Dazed? Probably. Confused? All the time

In a bid to get some material for my art exam prep (I didn’t like anything on the paper, but needless to say, I have opted for ‘Streetwear’) and for the blog, I decided to venture out into the world of magazines yesterday. I will admit, I haven’t had time to buy any magazines since I bought the November issue of Nylon in December (Funny timings I know. I actually went back to WHSmith later to see if they had the issues following that, but it seems that they have stopped shipping it in- damn shame as it wasn’t a bad magazine) and the December issue of Vogue. Anyway, instead of going for the usual thing, I decided to take a look at that lonely bottom shelf in Smiths, the choice was between Pop (which cost £5!), I.D. (which cost £3.80 I think) and Dazed & Confused (which cost £3.60), needless to say I opted for the latter (although I will purchase the others at some point, just to see whether they appeal to me).

So after flicking through, it seems quite good. My friend said “it seems like one of those pretencious magazines because it featured all music/fashion that no-one had heard of, but I really like the cover” - I suppose that’s true in the sense that it is stuff that we’ve never heard of, but I see it as, if you don’t hear about them from somewhere, how are you ever going to discover new things? Anyway, once I get the scanner scanning a less pixalated image, I may scan in some of the editorial images, because well, I feel like sharing.

Also, as I have recently been getting into photography (found a great little photography blog which has inspired/taught me a fair bit. It’s also made me wish I had the money to buy a dslr, but alas, being a teen means I do not have such funds) one article that stuck out to me was this one about a fashion photographers exhibition being held somewhere or other (sorry, I can’t remember off the top of my head and the magazine is in the other room). Photography interests me and fashion interests me, so combining the two is something I’d like to give a go one day.

Photo from Dazed Digital.

Yep, I’m still here

So it appears that I am officially the worst at blogging. Honestly, I have been imensely busy these past few weeks, so I have had very little time to do anything. I pretty much missed LFW coverage, the only things I read being on other fashion blogs. Anyway, enough of excuses for the past few weeks, time to get back into some blogging. Hopefully as deadlines are coming up on Friday, they’ll be some worthwhile posts on the way after that. Got to keep the blog alive! Just out of interest, is there anything fashion-related that you want featured on the blog? If anyone fancies themselves as a bit of a fashion know-all (unlike myself) and wants to contribute something, just send me an email.

Design competition at Tammy

Just thought I’d let you all know about this competition they’re doing at Tammy. Basically, it’s a design competition for young people (8-18 years old) and you do quite literally that - design something. Don’t quite know what as I haven’t looked properly (it was actually my cousin who told me about this because I don’t particularly like Tammy). I don’t reckon I’ll be entering, but if anyone is interested in entering have a look at their website for more info. I think the closing date is something like March 31st.

Oh my, oh my!

Golly gosh, it’s been a long time. I will admit, I sort of lost interest in blogging for that brief time. But I’m back and ready to ramble on once more! Before I go into the actual postness, I am just going to mention an addition to the blogging team we’ll be having in the close future. I’m not going to say anything about her, she can do that herself, but hopefully, it’ll be some good blogging-ness coming your way.

Well, as I mentioned before, I sort of lost interest in blogging for a while. Partly to do with my losing interest in fashion (shock horror!!) for a while and my inability to shop that occurred. But a newly revived fashion-itis (I don’t think that’s even right) has occured and I actually purchased things on the trip to town yesterday. A pair of shoes (from Topshop, on left), jumper and belt to be exact. Rather mind boggling as currently I am rather money-less (I must be having a ‘-less’ mood today).

Also, I may not have purchased these and my friends may have disliked them, but as someone who has an inability to dress in summer (thus I dislike summer sometimes), I was quite amazed that I found some shoes that would be appropriate and I liked (also in Topshop). Plus, I am not much of a shoe person and only recently have I started aquiring shoes (as opposed to wearing dunlops/converse with everything) and boots.

I really don’t know what’s come over me really. I think it may be the snow we had (truly amazing - we actually did find narnia. If I ever get the photos from my friend, I shall post them to demonstrate the wonderousness that was the snow), sadly it is melting now. However, 2 days off school, so I’m not complaining. Thinking about it, that was not a real post, it was meerly me rambling on about purchases and such the like.

Newspaper ideas

Oh dear, artwork seems to have consumed my life for the past week. Deadlines are looming, what can I say. But as I was covering a frame in newspaper for a silk painting I’d done, it got me thinking…

I’m sure it’s been done, but a newspaper print dress type thing. I mean, making a dress out of actual newspapers, would not be durable and would fall apart the minute you went anywhere in it (especially if it was raining), but there are fancy machines now which allow you to print different things on fabric so they look like what they’re meant to look like. So you could have a dress made out of normal fabric with a newspaper collage on it, so it appeared to be made out of newspapers. Maybe I just have an odd mind and dress sense, but I’d wear it (of course it’d depend on the style of the dress, but what I am imagining, I’d wear)

Photo from Google