Through Foto Decadent, i discovered the photography of Linus Ricard, a Swedish London-based photographer.  He also happened to have recently shot the collection of Pia Stanchina which I rooted for two weeks ago, urging some magical collaboration to happen.  I'm still crossing my fingers of course.  What I found interesting about these images though was that from the fairy wings that I had envisioned when I first saw Pia's lookbook, now comes a much rawer image.  The garments become a little bit more sinister with a bit more mystery behind them.  Whatever way you look at it though be it Ricard's blurry lens or the original purist lookbook, it's still a heck of a lot of beauty but just presented different ways so yes, it

A few people have commented that my style has gotten more streamlined, less layered, and in some cases, 'more to their tastes'.  Oh joy.  Me losing the layers is getting brownie points with some people.  Unfortunately this doesn't really reassure or please me in the slightest because I feel like somehow I'm lacking a bit of 'me'.  I was pondering this the other day as I had a look through my pics and then it hit me that I hadn't been back to Hong Kong in over a year and a half.  Just to reiterate that, that is a really long time for me.  Furthermore, the Japan Centre has stopped stocking all my favourite Japanese fashion magazines and the prices have been hiked up

I spent my summer holidays as a teen doing absolutely zilch and being quite unproductive in general.  I'm thinking if I was a bit smarter, I should have got my ass and applied for an internship at a magazine.  Then I could spend my days tidying up issues and issues of Dazed & Confused, D&C Japan, Another mags going back to the 90's when you had double covers going on the front and back.  Hmm... flicking through dusty mags and ordering them by issue number and year... lovely stuff... (there wasn't an ounce of sarcasm in that by the way...)...

Now I know the Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony collection probably divided opinions across the board.  Love?  Hate?  Dug the shoes, hated the clothes?  Liberty print overdose?  Tight gingham pants not doing it for you?  Opinions are unsurprisingly varied but perhaps a look at the latest photobook curated by Chloe and shot by Mark Borthwick that has resulted from the collection might sway the naysayers?  Or not...

You know how it goes.  Just walked into Borders to grab a stash of magazine to take into Starbucks (browsing is for free ppl...).  Black Americano in one hand, magazine in the other, cute little USB stick attached to it......