Sylvie

If I had access to a magic time travelling phonebooth that would allow me to exchange wardrobes, hairstyles, make-up and teeth with a person of my choice I would... not be able to pick just one person! But on that great big list of figures past (who, in this case, are figures present too) Sylvie Vartan would be very near the top!

I nabbed all of these from a wonderful Sylvie Vartan themed tumblr, here. Read about Sylvie here and listen to Sylvie here!

See more of my style inspirations here.

So badly I need this catsuit.

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tea with Bobo

We've been pretty neglectful of our camera collection since the new year began. Landon is busy daily in studio and I've split my days procrastinating by cleaning every closet, cupboard and nook and cranny in the house and working on the new collection. These are the handful of shots we've managed to squeak out with our Contax over the past few months. Scenes from around the house and the neighbourhood.

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The Lady of Shalott

Sidney Harold Meteyard

JW Waterhouse

37   There she weaves by night and day
38   A magic web with colours gay.
39   She has heard a whisper say,
40   A curse is on her if she stay
41       To look down to Camelot.
42   She knows not what the curse may be,
43   And so she weaveth steadily,
44   And little other care hath she,
45       The Lady of Shalott.

- Tennyson, 1842

My love of The Lady of Shalott began shortly after my love affair with Anne of Green Gables did. In kindergarten I implored classmates to push me while I lay flat on wheeled milk crates, hands crossed over my chest, reciting what slivers of the poem I could remember from Kevin Sullivan's perfection of a miniseries. In middle school I covered my room with Pre-Raphaelite paintings, my favourite always the Waterhouse depiction of doomed Elaine. Even now, you will scarcely find me more animated than when I open my mouth to speak of the romantic poets, authors and painters of the past. Reading this poem still fills my mind's eye with that wonderful untouchable world that once existed so vividly in my imagination and inexplicably is able to move me to tears (which, is a welcome change from my overly stoic disposition. Nice to know I have a bit of water in me, even if it is a horrible bit of Victorian sentimentality). It's perfectly fitting then, as I'm working on my first collection under my own name, to find inspiration in this early love of mine. How this bit of inspiration will manifest in these first designs, well, you will have to wait and see, hehe.

Arthur Hughes

JW Waterhouse

Charles Edwin Fripp

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Easter with Wray (and Agnes!)

 

As is now tradition, this past Easter was spent with my pal Wray and her fantastic family in splendid Connecticut. Agnes, who is no stranger on this blog, joined us this year and captured our stomping through the woods.

That wonderful knit crown is by the adroit knitter, Tara-Lynn of Good Night, Day. The toque is a morel mushroom inspired design knit with fairly traded merino wool from Uruguay. It reminds me a little of the toque Andula wears in Loves of Blonde! You can make your own Petawawa toque with one of Tara-Lynn's brilliant DIY knitting kits or, for those of us less nimble fingered folks, buy one made by her (they come in a range of super soft colour options).

See the full Good Night, Day collection here.
All photos by Agnes Thor, thanks Agnes!

 

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Hana Haley (part 2)

A second series of photos by Hana Haley. 

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