just be.

yay yay yay! i have been waiting for the sass & bide a suitable lover feathered neckpiece ever since tomorrow the great was shown at fashion week in london months and months ago.
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dotti dress/ sass & bide neckpiece and singlet (worn under dress)/ chanel bag/ vintage jewellery/ ray ban sunglasses

start your own tribe.

and run crazily through long dry grass. plait sea-weed through your hair. play hide and seek with the wind. close your eyes. wonder at the stars. climb a tree. build a castle on the beach sand. laugh with the cloudshapes. make a feathered headpiece.
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anja rubik by patrick demarchelier for uk vogue

wild horses.

oh, that leonardo.
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"rearing horse" from the collection "leonardo's horses" by leonardo da vinci. image courtesy artchive.com

for the thrill of it, thrill of it.

my friend hannah found this lovely frilled number hidden amongst granny dresses. 
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well i just dance the way i feel.

we wasted so many truths that we depend on getting by another lie on every other thing that dies and as his voice beckons out i hear the end the end of trauma slowly setting in my body seems to stop and freeze stop well i just dance the way i feel stop breathing imagine none of this is real... well i just dance the way i feel... a simple crowd makes a movement on my space i'm lashing out i'm crashing down on all the people in my way i'm banning all of these habits from this place this place is ruined been affected after all the time i paid stop well i just dance the way i feel stop breathing imagine none of this is real... well i just dance the way i feel stop well i just dance the way i feel stop 

well i just dance the way i feel moving on to someone else you're always open with yourself but no one i talk to no one always falling short of help i choose to take this by myself and go and i just go stop well i just dance the way i feel stop breathing imagine none of this real... well i just dance the way i feel stop... well i just dance the way i feel...
wise words. by ou est le swimming pool.
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abbey lee heart alexander forever.

mbff.

akira.
"a garment can transcend, giving it a soul"
another fash-on week, this time in my lovely home town of brisbane. and i got to hang out with acclaimed designer akira isogawa all weekend! front row seats at his latest collection show on saturday night . (i did smile sweetly when kristie clements, vogue australia editor-in-chief, who was sitting on the opposite side of the runway made eye contact). and an intimate discussion with the designer held at qut on sunday... what a wonderful insight into akira's world it was. collaborating with the uni for the eCHO project, akira was given a disintegrating vintage gown to show it some love. the result: fabulousness which is pure akira. he even genuinely seemed happy to thank me for thinking his mbff collection was drop dead. aww. 
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akira spring 2010 collection at mbff group show 2. 

akira isogawa at the in conversation discussion at qut

the vintage gown restored by akira for the qut echo project

and we just could not resist some shamlessness...

peepshow tonight only.

sneeky peeks and wardrobe voyeurism? love it. click here if you do too. thanks to the beautiful sarah-leigh!
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image courtesy unschoolme.blogspot.com

blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly.

ah yes. another chapter in my sewing and haberdashery adventures. last weekend my friend hannah and i went on a little roadtrip to spotlight. i had no idea what i would be able to make with a ball of yarn. no idea whatsoever how i would even begin any sort of knitting. but my trusty scissors and the sewing machine saved what would undoubtedly have been a complete fail. presente: the hairy cape.
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sass & bide dress and black rats tights/ fringed shoulder cover: made myself, sass & bide ruffeld collar worn over/ vintage jewellery