This is the third or fourth French Connection collection magazine thing I've got & it's always a nice little punctuation in the post. I always mean to post them because they're just so darn beautiful, but somehow the organisation has always alluded me. This time though, I've done it straight away! You'd think FC were paying me but I promise they're not mainly because I can say this: I don't actually like their clothes. I personally think they're overpriced & pretty generic, but it's their campaigns that set them apart for me.

Their "He is man" & "She is Woman" campaigns from last year are what made me sign up, but the magazines themselves are lovingly put together, wonderfully photographed & printed on gorgeous matte paper that smells amazing. Now that's a lot of positive adjectives but genuinely, I think French Connection deserve to be singled out for their unique dedication to odd & quirky advertisement. You can watch the videos to accompany them here... read the catalogue here (although I can highly recommend it in the flesh) & I'm gonna try & find out who the photographer is.

Just a shame about the clothes.

This is what I wore to work today & I thought I'd take some photos of me grimacing into the setting sun because the colours made me smile today, & a stranger I saw on my lunch break. It's nice to make people smile with clothing. & there's something about a) wearing just one colour, b) wearing bright colours full stop & c) wearing only primary or secondary colours, that make you feel like a child or something. It's also been on the runway a lot & I think it's a subconscious way of nodding to fashion in everyday life without looking like a complete twat.

Plus yay for this jumper that I sneakily found in my Mum's wardrobe whilst ironing the other day & have partially adopted as a comfort to Autumn. It also pleasingly exposes my collar bone which I like & reminds me of that fucking ace Alkaline trio song Clavicle. Is a clavicle the same as a collar bone? Not sure... where's a medical student when you need one. Apparently good collar bones/clavicles run in my family. Like height.

Hmm

I've always had a secret love for lurex, but my problem is when I run up to touch it I'm repulsed. So when I saw this gold lurex polo neck jumper in the biggest charity shop I've ever been in, back in Berlin & it didn't feel disgusting I seized upon it. I think it's like interspersed with silk or something. I'm not sure because I cut off the polo neck & sewed it as a messy neckline losing the label along the way. I know, I know, polo necks are meant to be big this season, but I hate stuff up around my neck, especially a scratchy ribbed lurex. & because I'm in morning over the departure of my best friend, I wore it with all black.

On a brighter note, one of my favorite shows out of New York so far has definitely been Araks. I'm not keen on drop waists, just because I think they're unflattering & not impactful enough to counteract that. But with the shirt combo I'm almost won over. & the half sheer black dress? Insane. I'm getting back to blogging I swear. Right now I'm going to try & comment on all 158 of you followers, whilst watching Submarine for like the 3rd time this week...

Lovely.

Another gif? Am I trying to give you a headache. Well, no. I just like the way they look. Especially over amazing things such as politics making it onto the catwalk. Go Johnson Hartig for living up to the brand name Libertine. Disappointing though that the shirt itself will probably cost hundreds. Oh well, I feel a DIY screen print coming on. Anyone else want one? Maybe I'll sell them, just to subvert the whole idea itself. In other news I've started blogging the Spring 2012 shows so if you fancy seeing them through my filter, in a nice scrollable, tumblog manner, head over to ICBFASHION.

Not much else to say except that I am a shit blogger, I have just eaten a proper amazing pie at the pub & my best friend/platonic soulmate is abandoning me to go to Russia tomorrow. I'm pissed. But more sad. Oh well, as least I have a day off to wallow. & everyone's packing it seems like. Either to go away to uni, or on holiday, or back to where they came from for the summer or off to do something proper with their life.

Oh well.

ISSUE±12 OF SWEAT

HAS LANDED.

For it on your doorstep it's just £1.50 + postage. You can find a link to buy it, or observe the beauty of it ***here***. It'll make you make faces as above. Or you can possibly use it as an, um, hat. Packed full of delights from Jonathan Kelham, Siobhan Barbour & Mice Ailing.

Well good innit.

Photos from my computer to convey my mixed up head. Sorry for no posts but I've been working like a real person (almost) four days a week.

1. Gillian Zinser is lovely. 2. Lulu DK puts my lame collages to shame. 3. Amber Rose because... you know she's beautiful & Kanye West obviously still isn't over her. 4. Kanye & Jay-Z from THE BEST ALBUM SO FAR THIS YEAR aka Watch the Throne. 5. Couldn't find a nice enough image for "teal" that wasn't a dress from Topshop, have to do with stationary. 6. From tumblr I'm guessing. 7. Yes yes they are a feral underclass, you are the secretary for justice, JUSTICE, as in giving people second chances no matter what they've done & treating them with the respect they deserve. 8. Many of the e-mails I have been getting from job applications or work experience applications I half heartedly filled out, not really knowing whether I wanted to do them or not... 9. Fighting the want to buy a load of fake nails & decorate them beautifully like this girl, or at least go to this exhibition. 10. This blog is so beautiful I could get lost there for days. 11. One of my favorite Beyonce songs & just feels sort of appropriate.

That's all.