things that fly.

it's done.
almost a year of work (and a lot less blogging on my part) finished yesterday with the final show at the baltic.
i'll be adding pics as people post them on facebook etc (i took a video of my collection - at the bottom of the post - but no photos)

enjoy!

ding ding

fame at last

that's my online portfolio malarky

and that's where i've been for the past, err, 6 weeks,

doing that.

oh, and making a collection.

which is not yet finished.

so... back to the silence until after may 19th (when you can expect the exact opposite of silence. LOUD NOISES AND SHOUTING and lots of posts about northumbria 2k11.)

apols for lack of photos. i was going to put some "sneak preview" pics on, but... cba.

wearing some clothes.

descriptive title.

in order to prove i am alive, here is me wearing some clothes last thursday and today.
it was sunny; i was not outside. damn you, uni.

vintage dress+denim jacket+fur tail thingy//ebay hat+necklace+shoes//2nd hand belt//uniqlo cardi

vintage dress+belt//2nd hand jumper//ebay shoes//primark tights//H&M ring

semi related note... i've started applying for jobs and such like and thought having a bit of an online portfolio situation would be quite the thing. so...prospective employers; direct your eyes to the sidebar. adding stuff as and when i finish it/have time.

spiky situations.

i clearly have no time to be making random things but this appeared on tommy ton's style.com fashion week photos...

...and then this happened.

basically, i bought a hair comb from fenwicks haberdashery (i assume any haberdashery will have them...?) and some studs from ebay, cut some strips of leather i had lying about and superglued everything together.
ok... a little more to it than that, but not much.

make sure to get screw in studs.
make a hole for each stud in one piece of the leather. (i had 3 strips - you can see the pen lines from where i was trying to place them evenly on the top but, yknow, whatever.)
push the stud through; tighten the screw.
when all the studs are through, superglue the other two strips to the studded strip and then glue the whole thing to the comb.

more ways to wear:

the thing about it is, it's heavy. if you, like me, like things off centre (and don't plan on wearing it like a little tiara thing, pic #2), it's best to backcomb/hairspray the section you're putting it in to give it something to hold on to, and stick some bobby pins underneath it so it can't slide out. (that's what i've done in the first pic).

and the winner is.

ANTM cycle 16 already started, but cycle 15 winner ann ward was finally in vogue italia (as shot by ellen von unwerth) and up on fashion gone rogue.

i can take or leave the first and fourth shots, but the last one and the two in the second row are fabulous - ann is one of the only girls to come through the ANTM mill who could actually do something in the industry, but then, they say that about someone every couple of cycles.

no one is really floating my boat so far in cycle 16; thoughts?

also: ANTM is one of those ultimate guilty pleasures. like project runway, but considerably more guilty. like, obviously it's pretty far removed from the reality of the industry and it's completely OTT and cringe-y, but it's also awesome. right? RIGHT?

anyway, ann is/was awesome and the deserved winner. i still say allison was robbed in cycle 12.