savage beauty.

Quick! Head over to the MET. Or no wait, Alexander McQueen’s ‘Savage Beautyis  was – yes WAS – running at the MET (4 May – 7 August). I would hope that you had a chance to go there.

If you did not see it – click on these photos to zoom in – or if you want to see the detail, try this. Oh my.

Reminds me of Valentino: The Last Emperor. Big love.


The Romantic Mind

“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.” - Alexander McQueen


Romantic Gothic and Cabinet of Curiosities

“People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.” - Alexander McQueen


Romantic Nationalism

“The reason I’m patriotic about Scotland is because I think it’s been dealt a really hard hand. It’s marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.” - Alexander McQueen


Romantic Exoticism

“I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.” - Alexander McQueen


Romantic Primitivism

“I try to push the silhouette. To change the silhouette is to change the thinking of how we look. What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections.” - Alexander McQueen


Armadillo, armadillo! Romantic Naturalism

“I have always loved the mechanics of nature and to a greater or lesser extent my work is always informed by that.” - Alexander McQueen

music posters by viktor hertz.


Are you up for a game? A guessing game!

Before you scroll down, look at the pictograms (above) by Viktor Hertz, and try to guess the title of the songs.

It is not that hard, so take your time. Yay games!









what i wore: illustrations.


If you have to draw a person, does it generally look like a stick? I find it quite funny, because people tend to forget the ears and eyebrows.

Growing up I had paper dolls. No, I am not that old.

My mom made the dolls for us and Sunday afternoons were spent paging through magazines and cutting out ‘fabric’ for their clothes. Eventually I figured out that I can make my own dolls too – using a cereal box. The faces of these dolls probably did not look as good as the ones my mom made, but I created these little people and they had new clothes every week – designed by, me.

Later when I realized that it is more fun to design clothes for Barbie and co, I got fabric off cuts and pretended to know how the sewing machine worked. My Barbie dolls had all kinds of dresses and early 90s outfits.

These were a hands-on approach, skipping the process of drawing the design and making a pattern. Both processes which I wish I could master. Which probably explains why I am in awe every time I see fashion illustrations like these.




Jessica Quirk (What I Wore), your illustrations make me smile, happy and at the same time want to go home and draw. If only I knew how to draw like you.

Note to self: work on that chunky marker collection. 

run, run, run, run.

Maybe because it is winter, and it is summery hot – during winter – all I feel like doing is running, and jumping and rolling on the lawn. Summery hot, also known as 18 degrees Celsius to some and 64 degrees Fahrenheit to others. Yes, it is winter.

Run, run, run, run…

hey you!

“What song are you listening to?”

Please send your playlist.

Thanks for sharing this vid, Vera :)

satomi kawakita.

“I wanna be a billionaire, soooo freakin baaad…”

New York City-based jewelry designer, Satomi Kawakita, has stolen my heart with her beautiful jewelry. I have never been a fan of giants diamonds and shiny bands. I prefer wonky and ‘nothing near perfect’, even though in my eyes Satomi’s designs are perfect.

Just have a look. How beautiful are these rings?




And if color is your thing, you might like these.

I would like to have all of these please, but at a few hundred dollars a piece, I will have to make a serious plan.

let the arts roam.

“Armed with a vision and their cans of spray paint, El Mac and Retna will transform a forgotten wall into a piece of art. They combine their artistic forces in a specific way: El Mac creates huge lifelike portraits and Retna, calligraphic brushwork and decoration.”

Created by Joris Debeij & Terence Loos. Music by The Pilots
jorisdebeij.com – terenceloos.com – thepilots.nl

iamlosangeles.com

braille tape.

“Sticky tape with parallel dots that you can hand punch to write a Braille message.”

Something you did not even think of, huh? Do not feel bad, same here. Not exactly the first thing you would think of when it comes to tape and labeling things everything.

At the same time I want to thank someone for this invention. Yes, let’s call it an invention, because something this life-changing deserves a special award (or a few).





Thank you Kukil HanYongju Kwak, Young-Seok Kim & Dongbin Shin!

playlist: wallace.

My friend Wallace, is my favorite doodler (of all time) and he takes photos. I like them so much, that I am including a few together with the long playlist he sent.

Albin Gromer – Här Inne Hos Mig
Asa – Fire on the Mountain
Atmosphere – Happymess
Atmosphere – Just For Show
Buckshot LeFonque – Another Day
Charlie Winston – In Your Hands
Chords - Places To Go
Dave Barnes – Someone’s Somebody (cover)

Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini
Eric Hutchinson – It Hasn’t Been Long Enough
Four Tops – Are You Man Enough?
Hocus Pocus – Feel Good
Jake Holmes – Dazed and Confused
James Blake – Lindisfarne I & II
Jarle Bernhoft – So Many Faces
Jazz Liberatorz – Clin D’oeil

John Mayer & John Schofield – I Don’t Need No Doctor
Kenn Starr ft Talib Kweli & Asheru – If
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
Mos Def – Sunshine
Riccitelli – Move On
The Chicharones – Opposite of Fair
The Quantic Soul Orchestra – Hold It Down
Tingsek – I Stand Here Still
Zaz – Les Passants

Nina Simone’s Mr Bojangles is (one of) Wallace’s all time favorite song(s) – and while we’re at it…

Nina Simone – Baltimore
Nina Simone – Good Bait
Nina Simone – Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)

wallacedidit.com

have cake, will travel.


Me too, me too.

Celine Steen was born in Switzerland, but have been living in California since 1999. In 2005 she went vegan and began her blog ‘Have cake, will travel‘ in 2007 . Oh, happy day!

I saw a photo on Pinterest and now I am hooked, and even happier to know that most of these recipes are vegan.














Hungry yet? Want more? Have cake, will travel.