Photographic Images for Your Viewing Pleasure

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Karen Walker

Sitting at university studying, I have just spotted a girl very stylishly and unpretentiously dressed. She is wearing my favourite piece from the Karen Walker spring 10 collection.



With beautiful golden peace symbol buttons, verticle navy inspired lining and a back which is tucked at the top and drapes down like a sailor inspired greek gown (oxymoron i know but it works!), the jacket is a almost a piece of art..Well it isnt quite haute couture, perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself...anyway if you live in the vicinity of a Karen Walker store and need a jacket (yes, its waterproof too!) then check check check it!!

To be honest this is a very bad image and definitely does not show the jackets true beauty very well at all. Actually, it kind of kills me to be posting it... I am disappointed in Miss Karen for the way in which she displays the dress in her show. I am trying to find a better pic (Fashion Quarterly Winter shows it well in a shoot) however the university internet is frustratingly slow and this quick study break blogpost is beginning to turn into the (currently illegal in my books) form of procrastination! I shall try to remedy the problem at a latter date.

Over and out
The Lizzie xx

The ghost who walks...

Karen Elson has just released her debut album entitled the ghost who walks. Rather befittingly as the album truly is hauntingly beautiful. I would love to be able to sing like this woman!





She is actually the wife of The White Stripes' Jack White, as well as a former model (she modelled for Marc Jacobs whilst pregnant! <3). However she writes all her own stuff. Many of the youtube comments attribute her amazing talent to Jack. Which of course is ridiculous because although he is a little bit maybe kind of God he still cant give someone a voice like this! (Yet. Maybe when his secret muso powers have gotten stronger??)

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The Lizzie

vintage photographic goodness. for those pretty pretty eyes.

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she likes this

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Gail Sorronda latest collection, its love!

Australian model turned designer Gail Sorronda's Autumn/Winter range has just emerged and it is amaaazing. Dark and beatiful, the range is very feminine with lots of pretty draping and sheer fabrics. Her Spring/Summer range was a hit at Australian fashion week and for good reason too. Her designs are intellegent, clever and wearable (with the exception of course, of one or two beauteous couture-like pieces).
With cute little pieces like the Black Chalk headband (pictured below) one can quite easily jazz up an otherwise simple outfit.

Here are some pics for you. Sorronda also writes an awesome blog, full of inspirations and pretty eye candy. You can check it out here: http://gailsorronda.blogspot.com/















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LaShark

Hunters and Collectors

Ok, so I have become very shit at blogging lately. I'm hoping I will suddenly discover more time in my life in which to blog. Until then...

Hunters and Collectors were a sweet band from the '80's. These two beauts were recorded in 1989 (my birth year!)


Turn a Blind Eye



Throw Your Arms Around Me - Slow Version

Lets face it, I'm a sucker for awesome (if not slightly cheesy at times) 80's music!

The Lizzie
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Old Crow Medicine Show in Wellington!

Last week I had the enormous pleasure of going to see Old Crow Medicine Show play at Wellington's iconic opera house. Man, what a show! Aside from the fact that they are all hot country playing babes (esp. the lead vocalist!) these guys are also super talented. Their music is fun and full of life and although country at heart their music has been described as alternative, punk-count, and 'hopped-up folk'. The live show was nothing short of amazing. Very much a mixture of old and young (the old ones being boring shits who are anti anyone dancing or having a good time around them..!) by the end of the concert almost everyone (under the age of 50) had a smile on their face. Although it was a very rehearsed concert and I got the feeling that as a result of it being the end of their tour the boys were getting tired of it all, they still managed to fill the venue with life and awesomeness with the guitarist actually playing on top of his bandmates double bass at one stage!
Here is a little snippet for you:





Oh and Willie Watson, if your reading this wanna pash??

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Lizzie La Shark

Flox

Flox aka Hayley King is a New Zealand born and bred (west Auckland, I believe) artist and clothing designer. If you mention the name flox to most New Zealanders they wont know who you're talking about, however if you show (the city kids at least) an image of her spray art many will say it looks familiar. Littered like precious pieces of treasure around Auckland and Wellington are beautiful little gems of artwork. Power boxes, random alleyways and even the back of a Wellington bus are all places which are graced by this lady's beautiful artwork. I have even seen a commission piece where she sprayed a funky mural on one wall of someone's posh (probably Herne Bay) kitchen!

Anyway, I'm not in much of a writing mood today as a result of my hard weekend but here are some pretty pictures of Flox's work for you to browse. You can even go online and buy her prints at www.endemicworld.com















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The Lizzie

Dubsteppin'

So...in case you haven't noticed I'm an absolute fieeend for dubstep! It is one of my favourite genres of music and by far my favourite genre of electronic. It emerged onto the London scene about 10 years ago but as far as I'm aware didn't reach NZ shores until about 5 years ago (at least thats when my music-head mates got wind of it). Basically characterised by a 2-step rythm and hardcore bassey sound it is impossible not to dance to! Anyway, I thought I would post a popular track which I often play to people who haven't heard much dubstep before. There is sooo much more amazing stuff out there and I personally dont think this is the best track ever made track but I do what I can to get my mates listening to this shit and for some reason this track always seems to go down a hit. My fav dubstep DJ is a guy from Waiheke Island, New Zealand called Optimus Gryme. Check him out if you (like me) are into dubstep but I will be posting some of his work at some stage for sure. Anyway, here's Cragga-Mr Postman. Enjoy!



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The Lizzie

p.s. If you like this and are into popular music check out a guy called Mt Eden (just type mt eden dubstep into your you tube box thingy), he's mixed a few quite popular songs into dubstep tracks. Otherwise go straight to the good shit and check out Optimus Gryme, Skream, Benga, Distance...oh the list goes on. Yay for dubstep!

The Lizzie Is Back!

You may have noticed that I haven't blogged in a very long time! Well it is summer in this beautiful part of the world and I have been adventuring all around New Zealand discovering many nooks and crannies and places of beauty that I didnt even know existed! Lots of camping in out of the way places and of course, not much phone reception let alone internet access! And the holiday isnt over yet! I am off to a festival called splore shortly (http://www.splore.net/) and we will be road tripping back down to Wellington after that, all very exciting! So... my last blog wasnt the most exciting and I fear that this one is going the same way. Basically I just wanted to say that I'm pretty much back and will be blogging more regularly from now on. Some of the cool things I've discovered/cranked to this summer: Florence and the Machine (Florence Welch and her band, they are oozing talent and apparently all the cool kids are listening too!), futuristic fairies (I'll leave that one to your imaginations), My Best friends (not really of interest to anyone else but needed to mention), D.W.I.F.W (Doing what I fucken want! The result of being newly single!), many many music festivals, making garlands for my head! Oh much much more but my ride to Splore has just arrived.

So long sweet blog, see you next week!

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The Lizzie