Carnivaaaaaal

R.I.P Corinne Day x

Fashion photographer Corinne Day passed away yesterday at her home after a long battle with a brain tumor. She was just 48.

Day remains infamous for her influence on bringing the grunge era into the mainstream along with launching the 'heroin chic' look into stratosphere. She could be said to be responsible for unleashing model Kate Moss into the limelight, having photographed Moss when she was just a young teenager. Infamous shots such as the 'Summer of Love' shoot for The Face magazine in 1990 when Moss was just 15, (below), made both of them highly esteemed names.

At times, Day was deemed a bad influence on social practice within the fashion industry; being blamed for encouraging anorexia, drugs, and even paedophilia with her controversial images, which put her off fashion for many years. Her pictures were always powerful, and Day made us realise that "Photography is getting as close as you can to real life, showing us things we don't normally see. These are people's most intimate moments, and sometimes intimacy is sad."

Rest in Peace Corinne, fashion and photography icon, you will be missed.

Payday

basically means...

Achey legs

I actually just looked up the word 'frenemy' in the dictionary.... it was there.

And its etymology was 1953.

Here I was thinking it was made up by Tina Fey when she wrote 'Mean Girls'.

The fifties had biatches it seems.

Main Entry:	frenemy
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	a person who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy; a rival with which one maintains friendly relations

Anyway here is my latest frenemy:

Exploring

I am in a ridiculously excited state of fabulousness after hearing the best news in a long long time. Tim Walker is making a film.

Screenshot of 'The Lost Explorer'. Photo taken from telegraph.co.uk

Yes, my favourite favourite favourite photographer is now creating a short motion picture named The Lost Explorer. This relates to my previous post about fashion film- it seems I was right and it cannot get better than this.

Reading through this September Issue of Vogue (as well as my incessant background research upon hearing the news,) where Darling Tim talks about his new venture we learn that the story is about a young girl named Evelyn, who is played by Olivia Campbell, the 14 year old daughter of architect Sophie Hicks, finds a malaria-ridden and dazed Victorian explorer (played by Richard Bremmer) at the bottom of her tangled garden in a tent. Not greatly paraphrased by myself but nevertheless exciting stuff. It is based on a story in the 1989 collection "Blood and Water and Other Tales" by Patrick McGrath, whom Walker calls 'the apocalyptic Roald Dahl'.

Journalist Charlotte Sinclair describes the tale as combining "innocence with the macabre, the exotic with Fifties suburbia" which I applaud as a description of Darling Tim. I am just so happy that DT has finally decided to make his wonderful pictures into a full length moving masterpiece, an extension of his photographs, that I can sit back and take in. At twenty minutes long the film is short, and took a total of eight days to film, being released next year. However, what I particularly like about this plot is that we are told that it is about a ordinary girl with a vivid imagination, her move to adulthood and the change with her stories in between. Something a dreamer like myself can relate to.

I am in great anticipation that it will be just like DT's photographs because his right hand woman Shona Heath is superfluous in the production creating the costumes and set designs, which ought to make it a magical and surreal environment to stumble imaginatively into.

"Fashion Photography works in fantasy and escapism"

DT is just fabulous. He takes all the comings and goings of the set and sees beauty in everything to use it. He puts the ideas on the paper and it seems, ironically, fashion is funding it. Mulberry is supporting a great amount of the film financially, as well as Gela Nash-Taylor, founder of Juicy Couture. Yay for fashion.

My kind of festival

I was devastated that I couldn't attend Vintage at Goodwood this weekend, it looks fantastic! Being a poor and decrepit student I actually have to work for a living and not spend my weekends dallying in festival tea houses and old-school drive ins, but nevertheless I have been stalking the event like any good little girl. I have always adored vintage clothes; I went through a forties phase which I don't think will ever truly escape me, but I mean I had the post-war dresses and looped immaculate hair for some time.

I always said I was born in the wrong decade - for years I worshiped the 60s, and the 20s were my next favourite but I had such an appreciation for the 40s as I grew older, so elegant and feminine. Of course the true brilliance of Goodwood is that it celebrates everything from the forties onwards. Those not accustomed to the conventional vintage can bop down in neon shell suits and hair crimped like never before in a true 80s vibe and still have a blast.

The festival embraces music, film, art and design but focuses primarily on fashion, with pop-up shops all around. It is like stepping into a time machine and even has a roller disco which I am JEALOUS of. I was thinking of going to a roller disco for my next birthday in full tacky costume and this has only given me more inspiration.

There is an auction too which is said to have a piano from Abbey Roads Studios, one of Eric Clapton's guitars and a pearl necklace from Miss Vintage Style herself, Jackie Kennedy. Nobody can be accused of being "underwhelmed by the lack of glamour" at this festival, which was the primary reason for Goodwood's creation from designer Wayne Hemingway. God I love it when people get hardcore. In fact the best best best thing about this festival, (and probably the simplest) is that there are no smelly toilet dump holes but REAL PLUMBING. Its not cheating if its pre-21st century.

See below for photos - I did not take these myself as I am not at the event. Below are credits.






As I am not attending the event I must give credit to the photos which I have taken from Getty images and the Guardian newspaper.

Get on camera

There has been a lot of fashion based film out recently; the delectable collections are bringing their brights to the big screen which is so delicious to see. I have always liked the idea of multi-platform media, and it seems that short films are definitely the chicest and most efficient way of showcasing the new. Channel Miu Miu above with their fall/Winter 2010/2011 ad campaign, (taken here from youtube, click to see the video in proper size.) Okay, this idea isn't really new, Miu Miu themselves have been doing animated ad campaigns for years but I just needed to share the pretty colours and 80s funk drop music with you all. Naturally.

What is brand new and shiny though would be Twenty8Twelve's take on independent film. The label is famously the creation of sisters Sienna and Savannah Miller, the former of which takes her other job as an actress very seriously to star in this herself. I say "star," it is a lot of posing and laughing but hey, we do all like a bit of posing and laughing. What I like about this vid is its legendary yet somehow demure location of Hilles, the home and deathbed of the amazing Isabella Blow in Gloucestershire, and coincidentally the birth place of Alexander McQueen's fashion imagination. It is an animated presentation about their Autumn/Winter collection and an all round dapper set up directed by Angelo Penetta. The film is grainy and vintage looking which contrasts the modern brand, known for its contemporary cuts and rocker sass. The video aims to highlight what is great about Hilles giving the brand identity more depth and elegance, something which may have been missing in its previous collections. At a press presentation in February, Sienna even said: 'I think our last show was misinterpreted as trying to be high fashion, which was never what we intended.’ The model starring alongside Miller is Sara Blomqvist. The film itself is exclusive to Vogue.com so click the link above to see it.

I suppose fashion and film have long paired together both commercially or independently but little snippets like these differ to that of 'A Single Man' (Tom Ford's oscar-nominated directional debut) and the suchlike. In recent weeks too, Dolce & Gabbanna have announced they are working on a film of their own, entitled 'Quando, Quando, Quando'. Needless to say I am very excited. Lets shove some Sofia Coppola in there, and a screen shot or two of some feminine post-modern photography and you've got my vote.

St. Valentino's Day

Oh, HELLO Valentino Couture collection.

Yeah, you are pretty darn cool.

Perhaps not wearable, but hell, you never know, bird cages on your body could be the new thing.

Why am I always drawn to the obscene? Its like my head is bored of clothes that don't cause a riot when you walk outside or at the very least break a glass or two every time you whirl around.

Shout out to Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli anyhow.