Kate Moss @ 10 Dowing Street

Love this dress Kate Moss is wearing for her visit to 10 Downing St , as part of London Fashion Week 2011 Reception. UPDATE: Just found out that this is infact a Stella McCartney top - fabulous! With Louboutins.

Kate & Mario

Think Pink!

Honeysuckle has been nominated Colour of the Year 2011 by Pantone! “In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Honeysuckle derives its positive qualities from a powerful bond to its mother color red, the most physical, viscerally alive hue in the spectrum.”
I couldn't agree more - all Winter and Spring I searched the racks in both Auckland and Sydney for some BRIGHT Summer fashion. Only to be met with neutrals and pastels, and an disturbingly overwhelming glut of 'dusty pink'. I LOVE pink. I have loved pink since I was at the tail end of my 'black from head to toe' period in 1993, when I broke up with a like-minded boyfriend and by way of rebellion and closure, suddenly embraced pink in all it's fuschia glory - Schiaparelli-style. Pink is hot! I will be wearing pink through Winter and hopefully will have some appropriated threads for Summer 2011/12!

I'm not much into Valentine's Day - but it is my sister's birthday! (Check out her cool Blog here), So I prefer to celebrate that occasion. Never the less, here are some of my fave pink things this Valentine's month:

Gaga on Vogue US March 2011

Wildfox 'Burning Bright' Tiger Print Tee


Macaroons


Victor & Rolf Flowerbomb Limited Edition La Vie en Rose


Pink Suede Fringe Louboutins


Haigh's Rose Cream Chocolates


MAC lustre lipstick in Lovelorn


Rayban Wayfarers


Elle MacPherson Intimates Strawberry Pink Boudoir set


My fave Isabeli Fontana in Oscar de la Renta Spring 2011 gown
(worn by Lea Michelle @ the Oscars, here)


Archipelago peony Candles, available @ Superette Store

NARS 'Tainted Love' set incl. new hot pink limited edition Multiple - Angelika

Rosewater Martinis

Victoria Beckham & Ellen Von Unwerth

As with most editorials and shots by my favourite photographers, as soon as I glimpsed this shot I was drawn like a moth to the flame... I discovered the shot was by the incomparable Ellen Von Unwerth, one of my long term FAVOURITE fashion photographer and who I think takes the sexy shots of women since Helmut Newton. Victoria Beckham seems to have an innate knowledge of who's hot, the coolest, the best - always the best designers, stylists and photographers. I love that pose in the back of the limo, leg flung skyward in typical Von Unwerth abandon - and those amazing Bridget Back Silver Louboutins! Love. (Am obsessed with studded shoes ever since clocked Louboutins studded Ariellas 2 years ago - am currently in love with dsquared2's spiked, studded babies.) Fabulous. Here are my faves from 'Turk Modasi Serfine' for Vogue Turkey, August 2010 by Ellen Von Unwerth.
Von Unwerth's women are un-apologetically strong, sexy and not afraid to flaunt it. They're rock-chicks, sirens, glamazons & amazons. They are quite often drinking, eating, winking, smoking or draped louchely across a car/couch/man. I love the poses, the makeup, the fashions. Von Unwerth's women are typically long locked vixens with smoky eyes, 6 inch heels, a red lip and disheveled hair. And so it should be. Look how she has transferred the one & only VB into a curvy siren! Here are a few of my fave classic Von Unwerth shots, beginning with one of my favourite shots of all time which used to be on my bedroom wall in 1991 - Nadja Auermann's seminal shoot for Vogue UK - She is an Enigma (followed by other faves Salma Hayek, Gaga, Vanessa Paradis, Rosario Dawson, Liz Hurley, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis & Alessandra Ambrosio who is currently on the cover of LOVE magazine - any amazing shot by Mert & Marcus)