Colours and trees

It's a beautiful day!
















Also, I've been doodling/colouring with my beautiful muji pencils <3



Flower on the right done by my friend Alice, other doodles done by me.












Emilie xo

De-fult(on)

I HAVE NO HOMEWORK TONIGHT! And, most importantly, I have the energy/desire to blog.

So I've just spent the past 2 hours of my homework-free evening watching an episode of Gossip Girl, (people living in the UK- did you notice that they publish an episode on iTunes a week before it premieres on ITV2?) and playing Loco Roco, this amazing colourful game on my brothers PSP;






I'm completely obsessed with colours at the moment.

Which kinda leads on to what the point of this blogpost is; to talk about Holly Fulton, S/S 2011 and previous collections.

Okay, this is going to sound like a major complaint or something, but hear me out;

Holly Fulton S/S '11*

































Absolutely beautiful, I love the colours and the patterns, and how the art-deco inspiration is different to what anyone has done before.

However.

I felt exactly the same way last season.

Holly Fulton A/W '10*
















And the season before that.

Holly Fulton S/S '10*













I basically felt this way right from the start.

Holly Fulton A/W '09*









*not all the looks, just a sort of summary.

And now I complain....

Am I the only one who thinks that every season looks pretty much the same?! I mean I credit her for coming up with such an original idea in the first place; the art deco/ 50s graphics, but this is what seems to be the inspiration for every collection. And to be honest, I'm just bored! Her clothes are beautiful, as are her ascessories, but I am tired of feeling the same way every six months after flicking through pictures of her show. Every label has it's signature aesthetic, for example, the colour red for Valentino, and the British quirkiness that was luella, but it doesn't have to dominate every season. Holly Fulton to me is just one look. I know it's harsh, but that's how I see it. Just one look. A wonderful, unique and distinctive one, I should add, but still, I am bored of it. Every season its the same colours, the same patterns, the same shapes. Evidently there's only so much you can do with art deco 50s prints as your inspiration.

Anyone agree with me? Or am I being too pinickety?

'Princess Margaret on acid'

Christopher Kane F/W 2011 <3

Red

This is a little piece of 3D art that I just kinda banged on a wall of my house. I did it a while ago- when I had just got back from Manhattan, over easter, and I was severely jetlagged. I think I feel most creative when I'm in the wrong time zone! Ha.



It stayed on for a while, but as everything was only attached to the wall by blu-tack, things gradually started to drop off. It took until today for the very last item to fall off the wall- the red envelope.

Emilie xo

Poor man's ice cream

So, I'm feeling a little frazzled after experiencing an entire lesson of my tall ginger citizenship teacher lecturing us on how we WON'T BE ABLE TO AFFORD ANYTHING UNTIL WE ARE IN OUR 70s. That's right children, tax eats away at your life. I was staring to be pretty bummed about the fact that in no less than three years, I'll have to stop buying things, and dress like a hobo. But then I saw this picture;

Being poor is going to be fun! Cause then I can be all grunge and whatever and go looking for keys in tall grass like they do in Whip It! I love this movie. I saw it last weekend I think? Directed by Drew Barrymore blahblahblah you probably knew that.... but yeah it's so great because they all dress like its the 90's without the whole typical thing like "this is a movie and its set in the 90's, you're a crazy kid and your phone is a brick, GO!" I just loved it, faded greys and all the attitude (ellen page= perfect for the part) and the dark purples and splash of red and the plaids...... IT'S GRUNGE! I don't like to say it, and I hate that you can summarise such a mix of styles with one word, but that's what it is, GRUNGE.

So here's to being poor!

Year 11 is going to be a riot, I can tell  >.<

Emilie xo

Goodbye Sweetheart

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Goodbye, Summer. Not that England ever really had one anyway.