Usually I am a rag tag mess of influences gaining snippets of
mental illumination from graphic novels, street art, anime shows and all sorts of wonderful rubbish. This
time around though I have finally been able to pin point my mind’s thought
processes in terms of tracing specific influences. You could call them inspirations as they imbue me with a sense of sophistication and timeliness that allow me to create, to write and to live in the moment.
The first and
foremost influence that has had me spending all my extra cash on magazines is Paris Fashion Week. It started filtering into my daily life through Instagram
images of high-end fashionistas such as Anna Dello Russo and Carine Roitfeld hurrying
to the Espace Eiffel to catch the latest A/W ’13 shows by Isabel Marant and
Giambattista Valli.
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| Carine Roitfeld at Paris Fashion Week Fall |
Suddenly everywhere I looked I saw Cara Delevingne under
headings like The New Kate Moss and All Runways Lead to Cara. That plus the
release of Harper’s Bazaar 15th Annual issue was enough saturation
to get me sucked back into the world of fashion.
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| Cara Delevingne at PFW/F |
For the past
month I have been devouring the March and April issues of HB and Vogue re-memorising
names of designers that I had thought were lost to the deep recesses of my
memory, as well as adding new talent to my list. Why had I let my HB
subscription run out without renewing it? Where had my thirst for knowing this
season’s trends gone? I’m talking about the girl who once completed a clothing
production course in her final years of high school, even designing her own
graduation dress. But that’s right, that girl was accepted into The University of Melbourne and had
become fully immersed in the literary University life.