Outfit: Put your faith in the moment.

Striped playsuit: Dressin || Embroidered velvet jacket: Zara || Silver & gold western belt: Vintage || Necklace: Topshop || Cowboy Boots: Gamloong 

For this Wednesday here's a boho chic outfit I really love. It's not only wearable at daytime, you can easily rock this combination at a night out, too. Probably my favorite kind of outfits for Fridays when you don't have time to change your clothes before heading to clubs, parties etc. When I saw this embroidered velvet jacket on the Zara website a couple of weeks ago it was love at first sight. It immediately reminded me of the vintage trophy jackets you can get at thrift stores, but way more beautiful. It's very 70s indian inspired and can be worn in so many different ways. It's also pretty cozy because of its velvet fabric! Boho trophy jackets are my favorites and I even wear them when I go to town and do some shopping. I usually go for a more casual combo like wearing it with some denim cut offs, skinny jeans and a band tee etc. Here I combined it with my striped playsuit I received from Dressin, I think it looks great with the golden/red embroidery without distracting attention away from the gorgeous jacket. I'm also wearing my latest secondhand find! It's my gold/silver studded western belt which was a real bargain. I was so happy when I found it, I had been searching for a golden/silver studded belt for a very long time, but couldn't find the perfect one in any stores. Then I found it in a second hand shop by chance, so good!

Love x

Outfit. Angel Springs.

Fringed shirt: Topshop || Destroyed shorts: Bershka (old - similar on Zalando) || Crochet dip-dye cardigan: Buckle || Cowboy Boots: Gamloong || Necklaces: Dixi & Claire's || Bracelets & rings: Vintage

When the weather's got too cold for kimonos I usually go for cozier cardigans instead which are the transeasonal kind of clothing like no other. I set my heart on this gorgeous duster cardigan because it's stunning warm orange/brown/red colors really resembles the colors of autumn and on top of that it's hippie perfection at its best thanks to the crochet details/inserts, hood and all-over print. The grey dip-dye makes it even more special! I've been into wearing brown/red/orange tones for a while, I remember it all started with suede. Especially those color shades flatter us dark haired girls in my opinion. :-) 

I didn't want to destroy that hippie vibe of the jacket, so I combined it with some classic blue  denim shorts with rips, cowboy boots and a printed tee I bought on Topshop's website a while ago. I love that it's looking like a shirt you bought directly from a cool vintage store! I wish there were more like those shirts available in highstreet shops, they're still pretty rare to find when you're just shopping in downtown. 

Have a successful new week! Peace. x

I DREAMT I WALKED IN MARBLE HALLS

Let me begin by quoting Homer Simpson (or at Tim Long who wrote the lyrics) and his song “I Love to Walk”  - ironic, huh?

Oh, I love to perambulate,

It's standing still I really hate.

So let me please reiterate:

I love to—

I’ll eventually explain the relevance of that remark.

I’m always interested in the odd way that people walk in art galleries – soberly, quietly, with reverence, a little hesitantly, showing off the fact that they’re serious about this whole art business.  And I’m no different.  My walking in art galleries is as inauthentic as anybody else’s.  But the consequence is that after about an hour of this kind of non-standard walking your feet are sore, your legs and back are aching, and you’re in need of a sit down in the museum cafe.  If you’d done an hour’s walking in the real world you’d be fine, but a short walk on the hard floors of a gallery just gets to you.

One “art space” I know where things are very different is the Noah Purifoy Foundation in Joshua Tree, a ten acre open air desert sculpture park (so much more fun than that sounds) where you tread the sand of the Mojave desert.  Walking around there is somehow very much easier.

Lately however, there’s been a Noah Purifoy show at the LACMA (that’s the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – a name they rarely use cos I suspect they think it sounds a bit square).  This exhibition partly involved bringing some of the outdoors in.   Certain of Purifoy’s outdoor works had been transported to the museum gallery from the desert. 

Frankly I was a bit worried about this, I thought the move to the interior of a formal art gallery might diminish Purifoy’s work.  And certainly I think the works they’ve got at LACMA look as though they’ve been seriously cleaned up, a thing that Purifoy himself never did to them.  

On balance I think the exhibition just about got away with it.  I think the sculptures look very much better out in the wilds, in their natural habitat, but they still look pretty good in a museum too. 

LACMA wasn’t crowded on the day I was there, and of course I looked closely at at Noah Purifoy’s art, but inevitably I also observed the few other people in the gallery, seeing at how they walked.  And I was looking at this one guy – surprisingly well-developed calves (maybe walkers’ calves), and with a Band-Aid on one shin. 

And blow me down – I suddenly realized it was Dan Castellanata – the guy who voices Homer Simpson.  I was far too cool to go over and talk talk to him, but I was quite uncool enough to sneak a picture of him as I was photographing some of Purifoy’s work.

Outfit: Ask no questions and you'll get no lies.

Kiss the sky tassel kimono: Spell Designs || Oversized Danzig band tee Crochet shorts (almost invisible): H&M || Necklaces: Spell Designs & Shop Sparrow || Buckle biker boots: Sacha (old)

Unfortunately it's already been too cold for wearing those kinds of outfits here in Germany and I had to added a leather jacket + some tights when I went to downtown after taking the photos. The outfit could be the last festival look for this year, but it's a favorite one! Here I'm wearing my newest kimono which is created by my favorite brand Spell Designs. Every print made by the Spell girls is magical and stunning - my collection will never stop growing. This fringed kimono is in the top 3 of my all time favorite kimonos already, I love the colors used in this print aswell as the psychedelic mandala/indian print. It couldn't get any better! I decided to keep the rest of the outfit simple, so I combined it with an oversized band tee, some crochet shorts (you can hardly see them) and biker boots. I also dis some necklace layering and ring stacking which I usually do every day. I have to face the fact that I'm probably addicted to wearing loads of rings every day haha - I especially set my heart on navajo and indian silver rings! It's pretty obvious, isn't it? :D

... Now I've been missing summer already! I wasn't able to travel to the seaside this year again. It's been quite a long time since I did long beach walks, smelled the fresh air from the sea and had salt in my hair. This outfit would be one of those I'd wear for beach walks. There's nothing better than a flowing kimono in the wind! 

Have an amazing Friday, friends! xx

DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE FOOT (PICASSO ALLUSION)

You remember me going on, some while back, about “desire lines” - also sometimes known as “bootleg trails” (a term which I like a lot) – informal paths created by walkers as an alternative and sometimes as a downright challenge to the formal paths by and planners and landscapers.  Well, once you start looking, these things are everywhere of course, and as I roam around I see them all the time.  This one here is in Salt Lake City (and actually leads to a labyrinth):

And I found this rather less developed one in Ely, Nevada (birthplace of Patricia Nixon) which runs around the side of the public library and didn’t seem actually to be very useful but somebody must think it is otherwise it wouldn’t be there (you can’t argue with desire):

 As a matter of fact Ely alsohas a labyrinth.  There may be something going on here, right?

Meanwhile at CalArts where I am a very occasional adjunct professor (yep, I have been known to get emails addressed to Professor Nicholson which really is unutterably cool), the landscapers (or maybe just gardeners) have been working to destroy, or at least erase, a desire line I wrote about in that previous blog post.

First there was, and is, a formal paved, in fact cobbled, path leading from the dorms and the lower parking lot up to the main buildings, and as can you see there was then a desire line somewhat further along the bank.

Well, the cobbled path is still there of course but the desire line has gone.  That area has been mulched.  I’m not sure why.  It was just a bit of grass that didn’t seem in need of mulching – but maybe it was too hard to cut the grass there. 

Anyway, it’s clearly quite hard to walk on mulch but I think the irresistible forces of desire are already at work and, to my eyes anyway, a new desire line appears to be forming.  We shall see.  And I’ll keep you informed.   
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That other post is here:
http://hollywoodwalker.blogspot.com/2015/03/walking-with-desire.html