New: Origin of Time top by Chronicles of Never. Stumbled on it at Paddington’s South West Trader, an odd emporium stocking a mix of Mesoamerican textiles and jewellery along with drapey, black lovelies courtesy of Gareth Moody.
This particular top satisfies all my cravings for the impending warmer months: black (natch), semi-transparent and cunningly constructed. The super fine fabric and raw edges completely seal the deal.
A new trinket: a piece of clear quartz trapped in a silver lattice and suspended on a long chain. It’s by Lady Grey, one of my favourite jewellery labels (it fits in well alongside other Orchestra favourites such as Julia de Ville and Pamela Love). Their current collection Sacred Geometry combines geometric shapes with mystical semi-precious stones – quartz, pyrite and the like. Pyramids and crosses are recurring themes, the loaded shapes are at once religiously significant as well as clean, mathematical forms. Past collections Mortality, Metallurgy, Anatomy and Nature give you an idea of the designers’ preoccupations – religious symbology, the human body, natural forms and the occult.
I’m dying to add to more pieces to my collection.
This is Chanel Maniac, from the Noirs Obscurs collection. Applied heavily, it’s a deep, blackened red with a hint of shimmer; as a stain, it’s a vampish wine.
On Saturday, I chanced by a garage sale - imagine my surprise when I discovered it was run by the lovely Ebony of hello sandwich. I snapped up this incredible silk kimono, which I can’t wait to wear in summer, when it’s too hot to do anything but sip lemonade and dream.
These new frames from NASTY GAL arrived just in time for RAFW.
Sleek, black and angular. Just the way I like them.
