G.O.M.D.

  • Posted 22nd December 2014

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I keep my head high

I got my wings to carry me

I don’t know freedom

I want my dreams to rescue me

I keep my faith strong

I ask the Lord to follow me

I’ve been unfaithful

I don’t know why you call on me

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Apparently, you believe in me, you believe in me

Apparently, you believe in me and I thank you for it

love love loving j.cole’s latest, 2014 forest hills drive.

photodiary // new york.

  • Posted 22nd December 2014

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I’m trying to get all of my adventures documented before the year is out.. well most of them ha. I’ve only made it halfway through my europe recaps, but those are fun so I don’t want to rush through. Anyway, I kinda recapped my NY & LA visits here, so this is just the visual that was missing.

I specifically wanted to visit new york before going back to LA since I’d been considering going back to school at NYU and I’m really glad I did. I could definitely see myself there or at least visiting more frequently in the near future :)

xx,
C

1947.

  • Posted 21st December 2014

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A good friend of mine has an eighteen-volume collection of vintage Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and let me borrow one to flip through. I was amazed at how classic and chic the advertisements and editorials were. Almost everything was illustrated— total works of art. there were at least 10 pages I wanted to tear out and hang on my wall.

These are all from Vogue 1947.

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  • Posted 21st December 2014

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Beyond the Lights is definitely one of my new favorite movies.

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  • Posted 12th December 2014

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I left the show feeling so inspired and refreshed. My traveling it starting to become so addicting. I get a rush every time I go somewhere new, I never want to stop. Basel in particular though gave me so many ideas I feel like I cannot execute them fast enough, changing plans again, pushing me further. I love it.
 
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ARTrepreneur Session Three with Delano Brown was surprisingly good. All I knew about it was the snippets I’d seen on insta and could round up online. I’m not going to sugar coat it, the event didn’t start on a good note at all — there were quite a few things I was annoyed about upfront BUT when I say his talk completely made up for it I’m not exaggerating. It was so refreshing to hear from a young guy in his position with his style and sense talk about his story and his ideas and just wow. I was really impressed. I look forward to seeing where his career goes from here.
 
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Unfortunately, I wasn’t thinking at all and didn’t capture the names and artists of all the work I photographed, so if you know or want credit please email me!
 
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Part 1.

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  • Posted 12th December 2014

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ahh art basel miami beach 2014. how can i describe you.

I had the BEST time. Per usual, I really didn’t have any idea what to expect. I understood the show and concept of everything since I’ve been only hearing about it for years, but actually being there in the middle of all of the excitement. so amazing. and I saw art, lots and lots of it. incredibly satisfying art. There have been comments about how commercial Art Basel Miami is becoming, but I don’t see it falling off any time soon. The world needs events like this to exist. The energy was trippy everywhere we went.
 
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We ended up going to the Wynwood Walls & Design District, Art Basel, UNTITLED, Mana Contemporary, and a slew of parties including ARTrepreneur Session Three by Delano Brown. I’m really really bummed I missed the SCOPE and Design Miami shows, but next year we’ll plan buffer days instead of arriving and leaving the first and last days of the shows.
 
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Unfortunately, I wasn’t thinking at all and didn’t capture the names and artists of all the work I photographed, so if you know or want credit please email me!
 
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Part 2.

Europe 05 / Switzerland

  • Posted 22nd November 2014

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Since I’m going to Art Basel in two weeks I figured it a good time to pick back up my european adventure memoirs. I left off at Germany and from there traveled through Switzerland which turned out to be the most visually stunning and unimaginable place ever. Switzerland was a sleepy favorite of the trip. I say that because I constantly forget to tell people how much I loved it. and from a solo travel perspective, it was one of the only countries I truly spent time completely alone.
 
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I literally kept saying, “i’m not really seeing this. it’s not real.” I thought I was in avatar the whole time, ha. In my journal I wrote: “5/26/14, Even when I stand and stare trying to take it in, it doesn’t look real. the air is so crisp here. 5/28/14, The world really is so beautiful. like how can you live your whole life without seeing things like this?”
 
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I texted a good friend from home when I found out I’d be able to spend the day in Basel and he told me I absolutely COULD NOT MISS the Gerhard Richter exhibiton at the Fondation Beyeler. So I didn’t. I took a train from Lucerne where we were staying to Basel and spent the day exploring. it was mesmerizing.

[From the exhibition book, Gerhard Richter Pictures/Series] “In the course of his sixty-year career Richter has produced an oeuvre that has accorded him a place as one of the most influential and successful artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. […] He is rightly celebrated worldwide as an outstanding figure, arguably the most important painter of our times.”

 
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sometimes i really wish i’d spent more time in art school so I could explain things the way I see and feel them. I always feel lost for words, but I feel so deeply sometimes I wish I could just say what it is I’m really thinking… in a way that more than only just describes it. yahh back to Switzerland. In my journal I described Basel as “Paris meets Amsterdam” based on my short time in all 3 places I think it fits, but I’d need to spend time there again to see if I still agree.
 
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In one of the books I read during the trip—that I’ll get into further when I write about Italy—there was a quote by the male character that said, “when you go to a place and have an extraordinary experience, you can never return.” That might be the case with Switzerland for me. As dream-like as it was, I’m not sure if I’d want to travel there again and change my memories.

XX,
C

theeyehastotravel.

  • Posted 22nd November 2014

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The High Priestess of Fashion.

allure” is a word very few people use nowadays, but it’s something that exists. allure holds you doesn’t it? whether it’s a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd, someone sitting opposite you at lunch… you are held.
 
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style was a standard. didn’t hurt anyone… but you gotta have style. it helps you get down the stairs. it helps you get up in the morning. it’s a way of life. without it you’re nobody. i’m not talking about lots of clothes.
 
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now brodovitch was the tutor of all these people of harper’s bazaar of layout, and many of them had gone to his classes at night. he was a very remarkable man, he loved his white space, he loved empty pages-oh, he couldn’t stand me. i mean, i wanted, of course, to put in as much as possible. i only wanted fashion.

anyone who’s afraid and does not search and give as much as possible to the world of pleasure is a totally ignorant person. we were put here for the joy of it, for the hell of it, and it’s all here now; nothing has been taken away. it’s a question of creating it.
 
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style: all who have it share one thing—originality.
 
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UNDER VREELAND, VOGUE BECAME A COMBINATION OF CULTURE, ART, HAPPENINGS, AND VIBRANT FASHION. “I THINK PART OF MY SUCCESS AS AN EDITOR CAME FROM NEVER WORRYING ABOUT A FACT, A CAUSE, AN ATMOSPHERE. IT WAS ME—PROJECTING TO THE PUBLIC. THAT WAS MY JOB. I THINK I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A PERFECTLY CLEAR VIEW OF WHAT WAS POSSIBLE FOR THE PUBLIC. GIVE ‘EM WHAT THEY NEVER KNEW THEY WANTED.”
 
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can you tell I LIVE for diana vreeland!? i mean. she’s just wonderful. hideous and marvelous. in her documentary “the eye has to travel” there was a quote about her that went something like “she was never a very beautiful woman and she was never a very wealthy woman, but she created beauty and wealth.”

love.

all quotes from diana’s book, the eye has to travel.

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  • Posted 15th November 2014

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Beauty is boring.

I have this crazy obsession with people (women) that have their own definition of style and what’s chic.. Especially older women. To me they are the true tastemakers. Completely unaffected by trends. Michèle Lamy, wife & muse of Rick Owens is certainly one of those people. I’d seen pictures of her before, but never knew anything about her or who she was until I read this article via the Manrepeller and now I’m obsessed and just want to know everything.
 
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So so good. Here are my favorite parts from the interview:

Nick Axelrod: Did you always wear black, even as a child?
Michèle Lamy: First, I don’t always wear black. I
often wear black. As a child, I was in boarding school in the French Alps, and I was in uniform, which was dark navy. I always think of darker things to wear — the eyes have to be brighter than the clothes. There’s something about wearing bright colors that is masking who you are.

NA: Articles always call you a “muse”…
ML: Before, this name was making me pissed off…

NA: Why?
ML: Because there’s this sense that you’re just there… But then, it’s a word that covers everything in a way.
 
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NA: How do you pick out what you’ll wear in the morning?
ML: There are no rules. It’s always tights, a t-shirt, and then something over it. It changes, but it doesn’t change every day. I’ll wear mainly the same thing for three months, and then I change to another jacket. I don’t know. It depends, also, if it’s cold or not.

NA: Why do you have to do the line everyday?
ML: That, I don’t know. I don’t know if it was something aesthetic or if, instinctively, I feel more proportionate like this. I don’t know. But I know that I don’t feel good without it.

NA: You inspire a lot of people’s style — people probably tell you that all the time. Are there people who inspire your style?
ML: I admire a lot of people that have their own style, but I don’t think… It has to come from you, the way you are. It’s in your head. Like I was telling you, I was very impressed by the older women in Tunisia, North Africa. I admire them. When I look at myself, I think I look like this now. And I like the style of Marlene Dietrich, but I’m not at all [like] Marlene Dietrich. I’m an old soul, and I always try to think that there is no time.

NA: You’re an old soul. But what’s not old is your grill — it’s very modern, very young.
ML: Are you crazy? Golden teeth, that’s very old, with the gypsies and everything.

NA: Good point.
ML: You are too young!

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photos via tumblr

livinginparis.

  • Posted 15th November 2014

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OMG wait. THIS FUCKING APARTMENT IN PARIS.
 
like. I dont really have words (per usual) to describe how INSANELY happy this space makes me so im not even going to try. just relish in it’s perfectness. I mean how often do you see black & yellow together in an amazing way in someone’s home? Bravo Sarah Lavoine, Bravo.
 
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Images via Homeadore.

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