My favorite shots from this Flickr set. Which was taken the week that Yves Saint Laurent made his debut at Dior. So timely!

I want coral nails.

I’m so excited to find out that a trip to Paris I am taking for work coincides with the YSL retrospective at the Le Petit Palais!

The exhibition will cover Yves Saint Laurent’s entire career: from his beginnings at Dior’s atelier (just around the corner from the museum) to his Le Smoking, his designs for many theatrical productions and of course for his great muse Catherine Deneuve.

I think I better book my ticket now.

After work parties, book launches, a flying visit to see Malcolm’s new work at the Baltic in Gateshead and back again, and getting a bad cold en route, I am declarng this week drink free.

Chinos and stern expression on the left bank. Yeah…

Raquel Zimmerman and Charlotte Rampling by Juergen Teller. From Purple magazine and originally posted by Sea of Shoes.

I love ths lookbook for Willow’s latest collection. The model is thin, of course, but has a wonderful amazonian quality and tits’n'arse so to speak. Long may this continue… And there’s not a piece in the collection I’d not wear. Is it available in the UK?

Michelle Jank has always made me want to dye my hair.

I did also think about wearing one of her pieces when Mr G and I hitched it last year, with a very plain fitted jersey and a very voluminous (like folds and folds and folds) textured satin skirt, with the whole thing being all different shades of milky creamy white and red lips and ruddy hair. Probably looks better in my head than on the page. I did actually try to contact her via Iqons as I couldn’t find any details of her except that her jewellery had an outlet via Browns.

Paris innit. On the Rue St Honore…

Really enjoyed seeing these William English photographs exhibited at Maggs last week. William took several photographs of Vivienne Westwood in the Sex shop in early 1975 when he was a budding film student, eager to get into a London school. The idea backfired when he produced the portfolio, as the entrance examiners assumed he was only interested in making pornography.

Mr G interviewed William last week.

Colourful clothes for gloomy days as the news is in that the temperature will drop drastically in the UK early next week, while back in my homeland Australia it is over 43 degrees for the third day in a row.

I will console myself with Frieda Kahlo’s dresses, and remind myself that I hope to make it to Mexico City this year to see Alice.

From the book Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress: Frida’s Wardrobe and via Atlantis Home.

Liz Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance is one hot lady. And gap-toothed as it happens.

Photos by Akahiro Imamura from Myspace.

Gang Gang Dance led the east coast Boadrum 88 concert of 88 drummers, which took place on 8 August 2008, starting at 8.08pm. The concerts were conceived (and hosted in LA) by The Boredoms. The New York concert took place on the Williamsburg waterfront, of course.

Reminds me of when Cindy and I camped in the mountains in Ibiza and met the German family who were techno Djs in Berlin, wore leather “garments” and now got their kicks from all night trance drumming. Boadrum 88 was sponsored by Nike, wheras our German couple were brought to us by years and years of acid.

My birthday this year will be 09/09/09. I think it’s too late for my Saturn’s Return, but if anyone has a drum kit I’ll hit it nine times for luck.