Spats Tabulations (for the curious)

1. Are you:
22% A. Male
78%B. Female

2. What are spats?
90% A. Covering for the top of the shoe and the lower part of the leg (correct)
10% B. Two tone leather shoes
0% C. Leggings (correct in Japan!)
0% D. Leather suspenders

3. When do you think people wore spats? (all answers are correct!)
50% A. Pre WWI
29% B. 1930s-40s
6% C. 1700s
15% D. They still do!

4. Who wears spats? (all answers are correct!)
44% A. Military personnel (6% said only military)
32% B. Women
88% C. Men (16% said only men)
65% D. Fashionable people (6% said only fashionable people)
29% E. Workers like welders, loggers, etc.
26% F. My ancestors/relatives
41% G. Movie stars
(12.5% chose all answers)

5. Have you ever worn spats?
12.5% A. Yes
87.5% B. No
(0 men ever wore spats)

6. If not, would you in future?
41% (15% men, 50% women) A. Yes
50% (85% men, 40% women) B. No
(9% wrote in 'maybe' (0% men, 10% women))

7. Do you think spats are in style now?
12.5% (20% women, 0% men) A. Yes
87.5% (80% women, 100% men) B. No

8. Please list any designers or shops where you have seen spats:
–http://wwwshoeblog.com/blog/spats
–There's a tiny mens haberdashery in the East Villiage--9th St. I think I saw them there. Maybe vintage though...
–Does Mr. Peanut cout?How about Scrooge McDuck? Mickey Mouse wore spats sometimes.
–I have no idea what spats are
–SJP used to wear a pair of Calvin Klein ones
–Camper had a pair of heels with a removable spat (only covered the foot, not the ankle), Oh and I also really wanted to get this pair of boots from Sacco a few years ago that had snap off spats so you either had flats or boots. Turned out the flats were a bad shape though.
–none
–Chanel & Prada
–Never, except for the History Channel
–Tuxedo shops
–Have never seen them in the last 55 years. I think my mother had some in the old halloween box when I was a kid.

9. If not, do you think spats will come back in style?
56% A. Yes
34% B. No
(11% wrote in 'maybe')

10. What do you think is the future of spats?
-I don't think about the future of spats
-I think of them as a top hat or cane
-Actually, I think current fashion is spat-inspired. You know the long skinny jean pulled way over the top of the show, even over stillettos. I guess the tops of shoes are stilll considered unsightly.
-The damdest things always manage to come back once--I doubt spats will be any exception.
-I think they will be very popular unless stirrup pants beat them out.
-need a famous movie star or singer to bring it back in style but it will be short lived.
-Not my style...who knows!
-If anything, a short lived comeback in fashion. Mostly, I think nothing of them as I had to google it just to know what they were.
-I have always wanted a pair honestly. I would love a pair of monochromatic, non-contrasty ones to fit over a nice stylish ankle boot to give the option of wearing knee high boots.
-They might come back as part of the whole new dapper thing, esp. among chic black men.
-I think spats will come back in style as a runway thing (gimmick?), but that there won't be popular or widespread adaptation of them. In fact, I know I have seen them portrayed this way in magazines, but I forget when/where, Kind of like how I got an email the other day about the return of the bowler hat. Okay, maybe for the few, but not for the many.
-No future
-Bring them on!
-You never know, fashion seems to look back a lot, perhaps they will find a new life for a time.
-The cabaret, burlesque thing is big now so maybe
-I'm not sure. i think it would be great to have a standard shoe and utilize spats as an accessory.
-Thigh high tights, leg warmers, thigh high boots, I saw a pair on Zappos that were knee high but had decorative leather overlay that went from mid-calf down over the heel and toe. Boots with built in leather spats!
-only a very limited market (for the flamboyant among us)
-paired with wedges or high heels in bright plaids or dyed leather with unusual textures and unexpected features (eg leather frog clasps) and worn as an alternative to boots
-As long as there are marching bands...there's a future for spats (hahahahaha) Seriously, I think they have the potential to be a "cool" accessory for people/consumers who like to deviate a but frm the "typical" fashion trends. They seem like fun to me!
-Alternative styles stemmiing from spats (i.e. spats incorporated into sandals)
-A bright one!
-They could replace legwarmers
-I don't see a future for them
-I suspect they will continue to be reserved for period costumes, marching bands, and maybe military
-I can see some variation in women's footwear coming back around in the next couple of years--maybe with a high heel.

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Thanks everyone for your answers! I will be presenting my survey results in a small class for work....I found it very interesting to see all the different viewpoints on the future of spats especially.

more prada love

Just a short one for today....I hope to post my Round Up over the weekend, and then more new, less internetty, things for a while. I'm burned out!

Miuccia Prada wrote a (very) short piece in Wired in June of 2003 about the space around the body. Prada did a raincoat that changed from transparent to opaque when it gets wet:



Somehow this tech-y piece feels nice. Sweet.

hair hair

This article inspired me to look at hair.











Two great sites for more:

• Hairstyle History
• Gotham Patterns: Hair

WGSN

An interesting tidbit via PSFK. It talks about how WGSN is a crutch for designers that ultimately makes them less creative. I had a free subscription as a student and was encouraged to use it, but I found it quite clunky and uninteresting (although in light of this article I'd be interested to take a look at it again). Anyway, read the comments. They are the most interesting part!

Prada

Some pics of the Prada spring show took my breath away a few weeks ago, and I've been meaning to post some of my Prada favorites ever since. These are across several seasons, and a few scans from my old mags.


S/S 2008


S/S 2008 Beautiful shoes in this collection


2008 Resort


S/S 2006 I love the slouchy grey stockings


S/S 2006 The bathing suit I want to wear!


A/W 2001 Beautiful coats from this collection

You can track one of Miuccia's favoritte elements throughout her collections, the thick black line:


A/W 2005 Headband


S/S 2006 Straps


A/W 2007 Ankles


S/S 2008 Neck

The first collection I remember really falling in love with was from the 90s (I think), and was sort of 70s polyester uniform looking. Remember? I can't find images of any of it anywhere! I did find a clipping in one of my sketchbooks from not too long ago of some things I love:

Jack Spade's fashion show

Kottke explains:

Jack Spade held an impromptu fashion show in Bryant Park outside the giant tent where Fashion Week was happening, enlisting passersby to carry Jack Spade bags up and back on the sidewalk.

See it here. Brilliant!

Antoni and Alison

I used to ride by Anoni & Alison's shop on the bus on my way to university each day. They are doing some beautiful scarves right now:

love at first site

Oh! Joy just posted some pics of Mina Perhonen's FW07/08 collections and I'm totally smitten (with everything!):

Did you see this?

It was here recently, with this info:

Takkiainen...is designed to help the wearer to get in contact with others. Since we brush against each other every day as we move around in the city, we can use our clothes as a medium for meeting people and communicating with them. The jacket is made out of Velcro strips of different widths that have been sewn together side by side to form alternating hook and pile stripes.

And from there I clicked to the designers sweet website:
www.com-pa-ny.com
And then I saw all of their other awesome work, my favorites:


Dance shoes


Beard wear

Small but sweet

All kinds of ways to lace your shoes

Fiesta in Pamplona

Last night I rewatched the movie Talk to Her and it reminded me of this book about Pamplona that Justin picked up in a charity shop. The book and the movie are just full of great images of the clothes and the ritual that surrounds clothes in bullfighting.



The beautiful fabrics and rigid silhouettes affect the form of the bullfighter... and the state of mind as well, I'd bet.



And look at this guy! Just the regular Joe-about-town at the Fiesta.


The book, Fiesta in Pamplona has a cover of a Picasso drawing/engraving. The photographs are all by Inge Morath.

Per Spook

This time last fall, I spent a few weeks in Scandinavia and saw this show at The National Museum of Art Architecture and Design in Oslo. Per Spook was a Norwegian fashion designer with his own haute couture maison in Paris from 1977 to 1995. His work has incredible prints and unusual silhouettes, something I think is a rare combination. Spook is still active as a designer, he creates prêt-à-porter under his own name in Japan (!). These images are scanned from my catalog of the exhibit, and there are a few more scattered around the internerd (lots of crystal....I guess he did some glassware work), but I didn't dig up anything recent. Nothing compares to seeing the garments in real life. Now I wish I'd bought he catalog to the Sixties Fashion exhibition I saw in London before we left!

ouch....monday.

Easy post day....from an old book of illustrations above and below a few favorites from my collection of old photos I've bought at yard sales, etc.

Masai Barefoot Technology

They call it "physiological footwear". MBTs, as they are known, were invented by Swiss engineer Karl Müller. He found improvement in his back paiin after walking barefoot in the rice paddies of Korea and set out to develop shoes that mimicked walking on soft substances (like the East African savannah).

I would love love love to have a pair of these shoes, but they are so so ugly. If you read the bit on their site about how they work, it's amazing! But look:





And seriously, those are the best I can come up with on the site. I'm sure you can go on there and say, "oh these ones are better than what she picked" but then you will look at what you picked and realize that they are ugly too.

MBT: You could do better than this!! Hire a good designer! I want some awesome shoes that look good AND feel good. (Can you tell I'm taking a footwear seminar right now?)

EDITED to add: Okay, I found some mildly acceptable ones on Zappos, but still not great:

Slow and steady wins the race

from press info

Mary Ping did this great project called Slow and Steady Wins the Race in 2004 that attempted to address the question "How come experimental ideas only exist in the high-priced avant-gardian realm?". Ping promises this collection will be full of high ideas and low cost materials so that the clothes are fiscally accessible. But she limits her production to only 100 pieces of each style. Which seems to me to work against her platform of accessibility. She says, "Slow and Steady Wins the Race intends to slowly open the cap on a more democratic dissemination, promotion and appreciation of clothing." Not gonna happen with such a limited prodution I think. But maybe I am too focused on the physical appreciation of the garments and am not paying enough attention to the ideas.


I think the Men's Issue (No. 9) is the best. It's a perfect little capsule collection (well, maybe if there was a pair of trousers in there). The issue seems to collect the best from the previous issues (except no designer underwear from No. 7!!) and presents them in a cohesive group targeted to a particular audience. It makes me think Ping would do a really great mens collection, not an easy thing in my opinion.

Only the first 9 issues have images of the work. Numbers 10-12 are "coming soon". Ah well, I think maybe soon has come and gone. I would love to see how No. 12 Evening came out.....how did she combine this area of fashion with her mission for the line?


No. 3 Bags got the most press, and I'd bet, sold the best. I also think this issue is important in light of all the talk about copyright issues in the fashion world (also see here and here). Ping's work with these bags highlights why this legislation would be detrimental to fashion work. Ping is working on conceptual ideas that are presented in the form of bags that are part of the design language. If this legislation passed, Ping would have no way to produce work that embodies the ideas she is trying to communicate. There are much better and more thorough writers on this topic in the links above. Or maybe I will devote a whole post to this issue at some point....

Back to SASWTR, I know Ping presented this in diary format for a reason, but I love how these collections feel like exercises. It also seems to me a worthwhile way for Ping to develop her ideas for her mainline, and, more importantly, that she still considers the pieces worth selling and worth wearing. Even more, I wish I had heard about the work when I could have bought some!

Japanese Illustrations

When I was working in London one of the pattern cutters I worked with brought in some of her textbooks from when she was in school in Japan. Of course, I couldn't read any of the instructions, but the books were surprisingly informative. They were also full of some interesting fashion illustrations. Unfortunately I never got any name or author info about the books, but here are a few scans from my photocopies:






I love the girl in the tie, and of course the tiny-headed women, they are so 80s French! The girls with the tiny heads and giant arms frighten me a bit, but somehow they have a certain goodness to them (perhaps that jolie-laide Susie Bubble was talking about yesterday?) Lovely, no?

vvork

I love the work on vvork. The site is a bit of a mystery to me, I've emailed mail@vvork.com and I clicked on the links in the links sidebar and looked around, but I'm still not exactly sure who does all the work to find all this magical stuff. But it's really varied and really really great. Some of my favorites:


Shoes by Galogaza


Construction wallpaper by Antoine & Manuel


Abandoned suitcase sculptures by Piek!


Picture People by Kristofer Paetau (all kinds of cool photo projects & you can sign up for a mailing list)


Digital Cocks by Matthias Herrmann

Iqons faves

Every now and then I have time to tool around Iqons, the fashion industry's answer to MySpace, and I always find someone or something new and interesting. Unfortunately, even when I invite someone into my (ill-named) Entourage I still don't feel like I really get a chance to "meet" them....maybe the guestbook feature is just not used enough yet on Iqons. Or maybe I'd better just start using it myself!


Emma McCorquodale


Stacey Tester
(okay, not the best picture.....but I kind of like it!)


Carla Fernandez
(also here)


Tekla Knaust
(also here)


Lindipoo! Lindipoo has almost no info on her page but I find her so compelling! Maybe because she invited me into her "Entourage" first...maybe it's also here name: oh Lindipoo!


Wendy & Jim
(also here)


Eley Kishimoto
(also here)

TAXI Magazine

I was looking through my bookshelves last night and I started flipping through my old stash of Taxi Magazines. Oh how I loved this mag! It helped form all of my early tastes, and I couldn't find anything about it online. Well, okay, one picture, a few ebay sales, and lots of mentions in online resumes.



People often talk about how Mirabella & Sassy Magazines were so influential, but for me Taxi brought a real intellectual aesthetic to a girl in a small town. Taxi brought me Last Exit to Brooklyn (which I asked for and received as a Christmas present to my embarrassment after I'd read it), Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, coquilles St. Jacques (for which I made my father hunt down real scallop shells!), endive, Tarot cards, and belly dancing...



I would still wear these today!


Even looking back, the editorial team at Taxi had spot on taste for things that were truly quality and stand the test of time. I so want that wicker chair on the lower left, and with the one above it you can see how current furniture design relates.



Even the spot illustrations are great!



And of course, the advertising is easy to appreciate!

veils

A post about veils. I don't really know anything about the website that inspired this post, but last year I was really interested in veils throughout culture and history beyond their religious use. The juxtaposition between the hidden and the displayed, public and private, and precious versus plebian makes the veil a powerful tool, if you ask me.

Other veil sites:
• Wikipedia

• The Painted Veil with Greta Garbo
• How to make a veil
• The Chap on veils (pic at top from The Chap)
• Hats and veils in general.

link round up

so. many.

When I started writing online, I thought I would post something everyday that inspired me, or was relevant to my interests (that I would normally just bookmark and never look at again). But I'm finding that there are dozens of sites and links and posts every week that I want to remember and I can't do justice to. There's no time to properly write about them all. I think every Friday will have to be a link round up of all the other pages I'd like to write more about but have just run out of time. Because there will be a whole new crop next week....



Máquina desempolvadora
Adriana Salazar interviewed by Régine Debatty (lovelovelove)

...a girl who creates delicate and elegant (but slightly ludicrous) machines that smoke, tie shoes, pull thread through the hole of a needle, relentlessly measure walls, switch the light on and off, on and off, on and off, dust walls, cry while another one dries its tears....

I am a rabid convert to Style Bubble!






• Acne (here)
• Sruli Recht (here)
• Nova Magazine
• Couture Lab (here)
• I'm not sure I agree with her definititon of label-ista (I would say it's someone who cares only for labels because of their cache not because of any meaning a label carries)
• This one reminds me of my own wardrobe documentation for my MA research
• I love the way she talks about this jacket & memory


I've been reading PSFK a lot lately too. They post a lot, and while it's not always stuff interesting to me, when it's good it's very good!
• The WHY (my personal favorite...)
• Objects that age (my personal fave....no really!)
• Why looks matter
• Kate Betts on how fashion trickles up
• Smart Fabric




Just pretty from Kako Ueda via Phantasmaphile



The beauty of scale

My MA thesis

Final print dress from my MA collection All Stories Have Endings at Central Saint Martins, 2006.

So in order to provide some context for my interest in clothing and fashion I thought I would publish my MA thesis this week. I always write that I am interested in "the intangible qualities inherent in clothing like air, time, light, and action." Publishing my thesis should give some in-depth insight into that simplified version of my interests. I also hope that posting this information will show the design process at the MA level at an UK university. I have received lots of questions about my education there and whether it's what I expected or how it's different. I'll start with my project proposal, following with the body of my dissertation, and finishing with my bibliography and appendices. You can see a collage of my MA work in the portfolio area of my site from the link below.

Project Title: All Stories Have Endings
Research Question: Can one redefine how we experience design and consume fashion?

Design Rationale:
'I often try to have a beginning and an end, because emotion comes from time. but it’s a different kind of time than theatre or cinema..... it’s theatre without text, without spectacle. what I wish to do is something between theatre and installation.’ —Christian Boltanski

Clothing and fashion are traditionally concerned with space, the shape of the garment, its form on the body, etc. but I'm interested in exploring the relationship between time and clothing, whether it's the time in your life you wear something, the length of time the garment exists, or the amount of time you wear a specific item. The affects of time on fashion, dress, and clothing is little explored from a design perspective, unlike space and form.

There has always been something so fascinating to me about someone making clothes for a particular customer. I am in love with the idea that haute couture and made-to-measure clothes from days gone by carried more significance than the high street mass produced clothes of today. Not only because clothing was a more precious and expensive commodity for market reasons (oh the time required!) but because creating clothes in the craft tradition creates an intimate personal connection triangle between the maker, wearer, and the garment. Those days are fading fast because that kind of work is no longer feasible in today’s economy.

I want to explore what is so compelling to me about that sector of design and see if there is some way to keep alive the human, emotional aspect of designing clothes and dressing in our contemporary economic climate by investigating other ways of using time in the realm of dress. I think all the emotional connections and preciousness of clothing today can be related to the connection between time and clothes.

Aim of the Project:
To explore the aspect of time in dress. To consider how to make clothes that carry the emotional traditions of made-to-measure clothing in our changing economic climate and that recognize the personal and public power of clothing and dress through the creative use of time.

Objectives:
• Investigate the relationship between maker and wearer
• Investigate the relationship between woman and her clothes, specifically the narrative and emotional relationships involved and how they can be manipulated with time
• Push the boundaries of what is fashion
• Explore the connections between the process of producing the garment and the experience of wearing it
• Develop prints, silhouettes and texture through a process that takes into account the wearer without losing the significance of the maker
• Design garments, and eventually a collection (S/S 2007)

Intended Design Outcomes:
• A final collection of 6 garments, possibly including hats or accessories
• A textile collection
• Interim work and design development would include performance work developed into written and graphic communication (a book or magazine)

List of Research Methodologies:
• Questionnaires/ethnographic research • Reading • Time • Drawing/design experiments/storytelling • Encounters/performances • Written and graphic communication

Where and How Can This Lead to Design Innovation?
• Design concept: in that I will be exploring innovative ways to approach clothing design
• Marketplace: in that I will be exploring ways to produce and disseminate my clothes and accessories
• Materials: in that I may develop fabrics or surface treatments;

How Do You Locate Your Project in Terms of Futures?
• A new “fashion system” that grants status to the importance of time in dress, as opposed to the traditional view that space is the preeminent value in fashion/dress
• My work will be considering the future in that I am interested in pushing the boundaries of what is fashion as well as encouraging people to think about themselves and their clothes in new ways in regards to sustainable values (particularly introducing longevity into fashion).
• I think the future of fashion is considered somewhat tenuous right now, between high fashion and the high street, the relevance of the catwalk, and the meaning of “designer looks”, much of the fashion world is in flux. I am also flirting with playing around with ideas of technological future and how it relates to the relationships I am looking at, at least in the design development phase.

Identify Key Players in Your Chosen Field:
• Bless Collective • Maria Blaisse • Sophie Calle • Hussein Chalayan • Shelley Fox • Tess Giberson • Imitation of Christ • Nikki S. Lee • Eri Matsui • Linda Montano • Jessica Ogden • Mary Ping • Alyce Santoro • Cindy Sherman • Andrea Zittel

What Will Be the Design Direction?
• Laser etching • Digital printing • Using support fabrics as fashion fabrics (taking materials out of context is my interest here, but the key is texture and context) • Materials that change over time

Key Bibliography:
Books • The Fashion System by Roland Barthes • La Dernière Mode by Stéphane Mallarmé • Second Skin by Marilyn J. Horn & Lois M. Gurel • Material Memory eds. Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward, Jeremy Aynsle • Body Dressing by Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth B. Wilson
Authors • Fred Davis • Efrat Tseëlon • Jennifer Craik • Marcel Proust
Magazines • Selvedge • i-D • Mirabella

Next...

...please note this piece is © 2006 Kimberly Hall. Do not copy, steal, or reproduce without permission. If you're interested in my work, please drop me a line. Thanks.

Fashion-Incubator

Anyone who works in clothing design or garment construction or fashion, should check out Fashion-Incubator. The site is run by Kathleen Fasanella with help from some loyal friends from the industry. The website is a treasure trove of wisdom and information as well as a laugh and an occasional bite. There are often great discussions in the comments as well, for F-I's readers are a smart set. Of course, the book that Fasanella wrote is the real source of information if you are looking to start your own business. I haven't bought it, only read a few excerpts, which I doubt would please Fasanella, but if I do go out on my own someday, it's at the top of my list to read. I love to be hands-on in the making process and it's a primary motivator for me in terms of starting a business. One of the hardest things working for a big corporate manufacturer as a designer is that I am so far from the making process.

Anyway, back to Fashion-Incubator, here a few of my favorite bits & features:

A simple post about washing clothes with interesting comments to boot. I'm surprised there wasn't more talk about the damage a dryer can do. I really found this one interesting because my MA collection at CSM was made of some fabrics that changed with water. I did a lot of washing machine experiments last spring! When I came back to the US this year I realized the hard way that American washing machines are much more powerful than UK ones. :(

Fasanella has two regular features that I love: Archives, links to articles from the same time last year and the year before, and News from You, links sent in from readers. Both are always full of interesting tidbits.

The site also haas a decidedly sustainable slant with excellent articles about eco habits to develop and organic cotton.

My all-time favorite post relates to my own interests (of course) about invisible components of our clothes. Kathleen was responding to a project called Carnivale of Couture by the Sewing Divas about Ritual Cloth. Fasanella wrote about a purse, backpack, and a couple of jackets that reveal as much in the pictures as they do in her words.

P.S. Pleating!!

Emotion—why did I title it this?

Last week I mentioned this article about the divide between science and art. And how "I'd like to write a bit more about this one...." so I'm trying to be inspired to write a bit about some pages I think are related. ahem:

Basically the Boing Boing post reviews an article in the Guardian that talks about the division between science and the humanities and whether there is a "third culture" that bridges this divide. They review a website, two books, and a writer. Natalie Angier's comment "Science is rather a state of mind" reminded me of this article I wrote about before. But it makes me look at that article from Business week in a different way. Nussbaum talks about "Design Thinking" (his caps, not mine), in a way that makes me wonder what is 'humanities thinking'? Is there such a thing? Or is it the same as "design thinking" and those are the two sides being talked about in the Guardian article? Maybe "design thinking" is the third culture referred to in the article? Sorry for all the quote marks....

Boing Boing also recently linked to a Douglas Adams lecture titled "Is there an artificial god?" that made my head spin (in a nice way) similar to the article above. It feels like such a lovely way to consider ideas about god and consciousness and humanity. Sadly, perhaps, it makes me want to totally live in my head and stop making things. Funny how doing a lot of in-depth reading can put me off of physical objects....it's almost like there iis a real divide between intellectual thought and physical action (hey.....) that happens so very naturally that its unstoppable. Good thing I have studio space this month or I could feel myself heading into a downward spiral of creation (or is that anti-creation?)

Moving on....a nice pair of articles that I really enjoyed finding together:

From Boing Boing, "Love, Internet Style" Clay Shirky's keynote speech from the Supernova conference in San Francisco that posits love as a predictor of technological success.

Usman Haque's own keynote speech titled "I Hate Technology" reported on We Make Money Not Art (aside: one of my very favorite blogs). Truth be told the LOVE/HATE theme doesn't exactly work because the speech was for the We Love Technology day on July 12 in Huddersfield, GB.

Gilbert Austin, Chironomia (1806), plate 9.

Finally, and totally unrelated to anything about (so much for my circular mind melt) is an article from Cabinet Magazine about gestures lost through time

“By the end of the nineteenth century, the gestures of the Western bourgeoisie were irretrievably lost”: so writes Giorgio Agamben in his 1992 essay, “Notes on Gesture.”

This is a pet love of mine. I did a couple of garments related to Alexander Technique in my first year of grad school. Unfortunately I don't seem to have any pictures handy, but maybe I will find some and revisit this. I love the body/garment connection.

P.S. A new blog I just started digging around on....hmmmm!

studio time

Today I'm in the printshop working on projects of mine and of others. So today will not be the day for thoughtful critical writing that I'd hoped for. In fact, it won't even be the day for a wall paper round up (all my nice links I've been gathering aren't handy). Just pretty pictures today....


Bryan Voell [via]


Sweet tops [via] I want this one!


Lise Lefebvre's aesthetics of domestic sound [via]

Kosuke Tsumura