How to kick butt:
1. Buy either Rodarte’s, Jil Sander’s, or Alexander McQueen’s shoes for Spring.
2. When your lunch money gets stolen or your neighbor tells you to turn down your music, make a permanent dent in the punk’s head.
All photos from style.com.
A vintage turban and a basket of childhood things.
I started taking pictures of random stuff we had on the radiator, trying out my new camera. These happened to flow nicely together…pinks, blues, yellows, greens, slight shimmers.
For some reason, I really LOVE mini versions and interpretations of THINGS…fashion illustration, dolls of movie stars, etc. So these photos made my week, pretty much.
Andrew Yang is a doll maker I found out about through the ladies at Six Six Sick. He tailored Spring 2010 outfits and created dolls for this editorial from The Block Magazine and HOT DOG, lemme have em. Yes, Ken, I really do say HOT DOG.
Here are more of his dolls, which are wonderfully morbid and terrifically bizarre, and very different from the Spring ‘10 ones (though the Spring ‘10 ones stay true to the somewhat creepy feel of his other creations):
And, there is a story about each doll on his site-how cool is that? One day when I win the lottery I am buying all of them for my children. Then stealing them. Not really, that would be mean to the kids! HAHAHAHA …JOKES..OF COURSE….
Maybe all the pastel metallics and spiky pixie hair (Winona Ryder in Rolling Stone, anyone?) suddenly feel fresh because the 90’s are now over a decade old.
From top: 1994 New York Magazine, pages from Comme des Garcons’ SIX shot by Peter Lindbergh, Gianna Versace ad.
These photos of Devon Aoki and Bjork remind me so much of one another and are both shot by Nick Knight. I wonder if it’s intentional that they are so similar-looking? If one is a play off another or if they’re not even supposed to relate to each other at all?
Hey thanks ma and pa for the dee vee dees, five or six of which are rated R! BADASS!
Been watching all of these NONSTOP. Criterion Collection Tenenbaums is so good, you guys.
Two of my favorite artists. The Yayoi Kusama book carries special sentimental value too..we went to an exhibit of hers + 9 other artists in London with some of the Pop crew! And the first time I went to the new wing of the Art Institute here in Chicago, I wrote down all the names of artists I liked to look up when I got home. The only one whose name stuck in my head without having to write it down was Gerhard Richter. I have more to write on him later when I post pictures from the book but he is my favorite painter, we’ll leave it at that for now. I remember wanting to buy the book at the museum store but my dad said no, so this is lovely!
Things with pretty colors!
Stickers…mini cards + envelopes for little worlds..bird magnets…scarf…Joseph Cornell’s diary of dreams, which is simply AMAZING despite terrible font usage on front cover…
Ah, bad puns! Anyway, one of my favorite shows of New York last season was undoubtedly Y-3, Yohji Yamamoto’s line for Adidas. His namesake label has lots of draped, loose clothing, and the clothes for Y-3 usually carry the same free-spirited feel. This season was no exception - fun, colorful, everything I guess you would expect from Yohji Yamamoto when he’s making sportswear. It’s very interesting to see a conceptual designer’s idea of more wearable practicality, and to see one make their inspiration more literal - this time, soccer, which included goal net mesh dresses (a bright pink one was my favorite piece from the collection, along with white leather strappy wedges-I am team Nineties Minimalism, all the way) and a soccer net even dropped down from the ceiling for the finale…
All around, lots of fun! I am awful at sports but maybe I will consider joining a school team if it means an excuse to buy one of these dresses (which I’m sure are totally necessary for volleyball, right?):
I composed this outfit in my head during school today.
Life has been torturous ever since.
Junya Watanabe top. Prada skirt. Free People tights. Proenza Schouler shoes.
Dear stars up above: Please find a way to get those Proenza booties in my closet? The same goes for the Junya top.
Thank you.
Love, Tavi.
Soooooo while looking at all the Fall sales on my favorite online stores (nevermind that I spent way too much on a skirt last weekend and should not even be TEMPTING myself) I came across a Laura Lees skirt on Farfetch.com that totally reminded me of Alan Aldridge, whom I’ve written about on this here Pop blog. The more I looked at other stores, the more I saw him everywhere. And I was bored, so I made collages. And now I’m really worried I might buy some of it, so yeah.
Laura Lees skirt that inspired this post via FarFetch.
Leather Comme des Garcons oxfords via Yoox.
Crinkled Junya Watanabe button-down via Yoox.
Marc Jacobs dress via Net-a-Porter, Marc Jacobs foulards via Colette.
Jojo and Malou face print dress via FarFetch.
Marc by Marc Jacobs patchwork cat shirt via FarFetch.
Something Else gradient tank top via FarFetch.
After writing my last post on Alan Aldridge, I remembered that my dad showed me a few years ago a book of Beatles lyrics, illustrated. BEING THE GENIUS THAT I AM I realized it was the same dude! So I asked him to find the book, which he did, and could I keep it, which I can’t, and well then could I keep it on my bookshelf, which I can (basically I’ll wait until he forgets that he owns it and bring it to college with me.) It’s from around the time it first came out, too (1969-also the year my dad went to Woodstock-God, he is such a hippie!) so all the pages are brown and make the psychedelic-ness feel kind of warm and sweet.
I took lots of pictures but these are my favorites, and I think the ones that best show how broad his technique was in illustrating the songs-drawing, watercolors, clay, photography, and more. Most of the interpretations are very literal when they need to be; others add to the mystery of its corresponding lyrics, allowing the reader to draw their own interpretations from the combined views of the artist and the songwriters. I didn’t find any Aldridge’s work to take away from the songs.
(Oh, and may I highly suggest that you click the pictures and then click “All Sizes” on the Flickr page-TOTALLY worth it/necessary for many of these.)
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics by Alan Aldridge.
It has a short intro in the beginning, which I truthfully haven’t read yet…
When I’m Sixty-Four
Only a Northern Song, Blackbird
These pages especially surprised me…the simple drawing with humor that is unlike Aldridge’s usual type of obscene, erotic kind. And the simple blackbird in watercolors.
I Will; Here, There, and Everywhere
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We Can Work it Out; Nowhere Man
I’m Only Sleeping, Love me Do
**EXCELLENT HAND-MODELING RECOGNITION**
Ahem.
Baby, You’re a Rich Man; Yesterday
Small (and relevant!) fact about Yesterday: Before he had the lyrics for it, Paul McCartney referred to this song as “Scrambled Eggs” because he didn’t know what it would actually be about.
Day Tripper
Eleanor Rigby
With a Little Help From my Friends; Run for Your Life
John Lennon later said that he hated “Run for Your Life”…I really have to agree, it is the only Beatles song I really do hate and feel disgusted listening to.
A Who’s-who and What’s-what of Mega Illustration.
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Hey Bulldog, It’s All Too Much, All Together Now, P.S. I Love You
