Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

Saturday

Galliano is a Skinhead




The Below article by Anna Higgins for Hot Topic says it all; click title link for full article..


" It's been beyond a bad week for Dior designer John Galliano, who was suspended from his post as head of the fashion house on February 25.
The British raised designer, 50, had been arrested in Paris on charges of assault and making anti-Semitic remarks to fellow patrons at a Parisian café. 'Incitement to racial hatred' is a crime in France, and punishable by up to six months in prison.
Galliano allegedly pulled a woman's hair before telling her she had a 'dirty Jew face.' Soon after, a video of a separate incident surfaced of Galliano telling drinkers "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed."
If that wasn't incriminating enough, the designer then declared 'I love Hitler'.

Nicole Kidman and Sharon Stone both wore Dior to the Academy Awards on Monday, but both refused to engage in conversation about the designer's troubles.

Best Actress winner Natalie Portman is also the face of perfume Miss Dior Cherie. The actress had no comment on Galliano in the press room after the Oscars, but had this to say later in the week.

'I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano's comments that surfaced today,' the actress said in a statement.
'In light of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr Galliano in any way.
'I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful.'
The actress was born Natalie Hershlag in Jerusalem. Portman, her grandmother's maiden name, is her stage name.

Soon after, Galliano was fired from his $8m a year position as the head of Dior. The fashion house's show at Paris Fashion Week went ahead - but with not one celebrity, bar Vogue editor Anna Wintour, in the front row.
The French firm made a statement that it 'firmly condemned' Galliano's behaviour.

The designer has since fled to Meadows, a rehab favoured by celebrities, in Arizona. Can you be cured of being an obnoxious anti-Semite?
A source told UK paper The Daily Mail that Galliano is 'obsessed' with his own Jewish roots.
Galliano was set to design supermodel Kate Moss' wedding dress for her July nuptials, while he was also responsible for Gwen Stefani's wedding gown - my favourite celebrity wedding dress ever. "

How disgusting, i hope he never works another day in his life. This will be an interesting game watching who supports
his post remark era...and was Anna Wintour's appearance a sign of some sort...

xx

Picket Line Fashion



Maison Martin Margiela SS 2011 Paris Show

Some food for thought, would you be caught dead at any public place wearing this? Is this an equitable line a fashion
house can sell? Forgive me for thinking the folks at Maison Margiela are on crack but has fashion finally found its
ultimate faux-pas....xx

Wednesday

Simply Delicious



Scoot on over to Hoefler & Frere-Jones and fill your tummy with delectable type, enough to brighten an typographers day

xx

Monday

Rocco's Malvern




Today we missioned from the north side to our fellow officionado Rocco in the south west. He lured us in with his fine cache of handmade shoes. In business for over 40 years he sure knows his shit. Trapse down and pay the old boy a visit, from $150-$200 it wont be cheap but it will ever worth your while.

42 station st
Malvern

Pope Joan



Tasty Treats and a quiet spot, pop in to Pope Joan Cafe on Nicholson st for a cuppa and a yarn, your soul will thank you for it. xx

Saturday

TRUE Frenchy





Last week i visited Boire on SMith St in Melbourne and finally began getting back into Melbourne's hidden restaurant scene. The food was simple, the service was friendly and the menu changes every day. The atmos is simple and the food reminds me of rural french food that tastes delicious and is served on grandma;s floral china with veges and sauce...

With mains at $23 a plate you cant go wrong, $170 for four of us with entree's mains and wine i thought it a steal.
Skip that next pack of fags or two and treat yourself to some wholesome french culture, the way it should be

92 smith st
collingwood

xx

Tuesday

Olsensanonymous



This blog is one of my many daily obsessions, if you love Olsen Fashion anywhere as much as me, it'll be your daily grind too

http://olsensanonymous.blogspot.com/

xx

Sunday

Brett is a Girl






check the title link for Brett, a sweet US illustrator with mad style xx Props
image copyright Brett Manning

Bitch Please





In keeping with this week's 'BITCHES' theme,

Bitch Is just another word misogynistic men have adopted to assign to women that don’t take a particular liking to the optimistic wolf-whistle or suggestive pinch of the bottom they implied in the false hope that they may be rewarded with a smile, perhaps a wink or even, if its their lucky day a flirtatious kiss on the cheek or exchange of digits, numerical that is.

This endearing term is unrivalled in the female repertoire of linguistic ammunition, compared loosely with...

Arsehole; (quite a functional and important body part)
Prick; (the most minor of ailments that inflicts pain for only a second)
Bastard; (a child born with the gift of never having any parents to screw them up)

I have thus decided to create my own term and assign I back to all you vocal menfolk who validate my notions of this ‘mans’ world. The term is “PILE” see below for full (urban) dictionary term;

Pile
pa - hyl
noun, verb, piled, pil·in

A mound of faeces or excrament

A disorganized or loosely ordered group

A faction or sect of society who choose to follow cavemen or stoneage principles of courtship


This term is not only perfect for its conceptual value, it can also be used in abundance for its bewildering effect. As this is a ‘fresh’ term, you can guarantee that none of the heckling offenders will be able to determine its actual meaning until they decide to look it up on urbandictionary.com, or read it on this blog, neither of which they will ever do.

Sunday

ROA street artist in Paris



Killer hand illustrated ROA street artist in Paris, check out more on

http://www.woostercollective.com/ROA--Paris-Montry.jpg

xxLurid

Nadadores - A Ceramic Animation by Sam3

Friday

Storm Troopers get Naughty


I always knew they were mischievous little buggers, but this is photographic evidence. Good work Stefan. xx L