been there, done that

Hmmm.. I've been thinking about doing a trapeze//circus//carnival themed post for a while now and I believe now may be the approriate time. now being 11 o'clock at night after not being able to get to sleep because of nightmares of a multiple headed dragon coming to get me. (this is what happens when you listen to the Disney Hercules soundtrack on repeat, people)

So I will upload the photos that go with this little old post tommorow when I probably should be doing other things. I would do that now, but I just detoxed my iPhone of all media because it was full, and I therefore do not have my pictures readily a available from the carnival I attended friday, among others (:.

I also have some rather debilatatingly hilarious stories from this weekend that I will write at a more sane hour. I hereby leave this as filler so I can do two posts tmmrw without feeling like an overeager lunatic. (:

-yours wearily
Cordeliwishiwasasleep

(again, cheap shot, but what can I say?)
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Wow okay now on to the trapezing//circus//carnival post promised earlier.
I don t reeally have that much fashion that I can find that relates to this theme, besides Britney Spears "Circus" perfume, which is pretty cool, but not really my kind of scent.

There was this really cool illustration of it in Nylon a few months back.. I will try to find that and scan it for you guys when I get home later. (:

I have a few circus//carnival//trapezing related illustrations that I shall also scan later. But for now I have a few collective photos on the theme. And yes, that noob in the red shirt (Urban Outfitters Btw) is indeed moi.





I tried trapezing, and I absolutely LOVE IT. I have gone a few times, but i'm hoping to go some more times so I can get to the advanced tricks. It is just so much fun and the entire staff at the place we go to are awesome.


Here are some cool inspiration photos on the theme;
I found the majority of these on trendhunter, and I will try to credit individual sources when I can. (:





Photos above by Lepasta DeCaro

Photo above from Elle Magazine November 2009
Photo above from Flickr
Photos From Grazia Magazine 2009

Photo above from Elle Magazine 2009



Above two photos by Grego Trevino



The three above by Ali Sharaf

Here is a trapeze inspired illustration I did

Doc. Marten will make you feel betterr

I ordered my Doc Martens a week ago, and they just came yesterday! they are prettyy baller. I got the 8 eyelet ones because those are the LEGIT ones.



I decided on the ones with the union jack on the toe over the floral ones (paying homage to my birth country). I guess I just thought they would go with more stuff. (Oh and they are also GODLY)



I just love Docs, their the perfect embodiement of 90's grunge culture. My dad was telling me about how in England, before Doc Martens became "the thing" that all the people in the know were wearing, they were the staple footwear for the skinheads (Punk rockers, bullies, shaved their heads, hence the name) of London. My dad said that when he was young they were terrifying, you would hear the squeak of a Doc Marten behind you and you would just tail it.

They went out of fashion in the early 00's but then people like Agyness Deyn and Daisy Lowe really brought them back.


I love how on the bottom they say "impervious to corrosive chemicals" like its some intense shoe.
well actually,
It kindof is.
I bet the wear them in the nuclear power plants.

Please enjoy these photos (mostly from lookbook) of the all mighty docs.

This next one is from a 2006 issue of Vogue Italia (Italy)


You cant really see them but those are the 15 eyelets (At least I think its 15)

This next one is from a Nylon Article


Yesterday, I had to go to this Shakespeare on the Sound thing in Greenwich so me and the other apprentices could hand out flyers and whatnot. I wore my Doc's with this giant blue cargo shirt I got from salvation army, and while we were sitting in Starbucks this punk punk punk girl (Purportedly from Greenwich high, according to Olivia) came in in with her punk punk punk boyfriend, and she was wearing docs! It was such a coincidence considering just hours before I was reading about docs and how they are part of the punk culture in my book "Fifty Shoes That Changed The World". I was really tempted to go up to her and ask to take her photo for my blog but Olivia warned me against it (apparently she is "highly frightening". so I just contented my self to staring at her like the creeper pepper that I am. (:


Adiosssaahh

-CorDoc-Martens

(cheesy I know, but it is necessary *shrugs*)

365 days of LBD

I was surfing aol recently (as I am oft to do). And I found this really really inspirational story about a woman who wore the same LBD for an entire year to help send kids to school in india. She obviously has really great fashion sense because she accessorizes the dress with all these great vintage pieces, and not a single day looks the same.
Very, very inspirational.
I think I should do something like that. I feel like since I skimped on my Batmitzvah project I kindof have an IOU to poverty..
but also i'm just that nice (;
(semi-sarcasm people)

Uniform Project Picture Book from The Uniform Project on Vimeo.

leave me your thoughts. (:
(well, i don't think anyone actually reads this blog, but if you do;
SPEAK
SPEAK my young ones SPEAK)

haha
Bit creepy right up in there ^.

So any wayyyyy. Here is a really hilarious//catchy//nostalgia inducing commercial from the 60's.
Kindof irrelevant but here it is
(Turn your sound up)

I feel so inspirational

I think have inspired a "Blog Movement" in my school! (:
Haha
All my friends are making blogs now. I helped Helen make hers and I think my friend flick wants to start one too! I will keep you guys updated. It is always exciting when I new blogger is birthed by this glorious age of technology. *wink wink*

I will post the names of the blogs that have been fully established.

Helenfil.blogspot.com - General Life Blog, about her passion (Montana)

Musicbeatscommunism.blogspot.com - About Music, Hating school, and ecetera

So anyway on to the real post.

Here's a little illustration I did a while back, it is kind of a little summary of my inspiration for the summer. I'm thinking lots of flowy thin cottony layers//roses//teal and turquiose colored things//elegant buns//out of place accesories//and that feeling you get after you accomplish something that scared you



here is my mood board of images;

Marc Jacobs Fall 2010 RTW


Marc Jacobs Lola Campaign Ad

Chanel Spring 2010 RTW

each caption is to the image above btw

I will add some more moodboard pics later when I have access to my magazines and books. (:

- Cordi

I'm Harry Potter.

Hey there!
Sorry that I haven't posted all weekend. I have been busy, again, with sociability training. (GASP!)
On saturday I went over to my friend Ali's house and we bought oodles of spraypaint to use on her garden playhouse. We had to many colours to handle so she invited Moncho over to help. We stripped all the furniture from the house and hooked up her radio so it was blaring classic rock all over the yard and then had ninja spray paint wars. The fumes must have gotten to my head because I can't remember but apparently I wrote "I AM HARRY POTTER" on the ceiling.






It was a very very awesome day, and so you can see, I have a pretty good excuse for not posting. (:
Sorry that this is so short, it's late and i'm tiredd.
Maybe I will come back an add on to this tomorrow.

Night!
-Cordiliumptious


Add-On

Here are some more photos from my spray paint photoshoot with Ali and Moncho. I really wanted the whole thing to have a bright, surreal land of colour feeling, with vibrant images and whatnot.
enjoy (;








I wish I had taken my Pop Art camera with me, it would have been perfect for this shoot. unfortunately though it doesn't have a flash so I wouldn't have been able to take the photos in the playhouse.



I got this camera for 20 bucks in the gift shop of the National Gallery in Washington D.C, along with a mini watercolour set, cute little camera shaped photo album, and a book of Paris Vogue covers from the past 70 years.
I will maybe scan some of the covers for you wondrous beings later.