Not intending to give Girl with a satchel a run for her money or anything...

A few things I learned after mooching off Borders (I am forever grateful!)...and eating a 50c maccas soft serve cone while doing so.

Since Bec Parsons and Imogen Barron left YEN magazine, the editorials are noticeably lack lustre. I'm just basing this on the current issue which I read and the past few I skimmed through. The new layout is weird...I'm not used to it. But the cover is SO CUTE! YEN seems a lot more commercial.. I can't put my finger on exactly what aspects make it so since I don't have the copy in my hands right now to dissect properly. The 'we really care about the world but are essentially really only a fashion/culture magazine' thing is grating on me(always kinda has been though). Is this because of the new editor?


The cover of RUSSH is amazing. The 'You're beautiful just the way you are' doesn't feel genuine (but I like the font! HAHA I know, I'm so superficial). There seems to be a lot less advertising. Editorials are beautiful. I'm liking this magazine a lot more. The skinny, nipple showing models I've come to expect are still in there.
Also I'm loving how Katie Fogarty answers the question "How do you stay fit?"- "By being 16".


FALLEN magazine is sparse, simple and fantastic in aesthetic (thanks to the graphic designers that created it). Needs more time than I gave it to dissect properly...also needs a mug of hot chocolate and a comfy couch. It's thick-ish and the paper feels like it radiates love (here I am with superficiality again and being rather confusing but there is a certain love that pours out of certain magazines. Zines have this quality in abundance...can't describe it). But something's missing (in terms of features), and I don't know what it is. hahaha johnmayerhahaha you wise one. But it's only issue 2 so I'm sure it'll grow in the future.



Karen O once again has awesome hair. She was staring at me from the cover of NYLON.

I skipped past Aussie VOGUE and Harpers Bazaar. Cover isn't interesting enough and I'm assuming Aussie VOGUE's contents aren't either. Muahaha I'm evil.

It's cold. Let's get some coffee.

This eccentric girl has been bouncing about in my head so I decided to put her down on paper. In my mind, she looks like a cross between my fave TokyoBopper girl and Likkle girl. And in my dream, she was crying on a New York rooftop...

Iconic...yet?

Sportsgirl has launched a brand new website. Comprehensive but a little overwhelming was what I thought after visiting. They haven't gone for a whole new look but have added around 10 new tabs/categories on top of their usual 'shop online'.

I was having a conversation about Sportsgirl with my mum the other day. Well actually, we've had numerous conversations about Sportsgirl in the past year. Mum tells me she's never seen so much effort being put into the store's image as they have recently. I couldn't agree more. According to mumsy dearest, Sportsgirl was a little dowdier and less appealing say, 5 or 6 years ago. And now, even she admits the store is becoming increasingly attractive to her, even though she isn't in their target demographic. In Vietnamese, she describes the Bourke st store as fresh, hip and young- exactly what it should be.


Popularity wise I'd say it's rise has been meteoric (at least in my mind) lately. I mean, it's so ON trend, and not in the Supre way. They are just so right on the money with their image.

The new website is a mass of street/shopper style, music downloads, tips, polls, forums, freebies and ...yes an official blog. The whole website has just been pumped up with fashion steroids or something. I do admire them for noticing shopper's online presence and genuinely trying to make the website a one stop shop for fashion/style. There's even an interview with Sea Of Shoes- as the caption that follows Jane's picture states- bloggers are the fashion industry's new muses.
I think this is a first for a mainstream Australian chain-store, yes? If I didn't know any better, I'd say they're trying to top TopShop. Haha. Or maybe they'll carve out their own path. I appreciate all the effort Sportsgirl. I thought you'd be a contender for the leading chainstore ever since you did your first designer collab (even though the results of many following collaborations were depressing).


I only took notice of the store when I first started this blog actually, but according to the nice PR lady who I receive updates from, Sportsgirl has been on the rise for the last 10 years.


I genuinely do like the clothes (aside from the overly boho-ey stuff)...even if I haven't bought anything from there in ages! And I do always stop by the Melbourne Central or Bourke street store to have a really really really hearty perusal time. Yeah, I'm kinda the annoying one who walks into the store and touches/looks at everything and walks out empty handed. Muahaha. You know you're a culprit too.


What do you think of the new website? And Sportsgirl in general?

I give you permission to LOL all you want

Afternoon boredom drives me to do silly things, like give myself a faux bowl cut. Thanks to a lot of bobby pins I looked like a douche (in the privacy of my own bathroom of course). But it was fun. And I shall share the results of my experiment.

I think I look a little more like a dude with the bowl. Ah well, I suppose I'd rather look like an edgy Japanese hipster dude than a super dooper dooper asian idol/popstar/actor (sorry Oguri Shun, I love you but your hair is just so typical asian male it makes me cringe).

faux bowl//my actual hair//Oguri Shun - my hair looks like his at the moment!

In the jungle, the mighty jungle

Lobster (hey, 3rd consecutive post mentioning Lob. Love me :) has this new fetish for all things leopard print. Tacky and trashy are two words that come my mind when describing the look at me print. The last time I wore leopard print was when I was 6 and my mother dressed me in a buttery soft bomber complete with love heart zips adorned with the stuff and I distinctly remember having to wear patent red boots and black felt pants with the jacket when really, all i wanted to wear were my jeans and pokemon t-shirt. Ahhhh memories.
I guess in fashion you can never say that you loathe something because in a few years time you'll probably be eating your words. Eating your words is never fun.
Point of this post is, Lob converted me to team leopard print with her constant banter about how she wants leopard print shoes, leopard print this and that. Seems like every chain store is filled with the stuff now anyway.
There is a leopard print beret in Dangerfield on sale for $20 that is calling out to me and Lob... but I'm not going to cave (that means you should buy that beret Lobby) because I'm on a self imposed spending ban to save up for China-where bigger and better reooowwwer leopard print lovelys await me, I'm sure.
When I come back I may look like this:


kidding.

Get out your fireworks.

I just reread last night's shoddily written post. I'm so sorry for the crapness. That'll teach me to post in a rush.
Anyway, I'd like to share with you my first ever successful DIY project. Pop the champagne, release the streamers, CELEBRATE! I am immensely proud of myself for hand stitching this skirt.
Earlier this year, I pulled the sheer overlay off a vintage dress so the colours of the dress could be more visible and this piece of material has been laying in my closet ever since.
A few nights ago I stayed up till 1am hand stitching elastic into it...It's dodgy looking at close inspection but nonetheless, perfectly wearable!
I shall be breaking out the pettipants more often with this number which calls for some biker boots and a leather jacket. Sadly I don't have a leather jacket but a heavy jumper and my docs it will do just fine.

I don't think I'm gonna go to L.A anymore.

After cooking, Lorry and I went to Kanga Kanga so I could pick up Japanese fashion mag SO-EN and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, a book I've been chasing for quite a while.
This is my first copy of SO-EN so excuse me if I sound excessively gushy or delighted about the mag.

I don't like the cover...why does it look a bit touristy to me? Haha.
But I do love what she's wearing.// There is a spread of Tao Okamoto, whose hair I am in love with, followed by a write-up on her favourite shops, a biography and her hairdresser. By the way, I'm kind of assuming this stuff...I can't read 90% of what's on the page aside from the occasional word.



Anyway, I am in love with her bowl cut. I was thinking of growing my hair out into a blunt long bob and thick fringe...but I'm so impatient. Maybe I'll get a bowl (and dye it pinky grey, like this girl on dropsnap...if I had the balls. Haha.)


The hairstyle on the right is what I was going to grow my hair out to...




This is the neck tie to end all neck ties. GARGHHHH it's beautiful! And unattainable?! Etsy or ebay baby, are you listening to me?!





They even look amazing when in 'casual'. ARGH.




This one's for Hayley. SPANK!!! SPANK!!!

Me want zesty fringed loafers...

It tastes like vomit

The infamous Lobster came over today for a cooking session; if cookie dough and canned spaghetti counts as cooking. Oh actually, there was one thing we made from scratch: pancakes!
But that was ruined because I'm so incompetent at flipping pancakes that the outside became burnt while the inside remained raw.
We ate the shitty pancakes with blueberries, maple syrup and canned spaghetti (yes, all at one time). Mhmmm. Weird food combinations just can't resist Lob and I.
Oh, and then we made cookies. Bad. Cookies.


A blurry pic of Lob...

Our cookie dough before...

Our cookie dough after...
It swelled to epic proportions...

...and the cookies were HARD AS ROCK, as demonstrated by Lobster here.

Me pulling a Lobster expression...

POCKY #6

Pocketto Magazine #6

THE 'STEP BACK IN TIME' ISSUE

FILLED WITH FOND MEMORIES OF FONDUE SETS, LAZY SUSANS, GLITZY 70'S SEQUINS AND CLUELESS.
LOVE STORIES, NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES, VALERJ POBEGA, JOE DUCK, FLEUR WOOD, DIY BAM, AND TO QUOTE MCDONALDS: (FASHIONEY) THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO MMM.

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Do you dig the new layout? I think Candice (the designer) did an awesome job.

Been Reading:

This may be one reason why I've been fantasising about Jasmine Noir's laser cut collars.

Although back in the day they didn't make leather collars or laser cut them, but quite a striking resemblance nonetheless, yes?