Her Morning Elegance

New Favourite Blog

http://hardtoexplain79.blogspot.com

This blog is my new obsession, so god damn beautiful it makes me want to cry and be sick at the same time. The Smashing Pumpkins soundtrack (Take me Down) just tips it over the scale of WOW.

This is how I feel right now...

Chloe Sevigny via Chris Buck via Fashionista.com. (I'm trying my bestest to credit)

FT/TT

In my head all day long....

Rumours

I was with a friend looking at Pantone socks in a department store earlier on and she told me about Pantone makeup and I had to do some research. Looks AMAZING, think it's just a prototype....

Best cereal in the world??

I can't for the life of me remember what I was googling when I found these, or where I found them but OMG, possibly the best cereal ever?? Although now I doubt it would taste that good...

I want pink hair...

I think I found this via Fashion Toast.... x

Half-Term Holidays.

I finally managed to walk past Dalston Oxfam when it was open and it was just as wondrous and experience as I might have imagines. It's a rather large branch and the windows are always full of books which I have always found exciting, however I rarely wander down/up Kingsland Road enough to go in. Today was definitely the day. All the books are 99p! They also had an amazing selection which would have probably been even better if I had got there a few moments earlier as the couple queueing ahead were buying around fifty books! In order to renew my attempt at reading all the Booker Prize winners I picked up a copy of Anne Enright's 'The Gathering', 'White Tiger' by Aravind Adiga and 'Possession' by AS Byatt, as well as a nominee from 2003, 'Astonishing Splashes of Colour' by Clare Morrall. Burrowed deep within the shelves was also a copy of Maxine Hong Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior' which I have been meaning to read for a while. I also snapped up a copy of 'The Mitford Girls' (hence the photo) by Mary S Lovell  for a bit of lighter reading.

With some 'free' time on my hands I went for a trawl through BBC Iplayer and found 'South Riding'.  relying only on only streaming I miss programme adverts and tend to miss the beginning of some great Dramas, on other channels this doesn't matter, but as the BBC only keeps things up for 7 days I normally miss the first episode and thus fail to understand what is going on. Luckily, 'South Riding' has only just been shown, yesterday evening I believe, so I managed to actually get episode one. Totally loved it, for a totally idealistic trainee English Teacher, who up until now never really fancied a career as a Headmistress, it's made me actually consider the role of management within my future...

Due to a brief few years where I worked in fashion and spent two weeks of the year sitting on uncomfortable floors backstage waiting for girls who were waiting for hair/make-up fittings and so forth, whenever LFW comes around I always have slight mixed feelings about leaving my potential fashion career, mainly because LFW was my favourite thing, even if I did get a numb bum and no sleep for two weeks. Since then I always avidly check the reports on Style.com and Vogue.com and this year I'm amazed how quickly they are being uploaded. It used to be my job to sift through the shows looking for images of the models I looked after, not that easy when they are made over, wearing a hat and you've only seen them once! So, of the show reports I've glanced over so far from London, I have to see these are my two favourite images. The above, was the closing dress from Holly Fulton, I love it, there is just something about those clouds... and below, well, you can't beat Vivienne Westwood at the best of times and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fact she had pink hair opening the show. 

An image a day - 1

Susan Hiller

Monument (Image 1) Witness (Image 2) and Dedicated to the Unknown Artists were probably my favourite pieces from Susan Hiller's exhibition at the Tate Britain.

Having purchased Tate Membership back in the Autumn I have been a frequent visitor to Tate Modern, but terrible at visiting Tate Britain, thus missing amongst others the Edward Muybridge exhibit which I am still kicking myself about! Now that Pimlico is technically on my way home if I go via the Victoria Line, it means Tate Britain is easy access to in the need to calm my brain I decided to drop by after work and see what was going on (aka ensure I get my moneys worth from my Membership and just go and see everything) Tate Etc is still sat in its packaging under a pile of books on Educational Pedagogy and even so, the chance of me ever choosing to go and see the work of 'Susan Hiller' was slim to none, I've never heard of her or heard anything about her or seen the exhibit advertised.

Turns out, I should definitely experiment more so because it was one of the best exhibitions I have seen in the Uk for a LONG time. I had no idea what to expect and just found all of her work both interesting and beautiful.  According to the guide that accompanies the exhibition, Hiller was born in the USA in 1940 but has lived and worked in Britain since the seventies, her work is based on 'overlooked and ignored aspects of our culture' and presented in a combined media/installation method.  The exhibition, which is the largest yet and rather packed with work, is essentially a discussion of memory, language and imagination.

Again, apologising for my atrocious ability to comment on art, I am just going to make a brief reference to my favourite pieces.

Monument - A collection of memorial plaques inspired by the discovery of a neglected monument in a park in the City of London.

Witness - This INCREDIBLE sound based piece which transmits stories in a variety of languages. The atmospheres is just amazing. I love it and it just seems so relevant considering all of the recent work I have been involved in about Spoken Language study.

Dedicated to the Unknown Artists- A collection of seaside postcards

The brevity of my comments if simply a shallow explanation of what the pieces are, they are about alot more than what I say due to Hiller's involvement within them.

The exhibition is at Tate Britain until 15th May her website is www.susanhiller.org