Friday, September 23, 2011

5x5 Clothing: Shoes, Shoes & more Shoes!!

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Shoes, a girl's best friend or worst enemy?


Fall is here, and so it goes NEW SHOES!! ('cause you just have to!!)  I, like most females, LOVE SHOES!! The higher the heel, the better for me, even though I'm 5'10 and most times feel like an amazon woman rockin my 4" heels.  Who cares I say, that doesn't stop me and my continued conquest for the perfect pair!


MEOW!!
This fall is all about mixed prints, textures and platforms!!

It's time to put away those old dirty and tired flip flops and start giving your calves a good old work out again!  


OH NO!!  Looks like the duckie/penny shoe had sex and made a baby!
Always a good idea to buy a great shape and colour to wear more than one season! 
So what ya waiting for?  Get out there comb the city and find a great deal and adopt a new pair!  I always try to stay away from the 
"ultra trend", like fur shaggy boots ... 'cause let's not kid, they are never in style.  Just saying!!

um, Harry and the Henderson... Anyone?!?!!


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

5x5 Clothing: Anita Pallenberg "Sexy Fucking Bitch"

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If Keith Richards calls you a "sexy fucking bitch," I pretty much think that means you get to rule the world, at least for a couple decades.


And it appears that is just what sexy bitch Anita Pallenberg did..and depending who you talk to...still does.


So I hope I don't have to introduce who Keith Richards is but honestly, I had to "remind" someone who that was recently--I almost screamed 'the guitarist of the Rolling Stones, you fiend'.  


Ms Pallenberg was the girlfriend of said Keith Richards, and eventually gave birth to two of his children, but only after she was the long-time girlfriend of the other Stones guitarist, Brian Jones.  She later had some sexy relations with Mick Jagger as well. Holy!


So I've been reading Keith Richard's autobiography Life, and while most of it is about music and touring, there are glimpses of all his fab ladies over the years, including Anita--her style and position as Queen of Kool back in the early 60s and on.  




Richard's notes that Anita had a "huge influence on the style of the times" and that he usually just wore her clothes, anything that was "lying around".  Full lace berry-juice coloured blouse, with grape mini skirt and low slung belt, and matching rock boyfriend.....shit.  




Not just a rock girlfriend, she had roles in a bunch of movies at the time and knew all the avant-garde directors and performers throughout Europe and especially in Rome, where she was born.  Her roles included The Great Tyrant, in Barbarella [pictured above].  


 T-shirt jumper! Camel-toe!  
And according to Marianne Faithfull:  "She gave this incredible smile, which was quite frightening too, all those teeth. Like a wolf, like a cat that got the cream. . . She was gorgeous because she was so beautifully dressed, always in the perfect costume".


Glorious sixties hip chick, we salute you! 

Saturday, September 17, 2011

5x5: Beading and Beadwork

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I guess somethings never go out of style! Beads have been used to adorn and beautify for centuries, traced  as far back as 5 000 years ago


Beads and pendants from neolithic era.
I love how beading looks and feels. It takes something simple and can transform it into something extraordinary.  
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These are some fab beaded vintage purses; cute and stylish since the 1800s.
Flapper dress
The flapper style of the 1920s featured straighter silhouettes embellished with fantastic beadwork.  If you dig this style you might want to go see the Woody Allen movie “Midnight In Paris.”  It’s worth it for the costuming alone. 

Marion Cotillard from "Midnight in Paris"
I've made some beaded pieces myself. Here is a piece of felt that I beaded with a variety of natural stone, shell and glass beads and attached it to a belt with a wolf pin. Ya! 
Beaded felt piece

 This deer hide and felt purse was a birthday present, bought at the Six Nations in Brantford, Ontario.  

Deer hide and felt purse with beading

If you’re in Toronto and love native north amarican bead work check out the Bata Shoe Museum exhibit on Native foot wear.
Cherokee Mocassin c. 1840
There are also some wild beaded and embroidered pieces at the Textile Museum of Canada.  You might get inspired yourself!  Get out those seed beads or look through gramma's drawers for that little beaded purse, why not! 

Thursday, September 8, 2011

5x5 Clothing: Olson's, Yup Into It!!

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Yes this 5x5 girl is into the Olson's!!

See Ya Michelle Tanner, Hello fashion trend setters and successful business owners!!!  You either love them or hate them.  I think they are great!, who cares if MK (Mary-Kate) was in rehab for an eating disorder, or was into drugs.  What pre-teen doesn't struggle with identity and experiment with some kinda drugs and alcohol?!?
You're in big trouble Mr!!




At least she got help...most Hollywood kid stars keep fucking up over and over again.  Either it's drinking or drugs, driving when drunk or on drugs or both, shoplifting, cheating, saying sorry getting help just to fuck up again wake up 30 years later washed up and boring!  





Big time Babes!!  Shown here at Fashion week in Paris, these girls know how to dress,  they look like twins, but yet show they have two very different ideas for fashion and image.(and aren't afraid to show it)
At the prime age of only 24 I think these girls have proven they are here to stay.

 Getting some ideas for  
"The Row"
perhaps?  Double the brains, double the power, double the dynamic dual!!
Keep on being power bitches with complete beauty and style!! Bravo

Thursday, September 1, 2011

5x5 Grrl: Alexei Perry from Handsome Furs

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Alexei Perry.  Super hot broad that tours around the world with her super hot husband in their really cool band Handsome Furs.


The Montreal-based power duo not only tour the world, but hit up obscure locations, bringing their mix of sweaty electronic post-punk dance music to wide-eyed fans in places like Rangoon, Burma, and (you guessed it!) my northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.


I met Alexei a couple of years ago when I interviewed them after their very first show in Thailand. I could not possibly mistake which chick Alexei was: she was rockin' tapered black pants that had circle hole cuts all down the front of them; a blue, shiny short apron-esque shirt, with exposed back; foot-long silver dangley earrings, and ridiculous neon heels.  


booty shorts and guns, what have i been tellin' ya girls??!!
Alexei's style-cravings were right at home in Bangkok; she tends toward a sophisticated yet dirty motif, punk inspired sharp edges, layers, with just the right amount of skin showing.  She often rocks long, dangling necklaces and fringes, which look oh-so-cool when she makes out with her keyboard.  




An excerpt from her tour blog on shopping in Bangkok:

There is no limit to the bargains and range of designs you can find here. After two hours, it's hard to determine whether you really like the mesh green jumpsuit or the gold suit jacket or the Aladdin-style stilettos or the batik dress shirts or the knockoff Gucci best.

I attempt at buying it all, but Pot [her guide] adamantly refuses one shop owner, on my behalf, because she doesn't think the price is low enough. Despite the fact that it's a pretty incredible sequined number with a lace tie and strange ducks sewn on to it and it only costs 2$ Canadian, I try to see Pot's side of things and relent.  I do, after all, have armfuls of things that will make some friends jealous and others deeply disturbed/amused by these new fashion leaps I'll be taking.
Haha.  Wicked.  


Check out my two videos from their show in Bangkok from 2009.  


The show:  




And the interview (check out my wicked bust line while you're at it)...sound gets better after the chatty Thais settle down :) 



Really cool Alexei, keep going strong and dirty!