I'm a little hazy

on intellectual property laws but I'm sure its just fine if I steal a designer's ideas for my own wardrobe. Penney's do it all the time. This is a little sloppy blogging because I made this stuff a while ago but I just started thinking about it again after visiting the Marc by Marc Jacobs in Paris. In which I bought almost all the cheapy accesories, including a one euro ring, nooice. But alas it was not the ring I stole (that infact would have just been regular thievery rather than anything to do with intellectual property), I'm talking bout all the way back to his spring summer 08 collection when Mr Jacobs went a bit mad for the auld lego, making accesories and all sorts. This piece of thievery was pertpetrated while trying to decide what to wear for the December TAC whose theme was toybox (I don't know bout you but I find TAC night the most stressful of all, wardrobe wise). AHAH LEGO brillers I'll go as LEGO, it was cheap( two squid from the pound shop) and easy (bit of imagination and lots of glue), unfortunately it's not very durable, as the evening went on my accesories got more and more sparse, i s a good thing the night started with them being ridiculously large.So for two euro I made myself LEGO earings, bow tie, belt buckle and my favourite of all an enormous ring. I wholeheartedly endorse stealing for yourself, or should I really say being inspired by others while putting your own original splashes in too (yeah that sounds better).

Fash Mags

So after a very unreasonable 10-hour-long trip home from Paris on Thursday, im still absolutely exhausted. I wont go into details abut our holiday quite yet but i will show you the lovely collection of magazines that i picked up in the airport on our way back. I have a problem when it comes to magazines, i spent €100 extra on baggage fees just to get my magazines back to Dublin when i moved back from Paris in June. This time however, i was more sensible and brought them on as hand luggage.

This is my favourite french fashion magazine. The layout is perfect and they have English translations of all the articles in the back. The most expensive at €5 but worth it for the wonderful shoots and great articles.

Citizen K

This is unbelievably cheap at just €1. Many magazines are cheaper on the continent but i have absolutely no idea how they manage to charge so little for such a high quality mag. Dita Von Teese did a little shoot and they have a men's section at the back with some very attractive male models. There is also a new men's version which i hear is top notch.

Jalouse

Jalouse is for uber-cool french teenagers. The picture is from a Goonies inspired shoot. It epitomises the stylish teenager you always wanted to be, but never were. And it's another bargain at just €3.

Cat

So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen Pet

Our flight is very very early in the morning so this is almost certainly the last time we'll be posting before we get back. I've already packed Catherine,
but neither of us our bringing laptop's so we'll report back fully when we get home next Thursday.
I can't wait to get to Paris, we might
love it a little too much

Not quite breakfast, not quite lunch

We must say a little thank you to Anne-marie for inviting us to the 6th Fashion Bloggers Brunch in the fabulous Dylan Hotel on Sunday. What better way to spend your Sunday than discussing fashion over Eggs Onassis, or delicious pancakes. I certainly can't think of any.

When i got home i popped on my lovely new Clodagh McKenna apron and pranced around the kitchen for a while, pitty im not much of a cook...

This rather odd picture below is to show-off Cillian of Male Modes amazing sense of style, great purple shirt, lovely grey trousers and then these fantastic fußball socks. I must add that this photo was taken with Cillian's consent, even though it might appear otherwise.

More photos can be seen over at Annmarie's blog.

Cat

From skirt to scarf

I bought this great dress in Free 'P Star in Paris for €10 but never really liked it the way it was. I loved the colour and the white detailing but knew it was destined for better things.

So i cut it up and gave the skirt to a friend and kept the last bit for myself to make a statement scarf.

White shoes River Island, black skirt Penney's and black blazer from Benneton.

Tah-dah, amazing new scarf!

Cat

Art as fashion?

I love Picasso. Like, i really love Picasso. So much so, that i painted Girl Before a Mirror on my bedroom wall when i was 17. At the time my mom warned me that id be sick of it in a couple of weeks but every day when i wake up im still completely in love with it.

It's a little bit like how i dress, plain base, with lots of colour. Another example of art influencing fashion is the Yves Saint Laurent dress inspired by the work of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. I just love how the different coloured fabrics are all pieced together by the grid seams.

Cat

Homage to the Square

Hermès has adapted it's signature carré (square silk scarf) to pay homage to Josef Albers series of paintings "Homage to the Square". The french fashion house will create six Albers inspired scarves and produce just 200 editions of each design. Coming in at €2,000 each this is something I will certainly just be looking at on our trip to Paris next week.

"Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. Most famous of all are the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series Homage to the Square. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with flat colored squares arranged concentrically on the canvas." Each of the paintings were printed edge-to-edge with painstaking effort to ensure no hue overlap, which is the same technique that will be used in printing the scarves.

Fashion as art and art as fashion. The French always manage to get it spot on.

Cat