The Spirit of the Beehive
Victor Erice
1973

Beautiful crocheted pieces from Arielle de Pinto's 2010 collection. So simple an idea yet so brilliant.

I scanned a few looks from one my most treasured pattern booklets. Vintage knitting patterns are notoriously difficult to execute, but gee golly, the results are incredible.











Sometimes I imagine how lovely it would be if we still lived in a world where dapper dress and perfectly-rouged lips were a requirement. Such poise, such elegance, such grace...

Then I think how much effort it would take to get ready just to schlep over to 7-Eleven and talk to that weird checkout boy Dmitri and, well, it doesn't seem quite worth it.

Wonderful interior shots from Dos Family House Visits. Brb, moving to Sweden.

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

What is it with the colour purple? I think 90% of the things I've knitted in the past year have been some shade of violet, lavender, aubergine, heliotrope, amaranthine... god, the synonyms for purple are fucking fantastic (thanks, thesaurus.com!).

Uh... just ignore the crotch shot, I implore you.

Featherweight Cardigan by Hannah Fettig

Loving the colourful opulence in these shots from Oliver Peoples' 2010 campaign. Has Shirley Manson aged at all in the last 10 years?

lou doillon for vanessa bruno automne/hiver 2009-2010
directed by stéphanie di giusto

moving away from her costume-like mod wear, rebecca turbow's fall 2008 collection is refreshingly monochromatic.

except for those people down there, we might be the only living creatures in the whole world

[picnic at hanging rock captures from film_stills; song by ex reverie]