Mark Mawson

 

I just want my hair to be like Mark Mawson's photography.  Are we not all partial to a bit of dip dye and pastel shades?

Sequins @ Givenchy

 

How cute and simple is this sequin eye look featured at Fashion week by Givenchy. Bring me the gold leaf, I am trying.

Shoe Armor

 

Its not enough just have the jewellery box full.

shoes from top: McQueen, Prada, Michael Kors

Images via: Tumblr

Clarins

 

Its been claimed that french women are:

1) Better mothers

2) Better in Bed

3) Thinner and Healthier

than us brits....

I find myself having to stare at the 4 Clarins sisters, they put any brit girl to shame!

Comme de Garcons

If its not Viktor & Rolf doing oversize its Comme de Garcon recycling the bloody christmas wrapping paper.

Kiss My Valentino's... mwahhh

Tom Ford- The man who crossed the line

"There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny."- Tom Ford

Tom Ford- The man that changed a whole brand image through eroticism, saw sales sore and carried it through to his own brand in an even more risque way.

This says it all...

Maybe its cos I am female and this is not a personal fantasy, but I find this a little bit daunting. Great photo though!

ED HARDYS DOIN WHAAA?

Vibe in style.

Queeny van der Zande

Recently styled by Pandora Lennard  and soon to feature in TANK magazine. One of my all time fave models. GET THIS KID A CATWALK.

Sofia Ajram

Sofia Ajram started humbly enough, growing up in Aurora, Ontario, "the middle of nowhere". The quiet and cold isolation of her surroundings led to her increasing interest in creating things and learning stories of occult magic; now she's pretty popular thanks to her surreal and beautiful images of beautiful women, dramatic tension, and lucid/dreamy landscapes. In her conversation with Dazed, Arjam discusses books, nightmares and sexuality... read more

Warpaint

DESTRICTED

To depict sex is really, really easy. But to actually deal with sex – in a way that is not just creative but also interesting – is hard.

This is the complexity at the centre of Destricted, an ongoing series of short films addressing the crossover between sex, art and pornography. The initial collection was released in 2006 in the UK and featured works by Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Prince, Gaspar Noe, Larry Clark, Marco Brambilla, Matthew Barney and Marina Abramovic. A later US version, released in 2010, included new additions by Tunga, Sante D’Orazio, Marilyn Minter and Cecily Brown.

Destricted’s two versions feature interviews, three-part narratives, animations, abstractions, multi-layered concepts and simple ones too. If the films mount a collective point, it seems to be that sex has the power to clarify and and obfuscate equally. This applies, we are shown, in art as it does in life.

The Art of the Tease

The art of the tease is a delicate one. The Tease is someone who entices you into thinking you have a chance by tantalising and arousing desire or curiosity without intending to satisfy it – well, at least not at first.

The act of tantalising is in fact named after Greek bro, Tantalus, who messed around with the gods of his day and was subsequently punished for doing so, being sentenced to stand in a pool of water under a fruit tree with low branches. The shitty part was that whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever he bent down to get a drink, the water receded before he could get any. Harsh, huh. Tantalus’ name has now become the proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction.

The thing is, to be truly effective, The Teaser must eventually give up what they are teasing about, as otherwise, everything ends up in tears and blueballs. They’re dangerous waters to manoeuvre, but when done correctly, The Tease can make things all the more worthwhile.


The Tease is something most famous and commonly used as female arsenal. When executed ruthlessly, it can have deadly results, and almost always ends with the unfortunate male left with feelings of sorrow, resentment and bitterness (along with the aforementioned blueballs). Generally, emotions only get involved if The Tease goes too far and doesn’t give shit up after a few rounds.

As a Charming McGee stated, “You generally get prick-teases, but there aren’t really any ‘fanny-teases’ who’ll whisper things in your ear, buy you drinks and then NOT go home with you at the end of the night.” Unless they are hustlers just plying you for free drinks, a common enough occurrence. In that case, sucks to be you for being sucked in.


In a sexual sense, either sex can refer to the use of posture, language or other means of flirting to cause another person to become aware of the possibility of sexual arousal. It’s a form of flirting that comes even before foreplay; though the word itself can be used in a more physical sense, referring to sexual stimulation.

Ultimately though, the Art of the Tease is about power play. It’s about flipping your skirt, but actually wearing the pants, metaphorically speaking. It’s the art of coy denial, of not being ‘easy’ but in a delectable fashion. And it also means eventually succumbing to a situation that you were hoping to create all along.