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We were in such a heady daze, falling madly in love. If you asked me now what was I thinking, I’d have to answer that I probably wasn’t; all I knew at the time was a sure certainty that he was the boy I wanted to, and was going to marry.

So now I’ve married him. And then what? Stuck with a guy who won’t, in fact can’t, dream? I don’t need money or expensive things, but is it wrong to want someone who dreams of a better life? Who is actively moving towards something? Is it wrong to want someone who’s not necessarily ambitious, but at least has goals and aspirations? Even if he never talks to me, or when he does it seems so perfunctory that I don’t see the point in answering, and even if he hates everything about me - my dreams, who I am, he resents me - even beyond all of that, I just want someone who believes in themselves.

So now I’ve married him. Is two years long enough to be able to call it quits?

Let's get down to business

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:57:19 +0000

"‘Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have..."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:54:53 +0000

“‘Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.’”

- My inspiration for the day.

Classic Kate

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:34:13 +0000

/ via Nylon mag

'Between Sense and Sanity' at Slovenian fashion showcase

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:36:51 +0000

“Browns,” says a prim businesswoman to Slovenian fashion designer Petja Zorec at the opening night of Between Sense and Sanity, a showcase of up-and-coming Slovenian design to Londoners at Europe House, around the corner from Westminster.

Zorec, a bright young woman dressed stylishly yet unpretentiously in a fitted bandage bodice of her own creation, looks confused.

The businesswoman is shocked. “Don’t tell me you don’t know what Browns is.” She leans in confidentially. “Your work needs to be in there,” she advises. “Absolutely. Find out who they are and contact them.”

It’s perhaps a testament to the quality of Zorec’s work that people who’ve never even heard of her think her pieces would fit in on the holy rails at uber-stylish London boutique Browns. Indeed, the reason she is here tonight is because she is one of 12 designers who were invited to participate in the exhibition as part of Young@Squat, a hand-picked collective of young designers from Slovenia.

Each asked to produce an outfit for the exhibition exploring the notion of ‘between sense and sanity’, Zorec is displaying a hand-sewn puffer jacket made of translucent fabric. It is somewhat reminiscent of an oversized ski jacket bursting with sunshine: Zorec has used bundles of yellow wool threads as a filling in her interpretation of the theme. “Usually you can’t see the filling because usually it’s ugly or it’s not the right feathers or anything [but] here I just wanted to show it.

“[The piece is] about all the feelings you keep inside, all the bad moments that happen in your life, family matters or whatever, that at some point come out and that are visible, that are seen. So it’s actually about how it’s kept inside and at some point you reveal everything, because you cannot keep it inside. It’s very personal.”

On further grilling, the piece turns out to be very personal indeed: the wool comes from unspooled remnants from her grandparents’ old knitwear factory and the stiff black top underneath is made from a custom knit of her own design, woven – from scratch, no less – using her grandfather’s rusty machines. “You know these big knits that are popular? I’m not interested in that,” she says. “I’m interested in those small knits that are very intricate [even though it looks like] there’s not a lot going on with them. So here you can see [the weave] goes from transparent to non-transparent, but the flow goes on and everything.

“So actually that’s my thing, to make something really creative and really fashionable with old machines.”

On the other side of the room, Nina Tomažin, studying a masters in fashion at the University of Ljubljana, has taken a more pragmatic approach to the theme and interpreted ‘between sense and sanity’ as a moment in time. To wit, the blouse and floral skirt she has made for this exhibition are made from upholstery fabrics. “The fact that you’re kind of wearing a couch, or a chair, it [comes] that idea from when you sit down and you stop for a moment,” she says.

Perfect, then, for photographer Peter Giodani, whose fashion photography - he shot each outfit in a series of dreamy photographs - stands out for its emotive lashings of saudade. “Sometimes I say I have a sad aesthetic? But it’s not really sad, it’s poetic, a little romantic, a little melancholy - but not too much, not depressing. You know these feelings. This project was made for this exhibition but otherwise I’m always in search of a poetic moment.” The moment between sense and sanity, perhaps.

It was FEIT: handmade shoes in Australia (now available at Dover Street Market, woohoo!)

Topshop partners up with young designers

Sleek vs. furry at Marni autumn/winter 2013/14

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:33:11 +0000

It’s cosy, furry woodlands in a very sleek way. I like.

Drake Burnette, Katlin Aas, Tian Yi, Gracie Van Gastel, Irina Kravchenko x Marni autumn/winter 2013/14 / Style.com

Read about front-row glamour at Milan Fashion Week

See the sweetest ad campaign ever by Marni

All the pretty birds at Christopher Kane autumn/winter 2013/14

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:24:32 +0000

Jourdan Dunn, Georgia Hilmer, Martha Hunt x Christopher Kane autumn/winter 2013/14 / Style.com

Watch K arlie Kloss own the catwalk at Burberry

View highlights from Huishan Zheng’s spring/summer 2013 collection

Today I sat on a balcony under the sun and cried. I cried because I miss the sun - the gentle heat,...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:41:00 +0000

Today I sat on a balcony under the sun and cried.

I cried because I miss the sun - the gentle heat, the warmth, the glow you get on your face when the sun shines on you. I cried because I didn’t want to go to back to England, where there is no sun. And I cried because I don’t know when I’ll be able to live in a country with the sun again.

I cried because the future is so uncertain, and because the sun is one of the simple pleasures in life I have denied myself in the name of self-improvement. Character building. Is England really worth it? So far I don’t think so. But then, maybe six months isn’t long enough.

But I miss the sun, and would sell my soul (plus a couple of Apple products) to see it again.

Last days of sun in Australia

Darker stories in sunnier climes: read my interview with designer Kym Ellery

Burberry: She's got the moves like Jagger

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:04:00 +0000

Karlie’s got some swagger / Garance Dore

See Karlie Kloss’ street style

Read my interview with fashion photographer/blogger Garance Dore

Photo

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:01:20 +0000

Eye spy jewellery at Maria Francesca Pepe

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:06:00 +0000

Maria Francesca Pepe at London Fashion Week

Read my interview with the hauntingly beautiful NY-based jewellery designer Vera Balyura

See bracelets by Australian label Petite Grand + a few of my favourite things

Eep! Happy V-day for yesterday. Because Valentine’s is all...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:52:35 +0000

Eep! Happy V-day for yesterday. Because Valentine’s is all about sharing love, not just to your better (neater, tidier, more polite and sweeter) half, but to all those around :)

Boulder shoulders at Proenza Schouler autumn/winter 2013/14

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:50:41 +0000

Loving the boulder shoulders, cocoon shapes and gentle twists and draping at Proenza Schouler. Touch-me-now textures, sculptural silhouettes that would really not look out of place in an art gallery, and is that ombred leather?!? If only we could get Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez to change their last names to McCain so we could tell them they’ve done it again (because rhymes just make everything better, don’t they? Way.)

Sasha Pivorarova, Josephine Le Toutour, Lisa Verberght, Bette Franke and Tilda Linstam x Proenza Schouler autumn/winter 2013/14 /style.com

‘Girl you got more issues than Vogue.’ (sassy hand...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:24:37 +0000

‘Girl you got more issues than Vogue.’ (sassy hand action requisite.)

I want this t-shirt.