ROMANCE WAS BORN

My now-sadly-departed Australian intern Sophie enlightened me greatly on Australian culture... I was intrigued to discover that people actually really respect macdonalds salad offerings over there...

Also, this amazing label called Romance was Born lives there, seriously on my wavelength of aesthetic light-heartedness plus pazzaz! Any designers that use the word Jamboree in their bio, sound like the kind of people I want to bump into at an impersonal  foreign hotel someday in the future ...

Perhaps we could form a bond over our mutual language  and loveof glitter, turning curtains into soiree outfits with (sound-of-music style). 

For some reason on my computer the collection images speed crazily past- its like being on a fairground train ride of wonder, from the comfort of behind your own glowing screen...

WOW  WOW WHAT? WOW

LEONIE SMELT AW10- kalliderscope eyes

Super-sweet Netherlandish designer Leonie Smelt is a recent graduate from the Rotterdam Fashion University has come to Amsterdam from Vienna fashion week with a collection of glassy gold-framed sillouettes which reference kaleidoscopes with complex pleating and patterns. I love heavily optimistic fashion designers  and Leonie glows with good-feeling about the future of the industry PLUS today she has been sporting the most beautiful vintage brass shell bag (possibly 1940's)- her AW10 collection truly sparkles- check it;

Marloes ten Bhömer

Shoe artist Marloes ten Bhomer has promised that soon some of her shoe creations will be purchasable product (see the tourquise blue versions) due to the demand for wearable versions of her shoe art. I love that presents the process as part of the peice itself, and the spacial composition of it compliments the sculptural pieces themselves.