the snow suits you

it snowed 5 inches here yesterday, but instead of doing any outfit photos out there, like i've wanted to, i decided it was too cold for me and got zach and joseph to do it instead =))))
also, i'm in a photo class this semester and this is my new excuse to boss people into doing what i want even when they don't have nearly enough layers on to be outside

~lydia

fairy tales

enter the land of time-travelling fairy tale characters..... 

we would advise you to listen to this song by Pogo composed completely of sounds and songs from the disney movie Alice in Wonderland while browsing through these photos to create the right ~mood....

first, coming all the way from the 1920's, is thumbelina, the cute little thumb-sized girl who liked to live in a flower while she looked for a prince just the right size for her

next is gretel, as in hansel and gretel, from the 1940's, who has taken to leaving a trail of crumbs behind her wherever she goes, even while possibly being evacuated...

a 50's styled cinderella comes next, but still seems to not have made it to the ball and is left dreaming on the stairs

sleeping beauty wakes up to tell us her tales from the 60's but doesn't see her true love anywhere and falls back to sleep

then from the 70's, goldilocks shows up and tries out all the chairs until she finds the one that is just right, hoping nobody will find her out and tell her to leave

snow white finds a creepy old mirror where she can perfect her 80's hair... we just hope she doesn't see that shiny red apple...

and finally two modern alices show up... or maybe she can shapeshift as well as time travel... and has some problems staying the right size

hope you enjoyed them as much as we do =)

~lydia (photographer) & nicole (model) ... & cherie (additional model)

dress up day

last friday nicole visited me and i had to take some photos for my photo journalism class and i decided that fashion-type photos are journalism photos too, so i dressed nicole up like she was my little doll and made her pose for me. i hope to do this again. when our modcloth packages arrive! (some of their cabin fever sale is still going on, so check it out!)
there wasn't really a theme or anything, i was just trying stuff out...  i hope to do more stylised and focused shoots in the future =)          (i'm thinking big old house and clothes that remind me of fairy tales... or maybe narnia...)

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oh and we made cupcakes. they were lemon cupcakes with lemon-y white icing and sprinkles. they're gone now but this picture still makes me smile =)

~ lydia

ahahaha

So...

This post really has no importance.  Just found something i enjoyed immensely:

Fuck yeah! Hipster Kitty!

 I figured it was enjoyable and specifically-this-blog-appropriate!post (as it is a fashion blog).

And, uh, listen to this song. Yeah.  Songs give posts substance.  I like it.

Nicole

pink and green

once upon a time, after a long time overseas, lydia finally returned, and lydia and nicole could once again become lydia and nicole and not lydia far far far away from nicole.
and they could take fantastic outfit photos of each other, together, even if they did dress in contrasting colours.

nicole also found this the perfect time to steal lydia's skirt for a day, which lydia let her do, so it wasn't really stealing at all. but she had made it specially for herself from a big petticoat of vintage lace she found one day in the secret land of lewes.
the skirt went perfectly with nicole's new socks she made her mom buy her from target, and her new cosy pink cardigan.
lydia tried to make nicole alice-in-wonderland-esque, but her silly cat did not like it and got very afraid of the flashing camera so we had to let her go.















on the other side of the colour spectrum, lydia wore her fantastic new watercolour green h&m dress she found in the sales with the cardigan from last christmas she may or may not have worn only once since then.
her vintage hat also made a cameo, on a day where she did not even venture outside (which also explains her bare legs under those old lady socks)
nicole did not try any crazy alice in wonderland stunts, and instead got some lovely pictures of her.







after this day of reunion and fun (in which lydia also started taking fashiony photos for her photo journalism class which will be posted SOON!), the two girls went to a party in a magical attic lit with christmas lights and in the theme of surf, and both had a marvelous time dancing to the beach boys and the drums in their cute little surfer outfits










~ lydia and nicole

Art

So I'm in New York visiting family etc etc and my camera ran out of batteries.  :(  Thus, no outfits.  But inspiration abounds!  It's just snowed out on the island and everything looked like Where the Wild Things Are before that so I figured I'd post some art that gives the same feeling of both the before and after:

This is Kyu, who are you?

Lindsey Carr

lilsean

Kareena Zerefos

irina troitskaya

And this is archived stuff from 2008.  Whoamazing.

Nicole