Witch's Cell Division

History of the World

26 Gasoline Stations
Andrei Markov (chain)
‘One Hundred Years’
The Dymaxion House

Giordano Bruno
The Lightning Field
Mr. Sir
‘A Short Term Effect’

Alan Turing (machine)
‘Neon Lights’ (1978)
Island of Never Anger
Edgard Varese

Rachel Carson
Victory over the Sun
Taliesin West (1954)
Small White Pebble Circles

Carbonated Soft Drinks
Model N°670, 1956
Rosa Parks
Viking I, Viking II

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
Supremus N°58
Nikola Tesla (coil)
‘The Hanging Garden’

International Mobile
‘Sparrowfall’
‘The Hall of Everlasting Life’
Valentina Tereshkova

Richard Prince
Water Supply & Distribution
A Promise Ring
Puberty

Swimming Lakes
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (jet)
St Louis Gateway Arch
Drinking Straw

Red Petals
Niels Bohr (atoms for peace)
‘Magnetic North’
Fallingwater

Remote Control
‘Events In Dense Fog’
Ralf Hütter
Kilimanjaro (19,335.6)

Laughter And Forgetting
Carle David Runge (helium)
Sign Language
‘Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960’

‘Slowdive’
Robert Jarvik (7)
Grey-scale Ultrasound
Greeting Cards

Terrestrial Radar
Jonas Salk (strong children)
Monument To The Last Horse
Tin And Copper

The Texas Pieces
Louis, Mary & Richard Leakey (skull)
Ghost Telephone
Alpine Architecture

Rudolf Schwarzkogler
After Ford (Huxley)
Things That Are Near
Rouen Cathedral, Morning

White-haired Girls
Sojourner
M.L. (the freezing of mercury)
Floating Tetrahedral City

Monogram ‘55
JBJ Fourier (chaleur)
‘Tiny Golden Books’
To Be Close

“History of the World”, a poem by Peter De Potter, 2004. Six stanzas were selected by Raf Simons for prints Spring-Summer 2005.

Lutz A/W 2003

Rochas Resort

I received my first Rochas piece in the mail today — a crinkled beige tank top that I bought on ebay. It's beautiful, as is Rochas' latest "grandma" influenced collection. Standouts include the orthopedic sandals and the over-sized handbags.

Tabi

I recently acquired a pair of Margiela Tabi boots. I found myself strangely attracted to them after seeing this picture of the late Daul Kim. The attraction was heightened when I visited Japan last year and traditional 'ninja shoes' (flat soled canvas shoes with a split toe) haunted nearly every market. Of course, Margiela got the idea for his tabi boots from traditional Japanese work shoes. I love the inherent conflict of the tabi — once ubiquitous, working class and utilitarian; now, thanks to Margiela, rare, high fashion and largely impractical (although surprising, I find them easy to walk in, despite the 3 inch heel and my predisposition to falling over). There's a playfulness to Margiela tabis too — podiatrically incorrect, they look like hooves, or as my boyfriend so kindly pointed out, camel toe. They tread a fine line between the ugly and the beautiful — and I think that's why I like them so much.

On the subject of Japanese fashion, I would really, really like a copy of this book:





Sonomama Sonomama: High Fashion in the Japanese Countryside, Taiski Hirokawa, 1987. It was available here, but has since sold.

Crystal Visions

There is something about naturally occurring minerals that is both soothing and mysterious. I love these bullet necklaces by Unearthen and these raw rock rings by Billy Bride. There's also a little piece in issue #6 of Apartamento about an unabashed amethyst enthusiast that is worth checking out. To quote from it, "But it didn't matter, because that day we realised that, amongst many other things, we also shared a love for minerals, so we decided to go to the Museum Fur Naturkunde in Berlin to celebrate it. When we went in, there were lots of people taking pictures of the dinosaurs like crazy. We didn't care about the dinosaurs at all. The minerals were in the next room and we stared and praised and enjoyed for hours each and every one of the 1077 pieces they have."

Fruit Salad

TuTa

Celine Pre-Fall 2011

David Hockney, Vogue Paris

Given the scandal surrounding Carine Roitfeld's departure from revered fashion magazine Vogue Paris, it seems an apt time to showcase one of my favourite spreads to come off the publication's printing press. Above are a few of the 40 pages of photo collages, paintings, drawings, and writing that David Hockney contributed to the Dec 1985-Jan 1986 issue.

Crime & Punishment

An outside exercise in retribution by Yoshikazu Yamagata of writtenafterwards.

Feline Fashion

Miu Miu/Mew Mew:




Vivetta Autumn A/W 2009-2010:



Lanvin A/W 09:



United Bamboo Cat Calender:



From EVERYTHING FUREVER, the book documenting Katie Gallagher’s A/W 07 collection:

Concrete Island

ACNE - CONCRETE ISLAND from ASKILL PROJECTS on Vimeo.

Concrete Island was created by Daniel Askill, Lorin Askill and Michelle Jank to showcase Acne’s Cruise 2011 collection. With a mesmerising sense of perpetual motion, cameras rotate 360 degrees around a smoky room. This is juxtaposed with still imagery of models, mannequins and mirrors. It’s a surreal carousel ride in metallic and grey hues, and it’s beautiful, albeit dizzying, to watch. The collection itself is characterised by elegant drapery and sleek evening dresses.

House of Holland for Debenhams 2010 T-shirt line

Print illustrations by Jessica May Underwood.

Future Beauty

Currently exhibiting at The Barbican in London is Future Beauty, a comprehensive survey of Japanese fashion from the last 30 years. Organised around four themes – blackness and shadows; flatness and form; tradition and innovation; street style and popular culture – the exhibition explores the most precocious and left field of styles to come out of the land of the rising sun. Think Issey Miyake's pleats and porcelain buttons, the avant-garde silhouettes of Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto's draped monochrome masterpieces.

Ladyboy Luxe

The Gentlewoman Issue No. 2 vs. Vivienne Westwood A/W 2010
Via: Lynn and Horst

Kirky

Nicholas Kirkwood has just been nominated for a British Fashion Award for his collaboration with the New York-based Keith Haring Foundation.

Rubber Hats

Maria Blaisse for Issey Miyake, 1988

Swan More Take

The Marjan Pejoski designed dress that Bjork made famous.