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Peggy: I have a boyfriend
Beatnik Girl: He doesn't own your vagina
Peggy: No but he's renting it

Amazing.

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"Do you want to go to the seaside?"

"I'm not trying to say that everybody wants to go. I fell in lo-"



"No seriously. Let's go, I haven't been to the sea this whole year."



"Ok, you get the music, I'll get the car."



"You get the camera, I'll get the food."



Fun fun with expired Polaroid film. How much does it look like Jesus, Martyn & Darcy are being abducted by aliens in that last photo? Sorry for lack of interestingness lately. Been distracted by illness & deadlines (already!) & lack of money. Hopefully a morning catching up on my pattern making course & looking at the Paris shows will help my little lull.

What's good?

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No rings


Taking photos in bed


Leaving the house with giant clip in my hair


This is what I wore yesterday & the photos I took after coming home & going straight to bed. Had a pretty shitty week & I'm officially ill with a mixture of new-people-at-college-bug, coldness & my body saying "STOP" to the excesses of the past few days. I now can't physically get out of bed & am trying to find the sick line for college, why is the website so complicated?

Ill, ill go away.

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A few of the things that in an ideal world I would own by next spring. Not so much in the real world, but then, this is the internet.

For Colour:


Christopher Kane

For Sheer:


Alberta Ferretti

For Youth:

Charlotte Ronson


Band of Outsiders

For Badass:

Burbery Prorsom


Hannah Marshall

For Funsies:


Mark Fast

For Perfection:


Charles Anastase


Did I miss anything?

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Hussein Chalayan was born in 1970 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He graduated from Central St Martins in 1993, causing a sensation with his decomposed silk dresses. He went on to dress Björk for her 1995 Post album and tour. In 1999 and 2000, he was named British designer of the year, and in 2005 represented Turkey in the Venice Biennale. He was awarded an MBE in 2006. His installation I Am Sad Leyla is at the Lisson Gallery, London, until 2 October.

When were you happiest?
As a child in Cyprus, in my imaginary, hassle-free world: water came from springs, food from gardens and seas.

What is your greatest fear?
Being a lonely, dependent old person.

What is your earliest memory?
Being confused between Turkish and English.

Which living person do you most admire and why?
One died last year, one a year before that – there hasn't been enough time since to proclaim a new hero.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I am an idealist, which can be tiring.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
People taking themselves too seriously.

What was your most embarrassing moment?
My mum running after me, just after my first few shows, with stuffed vine leaves and new jumpers.

What is your most treasured possession?
Old family photos and films.

Where would you like to live?
An office in London with a door to a living room in Istanbul, a bathroom in Japan and a garden in Cyprus.

What makes you unhappy?
Nepotism and vulgar use of money.

What would your super power be?
Definitely to be able to fly.

What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My fluctuating belly.

What is your favourite book?
Baudrillard's America.

What would be your fancy dress costume of choice?
A burka, so I can be a detached observer.

What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Food.

What does love feel like?
Romantic love? Positively bad – then it grows and becomes a way of life.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"To be honest…"

What is the worst job you've done?
I ran away from home and had to work in a McDonald's for a month.

What has been your biggest disappointment?
London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

When did you last cry, and why?
Watching a documentary on Amish kids spending time in south London.

How often do you have sex?
Regularly.

What is the closest you've come to death?
I fell off a bus at 15 and a car hit my head – I must have gone mad then.

What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Being able to switch off.

What keeps you awake at night?
Deadlines and financial restrictions.

How would you like to be remembered?
As someone who created bridges between alien worlds.

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Not to think that everyone thinks about things the way you do.

Where would you most like to be right now?
On a Greek island, in a taverna on top of a rocky hill.

Interview taken from here.

On the coach to London Tattoo Convention

Yay

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This was a dress that I saw on Hel Looks. As my mum is a knitter I showed her the picture as a sort of look-how-awesome-this-is situation & she said she could make it. In fact, she wanted to make it. After taking the picture to her friend in the wool shop they decided cotton/bamboo/wool would work best and to knit on a loop & with HUGE needles. Now I don't understand knitting (I know, bad textiles student) but when you ask me to saw off the end of two HUGE needles and then gaffa tape a piece of aquarium tubing to make a set of circle needles, now that I can do.

It's hard to walk in & I'm teaching my friends to pull threads through after they catch on things, but there's something powerful & yet sort of damsel-in-distress-help-I-can't-walk-here about it. Sort of like wearing DMs. Orders to my mum.



Also I want to sell my Blackmilk Atonomist leggings because they hang there & stare at me crying because I don't wear them enough so I want someone who loves them more to have them. & also I want some liquid leggings but funds are a tad tight after summer. If you're interested I'm thinking say...£30? But I'm open to offers. E-mail me: neonpeg@gmail.com

Sorry this post has taken so long. My friend asked me to guest with his band next week so we've been practicing like crazy & every cover I bring up (Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Smiths or Jezebel, Dizzee Rascal or Jerk It Out, The Caesars) they all hate. & having had my photography teacher tell me, when I confessed about the whole jumping-through-hoops/testing-the-waters thing when applying to University, he said I should just fuck it & start a band. If only I had talent.

Lets tick boxes