October 2012 Always/Never

Always:

black
leather
grey marle
stripes
silk/cotton/linen/denim
killer handbag
kanye sneakers
manly watch
gap crew neck tshirt
acne needles
minimal

Never:

nasty fabrics
shorts
ankle-strap shoes
hobbit shoes
mini skirt
oversized tshirts
turtlenecks
cut-out shoulder holes - ew
mullet tops
drop waists
over-the-top prints
frills

The Books I Read, 2011

1.  Keith Richards "Life"
2.  Henry Miller "The Books in My Life"
3.  Joanna Trollope "Second Honeymoon"
4.  Jane Austen "Persuasion"
5. Paul Carter "Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs"
6. Frances Hodgson Burnett "The Little Princess"
7. Henry Miller "The Wisdom of the Hear"
8. Virginia Woolf "A Room of Ones Own"
9. Catherine Deveny "It's Not My Fault They Print Them"
10.  Erich Maria Remarque "All Quiet On The Western Front"
11. Jacqueline Sussann "The Valley of the Dolls"
12. Judy Corbett "Castles in the Air"
13. Jane Juska "Unaccompanied Women"
14. Ann-Marie Priest "Great Writers, Great Loves"
15. Dodie Smith "I Capture the Castle"
16. L. M Montgomery "The Alpine Path"
17. Sara Nelson "So Many Books So Little Time" (ha!)
18. Christopher Isherwood "A Single Man"
19. Livia E Bitton Jackson "Elli"
20. Frank L. Baum "The Marvellous Land of Oz"
21. Edna O'Brien "Girls in their Married Bliss"
22. Diana Mosley "The Duchess of Windsor"
23. Joan Didion "The White Album"
24. Anne Tyler "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant"
25. Roald Dahl "The Magic Finger"
26. Roald Dahl "The Twits"
27. Karyn Bosniak "Save Karyn"
28. Ian Serailleur "The Silver Sword"
29. Rosalie Ham "Summer at Mount Hope"
30. Leslie Ann Bosher "To The Manor Drawn"
31. Rosalind Miles "Modest Proposals"
32. Ian Fleming "On Her Majesties Secret Service"
33. Helene Hanff  "84 Charing Cross Rd"
34. Helene Hanff "The Duchess of Bloomsbury St"
35. Sylvia Plath "The Bell Jar"
36. Elizabeth Newark "The Darcy's Give a Ball"
37. Helene Hanff "Apple of my Eye"
38. Donna Tartt "The Secret History"
39. Haruki Murakami "After the Quake"
40. Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford
41. Edna O'Brien "The Country Girls"
42. Debbie Ford "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers"
43. Rhoda Janzen "Mennonite in a Little Black Dress"
44. Banana Yoshimoto "Kitchen"
45. Stephen Brook "New York Days, New York Nights"
46. Patricia Highsmith "The Talented Mr Ripley"
47. Jen Lancaster "Bitter is the New Black"
48. Edna O'Brien "Girl with Green Eyes"
49. Edna O'Brien "August is a Wicked Month"
50. Edna O'Brien "Saints and Sinners"
51. Mireille Guiliano "Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire"
52. Elizabeth Smart "At Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"
53. Marsha Altman "The Plight of the Darcy Brothers"
54. Ian McEwan "Solar"
55. Lionel Shriver "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
56. Jane Austen "Northanger Abbey"
57. Nick Hornby "Juliet, Naked"
58. Marilyn French "The Bleeding Heart"
59. Rusty Young "Marching Powder"
60. Henry James "The Europeans"
61. The Portable Dorothy Parker
62. Joseph Heller "Catch 22"
63. Gustav Flaubert "Madame Bovary"
64. David Nicholls "The Understudy"
65. Anita Brookner "A Family Romance"
66. Sue Townsend "Adrian Mole"
67. Graham Greene "The End of the Affair:
68. Alain de Botton "The Architecture of Happiness"
69. Sue Townsend "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole"
70. James M Cain "Butterfly"
71. Sue Townsend "True Confessions of Adrian Mole"
72. Graham Greene "Loser Takes All"
73. Jean Rhys "Good Morning Midnight"
74. Gertrude Stein "Blood on the Dining Room Floor"
75. Zane Grey "Riders of the Purple Sage"
76. Sandra Cisneros "The House on Mango St"
77. Cecil Beaton "Portrait of New York"
78. Meg Rosoff "What I Was"
79. Nicola Cernick "Together by Christmas"
80. Mary S Lovell "The Mitford Girls"

A New Thing

this will be more about shopping, and retail, and stores and products, and stuff. check it out: The Exterior Review

style idol

Garance Dore. all pictures by the sartorialist

melbourne from the other side of the river

Summer!

Wow I love both these sunglasses -and the general outfits. This is a Tommy Ton pic from an album of his Paris fashion week photos on style.com

This pic kinda makes me wanna go back to being a blonde. I was platinum but currently I'm trying to discover what my natural colour is. Something I haven't seen in about 10 years. I must say it's nicer than I thought it would be which is a bonus!

The weather is warming up here in Melbourne. It has made me realise that I don't live in a freezing depressing grey world. It is so so so gorgeous in summer here in Australia. I always forget this fact in winter though.

In other news, Zoe and I are heading to Brisbane for the VALENTINO exhibition! It will be excellent!

arriving at my doorstep in 2-3 days!

from net-a-porter.