some coverage of pieces from 'Cocoon'

ph: Ingela Furustig, model: Emma Kent, Stylist/MUA: Alyssa Selin, jewels: Tilly Jewellery/The Armored Club/Lia & Co | ph: Andre Cois, model: Morgan Nelson, stylist/MUA: Alyssa Selin

ph: Bonnie Cee, stylist: Alyssa Selin, model: Emma Kent, hair: Trevor Masoe, MUA: Zoe Tranter | ph: Hannah McCawley, model: Bridget Thelander, HMUA: Emma Chen

ph: Michael Greves, model from Brisbane Vivien's

ph: Michael Greves, model from Brisbane Vivien's

ph: Michael Greves, model from Brisbane Vivien's

ph: Michael Greves, model from Brisbane Vivien's

ph: Michael Greves, model from Brisbane Vivien's


ph: Michael Greves, model from Brisbane Vivien's

ph: Hannah McCawley, model: Bridget Thelander, HMUA: Emma Chen

ph: Natalie McKain, model: Shimma, MUA: Carly Lim, hair: Shannon Williams - for Yen Magazine online

ph: Phi-Hung Le-Vu, stylin: Michaela Stark, HMUA: Anna Elshaw - for Frock Paper Scissors magazine

ph: Bonnie Cee, styling: Alyssa Selin, model: Emma Kent, hair: Trevor Masoe, MUA: Zoe Tranter

ph: Bonnie Cee, styling: Alyssa Selin, model: Emma Kent, hair: Trevor Masoe, MUA: Zoe Tranter

ph: Michael Greves, model from Brisbane Vivien's

ph: Lance Balchin, model: Chelsea Johnston, HMUA: Kate Johnston, styling: Suzie Haines, assistants: Lili Pringle, Caitlin Arnell-Smith - for The Armoed Club Platinum Winter Collection

ph: Lance Balchin, model: Teagan Grelck, HMUA: Kate Johnston, styling: Suzie Haines, assistants: Lili Pringle, Caitlin Arnell-Smith - for The Armoed Club Silver Winter Collection

'Cocoon' - My QUT Fashion Graduate Collection

over a year too late, but here is some of my graduate collection info from last year.









i grew up outside of a major metropolitan centre, and so initially approached the fashion industry through means that were more accessible to me; including visual arts and the business of fashion. as a result, at the beginning of my degree, my design aesthetic and approach was more experimental and abstract.
however, in conducting greater engagement with my customer and undergoing work experience in the wholesale sales sector, alongside adoption of business principles and greater self-awareness as a fashion consumer myself, my designs now have a wider scope that encompasses a greater balance between the wearability and visual components.
my graduate collection, ‘Cocoon’, particularly evidences this, through identifying and targeting a customer who appreciates inconspicuous and luxurious classic pieces. this customer extends beyond just young women who can wear short lengths and flashy pieces; exuding a nonchalance and maturity toward dressing and fashion consumption. the pieces in my collection are as much applicable to event dressing as they are to the wardrobe requirements of travel and relaxation activities.

my design approach:
o Houdini / MC Escher - layering / illusion / being visually enveloped
o snowflakes - cool colours / natural & organic lines / unique, asymmetric, dishevelled & transformative - macro snowflake print used in embroidery & laser-cutting
o luxe lounge dressing - comfortable, nonchalant, relaxed & elegant / inconspicuous luxury - sandwashed silks, cashmere & wool used

competing brands:
o Victoria Beckham - 'my customer wants quality and luxury'
o Ellery - 'dressing to be mobile - appealing to a wider age group than just young, cool girls who can wear short lengths'
o The Row - 'to luxuriate in [the customers'] more productive [years]; revel in the promise of maturity'
o Christopher Esber - 'lounge dressing - easy - inner confidence with a nonchalant style'



i'll post images of the pieces being used in shoots & my moodboard in another post x

advice for new brands & fashion labels

the We are Handsome team did a talk for Pedestrian Coach a little while ago, & as a fresh design graduate, i got a lot out of it !
my take-aways:

- appear [company size] bigger than you are - it will seem more professional
= speak in 'we' - unless you a branding yourself / you as a service
= it makes it sound as though you have a team
= create multiple email addresses - e.g. have accounts different to the founder
- spend less money
= e.g. fly elsewhere for photoshoots - get airline partners, leverage advertising, etc
= it can be cheaper to fly elsewhere for a photoshoot than to do so locally
- emulate people - e.g. really great marketing
= not necessarily your competition / from your own industry
= e.g. people / businesses that have won advertising awards
- don't get obsessed with just one social media channel
- be clever with spending a little bit of money - it saves a lot of time
= e.g. to find stockists - have sales agents for different states / continents
- you can pay people to just do any jobs that you assign to them (e.g. WaH use a company in the Phillipines)
= e.g. to find stockists or email addresses / data entry - you can give them stockist links from your competition
= e.g. a virtual assistant
- you need to talk about all social media accounts on the other accounts
= this way, people will know how to get to them / you can ensure that they will know about them
- if you are a converting 1% of site visitors into sales, this is very very very good (this is the case for the big players such as Amazon, Apple, ASOS..)
- be wary of over-designing your lookbooks & linesheets - this is very easy to do
= avoid doing this
= keep it simple - e.g. front / back shots of the looks & 1 sentence about the style/s
= give buyers enough info to attract them to the brand
= don't give the buyers too much info so that they can't be bothered reading it
- the Alibaba site can be useful for finding fabric manufacturers / possibly some fabric suppliers
- the Elance site can be useful for people to bid for your services - similar to Ebay
- travel to places for short periods (such as Spain for a week)
= you can speak to buyers, agents, stores, PR
= this can give you info about that market
- you will go through a lot with your first manufacturer/s at the start
= they are working for you - tream them like an employee
= ask lots of questions; treat it like an interview
= you have the power & the money - you can drag the interview process out as much as you want - e.g. ask to see a lot of samples
= the more questions that you ask, the better your relationship will be

how to differentiate your resume or portfolio

one of the assessments that i had to complete for one of my final uni subjects initially seemed pretty defunct & a waste of space, but it ended up being so valuable, & something that i thought would be relevant for most careers - but perhaps most relevant to those in fashion / creatives / those with portfolios.
my tutor was a brilliant wealth of knowledge & so supportive, & here were some of her tips that, in hindsight now seem so obvious, but that hadn't previously crossed my mind:

- make it SPECIFIC - tailor the format / order to the job / employer that you are applying for
= prioritise the criteria to make an impact
- list your jobs,education & references, but list your skills learned separately, under categories
= often you have the skills required, but not through the ways requested (e.g. learned through university or through previous unrelated jobs, but not through X years experience in the industry / role required)
- try to think of the experiences & skills that you have that others might not have
= capitalise on the positive effects
- research the company to understand their philosophy / mission & write your resume appropriately
- remember that most resumes are emailed these days, so make them quick & easy to download / view on a screen or as an attachment
- remove any information that is not relevant to the job
= OR leave them until the end
- its better to research, ring the company, ask around & then write the greeting & resume
= the greeting is where you can get personal & explain some of the research that you've found out about the company
= career websites have dehumanised the application & made it too easy for people to apply to any job
- it is fairly common now for employers to run resume applications through software packages, scanning for key words that they incuded in their job listing. if these words aren't included in your application, they won't even look at it

update nothing. impress no one.

today fashion is more individualistic and sophisticated, and the fads are exhausted a great deal faster. my numerous critics notwithstanding, nobody can dictate fashion anymore; it would be like telling people what they can eat.
Paris still gives fashion authority, but today fashion is born on the world's streets: in the East Village, on the King's Road, on the Corso.
- p16
the game of finding out and telling who copies whom is basically a futile exercise, because everyone copies everyone else. there is no such thing as a truly original idea on the fashion map. Saint Laurent goes to Russia or Marrakech. he borrows from painters like Braque, Picasso, and Mondrian. Karl Lagerfeld might look at a portrait of Marie Antoinette, Giorgio Armani at a Marlboro ad for the American cowboy. Ralph Lauren might go see an old Cary Grant comedy. Oscar de la Renta will study more than the bride at a wedding. and, of course, every designer pays particular attention to the competition.
when fashion gets out of hand, it is generally true that all designers return to Chanel. she was the forerunner of those few, such as Saint Laurent, Armani and the late Cristobal Balenciaga, who have managed to create timeless clothes.
many clothes are commercially successful, but their look is borrowed, and the fashion mood - which is so important.
the shape of all fashion begins with the silhouette, but there are only a few designers capable of creating a new silhouette. and it is these designers whose moods we follow. we want to know where they go, whom they see, what they are thinking on a daily basis. they are our heroes and, sometimes, our nightmares.
- p33
British Vivienne Westwood is the designer's designer, watched by intellectual and far-out designers, including Jean-Paul Gaultier. she is copied by the avant-garde French and Italian designers, because she is the Alice in Wonderland of fashion, and her clothes are wonderfully mad - fantastic enough to be worn at the Mad Hatter's tea party.
yet, copied as she is, Westwood struggles in her World's End shop in London, living from hand to mouth.
- p34
sometimes 'throw-away chic' worn by the right woman can outstyle the best of high fashion. i remember standing outside the Ritz Hotel on the rue Cambon very late one night in the pouring rain with Coco Chanel. i don't remember what she was talking about, but i remember that she wore her old raincoat tied smartly to one side. it was chic. so is the way Yves Saint Laurent wears his pocket handkerchief at just the right angle.
style is part of you or it isn't. you can't buy it.
- p157, Chic Savages - John Fairchild

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i treat my internet passwords as modern-day sigils, embedding them with wishes or promises to me, or even financial goals for the company. that way, every time i go to log in anywhere, i'm subtly reminding myself of what i'm working for.
this ensures that when i'm bogged down with day-to-day beaureaucracy and details, i don't lose sight of what i really want.
- p123
much of the world, from school to the workplace, is set up to reward extroverts, and therefore it can be easier for introverts to feel overlooked or as if they don't measure up.
for instance, even if you know all the answers but you don't want to call attention to yourself by raising your hand, you might end up feeling, or being percieved as, less smart than the kids flailing their arms to get the teacher's attention.
in business, a disproportionate amount of importance is placed on the ability to network. if you don't thrive on going out and meeting a million people, you might end up feeling that you have less of a chance of getting ahead in your career.
- p135, #GIRLBOSS - Sophia Amoruso

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the planet is under unprecedented pressure. this means that it has never been more important to take wise individual decisions, as well as collective ones. it has never been more critical for us to consume with care and intelligence. it's no secret that the present rates of consumption are unsustainable, and it will come as even less of a surprise that fashions are wildly out of kilter.
why give fashion the time of day? why not dress exclusively in old clothes and charity-shop finds? i've become pretty familiar with the school of thought that regards fashion as unnecessary and corrupt. but it is simiply untrue to say that all fashion is superficial, needless and stupid, and to ignore the semiotics of style. the way we dress is fundamental to our self-expression.
almost overnight we have become used to consuming fashion with reckless, addicted abandon, buying more clothes than ever before, reversing centuries of fashion heritage, knowledge and understanding the process. this is a revolution, and a largely unwelcome one.
- pX
as customers we rapidly changed our priorities. long-standing skills of buying clothes, such as assessing for quality or looking at labels, were junked in favour of getting our hands on what was new as we adjustd to the Zara-like thrill of swapping two wardrobe seasons a year for upwards of twenty. while the world's mainline Fashion Weeks continue the charade of spring/summer and autumn/winter seasons, in real terms they are now about as relevant to contemporary life as learning Gregorian plainsong.
- p24 i don't want to compound the air of regret, but if only it had stopped there. fast fashion had its merits - it certainly brought excitement. the jury's out on whether you can have responsible fast fashion, but what if it had stayed true to Jane Shepherdson's original idea, to make better, more fashionable clothes at affordable prices? naturally there would have been some deficit environmentally - every time you make something there's an impact - but we would have stood a chance of minimising the negative effects
- p26
there are several ways to define a sweatshop. the original phrase described a system that outsourced or subcontracted lablour. this still holds true, but the term is generally extended, applying to any production facility where the house menu includes long hours, unsafe working conditions and low pay, and where workers are not permitted to join unions or form an organisation to represent their interests. when i think of a sweatshop i also think of oppressive temperatures, overflowing toilets, the whole sorry scene policed by a pacing factory manager, possibly with a baton in his hand.
who are they? they are considered to be more easily pacified, especially as cultures throughout the Developing world dictate that they are less likely to question middlemen or subcontractors over pay and conditions.
- p41
retailers, manufacturing brands and consumers have all become fantastically adept at divorcing fashion from the fact that it has been made by an army of living, breathing human beings. as consumers we've been comletely anaesthetised by the seemingly incredible value of fashion over the last decade. we tend to make a joke about the fact that deep down we suspect they've been made in loathsome conditions, and sometimes we ignore it altogether.
- p42
the garment worker is short-changed at every turn, so don't be too soothed by a retailer's promise that it adheres to a minimum wage. naturally it will be referring to the minimum wage of the host country; and just because the government there has a minimum-wage law, that doesn't mean workers are being paid enough to live on. in the case of Bangladesh, the minimum wage level was set in 1994 at around Tk930, and stubbornly remained unchanged for over a decade. after a series of protests prompted by a swathe of fires in factories it was upped to Tk1,662.50 a month, and then to Tk3,000 in July 2010. this looks like a big increase - until you work out that Tk3,000 is 27 pounds.
most of these workers are the sole source of income for their families, and 1 pound a day is far below what a family of three, our or five need to survive.
we should also remember that just because a minimum wage is recommended by a government wage board, there is absolutely no guarantee that factory owners will observe it.
- p47
'listen, love,' a middle-aged man said to me on a Sunday-morning TV discussion programmed on which the 'sweatshop' issue came up, 'they're glad of the work.' i'm not unfamiliar with this sentiment; i must hear it at least ten times a week. it is second only to the classic 'they're just having their industrial revolution now.' cheap fast fashion is so often still presented as a wealth-creation scheme for poor brown people that it is frankly a wonder Primark hasn't been given a Social Justice Award. it's not an attractive line of argument.
first, there's the crude division between 'us' and 'them'. second, it just seems too convenient to rebrand our unsustainable, exploitative habits of consumption into a beneficient means of assisting unfortunates in the Developing World.
garment workers are, after all, individuals with aspirations, just like non-garment workers.
- p51
whereas it would take a year on the job to learn to stitch a full piece as a tailor, newcomers to the modern assembly lines were given a two-hour tailoring course that taught them little more than how to sew a straight line.
- p52
party top. wash with care - if you can be bothered, with all those sequins. otherwise, wear once at Christmas, divert straight to charity shop/bin.
you might assume that these sequin discs were added by machine. wrong. a machine would crease and split them too easily. these are delicate and precious. anyway, who needs machines when there are 30 million women across the world who can do the job in their homes for even less than you'd pay a factory worker?
communities based downstream from a collection of 'bad' dyehouses - the fishermen, housewives and schoolchildren who do not read Vogue online or the scoops from the shows - will often know what colour is big or autumn/winter season next year without recourse to a team of Geneva-based colour futurists. they know because the river literally changes colour as a result of the dyehouses' inability or refusal to manage waste water.
- p116
..some of the most hazardous [pesticides] for people and planet that humankind has ever managed to manufacture. among the roll call of the deadliest chemicals in use is Aldicarb, a powerful nerve agent and one of the most toxic pesticides. exposure to it can cause symptoms including nausea, abdominal cramps, vomiting, hypertension, cardio-respiratory depresion, dyspnoea and bronchorrhea, which can lead to pulmonary oedema. to give an idea of how hazardous it is, just one drop absorbed through the skin is enough to kill an adult. yet, astonishingly, it remains the second most prevalent pesticide in the cotton industry.
- p140
we consumers may never feel the impact of this, but the communities whose soil and water resources are close to cotton-producing areas probably will. according to the World Health Organisation, between 20,000 and 40,000 cotton workers die each year from pesticide poisoning. i heard of tragic stories in Mali, where villagers unable to read or interpret warning signs on empty pesticide containers filled them with water and drank from them, with fatal consequences.
- p141
every cotton product i own has a huge 'embodied water footprint' (taking into account all the water used not just in the growing of the cotton, but in its production). if you're talking in terms of accounting for water - and some day the world may have to do this - in order to get one kilogram (enough for a pair of jeans) of finished cotton textile, you need 11,000 to 20,000 litres of water, while a shirt weighing 250 grams requireds 2,700 litres.
if you really want to find that out, you need to account for the 'virtual water footprint', adding in all the extra water that has been used in diluting the pollution from growing and processing the cotton, and from combatting the salinisation associated with irrigation.
as a rule of thumb, however, environmental experts say that as much as 20,000 litres of water can be used to produce a single t-shirt
- p143
the Aral sea is dead, and it was killed by cotton, and once a sea dies, the surrounding population is plummeted into a spiral of neglect and decline too. thirty-five million people who depended on the Aral for fishing, leisure or associated activities lost out as the waters evaporated. conservative estimates suggest that the lives of five million people have been devastated (not just affected or inconvenienced) by the loss of the Aral, and by living in a saline dustbowl full of the remnants of cotton chemicals. respiratory infections are the main cuase of death among children, tuberculosis (at its peak there were 4000 cases per 100,000 people in some towns) is endemic and the drinking water contains more than six grams of salt per litre (four times higher than the saf level recommended by the WHO).
over 10 years, mortality rates increased by fifteen times.
- p145
there's a cost to democratisation, you know
by contrast to fast fashion, ethical fashion production runs are generally very small, and lead times generally much longer. the designer also takes responsibility for the supply chain. the term 'ethical fashion' is broad: it can refer to the fibres used, low-impact production methods, local or heritage production, superior animal-welfare standards, a fairtrade supply route, and indigenous textiles and handicrafts.
- p276, To Die For - Lucy Siegle

i’m sad tonight. i have no desire to hide from it. this touched me.

read perpetually.
learn from women with long grey hair pulled into ponytails.
stop waiting for the weekend.
spend time alone.
do not fear potato chips.
choose your one and only karaoke song and own it.
save animals, not boys.
have a friend you'd like to start a jazz band with.
next time you're with your family, really be there.
never live on a street that's too convenient.
invest in property, art and black lace underwear.
stop taking selfies. when someone else takes your picture, it can be magic.
use your imagination when cooking fish.
believe in happy endings.
let yourself be bewildered.
spend three days in a row without shoes.
let someone else make the bed.
study unconventional paths.
think it, become it. that's destiny.

i've been working on my doctorate for ten years now. i'm learning the hard lesson that the work i do is small. and the further i get down the road, the more i doubt that i have something new to add to the discussion. i try to keep encouraging myself. the other day i wrote in the margin of my notebook: 'you have something to say!'
- Humans of New York

please let yourself be proud of small things. please do that. please allow yourself to get excited about playing a video game well or sending an ask you were nervous about or letting a bug outside or peeling the whole orange in one try. please get excited about that. please. that's so cool i'm so glad you do it.

a signature can only be handwritten

i hope you get a paper cut on your tongue from a razor in a paper cup
i hope every soda you drink already shaken up
i hope your dreams dry like raisins in the baking sun
i hope your titties all saggy in your early 20s
i hope there's always snow in your driveway
i hope you never get off Fridays and you work at Fridays that's always busy on Fridays
i hope you win the lottery and lose your ticket
i hope it's Ben and Socrates poop all up in your kitchen
i hope the zipper on your jacket gets stuck
and your headphones short, and your charger don't work
and you spill shit on your shirt
i hope your tears don't hurt, and i can smile in your face
- Chance the Rapper for Action Bronson - Baby Blue

'man, i wish Johnny and Maxie were here.' Johnny and Maxie were my Dad's best friends in high school and watching these teenage memories come back to him reminds me that my Dad is an actual person - not just ~my~ Dad. i forget that he had a life before me.
festivals are an excape from reality. it's not like my Dad and i don't talke in real life - we talk almost every day actually - but being in this environment brings new bonding and we talk as friends, not as father-and-daughter.
i ask about his time picking tobacco when he was 13.. which leads us to smoking a few roll-ups together. this is big. i have been hiding my social smoking from my parents since i was around 20 and sitting there, beer in tow and fag in hand with my pops was weird and kinda wonderful.
- via

x x x x x

i made a promise to make the most of it by writing postcards instead of posts. when i first backpacked around Europe solo, i would send dozens of postcards to my friends and family from each place i wandered to. it seems silly that although so many readers can instantly be up to date with my travels these days, my Nan might be the last to know.
- Tuula Vintage

words with As on the end are the feminine forms in some languages. then a lot of girl names seem to end on an A - Jessica, Anna, Maria, Silvia, Emma, Sophia, Helena, Olivia, etc.
we don't like gender connotations: and that the letter A (which is a totally neutral letter) is so associated with being a girl.
- Ivania Carpio

..cloaked himself in a metaphysical mystique, embracing a role as a teenage philosopher amongst his peers through a combination of quizzical Twitter truths and raw musical talent. the self-processed sage was initially mocked as much as he was praised, but as [he] has grown older, the world has started realising the method to his madness. [he] offers conversation-starting soundbites that manage to avoid the eye-rolling platitudes spewed by most teens.

x x x x x

this is really reflective of McLuhan's views about post-literate culture. Kanye says it in a different, more concise, abstract way: 'words, fuck.'
- like listening to Travis Scott's new album, it is the feeling that you get, it's a certain sound that gives you a certain feeling. some people saying he needs to step his bars up. he doesn't need to do anything.. what comes out there comes out. if he tries to be more lyrical and forces it it sounds disingenuous. it's more about reducing - synthesising and synchronising what the words are trying to say with what the music is trying to say.

i think we have the same dilemma on leather. on one side, i do not want to support an industry that keeps animals in such an unethical way, also the production of leather is a toxic process. on the other side, faux leather is also produced in a very toxic way with a lot of waste and plastics involved. faux leather can not last decades like leather can, can hardly be repaired unlike leather, and when being discarded it does not decompose because of the plastics in it. so in the end, i think real leather would be the more sustainable thing, if you treat it like a valuable material, take care of it and buy a timeless design.

one day, many years from now, another Prime Minister will stand up and apologise for the damage done to refugees in detention. we will be told that we didn't know then what we know now. but we did know. we always knew. we just chose not to hear and to silence those who tried to remind us of the truth.
- Richard Flanagan

the best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.
- Giorgio Armani
this 'ethical fashion', this 'sustainable fashion', that complies to what fashion really ish, that is borne out of passion, skills, heritage, artistry and bravery, is fashion. it's everything else that isn't.
- Orsola de Castro

be gentle with your parents.
a reminder of much worth, i think. our parents need our gentleness and we need the full, whole feeling that we get when we give it to them.
part of the reason i can be rough and impatient with mine: i find it difficult watching my parents get older.. and slower. it coincides with life speeding up beyond what most of us can deal with. for their kids, the two paces – ours and theirs – often grate. when i see my parents i have to consciously slip into third gear. otherwise i might just self-combust as they ask me again for directions to my house. or bicker about who’s fault it was that mum’s glasses were left in the car.
it’s also.. what’s the right word.. dispiriting (?) a reminder of our mortality (?) to see our parents become the vulnerable ones. they were always the authority. they knew shit. it’s hard to swap the roles. but the passing of the baton is really significant. i’ve been able to be far more gentle with mine since i've picked up the baton.
- via

buy less, choose well
relax, you will become an adult. you will figure out your career. you will find someone who loves you. you have a whole lifetime; time takes time. the only way to fail at life is to abstain.
i would find you in any lifetime.
fashion never happens in isolation.. threads crisscross back through centuries, across cultures, via pop history and politics
we need to learn how important we are
better to be the one who smiled than the one who didn't smile back
nobody cares, work harder
don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability - Karl Lagerfeld

i'd love to be able to do fashion when i want to, but i'm a prisoner of my own commercial empire'
- Yves Saint Laurent

this is the age of 'i did it because i wanted to and it wasn't harming anybody'

find one dress that you like and have it copied many times? you will be much more successful than if you try to produce the same effects each evening.
have an elk-hide trunk for the back of your car? Hermes of Paris will make this.
put all your dogs in bright yellow collars and leads like all the dogs in Paris?
tie black tulle bows on your wrists?
rinse your blonde child's hair in dead champagne to keep it gold, as they do in France?
paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys' nursery so they won't grow up with a provincial point of view?
cover a big cork bulletin board in bright pink felt banded with bamboo, and pin with colored thumb-tacks all your various enthusiasms as your life varies from week to week?
admonishments on what to wear and, sometimes, the special ocasion on which to wear it:
WHY DON'T YOU - ?
wear Suzanne Talbot's black crepe glove embroidered in gold, like the hand that bore a falcon?
turn your old ermine into a bathrobe?
if you are a tawny blonde, wear bright yellow pajamas with carved coral bracelets?
knit yourself a little skullcap?
order Schiaparelli's cellophane belt with your name and telephone number on it ?
wear loose velvet gloves in wonderful colours - the right hand in violet velvet, the left in burgundy? these gloves at the theatre emerging from a beautiful ur cape would be very effective.
sweep into the drawing room on your first big night with an enormous red-fox muff with many skins?
go to the theatre in a black tweed evening suit with a jacket embroidered in brilliant paillettes?
Mrs Vreeland's Christmas gift suggestions, December 1936:
WHY DON'T YOU...?
give someone an enormous white handkerchief-linen table-cloth, and in different handwriting and in different colours (black, acid green, pink, scarlet and pale blue) have embroidered all the bon mots you can possibly think of?
give a case of vin rose - a delicious wine or luncheon or simple dinners?
give a length of exquisite brocade - enough for an evening envelope, to bind a favourite book, or make a little jacket?
give Chanel's 'Glamour'? it drives men crazy.
give a satin-finished platinum box with all the diamonds, rubies and sapphires in the world scooped together and smeared in a lovely design on the lid?
give to the wife of your favourite band leader an entire jazz-band made of tiny banquette diamonds and cabochon emeralds in the form of a bracelet from Marcus?
- Diana Vreeland
(DV helmed the stylish pages of BAZAAR for 25 years. During that time she penned an advice column with extravagant ideas for the modern woman)

'lovely dress! i think it would be prettier with flats though. i usually go with flats when skirt is above the knee, and heels with longer length. French rule.'
though i usually follow a different equation (the looser the item, the higher the heel), i'm compelled to give the French route a go more frequently.

you are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. you are what you take from these. you are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. you are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. you are every single day. so drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. let the words run through your veins and let the colours fill your mind.

blush or liquid silver?
colour struggle is such an exciting problem for me to have. people think i'm anti-colour and i'm not, i'm just really specific about how i want it to be done. so this feels like salvation.
so now the versus. blush is super pretty, literally the perfect not too pink not too taupe shade. silver is something else, it's really striking and a little more crazy.
- Rumi Neely

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if i must go and leave these ways i know
these dusks and dawns, and colour in the trees,
and the slow yarns, and wood-smoke hanging low,
and glowing stars, and cattle at their ease
and all the clear, small things of which i am a part -
i do not go for any prideful cause
that Europe might defend.
but only that the sun-swept Austral land
might still be warm within the Austral hand;
and that young boys, who speak the tongue i know,
might laugh in years ahead where sunsets glow;
while softly, softly in the leaves of the kurrajongs,
the night wind croons its tiny summer songs.
- The Recruit - Charles Shaw

> i got really lost last year. but i can't be lonely tho. cos we're all here. we're all stuck here. i wanted to make something that says, no matter how bad you fuck up, or mistakes you've made during the year, your life, your eternity. you're always allowed to be better. you're always alloewd to grow up. if you want.
> the internet is so in love with nostalgia because we're afraid to move forward
> everything is either zero or 100 now. you either don't make anything and stay super secret like Frank Ocean, or you put out a song every fucking day. and i realised that i had been doing a lot of things in public. so making songs now that i know aren't going to be heard by anybody else, it is an interesting thing. because i think you have to do that now as an artist. i really do.
because you start to manipulate your work based on other people, which is fine depending on what you're trying to do. i'm 31 now, but i had a lot of friends that started off like, i'm going to make sketches every day, i'm going to do this, we're going to do this. and now they're like: i'm just trying to make this, and why do i like this any more ?
> i know i'm not lou,d or outrageous, or a white girl with a big ass, but i'm fuckin honest.
> alone doesn't mean lonely tho
> i feel nothing or i feel everything, i don't know which is worse.
> i like endings and crave for endings. i feel like some millennials want endings and some don't, but i grew up wanting endings because i feel they're realer.
> i'm trying to build a canon, eventually. Erykah Badu once told me, 'with your art, don't explain it. let people do the work.'
> i'm really lucky. i'm really lucky that i was around at this time. i always think like, if i was around during pyraminds times i would be useless.
> being alive is exquisitely rare. being alive AND human is possibly one of the rarest things to ever be.. i forget that.
- DG

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this is the chemical formula for love: C8H11N02 + C10H12N20 + C43H66N12 012S2
dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin.
it can be easily manufactured in a lab, but overdosing on any of them can cause schizophrenia, extreme paranoia, and insanity.
let that sink in.

so..
relax your nostrils
soften the inside of your ears
release your toenails
let go of your teeth
let go of your eyelashes
repeat.
did you just do it? it works, yes?
a yoga teacher once told me to relax my nostrils. i took it further and released more ridiculous parts of my body, one by one. and i found my whole body released when i did.
- Sarah Wilson

personal style: influenced by unapologetic glamour, hip-hop, and Bond girls.
NY inspiration: everyone in New York walks around like they invented it. i love that. i love that you can walk out of your apartment looking crazy. no-one is really too concerned with anyone else. i love the emphasis on outerwear. coats in New York are like cars in LA - important.
favourite trends: it's no secret that i like a crop top. and a bra top. and a bustier. for me, i think it goes back to ballet - i grew up dancing and those are like the basics. it's also why i like to wear things backwards and cut necklines.
- Erika Bearman

'hey, are you Jaden? can i have a picture with you?' no, cause i'm super sad, but we can sit and talk.

the quietest rebel

> A lot has been said about the power of clothes, especially by young starlets with fledgling fashion lines who always give the requisite “I just love how clothes can transform you!” kind of speech in interviews, which is so cliché, but also true (I guess all clichés start out as truths?). It’s easy to dismiss fashion as frivolous and blah blah, especially if you’re only thinking about it in terms of “Models! Designers! Vogue!” But there’s so much more to it than that. In a world where–for better and worse–we are instantly judged by our appearance, clothes can be an armour or maybe even a traffic light, letting other people know whether they can approach you, or if they should proceed with caution or just stay the hell away.
> This is especially true when life gets hard. Not necessarily bad hard, just difficult—like looking for a new job or giving a presentation at school or going to a party where you know your ex AND their new significant other will be present. We all have our tricks for dealing with this stuff—meditation, exercise, junk food and reruns of Parks and Rec all work, sure, but when we have to leave our solitary fortresses and deal with other human people there is one last line of defense, the clothes we put on.
> And this is where POWER DRESSING comes in. For some of you, “power dressing” might conjure images of businesswomen in the 1980s wearing their gray skirt suits with football-player-size shoulder pads, nude stockings, and white sneakers (because they change into their POWER PUMPS at the office), but that’s only because we’ve been reading too many fashion magazines and watching too many ’80s girl-power movies (not that this is a bad thing). POWER dressing is really just the way we seek/express confidence, protection, or whatever through the things we choose to wear. Sort of in the same way that you’ll listen to Fiona Apple if you’re bummed on life and listen to Beyoncé when you’re getting ready to go out with your friends; they’re all extensions of the self you are creating right at that moment.
> Think of whatever your favorite garment or accessory is. Why is it your favourite? Whether it’s because it’s a hand-me-down from your grandmother or because something awesome happened one time while you were wearing it, you are deriving a certain kind of energy from it and therefore it gives you power. The first time I saw Interpol live, I went with this boy that I really liked, and I was really excited ’cause I thought maybe the date meant that he liked me too. It snowed the whole day, and when we were walking to the venue we were basically falling every three steps because it was so slippery, and then we were laughing so hard, which wasn’t helping with the falling. The show was totally magic, and at the end of the night the boy drove me home and said something off-hand about how he had told his aunt he was “seeing someone” (this would be me). We went back to my house and just fell asleep on the couch watching Iron Chef reruns, and I was the happiest I had ever been. I bought a shirt at that show, a red muscle tee that said INTERPOL in big block letters. I wore the shirt every day for like a week with black skinny jeans and my Converse because I wanted to hold on to the magic of that night—but also because something about that T-shirt symbolized this new powerful person that I had always wanted to be and that I was slowly becoming. OK, and also I was basically dressing like a member of the Strokes. I loved the Strokes.
> Different situations call for different solutions, and some of them require more drastic solutions than others. The gathering of energy starts with your very first layer, aka underwear. I have a red lace bra that I bought mostly because Deb wears one in Empire Records, and she is super badass. So now any time I need a little extra sass, the red bra goes on. I mean if Deb just shaved her head at work like it was no big deal, then what wonders will it do for me?
> Your actual clothes are the second layer. There are basic-level “foolproof” pieces for different occasions: e.g., the super-fitted blazer I wear to job interviews, the platform oxfords I wear when I’m channeling Robyn to tell the world “Don’t fucking tell me what to do,” and the long dresses I wear when I play with my band because for some reason I feel safe in them.These are my safety nets, though they might not seem like “safe choices” to everyone else. That’s another way I used clothes to give me that last li’l bit of a power push—I feel stronger when I know that I’m wearing exactly what I want without giving in to the whole “but what would people say?” voice that clouds so much of our decision making (in clothes, yes, but also life). Although so often “omg I could NEVER wear what you wear” is undermine-y and totally gross, there is a certain satisfaction to be derived from knowing that you are 100% confident and comfortable in yourself and your tastes.
- Laia Garcia

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> The thing is, fashion is a rotten, rotten business. Tough. Full of compromises and shallow values. Designers complain, rightly, that they don’t have enough time to design. The world is awash in goods.
> Psychologically, then, couture is necessary, maybe more than ever. In the 1970s and ’80s, its relevance was challenged by one hostile or indifferent group after another, though mainly working women who didn’t have time for all that froufrou.
> Now, though, couture seems like paradise — a think tank but way more fun. Best of all, it’s not for everyone.

> Last week, when Mr. Lagerfeld admitted that it was difficult for him to describe couture, I was surprised. Mr. Lagerfeld at a loss for words? But then I appreciated that he didn’t try. The fashion world suffers from a twin compulsion to define a thing (as “modern,” etc.) and then to rave about it idiotically. And couture resists the tight clothes that people want to give it.
> Of course such work is incredibly costly, but in a way that’s beside the point. Because what you’re buying is a sensibility, and that’s truly scarce.
- via

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> Both the digital era and a renewed reverence for the work of human hands have undermined the original Modernist stand. And now that the paintings of Italian futurists are hanging on the walls of the Museo del Novecento in Milan, artists have to find a new way of proclaiming that the future is now.
> Mr. Lagerfeld’s offhand minimalism was summed up by a black top and skirt where inserts of white cloth, shadowed by yellow and by tan leather, nonchalantly spelled “F” for Fendi. No logo mania here — just an example of über-craftsmanship.
> This was stealth wealth presented in the most tasteful and imaginative way. For Mr. Maier long ago understood that bling-bling was for the nouveau riche and that quality, perfection and detail were the real luxury in the modern era.
- via

a you-can't-fire-me-i-quit approach to baldness

i would not claim that i always have a definite non-paranormal explanation for every case that is put before me but there are usually several plausible possibilities. one thing to bear in mind is the unreliability of eyewitness testimony. there is also the possibilty of deliberate hoaxes.
'unreliability of eyewitness testimony' - and yet we put such stock in eyewitness testimony in the legal system.

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Q how do you come up with the cute names for the stuff in your collection?
A mythical lands in my head etc
- Rumi Neely

'i sometimes find it more satisfying for a girl to check me out than a guy to check me out'
'i've started to just smile at people because i've realised the power of smiling at another woman'
@nowness - when women look at other women on the street #thewaywedress #thefemalegaze

don't be afraid to be open minded. your brain is not going to fall out.

he knew why he wanted to kiss her. because she was beautiful. and before that, because she was kind. and before that, because she was smart and funny. because she was exactly the right kind of smart and funny. because he could imagine taking a long trip with her without ever getting bored. because whenever he saw something new and interesting, or new and ridiculous, he always wondered what she'd have to say about it - how many stars she'd give it and why.

'it's one of those things where i'm right, so i'm just going to keep stating my argument calmly. i'm reading [philosopher] Kierkegaard and truth is a power -- but it's A power, it's not THE power. people don't do it just because it's the truth, people do it because they're afraid.
everybody in this situation was afraid of getting in trouble, so that's why they were stopping me. they weren't listening, they didn't use common sense.'

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i am presently experiencing life at a rate of several WTFs per hour

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fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. and i don't tink it's an accident that it's typically seen as shallow, trivial and vain. it's the height or irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental.. and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. and it's a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that's inherently superficial and trivial. like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women's art form. and i think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.
- Fashion is a Feminist Issue - Greta Christina

'i'm really trying to grow up the brand and appeal to a wider age group than just young, cool girls who can wear short lengths and want relaxed styles. i just make clothes i think are missing, what i want to wear and what my friends wnat to wear, what Mum wants to wear.'
- Kym Ellery
'you wanna be upper class, first class. but on a plane crash, everybody dead.'
- Kanye West

evolution rather than a revolution
the too-hard basket isn't for recycling
wearing our flag as a cape; a racist superhero
we're all boat people from the UK
Australia in the scheme of things; you're the Tasmania of the world
clicking likes; your protest for the week
i wish i had Synesthesia

sui generis

'we always have said we want our customers to buy into our product because they have an emotional connection to the garment, not because they are buying into a trend or something. there's heart in what we do and i know it sounds lame but it's the only way we know how.'
- Luke Sales, Romance was Born

'the online world is one thing ; make sure your connections and work become tangible at some point.'
@StreetEtuiquette

work for a cause, not for applause | live life to express, not to impress

injustice remains untouched by the ravages of time and commerce. imagine if Jay had lived through the release of The Blueprint and then got cut down right before dropping The Black Album. how many churches would have been erected in his honour? now he must contend with rumours about the Illuminati and faking a pregnancy.

as a true child of the Internet, he finds himself in a near-constant state of flux; a restless neo-artisan with a penchant for cross-pollination.

you're going to miss every moment of this.. of everything.
sometimes i feel like i'm already gone / ahead and im just vividly remembering everything that's happening in the moment. fur real. sometimes everything feels too familiar to be just happening for the first time. the show feels like that sometimes. you can't understand something totally and enjoy it at the same time, i think. but it's fun to not know all of it. everybody wants some magic. something they can't quite figure out.
the rules of the Internet are the rules of our new universal language like the Bible, like the Constitution, we make rules to break later and be better. pushing forward until we are all just a bodiless conscious, buzzing through the air trading information, conversing, testing ideas without fear or violence. free from limit. this is the moment we decide if we want to be the kid pouring salt on a worker's head at the sit in, or the kids sitting calmly in the face of what everyone else identifies as futility.
..or we can be the kid sitting back, just trying to eat. ignoring what's happening in front of them. not having an opinion until the aceptable choice is handed to you by people you don't know.
we have reached a moment wehre there is no 'real' because we don't care anymore we can curate what's real every day on our timeline feed. the boundary of what's real and what we want to be real is as volatile as the worth of our bitcoin or human heartbeat.
this is an important moment.
but be[a]ware that we are all making it up as we go. together.
our human collective unconscious.
our deep web.
learn [to/the] code.
they're arguing about driving, or cooking with coconut oil instead of olive oil, or something else they themselves will not care about or remember in a month, year, ten years, 100 years, the age of the universe.
it's not a very pretty or perfect love, or even necessarily a romantic love. it doesn't look cool. it's more like two helpless things in the wild, and one says 'i'll protect you', and both parties know it's a lie because there's no way either of them can protect the other from anything. that lie is the best way to describe this love. that feeling of not having to say 'i'm scared', because you share the exact feelings without having words over or under complicate it, that's worth more than protection. it's a connection. the less alone. this is all we look for on Earth.

- i'd like to say Holden Caufield, but that's untrue. i'm probably more Gonzo. he's just a weird dude that just wants to be liked. no one really knows what he is. he's into chickens. why is everyone hatin' on dude being into chickens?

we are the dreams of our parents lost in the future | who hide the deepest desires and wear a mask like a lucha
- Life: The Biggest Troll

make your own momentum
truly the Salvador Dali of our time
make a diagram of how art makes you feel
stop in front of a painting that you like. call someone you miss and describe it.
find something that you don't understand. embrace it.

'i knew you must be feeling strange. i think its the lack of comfort zone and the anonymity.' - a loved one

i wanted to read one last thing to you. it's actually something a good friend had wrote describing my world. it says:
'the caterpillar is a prisoner to the streets that conceived it. its only job is to eat or consume everything around it, in order to protect itself from this mad city. while consuming its environment, the caterpillar begins to notice ways to survive. one thing it noticed is how much the world shuns him, but praises the butterfly. the butterfly represents the talent, the thoughtfulness, and the beauty within the caterpillar.'
- 'Mortal Man', Kendrick Lamar

never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

'look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? you can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. if you believe in it,s that's what makes it cool' - Andre 3000
'find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. read books, pick your role models wisely. find out what they did and do it.' - Lana Del Rey

'coding is a beautiful thing. if there is a God, he definitely codes. there are fail-safes in the world. that's code. i don't want young black kids to aspire to be rappers or ballers. even lawyers and doctors - those are service positions. i want them to be coders. they can make their own worlds then. they don't need anybody else. i love hearing those kids' ideas, all these kids on the Internet. the excitement of making something, that's the spark of God.' - Donald Glover

why Salvador Dali is his multihyphenate hero

'people are afraid things won't work. you work in the Arts! everything isn't supposed to work.'
- anonymous
@Steve_G_Lover

like it's crazy but the more i understand the world of art and commerce and fashion the more i realise how truly corny everyone is.
i used to take my cool for granted. never again. you shoudn't either.
when companies come for your cool make em pay. make it expensive for them to do you. whether its immediate or the long con make them pay.
i dont really mean money when i say expensive. i mean always make a company risk something pricey to associate with you.
just value your cool for reals people. don't let motherfuckers skate when they do shit that cheapens your cool like 'street style'.
required reading on the subject: http://genius.com/Outkast-hollywood-divorce-lyrics
@IbraLikeZebra

i often wonder how many good artists die in NY daily that we'll never discover because they suffered from a lack of distribution.
it's okay kid. it's okay to die cool and poor. let's stop 'failure' shaming people that live with their mama. do you.
know your worth. the money you're offered is rarely what you're worth anyway. power. power is what you want.
@IbraLikeZebra

Q i feel like crying all the time, what's wrong with me?
A you have an extreme case of human
@FamLikeFamily

(what's a conspiracy you believe but haven't told anyone because you don't want people to think you're crazy?):
- sometimes i feel like peole can read my thoughts. not always and i have a pretty wandering mind so hopefully this isn't true.
- i believe i'm a retard but everybody is pretending i'm not.
- i honestly believe i have a stutter. i don't really think about it, b ut i can sometimes catch myself saying the same words over again. it's not a big one or anything that will cause me to have social problems, but i would have repeated about a fifth of the words i've typed in this comment if i had been saying them aloud in a conversation. no one, and i mean no one, has agreed with me when i bring it up. also, i always feel like it's a task to tell a small story during a conversation. it kind of messes with me because i am always thinking in one straight, cohesive string. i don't stutter when i think, just when i speak.. sometimes.. i think.
- i believe i may have suffered a small stroke or some form of mild brain trauma because everything i do feels as if its in a fog. thinking, reading, hell even going about my day. i certainly don't feel as if i'm learning things as well as i could when i was younger starting some time in my junior year of high school.
- rocks are soft, they just tense up when touched.
- that our minds can see into the future its just not something we understand, we get very fast flashes of the future and then we live the event at some point in the future it feels like deja vu.
- the fashion industry was behind every political assassination of the last 200 years.
- sometimes i wonder if i'm actually yelling out all my thoughts really loudly and people just ignore me because they're used to it.
- Lyme disease was created as a means of biological warfare. we brought over tonnes of Nazi scientists after WW2, one of which was fascinated with using ticks and other insects as a means to spread disease. he was stationed on plumb island near Lyme, CT. a few decades after his arrival, the first incident of 'Lyme disease' occurred after people were bitten by ticks. i don't believe it was intentionally released into the public, but i do think it was an engineered bacteria.
- that time is a loop and we've all been experiencing the universe in the exact same order for eternity. thus meaning that when we die even though it may take an amount of time that we can't even fathom, our universe and everything in it will be delicately rearranged exactlly how it is / was / will be.
- that my life has already been predetermined and that everyone around me is just acting accordingly.
via

'A DECADE AFTER LAUNCHING THE GLOBAL FASHION BRAND WILLOW, AUSTRALIAN DESIGNER KIT WILLOW HAS EMBARKED ON A NEW JOURNEY WITH A PASSIONATE TEAM TO CREATE KITX.
“KITX IS COMMITTED TO BEING AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE STYLE FOR THE MODERN WOMAN IN A NEW GLOBAL ERA. AT THE CORE OF KITX ARE ITS ETHICS AND VALUES – WE SIMPLY DON'T BELIEVE IN QUALITY WITHOUT HONESTY. THE INTEGRITY OF THE BRAND IS KEY AND THE HIGH-QUALITY, SEDUCTIVE, DESIGN-LED STYLE WILL NOT BE COMPROMISED.”
“I STRONGLY BELIEVE IN A BETTER WORLD THOUGH THE SIMPLE MANTRA OF MAKING WOMEN LOOK AND FEEL BEAUTIFUL WITHOUT HARMING OUR PRECIOUS PLANET. EVERYONE CAN WIN.” SAYS KIT
“KITX IS BORN FROM A SPIRIT OF KINDNESS, INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY WITH X REPRESENTING THE FUTURE. KITX WILL FOCUS ON CREATING SEDUCTIVE AND MODERN DESIGNS OUR CUSTOMERS WILL LOVE TO WEAR WHILE ALSO CARING ABOUT THE IMPACT EVERY DECISION HAS ON OUR PLANET AND ITS PEOPLE.”

'they have no idea what it is like to lose home at the risk of never finding home again | have your entire life split between two lands and become the bridge between two countries'
- 'first generation immigrant'
'you are waiting for someone who is not coming back | meaning | you are not living your life | hoping someone else will realise they can't live theirs without you | but realisations don't work like that'
- 'absence of logic and presence of pain'
- Rupi Kaur

'i just wanted people to get across something that they don't normally talk about, and why aren't they talking about it. i mean, i feel that way: why am i pretending to be Troy? wha am i rapping about puns? when actually, i'm araid that my parents are gonna die or i'm afraid that i'm going to be Tyrese [Gibson].
those feelings are the types of things that connect us, not showing the car you drove or the stack you have.
i used to have this fantasy that when i turn 78 i would do everything i hadnt done thus far. i'm going to do heroin, kill a person, blow dudes, just everything that's left to do in life. but as i get older, i realise that there's a good chance that i won't even make it to 78. first of all, i'm a black male. secondly, every male in my family has a lifespan of like mid-60s. so technically, i'm mid-life right now, even though i'm not that old.
but that's how i started looking at shit, so i started to wonder why i'm doing stuff.
why am i trying so hard to be nice to the guy at the ATM and making him not scard of me, or why am i not doing drugs, why am i living for other people?'
via

everbody's somebody's everything
nobody really cares if you don't go to the party
i like Charlie Murphy's description of a troll: 'Habitual Line-Stepper'
it's about who you miss at 2pm when you're busy, not 2am when you're lonely

'i hope i've never made it. i hope i never make it. i wake up every morning, and i'm like, i gotta fucking get this. i gotta be better. i gotta be better. i don't think i'll ever feel satisfied.'

'on the difficult days, when the world's on your shoulders, remember that diamonds are made under the weight of mountains'
- 'diamonds'
'i don't care if what we have will never be love. if we weren't together in a past life or written in the stars. all you need to know is that when my mind wanders off it is always home to you.
- 'wandering minds'
'it's a strange thing to see you now and be unable to recall how it felt to love you. like a half remembered dream, the essence of what we shared is there but the details are hazy. like a house i grew up in, you're still familiar to me, but the feeling of home is missing.'
- 'half remembered dream'
'the most painful part of losing you was that it didn't matter how close, how familiar we became with one another over the years, it only took a fraction of the time to become total strangers again - for the texture of your touch, the melody of your voice, to become a distant memory.'
- 'familiarity'
'you're a miracle, i still believe that. you just happened to someone else.'
- divine intervention
'i know behind that big brave front is something soft. something that dismantles whenever your song comes on. that still twists up tight when you hear his voice. your prescription, take care of yourself. eat well and rest up. love, like all illness, takes time to sweat out.'
- 'the fever'
- Beau Taplin

earlier this year, Kanye West told media that he hates to smile in photos because of an old book he picked up in a Paris flea market, that showed portraits of 19th Century nobility posing in staunch outfits while looking very serious.

hope for the best. expect the worst.

'the Fibonacci sequence can be seen in nature, where the sunflower, for instance, has 21 spirals on its head in the direction and 34 going in the other - consecutive Fibonacci numbers. the outside of a pinecone has spirals that run clockwise and counterclockwise, and the ratio of the number of spirals is sequential Fibonacci values. in the elegant curves of a nautilus shell, each complete new revolution will be a ratio of 1:1.1618, when compared to the distance from the centre of the previous spiral.'
- p53, Cracking the Da Vinci Code - Simon Cox





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- got damn i'm in such a good place, feel like my brain been wearing pajamas to work
- sometimes you gotta remember you're valuable, and can do what you want
- consumers full of shit. media full of shit. music industry full of shit
- undersell, overdeliver
via @famlikefamily

- slow money better than no money. constantly being in survival mode sucks, but the ones that make it out have the most creativity because they have to.
feeling like shit can't get any worse really is empowering or me, it makes me live my life the way i want to with what i have. no internal consequences.
- my dancing once saved a life
- i still think kanye can do better. - kanye probably thinks so too. but he'sa dad now and he has a lot of shit to lose, he gotta eat.
via askf.am