Blue&White

Vogue Italia (models.com), Karla's Closet, & Grazia.

The Last of The True Romantic Fantasist.

Hedi Slimane

C.Love

Hedi Slimane

How Do I Look? (Fashion Journalism Short Course Article)

A short pixie crop, freckles, a dimple and a girl meets boy style. My go-to uniform is bookish brogues & loafers, a button up blouse, & neutral coloured shorts or skin tight leather pants. I prefer a mix of masculine & feminine, a ‘Parisian cool’ style epitomized by Emanuelle Alt, French editor of Vogue, in her sharply tailored blazers and low rise skinny jeans. The dapper blazer is perennially polished and brilliantly versatile; it adds an element of sophistication, punctuated with sculptural black boots. I’m partial to statement jewellery but I often wear only three silver rings set with semi-precious stones from Morocco, Tibet and India.
I borrow from the boys and add a vibrant twist in platforms teamed with bobby socks however, beneath this polished ‘no-frills’ facade is an “unhealthy” undergarment obsession, where lace briefs, sheer bustiers and embellished braletts secrete themselves. The seven deadly sins: ‘La Perla’, ‘Rigby & Peller’, ‘Coco de Mer’, ‘Agent Provocateur’, ‘Myla’, ‘Calvin Klein’ and ‘Phillip Lim’ tempt me in Net-a-porter’s ‘Soft Cup Bras’ and ‘French Briefs’ sections. My controlled, neat, tidy exterior conceals my wild and uninhabited lust for lingerie. Seductive underpinnings in silk, lace, tulle and chiffon make my heart beat faster. To be more precise, ‘Victoria’s Secret’, is also my secret and every other woman’s. Don’t judge a girl by her dress because Alexander Wang, Preen and Stella McCartney may be hiding a ‘femme fatale’.

'Best to be British?'

Ashish ss11 Topshop

“The inspiration was very easy – I love junk food. I was thinking of what I would like to wear to the gym, and I thought junk food on t-shirts and sweatshirts would be perfect. Perhaps not very motivational, but definitely very amusing.”

Martin Parr, British Food.

Mini fry-up

Ingredients

For the fried bread
3 tbsp olive oil
1 thick slice white bread, cut into a 7cm/3in round

For the fried sausage and tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
2 good quality sausages, cut in half
5 baby vine tomatoes

For the fried bacon
1 tbsp olive oil
2 slices smoked streaky bacon

For the sautéed mushrooms
1 tbsp olive oil
15g/½oz unsalted butter
½ large flat field mushroom, sliced
salt and freshly ground black pepper

For the fried quails' eggs
1 tbsp olive oil
3 quails' eggs
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation method

To make the fried bread, heat the olive oil until in a frying pan very hot. Add the bread round and fry for one minute on each side until golden.

To make the fried sausage and tomatoes, heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Add the sausage and tomatoes and fry for 8-10 minutes, until browned and cooked through.

To make the fried bacon, heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Add the bacon and fry for 5-6 minutes, until crispy and golden.

To make the sautéed mushrooms, heat the oil and the butter in a frying pan. Add the mushroom and sauté for 3-4 minutes, until soft, then season.

To make the fried quails' eggs, gently heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Crack the quails eggs into the pan and fry on a low heat until cooked through.

To serve, arrange all of the cooked items onto a plate as you would a conventional fry-up and season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/minifryup_81633

'Wear the mask long enough, & it becomes the face.'

Dazed & Confused

A new exhibition at the Orange Dot Gallery explores the revolution of the iPhone hipstamatic photography. Hipstamatic was awarded the 'application of the year' by Apple, the app captures the effect of an old hipstamatic analogue camera on a modern camera phone. Digital hipstamatic photography is so popular because like polaroid, photo booths and lomography, analog photography is unpredictable and spontaneous.

'Oh screw it she said, & stabbed out her cigarette.'

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