blue is the warmest colour

At the moment i'm trying to go through a reinvention. I feel like I should be channelling one "aesthetic" and so revibing my room seems like the place to start. It's kinda just a combo of weird nic nacs and nostalgia-infused items and I need to move on from it because it feels like I am stuck in the headspace of a 13 year old right now. Suggestions would be grateful so suggest away...

I am finding water v inspiring at the moment and generally cold colours too probably because of this weird "weather identity crisis" (no joke the weatherman actually said that), where basically it's warm? Yeah I know. I always try to steer myself away from the colour blue because I feel like it's too common but I end up veering back towards it because half of the clothes I own are blue. I have decided to accept that blue is just a colour I wear a lot and this is the way it is.

Maybe the reason I am drawn to cold colours is because I am drawn to sad things. The majority of my favourite films/books are flecked with melancholia and general loss (eg The Great Gatsby, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Fight Club etc). This is because I feel like there is so much more depth to sadness than to happiness. When you're happy you don't think about being happy, you live in the moment. When you're sad, however, there are so many more questions you ask yourself and so many more levels to the feeling. I think the depth of sadness is reflected in the colours it represents and when i watch/read/see sad things the colours create some kind of empathy within me.

  

 

 

 

 

I adore this photo. I already love Robert Doisneau but this has made me love him even more. Everything about it is perfect; the symmetry, the people, the simplicity.

I've never seen The Dreamers but the stills are so beautiful.

  Out of interest i looked up Vogue October 1998 as it is my birth month. I found a rad photoshoot from Vogue Italia which totally encaptures my mood and colour scheme at the moment.

Amateur Photography in London by Tim Walker, Vogue Italia October 1998    

  

   

  

'Check you have not got anything growing from the subjects face'

(waves goodbye)

Suzie

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sacre bleu

The weather is doing it's usual "let's annoy every child in Britain and be sunny when they start school" act which has left me in a bit of a clothing rut. I have a growing collection of knitted tank tops which I am more than ready to wear however I will cook so what do I wear?? Dungarees have saved the day here so for the entirety of September I will just have to look like Mario and Luigi's younger sister (minus the cap and plus a Breton).

 

 

Dungarees - Rokit

Top - H & M

 

Excuse the confused expression, the sun was murdering my eyes at this point so I guess you're lucky they're even open.

I have rediscovered my love for everything French since watching that Jacquemus video (see my last post). The French are just an extremely cool bunch of people with an effortless and automatic style. Bretons are always gonna be cool, basically because they're French. They go with absolutely everything and just. look. cool. There's no explaining it, IT JUST IS. I bought this one ages ago on a whim but never wore it because I was like "meh it's too mainstream" but then I got over myself and realised that Bretons are timeless (and French).

 

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I know I shouldn't be moaning but I really miss the typical Autumn weather. I love the multi-coloured leaves and fires (cliché but whatever) and somehow that the cold weather is an excuse for eating more? Golden Brown always reminds me of Autumn and brings back a certain nostalgia of early birthdays.

 

 

(waves goodbye)

Suzie

the pool... it's kind of our headquarters.

I  recently dicovered this French designer called Jacquemus and i already love his designs more than peanut butter. I guess it's based around simple shapes and colours. It's ultra femuline but with a sexy french twist (bc everything french is sexy). I also love how comfortable the models look, like they actually want to be wearing the clothes, most of the time models look pissed off and but these girls just look like a group of (v v v cool) friends. Also all the contact page says (apart from the contacts) is:

 

JE M’APPELLE SIMON , J’AIME LE BLEU ET LE BLANC, LES RAYURES, LE SOLEIL, LES FRUITS, MARSEILLE ET LES ANNEES 80

um can u get anymore more rad?

This collection is called La Piscine and i actually see why. The colours remind me of an old swimming pool, the worn tiles and those lane seperator thingys you get in the water. I can even smell the chlorine looking at it. The photographs also have a cold effect to them which enhances the colours and the whole water vibe. It's only just occurred to me how inspiring water can be, the way it catches sun rays and how everything underwater looks so ethereal. It's such a basic necessity but there are so many ways in which it can appear different. Am i making any sense??

  

  

only the coolest girl gang i've ever seen

 

 
JACQUEMUS / LA PISCINE from jacquemus on Vimeo.

I love how they drink orangina and eat apples and just hang out like regular bored young people. Also totally digging the flip phone, most high tech thing circa 2005. My favourite line is "I think healthy people and athletes are gross anyway".

I'm thinking of writing an early Christmas letter to Papa xmas and asking to be French. More like begging actually.


(waves goodbye)
Suzie

All photos from  http://jacquemus.com/

lose myself in teenage lies

As some pre-school retail therapy me and my friend Libby went to Bristol the other day. It was really fun but pretty hectic as we covered a very large area by foot ( we practically walked around the whole city). Sorry about the picture quality, most of them were hurriedly taken on my phone but i will (hopefully) be getting a camera for my birthday soon so i will not have to suffer any longer (slight exaggeration).

Bristol has a tonne of great vintage shops including Dutty (mirror selfie below taken in said place) which also sells it's own t shirts etc, Uncle Sam's, Urban Fox and many more. Unfortunately we ran out of time but there are loads more. I bought a knitted tank top, some earrings and FOUND magazine which is this awesome collection of photos and letters found and letters found in random places. I was so pleased when i found it (ha ha), no seriously i have been looking for it for ages.

 

In Cabot's Circus we stopped for Bubbletea which both of us were extremely keen to try! I had peach iced tea with mango bubbles and OMG it was almost as good as frozen yoghurt. If you haven't tried bubbletea before  I THOUROUGHLY RECOMMEND YOU DO.

 

I wanna say that Bristol is the birthplace of graffiti because there is so much of it there. On our travels we saw many examples including many by Banksy and Nick Walker (above). I feel like graffiti adds culture to places and makes the outside world a more vibrant place, it's a refreshing change from seeing the monotonous colours of buildings.

I didn't realise at first (even though it seems fairly obvious now) that Naked Man image by Banksy (below) has actually been vandalised with blue paint as i realised when looking up the name of it. This reminded me of the Bansky piece in Cheltenham which has recently been vandalised and is currently boarded up so no one can harm it again. It's such a shame that people deem it necessary to ruin a piece of artwork. It wouldn't be acceptable in an art gallery so why is it acceptable on the streets?

We stopped for lunch in a cafe in Stokes Croft (killing myself trying to remember the name of it) where we had the most delicious falafel, hummus and coleslaw pittas. Still debating whether this or the bubbletea was nicer?? 

This will probably be my last post before school starts so i may not post for a few weeks (possibly due to death by shock of wearing school uniform... who knows?)

(waves goodbye)

Suzie

En Vacances part 2

Yesterday I picked up my disposable photos after being developed and I am really happy with how they turned out. Despite many of them being partially ruined by my finger being on the lense (?) most of them turned out really well especially the underwater ones.

Also, apologies for the random borders the scanner left on them (a good example of my technological ignorance/ineptness). I tried to take pictures of the photos but that was even worse.

 

 

 

Idk why my mouth is grey in this, another eg of my technological ineptness/shit scanner

We found a pack of cards in the sea. 

Aqua poker anyone?? 

 

 

(waves goodbye)

Suzie