calm in my kitchen

clothes completely aside, the light in these photos is enough to make it everything i want from pre-fall. oh, that light. it is all the things.

and then, there are the clothes, too. the shoes! the grey and all that suiting, and that fur coat that is just like one of my fur coats! i will totally be able to replicate that outfit. white blouse, pleated skirt, fur coat... someone please gift me the boots? thank you.

{prefall céline 2013, photos courtesy of céline by way of style.com}

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4am

i am going to show you two collections here. even though there are quite a few images for each. they fit together well.

there is a certain melancholy which is specific to summertime. when it is so hot and the days are so long. and everything is bright and alive and we are so happy. and when sadness creeps in, which if you're like me is inevitable, it feels deeper than the sadness of wintertime. because of that very bright hot aliveness that is everywhere. how can you be sad when the world is this bursting, amazing thing?

i love this sort of confused feeling. i love the strangeness of the light when the sun is coming up too soon and you haven't yet figured out what went wrong the night before. how you got into this mindset. where the heartache came from this time. the stickiness of sunscreen residue and the burning in your eyes.

(there's less of that here. in toronto. and that makes me miss home. one of the very greatest things edmonton has is its short short summer nights.)

or. you know. something like that...

(and the shoes in both. dream.)

 {anne valérie hash resort 2013, photos courtesy of anne valérie hash by way of style.com}

 {damir doma resort 2013, photos courtesy of damir doma by way of style.com}

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the dim

i can never decide whether it is better to dress in crazy colour and pattern, or to dress entirely in mismatched subtle shades of neutral. thank god i do not actually ever have to decide. for now, here. neutral. heart-exploding neutral.

and thank god, too, for androgyny.

{maison martin margiela resort 2013, photos courtesy of maison martin margiela by way of style.com}

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somewhere i know there's something

preen's resort presentation is the stuff that fashion and dreams are made of. the stuff that breaks me down inside and leaves me shaky and crying because beauty and space and light...

it's funny. i read so many books on fashion and beauty in grad school. but i can't to save my life come up with the right words for why the third image - that grey sweater - makes me shudder. i wish i could. maybe it is because i can't think of ways to talk about it that i can't think of ways to make art about it... maybe that is why i can't pin down an idea worth making a painting about...

so. looking. instead. somewhat heavy-hearted. and yet. so joyful...

{preen resort 2013, photos courtesy of preen by way of style.com}

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and in between

shades of grey.
(please please please do not in any way connect this to 50 shades of grey cause, bleh it is totes ruining my grey-love.)

{borrowed from here & here & here}

{borrowed from here & here}

{borrowed from here & here}

 

{borrowed from here & here & here}

 

{borrowed from here}

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