stop trying to be courtney love/taylor momsen/alexa chung

Most of this is fuelled by tumblr, because everyone on it think they are so damn rad because they can emulate the 'style' of the afforementioned 'idols'. Well they are shit and so are you.

1. Courtney LoveHere's the thing, without Kurt Cobain she would be nothing. I don't just mean not famous, I mean absolutely nothing, living in a gutter sucking whiskey out of a damp old bar napkin. So she was in Hole, possibly one of the most talked about yet not actually listened to bands of all time, they are shit. Don't even get me started on her 'style', cause honestly I will never stop. Although kudos to her, she doesn't take anyone's shit and she can handle herself. Also she wrote this, devastatingly nonsensical tweet aimed at Taylor Momsen which I like, because she basically tells her to stop being such a TIT...@taylorxmomson shut the FUCK up you overpriveliged bratty bitch that picked on every freak in high school mention my name again? BAM… is that youyr name? i dont watch tv or read teen mags and gossip rags so i wouldnt know, do NOT still “like my music”please… if i was pissy about every chick that every bit me id be busy indeed your just annoyingly cloyingly wrong.WORKWITHYRHANDS… oh btw i doubt it would be from me that BAM, i think it would be from every “freak” and Fag” in high school you ever picked on. Christ!UGH.

2. Taylor Momsen

Oh look, it's Taylor Momsen! She didn't just change to this 'punk glam-goth' because her character on gossip girl did, oh no, she changed because it was who she really is. And her band are so cool and edgy, no one her age gets her because she is so complex, so her band is made up of middle aged men.Dear lord. She is 16, granted we are the same age, but she has absolutley no clue about anything. She wore a babydoll. Shock horror. Then she wore stripper shoes. Just bad taste. Then her tampon string hung out and she showed the world things they really didn't need to see. Seriously?Yes, she attempts to act older than she is, ultimately backfiring and making her look like a childish wannabe. Taylor Momsen, you are not so different, you were in Gossip Girl and the Grinch, and your band makes me want to die. Oh the irony, thats one of their song titles. Inventive.

3. Alexa Chung

I like Alexa Chung, when she presented T4 it brightened up my saturday morning. What I don't like is all the 'Chung-ettes' I see everywhere. I understand if people would like to take inspiration, but honestly an entire outfit? And haircut!? And mannerisms?! I don't understand how this Alexa admiration has gotten to such a level...she was just a presenter on T4!!!

Well that was fun.

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Dissappointment

Morning. I was reading platform (as per usual) and I came across this article thing about Kwes. I have never heard of him before, thus i was intruged. Apparently he can see colours as sounds and vice versa. Which I know alot of people can do, sometimes I think I can do it, but I think I just trick myself into thinking it. Anyway, I listened to it...
It has to be the biggest load of shit I have ever heard. It pains me to listen to it. Bad 90's-esc 'rave' rubbish.If I actually could see colours as sounds I would use it to benefit people, not make their ears bleed and cause them irregular heartbeats.

Punk

Most of these people probably have kids and work in offices and live in lovely middle class houses by now. But at least while they were kids they were doing something worthwhile. So kids of the generation, stop trying to look cool, the country is in turmoil! At least good old Gordy is gone now, but greasy twat cameron is going in now (ohh get me oh so political).Our generation will never have its own punk movement, dude its been done, but we have to have something right? Everything nowadays is just recycled from the olden days. It pisses me off.

BYE

p.s i am writing this as gordon brown resigns. for ten minutes we will have no prime minister. so effectively we have no leader. so effectivley we can break loads of laws right? im not sure how it works, but im pretty sure thats right.

I'm angry about a sign today.

Hey guys! My last few posts havent been all that great to be frank, so hopefully now your hopes are nice and low for future posts. Nothing like a bit of positivity. Here's a sign put up backstage at Kate Sylvester's show.Can you read it? sorry its so small, it says 'and so live forever- or else swoon to death, J.Keats' right at the top. Nice and prententious, nothing like a great novel quote to make you look clever and totally individual (my mother said sarcasm would be the death of me). Then underneath it says 'You are tomboys + poets''You inspire love + great art''You are cool, effortless + nonchalant' Ok this is a bit annoying, but I suppose that it inspires the feel of the collection and gets everyone in the mood. So i will give her that one. But then at the bottom, the thing that most annoys me is 'You do NOT smile'. It's underlined. It's an order. Good manners cost nothing you know, why don't you by nice to the girls who are walking your show? I suppose that she wants to make sure everything goes well, but underlined and bold and everything? Chill out.

So there are my thoughts of the day. Goodbye.

xxx

Roger Daniel. David David. wow.

Hello there. I know I haven't been posting all that much but you know, stuff to do, people to see. Anyway I was browsing and I found these mega cool illustrations by Roger Daniel using David David prints for sketchbook magazine. The issue was about british designers and these pictures were used for the bit about David David.There was another one but I didn't like it very much so I just left it off. But these two, I just love them. The boy with the laser eyes is rad. That's right RAD.

Yesterday we saw these girls who were just milling around various charity shops and they just had this whole air about them that was mega annoying. You know those people who are like yeah I'm a photographer and a blogger and a model and a DJ and a designer and I'm in an experimental noise band which totes pushes all the boundaries of all music genres? well yeah they were like that.

But we didn't actually talk to them, so we can't be completley sure, but I bet my bottom dollar they were.

BYE x x x

27/01/10

hey guys, this is a rambling post so i couldn't think of name so i just put the date.
I've been reading loads of other blogs lately, and I keep finding these really pretentious ones written by people my age.
For gods sake people, you are 16 years old. You know nothing about the world. You can't try and sound really profound and intellectual by pointing out that everyone is so small in the grand scheme of things. Everyone knows that, so shut up.
It makes me so mad, to be honest if I read a blog I want to hear something interesting not just another generic 'individual' kid moaning about how little they mean to everyone and how depressing their life is. Boo hoo, whatever. Man up.

Sorry I had to get that off my chest.
Post soon on something that isnt so negative and kinda hypocritical.
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Topshop get some new ideas please

I shop in Topshop. A large percentage of my clothes come from there. I don't like shopping there but I still do. I am attempting to phase it out though, so hopefully before 2010 is out I will have maybe 2 or 3 items from there. Now that's all cleared up, lovely jubbly. Something fishy is going on here, sorry the pictures so bad i had to get a tiny one and then make it big so its a bit shitty. So basically the Alexander Wang piece has like opaque material on the arms and neck line. The Topshop one has it on the bottom, plus it has long sleeves and is basically the same shape and everything.
Also who can forget this one? This is far too similar to get away with it.I appreciate getting inspiration from designer pieces, but you have to draw the line at just knocking them off completely. Two years ago Chloe sued them for copying some yellow dungarees (which are ugly as sin in my opinion). They had to pay $12000 and destroy all of the other garments.

So Topshop please can you stop making copies of EVERYTHING, and also can you make everything a little less samey? when I went in last week everything was black or nude or stripey so please get your act together.

byebye

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Givenchy

Ok so first proper post of the year! Hooray, happy new decade and everything guys.
So here we go, today its about ADVERTS...wooo.

Well in particular the Givenchy S/S 2010 adverts, the whole campaign has just been released.

I LIKE IT, the shoes are so nice, and i really really like the mens sandals. Even though they are for men. I am not feeling so crazy about these two. It's not so much the way that it's been shot, it's the plain monochromatic-ness of it. In the first one there are lot's of pattern, even though there is only black and white, whereas in the others it's very straight foward and pretty dull. Also the hair and make-up? Ok you have made a collection entirely in black and white, so why make the models hair parted in the middle, and bare faces?

Not to my taste exactly, but I really do like the exploration of pattern for this collection. I just think it could have been shown in a more interesting way.

bye for now

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The whole world is going Gaga

Hey there. Do you want to see some nice pictures inspired by hansel+gretel, shot by Annie Lebowitz and styled by Grace Coddington?COOL...i love these pictures, theyre magical and dreamy and amazing. BUT... Suddenly, out of some kind of hole, Lady Gaga is all up in the shoot. Why may I ask, is she even there?? These photos are good and blah but come on, she has no relevance. I hate her, shes arrogant and self absorbed and so irratating. But that aside, Andrew Garfield and Lily Cole are both actors, they play the part, they fit the bill, but Gaga just no, please god no.
Safe to say Gaga is taking over the entire world, with her 'oh im so crazy, people have always called be weird, because i dress so extremely and im so outspoken' persona. Also does any else know Roisin Murphy? Wasn't she wearing shoulder pads, sequins and stupidly short knicker shorts about 5 years before Gaga?
I have to go, otherwise I will actually never stop.
byebye
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Team Coddington!

Ok so I'm off school with this virus which is like gross city, so when my dearest mother went to tesco she bought me The September Issue. Duh the documentry-film type thing.

It's been out for ages but I hadn't seen 'til about ten minutes ago. And may I just say, I hate Anna Wintour. She is the ice queen, it's all been said before. The way she talks to people like they are something on the bottom of her shoe grinds my gears to the max, plus her ruthless cutting of amazing pictures and spreads makes me sad. Grace Coddington on the other hand, is the messiah of all that is holy in the fashion world. She styles all her shoots herself and has a lot of repsect for everyone she meets, like telling the camera man that she doesnt want him to be retouched and that he doesnt need to go to the gym because not everyone is perfect. Anna is a bitch to him, telling him that his has to go to the gym while patting her stomach for about a billion years.

Grace also makes the best spreads for the magazine which take heck loads of planning, and in ten minutes Anna comes along and takes out loads of the most astounding pictures i have ever seen. She seems to lack any kind of respect for Grace, refusing to budge on anything that she has decided.

In rare moments we see a different side of Wintour however. She talks about her family, and how they all think her job is a joke, her dad and there are scenes between her and her daughter. Also her help to introduce Thakoon to the masses with his Gap collaboration is very sweet, and he is the most adorable guy ever!

She is still ruthless with other designers and people who she works with, which i suppose you have to be. But there is a fine line between being tough and just being rude. Grace is now my idol forever, she's kind but still fights her corner to the very end.

And my absolute favourite part of the film? When Grace makes Raquel Zimmerman eat a berry pie whilst wearing the worlds most tight corset and beautiful couture.

ciao for now

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Vampires are a pain in the neck

I don't like Twilight. Fact. It's not so much the actual thing, it's all the hype and the teenagers that are in love with 'R-Patz' and think that they will marry him as soon as he sets eyes on them. Also if it isn't Kristen Stewart on the cover of Dazed & Confused, it's Anna Paquin from True Blood on the cover of Nylon. Also True Blood look's ,to say the least, shocking. It has a heck load of hype in the U.S (apparently) and now it's coming over the pond. Hooray another influx of vampire based rubbish.

Jonathan Saunders' make up artist Lucia Pieroni created "Beautiful, sexy vampires" for the show.

The thing is, these girls actually look like they are ill, which I think is a bit weird and also not really what Pieroni was going for. The red lipstick was supposed to be seeping through like they had just had a quick bite, but i think it looks like they have a bleeding lip. Also bleached brows. The ever emerging A/W trend which is riduculously hard to pull off, because they make you look like an alien.

So thats all for now, byebye

xxx

Those school uniforms made a joke of you and me

Ok so the Wombats are old and no one likes them anymore but this line has never been more appropriate. So now I'm back at school and it totally suxxx but the worst thing about it all is uniform. It's worse than the pressure, coursework and exams (well maybe not but you know).

Ok so I have 8 glorious weeks to wear whatever I wish, have my hair the way I want, wear tights in other colours and patterns than just plain black (we get told off for grey tights for goodness sake) and then suddenly I'm plonked back into this place with these clothes and rules about clothes. No longer is it the usual like dont do black shoes brown bag or wear a black bra with a white tee, its also things like top button done up (which no one does), black shoes, black tights, LONG skirt (which no one does again) and shirt tucked in.

Clothes really do show where we are placed the world. When you're an adult you can wear what you want, be free! But when you're a child (urgh) then you just have to put up with looking like every other person in the whole un-adult world.

Also I just have to add a few words...POLY-COTTON MIX. Enough said.

Charles Anatase, please design me a new uniform :)

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Kane+Versace vs. Hanra RANT

OH MY GIDDY DAYS!!!

did anyone else buy this seasons POP magazine? alot about bloggers and stuff, i am so jealous of tavi, she so wicked cool plus she knows her stuff way better than most and shes only 13! i wish i was that good when i was 13. im not even that good now. anyhoo i just finished reading the interview with donatella versace and christopher kane by hannah hanra, and i realised something. every single thing christopher says makes either no sense, or is just completley what donatella said. he sounds like such a brown noser! jeez i love his work (the new metallic green brown velvet striped dress, bad on paper, sick in real life) But when he says (describing the new versus girl) "The DNA is like, young, effervescent, shes got alot of confidence, shes independant and obviously shes intellectual aswell, but shes sensual" I am just thinking BUZZWORDS and how he sounds like hes just read it all off a piece of paper. c'mon man you could do so much better. but bless donatella, remaining steadily aloof for a substaintial part of the interview, only saying things like "Just that you should have fun" whilst being backed up all the way with kane saying "have fun, yeah".

well done POP youve made my day. i freaking love it, but this interview is dissapointing. plus those pictures of Ciccionlina by famous porn photographer max angeloni made me feel a tad queasy, shes a mother for goodness sake.

smell ya later.

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