It does sound quite trite to start off every paragraph with some childhood ditty but I just can't help it when those dusty memories are triggered.  Last week, it was my feeble inability to look at Magic Eye paintings and this week it is my messy attempts to marble paper.  At the age of seven, I set myself the mammoth task of covering the insides of my hardback books with marbled paper because I saw it being done in some library.  What I didn't realise was that you had to use special marbling inks to marble the paper and I didn't have the pennies to buy the stuff.  I kept on trying with all different kinds of paints and inks and even grabbed some Chinese calligraphy ink as a last resort.  It was a messy affair that induced a spanking and a scold from the mothership.  All I wanted was swirling pretty colours on paper that could never be duplicated. 

At a press day last week, Josh Goot's A/W 09 marbled pieces stopped me dead in my tracks.  Floods of inky tubs and ruined paper welled up in my eyes.  Ok, so Goot was actually looking at rock formations (a lot of geology trips this season I must say...) and mineral patterns for his prints this season but all i got hit with was marbled paper 'mares turned good by way of impeccable tailoring and prints that can't be categorised, which is of course a good thing.