SunnyD and eyeballs

If you can't already tell from the pictures above, I'm a little obsessed with orange at the moment. I'm in the habit of buying items coloured as if they should be seen in a SunnyD advert back in '93 which has ultimately made me want to experiment with print and colour more, as well as making me feel rather sunny wearing it! I've gathered some of my most recent tangy purchases for this post above; a bunch of train tickets from trips with friends, a pair of elasticated mid-calf socks from Cos, orange pens from Muji for brighter note taking, the Amsterdam city guide from the travel savvy people of Wallpaper*, and most recently, a cropped shirt from the Dr.Martens x Agyness Deyn collection.

I kind of surprised myself actually when I bought this shirt as I've been quite 'safe' with colour and print etc. Spotting this in the Dr.Martens store, the tangerine and eyeball combination reminded me of something worn in The Fifth Element yet I felt like a cool kid from the 90s buying it surrounded by their miles and miles of patent stompers. The collaboration has been going for a successful 2 years now, with their spring/summer 2013 collection inspired by the Harajuku girls of Tokyo. The collection is a mash up of different trends from the subculture but notably post 80s early 90s punk rock. You can find their current collection here!
(The background for the images is taken from issue 2 of Sheet, the in-house fanzine for Urban Outfitters Europe, by Joe Peter Brown, a Sales Associate and their store in Bath. You can find him and his awesomely ingenious graphics here at joepeterbrown.tumblr.com)

Habits

I feel like every season we are sucked into a whirl pool of toile and new trends that we can often forget the little quirks that have become integral to the designer and their work; Chanel's little black jacket, Rei Kawakubo's destructive fabric pile-ons, Rick Owens' dark and otherworldly enigma . I've found myself drawing away from the trend tsunamis (but not ignoring them) and looking out for those little habits in their collections today, that would have been prominent during design infancy.

First up is Christopher Kane. I think probably my favourite aspect of Christopher Kane's collections every season is his graphic tees; his signature is creating luxury out of  thrifty screen-printed t-shirts and this brilliance has turned roaring gorillas in his spring/summer 2009 show (think of a more wearable Planet of the Apes) and even Frankenstein in his spring/summer 2013 collection giving a gentle nod to his effortlessly cool and stellar epitome.

On to Rick Owens. His shows always remind me of a forbidden planet and his collections the planet's dark and dangerous enigma; he is in the habit of emerging his models from pouring smoke which helps convey the elegantly badass attitude of his collections.

 And of course I couldn't leave out the invisible king of couture. Martin Margiela is guilty of the habit blessing of being able to create bewitching masks of marble, crystal and pearl. These masks are worn by all in his couture shows-Margiela HIMSELF could be under that mask, who knows? Margiela has made his mark with this signature anonymity, and in his two years of couture he has managed  to stamp his signature all over the globe, no effort required.

Getting "back into" fashion

For this post I couldn't think of a more appropriately crap title, but that's just it-I have found myself stuck in a rut for a good few months now and fashion, you have tired me. And this lack of inspiration has resulted in a lack of blog posts, a lack of interest and, worryingly, a lack of commitment to something I felt so passionate about all of 4 months ago. Exhaustion came to mind whenever I followed the collections online throughout fashion week and everything around me had been so over-saturated with fashion images that anything that I would have previously found extraordinary just seemed very tedious. I'm not sure what exactly has got me "back into fashion" exactly, it may have been my hoarding tendencies letting the pile of magazines grow, but it seems that as soon as Couture Week has rolled around the corner, design is exciting me again (here's looking at you Martin Margiela).
Expect more commitment to writing and fashion from now on, my eyes have just had an overload of it.

Dress: & Other Stories (unfortunately no longer available!)

Ring: Cos

Shoes: Office