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morning people


Here, I'm going to say it. I want to live in a Vanessa Jackman world. I want to have clean, straight hair and just a slick of lipstick. I want to button my shirt all the way up and wear flat, comfy sandals. I want to have breakfasts of poilane bread and home-made spreads every morning. I want to wear Margaret Howell spotty shirts. I want to wear pink in a non-girly way. I want to wear blue, but not just any blue, a bright, forget-me-not (and how could you in a colour like that) kind of blue. I have always admired the Margaret Howell sentiment, especially after reading that profile in T magazine. "Casual simplicity and utility crossed with high-quality heritage materials", they said about her house. I want my house - and my wardrobe! - to be like that. These photos are all kinds of amazing.

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library


I'm trying really hard to be super productive today despite the heat, and the holidays, and the five dvds I bought yesterday (think: looking for alibrandi, patriot games and witness. Yes I do have a weakness for vintage Harrison Ford, what of it?). I'm at the library kind of doing work. I handed in an assignment so that's a win right?? But the exam prep has kind of fallen by the wayside in favour of checking the price of flights to New York in February and ebay searches for perfect oversized farmer-style overalls like these. Something about hot weather makes me want to wear stripes. At the moment I'm in one of my favourite boxy bretons and my favourite comfy navy blue pants and my favourite strappy leather sandals. It's all happening here!! It's something about wearing clothes that you like to motivated you. I always find I work better when I'm comfortable and happy, rather than just comfortable in boring, even a little scratchy pyjamas. Anyway. I better get back to work. 

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to the flo!



At work our reserve is in the basement, and every day we end up running up and down, up and down for bags and bits and bobs for customers. Sometimes when we're down there we goof around. One of my friends and me used to joke when we were getting bags to take upstairs to the shop floor, "take it to the flo!" we'd yell out at the top of our lungs. I used to have so much fun at work, but it seems that almost all of my friends are leaving to get real jobs, and it's just not the same anymore. I'm not sure what to do - whether I should stick out at a job that I am increasingly growing to hate just because it means money, or whether I can have the balls to quit. To grin and bare it with hardly anything save for sanity? But that's another story altogether. Advice would be welcomed indeed. 

Some things that do make me happy - floor length skirts. I have a few wonderful ones from last season that have had outings again recently. The thing about them is that they don't agree with wind. They are just as likely to fly up around your waist as they are to stay put. Very temperamental things indeed. But oh! The glamour. For night time there's nothing quite like it. A sweeping skirt, a loose jumper (belted in, of cours) and a twisted up-do. One of my favourite, insignificant things is the way you have to gather up a floor length skirt as you walk up stairs or stride purposefully over a gutter. There's something very elegant about that movement. Once you wear a skirt - the right skirt - enough times the whole movement becomes instinctive. You barely think about sweeping it up in your hands, you just do it. I like that. It doesn't have to be ancient and ageing, you can wear a long skirt with a tee shirt, or a singlet, or anything you want really. They're just a little bit special. A long, lean, clean silhouette, a taller stance, a sunflower stretching out towards the sun. I like that. I like that a lot.

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isabel isabel


When the Isabel Marant Etoile spring collections start dropping into stores I'm going to be a very happy person. I've always loved her pre collections best - they seem to be less trend driven than the mainline and seasonal offerings and tend to be of the loose-shirt, drawstring pant variety, which is my favourite kind of variety. I'd like to get an extra look at that long printed dress in bottom left, and the spotty red shirt in bottom right. There's something very joyous about the colours and prints in this collection. Even though the shapes are reasonably similar to what Isabel designs every season these are rendered different by how full of life they are. A toothy smile, a honey-hued tan, a scrunched up sleeve. These are perfect sunshine weather clothes. Along with a blue sky, and a bright light, and those drawstring pants in top right, how could you fail to be gloriously, gloriously happy?

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into the blue


 This summer, after an absence of almost 4 years, my family is going to be returning to our beach-side haunt of old. It's this little hamlet of golden sand tucked behind a cliff-face up the coast, with just a little convenience store, a fish and chip shop and, somewhat incongruously, a nail salon. I loved it there - I used to get to sleep downstairs in the basement flat all by myself, and I would scribble in my diaries and stay up till midnight reading Jane Austen of Little Women and wishing myself into a family of sisters. So, so much happened there. Too much, really, all things considered. I'll tell you about some of it some day. But suffice to say I had a lot of fun there. My brothers and me used to run from the house to the store, singeing our feet on the burning sand as we went, and sit with the soles of our feet touching eating scores of mangoes while we watched the Australian Open. I wonder if it's going to be the same place 15 year old me really loved? You know what, I think it will be. It has always reminded me of that line from Karen Blixen's Seven Gothic Tales. In Deluge of Nordeney, which tells the tale of a rising, rising flood, the protagonist is told "I know a cure for everything. Salt water... In one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea." Karen Blixen really is the most incredible writer - Out of Africa is probably my favourite book, although I do say that about a lot of books. But oh! It's so beautiful. Set in the early 1900s through world war 1 and the 20s, it is the autobiographical tale of Karen's life in Africa, of her farm at the foot of the ngong hills, her love affair with the enigmatic Denys Finch-Hatton, her attachment to the rough, raw, rolling beauty of Africa. The movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford is pretty amazing too, but the book is a million times better. Anyway, I have always agreed that salt water is the cure for everything. A good cry is often the best way to alleviate melancholy.

Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

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ps. Oh and I just remembered my second favourite moment in Out Of Africa (my first is a little weird haha)! Karen arrives in Mombasa and heads to the club, while there she wanders into an open room and starts poking around at the books there (not know that it is denys' room). His friend Berkeley Cole discovers her snooping and at first she is awkward about it but soon realises that he doesn't care. He can't stop staring at her, and remarks that when he was at Oxford he used to take a girl to the dances and she wore the same perfume as Karen is wearing now. Without even blinking she proffers her wrist, slowly, towards him. He leans in and then pulls back. "No. It's very nice, but not the same", he says. There is a lot of perfectly realised tension in the scene, it's sexual, but it's something else too... It's a really wonderful moment. God I love that movie!

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procrastination

There's nothing like cold weather and polyvore to bring about a bout of extreme procrastination. I have a million and one things to do - I really, really, hopelessly do - but, you know, I just want to watch Law and Order SVU and play around on polyvore instead. I just want a perfect wardrobe. Actually, no, I want a polyvore wardrobe. One that I can stand in front of while getting dressed, type in, oh, I don't know, "blush coloured celine box bag" and have it miraculously appear in front of me., ready to wear, as it were. It's the little things, you know?

 Mondays - long skirts and swing jumper days
Isabel Marant etoile coat, opening ceremony sweater, me and ro necklace, karen walker sunglassses, isabel marant bracelets x 2, van rycke bracelet, otis and maclain skirt, celine bag, porselli ballet flats, repossi ring

Tuesdays - pea coats and valentino ballet flat days
Vanessa Bruno coat, COS boxy top, prism glasses, celine cuff, COS bra and knickers, T.R ensemble boyfriend jeans, celine box bag, valentino flats, repossi ring


Wednesdays - ps1s and shearling collar days
3.1 phillip lim jacket, COS top, prism glasses, jensen-conroy necklace, isabel marant scarf, COS bra and knickers, ileana makri anklets x2, Joydyn long skirt, sigerson morison ballet flats, proenza schouler ps1, repossi ring


Thursdays - jeans and pop colour days
 
Isabel Marant coat, COS top, VPL sweater, prism glasses, COS jeans, isabel marant bracelets x2, petitegrand bracelet, COS bra and knickers, repossi ring, Celine bag, sigerson morrison ballet flats


 Fridays - suit up days
COS jacket, T by Alexander wang shirt, Monica Vinader earrings, NARS lipstick, Celine cuffs x2, Helmut Lang pants, Diptyque philosykos, Celine pochette, repetto ballet flats.


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wrap me up



Amy Kaehne look book, graphics done by my friend Talisa


Yes it's true, in spring and summer the minute the weather regains even the slightest hint of coolness I run to my closet and fish out a coat and wear it happily. I'm not alone in this. At the magazine I intern at there's a girl who owns one of those leather-sleeved Burberry trenches, and she steadfastly wore it last week despite heat and humidity because she couldn't part with it. I know the feeling. It's like bidding farewell to a best friend who's going overseas. But then, they can make a sudden reappearance again if the weather turns foul mid-Spring. Such a glorious thing has happened today. Peeking out the windows all I could see was an overcast sky and all I could feel was a crisp breeze and, it's true, these things make me very happy indeed. Out comes the shearling. Oh, its going to be a good day!

The weather has immediately made me think of Amy Kaehne's new collection for autumn/winter. The collection is a series of perfect juxtapositions - masculine and feminine, young and sophisticated. It's all in the two-tone jumper. It's all in the pairing of a beautiful hand-knitted silk sweater, artisanal and dainty, with a pair of hard-work cord trousers with deep pockets and cuffs turned up. I can't help but picture some of these things in my winter wardrobe next season. The oversized tweedy grey wrap coat, perfect over a rust-coloured sweater and a silky maxi skirt. The grey sweater with contrast navy blue neck, the perfect foil to tapered navy blue trousers and a man-style parka. The corduroy pants with a silky button down and a perfect burgundy coat. Perfect. I love this collection. A lot. It's that perfect cold-weather disposition distilled into clothing. Imagine yourself wrapped up in that corduroy jacket with contrast pockets, a big knit scarf and a pair of your comfiest pants, bowl of steaming hot soup in hand. Or the little Velvet dress with a twist tie paired with some beaten-in ankle boots, cross-legged in front of cups of milky tea and freshly baked bread. All those warm smells and warm food and warm things - what would winter be without its matching partners of tweed and wool and corduroy? They are classic french staples, but with an antipodean twist. It's a little more careless, a little more slouchy, a little more casual. Exactly how I like my clothes. I've already got my eye on the black/grey coat and the grey knit. I can't believe I'm thinking so far ahead for my wardrobe planning, but there you go. Add the Thursday Sunday two-tone sweater and you have at least three things I will be hunting down next season. Oh, but I wish I could have them now! It would be so perfect to wear them today, over a long black skirt with ballet flats.

Why can't it be winter all year long? 

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lazing on a sunny afternoon


These are the fruits of my labour this weekend - since I don't know the questions for my take home exam yet, and can't start working on them till monday (oh dear, next week is going to be a bad one) I took the opportunity to enjoy the quiet before the storm and had two of my great, greatest school friends over for Brunch. We had tuna baguettes, tomato, mozzarella and basil salad and broad bean, asparagus and pecorino salad for starters, and then rose bakery carrot cup-cakes, mango segments and lemon/lime granita and chocolate covered snakes afterwards. And now I'm never cooking again! Ever. All this colour, all this fresh food, the fragrant basil and the sweet mango. We ate outside in my garden under the balmy sun and talked a lot of silliness. Spring is here. Oh, and it's glorious!

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once more with feeling


This week I gave my favourite winter outfit one last hurrah. This combination of shearling vest and parka has been on constant rotation since I first devised it and then revised it with my Isabel jacket... Wearing it on Monday was a decidedly bad decision - I ended up carrying both the jacket and the shearling vest all day long - but it felt good to kind of wave it goodbye as we transition into hot weather. Man this outfit has bought me so much joy. Many a windswept day and a dreary outlook has been cured by the ease with which this combination can be thrown together. I'll be sad to see it go for another 6 months. On the other hand - these are my new sandals, the Benah Ryder in tan. They are delicious.

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so many things

"Right on the edge of the lake there was one great big building. That was the store, Pa told her. It was not made of logs. It was made of wide, gray boards running up and down. The sand spread all around it... There was a wide platform in front of the store, and at one end of it steps went up to it out of the sand. Laura's heart was beating so fast that she could hardly climb the steps She was trembling all over. 

The store was full of things to look at. All along one side of it were shelves full of colored prints and calico. There were beautiful pinks and blues and reds and browns and purples. On the floor along the sides of the plank counters there were kegs of nails and kegs of round, gray shot, and there were big wooden pails full of candy. Here were sacks of salt, and sacks of store sugar. In the middle of the store was a plow made of shiny wood, with a glittering bright plowshare, and there were steel ax heads, and hammer heads and saws, and all kinds of knives - hunting knives, and skinning knives and butcher knives and jack knives. There were big boots and little boots, big shoes and little shoes. 

Laura could have looked for weeks and not seen all the things that were in that store. She had not known there were so many things in the world." 

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods



Even though this is from a children's book, this is cinematic writing at it's best, no? I remember feeling the exact same way when I first went into David Jones. Gripping my mum's hand real tight I remember staring up at the racks - and racks, and racks - of clothes and hoping that they didn't swallow me whole. There are so many things in the world. 

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rue debelleyme


Rue Debelleyme is my favourite street in the whole of Paris, it starts, at the tip, at a junction with the industrial brashness of the 3rd arrondissement, a clash between an old world and the new, and then winds down through the Marais in the manner of all good Parisian streets until it ends up, somewhat triumphantly at a Church. Along the way you are treated to such a wonderful mixture of shops and characters you feel like you must, you simply must be in Paris - from the APC store at the corner of the rue vielle du temple, to that tiny little jewellery store whose name you have forgotten that sells little string bracelets with single beads on them. They are beautiful and simple and cost 95 euros, but you love them. You can start up the top and have brunch at The Rose Bakery, of course, eating salad and savoury tarts and little pizza slices, finished off with Carrot Cake of course. Or you could save that as the crowning glory in the afternoon and start at the bottom, even further down than Rue Debelleyme, at the Place des Vosges or Rue de Turenne. 

The worst thing is is that you'll see girls that look like this the whole way down. Maybe not so dressed up, but they'll be wearing ballet flats (perfect, perfect black ballet flats) and little wrap skirts and big sweaters and a loose trench coat and you'll be thinking - how? how can I look just like that? No matter how much Isabel Marant you wear, no matter how many pairs of repettos slip into on your feet, no matter how much embryolisse you slather over your face it never looks quite right. But I've come to appreciate that there is a certain something to the Australian style that is also noteworthy. The French may have perfect polish with just a hint of grunge, we Aussies have laidback, easy-going, positively friendly style down to a T. Yes, I do think that Australian style is friendly. It's outgoing and bubbly, just like we are. It is often simply and unfussy - sweaters and a long skirt, jeans and a drapey tee shirt - but it also has a sense of humour. There are bright colours, or funny prints, or interesting materials. Australian style doesn't take itself too seriously - which I think is the principal concern I have, at times, with French style. There was one day in Paris when, by complete happy accident, I was wearing an outfit entirely comprised of Australian designers. A bassike tee shirt, my country road black jersey midi skirt, my Carly Hunter shearling vest and little Benah kodi bag. It was the day I felt most comfortable and relaxed, with my sleeves rolled up and my bag slung across my body I strode down rue Debelleyme with a big smile on my face. 

Exploring and investigating this idea of Australian style has long been an area of interest of mine. I wonder if there are French blogs who bemoan the fact that they can wander down Glenmore Road and run into a million and one Australian girls wearing denim cut offs and striped vest singlet with their hair out looking so good. Perhaps there are. Perhaps, as with everything, the grass is greener on the other side. Perhaps. But I think it takes a foreign country to appreciate the idiosyncrasies and quirks of your own. After being in Paris I longed for a full glass of wine in a proper wine glass - not those dessert wine glasses they seem to proffer at French cafes - I longed for city-scapes that weren't all Hausmann, where the house fronts were all different, I longed for hot summer weather spent at a beach, a proper beach. Some of that is not Paris' fault but rather the nature by which I was visiting her. There are past times I have been to Paris and longed to be Parisian, dressing myself in frilly scarves and eschewing boots in favour of ballet flats just so I could get the thrill of being asked directions in French. Rue Debelleyme is my favourite street in the whole of Paris. Because there, one sunny Parisian day while wearing Bassike and Country Road and Carly Hunter and Benah someone came up to me on the street and asked me, in English, whether my bag was from Benah and did I get it in Australia? No matter how far you are from home, you'll always know a fellow Aussie. And that's a nice thought.

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green

 1- my photo, 2 - miss b muses

There is something about the nature of European greenery - it is so, so much more green than their Australian counterparts. Down under we do blue and orange very well, but it has to be said that England and France and Italy have the monopoly on lush, swollen, over-ripe green. They just have more water over there. When October begins to wind down and the weather takes on the kind of oppressive heat that engenders laziness and copious tall glasses of cool, cool water, the only thing you want is green. You long for green and everything that it means. Green is the perfect refuge from heat, it is something to stretch out and recline under, a respite from blazing heat, a reminder that not everything in summer is sun and sand and surf.

That's why I love Diptyque's philosykos so much. If a perfume could be described as a colour, then Philosykos is green. It has a top note of ripened foliage, watery and fresh, and the dry down reveals that bloom of fig that adorns the fragrance's label. The scent is milky and white, with hints of coconut (B so aptly remarked that it has a touch of the suntan lotion to it) and cassis adding depth to the endless green, punctured by hits of the fig throughout. It's simple, deceptively so. There's nothing tricky going on, no fussy citrus or spice. This fragrance is nothing more than it proclaims to be - a study of green in all its forms; tall trees, short grass, ripe figs, crisp leaves. It's clean sheets, freshly-washed hair and rolled up sleeves. Philosykos has nothing to prove. Its lightness and clarity and simplicity do not reflect a lack of imagination but rather an understanding of desire. Philosykos is a Vermeer painting, a girl with creamy skin standing next to a window where the light is streaming in and the sky is stretching out, endless and blue. It is the perfect fusion of green and fruit, the natural progression from leaf to bulb, the base notes rounding out the belly of the fragrance until all you can smell are the white-washed walls of Crete and a bowl of figs. Even the slight sourness, the acrid notes that creep in during the dry down are okay. They have that bitter, chalky flavour of greenery that was never meant to be eaten; grass and some leaves come to mind. They are so wrong that they are right.

The thing about perfume - good perfume - is that no matter how ephemeral and how visceral the scent in its physical form may be, it lingers on. Nothing good lasts. We know that. How many times have I mourned for necklaces, flung across rooms at parties and lost forever, shoes with the soles worn in? Perfume is the same, but heightened. Fragrance is only the mere essence of a thing and not the thing itself, despite everything. And yet good perfume (and we know there is a distinction) does endure. It is in the hint of it that lingers over clothing, the jolt in your memory when you smell it again, the picture in your mind that remains, always, after the first spray of a scent that you truly love. Even though I don't wear it anymore I will never forget Stella by Stella McCartney. My first fragrance, it was sensual in a way my converse-wearing self was not, but it had a whiff of nostalgia to it - of fields of roses and cows that needed milking and a freshly baked loaf of bread. It was the perfect marriage of youth and sophistication, a teenager wearing her mother's shoes. I loved it. And today, on the way home, I got a strong hit of it as a teenage school girl sat down on the bus in front of me. Nothing good lasts. But a great perfume will do a damn good job of trying.

X

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here and there with Celine



I have to thank Stevie for introducing me to this editorial, which is kind of perfect. Kind of perfect just like the Juergen Teller advertisements, which everyone seems to hate but I love, because there's nothing better than Celine that's grainy and out of focus and so real. "Unapologetic" is what Oyster calls them. Unapologetic and unassuming. One of the things about Celine is that it functions best away from hi-res and flash and the world of gloss. It's best on the backs of wealthy editors, or on the arms of harried students, or just out and about, here and there.

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mood

only wearing one piece of jewellery, extra points if its petitegrand on style me romy // Liu Wen a dream in a crisp white shirt and perfect straight leg jeans in the madewell lookbook // a nook all to yourself // bay and fyfe Zebra scarf // this amazing Thursday Sunday knit for next seaon, a wonderful blur of blue and grey.   

I love the peacefulness of blue. It's so calm. It's still water and clear skies. It's the coming of Spring with flowers unfurling and longer days, but it's also the dreams of next winter. It's pretty in pastel, but it's also utilitarian in denim overalls and rolled up sleeves. I've always loved navy. But it must be this springtime clarity that's got me searching for a lighter sensibility. All day today I've wandered around the beautiful Sydney suburb where I live and just marvelled about how lucky we are. There's so much swollen green and blue. It's everywhere. And it's beautiful. It's enough - it's more than enough - to want to run to my wardrobe and put on something in cornflower, or periwinkle, or baby blue and just smile. In particular I can't stop thinking about this Thursday Sunday knit. I love the peachy-pink bamboo knit sweater from this season, but the two-tone blue and grey is just perfect. The perfect kind of building block to keep my neutral separates exciting. I'm definitely adding it to my list of 5 pieces for next season (can't believe I'm planning next season now!). Whenever Spring comes along I always think of this poem by e.e cummings. No matter how much I love my coats and my scarves and my knitwear there comes a time when, well, you think you've known autumn too long...


"a wind has blown the rain away and blown
the sky away and all the leaves away,
and the trees stand. I think i too have known
autumn too long."

e.e cummings
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bring the heat

You may remember that about 5 months ago now I did a series of sets using only clothes and accessories from the Australian online store My Chameleon. It's one of my favourite online stores for the high level of service, the intelligent selection of brands and the way each item seems to complement the others. It's a real treat to shop somewhere where there is a clear sense of style and focus. My Chameleon is one of those places. The lovely ladies over at My Chameleon have asked me to do another series of sets, this time featuring all their new season stock. It wasn't easy - I limited myself to 7 sets (one for each day, natch), and had to leave a few of my favourite items on the website at the moment off - Rachel Comey Matchsticks shirt, Gary Bigeni Dewi dress and Bodkin Alpha dress, I'm sorry, I still love you - but I hope you like what I came up with! Some dressed up, but mostly casual, this is Capture the Castle x My Chameleon's take on Summer. Just add heat.

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