Definitely an example of how models probably shouldn't be actors, however love the weird and wonderful from Karl Lagerfeld! Always a big fan of a Chanel mini-movie advert and so I do enjoy the promotional short films they, and other houses produce. Miu Miu generally also has some inspiring short films on their website which I love!
For our jewellery elective last month, we had to create a piece of body adornment. My personal focus was running water and droplets and I was inspired by the interaction the human body has with water. The first two pictures above, are a couple of examples of inspirational imagery and pictured third is my final outcome. It is a backpiece, with an aluminium collar and pewter and glass wax drops which were cast and suspended from the collar with thin fishing wire.
Aesthetically, I am pleased with the final piece, however I still feel that it lacks something and doesn't quite fully capture that delicacy of water. I did experiment with a wide variety of materials and did find it extremely challenging to capture a running droplet in suitable materials as it is hard to freeze a movement. Nonetheless, I still think after much experimentation and exploration of possibilities I still created a successful piece of body adornment.
Sometimes things can make everything seem like nothing. I'd rather just be little again, surrounded by fantasy and dreams of happy ever after. It's easier dreaming because your greatest desires can become real until you face the sinking feeling of waking up. I'd like to put some flowers in my hair, lay down in the field, close my eyes and dream the time away for a while so I can have everything that made me happy again....
We are all so different. Different colours, different languages, different jobs, different clothes, different houses, different cars, different classes, different religions, different EVERYTHING.
But somehow, through the ability to love and be in love, we all become the same again.
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Nat King Cole, Nature Boy
Style Over Substance: The Decayed Form.
Things are only new and only grow for a limited period then they decay or deteriorate- everything dies. Once it dies it leaves behind the final remains of a building, an empty shell of a person- their lovely bones. Beauty is within and everyone looks the same. Remove the substance and expose the structure that holds everything together.
Dearest Deer,
You run so free and pretty but one day you will look like this.
Edie Sedgwick is one of the most amazing icons to me. Despite her car-crash lifestyle, I will always love her, she just had that 'je ne sais quois' of a true superstar. She was one of the most enchanting people to have ever lived yet she was so deeply damaged. But her outlook on the world was one so very fascinating, she was just so misunderstood. She was ruined by Warhol and his factory yet she clinged onto it all so tightly because she thought it was all she had ever desired. Anything that was nothing was everything to her and she lost the only thing that meant something...
She was so sweet and charming like in the first video below and she transformed into a tragic wreck, her voice in the second video is so haunting. She sounds like an elderly woman but like many of the greatest people of her time she died so young at just 28.
Edie Sedgwick, from beauty to beast...
There is a movie about Edie's life called 'Factory Girl' where she is played by Sienna Miller, whose performance is outstanding, she portrays Edie perfectly. It is one of my favourites and definitely worth a watch!
Of late I have been in love with perfume adverts, and have been meaning to blog about them for aaaages. One of my favourite directors, Sofia Coppola (she did the beautifully shot, ice-cream coloured 'Marie Antoinette' movie starring Kirsten Dunst) directed a Miss Dior Cherie advert quite a while ago now, but I still love it and had to put it up. The colours and Parisian city scenes are so pretty and with the addition of one of my favourite happy tunes, the playful 'Moi Je Joue' by Brigitte Bardot this ad is truly delightful!
And the new one starring Natalie Portman is just as gorgeous with again one of my favourite favourite songs, 'Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus' by Serge Gainsboug and Jane Birkin. Very Parisian chic, so feminine and so very very lovely....ahhhh....
Also, I couldn't very well ignore the wonderful Chanel mini-movie ads, I LOVE them, they are so elegant and enchanting! The Nicole Kidman one is amazing, it's directed by Baz Luhrman, that did 'Moulin Rouge' and the advert has similarities which remind me of the movie. The Keira Knightley ones with the velvety vocals of Joss Stone are divine too but I just can't decide which one of all I love the most so I had to put them all up!
