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Romanticizing Shit

2013-01-21T12:35:00.000-08:00

Was just looking through some Photographs and stumbled across this one which right away gave me a very strong feeling. A feeling which I realize a few years back I would have really thought was 'pretty rad photo' but now more like' uuuughh really??' This right away made me realize wow am I growing up? Really? I thought I'd always be young at heart..... maybe just for certain things not including cleanliness. So here is the photo that gave me a realization of my mind's evolution on this Monday afternoon...

Photograph by Cary Wayman

Hey girl I think you can listen to the radio as you pick up the pieces that have fallen around you, this ain't that cute. It's actually grossing me out a bit.

I definitely will not be going back to the days where I would accept sleeping in a room with a bowl of chicken bones on the bedside table, a blanket for a door, beside a man who would refuse to shower. Maybe I'm just not 'hip' enough anymore.

I don't have Gills

2012-11-20T12:02:00.002-08:00

Just some gorgeous images that make me wanna see how long I can hold my breath for. Take a look sadly I don't know for the most part who they are by or where they originated but enjoy none the less!

Almost a Fin

Megan Isaacs for Katie Gallagher ear cuff

Right Side Up OR Up Side Down

2012-10-24T14:48:00.001-07:00

Anjo Chiang

print suits from Prada

Came across this amazing illustrator Anjo Chiang, who makes not only amazing prints but also great illustrations. Just love the different views of the squatting ladies.... What do you see her doing first?

And of course had to put some amazing printed suits into the mix too.

KALEIDOSCOPE TIME!

photography by Darlene Delbecq

ManiMania Jewellery

Loner not Loser

2012-10-16T06:15:00.000-07:00

What we are currently working on>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's always on to the next one, even though I don't like anticipating frosty mornings quite yet. But at least after winter comes spring.

Lone Wolf Volume 4

2012-10-11T18:40:00.000-07:00

Thought I would put up my favourites of Lone Wolf's Volume 4 but make sure to check out the whole thing because there are many more gems in this issue!

www.lonewolfmag.com

Some beautiful images from our feature artist Amanda Charchain

Love love LOVE this image from editorial Lunatic Dreams

The styling in this photo is my biggest swoon; nothing I love more than a great combination of cowboy hats & fun fur

Great photos by Sonja Kranz with a wardrobe made from nothing but plastic, aluminum, & paper. Yay to up-cycled fashion

Lone Wolf Duo's editorial spread, amazing prints with fun paths

Our steamy centrefold getting fat....YUM

Shuffled Back and Forth

2012-09-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

Strangely I have gotten inspired by sea creatures while viewing a band with a mammal name. Grizzly Bear at Massey Hall last night not only had amazing sounds but also great glowing Jelly Fish. I guess not really Jelly Fish per-say but with blue lights filling the hall, the back white rope lanterns with long dangling tails, that floated up and down to the different rhythms, really made me feel like I was under the sea. I was constantly distracted by these beautiful 'light creatures'. Even when Feist came out in her kick ass long cozy sweater I still had many glimpses at the floating jellyfish. So to sum things up, great music, jellyfish and sweaters I feel link all very nicely for my first Fall post, and coincidentally while checking out some cozy sweaters I see a striking resemblance to the sea creature and the knits... but maybe yet again it is just me.


So crazy that something so graceful, soft and beautiful can really give you a good ZAP...CLICHE?!

Missoni Sweater has that lovey 'Jellyfish' silhouette with the crazy print of 'what am I looking at' while opening your eyes under water.

Have you ever seen one that big?? Is this real?

Missoni and their prints always lure me in>>>>>>>>>>


beautiful & hypnotizing.

I once accidentally stepped on a beached Jelly Fish while running across a red sand beach on P.E.I. I was trying to catch up to my older sisters and cousins. It squished in between my toes, softer than jello, not as jiggly and more delicate. As a kid it didn't really phase me, I was on a mission to get to the sea..... and it sort of felt good.

Sweet Dreams

2012-08-23T17:52:00.000-07:00

I have been having some crazy detailed dreams lately, one including some intense UFOs.... I thought I was gonna die but they ended up just carrying on in their journey to who knows where. Anywho, I felt that this shoot I styled which was just recently published in Hacid Magazine fit in nicely with my REMs

Some of these pieces can be found at mine and Darlene's lovely vintage site if interested!

Check out Filthy Rebena

Forever Young

2012-08-09T17:51:00.000-07:00

Love this video. Whenever I feel dreary I take a look at this awesome blog Advance Style Not only does it excite me to grow old (don't worry I will always be young at heart) but watching this trailer inspires me to make my own false lashes from my hair. I was thinking just recently that I needed a trim....

Wise (whimsical) Woman Tribute:

Anna Piaggi,

Summer Centrefold

2012-07-22T19:17:00.001-07:00

This afternoon we just finished up Lone Wolf's Centrefold for the fall issue, which was equipped nicely with all the right ingredients to not get you a 6 pack... Quite opposite of our sporty summer shoot which I realized I haven't even put up the pics for yet so here they are if you haven't already seen them in the mag! (Lone Wolf )

Old School

2012-07-09T19:34:00.001-07:00

Almost a year old shoot, which was published in String Magazine awhile Back. Check out that mag it is a nice westerly publication. String Magazine

The wonderful lace cape hats are made by designer Tahnee Reyes.

Come live in my heart and pay no rent

2012-05-23T19:49:00.000-07:00

This is long overdue but better late than never, I tend to say way too often. Lone Wolf's summer issue has been released for all you lovers!

Summer love, please go check it out

lonewolfmag.com


cover shot by the talented Anna Wolf

A few pages from the mag. Love these embraces in Laura Mekabresku's shots.

Good Sport

2012-04-18T09:46:00.000-07:00

It's getting to that time of the season when I'm feeling 'sporty'. Now I wouldn't say that I am good at sports but I am a good sport! Wawa. Enough bad jokes, here are shots that will hopefully put you in the mood to get out there and 'try your darndest!' thanks mom!

A sporty themed video from Grimes, that just seems completely unsporty at the same time. I feel that this girl would have a hard time even throwing a baseball... On that note the first time I watched this I was not impressed, even thought the song was cheeseball, couldn't handle watching her rock out although it does look like she's having a good time... just very hard to watch. BUT!!! I found myself humming the song the next day, it got stuck into my head and I had to listen again! And really enjoy that one line "to look into my eyes and tell me girl you know you gotta watch your health" Good line Grimes, so true, this may be my favourite romance line in a song at the moment, well right this very second. So here's to 'good health' think I gotta work on that one. GO GET SPORTY!

Lisa-Marie Fernandez Swimsuit

New work-out craze... indoor surfing? Think it would be slightly funner than cycling

My kind of water sport

Roller-blades are cool, I don't care what you all say.

spencernotspencer

Hurdles ARE hard

Honeymoon-in-vegas

2012-04-11T18:15:00.000-07:00

Do a little dancing

Play some cards

Get Hitched

Have a little fun

Get drunk.... on love or Jack

Pass Out spencer not spencer

Images I'm loving this second!

No need to worry about shark attacks on this vacay. Possible cougar attacks pending though.

So bad it's good, so good it's bad

2012-04-10T19:35:00.001-07:00

I always have a tendency to be drawn towards 'tacky' things. I can't seem to help it and have come to terms with this fact. For example, was just recently saying I needed something with flames on it, then came across this amazing editorial.... apparently someone is on the same page as me! Love these shots, want everything that's in them, but mainly I just want to be in the dessert with the flame wallet. Fast cars and hot tar.

Vogue Spain April 2012

photography: Hunter & Gatti, model: Auguste Abeliunaite, stylist: Sara Fernandez, hair: Paco Garrigues, make-up: Frank Garrett

fashion gone rogue

Print!

2012-04-01T13:24:00.000-07:00

Great shot from 1991

Blazing poppies wallpaper, also my favourite flower

Love the mixture of prints done by Mary Katrantzou (below)

It's time to get LOST in the wallpaper

Did not make it to Hawaii this year to smell the pretty flowers but hopefully soon!

Interiors moving into fashion >>>>Tapestry D&G

Portrait of a Lady

2012-03-31T10:35:00.000-07:00

Images I'm in love with this very second!!!

Love Solange Knowles and her damn blog and of course Marylin's gazy dazy summer hazy eyes. PS... remember fringe umbrellas, yes they were the best to suck Popsicles under.

... It's Alright

2012-03-30T05:36:00.000-07:00

*Love everything about this editorial.* Check the full thing out at:

Russh April - May 2012

photography: Nick Dorey, model: Josephien Rodermans, stylist: Gillian Wilkins

Frou Frou

2012-03-29T20:26:00.000-07:00

Always love going into Frou Frou Vintage at the very end of Parkdale (but I guess very beginning for me). It is always a mood lifter walking in and hearing the French music play and seeing store owner Mathew.

Mathew has a shop full of great treasures including some amazing dresses that I will be shooting very shortly in some concrete pools with photographer Farzam Hosseindoust.

Can't Wait!

Just hope Filthy and Frou Frou can be friends

Sound

2012-03-08T18:51:00.000-08:00

There is something about harmonizing howling that drives me wild. It's almost a Rib-cage splitting open and light streaming out kind of thang.

Really love this song, thinking maybe because is holds similarities to some of my other loves.... do you see a resemblance??

Feeling like Howling.... maybe because it's a full moon tonight.

Lone Wolf's Centrefold

2012-03-04T20:31:00.000-08:00

Lone Wolf Magazine's centrefold for the premiere issue..... which by the way you can grab your copy for here!

Model and industrial Designer Jano Badovinac was our first Centre-fold candit and I can definitely say it will be hard to top this one, but don't worry we've got a few more tricks up our sleeves. I remember first seeing Jano at a Klaxon Howl show a couple years back and immediately fell in love. It was quite exciting to be able to style such a Toronto Icon.

Hacid Magazine

2012-03-02T17:57:00.000-08:00

I have been slightly lazy about posting up my shoots. Sorry to bombard you again with Hacid Magazine, but I just gotta put my favourite's up!!

My favourite of them all and guess what? It made the cover!

Everybody loves a good Dickie.... or at least I do....

Items like this I like to call 'Joke Clothing' the things that fool you... velcro under a good button, a deceiving pocket that is strictly for looks, and of course the false blouse under your nice acrylic sweater.

Tricks are for Kids

Please check out the actual editorial in Hacid Magazine

Wildfox

2012-03-01T20:20:00.000-08:00

My favourite images from Wildfox's Spring/Summer 2012 Lookbook.

Gun Slinging Sistas.

Sad Clown

2012-02-07T08:44:00.000-08:00

Recently published in Zeum Magazine issue three. Love these two photos of a 'sad clown'. I am generally terrified to death of clowns but she makes a very cute one.

Check out the rest of the editorial here!

Feeling Nostalgic?

2012-02-02T21:10:00.000-08:00

Right now I am feeling more excited than nostalgic. Excited by nature, nostalgic by theme. You see I just saw the first copy of Lone Wolf Magazine and am sooooo excited for it to hit the streets of Toronto (and the world wide web as well). Lone Wolf's theme this issue is nostalgia and with that I am putting up some AMAZINGLY Retro inspired photos from FASHION GONE ROGUE. Here are my favourites from this editorial:

Excited for: The Daisy Necklace (and many more daisies to come this season) Nostalgic for: The Prickly Pear Cacti that reminds me of one of my favourite trips I took with my parents to Arizona

Excited for: Skirts with Thigh-High slits Nostalgic for: Sitting in the sun in a Cone Bra (false nostalgia of course)

Excited for: The head scarf that also wraps around the neck - SO GOOD Nostalgic for: Blossoms on the trees

My two favourite sides of Nevada

2012-01-27T11:03:00.000-08:00

My two favourite sides of Nevada, Glitz and Grit. If this 'marriage ceremony' were ever to happen in my lifetime, my future husband must either meet me down the aisle decked out in sequins or wearing the 'Canadian Tuxedo' which I'm sure the cowboys of Nevada have another name for. I am always on the fence for which is better, a man who is all about expressing his fashionable sense and not giving a shit what people will think of it, or a man who just doesn't give a shit about what he looks like and turns his functional ways into well you can see below.... hotness. Here are my favourite images from this editorial.

I was just recently in Common Sort looking at an amazing Stetson Cowboy hat. Shortly after I saw this editorial... I think it is telling me to go back and grab that hat.

Giddy Up / The King is Back

Vogue France February 2012

photography: Inez and Vinoodh

model: Daria Werbowy

stylist: Emmanuelle Alt, Melanie Ward + Joe McKenna

hair: James Pecis

Make-up: Lisa Butler

tfs