Shout it out loud when I'm alive

My apologies for the lack of outfit posts and all that of late, but as it is, it's a pretty busy time on the one hand, with finishing up uni stuff, knitting, getting things ready for London (yey, tomorrow!) and lazy summer holidays on the other with watching unhealthy amounts of movies and eating ridiculous amounts of blueberry pie. It's a good time, if you don't hear from me, I'm probably doing great. I promise to be more productive when I return next Friday, and hopefully be able to present you some new famous knitting stuff then, too!

I already wish you all a wonderful week, leave you with a cool picture of Miss Lazareanu and... see you all next friday!

I need a frickin' job!

Because I really want these...



Marni Sandals, €455 on Net-A-Porter... yeah, right!

PS.: I've been interviewed for a fashion students' magazine called [FAEBRIC MAGAZINE]and it's their first issue out, so do check them out [HERE], they've done an amazing job!!

I just don't know what to do with myself...

I'm having these strange dreams that I'm in London and always something important is missing. In one dream, I have forgotten my suitcase, heading back into the airplane 10 times to see if I can find it only to figure out that I must've left it at home. In another one, I have forgotten to change money and in yet another, I simply have forgotten my shoes - which is worst of course ;)
Can't wait, London is gonna be so much fun! Less than a week!

This is a little drawing I made of Agent Cooper when he helps Leland to "find his path into the light". I just love this scene, it's very intense. I also simply love Coop with wet hair in his pretty face, haha... I'm just a girl after all! And finally, I love how this drawing turned out to look like a Marvel comic picture from the 60s.
I was thinking about colouring it, but finally I decided not to - it's perfect like this.



PS.: Thanks for your comments on the previous post, glad you agree. It's just disgusting :)

Have a lovely day my beautiful readers!

A really old discussion... still funny!

To be quite frank, I don't really like Aperican Apprarel. Until now, I only found one or the other sweater and pair of leggins that I felt the need to buy in their store. Mostly, the clothing is too fitted where I'm much more into slouchy and oversized things. Or it is too basic or too boring - simply.
Anyway, I simply *LOVE* browsing their website. And you know why? Because of the photography and the advertising they do. Do I have to pay to view this website?

Let's put it like this: When a stupid song contains only common place lyrics, a boring and too simple beat and the artist seems boring/ugly on top of it all, what do they do? They produce an uber sexy music video for it. Girls with less clothes on than Hugh Hefner's 10 girlfriends during any time of the day for sure - trying hard to look as sexy as possible in the video to make the viewer like the song despite the dramatically low quality of the music - which ideally should be in the center of attention. Did you ever see Radiohead produce such a video? No? Well, there you go.
Of course I'm banalising here, but that's just for the fun of it.

American Apparel does indeed do the same. Take this mesh dress for example. It's okay, I don't even find the dress that bad. It's quite cute and good for layering. Oh, wait, for LAYERING, yes! What does AA do? They ask their model, who probably gets paid a lil extra for not wearing even little panties underneath, to jump into this dress naked. AS IF, ladies and gentlemen, ANYBODY would ever wear the dress LIKE THIS EVER! (Except if you work in a certain horizontal business or in a strip-bar, which is okay of course, don't get me wrong, I absolutely approve of any of that!)

But just imagine Topshop selling the same kinda dress. They'd add cute tights and chunky boots, a fringey scarf, probably fun jewellery, studded bra and all that. They'd create a cool party outfit to promote the dress. The model would look decent AND sexy. Not cheap, AA! Cheap, that's the word. And that's how this adertising makes it look like. I like nakedness, I love it indeed. I run around naked all the time - AT HOME! But advertising like this is too obvious, simply and it's getting on my nerves because AA somehow understands it as their own way of advertising by now. They do it all the time!

Just as a reminder to AA, sex sells, yes, but not like this. Try to be more subtle, please.

Something sweet for to-night!

My true readers will of course remember this outfit shoot from a while ago... here's two outtakes from that shoot. Just been playing around with textures on PS.

Why am I still not in bed btw.? Yes, I am aware of the fact that I have to get up at 9 am again tomorrow whether I like it or not. Really lame.

Have a calm night everybody!

I didn't bother to get dressed today...

I love this photo by Philipp Mueller, very talented photographer to my eyes! The atmosphere is really relaxing and all, but I'm sure she burned on the metal of that car, hehe.

It's raining and raining and I'm pretty sure it won't stop today so no need to get ready because I definitely won't go outside today. In a way that's good because I can catch up on some knitting... right now I'm knitting a pair of very long overknee stockings. But it takes so long because - apparently - my legs are too long, haha. Very tiring.

Oh, and look at this baby, it's from Topshop and it's so cool... I wish I had already owned this when my vampirism seminar was still up and running, my teacher would've loved this!

All you people are vampires!

Take it easy baby
Take it as it comes
Don't move too fast
If you want your love to last
You've been moving much too fast...

Yep yep yep, mix of Arctic Monkeys and The Doors today... innit nice.
Jeez I'm dead. In dire need of a shower. I invited two Italian couchsurfers over to my garden last night... and we had a really good night. I haven't been walking on the cemetery at midnight since I was 11 years old, so that was an experience. Does anybody have any cool suggestions for cemeteries in other places that are fun to walk at night?

This is what I wore yesterday during the daytime. The shirt is very old, in fact stolen from my mom's closet. It's made of a wonderful silky fabric and I felt it was great for combining with some other shades of brown. It's a really easy holiday outfit somehow, and comfy to wear.

Have a nice day, I need to reanimate myself now somehow.



[Shirt: vintage from my mom, scarf: H&M, jewellery: vintage, jeans: Topshop, wedges: ASH]

In need of some damn fine coffee

It's a rainy morning, I'm standing on my stepper, exercising to wake my old bones up a bit after having slept only about 4 hours and subsequently eaten too many chocolate muffins for breakfast.
Remember my first two "Six Reasons" posts? Well, if not, scroll down on the right side and look for the post-label, duh! Anyway, I decided today is a good day for posting my third post of this category. Six reasons (which would be a cool name for a clothing brand should I ever get round to finally launch a collection) is mainly focusing on talking about people I adore as persons and their style.
The first two posts featured Irina Lazareanu and Pete Doherty, my two most favourite persons ever (next to Oscar Wilde of who I will certainly make a Six Reasons once day, too!)
But today I chose someone different. Despite me being a bit sceptic of anything Scottish (to all my Scottish readers, don't get offended, I do like you folks a lot!) Kyle MacLachlan caught my eye acting as the quirky and kinda spiritual yet serious and professional Agent Cooper in Lynch's Twin Peaks. As you already know, I went crazy over this series by now. Anyway, I then remembered MacLachlan playing young Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet, again by David Lynch, watched it and loved it. I quite enjoy how he manages to put some wit into all of his roles. Today I intend to watch The Trial with him playing indeed Josef K., alongside Anthony Hopkins who I adore very much as an actor. I love Kafka very much so I hope I'm not gonna be too disappointed by this film, but we'll see. I never liked him as Orson Hodge in Desperate Housewives by the way, really over the top character.
Well then, I'm off, enjoying a cup of *hot* coffee.

By the way, I was featured [HERE] and [HERE]. Second is a funny interview I made a while ago. Thank you so much girlss, it's much appreciated!




[Pictures from kylemaclachlan.com]

My parents are watching an Audrey Hepburn musical right now

while I'm desperately searching the WWW for the SNL clips that Elijah Wood once contributed to... Does anybody have them? The one where he was acting as Boy George especially! But "It's a hard Hobbit to break", too... so funny, damn me I lost them! Help!
Loved the SNL parody of Twin Peaks, too. "Diane, I consumed 15 doughnuts today, will be injecting my insoline in a minute." hehe...

Via twitter I stumbled upon T.U.K. creepers and their blog. I understand not everybody is enjoying the revival of the creepers in our wardrobes, but I love them. They remind me so much of the 90s, even though of course they're much older and mainly boyswear. I saw lots of girls sporting them at the Japanese/German meeting fest in Hannover a week ago and loved it.
Long story short, you can get creative now and invent your own dream creepers by downloading the PDF of the drawing of a creeper shoe [HERE] and colour or photoshop or whatever it. Then you can send it to their mail address and if they like it, they might post it on their blog soon. Cool and very creative idea, this is what I came up with. I'd totally wear the sequin ones I made, haha.

If I had time, I'd watch Twin Peaks, episode 9 rightNOW!!!

[I want want want this tunic shirt so bad!]


But as usual, Pixie Market is so out of my budget at the moment! That means, I bloody gotta find a kind of similar fabric and shoe-laces :D Gonna be a fun sewing project for sure!
I also think this model is particularly pretty somehow :)

Have you noticed how freakin' similar Harry Potter and Frodo - uh, I mean Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood look these days? Gives me the creeps, those big blue eyes, haha!

Now I'm in a rush - put my thesis in the folder once it has finished printing, then find something to wear, hop in the shower, make up, hair blabla, then off to uni, studying for politics on the way there xD And I bet it's gonna get over 30°c today, jeezz!!

I crave white on white and black...

Peter Doherty, photographed by Hedi Slimane... all the photos from this shoot are amazing, these are my three favourite ones, though (kittenzzz - cuuute! ;))

Currently obsessed with Twin Peaks. Just *amazing* - anyone feeling the same? Totally freaking me out at times but... my God, isn't Special Agent Dale Cooper gorgeous? I'm a bit in love, haha!

Politics exam tomorrow - wish me luck ;)

Feels like I've been here before

Just to present you a little thing today:
My new favourite sweater! I've sewn it on Friday night using just two things: the leftover fabric from the grey cardi I made for Pascal a while ago (Oi, Pascal, what's up with you anyway?) and a bit of silver/grey fabric which was a leftover from a dress I made like 5 years ago. Then also some grey and silver thread (which makes it more than two things, right? nevermind ;)) but that's it.
The cut is really simple, too since it's just a square with attached little sleeves (the silver fabric). On the bottom I added a rubber band to make it look more like a bubble shirt which is nice somehow^^ Well, that's about it and since I've got nothing else to tell you, I'll just type down what my iPod tells me are my current favourite 10 tracks. Have a great weekend!

The Basement Track - High Contrast
Hell Is Round The Corner - Tricky
Trippin' On Eva Be - Eva Be (Featuring David Ben-Porat)
Bob's Yer Uncle - Happy Mondays
Common Sense - Flunk
Dirty!Filthy! - Ascii Disko
Alone In Kyoto - Air
The World - Empire Of The Sun
Vlad The Impaler - Kasabian
Dissolved Girl - Massive Attack





[Jersey sweater: selfmade, skinny jeans: H&M, lace-up ankle boots: Topshop, bag: Balenciaga, bracelet: H&M]

Denmark is really gloomy in autumn!

That being just a quote popping into my head when looking out the window - my gosh, wasn't it supposed to be summer? Anyway, quote is from a film called "The boss of it all", really fun stuff, directed by Lars von Trier. Of course, the boyfriend made me watch it.

Discovered these leather lace-ups at Topshop today. They look pretty fun and I kind of want them, although they basically remind me of only one thing: class trips to the countryside when I was 10 years old. Of course, I wasn't wearing heels then, BUT the way they lace up and all remind me so much of 1997, running around rainy fields and forests - brrrr!

Speaking of leather, I gave me a treat with a gorgeous black leather biker jacket the other day, looking very classic and all and payed only 60 euros as it was second hand, the girl I bought them from said she originally payed over 160, but never got to wear it. Will definitely show you next time around.

Not going is not the solution.

Thanks to Topshop's [Inside Out Blog], I found an online mag called [I Love Fake] and even though I bet most of you know it already, I just spend my morning skimming through the issues available for reading on the website. Great photographers, interviews, fashion etc... just lovely, go have a look if you've been as ignorant as me ;)

Have a nice day everybody!!!

One day left to send me your offer!

Crop top, size S-M, self knitted with black, white and silver yarn, sequined and beaded!
Current bid is 85€, so if you really want this top, send me YOUR highest offer to akiri.kitty@gmail.com until tomorrow (9th of July), 6 pm!
Or, go to the [SHOP] to read more about this gorgeous piece!! There will never be a second top like this, so don't miss out on your chances! :)

Need a little lovin'

This is my absolutely favourite drawing ever done by the infamous Danny Roberts. It just captures the moment, I was speechless when I first saw it.
As some of you might know, I used to be drawing a lot when I was younger, and also paint, so I have a special relationship towards everything that involves pencils, pens and brushes - I just have no time for doing that kinda stuff myself at the moment which I regret so much! But I will start again as soon as I have the time, it's such a waste :)

Have a great day everybody, I'll be heading towards University very soon, hope to finish my fried potatoes with salad before that though!

Pink plus Irina? Crazy!

I already loved the fairy-kawaii-pics Miles Aldridge took of Irina for Vogue Italy lately, and now this. Again Miles Aldridge, again Vogue, but this time China. And Pink. Makes me wanna party :D

Ideas on how to use two different media to motivate reading with adolescent learners of English as a foreign language.

Yep, that's the title of my BA thesis - as from now on confirmed by my teacher. Gosh, I want to finishhhh... it's getting boring!

Nothing for me on the sales, it's all boring. But found a not-so-cheap but very beautiful soft denim-look dress at H&M the other day. It's gorgeous, really nice to wear on a hot day (as we have many of those lately!)

Went to have an ice cream round the corner with my sister earlier, I had a Spaghetti ice cream and my sister a Stracciatella chocolate ice cream. Wow, SO tasty, but the cream and choco/raspberry sauce and crunchy bits of chocolate on top were enough food for the whole day!

It's really the perfect kind of weather right now! Once I have finished with my BA it'll probably be pouring down again, but if not, I'll spend morning until evening in my parents' garden, that's for sure!

dress, silver bracelet: H&M, heels: Topshop, leather bag: vintage, local newspaper.

I don't fall in love...

... at least not too often!
I just had the weirdest dream about going from central London to Stansted by bus and there were loads of weird people on the bus AND the bus ride seemed to last like forever! And when I arrived at the airport, there was some guy around that used to go to high school with me, and he kind of lived there and had a home party going on, so I joined but it turned out to be some weird religious group meeting in the end so I was kinda freaked out and left again. Yeah, right.

Ok, anyway... I really, really, REALLY love this. When I went on [SHOP NASTYGAL.COM] and saw this combination of shorts and lace top, I was like "OMFG I WANT THIS - more than any chocolate ice cream in the world!!!" And I think the top isn't even for sale. Anyway, who cares right, we're all creative so I grabbed my studded shorts and drop-painted them like the ones from the website, although with different colours. They turned out great, I love it and wore them for uni the other day. Now just waiting for my Topshop lace body to arrive, and to find a cool bra (I don't usually wear any bras, I don't have anything to stuff a bra in anyway xD) to wear underneath.
I can already picture me staggering about just like that! Sometimes a picture can be SO inspiring!

Come on, loads of stuff up in the [CATS & DOGS SHOP] - I need the money, my university fees are eating me up!!!! :D

[NOW FOR SALE] I Am The Resurrection

Down down, you bring me down... indeed, I have my 80s Madchester phase again, listening to Happy Mondays and Stone Roses day and night - wonderful!

Some selfmade stuff that I wore today... knitted this shorty short crop tee some weeks ago, it's really cool and perfect when worn over a plain black top. Together with my selfmade lace ruffle skirt, it's the perfect outfit for an artsy concert where everybody looks kinda extravagant (a.k.a. The GOASTT concert with Sean Lennon, haha)

The top is really special, it's not only knitted with different yarn, silver, white and black, it's also sequined at the front shoulders and has little pearl details on the neckline. It's so adorable, don't you think? :) As to who might wonder, the knitted top and the skirt are up for sale NOW in my [SHOP], so hop over!!!

Had the most gorgeous piece of grilled steak today! Ultra juicy and soft and spicy, hah! Too bad it started raining just when we had set up the grill, though... weather can be such a bitch!

Hope to finish the first complete draft of my BA this weekend, bear with me!!!



(Ugh, I hate rain in my hair!!!!)




[Knitted crop-top: selfmade, lace ruffle layered skirt: selfmade, shoes: Vagabond]