Saturday, 19 January 2008

DALI LIPS

About a month ago I went to see a big Dàli exhibition. In the museum shop they sold some jewellery originally designed by the man himself. As kitchy as it was, I felt a little itch for a glittering lip brooch with red gems and pearl teeth, both ugly and beautiful in the same time. Since it was quite expensive and this was just before christmas I didn't get it but now I'd like to have it on a black dress or on a scarf toghether with a soft creme coloured blouse and my dark red pencil skirt. Or then it would just look good in my jewellery case togehter with all the other stuff, you know, just to look at.
But I'm still not sure if I even like it.

(I couldn't find the exact same one that I saw, it was a bit better I think. These ones are from thisislondon.co.uk and amazon.com)

There is a magazine spread Dalí did about himself in the early forties for Click magazine. It's such a great layout but I can't find it anywhere on the web. Hints anyone?

Friday, 18 January 2008

STRANGE...

T-shirt of the f***ing year

Quality or not, designer or brand, I don't think it's very smart or necessary to buy a t-shirt (even if it may be nicely cut and have puffed sleeves) for over 50€.

Having this said, I still bought a very cute black short Diesel t-shirt with puffed sleeves a couple of months ago for 50 euros (or actually I paid "only" 30 € for it since I bought it from the shop where I occasionaly do a shift or two and thus still have my personnel discount). Quite costy, but it was perfect for most of my high-waist skirts or over some sleevess dresess.

But it dissapeared in Amsterdam. Almost right in front of my eyes. When I was there over the new year's we were 11 people staying in the same flat so it was a bit messy. I had my shirt and a dress hanging over a chair and one moment they were both there and the next only the dress. I thought it had fallen on the floor and got mixed up with someone else's stuff but everyone checked their bags there and at home again but the shirt had just vanished. And it hasn't been found in the flat by this day. I'm afraid it somehow just, eh, got thrown away in the trash when we cleaned after the NYE party.

It's sad beacuse I really liked the shirt. I'm almost considering to buy a new one, if there are eny left, they only had a few. But that's really stupid, right? To put that much money on a t-shirt. It was more of a blouse actually, so is it ok then?

QUESTION

Does any of you use Safari as a browser when reading this? I flip between Safari and Firefox (I really don't know why I just don't skip safari straight away...) and everything works fine with Firefox but with Safari all texts are in italic starting from a few posts down. And all links and so on too. That's strange since I havent left any unfinished html tags either and all other browsers work noramally.
Is it like that for anyone else? Or is it just my computer flipping out?

GIRL IN FUR - another spotted outfit


There has been quite some talk about fur and vintage fur in some blogs but I take no part in that. Or well, I think vintage fur is ok because its better to use something thant just throw it away (obviously), its warm and it looks good. So now I sort of took part in it anyway.

Either way, I saw an adorable girl today on my way home. She was pale in a chic way, wearing an old jacket in thick, curly fur (I know there is a name for fur like that but I can't remember it), a flowery scarf around her head, a cute, old-looking purse and granny boots. Very nice, very cute. If it gets really cold this winter - I doubt it- I might consider a jacket like that for me too.