weird, but wonderful

The bescarfed Aloysius at home in Witney, Oxfordshire - trigger of the teddybear renaissance.
Credit: town & country uk. 

"I have read it three times (four if you count last night, when I stayed up into the small hours revisiting its hallowed sites - Oxford, Brideshead, Venice, Morocco), and it has changed with each reading, or rather it has illuminated changes in me, the passing of time."

"Brideshead does this for me - reading it, I feel as if I'm revisiting scenes from my own past, viewing them through the novel's lens, with the same sense of melancholy nostalgia."

"I read Brideshead where I read so many great books - The Catcher in the Rye, Lolita, To the Lighthouse - in the cavernous bathroom of my dormitory in Field's House. My feet on the hot pipe that ran around the floor, my breath often misting in the air, I dreamed myself ahead to Oxford, to the heaven that would come after the purgatory of public school."

Alex Preston on Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. On my reading list for 2015.
town & country uk. winter 2014.

Read the full article here.

sophie.

"I'm the girl you can't see/ I'm the girl who isn't me/ I sail the seven seas of my heart/ And where love ends is where I start/ I'm a sailor girl who doesn't speak/ Stronger than you but still so weak" 

-  "Sailor Girl", Sophie Auster 

Sophie Auster. lufthansa woman's world, 4/2014.

photographed by: peter lueders.

read the story here.

listen to her music here.

the second detail

like brain cells, like thoughts. running through the brain. now for us to watch. movements. parallel moves, slow, fast, lone moves. awkward and beautiful. irritating. then: she appears. 

the queen b. she's different. fierce. loose hair. curly. dressed in issey miyake. she brings chaos into order, because she's expressing herself. she's true. 

THE true you. 

- notes on "The Second Detail". ballet choreography, staging and light by William Forsythe, music by Thom Willems. currently staged at the Vienna State Opera.

what's holding you back?

FKA twigs. Patrick Demarchelier for Vogue US, January 2015

"So what's holding you back from being more confident? I think the problem is better described as a lack of self-belief. Women set themselves unreasonable standards in every area of their lives; they can't describe themselves as confident because, to their minds, only the best of the best can be confident."

- Lorraine Candy, Editor-in-Chief, Elle UK January 2015

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