girlspiration

Björk is one of my many style icons and while i don't get looked at quizzically when i say Alexa Chung holds a place on that list, i do when i profess my love for Björk's clothes (in particular her threads from the '90s). i have unshakable faith in my belief that everything Björk wears is a piece of art, and like all art forms, you get people that love it or hate it.
here are my top five Björk looks:

1. her outfit in the official music video for her track 'It's Oh So Quiet'                            

                                          

2. the dress she wore at the Roskilde Festival in 1996 (photographed by Latvis)

3. her outfit in the series of photographs Jeurgen Teller took of her back in 2007

4. the dress worn during her performance at the Royal Opera House in 2002 (the track is 'Jóga', a favourite)               

                                      

5. and last but not least, her infamous 'swan dress' worn to the 2001 Academy Awards (an inevitable final choice, wasn't it?)

frida freak by me

the late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is a massive inspiration to me. she was a kick-ass revolutionary, artist, intellectual, and style icon. the above are Frida Kahlo inspired items I've found on Etsy.

cotton tote, $50/ gold earrings, $25 / Frida Kahlo bottle cap ring, $11 / Frida Kahlo matchbox, $5 /Frida Kahlo inspired Mexican tin nicho, $38.00/Frida Kahlo patch, $4.78 / Frida Kahlo plate, $20/Frida Kahlo toddler dress, $20 (seriously considering adopting a child just so I can dress them in this) / Frida Kahlo pillow, $60/ Frida Kahlo ‘i paint my own reality' jewelry box, $28

the girls of the hells angels

below are some extraordinary previously unpublished photographs Bill Ray shot while riding with the biker gang the Hells Angels in 1965. i'm head over heels in love with the tough edge that the women of the gang brought through in their outfits. the photographer reminisces: "i remember, too, that many of them were surprisingly young: teenagers, or in their early twenties. they didn't look young, though. riding around on the back of a harley at a hundred miles an hour in all sorts of weather will age you, i guess."
more images here
all images are copyright © of Bill Ray

that sneer!!!!

The Velvet Underground, Femme Fatale

katharine hamnett

Katharine Hamnett meeting with then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58% DON'T WANT PERSHING", a reference to polls showing public opposition in the United Kingdom against the basing of Pershing missiles in the country

Katharine Hamnett is a British fashion designer famously known for her oversized t-shirts donning political messages in large block letters. they were a massive hit in the '80s and have been worn by celebs like Naomi Campbell and Sarah Jessica Parker. Hamnett stresses the adoption of ethical methods of clothes making by the fashion industry. she also pushes for a greater presence of models of colour on the catwalk stating: "the catwalks are full of white dogs, cosmetic companies don't like black models - the racist bitches. i have no idea why when it's obvious that black girls are just so genuinely much more beautiful than caucasians, who have clearly got the short straw. black girls have much better body shapes and it's such a shame. i just think there should be a bit more of a balance."
Katharine Hamnett t-shirt slogans (descriptions come from her official website):

EDUCATION NOT MISSLES: tax-payers want their money spent on education rather than on expensive weapons that we’re never likely to use. education is the source of a nation’s wealth.

BRING BACK GOD: nobody knows how life started. darwinism is just part of the answer and all other possibilities have to be considered equally including a supernatural one. the right to believe in a god is one of our civil liberties.

STOP AND THINK: this was about the war on terror. instead of bombing the country that Osama bin Laden was visiting it would’ve been better to ask why these people hate us so much. have they been driven to this point by oppression, exploitation and injustice and racism and our hideous colonial past and post-colonial present?

NO WAR: war is the worst environmental disaster ever. the money spent on war could deliver fresh water and medicine to every child in the world.
protest is essential to maintaining democracy in this world. and i'm not sure about you, but i plan to do it in style.

Cecilia was the first to go

cecilia was the first to go by me

i love all of Sofia Coppola's films but most of all The Virgin Suicides. it never fails to be so deliciously entrancing, making me slip into the scenes of conservative American suburbia like a cube of ice slips into a glass of cold water on a summer's day.

Air, Afternoon Sister