Marc Jacobs Spring 2016

 
"When teenagers complain that they want to be treated like human beings, it's usually because they are being treated like human beings."

"We'll just concoct ourselves a little hangover cure that'll induce her to spew red, white and blue"

"You were nothing before you met me. You were playing Barbies with Betty Finn."

"You wanted to be a member of the most powerful clique in school. If I wasn't already the head of it, I'd want the same thing."

"First you ask if you can be red, knowing that I'm always red."

"Transfer to Washington. Transfer to Jefferson. No one at Westerberg is going to let you play their reindeer games."

 

"Heather Chandler is one bitch that deserves to die."

  

"Killing her won't solve anything. I say we just grow up and be adults. But before that, I'd like to see Heather Chandler puke her guts out."

 
"No, my life's not perfect. I don't really like my friends."

"Great pate, mom, but I gotta motor if I wanna be ready for that party tonight."

"I don't really like your friends either."

"If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game-show host."

"Trust me, she skips the Saturday morning trip to Grandma's even when she's not hungover."

*Marc Jacobs runway photos via Gianni Pucci / Indigitalimages.com
Quotes and screencaps from Heathers (1988)
Photography by Petra Collins
and Best Friends Forever, shot by Eleanor Hardwick for Rookie Mag

Brooding

I'm really looking forward to finally seeing the David Bowie exhibition at ACMI in Melbourne, and as a consequence of that I've of course created a moodboard. It features some of the photographs that accompanied Grimes in her interview with The FADER magazine (which I highly recommend), as well as Kate Bush and Beth Ditto. Basically the unifying theme is transformation viewed from the eyes of a teenager. It is those years which seem the most pivotable, informative and malleable in terms of who we are and who we will become. It is less easy to transform ourselves in our twenties, and then into our thirties and forties without it being labelled as a mid-life crisis. Despite its difficulties it is always worthwhile to reexamine and have the courage to re-imagine ourselves but is fraught with the social perils of alienating our loved ones and those around us. This narrative is something that I come back to time and time again, which makes me think these feelings are part of the human experience in general but more closely associated with youth. Seeing someone else's life chronicled through outfits, but also the makeup they wore onstage will help inform these thoughts, but open many more questions. 

1- Kate Bush performing “Babooshka” on the Dr. Hook Show, 1980. 2 & 3- Grimes for Fader Magazine Issue #99 August-September 2015 by Ben Grieme. 4, 5 & 6- YSL.com. 7- unbenannt by Czar Kristoff on Flickr. 8- Marjan Jonkman by Greg Kadel for Numero. 9, 10 & 11- sadkejawaan. 12, 13 & 14- Exile on Prince St by Susan Meiselas. 15- Damaris Goddrie shot by Bryony Wright. 16- Cry BB by Hannah Kristina. 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21- Beth Ditto in POP Magazine (2007), “Size Zero” by Steven Klein. 22 & 23- Chloë Sevigny releases No Time for Love, a photobook filled with snapshots from photobooths and candid images of the men in her life, from her father to her first loves. Available on InnenZines.com