One of my great finds on the interwebz today was Sous Style, a site set up by Pippa Lord, the pictures editor at Elle US for all those fashionistas (shudder, I hate that term, but it seems right here haha!) like me who are also really, ludicrously into cooking and home decorating. The Martha Stewarts or Nigella Lawsons of the fashion world, if you will. There seems to be an awful lot of them out there, if you think of all the food porn that dominates blogs now (shini, I'm looking at you, in the best possible way). It actually reminded me of something that Rachel said to me the other day (as we were in youeni and I was chowing down on spanish eggs and a muffin, so it was quite fitting in retrospect) about how food and entertaining are what people are really interested in now in photography. Well, Rach, you better check out this site! You would actually love it. I guess it was only a matter of time before people began combining food and fashion and the home in a meaningful way.
There are two great things about Sous Style. Firstly, the design, which is charming and tongue-in-chic and full of cute little taglines like "Cook with me", "chew the fat", "male mondays" (yes, please!) that were surely inspired by Into the Gloss. It's a super sleek site, easy to look at and the pictures of cool girls all over the world cooking, eating and welcoming you into their homes are really inspirational. Tick, tick, tick. The second reason why Sous Style is great is a little bit harder to explain. The whole manifesto behind the site is really fantastic, I think. The about us page sounds a bit Goop-y, with its catch phrases like "we believe in the imperfect perfect" and "we don't know all the answers but we're curious to find out" but, when you think about it, it's kind of true, isn't it? The idea that a fashion girl would be interested in more than just coffee and cigarettes isn't a new one, but it's yet to make any real inroads into popular culture. I really like this idea of imperfect perfection, I think it rings true to my style - most of the time, anyway, I guess the rest of the time it's just imperfection full stop - and I think this nonchalant, easy-going, laid-back kind of attitude comes from the fact that Pippa Lord is actually a Melbourne girl. We Australians do tend to take quite a relaxed approach towards all aspects of life - especially style, food and homewares. The admission by Pippa that the sous style girl makes mistakes in the kitchen reminds me only too readily of all the moments when I've burnt cakes, added too much salt to a pasta sauce or completely fucked up a pavlova because I didn't separate the eggs properly. As my mum always said to me, don't worry, mistakes are normal. Just put it down, and start again.
In one of the earliest posts on this new site (and there's a heap of good stuff up there for a little fledgling bambi of a page) Pippa quotes Jonathan Van Meter describing Charlize Theron. He "once described Charlize Theron as an “unrepentant pleasure seeker” who is “not afraid of a steak or a shot of tequila"". This is the type of girl we all want to be, no? The Sienna Millers and Charlize Therons of this world with their raucous laughter and pleasure-honed bodies who slurp pasta by the bowl-ful and down beers with the best of them. Celebrating this idea of enjoying food, and the home and style is one I can certainly get behind.
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