The Dungaree Club

Back in the nineties when I religiously watched a young redheaded Claire Danes in My So-Called Life and wrote elaborate illustrated notes to my friends, I used to wear dungarees all the time. They were my uniform. Flash forward to 2013 and I have come full circle with a distinct urge to wear dungarees again. Not sure I’ll ever muster up the courage to do it, but I guess I can appreciate from afar.

Fashion blogger Katherine Lowe (a.k.a Katherine is Awesome) collaborated with her talented brother – photographer James K Lowe - on an awesome shoot titled The Dungaree Club that celebrates the dungaree style in all its forms. 

The Mourners

Georgia Metaxas is a Melbourne-based documentary photographer who specialises in the genre of portraiture.

“The Mourners is a series of portraits documenting the ritual of wearing black as a signifier of perpetual mourning. In remembrance of those they have lost, all that sit for a portrait in the series wear black every day for the rest of their lives”

- Excerpt from the exhibition catalogue by Helen Ennis

The series is beautifully melancholic, each image captures grief in its various forms through lines on a sitters face, their gestures, garments and facial expressions.

Jane Sews: Autumn/Winter 2013

Jane Sews is an independent fashion label created by Durban-based designer Amy Venter. Today, Amy launched her online store that I highly recommend visiting and spending a few of your well earned pennies. Here is the official write up about Jane Sews, which is put better than I ever could:

“The Jane Sews aesthetic is inspired by timeless femininity, a fascination with global trends, and an eye for fine construction. High quality, natural fabrics are used throughout the ranges, and close attention is paid to detail and finish. The label offers a limited line of easy-to-wear and charming pieces that celebrate the female form.

I will be posting an interview with the talented lady behind Jane Sews in the future, but I couldn’t wait to share her new collection with you. Here are some images from her lookbook in the meantime to whet your appetite.

As an extra bonus, here is the video lookbook for the collection, which was shot in the beautiful natural surroundings of Cape Town.

Jane Sews Autumn Winter 2013 from Jane Sews on Vimeo.

Rebecca Haysom

Rebecca Haysom is a South African artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. She completed a Bachelors degree in Fine Art at Michealis, UCT, in 2005. She works primarily in the genre of portraiture gleaning inspiration from pop culture, personal narratives and animals, which she constructs in a delicate and fantastical way. I think she is a real talent.

Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City. Her mentor was Mexican modernist photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo who she assisted on various photographic journeys throughout Mexico in her twenties. During the 1970s, Iturbide traveled widely across Latin America and Panama where she developed an interest in documentary style ethnographic photography.

“In 1979 she was invited by the artist Francisco Toledo to photograph the Juchitán people who form part of the Zapotec culture native to Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Iturbide’s series that started in 1979 and runs through to 1988 resulted in the publication of her book ‘Juchitán de las Mujeres’ in 1989.”

Rodney Graham at Home

Rodney Graham is a Canadian artist/musician and if these photographs are anything to go by he is one cool cat. Jennilee Marigomen documented the artist in his home in Vancouver for Free & Easy Magazine‘s Dad’s Style Issue (Japan). His house is an interesting mix of modernist furniture, musical paraphernalia  plant life and art – a good combination indeed.

 

Miscellany

An amazing photograph titled Hugh and Chicken in Profile by David Stewart, which is one of the finalist for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.

The autumn/winter 2013 collection of Mozambican designer Taibo Bacar is really beautiful, featuring a local African fabric called “Capulana” as a central motif. (via: missmillib)

I would like to eat this and this. Please and thank you.

Micah Lidberg’s beautiful peony pattern designed for a series of limited edition Hugo & Marie silk scarves.

A walnut letter opener designed by Andrea Kuo, that deals with the following everyday problem in a beautiful way:

“We often get anxious about the content in our letters when we receive them, and naturally we tend to tear them apart with our own hands, occassionally running our fingers like a blade through the end of the envelope. Sometimes, we get paper cuts on our fingers, but ironically, we use our fingers to cut paper as well.”

Rajni Perera is a Sri-Lankan artist who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her bold and colourful paintings are inspired by a number of influences including Rajput miniaturism, comics, cartoons, textile patterns, Ukiyo-e block prints, paleontology, astronomy and geometry. She describes her work as “spiritual and whimsical, a pooja (religious ritual) and a porno at the same time”.

This fellow is very cool and rather well dressed.

Although the concept of a meat snack bar is completely off-putting to me, I can’t deny that the packaging for these EPIC Protein Bars are superb. Their website design is good too.

Air plant wreaths by Los Angeles floral design studio Robin Charlotte.