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This is just a really quick post to say I hope you all have a magical Christmas & get everything you wished for! We will be taking a little break over the holidays, but will be back in the New Year with lots of fresh content, more outfits, more inspiration posts, more Nico & hopefully some exciting things to announce too!

I also wanted to say that I’m so grateful to all of you who continue to come back here & read the blog, this has been my first full year of blogging & it still amazes me to see how much it has grown in that short period of time & that’s all down to you guys! If any of you have any suggestions of things you’d like to see more of or less of around here in the New Year, I’d love to hear your thoughts, so feel free to email me, tweet me or just comment!

Also, sorry for the super cheesy Christmas photos, I just couldn’t resist! Happy holidays everyone! ♡

‘Snow White’ by Kim Yeong Jun

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‘Snow White’ by Kim Yeong Jun for Singles Korea

I thought with it being almost Christmas I ought to post something a little festive & what better than a gorgeous snowy fashion editorial! I came across this editorial randomly a few weeks ago & since then I have been trying to find out a little more about the photographer behind it, Kim Yeong Jun with absolutely no luck. I can’t even find a website for him, which is really annoying, so I’ve linked to one showcasing a selection of his work. If you like this one, definitely have a look through, the rest is equally as beautiful.

I can’t help but compare this to Paolo Roversi’s work, one of my all time favourite photographers, it has that similar soft focus, painterly feel to it but it’s just a little sharper, a little more modern & I really like that. I love the way the light hits the model, it’s crisp but soft & really cuts through the dream like feel of the other elements making it feel so fresh.

I don’t think I even need to mention how perfect the styling is here, but it’s safe to say if the garments were black I’d happily be wearing these looks head to toe, though the more I look the more I’m craving some white pieces to add to my wardrobe…

Kate MacDowell

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Kate MacDowell sculpts decaying animals, human skeletons, organs and overgrown flora, acting as haunting forewarnings of how our destructive practices are negatively affecting the natural world around us and ultimately in the end, us ourselves. It’s been a long time since I came across a new artist who’s work left me so speechless like this.

Anatomy & nature are two of my favourite subjects & so it will be of no surprise to those of you who already knew so, that these pieces would make my heart skip. The way she manages to combine the two so perfectly, harmoniously even, is just beautiful. They are at once both delicate and yet grotesque, provoking a conflicting emotional response in the viewer, unsure as to whether they should feel awestruck by their beauty or repulsed by the underlying macabre theme.

Each piece is hand sculpted out of ghostly white porcelain, giving what would usually be a very dark, disturbing subject matter a real sense of purity and elegance, inviting those who would usually quickly look away to look a little closer and for a little longer. The most striking aspect though, is the feeling of fragility the porcelain gives the pieces, it makes for a beautiful statement on how delicate the balance is between us and nature. The small decaying animals which reveal a human skeleton underneath further illustrate this message – ‘what we do to our world, we do to ourselves’.

“I see each piece as a captured and preserved specimen, a painstaking record of endangered natural forms and a commentary on our own culpability.” – Kate MacDowell