VILE BODIES.

"Don't you think," said Father Rothschild gently, "that perhaps it is all in some way historical? I don't think people ever want to lose their faith either in religion or anything else. I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence. I think all these divorces show that. People aren't content just to muddle along nowadays ... And this word "bogus" they all use ... They won't make the best of a bad job nowadays. My private schoolmaster used to say, "If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well." My Church has taught that in different words for several centuries. But these young people have got hold of another end of the stick, and for all we know it may be the right one. They say, "If a thing's not worth doing well, it's not worth doing at all." It makes everything very difficult for them."

Molly Megan Carroll

This is a long overdue blog about a fantastic photographer who I stumbled across in a very 'It's a small world isn't it?' sort of way; she's a friend of a friend, Laura Power. Molly has taken pictures for the lovely Laura's costumes that she has created for her Foundation Art course. Laura is wonderfully talented, so mixing these two with fashion and photography is a dream.

 Costume by Laura Power.

Again, one of Laura's amazing costumes, modelled by Jodie! :)

Molly is a Fashion and Portrait Photographer who's pictures never fail to entice me and I thought I would share a few of my favourites with you all. She's a young and talented woman and I think she's going to make it big in photography...so watch this space! To begin with, I'll let your eyes behold something from her 'Seven Deadly Sins' collection. This picture is fantastic and I am completeley in love with it. It looks like it has come straight from a magazine! (Model; Ashley Cain)

I love some of her older  more 'haunting' work. The pictures have a ghostly feel to them are are beautiful.

Some of her newer pictures have a distinct 1960's feel to them, such as these;

(Model; The lovely Jodie Lousie!)

(Model; Amelia Connor)

I immediatey fell in love with this photo...the car, the hair, the dress, the shoes, the whole picture in general! It's a very, very classy photo and should be seen in the pages of every Fashion Magazine worth reading if you ask me.

(Model; Ashley Cain)


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Conversations with other women

One of my favourite ever movies and one of my favourite ever songs by Carla Bruni! J'en Connais.

Being a huge Bronte fan, I laughed so hard at this video I found on a brilliant blog; www.hila-lumiere.blogspot.com

I am a working woman now...

and I genuinley love it! I'm a full time Clerk and have my own desk and everything. I love my desk...and my calculator....and my swivel chair...and my fancy 'fob' to get into the building. I like being a working woman. It makes me feel more 'grown up.' Ahhhh.

Lovely sky this evening

I took these out of my window this evening :) Absoloutley beatiful. I have a thing for the sky at sunset. Those telephone wires ruin the picture. -See Lady Chatterly Post earlier-

Cest Moi

This camera is mega hi-def...Hi nose cut. (I got irritable with an itchy nose brought on my a horrid hay fever attack) Also, as you can see, I am growing the Betty Bangs out that I got cut in back in February. I get bored with my hair too easy...

Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H.Lawrence.

I read this passage from 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' (one of my favourite books) and just felt the need to share it with everyone I knew. This passage defines everything that's wrong with life. There is no peace and no solitude any more...it's just industry and everything pure, beautiful and natural is destroyed by man's greed. Man's noisy, insufferable greed.

"He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory. The industrial noises broke the solitude, the sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits. And now he had taken the woman, and brought on himself a new cycle of pain and doom. For he knew by experience what it meant.

It was not woman's fault, nor even love's fault, nor the fault of sex. The fault lay there, out there, in those evil electric lights and diabolical rattlings of engines. There, in the world of the mechanical greedy, greedy mechanism and mechanized greed, sparkling with lights and gushing hot metal and roaring with traffic, there lay the vast evil thing, ready to destroy whatever did not conform. Soon it would destroy the wood, and the bluebells would spring no more. All vulnerable things must perish under the rolling and running of iron."

Fashion Faves; Autumn/Winter 2010

I am utterly besotted with Marni and Dries Van Noten at the moment. I love this classic shape of the Van Noten dress and I adore the 'grown up handbags' and high heels of Marni.


I love the way that the colours are used in the Marni R-T-W A/W 2010 collection; blue and brown always looks good. I adore brown, especially in winter. I find myself able to take on a more sophisticated and grown up sense of style during A/W, something which I much prefer and something which suits me more than Summer clothing. I aldo adore the use of over the knee socks in what always reminds me of a 'war time' sort of colour...

Marni also have handbags down to a 't' for A/W 2010. The handbags are elegant and again 'grown up' and are seen in shades of brown red and blue. Very much to my taste. Unfortunatley, I couldn't find a picture of the one I am totally in love with, but you can find it on page 35 of Vogues A/W 2010 catwalk report magazine that comes with Vogue. (It's the brown one in the middle of the page)


Now onto dresses...
The only words to describe Dans Van Noten's collection for A/W 2010 (R-T-W) are; 'Sheer Class.'



Emphasis lies on a small waist, voluptuous breasts and big flared circle skirts. This to me, is LOVE. A lot of emphasis was placed for this A/W on recreating some of Christian Dior's designs from 1947 onward to 'celebrate womanliness' in a 'nostalgic way'. Perfect is what i'd call it. No longer are women going to be restricted to 'skinny' but we shall be allowed to embrace and show off our curves in a modest and beautiful way.




all pictures sourced from the Vogue website.

The end of Harry Potter is nigh

Okay, so I'm going to be what some may consider a 'nerd' (which is what I was called for reading these books on the little yard when I was 10 anyway) and write a big fat long post about how sad I am about the end of Harry Potter, and about how much J.K Rowling affected me as a child. One Christmas, I opened up a book-like parcel (I had lots of book-like parcels) to reveal a book I had never seen before; Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. This would be my introduction into a world which I still to this day, at the age of 18, wish I belonged to.



I remember being 11, hoping to get my Hogwarts letter. I remember being gutted that I didn't get it, I was convinced I was a witch and I belonged there. I'm still gutted over my lack of Hogwarts letter... When the movies came out, it was like a dream come true. That music at the beginning will always make me think of how magical it all was and still is for me. Seeing the film for the first time left me so excited. :)



I grew up with Harry Potter and his adventures. I laughed at every funny moment and cried at every sad one. When Sirius Black died, I sobbed. When Fred Weasley died, I sobbed. When Snape died, I sobbed. When the books ended, I sobbed. It was the end of waiting in line really early to get the next book. It was the end of having my head buried in the books, dying to find out what happened next. My favourtie Potter books are probably 'The Prisoner of Azkaban' , 'The Order of the Pheonix' and 'The Half Blood Prince.' I also have all of the little Comic Relief books she made and 'The Tales of Beedle and the Bard'.

"Oh, very good," interrupted Snape, his lip curling. "Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent.''

Me with the final book in 2007, July 21. Obviously hadn't begun it yet as I'm not cryng on the picture.

Now, the movies are coming to an end, and it's like the end of an era...everytime I think about it or watch the movies, I get choked up. I've started reading the books from book 1, yet AGAIN, just to feel like it's not all over. I'm also going to have a 'Potter-a-thon' with my friends, like in Yes Man.
:)

The 'Little Black Dress'

The 'Little Black Dress' is something each and every woman should house in her wardrobe. I have several LBD's and love all of them. They are a fashion must have and really do compliment women's figures and skin tones. The LBD should have a simple cut and show enough skin to be modest but still sexy. It must be elegant, classy and you must be able to dress it up or down. The LBD, in my opinion doesn't have to be short at all. Audrey Hepburn's in Breakfast at Tiffany's wasn't short and correct me if i'm wrong, but she still oozed sex appeal and sophistication in it. .



'Coco' Chanel made fashion accessible to women of all social background and in 1926, 'The Little Black Dress' allowed this. Chanel herself stated that "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury" and she worked with soft easy-to-wear jersey fabrics that were simple in shape and cut to create the LBD. The Little Black dress, being a revolutionary piece, showed more arm and had a shorter hemline. Not only this, but she inspired shorter haircuts and showing the female figure in a less fake and corseted way. Women were no longer restricted and tired from wearing heavy dresses with too much flamboyance about them, they could move and feel more free in Chanel's 'Little Black Dress' and this started her fashion revolution.Before WWI, black was reserved for mourning, and obviously with wartime mortality rates at a high, women were seen more and more in black as a sign of mourning and respect for dead loved ones - Chanel helped make black sexy.



The LBD progressed and was no longer just as simple as the Chanel designs. For example the Givenchy LDB worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1954 film Sabrina, looks far more glamorous and not as 'plain.'

Dior's New Look (1947) updated the LBD somewhat, giving the appearence of curves. Into the 1950's, society was still a little coy about the idea of sex and this style of the LBD was often used in old Hollywood movies to portray 'evil' or sexually provocative women who were 'dangerous.' In other words, sexy women, not sweet women. Perhaps this is why the LBD is always a sexy and flirtatious number. Take the picture below for example; look at the way the dress comes off the shoulder and that's all it needs to reveal to be sexy. The reason; because it's black and black is sexy. Especially when contrasted with pale skin and red lips.


The 1960's also saw the 'Little Black Dress' but this time, due to ever disappearing hem lines, it was indeed 'LITTLE.' The mods of the 1960's even adored the LBD, although more often than not, this was substituted with a mini skirt.




The Little Black Dress is a timeless piece no matter what fashion movement, style or era you're into and is a must have for all women. If you have one, wear it more. If you don't...get one or take a leaf out of Chanel's book and make yourself one!

Flowers in my Grandparent's garden :)

Laura's 18th

Alan and a very scary me! :O



Me and Laura :)

Laura and me.


Just a few pictures of one of my best friend's birthday. She's now on a plane to Australia to be re-united with her beloved Calpol. All of my love goes to her and I hope she has a safe journey and a lovely time in Aus.

Dresssss

This is a gorgeous vintage hand-made dress I got from Flashback Boutique a few months back. However, with me eating too much over study leave, the zipper bust. So, I spent last night sewing on a new zipper in a gorgeous shade of baby blue I thought would compliment the creme and I also made a little bow for the neckline. The dress is perfect and flows off the shoulders to give a classy evening look. Hence me wearing it tonight for one of my best friends 18th birthday party. She's going to Australia to be reunited with her boyfriend too tomorrow, so I wish her the best of luck and send her all of my love. x

Flashback Boutique Fashion Show, in aid of Claire's House.

A wonderful night filled with fabulous clothes and beautiful people AND it was all for a brilliant cause; Claire's House charity!. I enjoyed this one so much more than the last (not saying the last one wasn't wonderful, because it was, but this one topped it yet again!) and the venue was perfect. (Circo Bar & Freak Show, Albert Dock Liverpool.)



I started off backstage taking pictures of the hair and makeup. Two of my oldest friends were modelling on the night; Elizabeth Formela and Megan Quick. (I've known Megan almost all of my life!) They were fantastic and I am very proud of both of them! They're now such beautiful women!
(top: Liz. Bottom: Meg)

I also met a wonderful girl by the fairy tale name of Lucinda Quinn. She is a dead ringer for Miss Von Teese and the most glamorous 18 year old for miles around. Lucinda oozes class and confidence and captured the audiences attention with her flirtatious modelling style.I also had the pleasure of meeting Brookside's Suzanne Collins (Nikki Shadwick) and Ann Marie Davies. (Katrina Evans) Both are beautiful, talented women who have kind charitable hearts and their friendship, although I caught but a snapshot of it, is heart warming.

Suzanne, me and Ann Marie :)


Find the rest of the pictures on the Flashback Boutique Facebook Group.