The other day I picked up a copy of A Magazine (the name of the magazine is actually 'A Magazine', I don't mean some random periodical). This magazine has a guest curator each issue and this one was put together by Givenchy designer, Riccardo Tisci who is known for his gothic/religous influences. I saw this a few weeks ago and was tempted to buy it then but I put it back on the shelf because it had some really dark, disturbing imagery and I don't normally go for things like that. But every time I went to the newsagent I kept being drawn back to it and then I thought, oh why don't I just buy it? I'm a big girl now, am I scared that I'm going to have nightmares? So I brought it home, and then had to keep covering the disturbing cover image so I wouldn't see it all the time.
That then got me to thinking about what images I've put on my blog, what colours I've been working with lately and the things I've been collecting to inspire me for my next collection and I realised a lot of the images are in fact quite gloomy and eerie, the colours are dark and sombre. But hey, I reassured myself, I don't have a disturbed mind! What's going to happen? I'm going to think myself into a big black hole and never find my way out again? No, I should just roll with it and what I like looking at is what should go up.
That then got me to thinking about what images I've put on my blog, what colours I've been working with lately and the things I've been collecting to inspire me for my next collection and I realised a lot of the images are in fact quite gloomy and eerie, the colours are dark and sombre. But hey, I reassured myself, I don't have a disturbed mind! What's going to happen? I'm going to think myself into a big black hole and never find my way out again? No, I should just roll with it and what I like looking at is what should go up.
But then I found myself in conversation with these two women, dressed in black and maroon, severe dyed black bobs, dramatic but minimal silver jewelry, big grey distressed leather bags, and one of them had a terrible rasping cough. The coughing one came towards me, leaned in and said "your hair is NOT normal. I would skin you alive and take your hair if I could" (I did go to the hairdresser yesterday). I leant backwards ever so slightly. Her friend was nodding to me saying, "she's always on the lookout". The first woman continued, "I was on an escalator once, behind this woman in a wheelchair who was connected to an oxygen mask and a pole, and there was a woman in front of us with hair like yours and I had to get to it so I pushed past the woman in the wheelchair and I got all tangled up in the tubes". By this time she was standing very close and stroking my hair saying repeatedly, "your hair is NOT normal...".
And then I had images flashing of some warped fashion editorial where they're all chasing this woman with long black hair through a tangle of tubes and wheel chairs (and wearing Givenchy of course). I could only laugh and feel bemused when they finally left me, but I thought, A Magazine, you're not pushing into my life. I'm going to let more light in.
