War Hero

You can always count on Dazed for their creepy yet stunning editorials…”War Hero” was shot by Richard Burbridge for the July issue, and styled by Robbie Spencer. See the rest of the editorial here.

May & Confused

I’m really excited about the next issue of Dazed & Confused. Not only does it feature SWINTON, (as the Fug Girls refer to Tilda Swinton), it also feature this amazing editorial inspired by hippies and squatters. Shot by Ben Toms, the feature takes place in a “mystical English country garden” and looks new and unpretensious in black and white.

Sky

Here’s the behind the scenes for another gorgeous shoot from Dazed & Confused, Sky Ferreira shot by Rankin. I wish the video was longer, but there are a lot of things I wish for…like her hair. I need Sky’s hair.

Augmented Reality

I really need to get the new Dazed as soon as I get back to London…amazing!!!!

There are pages encoded with a symbol that allows you to play fashion films on their website…how cool is that? I’ll do a post about it as soon as I get a hold of the issue when I get home…so excited!!!

Musings/Top Five Catchup

Gosh, I have been a terrible lately…I was just organizing my blog categories today and I realized that I have completely neglected my “…of the week” posts since moving to London! I don’t think I’ve done a top five since the Christmas holidays…oops. Whelp, better late than never, as they say. Anyway here we go, this week’s Top Five is just some random things that are inspiring me lately, since the list is too long to really narrow it down to five. Black and blue, watches as headbands, sixties hair, finger jewelry, and I’ve developed an unholy obsession with black nail polish…I want to collect them all.

Photos in order top to bottom, left to right; Vogue Germany, Dazed & Confused,  unknown, Drooling Isn’t Photogenic, Jewels in a Dark Crown from Dazed Digital

Dazed & Stupid

I would have to say Dazed & Confused is my favorite fashion magazine because they do some really incredible interviews with filmmakers as well as figures in fashion, and they always deliver with the fashion editorials. Also, they aren’t afraid of writing intelligently; a lot of glossies seem to think that its readers are allergic to words and just want to see pretty pictures of expensive clothes.

I just bought the february issue and I love that they featured the crazy Viktor & Rolf mesh creations, (I’d been dying to get a better look at the red gown with the cut out holes) as well as a piece about “emporer of anime” Hayao Miyazaki, who I love.

It also came with a free BE STUPID shirt from the new Diesel campaign…I can’t say I’m a huge fan of Diesel or their marketing technique of having people strive to “Be stupid: Smart may have the brains, but stupid has the balls”. I guess its – er -selling a lifestyle?

Armadillidiidae

I’m in Nancy, (north of Paris), jetlagged and therefore awake way too early, passing the time goofing off on my mom’s laptop. We are staying at my uncle’s house…he has pet roly-polies in the compost. He claims they don’t like oranges.

Roly-Poly= “a colloquial name for isopod crustaceans of the family Armadillidiidae”.

Similar to armadillos and roly-polies, I have the ability to make myself tiny and invisible, a skill that comes in handy for discrete people-watching.

Sneaky elevator photos in the airport…roly-poly mode.

I couldn’t resist buying Dazed & Confused for the plane ride…Lily Cole on the cover and an article on “the future of fashion and film” made this issue irresistible. I also wanted to get Nylon, but there wasn’t a single place that sold them in the SFO international terminal.

Enjoyed a cappucino and a fraise tagada. People don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here, since its an American holiday, but we are going to have a make-up Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday, a la francaise.

Happy Black Friday :)

-Drooling Isn’t Pretty

Got a Coca Cola Classic and a Loser’s Attitude

Pixie Geldof for Vogue UK September 2009 by Alasdair McLellan

“Ripped Slashed Studded Pinned Fashion Gets Hard As Nails” Dazed & Confused July 2009

Luke Worrall in Electric Youth Magazine, fall 2008

A most fashionable soda and staple of the American diet…though I have to say I prefer Coke Zero :P

RIP

:(

Daul Kim photographed by Ben Toms for Dazed & Confused December 2008 via models.com

Edge of the World

“Edge of the World” by Mariano Vivanco for Dazed & Confused, model Hilary Rhoda wears Nina Ricci and Armani. I love how surrealist and fleeting this short is…one cannot help being reminded of Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon.

The Tao

Tao Okamoto photographed by Mari Sarai for Dazed & Confused (August 2009)