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CARVEN LOVE

coco rosie

magic.

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Fulll of lovely treats which are waiting to be found. Here's some that i am particularly fond of today:

The cookie carnival

I am such a child. This makes me too happy.

My favorite things this autumn are Belgium waffles with nutella, Mustard yellow and Googly eyes.

JUNYA WATANABE SS 2011

Nautical nonsense....!

Love these

Anna Karina.

W magazine.

Orla Kiely A/W 2010 LookBook..

This collection is everything i love about Autumn.

Source:http://models.com/work/orla-kiely-orla-kiely-aw10/28399

20th c Folk Photos: A Lost Medium

I found this exhibition on the Washburn Gallery ( New York) Archive, which happened in 2008..150 Anonymous photos collected from anitque shops, shows and flea markets acrross North America..The exhibition eplores the modernist tradition of the ready-made in everyday photographs, primarily snapshots, taken by amateurs with easy-to-use cameras.., The Title Plays an important role in the significance of the exhibition. The Word Folk was preferred over the word Found. "Folk in the purest sense of the word is defined as: originating within the general population of a culture; which is an indisputable aspect and the source of this original and engaging imagery.".. " it plays homage to the material being presented"

Press Release:

Photographic imagery is far from becoming an endangered species. As it morphs and changes with the latest technology, it is even more omnipresent, permeating all aspects of our lives with a speed unheard of in the twentieth century. We now post and share our everyday photographs online seconds after they are taken, and often never bother with printing them out. The processed print recording images on roles of film that limited the number of exposures from 24 to 36 images at a time, slowly returned the images back to us on freshly minted deckled squares and rectangles, and preserved moments in time, as tactile objects that are emblematic of the past century. Hence, the concept of the lost medium”

The truth of this passage makes me feel really sad, technology is winning over tactile, soon there won't be anything real left to touch or keep hold of. The annoymyouty of these photographs represents a sense of loss. They are memories of people, cars, skies, family, events..but have been lost along the way,and somehow ended up in markets or shops. This journey of loss,reinforces the reference that over time we have lost these tactile memories of photographs with scratches, fades, and paint blotches, to a digital dazee of techonology, photoshop and "memory cards" Its quite ironic. It makes me want to buy a chunky camera, take photo's of everything around me and keep them, printed and real!!

http://www.washburngallery.com/

Manuel Bolano Autumn 2010

This barcelona born designer, Manuel Bolano has managed to hold my attention for Autumn/Winter 2010 with pastels and teddybears as well as gorgeous knits of the CHUNK variety ( my favourite). I'm sort of lost for words of how to describe the overall look..its definatly a fantasy, childhood daydreams mixed with what looks to me like 18th C inspired royal wear.. Some sort of mish mashed memory from his past? I love..! He has no website which was annoying, but in trying to find out what inspired him this season i found this gem:

For Fall 2010, Manuel Bolano wrote a short poem to describe it:

I remember a little bear.
A little teddy bear in camel colour.
A cold, gray winter morning in a trip to the “Castros Gallegos”.
My mother, dressed in wool and silk in pink, was holding my hand, and I wondered…
Why does everything has to be pink?


















Source: Fashionwindows.net

Im still adoring..

Whilst i'm at it, T.B.A's A/W collection (the one i was daydreaming about quite recently) Is also out in urban outfitters



I want the pom pom dress (bottom left corner) So much..so, that i think i might save some pennys and purchase this beauty over christmas.. It can be a reward, for all the work that i WILL have achieved by then..yes.

Peter Jensen A/W Urban Outfitters

Urban outfitters online are promoting their autumn/winter stock, and i noticed that Peter Jensens A/W stuff was on sale there. I just found it really strange, because this is all the stuff that i was helping to quality control, label sew, and pack up ready to be sent to urban outfitters/dover street market and a few places abroad.. I could very well have touched them! haha. It feels quite satisfying seeing them on sale online and in shops, knowing that i was a part of the process, and interesting to see the process complete..It takes so many months for it all to be sorted out, to think he was designing these in spring time, and we were all packing them in june..and now they are in the shops!


This is some of the new stock with plenty more to come.. if i remember correctly!

This is a smock dress zoomed in, I also have a picture which i sneakily took whilst in the studio, packing about 40/50 of these dresses in cream,mustard yellow and navy blue. It was extremely tedious.. especially because they are hugeeee dresses, One size, so packing was a trick! but It's cool to see how it looks on highstreet.