Hard & Soft

Dazed December 2009
Photography: Kacper Kasprzyk
Styling: Mattias Karlsson

Young Once

'The Age of Adolescence: Photographs 1959-1964', by Joseph Stirling

Me. Me Me.

'Journals' by Kurt Cobain, published by Riverhead Books, 2003

Kids

Photography: Ryan McGinley
Styling: Panos Yiapanis
Featured in Purple magazine, A/W 2009

People Have The Power

Last night I went to the opening of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition 'A Season In Hell' at the Alison Jacques Gallery on Berners Street.

Patti Smith was there to open it, and she sang to about 500 of us, all standing out on the street.

I was dreaming in my dreaming
Of an aspect bright and fair
And my sleeping it was broken
But my dream it lingered near
In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
That the people / have the power
To redeem / the work of fools
Upon the meek / the graces shower
It's decreed / the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
And bending low as if to hear
And the armies ceased advancing
Because the people had their ear
And the shepherds and the soldiers
Lay beneath the stars
Exchanging visions
And laying arms
To waste / in the dust
In the form of / shining valleys
Where the pure air / recognized
And my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
Like cream the waters rise
And we strolled there together
With none to laugh or criticize
And the leopard
And the lamb
Lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
To recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
God knows / a purer view
As I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The power to dream / to rule
To wrestle the world from fools
Its decreed the people rule
Its decreed the people rule
Listen
I believe everything we dream
Can come to pass through our union
We can turn the world around
We can turn the earths revolution
We have the power
People have the power

Miu Miu S/S 2010

'Dance I' by Henri Matisse, 1909


Cute

Stella

Stella McCartney S/S 2010

Next Time I'll Be True

'Lovers with 3-D glasses at the Palace Theatre (Infra-red)', Weegee, 1943

Boys don't cry

Chloë Sevigny for Opening Ceremony F/W 09

Paris

There from tomorrow until Friday

'Sur La Tour Eiffel', Erwin Blumenfeld editorial for Vogue, 1938

Shank 1 Black

Love these boots


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Live Forever

'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton'
9 July - 20 September 2009, Whitechapel Gallery
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org
'Keith (From Gimme Shelter)' by Elizabeth Peyton, 2004

The Passage of Desire

'Medusa' by Caravaggio, 1597

'The Facts of Winter' is 'a series of dreams, all dreamed by people in and around Paris during the winter of 1881... It is a fictional account of the imaginary lives of people who may or may not be real, and who, in any case, lived a quarter of a century before the book was written in 1904'.

Passage du Désir
'Le 8 février, Mme F rêve qu’elle traverse le passage du Désir avec un jeune homme qui lui explique la loi sur le divorce. Soudain, son mari surgit devant eux et sort de sa poche la tête de la Méduse. "Retournez-vous, dit la tête, retournez-vous". Mme F se retourne, mais le jeune homme, préoccupé par son propre discourse, continue: "Même si vous n’avez commis aucun". Il ne bouge plus. Son bras est tendu comme s’il dansait au bal, et sa bouche est ouverte pour prononcer le mot "tort".'

'On February 8, Mme F dreams that she is walking along the passage of Desire with a young man who explains to her the law regarding divorce. Suddenly, her husband appears before them and takes Medusa's head from his pocket. "Turn around", the head says, "Turn around". Mme F turns around, but the young man, preoccupied with his own speech, continues, "Even if you have done no". He doesn't move any more. His arm is extended as if he were dancing at a ball, and his mouth is open to pronounce the word "wrong".'

'The Facts of Winter' by Paul Poissel, McSweeney's Books, 2005

Instant Light

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