells. Or small stuffed animals. I think such purses are better suited to more unusual and highly specific vocations, not for carrying dirty money.

Virtual shopping mayhem

I absolutely love that most nyc boutiques have little web-bed portals to the spending world. I have been occupying a lot of time lately in Brooklyn: finding some magical things to expand my collection. I need to move beyond the ever reliable Marc Jacobs and philip lim and source out some new wonder weavers.

Aside from that I am also going to buy the above Luella handbag: I have decided that I need to reinstate the black bigger bag into the collection since my colour choices this season are going to be slightly chaotic.

My fashion sensibility has lapsed momentarily this year: I have been budgeting ferociously and a few big wardrobe gaps have been spawned as a result. So: I am going to adhere to a more sensible spending regime without denouncing the basic precept of quality over quantity. I have a few relics from the el-cheapo me moments: chain store rubbish which is already disintegrating in the pits of my 'drobe. Unsurprisingly my mood has suffered.

Here's the deal- (placed in the ether for posterity?!) I don't want a fashion high: no quick fixes and supreme lows: just a sustainable balance that has been lacking in all facets of my life lately.

• edit: some of the nyc stores i was talkin about include: made by wendy (simple and elegant- i adore the monogram tote dress), cynthia rowley (bought a couple of pieces there last time i was in ny- not such a good range online but i love the kaeidoscope jacket), iheart (remember this from my last trip-no online store but good profiles of the designers stocked), intermix (remember these stores from my last trip too- good range of designers online), ...i'll finish the list when i have the time...

Totally adorable!