Dear Santa...

... As it's nearly Christmas(ish) I thought I would quickly make up a Christmas Wishlist which in an imaginary world I would get. It's a mix of clothes and other random stuff and possibly some of these might go on your wishlist!

Disco Romper for any Studio 54 moments, from Nasty Gal

Stone headband, ASOS

Glitter cat eye sunglasses, ASOS

Arm band, so I can be a punky Pocahontas, ASOS 

Top from UNIF, you can get from here

Leather Skirt from Nasty Gal

HISTORY NERD

MUSIC NERD

If I could go back in time I would so be a courtesan

Bob Marley Film/Documentary

Basically all of Henry Holland's collection for Boots

                                                       

Henry Holland Nipple Pinch Tee

Black Maxi dress, ASOS

Silver pumps, ASOS

Blur Parklive DVD to relive their amazing Hyde Park performance this year! Wish I was back there.

                                     
                                             

  Thanks Santa

XOXOXOX

Say Hi to Rudolph and the crew for me will ya ma boi?

Books Glorious Books!

I decided today to do something that was something other than clothes and taking random pictures of my room. So today I thought I would give you guys a glimpse into my tiny *sob* book collection. I will pick out and highlight some of my favourites and hopefully something in there may interest you :). But I won't be giving lengthy prosaic reviews of any of the books because otherwise this will be a LOONNG post...and nobody wants to read that unless they have too...

 Some select books:  

• The Clash, The Clash - its the Clash, not much else to say really <3 

• Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Metropolitan Museum, great look back at AM's collections with amazing photographs
• Shakespeare, Catherine Alexander with the RSC: amazing interactive book
• Punk: The Whole Story, good overview done by looking at separate bands

• Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, published to accompany the National Gallery exhibition - a book for any curious possible art or Da Vinci lover.
• Underwear:Fashion in Detail

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•  The Story of Art, E. H Gombrich - great book for people just getting into art or burgeoning art historians
• 33 Revolutions Per Minute, Dorian Lynskey - see previous review here
• OSCAR WILDE

•  Luella's Guide to English Style, Luella Bartley - nice amble through British style or 'Miss E'
• Mary Tudor, Anna Whitelock - interesting, informative biograhpy of an overlooked Queen - and written by my lecturer
• Classics by Homer

• Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
• 1984, George Orwell - one of my absolute favourite books
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte - another of my favourite books

 Selected poems by W.H. Auden, one of my favourite poets and one of my tattoos a line (well hald a line)  from his poem 'As I Walked Out One Evening' it says "Time watches from the shadow" (and the rest of the line is "...and coughs when you would kiss")

•  Au Bonheur des Dames, Emile Zola, see review here
• Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter - a feminist author, in this collection of short stories Carter takes classic fairytales such as Little Red Riding Hood and turns them on their head, in my opinion the best stories are the 'Bloody Chamber' and the 'Erl King'
• Tolstoy and Kerouack yet to read but are classics

•  Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle - I LOVE SHERLOCK HOLMES and do have the entire collection somewhere...but clearly not here
• The Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitzgerald - classic book on 1920s America - and I cannot wait for the movie!
• Faithfull, Marianne Faithfull - muse, icon, artist in her own right and tells it all ever so elegantly and charismaticly here

• How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran, a feminist book and actually made me laugh out loud so many times and shouting out with tears of laughter (and shame) 'It's true! So true!', and if you don't read her column in the times - do.
• The Invention of Murder, Judith Flanders - adds to my love of the wonderfully morbid and macabre Victorians
• Lizzie Siddal: the first supermodel, Lucinda Hawkesly - the burdens of being one of the greatest muses
• Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer, Chris Salewicz - my most read book - great informative biography and wonderfully detailed by someone who actually knew the man yet does not allow this to view him through rose tinted lenses by any means

Such a Nasty Gal

Hello there! I ordered some stuff from Nasty Gal which is an amazing clothes website and you should check it out (the only downside being its shipped from America, so if you live outside the US you have to pay customs etc. :( well at least in the UK). But it was worth it because the stuff I got from them was amazing.

This dress I bought is the Florence dress  its Vintage-inspired cream chiffon dress featuring a plunging crochet neckline and tiered skirt, and you can buy from here:

I love the Victorina style design on the front of this dress, especially the high neck

Ignore bra strap, whoops.

 This dress is the 'Get Spotted' dress, and I'm certainly sure I will be wearing this. Also as you can see this dress is just a tad weather inappropriate on its own so until the sun starts shinging again here (which probably won't be untile about August...*angry face*) I'm going to be wearing it with some jumpers as shown here :)

And another chance to show off my JC Lita's!

Classy bit of label showing..no idea what was wrong with me today...

No words can ever justify this... I'm sorry...

And now I can't even be bothered to put clothes on

If these walls could talk....

....they probably wouldn't say anything interesting.

Alas once again I am putting off writing an essay and to distract myself I decided to take pictures and upload them here, they say your room is meant to reveal alot about yourself.. in my case I would guess art lover and general messy slob but you can decide for yourself...
....please don't be too harsh...

Also this is my room in my house at university - it's cold but I love our house and my room

My vintage trunk that I love so much currently full to the brim with books

Exhibition poster from the V & A on The Golden Age of Couture, mainly Dior's 'New Look'

Dali poster and inspiration for my GCSE artwork

Random shiz including a bit of the Berlin wall!

Remnants from when I toyed with Buddhism aged 13, my sugar skull and a bust of the Bard <3

SHOES!!

Lady of Shallot by Waterhouse

Ophelia by the legend that is Millais, I think I have a penchant for paintings depicting doomed women...

My mirror surrounded my reproduction Victorian masks and a Vincent Van Gough smoking skeleton postcard I picked up from Amsterdam 

Lady Lilith by Rossetti, a femme fatale

Art Noveau absinthe poster

THE CLASH AND DAVID BOWIE. NUFF SAID. Cannot wait for the David Bowie retrospective at the V &A

My beloved Dali clock

Postcards picked up from Damien Hirst retrospective and the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition

Chill out with Jimi time

Rocky Horror poster from second hand bookshop, vintage advert from market and Clash vinyl single of 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'

By the way incase you wonder where I go to university and try to avoid doing work I go HERE:


Yep, my uni is basically a castle. Hollowarts forever.