WEDUGTHOSEHOLESWECRAWLEDINTO

So series 4 of skins starts tonight. I have mixed feelings on the show, mainly because I live in Bristol and a lot of the cast are people who I've known or run into. Taking it at face value though it is a great show. Although, the first cast will always be my skins cast.

I mean look how moodily series 2 was billed:

& they pretty much stuck with the dull grey lighting throughout.

This series is meant to be more upbeat but I don't know. There's something I just don't really like about most of the characters in season 3 & 4. I don't believe it.

Oh well they know I'll still watch it whatever & I guess that's all that matters.

Who do you prefer? Cast 1 or 2?

LIFEISATITSMOSTNAKED

Re-discovered stylelikeu again last night & pretty much fell in love with Chase Cohl & her hippy angst. Pictures are from her line of headdresses littledoe. Here's the video...

Chase Cohl from Stylelieu from Stylelikeu on Vimeo.

WHYYOUAREWRONGTOHATEFASHION

This morning I leisurely made a cup of coffee and started reading G2 over my breakfast. A nice story about sex addiction & then something that made me extremely angry for just 9.30 in the morning.

This article by Tanya Gold basically blames fashion for the death of a 16 year old because she was wearing heels when she tripped and fell into the path of an oncoming train. She goes on to talk about how fashion has continued to blite her life...basically.

I was moved to so much anger that I went on the guardian website and created a profile just so I could comment on her article. This is what I wrote:

Everything about this article made me extremely angry. I am a 17 year old english and physics student who also loves fashion. I do cram myself into a library and I do have an inner life but I also like beautiful clothes. That does not make me shallow. It also doesn't mean that I completely agree with everything the fashion industry stands for.

Forcing girls into a size that's completely unnatural is disgusting, and your right destroying girls as young as 14 because our 'ideal' has now become, supposedly, a pubescent girl, is ridiculous. But fashion is not there to alienate everyone at all. The high street is a depressing place, they force the art of couture through a huge funnel to produce 10-12 'key trends' that they then implant into every single women in the country as being what they need to wear to feel remotely normal.

But places like Topshop are just there to sell clothes, they are not concerned with how they do that, they do not care for the images on the catwalk and in Vogue. Fashion as it used to be was on a different level than anything you could see anywhere else, designers were innovative and created works of art that were more than beautiful. Now however, trends constantly circulate with nothing especially 'new' being brought out, and when it is the highstreet saturates this so much that it doesn't look like it should anymore.

If you are sucked in my advertising campaigns to buy things that do not flatter you then that's your issue not theirs. LIke I say they are there to present you with the facts. Possibly your issue with the fashion industry as you have never made the distinction between what they tell you to buy and what you should actually buy. Ostracizing a whole industry because they are an easy target and something you've never felt a part of is completely unjustified.

In reaction to your tagline though, I no longer get satisfaction from shopping for clothes. Highstreet stores are like supermarkets pumping out the clones that I have to go to college with, try actual markets where buying clothes is fun or fashion fairs where you meet lovely old ladies who've spent their lives in Paris couture houses and floating around Europe. These are the people who epitomize fashion and they are a hell of a lot more appealing that the ones who run the consumerism culture behind modern fashion.

Leading one DrMarcusBrody to comment:

I am staggered by the brilliance of the comment from @JessBunyan at the top of the comments. There is more truth and honesty in her comment than anything Tanya Gold has ever written - and she's only 17 as well (if that is to be believed)!

Someone at the Guardian should give her a job. And, no, I don't know her.

I am extremely flattered and amazed at how many people quoted me and agreed with what I said but I don't think it's right that people like Tanya Gold should be allowed to lead people into thinking that the fashion industry is some kind of monster leading us to buy things that don't flatter us or make us look ugly. If she has her issues that's up to her.

Please comment if the article angers you as much as it did me.

It's important that people like this shouldn't get away with spouted their personal prejudices in a paper that otherwise speaks a lot of a-hem 'middle-class' sense.

Oh & here's some more lovely pictures so it's not one of those posts.

MONEYMONEYCASHCASH

Stumbled across this lovely Swedish online store Modekungen & felt the need to share these awesome jumpers. Although I can only dream of the day I can afford anything on the website...

Have been seeking the perfect boots to act in opposition with my DMs. I've actually found them in Office here but I feel a bit reluctant to pay £95 for shoes that my friend wore once too the beach & basically ruined (although I like the way they are now)

Agh why does it always come down to money?

TODAYWITHCHRISTMASCOLOURS

Today:

i went to Bath with my mother and my jesus

Horror-esque lighting issues

Heart shaped sequins, hell yes. + reindeer (or deer so I can wear it year round) & pencil??

I got a lovely dress from Gap & a HUGE cardigan from Monsoon. That's what's good about going shopping with the mother, so many different shops open up.

Also got a couple of books from 'The List' in Oxfam. 'The List' being the thing that now dictates any music or books that I buy. Sounds ominous but it is rather epic.

How was your day?

(thinking of adding one of these 'word buttons' to the bottom of all my posts from now on, thoughts?)

SHEWEARSTOOMUCHTOPSHOP

I've just re-discovered my mum's old copy of Watchwords by Roger McGough with this amazing 60s/70s psychedelic cover that i could stare at for a very long time... (this is not the cover, scanner broken dammit)

Discretion

by Roger McGough

Discretion is the better part of Valerie

though all of her is nice

lips as warm as strawberries

eyes as cold as ice

the very best of everything

only will suffice

not for her potatoes

or puddings made of rice

Not for her potatoes

or puddings made of rice

she takes carbohydrates

like God takes advice

a surfeit of ambition

is her particular vice

Valerie fondles lovers

like a mousetrap fondles mice

And though in the morning

she may whisper: 'it was nice'

you can tell my her demeanor

that she keeps her love on ice

but you've lost your hardened heart

now you'll have to pay the price

for she'll kiss you on the memory

and vanish in a thrice

Valerie is corruptible

but known to be discreet

Valerie rides a silver cloud

where once she walked the street

Even though I've also just started reading the biography of Paul Dirac (that's him above)

He's my favorite physicist as he wrote the equation for anti matter, the books pretty good, highly recommended even if your not into physics and all that...

Also, I'm thinking of getting my septum piercing re-done (it closed over over summer)

Images to back this idea up as a good one:

Finally...

What bands are good at the moment?

Listening too...

Violent Femmes

The Virgins

Good Shoes

& trying to find an Eef Barzelay album

Oh & one more thing, started my exams today with maths

Good luck to everyone else who has exams too!

Now i'm going to sit in my nice warm room with my mental cat, drink mulled cider and read all the new magazines i just bought myself to say well done for completing one exam. i need some time alone, everything is falling apart... anywho...

L.O.V.E

NYE2009BECOMES2010

wore this for new years eve. had a big surprise when a masked stranger began

kissing me at midnight...but it all ended well when masked stranger turned out

to be my boyfriend who had picked a fight the week before & said he wasn't

coming down just so i would be extra shocked. crafty...

tried this playsuit on in my size a couple of months ago but wasn't working

due to my unusually long body... found it last week in the sales, two sizes

too big but only £10! my friend said she would kill me if i didn't get it so, i did.

Yeah, you don't mess with Heidi.

"

well is there something that you like about her?

yes. i like the way her body bends in half.

& is there something that you love about her?

no. man if she's playing hard to get i'm out the door.

"

The Virgins - one week of danger

Also have loads of new jewelry to share, here's a sneak close up

How was your new years?