tigerlily

wham bam stam

2009-06-05T07:13:00.000-07:00

I have some musicians to recommend for you. they've been getting be through the last like...month. go download!

howling bells
black lips
crystal stilts
ebony bones
theoretical girl
erasure
annie
keri hilson
vv brown
little boots
escala
deadmau5
unkle
la roux
golden silvers

and the compulsory stuff from the breakfast club soundtrack, obv.

inspiration

2009-06-05T04:31:00.000-07:00

i thought i'd share a list of things that are inspiring me at this moment in time.

velvet
lace
18th-19th century Scotland
russian constructivism
pre-raphaelite paintings
vivaldi, bach, beethoven
maison martin margiela
communist propaganda
chamber music
fringing
black
moss green
gold
religious imagery/artwork
brancusi
flesh-tone material
colour blindness
orwell
tulle
spanish blues rock

I feel like making something.

ana, mia and maude

2009-06-04T08:51:00.000-07:00

let's all go to mongstown.

WHY BLOG ABOUT IT? LMAO

I can hear the bells

2009-06-04T06:36:00.000-07:00

That picture basically describes my life right now. LMAO

maybe it's just the warm weather, but i'm feeling all romantic. like a heroine in an old classic or a teenager in the 50s...like grease, where everything works out. i feel like running through a field of lavender in a christening gown and ringlets. well anyway. the mood swings have been getting worse, but it hasn't been bad. just going from different kinds of inspiration to others. one minute i'm stern and unforgiving and callous and i love the sense of security that comes from that...but then there's days like today, when i'm completely allowing myself to fall in love with him all oer again, as if it were possible that i ever fell out of it. But yes. I love this kind of life. When nothing bothers me so much that i lose the thoughts like this. They make me happy.

BUT YEAAHH. Have you seen leighton meester in the new louis vuitton collection? As much as i love me some leighton, NO ONE can pull off that outfit but Amanda Laine. *swoons*

I feel a bit sad now.

But hey, atleast i'm not blogging about eating disorders. ;D

HELLO

2009-05-29T10:55:00.001-07:00

planning the most morbid event of my life.

i need to get out more.

oh ck

2009-05-24T08:01:00.000-07:00

its been floating around in my mind for a while...but i still don't know what to think about christopher kane's new collection...i like the tweed and grungey shapes and velvet and art deco-ey stripes...i think it'll grow on me...maybe just not as fast as the SS 09 collection did.

oh well. we'll see. :)

sexiest thing alive

2009-05-24T07:49:00.000-07:00

I've had one of the Trussardi Menswear AW09 ads on my ceiling for a while now...basically because the guy in them was amazingly gorgeous. I honestly don't know why I didn't go and find out who he was earlier...but I did last night. His name's Nils Butler and he makes my eyes have sex with eachother.

mah aryan prince

2009-05-20T14:31:00.000-07:00

Wiktor Hansson. He's signed with Models 1. I'm in love with his whole look. Hair, eyes, CHEEEEEKBONES! OMG THEY COULD CUT DIAMONDS. lmao. well anyway, don't forget to whipe up the drool.

i feel loooooooooove

2009-05-17T12:56:00.000-07:00

I didn't really like Abbey Lee before this ad. I thought she was a bit too short and gap toothed, but this is beautiful. And she is Frida Giannini's muse, so she must be amazing.

I think i've become a gucci slave. :)

may grey

2009-05-15T04:05:00.000-07:00

it's raining. i'm bored. i think i'll just chuck in a post about things i like right now, eh?

this song's been making me runway into school for weeks. i love it. :)

I have a new model of the moment for you. Olga Sherer. She has cheekbones to collapse for.

i'm having a thing for ryan mcginley photography. they're like jeurgen teller...only nudier. which is always fab.

oh and lastly...high up fringes. :) i like them at the moment.

yum yum!

2009-05-15T03:37:00.000-07:00

here's the chloe show i kinda half promised...IN FULL. :) enjoy.

so bloody and wild

2009-05-14T07:06:00.000-07:00

"As I kissed her goodbye, I said, " All beauty must die"
And lent down and planted a rose 'tween her teeth"

it's the kind of beauty you see in a different light every day, and it only ever gets more beautiful. every squint, every smile, every single movement it makes. They all grab me. It can't make a single step in the wrong direction, because it's the one that decides which way is wrong, in my opinion. It has slowly become the benchmark from which i measure others, which considering the sheer amount of measuring others I do, is quite an accomplishment. It's the reason I still get that feeling that something good could happen, that happiness isn't an unrealistic concept. It's also the reason that those hopes are dashed. It's a beauty that is simply out of my reach. Out of my league. Beyond my previously quite wide and formidable understanding. A wise man once said that a flower is always at it's most beautiful right before it dies. if that were true, it would seem that i won't be suffering for much longer.

weeing myself over Chloé

2009-05-14T06:48:00.000-07:00

well, i've always been quite a Chloé fan, even last season's collection was fabulous. rushed and skimpy looking i suppose, but fabulous all the same.

but Hannah MacGibbon has outdone herself this time. There was bound to be that 70s glamour feel that her and Frida Giannini are fond of (wavy long hair, bohemian silhouettes), but this fall's collection was moving a bit more into the early 80s. I could see Molly Ringwald in the Breakfast club wearing pretty much all of it, besides the odd floaty dress (which i thought there was a rather heinous amount of by the way). There were oversized blanket coats, rolled up Chinos, the prettiest little tan boots, leather shorts, tassles and a lot of draped hips. Oh, and black velvet, which is always a good thing in my eyes. AND THE MAKEUP, it got me giddy too. Eyebrows and cheekbones everywhere. It was actually like one of those crazy pictures you see in hairdressers...you know, the really old ones where the girls have bad hair and their faces are made of like, airbrushed plastic. Anyway, I'm in school so I can't post videos (maybe later, if i'm in the mood), but here's three of my favourite looks. Enjoy!

fire your publicist

2009-05-07T08:28:00.000-07:00

right seriously, its beyond funny now

I officially dislike Katy Perry.

She's used to the old controversy, clearly. After Ur So Gay and I Kissed a Girl, she ruffled pretty much every militant's feathers. The conservatives thought it was blasphemous, the militant gay community thought both songs were an offensive portrayal of GBLT life, and the others just liked to dance to it.

Then there came the knife photo. haha, this was when i first started to doubt she was the sharpest knife in the drawer (LMAO PUN). I know its just a knife, but with all that knife crime shit going around, she could've had a little bit of tact.

AND AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, she didnt apologize...but instead, spoofed herself with a picture of a spoon. wtf, that's not even funny.

well. back to the reason i made this post. she thinks it's trendy to have swine flu.

oh fuck off katy.

do do do dododo do

2009-04-29T09:21:00.000-07:00

well. i'm in a fuckin good mood today.

this mood has been contributed to by the following things:
*Little Boots. Any girl who wears Alexander McQueen dresses AND makes music this good is a goddess in my opinion.

*Concerts. So. Last night i went to see Girls Aloud. FACKIN LAVLY! They're probably up there with Aqua in my biggest guilty pleasure bands...but they were amazing. seriously. I'm in love with Nicola.

What I'm not in love with however...was the days when Nicola refused to embrace her inner milk bottle. God save us all.

But anyway, they weren't even the biggest bombshell of the night. EMMA DEIGMAN (supporting act) WORE ALEXANDER MCQUEEN TOO. She wore those spiney grey leggings and the matching blazer and everything. Probably the closest I'll ever get to some good old McQ EVER.

ALSO. on the theme of concerts. I go to see ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on June 1st. I've liked them since the first album...and now they're on their....4th i think. The Crying Light. It's their best yet if you ask me...I mean, I Am A Bird Now did have You are My Sister and For Today I Am A Boy, but this album seems a lot less melancholy and scary. Anyway I'm in love with it. I've been listening to it all week to get it safely into my head for the BIG SHOOOOW. :D

So yeah. Peace out brother truckers. HAAAYYY

meghan collison

2009-04-26T06:53:00.000-07:00

i think it's time for a new face of the month...maybe we'll change it to face of the week. My tastes change fast. ANYHOW. Meghan Collison! Shes like....bettie page meets thora birch meets wednesday addams meets nirvana meets forest nymph meets daria meets freja beha meets THE MOST FANTASTIC BOTTOM JAW EVER.

Witness the immense beauty.

jesus loves fags

2009-04-24T09:27:00.000-07:00

"Gays die early because the practice abnormal sexual unions which result in the spread of disease. Gays die early because what they do is an abomination to God."

that inspiring quote came straight from the keyboard of the delightful fucking idiot who posted the piece of shit above on youtube. his name is "catholicmilitant", slightly oxymoronic i think, but whatever. This video is disgusting. Is it any wonder that more gays than straights are alcoholics and druggies? is it any wonder they commit suicide more? It's because of these religious fuckers driving gay people to believe that they are sinning, when they are not. these so called people of faith believe that it's their duty to the world to rid it of the GLBT community? fine, they're insane. But when the law lets these PSYCHOPATHS have kids, and bring them up to believe that opressing and hating gays is the right way to be, thats just fucking disgusting.

I can't write anymore. I'm too annoyed.

hmmm

2009-04-24T06:28:00.000-07:00

its amazing how you can keep your chin up all day, and then one little thing breaks you to pieces. it wasnt even offensive i guess. just..i dont know. it aggravates me that people can say stuff like that and treat people that way and get away with it. i guess if anyone in authority knew, they wouldnt do anything about it anyway. too awkward for them. hey, they probably feel the same anyway.

so. feel a bit shit.

sorry, really shit.

worrallworrallworrall

2009-04-23T13:20:00.000-07:00

OMG MY HOUSE IS TOO WARM AND I CANNOT DO THIS STUPID JOURNALISM REPORT. but that's not what this is about.

okay. so here's the deal. I adored Luke Worrall for ages last year. THEN HE GOT WITH KELLY OSBOURNE AND RUINED EVERYONE'S LIVES.

but hey, he's still cute. and thos vivienne westwood ads? hummina hummina

on a lighter note...

2009-04-22T14:05:00.000-07:00

a jethro cave post :D

Okay. so he's not the prettiest, and i suppose he's only famous for being nick cave's son and having a cool haircut...but he's grown on me.

a lot. ;)

Ohhh, and here's a break from tradition. It's Luke Worrall. *dies*

He'll be getting a little entry all to himself soon enough i think.

basically, fuck you

2009-04-22T13:48:00.000-07:00

tbh, i don't know how some people sleep at night. honestly. i mean, i'm an advocate for doing what makes you happy, and staying true to yourself and all that jazz, but when someone else's feelings are at risk, it's thin ice. Sure, you can tell a white lie if it sorts everything out comfortably. No one else is going to know what you really feel, if you can make up a believable excuse, right? Right. There's no harm done, to a degree.

But. When you go back on the complete LIE that you told, and do something so selfish, so hypocritical, so sneaky, so backstabbingly, horrendously low, i honestly don't see how you can justify yourself. You did it because you wanted to be happy? Fair enough, but if you're gonna tell a white lie, have some fucking tact. Otherwise it's just a plain, nasty, sneaky old normal lie. You've really hurt someone, and i hope you know it. In fact, I KNOW you know it. The worst part is, the you I've gotten to know recently wouldn't give a shit, as long as you're happy, right?

I'm actually appalled. I didnt think you were capapble of lying and cheating and going behind people's backs like you have. I honestly don't know what to think.

flipside homeslices.

three things zac misses

2009-04-22T11:35:00.000-07:00

I was eating a cucumber sandwich earlier when i got to thinking about some of the things from my childhood that i really miss. For example:

The days when Gwen wasn't a style icon (for good reason too).

The Adventures of Alex Mack. It's hard to forget your first "Girl turning into silver goo" experience. And hey...where the hell did Larisa Olneyik go after 10 Things I Hate About You?

The Addams Family. Seriously, i was obsessed. Especially the cartoons...and the films with Christina Ricci in them.

Bring back the 90s. They were simpler times.

Oh. and seeing as it's becoming a sort of tradition....here's some more Ash.

gi gi givenchyyyy

2009-04-22T09:44:00.000-07:00

I'm a little bit in love with Givenchy menswear this season. Wierdly enough I came across it in this month's Dazed and Confused, being worn by a girl. :)

I love it all, especially the nude stuff, which seems to be like, one of the biggest colours of this season...they used it a lot in maison martin margiela. but yeah. the lace shirts are pretty awesome too and i like all the wierd layers and shit.

The shoes are so wierd and ugly, but ugly in a great way. They're on my wishlist. Maybe not the fuschia ones, although they are lovely. :)

gareth pugh SS09

2009-04-22T09:30:00.000-07:00

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Gareth Pugh and I've loved this collection since it showed last year, but i only just found this video today and i had to share it. the dress on irina at 2.14 is lovely. i like the interviews too.

the hair and makeup are great as well.

...not JUST another taylor post

2009-04-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

I hate it when people are annoyed at eachother for a certain reason, and instead of just telling them, they bitch and moan and let the situation get more and more tense and bitchy and moany until the whole thing is blown completely out of proportion. I mean, please.

Also, I never thought it was possible, but mr. taylor is seriously rivalling Ash for my affections. I mean, just look at him.

ANOTHER ryan taylor post.

2009-04-21T13:54:00.000-07:00

1 just wasn't enough, especially with so many AMAZING photos flying about the web.

take a deep breath!

Oh, and here's one of ash in his pants.

FROZEN UKRAINIAN BRIDES

2009-04-21T11:54:00.000-07:00

well. i said you should check out Galliano's AW09 show back in the georgina post...so i thought i'd help out. I agree with Rachel Zoe about the dress on Stam, but honestly, it's the little pom poms and wooden heels that do it for me. :)

OH AND RAQUEL'S VOICE AT 1.30. Amazing.

Oh and here's some more pictures of Georgina Stojilkovic. She's a serb and closed for dior couture a few seasons back. I love her already.

MC Hammer: Style Icon

2009-04-21T11:38:00.000-07:00

ordered my new drop crotch pants off eBay. Thats them BTW. I know that no one likes them and they should be put back in the 80s where they belong but come on...

i like 'em.

I just hope you don't have to be asian and kinda hot to pull them off.

OOOH! also, i found some nice vintage Ash for everyone to share.

Britain's Next Top Munter

2009-04-21T10:25:00.000-07:00

right, so i think it's fairly plain to see that modelling/reality shows are a bit overdone these days. America's Next Top Model is on its 12th series, and while it was fun to begin with, the cracks are starting to show and the old formula is getting a bit mediocre...plus i think the contestants get uglier as it goes on but that's another matter. My point really is, they need to pick up the pace and work a little harder to get my attention, which is why i was excited about the new series of Britain's Next Top Model, which started lastnight.

I've always liked British fashion more than American. We have that kooky, ecclectic way about us that America just can't grasp: Vivienne Westwood and Twiggy over Michael Kors and Christie Brinkley. So, you'd think that BNTM might give ANTM a bit of a run for its money?

You'd be completely wrong.

It makes me ashamed to be from the UK, really. Not only do none of them look like models, but the only one that (in my opinion) may actually have had a succesful career, was eliminated before they even moved into their house.

As if that wasn't bad enough, we have a new judge this series. Louis Mariette. Admittedly, i had heard of him from October's British Vogue, but he's a milliner, and the most annoying fucking milliner i have ever come across as well. He looks like a cross between M. Night Shayamalan and fucking Ru Paul's car boot sale. Oh and carries a whip as well. He needs put down immediately. As much as I disliked Jerry Deveaux from the last series, i'd do anything to get him back.

Well, moving on from one disgrace to an even bigger one. NELL NABARRO WAS ELIMINATED. Nell (not the best photo, but trust me she was the nicest) got eliminated alongside another one of the prettiest girls, Rebecca. Now, that may all have been well and good, had the girls that actually made it into the competition been stunning. They weren't.

Jeesh. I am never watching BNTM again.

Also, Cantonese cooking sauce makes me want to DIE.

anti-banti

2009-04-20T06:28:00.000-07:00

sitting in journalism deciding what to write in the new school newspaper.

kill me now.

ryan taylor makin' meh drool

2009-04-19T14:30:00.000-07:00

okay, so i seem to have this talent for discovering complete BUCKS like a year before everyone's creaming over them, so here's one for you.

i came across Ryan Taylor a while back in a magazine when i was in new york. don't even lie and say you wouldn't.

(L)

2009-04-19T13:25:00.000-07:00

right.

so i'm a teenager. i can't feel love, only infatuation. or atleast that's what they say. i'm not old enough to be able to decide whether i would do anything for someone or not, and if i'm ever willing to do that for someone, i'm overtrusting and naive.

thats where your mum and dad are wrong. whether they want to accept it or not. who are they to define what's love and what's infatuation anyway? What even is love?

*stops to LOL at how deep this is getting.*

Humans are made to fuck. Simple. If our little brains wanted us to hold hands and watch sunsets, write poems and lust after eachother at makeout point, it wouldn't have given us such coveted treasuers between our legs and let us wield the hormonal charges and impulses that force us to use them. Right?

Well assuming that love doesn't exist and it's just some extension of the human desire to mate that some renaissance man decided to give an altogether more romantic moniker, how can one explain how i feel right now?

I look at him and have no desire to go anywhere near his underwear. I feel no desire to hop in the backseat while hormones drive right into Ass Boulevard because although I'm attracted to him, its not that kind of frivolent attraction. It sounds frigid, but he's the first, and although its unlikely, i can't help feeling the last person who'll ever make me feel this way.

cheers darwin and freud, now i have a headache.

my mum and her new wheels

2009-04-19T13:19:00.000-07:00

rumer thinks the blog is too gay.

we'll show her eh?

louis vuitton aw 09

2009-04-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

i don't care what they say about the boots, marc jacobs makes me like louis vuitton like i never did before. the dress on Hanne at 0.57 made me happy.

on the floor

2009-04-19T12:54:00.000-07:00

ok. it's about time for an ash stymest post i think.

*drools*

yeah i know what you're thinking. because i'm thinking it too.

4th entry, but what's a promise if you don't break it?

2009-04-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

okay seriously though. a skinny pant.

face of the month

2009-04-19T06:51:00.002-07:00

georgina stojilkovic

right. third post. but the last, i promise.

her name's georgina. check out those fuckin' lips man. ;)

the photo's from John Galliano's AW 09 show, which is so worth checking out too.

disgraceful

2009-04-19T06:45:00.000-07:00

two posts in one day

necessary though, seeing as i JUST found out leigh bowery died when i was 1.

gosh. rip.

basically

2009-04-19T06:11:00.000-07:00

i don't blog.

but fuck it. might as well. never know, hundred years from now someone might understand this shiiiite, seeing as i don't. anyway, just decided a blog would be a nice way to sort things out. one of those pillow-talk thoughts i suppose...only for bitter singles. so yeah. read at your own risk i suppose.

comme des garcons, yohji yamamoto and issey miyake. why do japanese designers always use flats instead of heels? i mean is it part of their culture that a stiletto isn't allowed? even in paris? oh i don't know. what i do know is, a good heel makes me tingle inside.

sure that isn't what this blog is about. i think. ideas are growing here. the world's first fashion/emo whining blog. who am i? bi-polar madame bijoux? who am i to say it's the first of it's kind either?

ok seriously though. the mind is so confusing. especially where "liking" people is involved. it's as if it doesn't want us to be happy. you hate the guy that likes you, you want the guy you can't have, treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen. whoever decided to accept those as stereotypical relationship situations needs a slap. i mean, ugh. you like someone, then you dont, and thats great because you werent meant to like them in the first place, then fate goes and pulls one on you and skadoosh. you like them. i don't even know what triggered it. spending more time together? getting to know them even more, as if it were possible? the possibility that they might feel the same? desperation?

don't know. it's up to him. the ball is firmly out of my reach in his court. what i do know is...those bingo ads on tv are so annoying.