This is the hour. Ours is the magic. Ours is the power

Pink and gold is giving me strength right now. I can't tell you what it means to have the sun still up when I come home at 7pm each night, and having to wear my pink Karen Walker sunglasses when I leave home in the morning, and again in the evenings. I sense a change in myself, generally spurred on by watching Man Repeller's youtube videos. For the first time I want to become a simpler human being. But I'm still attracted to very pretty things, and want to buy all the strange and unusual objects I once did. But now, I think styling them will become slightly more reductive than before. I also want to know what looks good on me- and before I didn't really care I just wore what made me happy. But maybe this is important, to understand more about myself. And does that make me a sell out? No. I don't think people would look at how I dress and sneer that I am doing this to seek the attention of men. I want to wear things which make me happy and look at my reflection in shop windows and feel good about myself.

1- Meadham Kirchhoff, 2- unknown, 3- Kailey Flyte, 4 & 5- Flossgloss Baby Baby Lookboo, 6- photo by christinawinkelmann, 7- unknown.

lady love

Lately I've been fascinated with ladylike style extended beyond the stereotype of tall, thin women. This latest obsession has been largely inspired by these images from my Tumblr dashboard, but seeing connections between my online muses. An excessive, almost satirical use of pink is common amongst all of these photos but I have tried to include various body types and represent women of colour as well. This because I believe all forms of media should embrace diversity rather than pageantry of an idealistic notion. I am more conscious when I create a moodboard or photoset that is a whitewash of female models and excludes others. Feelings of exclusion are something I am trying to protect my readers from, while creating the same dreamy aesthetic I have cultivated over several years. It feels like a constant struggle to balance the two but I know in many ways it should not. This then makes me angry that popular culture and media could have formed in a number of ways, but we're stuck with what we have, but in many ways it is substandard and insufficient. 

1- Kailey Flyte. 2- Lady Gaga wearing a Juan Vidal sweater and Anya Callendo hat (instagram). 3 & 4- Laura Du Vé (femmeplastic), inspired by punk-puke. 5 & 6- Vivian Fu: May, 2014, San Francisco. 7 & 8- "In the bathroom" by Chiara Baragatti. 9- Divine (as Dawn Davenport) in John Waters’ Female Trouble, 1974.