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Motherfuckers! I know I am about three months late, but humour me. What did y’all think about AW09 collections? Favourites? Were you repulsed by anything? I only just got around to having a squiz around some collections… pathetic, I know. 

Personally, I loved some of the detailing in the Comme des Garcons collection. The slightly drawn in waists in the huge layered coats? The collars? Mmmm. And I don’t think I need to go on about how much I love muted colour palettes – yet another reason to love winter. 

The Chloe collection was amazing too. Elegant, classic, refined (although I don’t think I’m ever going to love bunched cuff trousers, no matter how often they are in the Sartorialist).

Balmain jackets omg. The whole tuxedo jacket trend is something I am hugely fond of (I think I’ll always love a cuffed blazer or tuxedo sleeve.)

Jil Sander’s collection was amazingly elegant, and although I found many of the clothes fairly uninspiring, I thought the use of colour was fantastic. The muted tones then BLAM, yellow motherfuckers!  (This was pretty cool in Prada too, the muted greys and browns with crazy reds, the whole thing looked like sepia or B+W then toned with vibrant reds afterwards. I loved some of the Prada knits too, but seriously, thigh-high waders? I’m all for gumboots but…really?!).

Missoni’s layering of powder blue tuxedos and dusty pinks with muted yellow accessories was pretty great. Got me all happy. The pastels worked well as a contrast to so many greys and blacks, but didn’t offend my winter loving, muted colour sensibilities… snort chuckle.

Although I didn’t fall in love with a lot of the Fendi pieces, the overall aesthetic was something I can appreciate and relate to. Christopher Kane didn’t make me all gooey-eyed like last year but I did love the use of the sheer neutral tones with black detailing. 

There was a huge amount of architectural folding around. Good? I like it when it’s more fitted (like the Balenciaga skirts) but I am totally not into the great big folds I’ve seen all over the place for a while now (a la Lanvin, Victor + Rolf, Miu Miu… frankly, big ugly folds: do not want)

RODARTE: NO! I did not like you at all.

GALLIANO: I am sorry, some of your skirts may have flowed very nicely but you were a hot tranny mess. 

ANNE VALERIE HASH: I am sorry but no.

I am sure there is more. Please tell me opinions!

Photos via Scout Holiday.

-Sally

I am sorry La Rare! I am sorry, but I do not like your heeled cutout brogues! 

Brogues, I like. Heeled brogues, I like. But these heeled cutout brogues that I’ve been seeing freaking everywhere for probably the last year, I do not like.

I even mentioned to dearest mother that I was looking to invest (yes, invest) in a nice pair of brogues, she immediately starts pointing out these abhorrences* whilst I recoil in disgust:

“No, mother. Not like that.”

In other news…

Dear block heels: I do not like you either.

PS: Baptiste Viry, I get you are going for that whole androgynous thing. I get it. You are all about the waistcoats: I am into that too. I am into what you are doing. However, the model in your lookbook, she looks like a man. I really had to consider for some time whether or not she was in fact a she. Perhaps this is what you are going for, but I do not like it. I do like your waistcoats though.

PPS: If only I had seen the neon leopard print Christopher Kane cardy sooner: I would have bought the cheap leopard print jumper (which was walking the precarious line between awful and fantastic) down at the local shops. Unfortunately, I am not quite cool enough to carry things like that off without some kind of trend to back me up. Yes, I am the lamest person I know.

Also: I stumbled onto the Alex and Chloe site and fucking wept that I couldn’t have pretty much most things.

And lastly: Wearing black does not make me a goddamn Goth. Frankly, if you think I look like a Goth you are a fucking idiot because I really, really don’t. So you can stop now, Mother and also boy who studies podiatry who I don’t really know.

I know I haven’t posted in months or whatever but that is all I have to say.

- Sally

*I had so many issues trying to find out if this was a real word or not. I think, yes?

Okay, a whole bunch of more stuff.

This video is sweet. I don’t particularly like the song, I don’t dislike it all that much either. I like stop motion things, in any case.

Also, I have found some funny websites!

http://www.badpaintingsofbarackobama.com/

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com

http://thisisindexed.com

My head hurts so you’ll just have to deal with no proper links. 

-Sally

Today, our linguistics lecturer showed us this video. 
This is what you get from studying at the state’s most prestigious university. 

-Sally

Oh, I know I’ve been terrible. Let’s just say I am easily distracted? There have been exams, festivals, the rents going away and subsequent house parties. As such there’s been less internet trawling and more hangovers.
HOWEVER
I do have some goodies for you all!

Local photographer Lloyd Hughes takes some fucking stunning photographs (sometimes, I know the people in the photographs… but mostly not). He takes a whole heap of photos at events like the now-demised Horror Shop, contributed at Super Sampler (which is a super duper lomo exhibition on now at Behind the Monkey 479 Beaufort Street Mt Lawley), takes photos of bands such as the Voltaire Twins, Autumn Isles, and local labels like Igor & Katja (certainly a busy lad). Anyway, my point is, go check out some of his lovely photographs and give him a great big smile (or rather, don’t and preserve your indie-ness) if you see him around.

-Sally

Dudes! I have been reading a whole heap of StyleBubble. I think that…maybe you should as well? If you want! I may have written about it before when I was talking about fashion blogs, but stylish lady Susie Bubble writes some interesting things about fashion and all that. She has crazy individual style and I have oodles of love for her (perhaps I am weird and also a little stalkerish? It is possible). I have also been weird and stalkerish in regards to Sanna of the Vagabond Set.. Is it weird to live vicariously via other people’s blogs? Lordy I need to leave the house more often! I kid, I do not spend all my time on the internet (I totally do).

-Sally

Epic lulz? I laughed, anyway.

-Sally

Today I discovered something wonderful! The lovely people at dropstitch linked to wickedshift (that is us, everyone thinks we are check this shit out, which frankly I prefer, but diplomatically, wickedshift it is, in accordance with a long running joke, long running in a similar manner to these brackets).

That is basically all I have to say, I have nothing interesting to show you as I’ve been in various places with no internet for the past however long. However, you ought to watch/listen to some Mitch Hedberg, he says funny things sometimes. Youtube him or something!

Also, I just discovered welikethreads, which is a Perth fashion blog. I am unsure about it so far, but my friend had his photo taken at Bloc Party and looks hilariously contemptuous.

Basically I was just happy someone linked to us. That is all!

-Sally

Well, I’ve gone and found y’all a whole bunch of excellent stuff to look at! There is no need to thank me (there is).

First up is an animated short film by a dude called Patrick Smith.

I think it is wonderfully sinister, in the same way the Disney adaptation of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is.

What I also have for you is a fantastic Toshiba ad! I though it was totally rad.

No doubt, once you have seen it you will be all “Oh wow how did they make that?!”
DON’T FRET. I have the making of video! Don’t worry, it is only like 3 minutes long! It is pretty great, though.

YET THERE IS MORE. Not in video form though! Hilariously enough, I saw on my Facebook feed Lyndon and another friend talking about jerking off to some photo of Sarah Blasko and Katy Steele. Being the curious cat I am, I (perhaps naively?) followed the link. Pleasant surprises awaited though, I found myself at the website of Sydney based photographer Daniel Boud. It is over here! It is pretty good! I like it. There is a great variety of photos, from Sydney’s zombie lurch to band photos to commissioned food pictures.

From there I found myself at the website of Cybele Malinowski. She too, is rather rad. I think she takes a whole bunch of photos for Jmag? She mainly takes music photos, but there are also some fashion photos and other things there.
From her flickr:

There were some rad ones of Ben Lee but I refuse to post them on the principle Ben Lee is really, really annoying.

Anyway, that is all before I fall asleep at the keyboard. Goodnight and enjoy!

-Sally

Noooooooooooo! The humble goon bag is at the brink of its demise! According to the Daily Telegraph, goon has been overtaken by cheaper, screwtop bottled wine. Personally, I have had a love/hate relationship with goon. I appreciate how unbelievably cheap it is, how fantastic it tastes after a previous goonbag… Nights have been spent in gardens, on unfamiliar couches, in hazy states of both illness and unimaginable joy. I appreciate its reassuring glint in the sunlight, it’s satisfying weight, the ability of the box to be made into a helmet. I love how, with a goon bag, you can pretend you are pregnant and it is hilarious. Once, I got married to a goon bag, and wore a goon box as a veil. Goon brings people together (”Y’all want some gooooooooooooooooooon! Gowww ooooooon!”), and tears them apart (”The fuck are you looking at, caaaaarrrrnt?!”) One thing is certain, it is never a boring night that begins with a suckle at the silver teat.

You can read the article here, or join the Facebook group here.

-Sally