portraits of an artist

There is something so simple and beautiful about a portrait.
Right now, I'm loving the portrait work of Mike Piscitelli.

a match made in fashion heaven

With every new fashion season, I find myself falling in love with English design house Mulberry. While I lusted after almost every piece from their Fall/Winter 2011 collection, it was their advertisements I loved the most. Designed by one of my favorite set designers Shona Heath, I couldn't be anymore happy with how she chose to display the garments and accessories.

fabulous fred

Once an assistant to set designer Shona Heath, Britain-based prop/accessory creator Fred Butler is charged with designing some of fashion and music's more innovative and edgy costumery. Her geometric headwear, shoulder pads and costumes have earned her such clients as La Roux, Lady Gaga and Patrick Wolf, including editorial and advertisement work for Teen Vogue, MAC Cosmetics and ASOS. Though her work is reminiscent of set designs/space suits from 70s and 80s sci-fi films, it is this concept from which she seems to borrow that has somehow made her relevant in the modern age (what's old is new again.)

What I wouldn't give to wear a piece of hers...

up, up and away

Remember when you were a child, when everything seemed so beautifully bright and new, and you wanted to capture each breathtaking moment, and never let it go? As I get older, and these memories start to slowly fade like aging film, I try to draw them to the surface, and relive those times when it was all so blissfully simple. Flipping though magazines, looking up at billboard advertisements, and watching movies, it would seem the general media is fixated on recalling parts of our childhood too: balloons. Whether you first encountered them at the fair, an amusement park, or a birthday party, those round, rubbery, almost lumiscent-in-the-light objects were a part of your childhood.

in love

I'm in love with Shona Heath

beautifully bizarre

These installations and illustrations of artist Gary Card have be absolutely captivated. He seems to have so many different stylistic facets to his work, from his quilted snail window installation for TopShop to his comically odd sketches. (He even does high fashion set design and prop work.) Visit him here to view all of his work.