FortreSS ImpreSSionS

Light spring apparels as if painted with Impressionist brushstrokes and much sunlight!

This lovely editorial is done with Estonian model Tiiu Kuik posing for Marie Claire France, February, 2011.  

Photographer: Anne Menke.

Patchwork furniture

Squint Limited is an English design company producing and retailing "premium quality, bespoke, hand-crafted exuberant furniture and home accessories", and is mostly famous for its patchwork creations.

 "Squint was the creation of Lisa Whatmough, who through her passion for textiles and with a very British design sensibility has created a world of richly decorative home wares which are a fusion of fashion and the decorative Arts, each UK made item becoming a piece of contemporary art work... 
 ...Lisa imbues Squint with her own style and has created a clear visual signature mixing ages and social and artistic heritages to create her own conceptual vision of how we live today and sells internationally in some of the worlds top design and fashion stores."

  Lovely ceramic (covered in vintage fabrics) teapots by Squint, especially I like the reds and striped ones! 

I created this set at Polyvore; everything you see here is by Squint Limited, including wallpapers! 

See more in their gallery and colourways; and shop here.

P.S. May be you have already noticed, a Pin it button appeared on my green Wibiya toolbar in the bottom. That means, from now on you may pin everything you like from here right onto your Pinterest boards with just one click! 

If you are not at Pinterest yet, come join the fun - create your own visual notes of everything that inspires you, and explore cool stuff from other people! It's such a great place out there!

Fash. Inspiration: Fadeless Flowers

Another eye-catching, ethnic inspired photoshoot:

Lee Hyun Yi photographed by Hyea W. Kang for Vogue Korea, June, 2010 

Stylist: Lee Ji Ah

Over The Moon Decorating Ideas

I have just found an interesting blog Over the Moon Vintage Rentals where they share ideas and tips for throwing home parties or just making pretty decorative arrangements for home and garden in a romantic, vintage style.
Here are a few of the images from that site. Their other pics that inspired me have become pins on my Bouquet Ideas and Decor Ideas for Garden and Home boards at Pinterest, so you are welcome to take a look!

Fash.Inspiration: Rising Sun Full Moon

I am loving this beautiful photoshoot: a fusion of vintage and ethnic wear plus some interesting knitted pieces, and the wonderful nomadic styling by Eun Ji Jung!

Ji Hyun Jeong for Singles Korea, January, 2012

Keeping my promise...

... and sharing something interesting, related, in a way, to Bjork! ...Some years ago, I read a book "Awakening. A Sufi Experience" by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, where he mentioned a musical composition Fratres, calling it "music that changes vibrations of the Soul", written by a modern classical composer from Estonia Arvo Pärt.

"... Arvo Pärt's transcendent music is one of the defining soundworlds of the last 30 years. Through media, concerts and recordings his work has crossed boundaries of religion, race and culture and established itself as one of the most popular and recognisable features of the contemporary musical landscape..."


 

And now:

Björk interviews Arvo Pärt for the BBC program 'Modern Minimalists' (1997)

Fashion Inspiration: The Rite Of The Phoenix

Two hearts fall in love 

Travel through life together 

Unforgettable

- haiku poetry by Lynn Moore

 

Hu Bing and Lin Zhiling for Shanghai Tang