Paris Week

Paris Fashion Week has just finished, so the blogosphere is alive with fashions from the streets of Paris. In other Parisian news, Lisa Curry Kenny's daughter is a dancer at the Moulin Rouge (Lisa considers the Moulin Rouge to be the Olympics of dance... not sure about that, but it is quite an achievement! Screw all those people who sniff down their nose at wearing a bejewelled g-string and high heels to work! PRUDES!); and Ali will be there in just over a week's time! Woot!!! I wish I was heading to Paris!

In order to live vicariously through Ali, and to (maybe) assist her in seeing what the peeps are wearing over there currently, here are some great shots of fashionable darlings as they sashay the streets of that lovely, croissant-lined city.

Of course, it is not a street style retrospective without a shot of ADR.

Really - she's so awesome. And those legs!

Hopefully Ali will find some delectable, well-dressed men in her travels:

These are my favourites:

Pics.

RIP Steve Jobs

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Part of a speech by Steve Jobs for the Commencement Address, Stanford University, 12 June 2005

****
I don't think it's overly dramatic to say that today the world has lost one of its great visionaries and a true creative genius. Steve Jobs was a person who saw a world of possibilities - a world where all the creative outputs of humankind would be available to everyone - and he managed to distill this powerful concept into simple technological solutions. Steve Jobs has given the power of information and connectivity to the world - all in simplistically beautiful devices. Steve Jobs has left an indelible mark on all of our lives. RIP.

Check this out.

Prudes and Nudes

The image above has apparently caused some heat under the collars of Australia's media agencies...

Ecoya's executive chairman Geoff Ross has explained that the image has been deemed "too controversial for billboards in Australia”, with Australian media agencies refusing to plaster the images across billboards anywhere here in Australia presumably for fear of stirring up controversy and courting censorship.

I am frankly surprised that there is an issue. Having been to many a music festival, sat under the blazing Australian sun on beaches across this country, and wandered through supposedly high end nightclubs of a Saturday night, I am acutely aware that the blatant flashing of flesh is hardly something that is either shocking or unusual in Australia. I've seen more breast and butt at these venues than the flesh exposed in Ecoya's frankly very tame advertisement (given it's a "Nude" range). It can hardly be considered tacky or risque... It's not like it's an American Apparel billboard, after all. (Read more here).

Following on from the controversy surrounding billboards promoting safe sex in the gay community, I can't help but wonder what is happening here in Australia. Are we too tightly tied to the apron strings of the Nanny State we've created for ourselves? Have we lost our sense of humour - and perspective - in the quagmire of political correctness? Or are we really just that prudish?

Well to loosen you all up, I suggest you check out these very quirky videos by Isabella Rossellini. Eat your hearts out prudes - remember: it's nature, bitches. Grow up and get in touch with your sexuality! You might even learn something!

Don't Judge a Book (or a beautiful woman) by The Cover

Blue Shoesday Continued...

Further to last week's shoesday of blue hues, here are some more!

The first and last are from Australian shoe retailer Wittner's current range.

And just for fun, a blue bike to finish.

Don't Look Back

Oh, the shame!

I am rather disappointed with Friday's knee-jerk reaction. What was I thinking?? Obviously not about the right people, or what my real priorities in life are. Yes to being polite - I believe good manners, like cleanliness, is next to godliness (so to speak) - but worrying about his feelings should I ever bump in to him again? No, no, no, no, no. Mon Got!

I should have been thinking of my current squeeze, and how he might feel if I told him I was catching up with my ex. Silly, silly girl. Not only that, I have solemnly vowed to certain friends that I would have nothing to do with this ex I speak of now. And honestly - our friends know best. And after a brief survey of most of my friends on this topic, I was greeted with a resounding - and LOUD! - "Don't even THINK ABOUT IT!". And they're quite right.

So the decision is now firmly made. There will be no catch ups, and no more time spent worrying about the feelings of someone who is, after all, not very nice nor worthy of my time.

In matters of the heart, I believe it best to simply say au revoir to past lovers. Full stop.

That ship has sailed

Update: Not surprisingly, nasty retort to my polite but firm "no". Some things never change.

Neons & Neutrals