i love...

i am in love with this... details @ maison martin margiela spring 2007 couture.

living...

your head 

is a living forest

full of song birds.

e.e. cummings

alexander mcqueen ss 2005

for what it's worth...

for what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early, to be whoever you want to be.

there’s no time limit, stop whenever you want.

you can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.

 we can make the best or the worst of it.

 hope you make the best of it.

and i hope you see things that startle you.

i hope you feel things you never felt before.

i hope you meet people with a different point of view.

i hope you live a life you’re proud of.

if you find that you’re not, i hope you have the strength to start all over again.

the curious case of benjamin button, f. scott fitzgerald 
joseph beuys

my mind...

i’d be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

haruki murakami, the wind-up bird 

mozolewski

a black and white poem

sarah moon always knows how to take my breath away... she is definitely one of my favourites photographers. for voque turkey|march 2012|'a black and white poem', via +

the one i love...

there is a strange frenzy in my head,

of birds flying,

each particle circulating on its own.

is the one i love everywhere?

rumi

sølve sundsbø

moscow.protection

 i really like the feel of this editorial from the winter’s issue of POP magazine f/w 2010. a 'russian' photo shoot by photographer hellen van meene and stylist vanessa reid. it's quite raw and fragile and russian at the same time- although there are no russian designers used for this shoot.

via 11/13

i will...

i will set you in the sky and name you. 

i will hide you in the earth like treasure.

the stone gods, jeanette winterson 
lia sáile, from among trees

...

a few things i would love to have...

karen walker|humanoid

coleflax and fowler|rodarte
mayer berlin|quartz
via my pintrest

green...

in my hands, a bowl of tea.

all of nature is revealed in it's green colour.
closing my eyes i find green mountains and pure

water within my own heart.

silently drinking, i feel these become a part of me.

'rikyu'
'the girl from atlantis': alla kostromichova by sølve sundsbø for vogue nippon, may 2010 in alexander mcqueen spring summer 2010

i

do I dare believe

that i, and i alone will

ever be enough?

tyler knott gregson

sarah moon for voque turkey, march 2012,- a black and white poem

sleeps...

when you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. for the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

john lennon
kassandra

photography and painting...

jean-francois lepage is a french photographer with an intriguing and unique style of fashion photography. his work at the intersection of painting, cinema and contemporary photography, represents a very different way of seeing the world of fashion and is truly exceptional.

diamonds...

i love larissa hadjio diamond shaped bags. her work is all about playfulness and pure delight- turning sculptures into wearable objects.

via iiiinspired

fishing...

a small shelter for ice fishing, titled 'noun.1 unavailability', the quality of not being available when needed- is built with and by nature. the timber frame is foldable for easy relocation and storage, and is effortlessly put up anywhere by one. i might take fishing up...  
gartnerfuglen arkitekter, via arch daily

air and sanity...

gasping for air and sanity. moon and stars and clouds and night. out of breath and breathless. pillows and sheets and blankets and you. i will drown in this bed.

i wrote this for you
sarah moon for another magazine, fall 2011

handmade type

a typography experiment

 a self-initiated typographic experiment that explores the relationships between upper-case letters and lower-case letters, and also records the transformation between them.

tien-min liao, via behance

loom

a rug is the heart of a room

loom's beautiful over-dyed vintage, old yarn and new|contemporary rugs are to 'dye' for...

the way i dress

the way i dress is a little film series by photographer chris floyd, of people getting dressed. this one features mr. waris ahluwalia an actor and jewellery designer, wears elegant clothes with the same ease with which he approaches different disciplines. he certainly has an impeccable style.

"my motto in life is to learn from experience. i do things and learn from the process, and as soon as the process gets boring i am on to the next thing."

via booooooom and mr porter

paris, london, new york

i always wanted to live in paris. instead i ended up in london (and now in australia, where will i go next... new york?). i suppose i was lucky enough to go to paris a lot for work. and before that (i grew up in rotterdam) i was lucky enough to live not to far to take a bus, train or maybe just hitch hike to paris... oh i do miss living on that side of world. 

 the socialite family, via 16 house

trust...

trust your heart

if the seas catch fire

(and live by love

though the stars walk backward)

e. e. cummings
nick knight 

connected...

we 

are all connected; 

to each other, 

biologically; 

to the earth, 

chemically; 

to the rest of the universe, 

atomically.

neil degrasse tyson

sleep elevations by maia flore

around my garden...

in a little corner of my garden i am growing some vegetables and this morning i found a aubergine and a few beans. not that it will feed a family of four, nevertheless i feel proud of it. i honestly didn't know how well they were doing. i am not very good with plants, the only ones that seem to grow are succulents (and weeds), maybe that is because they store water to survive long dry periods. 

images all by me

secrets...

the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

don't go back to sleep.

rumi, the essential rumi

neo romantico in l’uomo vogue august 1996 by paolo roversi