Nails

Funky nails are everywhere. There is just so many things you can do, from gel to stick ons, to metallic and cracked effect nail varnishes, the list is endless. A change of colour can instantly transform an outfit. My personal current favourites are bright and colourful, metallic and shiny, and the half moon. 

Pictures from a variety of tumblrs including Topshop, Vogue, and What Eva Wants.

Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense is one of those movies that stays with you. Right after watching it it's all you can think about and all you want to do is watch it over and over again, specifically the final scene which is one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful ending to a for lack of a better word perfect movie. Starring two of my favourite actors - Ewan McGregor and Eva Green - the film failed to receive the press it deserved but alas this seems to be the fate of the movies that refuse to conform to the hollywood big blockbuster production that seems fills our cinemas. 


The story is simple enough boy meets girl and falls in love, however, an epidemic breaks out which sees people one by one losing their senses. A truly beautiful movie - a must see!

Big Bright Bold

I wear a lot of black. I mean whole black outfits. For some reason I am always drawn to the colour which is why it's strange that many of my loves are centred around colour, big bright and bold. For example, Pedro Almodovar, arguable the most well known spanish film director, who LOVES the use of strong, vibrant colours in his work - reference Volver, starring Penelope Cruz (who is a million times better in her native language).

In art I too love the use of colour. Monet with his famous 'Waterlilies, Green Reflection' and 'The Artist's Garden at Giverny' - I could stare for days at his smudgy paintings. When thinking about colour in art it is impossible not to mention Andy Warhol and the Marilyn Monroe prints which have been replicated numerous amounts of times. And Odilon Redon's 'Pandora' which I was lucky enough to see at the Met.

The same is true when it comes to designers. Although it is everywhere, no one does it quite like Mary Katrantzou, a greek designer who creates the most mesmerising prints - her Fall 2011 collection was a personal favourite of mine, the shapes, the images....perfection!

Yayoi Kusama

"...a polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots become movement... Polka dots are a way to infinity."


Last week I went and saw the Kusama exhibit at the Tate Modern in London. Well worth a visit. Moving through the exhibition you move through the many varying phases of Kusama's career, her work both reflecting the turmoil surrounding her as well as her own obsessiveness (she has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution in Japan since 1977). She has explored a number of different mediums from sketching and oil painting to sculpture to full room installations and performance. Repeating patterns, dots in particular, feature heavily, a way of communicating the hallucinations that she frequently experienced.


I loved some of her early work, made using jute sacking, which echoed the upheaval that Japan was faced with following the Pacific War. It was when she went to New York in 1957 that she began experimenting with installations and performance art, along with staging a number of famous 'happenings' around the city in protest of the Vietnam War. 


Shown below is one of her installations, 'Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life', 2011. 

Well worth a visit. For more information visit the Tate's website.

My New Blog!

Hi there!So this is it, my first foray into the blogging world...I have been an avid blog follower and have been tumbling for a while but I've decided to give this a go - a collection of thoughts and ideas...