31.8.10

revolving doors, carousels.

monday flex day devolves into frantic scrambling on tuesday: class prep, assignment brief edits, staff meeting, leading 4 hours of indesign tutorials, nbd. you can get me to do just about anything for the low, low price of free food.

after work, spent all afternoon researching eighteenth-century frenchmen's fashions, rewatching clips of perfume, drafting a pattern on patchworked newspaper, jamming out to uv been robbed (joking, but not) by entrepreneurs. (courtesy j.mo.) for dinner, cooking rice noodles in a tom kha kai broth with mushrooms, tomatoes, bacon and fishballs. absolutely no idea how this is gonna turn out. fingers xxed. 

<a href="http://entrepreneurs.bandcamp.com/track/hunting-roger-rabbit">Hunting Roger Rabbit by Entrepreneurs</a> "hunting roger rabbit" by entrepreneurs

21:58, appended: dinner is fucking delicious.

28.8.10

fata morgana.

guzzled wine (from the bottle, natch) at nico and caroline's white trash party, browned out a 7km bikeride, babysat chairs at bella center miserably dehydrated, plain rice for dinner, late for opening party at diskotek IN, liberal abuse of the open bar, boot-n-rally in masken, throwing down in cosy until 4am.

just woke up, resolved: definitely not going out tonight. mostly because i'm broke, but also because my liver hates me. instead: reading up on the croatian pavilion at the venice biennale and superior mirages. (courtesy of noa k.-s., some stealthy facebook creeping.)


is it time to experiment with tulle?
images - archdaily.com

26.8.10

end of the month.

denim vest - h+m, v-neck tee - american apparel, cutoffs - bdg (all customized), wingtips - bally
in preparation for nico's white trash party, rocking denim on denim, slashed teeshirt, and a bike chain at work. it might be too cold for cutoffs, but i'm not willing to admit that summer is over.

23.8.10

typhoon in københavn.

cardigan - catholic school, polo shirt - ralph lauren (hand-shredded), jeans - won hundred, 
oxfords - royal republiq, bag - quiksilver
working on sunday is just wrong but arrivals day went by without a hitch: sushi is the best lunch, heather is the best partner in crime, registering 30 students ain't shit. ended up spending the entirety of the day shredding salvaged polo shirts, rocking out to new music rummaging through discarded furnishings. acquiring a framed lino block prints, two boxes of dominos pizza was easy, biking home with all of it is a whole different story. prolonged shirt destruction results in sore fingertips.

today, completely dominated by stress over incomplete fall syllabi, upcoming semester. dropped by extracurriculars fair at the nationalmuseet purely for the free food, converting smørrebrød into real sandwiches, smuggling said sandwiches out in napkins is a bad idea when there's a typhoon outside.

there is an entire glass of water in my shoes.

20.8.10

worn out.


camo jacket - gap kids, teeshirt - michael huang, suspenders - marc by mj, jeans - won hundred, oxfords - royal republiq
tired from a week of uncontrolled chaos and syllabi, DIS currently weathering a complete shitstorm of arrivals prep. but it's friday: getting ready to go out and redeem myself for last weekend's absolutely lackluster performance. exhaustion and crashing parties are not mutually exclusive.

hmm. what should one wear when nothing is remotely clean and everything is on the floor.

18.8.10

rainy days, autumn incoming.

raincoat - lost + found, teeshirt - east west (brothers), jeans - won hundred, belt - american eagle, wingtips - bally, bag - quiksilver
 
due to being consistently underdressed for the weather, (unsurprisingly) yesterday's floodstorm caught me completely by surprise. thank god for DIS's lost and found, the perfect resource for acquiring discarded and unloved articles of utilitarian clothing. let's face it, in a world where i get paid next to nothing, flights of fancy always trump function—like hell i'm spending my hard-earned money on a raincoat.

despite fruitful scavenging however, was still sporting drowned-rat street style by the time i got home from work. damn you, københavn.

on the plus side, later on in the evening, my roommate, M1, and his friend, christina, decided to have a jam session in our kitchen. she brought a charango and a fully-stocked bar; he brought an acoustic guitar and pinewood shotglasses; hazy times were had by all.

by the way, christina is fucking baller. ch-ch-check her out.

17.8.10

new project.


after a mini-nervous breakdown yesterday, due in part to three nonfatal (fortunately? unfortunately?) injuries, the stress of upcoming work deadlines, assignment to 6am airport duty, and a fucking ridiculous amount of rain, found myself turning to home-economics for solace. after making myself a deconstructed egg sunny-side, started brainstorming for next sewing endeavor: hoodie with asymmetrical drape and slouchy khakis?

something like that.

16.8.10

alexander wang fall 2010.


love the xx.
and abbey lee's tits.

15.8.10

sunday is saturday.

too many cookies before dinner, picking up random kiwis at morganstedet, scavenging leftovers, no blood in bones , wild nothing rockin out at loppen, picking up random americans at the bakery, croissants are always better with butter, nothing trumps homemade potato chips and buttercream frosting with ma's fig jam.

13.8.10

work: tamar.

i would kill for these balenciaga boots. i mean. not literally.


end of summer.

hat - vintage, trench - h+m, henley - rag+bone, jumpsuit - michael huang, oxfords - royal republiq
not working the DIS end-of-term exhibition means hitting up the open bar at 15.30, getting hammered before sundown. excessive rain is an excuse to stay in at emma's, drinking too much box wine, waking up with two big macs in your bed.

me: wait. did i see you last night.
anders: yess. you made me bite you. twice. and then you slapped me.

today is a struggle.
photography - tamar shafrir

10.8.10

work: megan.

yes, in fact there are sleeves on this dress.


work (a)ttired.


hat - vintage, shirt - polo jeans (customized), suspenders - marc by marc jacobs, jeans - won hundred, wingtips - bally
got home last night after troubleshooting plotter issues, kicking students out of studio, a 14-hour workday. midnight bike ride means running red lights on deserted streets, with only the whisper of incoming autumn to break the calm. passed out at 3am to syndicated CSI bull, only to wake up four hours later to bad danish radio. now, cracked out, need coffee.
photography - olivia gentilini

4.8.10

kullen, skåne.

cutoffs: insomnia breeds a beast that chews off all my trouser legs.

button-up shirt - american eagle, shorts - rag+bone (re-cut), tennis shoes - keds
there's something really fantastic about making a pair of cutoffs. the process requires minimal skill and commitment, but the results are drastic; loving instant gratification. 

3am, day of intern orientation retreat: after several sleepless hours spent staring at the ceiling, i resign myself to the fact that some nights just aren't meant for sleeping. spent the next three hours cropping and recropping an old pair of rag+bone jeans into a pair of shorts.  removed the yoke, darted the back, replaced patch with welt pockets, hand-frayed the hem. nothing says i'm going to the country quite like trailer trash couture.
photography - olivia gentilini

2.8.10

khaki overload.

scored mandy's trench thirdhand, via bryn.
fuckin' digging this shit.

trench - h+m, teeshirt - hanes (hand-shredded), jumpsuit - michael huang, jeans - won hundred.

for the majority of my life, i've had an aversion to khaki. (flashbacks to sundays in the summer, sweaty air, church clothes: sticky polos and khaki shorts, tan saddleshoes and white athletic socks.) however, i've found myself inexplicably drawn to twill recently. i'm kind of over denim for the moment, and there's something romantic about a broken-in khaki: safaris and yves saint laurent, the british and india, the heyday of the ivies. i bagged another 3 meters of khaki this afternoon, am considering reupholstering my entire wardrobe in it.


...as soon as i return from sweden.
photography - olivia gentilini