Monthly Archive for May, 2011

KRAFT Envelopes.

Published on May 31, 2011 in Awesome Things and Organisation. 2 Comments

All Images/via blog.baum-kuchen.net

Attention budding creative-business types: Nothing says professional like good quality stationery. And nothing says creative like good quality, good looking stationery. These Kraft envelopes encompass both. And because I think I am both a professional (kind of ) and creative, I think it’s best I be getting some. I mean, how good would it feel to open up one of those babies, put in some (obviously very important) crisp documents, tie up the whole thing with that bit of string and deliver it to a client? How good would that be?! Imagine the look on their face! AMAZING. (I’m a nerd.)

If you think you are also a bit of a creative professional and you want to add some fancy-envelope-goodness to your life, you can get your hands on some (in various sizes) here.

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Rachel Antonoff Fall/Winter 2011.

Published on May 30, 2011 in Awesome Things. 4 Comments

All Images/via fashionista.com

Maybe it’s because I saw these clothes in real life at the start of the year, or perhaps it’s just the fact that everything Rachel Antonoff makes is just so damn cute, but how is it that I could want literally 80% of the items from her lookbook?

Below are the favourites of my favourites. (Tights with cats on the knees?! YES PLEASE!) For the rest, see here.

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Highs and Low(e)s.

Published on May 29, 2011 in Awesome Things and Rant. 4 Comments

The Wonder Years. So good. Image/via hushnwonder.wordpress.com

Highs:

  1. I’m kind of obsessed with The Model Burnbook‘s Cailin Hill. She is just so normal! That may seem like a stupid thing to say but how refreshing to read a blog by a model who seems just as awkward and ordinary the rest of us (except happens to be 5’9″, thin and with great bone structure). Here she is in a video for the Ford models blog:
  2. I have this really awesome memory of my whole family sitting around watching The Wonder Years. I imagine it was like 15 years ago now but I still remember it being fricken awesome. In a period of darkness yesterday, I decided to try to recreate this happy time in my life by re-watching the series from the start. I’m glad I did. That show is amazing. The episodes are only 20 minutes long, it’s fun to play ‘spot the actor that got famous after this show’ and the outfits are awesome. Watch it immediately! PS: Whilst searching for an image for this, I came across these. (Quasi-NSFW.) OMG WINNIE COOPER!
  3. How good are blankets? I’m talking the type you carry around the house with you – you know the ones, security blankets. They’re not only for little kids. I don’t care if I sound pathetic – it’s so damn cold these days, my blankey is the only thing that’s keeping me alive.
  4. Sweaters for the win! (Although the tees are actually my favourite, especially the maroon print on organic cotton. Hol. La.)

Low(e)s:

  1. Hey, so who knew how complicated it would be to be self-employed?! Not only do you have to motivate yourself daily, organise all your own meetings and be accountable for absolutely everything, but once a year it turns out you have to do something called your TAXES! I have to sort out my own taxes?! What?! They’re no longer just sending me a thing at the end of March that says “you’ve paid this much, please sign, thanks bye”??? I have to do them myself?! I have to claim expenses?! I have to dig through 8 months worth of receipts??! HELLLLPPPPP!!!
  2. I ate KFC twice over the weekend. Twice. This would probably be a high if it weren’t for the fact that I have not consumed a vegetable since Tuesday. Literally. (Fries don’t count.) Can anyone say scurvy?
  3. You know how I went to Sydney for RAFW? You know how that was at the start of the month? Yeah, I haven’t completely unpacked. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

Stella Maxwell likes her coffee black, has Phil Collins on her ipod.

Published on May 28, 2011 in Awesome Things and Models. 1 Comment

Image/fashionista.com

It’s a New-Zealand-models-on-the-internet-frenzy here on the blog this weekend, with the latest being Fashionista‘s model-street-style profile on Stella Maxwell. In the short interview we learn that Stella is 20 years old, is signed with Trump, listens to Phil Collins, has had her cropped hairstyle for 2 years, likes her coffee black (but what model doesn’t, right?), and describes her style as ‘boyish’ and ‘masculine-esque’. Oh, and that she owns those low-top Docs that everyone seems to be into these days. Personally, I think Stella could be wearing a paper bag and she’d still look better than all of us. For more pics and the rest of her profile, see here.

Untouched.

Published on May 27, 2011 in Awesome Things, Models and Photography. 0 Comments

A make-up-less, unretouched Emily Baker on the right. All Images/via models.com

And while I’m on a re-posting roll, check out the latest from models.com – they’ve shot a whole bunch of top models for an exhibition to celebrate modelling agency Viva’s launch of their new London division. The exhibition’s called ‘Untouched’ – all the models were shot with no professional hair and make-up – photographer Scott Trindle says that he did not retouch any of the photos either. Incredible. And what’s more, as well as shooting the big-name girls (Natalia Vodianova, Raquel Zimmerman, Kim Noorda, etc), there’s also a three very special girls included in the mix: New Zealanders Emily Baker, Stella Maxwell and Jessica Clarke.

For more, see below. For all the rest (and a cute montage video of some of the girls – in colour!), see here.

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Hey look, it's Jess Clarke!

Published on May 27, 2011 in Models and Photography. 0 Comments

Image/Vanessa Jackman.

Spotted this morning on streetstyle photographer Vanessa Jackman’s blog: Palmerston-North-born, international-catwalk-bred model, Jessica Clarke. The only thing though – she’s referred to as an Aussie!

Now we can’t have that, can we?!