Painted Girls

Kareem Iliya.

Naja Conrad-Hansen.

Erin Petson.

Prowling around Paddington with Bobby last time I was in Sydney, we found this beautiful book of fashion illustration and these were but three of the wonderful artists contained therein.

Irreverent Anna Wintour

I really love this! It's by Lisa Hanawalt. I think I appreciate it because I have a feeling Anna herself would get a kick out of it. I mean, following The September Issue, when everyone was on Team Grace and bagging Anna for being a hardened mag hag, I felt like the criticism was totally unjustified. Anna Wintour is a fashion/advertising/marketing/magazine genius... and if she was a man, no one would ever get up in her grill about her decision-making process. I could never get that at all - she's in charge of the most iconic magazine in the world folks; she is going to have to be the leader and make decisions. I've met male professors who were exactly 1,000,000 times more cut-throat than Anna appears in the film, and everyone tip toes around them asking their opinions on everything from art to how best to cook a pot roast :(
Plus, I really want to stand in front of a number of stores in the city, just wearing something outrageous and flipping the bird to all the indie freaks inside. Maybe I can find an Anna-esque wig to complete my homage.

Eye shades

Autumn de Wilde

Cedric Rivrain for Maison Michel

Guess where I am? I'm in the Architecture and Music Library rollin with my homies and keepin things sweet as bro! Sigh. 

I'm wearing a pretty crazy get-up in defiance of the archaic and obstructive university system which takes pride in all attempts to cripple creativity, as follows: skin tight black dance pants, black high heels, a singlet with a can can dancer on the front of it, a pink cardigan, a bright lilac pashmina, a fist full of rings and bracelets that jangle and my lucky cat ears headband.

Take that you academic squares!!

Rose Blake

"Fuck Art, Lets Dart!". I'll be needing this tee at some stage in the very near future. It's by UK artist Rose Blake. FACT: We have a dart board. FACT: I've been known to wonder down and have a chuck of darts in all states of undress. FACT: You'd not be wanting to vex me whilst there was a sharp object around as I have a mean little throwing arm. May not be incredibly accurate, but it will be fast and hard. Or it will take out whatever is directly over your shoulder. Winner.

Laura Laine

My little gem-of-a-friend Lizzy introduced me to the illustrative stylings of one Laura Laine. BLISS. Favourite is the "New Yorker"- the burlesque babies doing their thang. Luff.