DEBORAH PAAUWE

Small Hours (2004)

Dark Fables (2004)

Carousel (2008)

Tuesdays Child (2001)

I love these images, their very... quiet and beautiful. I discovered the Australian photographer Deborah Paauwe in a cut up magazine at school, the first image of Tuesdays Child caught my eye.

This is her website.

What we see and what we seem...

I would have finished the title but I forgot how the rhyme went, anyway, the point is I watched Picnic at Hanging Rock the other day (belated Mothers day gift). Since then I've been structuring everything I say eloquently, and wishing my school uniform looked like this:

Instead of daggy pale blue and navy. I feel like actually writing something on MLIA, it would go something like "My school uniform doesn't look like the get up of the picnic at hanging rock girls MLIA" but thats a tiny bit sad to go to all that effort for making and irrelevant point that only I'm going to understand. I almost did wear a floaty white dress today, to be honest its actually a nighty, so called "vintage" from Marks and Sparks with a cain hat too, but it was 15 degrees today and rained hard, it would have turned see through and not looked that great with my coles home-brand umbrella. I wore jeans! -accomplished smile-

I haven't given up on my mission to dress like I'm from a 1900's Australian boarding school girl quite yet, but the weather is inappropriate (so is Inner-West Sydney suburbia mind you). Lately Rumi from Fashion Toast has been though, you know what "they" (who are they?) say "Imitation is the highest form of flattery" (personally never agreed when it was at my expense ~deja vu~ THATS MY JOKE!) but I'm hypocritical and you love it ;-)

I don't actually believe I could pull this outfit off, but I have a similar dress and a similar jacket HOORAH!

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a rather good film, one of the few Australian films I've actually enjoyed. Peter Weir is amazing, the story was amazing and I'm going to read the book just to figure out what the hell was going on. It scared me out of my witts and I'm not really sure why, perhaps it was the noise the rocks made. (I realize how strange this will sound to the 0 people who read my blog who haven't actually seen the film). Anyway, I never thought I'd say this about an Australian film, but its probably one of my favorite films ever, its just so beautiful and despite the pan-pipes you could hardly tell it was made in the 70s, the grainy film suits it so much. I think the whole movie is a bit like an ode to Miranda, and why not? Its made me actually look forward to 40 degree summer days and trips to the country, too bad its winter :(

I will not strut around like I own the place

London based artist Matt Williams skates through the streets of London dressed like Bart Simpson then writes every single "chalkboard" gag on a 22 meter blackboard in the "Work Club ad Agency".

...Well someone had to right?

Lisa Mitchell Concert

I went to see Lisa Mitchell with a couple of friends last night at the Enmore. I really love her music, she has a great voice, writes really good songs and it as cute as hell. However, last night she kind of let me down. The sound in the theatre was really bad and muffled, you couldn't really hear the words she was saying, also she sounded really tired and perhaps a bit bored of the songs she was singing (she's being touring with Wonder since 2008 if I'm not mistaken). She said she was nervous because of the large crowd, which probably didn't help. The best songs were Neopolitan Dreams, which the audience carried by singing along with the "bada dadadadada" bit and Oh Hark, which I saw from a distance (I walked out to the bar to get water at that time and watched the rest from the back). I still really love her music, but next time I'll go see her a couple of months after her new album release. Also her outfit was really strange, but never mind that.

The support bands were very VERY good! Georgia Fair were simple and nice, everyone sang along to the song on the flavored milk ad. And Baby Blues sounded amazing too, but the girls in front of me were taking "love-o's" at that point of time and getting really excited about everything, so I didn't really hear, however, I youtubed them and listened to it again, and it is still good. Boy & Bear were great, I didn't know who they were when I went (because I live under a rock) but they sounded familiar, and their sound was really good, i'm going to buy their album when I see it, they were just excellent.

Alexander Wang Fall 2010

As it approaches winter here in Australia its nice to see that the rest of the world is being kind to the opposite seasons in their fall collections. Alexander Wang's show was brilliant, the contrasts in the fabrics he used were amazing, as were the cuts and tailoring. The clothes looked warm even though America/Europe is heating up. Velvet became cool again as did leather and pinstripes, the kinds of fabrics more commonly reserved to "the dark alternative". The strange thing was, and I may have been wrong, who knows, that I didn't get even the faintest impression that the show and clothes were gothic.

I'll be surprised If those leather trimmed pants in the first picture aren't commandeered by Paris Vogue. Also, how warm does that cardigan look? And how can a fur bra look that enticing? Same goes for the leather/velvet dress, it reminds me of Joan of Arc, which is always a good thing.

The deconstructed suit, fitted around the navy velvet made this one of my favorites from this collection, the styling is extraordinary because of the small peeks of skin and the backpack I would say it had a "cheeky-ness" to it but, that word makes me cringe. The second picture, cut-out red velvet... I can even wrap my head around how he made that!

There has never been a better reason for another Matrix movie, except this one would have Charlotte Gainsbourg in it too and she'd wear this.

The dress on the right looks like a deflated version of one of this dress from the Viktor & Rolf s/s10 collection, also it reminds me of how Alber Elbaz does pastels, therefor I really liked this dress. Those boots remind me of David Bowie, another good thing.

Bertie Maldives

I spotted these darling shoes on the ASOS website a week ago whiles I was trawling the internet for potential new shoes. Coming across these made my heart skip, they are as sweet as pie, you could imagine wearing them with one of the plaid dresses from Christopher Kane's Spring 2010 collection (which I still haven't quite gotten over) and eating lamingtons in a wooden house in the middle of nowhere. I love me a buckle and a bit of leather weaving which made these shoes so perfect, also I owned a similar pair when I was 4 (90s fun time) so it was nostalgia in women's shoes form. I was willing to take a risk and buy shoes online but alas... they do not have my size, needless to say I was distraught, the quest for look-a-likes/larger sizes is on. But if you are reading this and you are interested click here and I shall envy your small feet.