mood

nude, peachy sunglasses like these perfect frames from Something Else by Natalie Wood // elizabeth of moveslightly's wonderful collection of delicate jewellery, a ring on each finger // the Benah Ryder sandal, getting me excited for summer // fresh-faced Gemma Ward, suede skirts and fresh fruit from my favourite tumblr // cool girl photographers like Leslie who get down on the ground to shoot in their new balance and skinny jeans // the open road

Just some things I'm loving right now. On the weekend a few friends of mine from school went on a 6 hour road trip to the country property of a friend of ours for her 21st. It was a sit-down dinner for 50 or so, with tables groaning with food arranged in a marquee, old milk bottles filled with fresh flowers, two bountiful bowls of punch (and accompany glass tea cups!) and a dance-floor complete with the most incredible music, from Party Up In Here by DMX (the best party song ever) to Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye and Love Shack. Classic. I suited up, as per, and it was really fun to wear it with a tee shirt and sandals, to twist my hair back into a bun and add a slick of neutral lipstick. Later in the night I flung my jacket over a chair and sat down with a few girls I hadn't seen since school ended three years ago (three years ago! can you believe that!!) and talked and talked and talked about what has happened, and what has changed, and what has stayed the same. We ended the night losing it to Get Low by Lil Jon, legitimately our go-to pump-up song at school (wasn't it everyone's?) and it was so perfect. The whole weekend was perfect, really. From our ride (my friend's car broke down, so we took her mum's capacious interior, seat-warming soccer mum Volvo instead, win!), to the green and yellow that surrounded us everywhere we looked on the road, to the fresh country air, to the bacon and egg breakfast that awaited us as we emerged from swags, stiff and just a little hungover the next morning. I think at the moment I'm all about things that come naturally and easily. Fresh faces, sandals that mould to your feet, sitting cross legged in a park, running shoes, lazing around. Oh, it's uni break. I'm pretty chill at the moment.

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feeling lucky?

There is a fantastic competition running at Benah at the moment. By posting a picture of what's in your bag on their Facebook page you could win over $600 worth of Benah goodies as well as a year's subscription to the Travel Almanac. Included in the prize is a pair of the must-have Benah sandals, the perfect Summer shoe and selling out fast from their website. Amazing! There's only one entry so far so your chances are pretty good! How can you not enter with a prize like this. Good luck! Let me know if you enter and I'll vote for you :)

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perfect paris moments

one: a long, languid meal left us ebullient and content. We walked through the Marais in search of APC and Isabel and found this perfect window box instead. Sprawled across the front of the apartment building, it had taken over the twin windows with its swollen green happiness. 

two: a perfect dinner. The food was so fresh we might have churned the butter ourselves. 

three: an incongruous neon light pointed the way to perfect crepes.

four: we took a bag full of peaches and a woven mat we had found in a forgotten cupboard at the house, and a book, and we sat on the banks of the seine and spent a perfect afternoon reading and sleeping and eating and sleeping and reading. Everything was so still.

five: best friends and family. perfect.

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no party

tommy ton for style.com

The most conspicuous absence this fashion month hasn't been Yasmin, surprisingly. In fact, it's been the lack of jewellery and accessories on perennial arm-party favourites. Think Christine Centenera and Taylor Tomasi-Hill. Yes. Taylor Tomasi-Hill. She of the riotous arm jewellery candy that often mixes cuffs with bangles with chains and watches. She who, it has been said, would jangle as she walked. She who has made her reputation as the veritable queen of accessories. Look at that! Not even a watch! And Christine, pared back and the atypical modern woman as per, with a single string bracelet and fine chain, looking like something magnificent from the future. What is going on here? I like to think that it is a reaction against this, and a move towards delicate, simple jewellery. For the past couple of months or so I've really enjoyed building up my fine jewellery collection, just wearing one piece of at a time and making my statement that way. TTH is the accessories editor at Marie-Claire and should know a thing or two about that. Her spreads for the magazine are often complete cacophonies of accessories - bright backgrounds covered with product in bulging, bountiful presentations. I'm excited to think that next season her spreads might be more simple and minimal. It seems more modern, more, well, grown up to wear less jewellery. To find your favourite pieces and stick to them. It's not about having a uniform, but rather about being comfortable with knowing your tastes completely. There is a self-confidence that comes from wearing just one or two pieces at a time. You don't have to think too hard, you just pick up your favourites from the dresser where you leave them and slip them on, almost without thinking. After a while people notice that you wear them all the time and they become an inherent part of you. And that is the best thing about jewellery.

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perfection

Vanessa Jackman

Not all streetstyle photographers are made equal. Some are more equal than others. One of those is Vanessa Jackman, who consistently shoots the kind of girls you wish you were. They always have perfect hair, and great smiles, and clean skin, and - of course - fantastic outfits. She has such a good eye for style, as evidenced by the fact that the girls she shoots often don't find themselves on any other street style blogs. This is a perfect example of her discerning taste. It's a double whammy, because not only is it a shot of someone who is very cool, and very interesting, and of real note in the Australian fashion industry (Jess Blanch, Editor in Chief of RUSSH magazine), but it's also a shot of perfect - yes, I said it - street style. When street style first started it was a movement to highlight "real" fashion. That is, fashion as it is negotiated and understood by everyday people. As much as I love the street style that comes out of fashion week, I have to say that this has distorted the original intentions of street style somewhat. Documenting editors and models and show-goers is a hyper-reality, a heightened sense of fashion as distilled in a group of people to whom it should, by definition, come naturally. I'm not saying that I want shots of people in supre get ups on The Sart every day, far from it. I do want shots that are more real, though. Like this - chipped nail polish and simple knitwear and that something special extra you can't define. Jess Blanch has that kind of style. It's good style, yes. She's an Editor in Chief after all. But it's real style. And that is the material point. It's not changeable every season, or dependent on trends, or the folly of it-bags and fruit-print dresses. She looks fantastic. That rich coloured coat, those perfect jeans, that crisp white shirt. It all comes together perfectly with the glasses, and there's a hint that it might not work on anyone else. That's good street style. Where you get the sense that the look is completely owned by one person - and that person alone.

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wallflowers

1: candice lake for sportsgirl, 2: street fsn, 3: tommy ton for style.com

I think certain street style high-fashion trends are becoming over exposed (neon brights! pattern blocking! lady like!) and because they're not really my thing, I love looking at the background of street style photos for inspiration. Often in that busy blur there is an outfit too simple to stand out, too quiet and reserved to grab the attention of the eyes of over-saturated street-style photographers. Juxtaposed against Mary Katranzou and Anna Dello Russo and Givenchy rottweilers they just seem a bit boring. Well, boring's good for me. I like boring. I like simple straight leg jeans and bretons, burgundy knitwear and long black skirts, loose shirts and trench coats. I think with the plethora of street style photographers out there it is easy to forget that their shots represent an opinion and not an authority. Somewhere in between patterned palazzo pants and thigh-high splits lies a simple grey sweatshirt and a pair of jeans. And if I had a camera and a talent and an eye, I would take a picture of that girl. But for now I'm reliant on Vanessa and Maya to do it for me.

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all in the fold

On the weekend I worked at the Benah studio sale with Talisa. We had a lot of fun helping people try on silk scarves, cashmere beanies and beautiful bags, as well as some visits from friends and fellow bloggers like Jessie and Sophia. I'm terrible at tying scarves, but lately I've been experimenting with some different styles, especially since I picked up a couple at the sale. They were all so beautiful, how could I resist? I'll show you some photos of the other scarves another time, but this one is my favourite. It's the spectrum scarf in olive green, a cotton number with geometric line patterns across it in red and black. The material is so light and it drapes perfectly when tied up at the back of the neck. I really love this kind of tie. It was a proper discovery while experimenting in front of my mirror. I tried a few different ones but this one rang the truest with my style. It seems the least contrived in the way I tie it. I don't know how the french women do it, but every time I fix a scarf I look like I spent a lot of time fixing that scarf. And most of the time I do, but I don't want to look like I have. Hmmph. The Eternal Dilemma Rises Again; effortlessness vs the appearance of effortlessness. In other news, I'm also still loving the double cuff. These two beauties are the Benah kodi cuffs in red nubuck. This summer I'm going to commit to wearing scarves more over loose knits and cotton tee shirts. They are a tricky accesory, but there are so many ways to wear them it's almost lazy not to give it a go. Watch this space!

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ps. yes, I really love this oatmeal jumper and long black skirt. I'm simple! and easy.

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Things I wish I had bought when I had the chance

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 I remember when dead fleurette talked about items she regretted she never purchased I thought - I don't think that's ever happened to me. I didn't that I'd missed out on anything at all. Wrong. The Alexander Wang Emile tote in the burlap with leather trim escaped my clutches not once, but twice, and I guess I had repressed that painful memory until I saw this image on style.com. The perfect everyday bag - great shape, not that heavy, plenty of style. Translates seamlessly into evening with that metal hardware. A long strap if your arm gets too tired. It would have been so perfect with, well, everything. Cuffed pants and oversized tee shirts. A nice fitted long skirt and a big comfy jumper in windy spring. Once this bad boy evaded me in bloodorange and I vowed I would hunt it down. I found it at the corner shop and it had 20% off for 3 days only but I was so poor and then my friend bought it. And then it was gone. Gone, but not forgotten; Emile tote... we could have had something real special. I'll never forget you.

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lovely

The Gentlewoman Autumn/Winter 2011 Issue 4 with the lovely Olivia Williams
 

There is nothing sweeter to the ears of a 15 year old girl than to be told that you are lovely. Lovely is about having rosy lips and cheeks and shiny hair and being as bright as a star. It's about being fresh-faced and, well, beautiful. But it's more than that too. It's about things that make you smile and warm your heart and make you inescapably happy. When I was 15 I longed, no - I yearned - to be lovely. I wanted to be one of those girls in Teen Vogue editorials in a sweetheart dress and heels (oh, to have a pair of heels!), with a boyfriend who kissed my cheek and held my hand, because that's all I thought it took to be in love and that's how I thought it always would be. Remember this was the time of Luella, and the heart-faced loveliness of Kirsten Dunst, and Lost in Translation. I used to take photos at parties and run them through an aging filter on iphoto. I covered my walls in magazine cut-outs and furiously read stella gibbons and bonjour tristesse and breakfast at tiffany's because those girls were lovely and I needed to learn their secrets. I tried out new words and phrases. Thankfully, "love you, mean it later" was lost to the ether. My friends and I were glued at the lips to our Smith's rosebud salve and we applied it with religious, almost sacred deference every hour, on the hour. I wore flippy skirts and lace shirts and ballet flats and I smelled like soap. I didn't own foundation. I still don't, actually.

When I met a boy, and he liked me, we went on what was my first solo date. We saw John Tucker Must Die and sat awkwardly side by side in a darkened movie theatre. All I wanted, all I desperately, desperately wanted was for him to put his arm around me. That's what you did with girls that were lovely. You hugged them close to you and kissed the top of their foreheads. We had hot chocolate (oh! hot chocolate!) afterwards and I waited for him to say something to me, only me. We talked in ebbs and flows, periods of silence punctuated by rambling dialogue that went unchecked. We were speaking to cover emptiness. I didn't know what to say. I knew what I wanted to hear - I wanted him to ask me out proper, to say "do you want to be my girlfriend", and I would nod shyly and then we would go to the formal together. The year 10 formal was the end point, see. My mum had promised to buy me my first pair of heels and there was going to be an after party and my parents had conceded that I would be allowed out till 12. I barely touched my drink and I smiled a lot. He didn't say what I wanted him to say. We parted awkwardly as teenagers do - him to be picked up by his mother, me to get on the 380 bus home. I bit my lip the whole ride as I listened to the arctic monkeys and wondered what I'd done wrong.

I'm not sure I was lovely, not that day. I was trying too hard. Loveliness isn't something you can manufacture, no matter how many Sofia Coppola films you watch or how many Jane Austen heroines you admire or how many Luella dresses you own (if any). I didn't know then that I didn't have to actually do anything to be lovely. I was 15. I was lovely. I had rosy lips and cheeks and shiny hair and I was bright as a star. I was really young, and even if I wasn't naive I had a simple way of looking at the world. I knew that I would be a writer and live in a cottage in Bath with the same dogged certainty that I knew that I would spend all my babysitting money on a pair of sass and bide jeans the next week. Sometimes, somewhere, amidst the piles of uni readings and tax returns and phone bills and used-up bus tickets I wonder what happened to that girl. I think I'd have to work harder at being lovely now. There's too much on my plate - between uni and interning and work and family and friends and life it's a constant juggling act that I'm only vaguely coping with. And the worst thing is, effort and lovely don't really go hand in hand. I was lovely once, I was 15. I think all 15 year old girls are lovely. And they don't even have to try.

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praise

yimmy yayo for oyster

Thank god for oversized denim vests belted over skirts! Thank god for perspex heels! Thank god for long lines and clean silhouettes! Thank god for holding your bag like a clutch! Thank god for being able to shove your hands into deep pockets! Thank god for white! Thank god for cut-out panels! thank god for boxy cuts! Thank god for the slouch! Thank god for clothes that let you sit cross legged and comfortable - lazy and laid back! Thank god for clothes that let your breathe! Thank god for easiness! Thank god for drawstring waists! Thank god for loose knitwear! Thank god for simplicity! Thank god for peach and pistachio and limoncello! Thank god for stripes! Thank god for summer!

Thank god for philip lim.

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up top

tamu's diary

I'm not going to lie. I haven't been particularly grabbed by anything this NYFW. I didn't mind the techy florals and mesh panels at Alexander Wang (but there was no minty wang moment, I assure you), I guess some of the monochromatic looks at The Row were okay, there was something special to the slouch at Rag and Bone. But, you know, eh. I'm holding out hopes for tomorrow though. Proenza Schouler and 3.1 Phillip Lim are both here to save the day! To be honest, the best thing I've seen yet - after sifting through mountains and mountains of online coverage - has been these hats from the DKNY collection. I know I've said before that I want a hat with a stiff brim, but the fun, flopsy shape of these guys is making me rethink a little. I love how the floppiness of these hats corresponds to the general slouch of the collection. Oversized, drapey and simple - we're talking silk shirts and midi skirts and tapered pants and boxy tee shirts. Just my kind of thing, in my kind of colour palette. And a floppy sun-hat just looks so right. I think this summer is going to be about exaggerated shapes in clean, block colours with minimal accessories and maximum simplicity. Try saying that 3 times fast!

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all white

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All-white and monochromatic looks are becoming increasingly more intriguing to me at the moment. I've been wearing a lot of black on black - I know, I know!! I said I hated that and only ever wore it at work - as I have this great acne drapey tunic that looks kind of toga-esque when tucked into my midi skirt. I guess it's about creating texture and interest when you wear all one colour. It shouldn't be one dimensional, indeed, if it is it means you haven't thought enough about what you're wearing. Often this is said to be style's cardinal sin; over-thinking your outfit. But when it comes to monochrome it is all about the careful balance between looking like a pantone colour sheet and looking like Taylor Tomasi Hill. It's easy to create interest and dimension to an outfit when you mix textures or include drapes or throw in accessories in contrast colours. What is an inherently simple look becomes complex through a few added extras. I like this outfit a lot. I like the glimpse of tummy between the raggy shirt and the tied skirt. I like how the crisp folds of starchy white shirt-material create shadows and tucks and folds. I like that Hermes bucket bag, a little grubby and a lot loved. I like the simple accessories and the mark that elastic bands leave against the skin. What I like most? When I saved this photo I only did it because I wanted to rhapsodise about one-colour dressing. I didn't even know it was her.

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another sale!

Another sale flyer! This one is too good to miss. The infamous Belinda/Corner Shop sale with 90% off on things like Alexander Wang, Isabel Marant and Dries Van Noten (deep breaths, deep breaths). It seems like this is going to be a good week for shopping and a bad week for wallets all round! This sale is the stuff of legends in Sydney, the first one I went to was back in 2004 and it was sheer madness. Every other time it has proven to be a real treasure trove. You never know what you're going to find - from k.jacques to dries wrap skirts, to ridiculously cheap nudie jeans... who knows! Good luck, hope you find some real treats this week. 

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benahbenahbenahbenah

Talisa made this invite!

Something ridiculously exciting is happening in Sydney this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Benah, the amazing high-end accessories label by Brenda Harvey is having a studio sale. I love this label and everything that it stands for. Sydney-siders, you have to come to the sale and snap up some of that Benah magic for yourself.

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urban jungle

tommy ton for style.com

 Tommy Ton is probably the best street style photographer working today. Love him or hate him - and I hardly know of anyone who does - he has a style that is all his own. Imitators (and there are many) can only dream of taking photos as perfectly realised as his. What I love most about Tommy Ton is the way he shoots as an unobtrusive observer, almost as if he has a telephoto lens and is crouching amidst the undergrowth, silently capturing his targets on film. Like a wildlife photographer, or a photojournalist in a warzone. And why not? Why is capturing the fash pack in the urban jungle that is fashion month any less of an act of rigorous photography than any other examples? This is said perfectly in the fact that style.com used to call his photo column "Our man in the street". That always used to make me laugh. Our man in the street, as if he was serving the same purpose as "Our man in Berlin". I guess in 10 or 20 years time people will look back at these photos to dissect style trends in the same way that people look back at dispatches from abroad. But there is something undeniably removed about his style. I like that his subjects rarely look at the camera and they seem to be caught on camera without their knowledge. Even though that is rarely the case, it's still a nice thought. These photos, with their tree branches and greenery and car mirrors obscuring view show just how Tommy Ton operates. And I love that style.com lets him upload these pictures that aren't perfect, that don't have Balenciaga in HI-RES, that aren't all about labels and faces and smiles. He's the intrepid street-style photographer, getting us plebs a glimpse into an exotic world so different from our own; Fashion people in their natural habitat.

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it's your birthday!

One of my brother's friends was talking to him about Celine bags recently. "I love CHE-line bags" she was saying. "Hold up, hold up, hold up," he said. "Bitch it's SE-line not CHE-line. NEVER say that again." This is just one out of a million reasons why my brother is the biggest boss in the universe. My brother annoys the crap out of me but I really love him. He's a mate. And it's his 19th birthday today. We just came back from Yum Cha and it was fantastic. Happy birthday bro!

ps doesn't he look good carrying my Celine bag in Paris? It's a french thing.. 

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the drape

One of the most beautiful parts of a girls' body - to me - is that little sliver of ankle that appears between the top of the shoe and the bottom of a midi-length skirt. There is something so graceful and enticing about that tiny strip of kin. It's a promise of more. I've always thought that the ankle was the erogenous zone of the body. Always. I don't care what anyone says. The ankle, and the shoulder. Both of those places to me represent beauty outside of traditional spheres. Of shirts that are too big and slip down as you reach for a drink, of trousers that hike up as you walk, of skirts that need to be held as you ascend a set of stairs. Little accidents that are, in themselves, beautiful.

There is no small amount of beauty and sensuality in Hellen Kitsandonis' new collection at Maille. Following on from the knitwear-heavy previous collection, Kitsandonis has added lace and crochet to the mix, as well as some beautiful shirting and striking zebra-printed silk. The collection focuses on the drape - on the beauty in twisted fabric and cutaway panels and shirts that wrap around the body. There are several midi skirts (hello hello!) that ruche across the stomach when paired with soft cotton tees. The dresses, too, highlight Kitsandonis' skill on the bias, with twists and tucks pulling across the body at one side creating perfect imbalances. I like all these imbalances, I like how the shirts fall naturally to one side, and some dresses pair a cap sleeve with a thin strap,  and the fabric gathers all over one shoulder like some modernised toga, at once both louche and luxe. I like the nubbly knitted tanks which would look great under a light trench coat. I like all the slightly oversized shirt-dresses which would look so perfect with flat sandals and straight leg jeans a la Ashley Olsen. In fact I like a lot. It's very rare that you find a label that shares the same kinds of style philosophies that you do. I'm all about longer lengths, a neutral colour palette with pops of colour (this collection favours bright blue, and why not?), the simplicity of a good drape, a nice print to round things up and, of course, some stunning knitwear. Perfect clothes for Spring and Summer, clothes that reveal the ankle, or the collar bone, or the curve of the shoulder blade. They're a little but naughty. Just a little bit. But they're also nice. Really, really nice. The blush shirt dress, peach knitted tank and black midi skirt have my name on it. What are you going to get?

Maille is stocked at Island Luxe, Ricada, The Dreamery as well as Maille's online store

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so sweet and so cold

"This is just to say" by William Carlos Williams // the fresh flower display outside Poho in Potts Point // Dried fig and cinnamon granola with fresh strawberries, banana, yoghurt and honey at Room 10 in Potts Point // Lamb, avocado and caramelised onion sandwich at youeni provides // the back garden at the Acne store in Paddington

"This is just to say" by William Carlos Williams is a lovely poem. It reminds me of a note my brother once left me. "I bought you chocolate covered snakes" it said, and then next to it was a crumpled paper bag. Scrawled at the bottom of the note with sticky-fingered guilt was "sorry you took too long getting home I ate them". Spring is here and my house is filled with fresh fruit and vegetables because my mum went to the farmer's markets. I like Spring. I like Spring for the same reasons that I like Autumn. It's less extreme than summer and winter. It doesn't take itself seriously. It's happy to be a bit camp and bit over the top. And it's so, so beautiful.

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Circle Pit

I don't always share my work here because I think this whole blog is my work, and you don't really need to see more of it. But I'm particularly proud of this so just let me indulge myself for a second. A month ago or so now my friend Hayley (and fellow collaborator over at On the Streets of Sydney) contacted me and asked me if I wanted to write an article to accompany a shoot she was doing with a band called Circle Pit for Fashion Journal. I originally balked at the idea - I'm not the biggest music gal on the planet. But I really wanted to test myself and see what I could do. I ended up being so surprised and facinated by the world of music writing. As with any of the arts, music is such a subjective thing that not "knowing" how to "write" about music isn't a problem per se, because there is no proper way to write about music. What ensued was I visited the shoot, got to watch Hayley hard at work and talked to Angie and Jack about inspiration and creativity and making things - be it artwork, photographs, film or music. It was a really great interview and I enjoyed writing the piece a lot. I wouldn't mind doing another one! 

Australians can pick up Fashion Journal free from boutiques - I know the Corner Shop has a couple if anyone was interested. Otherwise you can always check it out on their website.

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