~The Jar~: January 2011

30 Jan 2011

~Givenchy Couture Spring 2011~

~I want~

Tom Binns Swarovski Necklance

http://www.tombinnsdesign.com/

~Muse~

When I grow up, I want to be MICHELE LAMY.

French Vogue November 2010. Photography Steven Klein. Styling Carine Roitfeld.

~I love...primary colours in blue light~

Vogue Italia January 2011. Photography Steven Meisel. Styling Karl Templer

Dazed and Confused January 2011. Photography Kacper Kasprzyk. Styling Katie Shillingford

Vogue Paris January 2011. Photography Mario Sorrenti. Model Lara Stone

CANDY describes itself as 'the first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations'. It has published some of the most gorgeous and exciting fashion editorials I have ever seen, and here is a selection below (photos from homotography). You can buy it here:

http://byluisvenegas.com/zines/candy/

Scout Rose. Photography Xevi Muntane. Styling Jay Massacret

Photography Karim Sadli. Styling Robbie Spencer

Louis Trainor-Selwyn and Owen James in 'Black Magic' by Thomas Giddings

Callum Wilson in Lacroix couture. Photography Karim Sadli. Styling Robbie Spencer.

~Why not...follow this?~

The Observer's New Review has developed a series which showcases the drawings of artist Matteo Pericoli, detailing the views from the windows of leading writers. This week, the widow of Jorge Luis Borges is reminded of him through the sensations he enjoyed in Buenos Aires. You can follow the series here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/23/jorge-luis-borges-maria-kodama

~'I Am Love' Best Costume Oscar Nomination~

There is nothing I don't adore about Luca Guadagnino's amazing melodrama I Am Love and I was delighted to hear that the film had received an Oscar nomination for costume design. It has fast become one of my favourite films of all time due, in part, to the exacting attention to detail which meant that everything in the film, from the type-face to the costumes, was perfectly pitched. Here are a few stills, but definitely rent to film if you haven’t already seen it.

~More menswear I want to wear~

A look from Dior Hommes Fall 2011 collection

~Derrida "What Comes Before the Question?"~

In this intriguing overview of his famous notion of the 'trace,' Derrida critiques the long-standing philosophical 'authority of the question' by examining the conditions for questioning itself.