I don't like mondays

Elle AUS December 2013

When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world...

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the only

'Almost overnight she had become beautiful. She had grown from a small darting-about figure to a gliding, drifting, fuller one. It was a speckled beauty. She was so covered in small brown-black moles she attracted men, every sort of man. These few too many birthmarks of the first-born tipped the balance of her face and throat: men felt free to wander their eyes all over, across the pale spaces and back again to the factual dots, the way a full stop brings to a halt a meandering sentence. And she allowed it, her face was unresisting, she didn't seem to notice them. So the men felt unstoppable, going from one point to the next, even under her chin and back to the one touching her top lip, and it was as if they were running their eyes over every part of her nakedness.' 

Murray Bail, Eucalyptus

Sienna Miller in Elle US November 2013

Oh Sienna. Always my favourite, no matter what, especially in catbird rings and knee high socks and draped languorously across comfy armchairs. Proof that the best things get better with age. Proof that blondes really do have more fun. Proof that it really does help to look that good. With every picture I can't quite get over how beautiful she is. The enchanting porcelain beauty of an Austen heroine. It's a beauty you never want to stop looking at.

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a morning in Hong Kong

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Hotel mornings are made of this - the smell of newspaper on your fingers, feeling like a perfect British gentleman in Derek Rose sleepwear, drinking jasmine tea from a proper cup, spending hours deciding what shoes to wear (See by Chloe sandals or RMK? Loafer or Heel?), leaving the curtains closed, dripping Grown Body Serum on the sheets by accident, and never wanting to get out of bed.

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casual gal

Usually, when magazines do profiles of different girls, I never fall into one of their "types". The "fashion" type ends up being way too conceptual for me, the "girly" one takes my penchant for macarons a step too far, the "bad girl" likes to dance on tables and do all the things I never even dream of, and don't even get me started on their so-called "good" girls. I always wonder, do girls even fall into these carefully elucidated brackets? Well, for once, I don't have to wonder. In this month's Elle UK, that explores the world of workwear, I am firmly and unashamedly, 100 percent represented in a page. 

The "Casual Girl", the last of the work wear types, has me down to a tee. Long skirts, layered tops, simple neutrals, statement jewellery, pared back bags, comfy flats. A girl who, even though she loves fashion doesn't let it rule her life. That couldn't describe me more even if I had written it myself. Easy, simple clothes for easy simple living. Of course, the Elle girl wears hers to work - apparently someone who DOESN'T work in fashion or creative industries (which I am looking at, being writing prone etc), but more of an office chick looking to shake up the tried and tested uniform of suit jackets and power lapels. My 'casual girl' wardrobe is restricted to, well, casual wear only as at work I must wear all black (boring boring boring). I am, however, most definitely casual. At all times. I have been known to wear a sweatshirt to a club. I'm just not one to bother with theatrics. if I love something I'll wear it whenever, regardless of protocol and uniform restrictions. Smart Casual/Dressy means nothing to me. What means something to me is dressing the way you feel. But still, I am so excited to fall into a magazine bracket. Finally, I'm fitting in!

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I never got all the fuss about Kristen Stewart until now. Elle Uk has the horrible habit of styling every cover star in the exact same way - rock chick with an edge. I'm glad that with their recent cover stars (chloe sevigny, kylie, and now kristen) they have adopted a more natural and heterogenous approach. they have realised, i think, that they don't have to style everyone in the same way in order to cultivate an 'image'. their inventive covers and intelligent discussion of contemporary issues will forever mark them out as one of the best magazines out there. I like the Chloe Sevigny was allowed to show her playful side in miu miu and lace, and Kylie was given the chance to play dress up with the new season fashion. And here Kristen isn't a goth-chic or a 'who-gives-a-fuck' starlet, she's just a 20 year old caught up in something bigger than herself - and which 20 year old isn't, whether it be a multi-million dollar movie franchise or the stress of university studies? I love the picture in the triptych of kristen hiding her face. It reveals a lot about its subject, i think.  The title of the editorial is 'Just a Girl', how apt, really. It is sometimes very easy to forget how young some of these stars are. Not easy to forget in the way that thousands of teenage girls fawn over their every movement, but easy to forget in the way that they deal with all of this on a daily basis in, often, a more mature way than stars double their age.

Unlike the prematurely sexed-up and quite frankly distasteful Emma Watson spread of last year, kristen stewart just looks radiantly beautiful... the kind of beauty that you have to avert your eyes from. and I never thought i would be saying those words about kristen. I am interested to read the accompanying article, if it is anything as fascinating as this editorial it will be one of the better magazine profiles i have ever read. Elle UK tends to swing either way - they open up the interview to fan questions posted on their twitter and website and the thing descends into silliness and the cliche. Or they have interviews like the one with Lindsay Lohan last september, in which the author turns 3 text messages and 20 minutes of face to face time with her into a 4 page article that intelligently explored the social phenomenon of 'lilo'. I have a feeling that this article is going to be of the latter variety. Say what you will about Kristen Stewart, but boring she is not. She is the girl, after all, who declined to comment about her relationship with Rpattz to Vogue US (and was, it is rumoured, cut from the cover for Blake Lively because of it). Anyone who has the balls to stick up to Anna Wintour is worth a read, i think.


'Just A Girl'
Ph: Matthias Vriens-McGrath
St: Anne-Marie Curtis
Mod: Kristen Stewart
Elle Uk July 2010

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