Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic: Banksy's New Muse

Confessions of a Fashion Fanatic

The daily chronicle of a fashion-and-beauty obsessed, style-writing, pseudo-Angeleno who made her way from the Great White North to La-La Land -- otherwise known as Los Angeles, California -- and back again. Till the next big city calls out her name, that is.

: Name: Haute Hippie; Location: Everywhere and anywhere

I'm a Vancouverite who moonlighted as an Angeleno. My momma is the best in the entire world, and I'll argue you hoarse on that one. I've been in love only once in my life. The East Coast calls me but the West Coast is in my blood. Social butterflies -- and party animals -- are a great species. Fashion and writing will be the death of me, but what a way to go. Carine Roitfeld is fabulous. I would die a painful death if art, design, photography, fashion, music and dancing did not exist. Always kind of wondered why Smurfette was the only girl in town. I can't draw. Absolutely believe everything happens for a reason. I feel so lucky to have the girlfriends that I do. I'm a total sun baby. Think I might be a workaholic. I may have slight road rage. Ice cream and hockey are religions. I buy too many glossy magazines. Nothing beats someone with a killer sense of humor. Chivalry is really not dead. I'm a victim of minor vertigo and a serious lead foot. Always up for meeting people from paths different than mine and crossing paths with old friends. At the very end of it all, I want to be able to look back and say: Yeah, I sure lived a damn good life.

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Banksy's New Muse

Pshaw, social commentary and such.

Banksy's got a new(ish) muse: Kate Moss.

The guerilla graffiti artist actually did this print about two or three years ago, but it's up for auction again at Bonhams in London and is expected to make over $200,000 USD.

These prints were Banksy's take on Kate Moss photos, only done in the style of Andy Warhol's famous silk-screen prints of Marilyn Monroe.

Hmmmm. Come to think of it, Banksy making a parallel between Moss and Monroe could be classified as social commentary.

After all, substance abuse is a linking factor between the two.

Let's just hope an overdose doesn't prove to be the second.

Ugh, so macabre today. Maybe I've been watching too much Six Feet Under.

I'm Lovin' it: Working at this new place near my apartment called Raw Canvas, drinking sour cherry tea. It's this amazing hybrid between a cafe, living room, art space and painting studio. They've been playing the best music here, from Radiohead to pseudo-break beats to some fantastic glam-electro that I don't recognize (wish I had the Shazam application on my iPhone right now!). Anyway, love it here. And the Wi-Fi is quick like a bunny.

I'm Lovin' it, Part Deux: My buddy Tys V. is teaching me how to deejay, okay! He's pretty much a multi-hyphenate: the marketing manager for Bacardi for this coast, a retail store owner, writer, house DJ in town...you name it, Tys is probably doing it already. And he's about the nicest guy ever. Anyway, yay for free pointers on the turntables!

I'm Over it: The catch-up game. I desperately need to go away for a day or two -- by my lonesome -- and just get 'er done. Organize my '09 calendar, figure out my travel situations this year (um, possibly Coachella and Zurich, then for sure Hawaii, New Zealand/Australia and Miami), reapply for some legal documents (which need to be replaced, thanks to someone pickpocketing my wallet and makeup bag last Friday), read up on blogs and books I've fallen behind on, clean up-slash-reorganize my MacBook and just veg the heck out. Anyone have a getaway pad they want to lend me for a weekend??

Track of the Day: "Hear It In The Cans" by We Have Band. Genre, you ask? "Disco-rock" from London, along the same vein as The Rapture. Ah yes, and they do a fantastic cover of the Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls". Check out their track "Oh!" below.