Y.U.C.K

End of the summer means it's time that all big fashion houses come up with their 'eccentric' and 'mostly numb but highly creative' fashion videos sneaking a peek of their fall-winter collections. Well, most of them are the same old story; glamorous, cool and fascinating and bla bla. But, have you seen H&M's 'fashion shower' video, starring Anna Dello Russo? Oh Gosh! I wanna scream out in Anna's face 'Where was your mind while nodding for this whole effing concept of the video?' It's cheesy and cheap from the beginning to the very end.  It's a total disappointment which makes one think 'Thought she was different.'

Blast!

If I was asked 'Of which fashion magazine do you feel most proud to have in Turkey?' I would definitely go for the XOXO mag. We've Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, bla bla but XOXO is'a whole nother thing' and it's by far the most original. And what's more of a blast about it is you do not pay a single cent for the magazine! You just pay the shipping fee if you want the print edition. 

Up until now I was following it just from their site, but I've just seen on Refinery29 that Chloe Sevigny stars on its September issue cover, I've got thrilled! I mean WOW! Not only a site which I consider to be the CNN of the latest fashion news has been talking about the XOXO Mag but also Chloe the Chloe, Chloe the muse, Chloe the OC, Chloe the.......ok I stop, has been shot for the September issue of a free Turkish magazine, that's utterly the most passionate X, the mag has ever received. 

We have Vogue Turkey for more than 2 years, but we still haven't had the honour of seeing a fashion muse on its cover, it's all about supermodels or celebrities, the names you see on every fashion website every single day. No offences but one of them has Conde Nast behind it, while the other one stands on its own feet. So let's face it, which one deserves to be regarded as successful; Vogue starring Miranda Kerr or XOXO starring Chloe Sevigny?

It's like one of them is Facebook and the other one is Instagram (the Instagram before woohooing with Facebook.) Hope our beloved XOXO keeps preserving its super duper cool and one of a kind attitude and not be overwhelmed by a Don Draper-y big gun from the media world.

Faking it!

'Before Adobe created Photoshop, there were other techniques used to manipulate photographs; collages, brushes and overlapping techniques' says D della Repubblica. Those images left from the end of 19th century to this day  are not only bewildering (bewildering, because each one of them is so sophisticated that they feel so real, as real as a still from a surrealist film, like the Orphic Triology by J. Cocteau!) but also fascinating to look at. Some seem absurd and funny but they all deserve to be praised. MET Museum of New York will be helding the exhibition displaying all these manually retouched photos in October. So if you had a chance to stop by, don't miss it!

Winter not far away

Sterling tree branch ring

                                                

"The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart 

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued."  

         R.Frost   

                                                                       

Hello, sir!

How can a civilized female resist a civilized male wearing these sublime scarf and sweater with these dreamy colors? A woman will always approach a man like that saying 'Hello, sir.' Try and see. (The ones who have found this gayish, OUT! We're so done with the women condemning straight men to wear only black, gray, navy or white! )

Assemblage

Whokay, now be honest, isn't this the coolest collage work depicting monochromy you've ever seen? Well, I LOOVED IT! 

This is just one of the many fanciful collage works done by a humorous and smart (I suppose, after seeing many of her works) woman named Maya. There can be found many of her collages on her highly addictive website; turnedout.tv . Here are my favourites;

(Gosh! They are strongly tempting me to grab a scissors right now and get down on ripping out the papers of the closest Vogue to the sofa I'm sitting on!)

Summer Collage

The Classics

Roman Holiday

Legoism

I'm one of those who (have to) be stuck in the city throughout the whole summer. Friends tell me to 'read a book, go to a swimming pool, put my headphones on, make myself a cocktail, imagine myself laying on the sand....' bla bla. Well, firstly, I am not a pool person and have never been. Instead, I prefer filling the bathtub and adding rock salt in it (and yes, I did this). At least this makes it easier to imagine myself laying on the sand listening to the waves, with a little bit sharper salt smell. And to prevent myself going nuts while checking my Facebook account and seeing billions of photos added by my beloved friends with the sea and scorching sun in their background and smiling to the camera in their tiny little bikinis, I flang myself into my 'legos'. Making puzzles when the temperature shows 40°C really drives me crazy, especially the ones with two thousand pieces. Aghh! I might be a moron in this but me and my inborn impatience makes it even harder to complete it. So, I found my 'relief' in Legos, less complicated and more fun. I even saw a dream last night in which I put my puppy in a doghouse made up of Legos. I hope I wouldn't end up with talking to them:I

Opening Ceremony- Roksanda Illincic- Lego Motoko Dress