Fair Isle Knits

Image collage credits - Lookbook, Asos, here

I love knitted Jumpers at the best of times, but at this time of year the more colours, textures and retro patterns the better!! In my opinion these multi-coloured delights can go towards disgusing the fact that your winter lull might just be getting the better of you, but not anymore!!

I have been really lucky this Christmas and had some lovely hand knitted things, I shall be posting images of them soon. Keep cosy!!!

x

Happy Christmas!!!

And So This Is Christmas;
And What Have We Done?
Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun;
And So Happy Christmas;
I Hope You Have Fun;
The Near And The Dear Ones;
The Old And The Young.

John Lennon
Happy Christmas (War is Over).

Your Song

(Sorry to those of you that dislike Ellie Goulding!)

I heard this version of this song on the car radio this morning and it put me in a good Christmas mood! Hope it makes you feel the same. Credit to Elton John for writing such a lovely song.

Merry Christmas!!!!! xx

SNOW IS FALLING

Image Collage Credit : turned out tv

So after trawling around Westfields for a few hours this evening with Lottie, I am finally home, no thanks to the extra snow that accompanied us on the journey home. Although can’t complain – lots of cosy wishes to my friends in Minnesota where 20” of snow is the norm! Anyhow what was the point of this little rant?! Oh yes all this cold weather is making my want for a huge Aztec/ reindeer print style knitted jumper. I love the above collage by Maya of 'Turned Out' - Blog so much I had to reblog it!

D&G Fall 2010 Menswear – I adore the jumper second from the left

sportswear leggings

Images in collage, thanks to - Stella for Adidas , PPQ for Adidas, Gareth Pugh, LNA, fifty five DSL

Can sportswear be worn as daywear? I'd like to imagine it can be, if I owned any leggings as cool as some of these, I would team them will an oversized tee, belt and top knot (if only I had enough hair to make it look cool). Like this - Lykki Li - here pictured rocking a top knot, with a few stray hairs making it look whimsically chic. I love these LNA leggings (for some reason the LNA website is being incredibly slow - so I will post a link as soon as it starts working).


Happy Friday!!
xx

What to do in London

Dior Illustrated: René Gruau and the Line of Beauty - at Somerset House

I can't wait to see this exhibition!!!

Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work

I am enjoying listening to Two Door Cinema Club - hope this will put a smile on your beautiful faces! x

The Hotel Fox Experience

Hotel Fox - The Crown Jewels Room number 208

While I was in Copenhagen a few weeks ago I stayed in Hotel Fox for 2 nights, (as I said back in my July post about the hotel - Hotel Fox is a boutique hotel in Copenhagen with 61 rooms that 21 international artists have decorated, each one with a totally different theme - from graphic to minimalist styles). I stayed in Room: 208. Diamonds – The Crown Jewels, it was very relaxing and each wall was individually collaged with textured papers and drawings, above the bed was a giant yellow leopard with a gold chain coming out of the wall which attached to another picture to the right of the bed. It had a very interactive and fun approach to interior design.

Sadly though next spring the hotel is going to be redecorated as the hotel has been like it for about 5 years and as the longevity of the rooms is shorter (because each is individually decorated with intricate details that can easily break) than a standard hotel room (most hotel rooms should last about 8 years). So go while you can, make the most of it, apparently on Sundays they do a tour of all the rooms... "such fun!" Oh and be sure to try their yummy breakfasts!! Never before have I had a chicken, with apple chutney, lettuce and tomato brown rye bread sandwich before 9am!! Interesting but enjoyable, hope you enjoyed the round up.

Cheerio for now chaps. xx

Whole world in your hands...

Art on Globes ($399)

Wendy Gold has a degree in Industrial Arts, she first stared exploring using alternative canvases for decoupage in 2001. Her latest project ImagineNations uses vintage globes and recycled materials on the service to make beautiful new worlds, both real and imaginary. I have always loved the cross over between reality and fantasy.

If I could afford one of these I think my favourite would have to be the butterfly ‘flutter by globe’, at first glance it looks like – the muted colours and real land looking shapes could almost be from an old faded/ vintage map, but on closer inspection you see that it is beautiful clusters of butterflies in the shape of the real countries and oceanic sized spaces.

Fascinating film on how they make globes

On another note - I have just started reading a new blog, http://www.keikolynn.com/. I love her vintage retro but girly style, (above image - i need a red coat in my life!). She also has her own clothing range Postlapsaria. Her boyfriend has a blog called this fellow - the fashion blogging world is predominantly a female lead one so it is always interesting to see a males perspective!!

This Fellow blog images

Behind the scenes at Bridget Riley

Behind the scenes at Bridget Riley exhibition in The National Gallery

This is on till the 22 of May so you still have plenty of time to see it. Although the exhibition is relatively small (very small - only one room) I would definitely say it is worth a look - there is nothing quite like seeing great art face to face (plus it's free!!), it includes about 5 or 6 large scale paintings, some smaller interesting preliminary studies and a couple of works that have been painted directly onto the walls.

My 2 favourite works were the painting I often mistakenly call Wave but it is actually called Arrest (see photo in below post). And Composition with Circles which covers the largest wall in the Sunley Room at the gallery.

Composition with Circles by Bridget Riley

I like this description of the work Adrian Searle

“The circles fill the wall. I cannot count them. There is not one that does not overlap another. There seems to be a system to the clusterings and overlappings, but I can't grasp that either. It is like a word on the tip of your tongue. I keep getting lost; my eye won't be still. Each circle seems to have a relation to the body that made it – the radius of each circle might be the distance from the elbow to the fingertip – but I am not sure. The white wall is flat and smooth, as if painting began with the wall itself, and the circles on it are almost perfect outlines, perhaps as broad as a woman's finger. I look for where the line – so even, so dispassionate – falters, some human touch. There. But that's not why it doesn't feel mechanical, or a trick. It's more than spinning plates, or a conjuror with his interlocking metal hoops.

Getting up close, each open "O" feels like an invitation. Something more than pattern is inscribed here. Very often Bridget Riley's art blows me away. Sometimes she stirs me and makes me want to sit and look for hours, just to be here, in this light with this work”

taken from here

My advise - go to gallery alone, spend time with each canvas, get lost in the works with your own thoughts and come out relaxed and inspired! Enjoy.

Daisy xx

Brigitte Bardot - "Moi Je Joue"

After posting the Sofia Coppola Dior advert I have had this song in my head and decided to find the full length version. I love the sound of french anyway but I am also a little bit in love with Brigitte Bardot now after seeing all these gorgeous photos of her when she was modeling.

Featured Artist # 8

Bridget Riley

I am looking forward to seeing the new Bridget Riley exhibition this weekend (which has been timed to coincide with her 80th Birthday) at the National Gallery (24 Nov - 22 May). I have always been fascinated by her work but not yet had the opportunity to see it in the flesh, her work has offended been likened to listening to a piece of music or even like reading a musical score - tempo, rhythm, shape and colour are all words that do come to mind when looking her work, and I imagine this is only emphasised even more when viewing it in real life. I shall report back on how it is next week.. have a nice weekend!

Bridget Riley

Arrest 3, 1965 - Acrylic on linen, 175 x 192 cm, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow