AnotherMan's Dream

AnotherMan's latest editorial uses painting, the time honored method of image capturing, in place of the sleek customary fashion snapshots presenting moments of momentary beauty and commercialism (conveniently placed vitamin enhanced water!), and has been stewing in my head over the past few weeks. I've been swimming in the hazy-dreamy quality of Christian Schoeler's work and love the use of a slower and more indistinct method of fashion presentation.


Sometimes it's just about the feeling you get from a model's general "look", not the sharply defined things and obvious references (we get it, she's wearing a lot of eyeliner, must be in a punk phase) that are cobbled together for a story. My favorite fashion editorials have stuck in my head with images as blurred as AnotherMan's, still retaining the strongest spirit of the piece.


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Bat for Lashes Love Bug

I too have been bitten by the Bat for Lashes love bug. It started with a slight obsession with anything feathered, caressing feathered headbands at Anthropologie for hours at a time. Then I knew I needed to spice up my makeup routine and add sparkles, the next logical step in my uber basic cat-eye kohl sweep on my top eyelids, to my cheeks or a dab of electric blue body paint coyly striped by one eye. And then I started to talk in an adorable british accent and refuse to switch back, to the dismay of the few friends I had left by this point.

I've recovered from my almost dangerously obsessive fan-girlism, thankfully, but not from Natasha Khan's chillingly beautiful voice and her music is still on constant repeat on my ipod, especially after seeing her show on Friday and realizing that the mp3 is just not not a powerful enough format to bottle up her stage presence and exquisitely tuned but powerful voice. It was vaguely religious since she was performing in the sanctuary of a Philadelphia church and we all just swayed to her voice washing over us.

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