Showing posts with label panache. Show all posts
Showing posts with label panache. Show all posts

20121105

The Horticulturalist

"Calculating, intuitive and slightly unhinged, she dresses in clinical white and her chunky heels are strictly for soil aeration purposes. Her neighbours often peer over the back fence, catching strange glimpses of shear wielding and poison brewing. The psychotropic weed assassin digs in the garden all day but somehow her fingernails are always clean.

Our greenhouse girl has more knowledge than a shelf full of botany books, a scientific approach to growth patterns and soil acidity and an unnatural attachment to the fruits of her labour. Her long locks turned green from chlorophyll exposure and she kills time pressing native flowers and herbs. If she planted her own hands, they’d probably sprout tulips." (Bianca Blades and Kellie Pembroke).



















I thought I'd share some out takes from a shoot I did with the Sargasso Sea girls, a few months ago. You can see the full story here at Haunt Mag which has become my recent favorite source of visual inspiration.

Brisbane babes Bianca Blades and Kellie Pembroke are the duo behind the impeccable visual diary of fashion and media culture. Full of well informed and witty articles on fashion and consumptions as well a plethora of perfectly curated glossy fashion images it's no wonder Sargasso Sea won the 2012 Ultrabook Pedestrian.tv Blogster Awards (where they scored an internship with Vogue Australia in Sydney). It's meeting such motivated creatives that truly make me want to get off my ass and do MORE STUFF!

So when Bianca approached me to be in their next styling and fashion direction project, I was over the moon to be involved. This was a Spring story without the expected aspect of floral overkill, where a fictional fashion character was invented so you could only imaging how much I was loved the concept! We spent a lovely afternoon dressing up in Emily Mcguire's dreamy creations, digging around the West End community gardens!

Hope you liked the images and check out more of their work on Sargasso Sea.

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☠☠☠☠

Happy belated Halloween everyone! Can you believe it's another year already!? I decided to get off my lazy ass (at the last minute) and impress a few little kids I was expecting to be knocking on my door. Armed with only eyeliner, eyeshadow, half a bag of grape jam marshmallows (yeah trick or treating isn't that popular here, plus it was the only candy we had) wine, a good friend and Nightmare before Christmas on Foxtel, we ended up having quite the successful 'spooky' night in!
















I'd tell you how to get this look but I'm no makeup blogger :S. I just went at it using a few google images as reference! Start with the palest powder or talc you have lying at home, a good eyeshadow fluffy brush as well as a thin eyeliner brush for eyeshadow work would be my no.1 tip. All up took me about less than 20 mins to get together, it's really that easy so hopefully this will help you for your next dress-up occasion!

A Nightmare Before Christmas has to be one of my all time FAVOURITE movies, I haven't seen it for ages and laughed SO hard, because it was adorable but mostly because we were imagining how freaked out the kids would be in reality (or the wine). Boy am I glad I didn't miss out on my slice of Halloween action this year, it is my favourite occasion of the year afterall.

Hope you had a good one! What did you get up to/what did you guys dress up as?

20120824

BTSTU















Henry Holland dress, Fleamadonna Leather Jacket, vintage plush dog backpack, platforms from HK

It got so hot today, summer just hit us in Brisbane quite unexpectedly (storms are on their way). I'm sooo ready to get my little dresses out and shed those layers! I don't know if anyone has this problem but I get headaches from wearing jackets...perhaps too many studs/layers, all that weight, yes I am a weakling...

5 things I am extremely excited about coming up:
  1. Assist styling an epic shoot on Monday inspired my ancient oriental culture, think house of flying daggers involving thousands of dollars worth of ancient headdresses and imperial garments (more scared)
  2. Attending friend's show Cotton Pony next Friday night
  3. My best friend moving up to Brisbane during the week
  4. Being in a Zombie film on Saturday
  5. Seekae!

What's your 5 this week?


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It's all there



and a bit more.
come on, s(he) really does have the best style and pushes boundaries in the 'popstar (sick inducing) celeb hollywood' realm.

mcqueen check
nagi noda check
reid peppard check