Behind the Scenes at Volt

I am quickly becoming a one stop shop for magazine insights (kind of...lol. Not on the level as many other fabulous blogs but it does seem to be a subject I tend to witter on about. Joyfully of course!). I have a new insight for you guys to feast your eyes on! I have just received these amazing images from behind the scenes at Volt Magazine, from the making of Issue 7. I find it fascinating to see the magazine through each stage of its production and from so little so much is created. See the stages bellow and follow the link for more Volt goodness!

Lavers of time

Laver's Law - Wunderbuzz

So, it has been a while and I really do apologise. I feel very rubbish about it! I have been busy as of late with a family trip to Scotland (Sans-Internet) and this week taking to work. I have started to work at .Cent Magazine, which is a lovely place to work with home-made family style lunches and even a pooch 'Dino' to accompany me! It is all part of my work experience for university and you can read about it more here. I am also assisting Jessie Craig (whose work of course I love...as you may of read on here before) and Nicholas Lawn. Nicholas is a photographer whose work I have only recently been introduced to but I am very quickly falling head over heals for. He is also such a lovely guy, and I am very happy to have the pleasure to working with him. I will put pictures up here but I really want to make them into a whole post in order to do his work justice.
On another note, I have just found this fascinating idea/theory on Wunderbuzz, that relates to the beautiful typography above. James Laver, a historian, author and curator at the V&A created a timeline of fashion known as 'Lavers Law'. I think the basic gist of it is the association of words used to describe the fashion of a period is representative of how far in the past or future they are. Interesting idea and very lovely typography.

This may be re-blogged a thousand times

"Every sentiment you read has been written before a thousand times. And I know, why you like this. Because we all want the same thing, this intangible, fluttering thing we want to grab out of the thick air of reality, the cracks in the sidewalk and the peeling paint of the walls.
We’re going for the glimpse, this texture and touch and a parallel world where you feel everything you see, and your fingers are brushing on the canvas of every beautiful thing in front of you, and everything is beautiful, everything is beautiful even when it’s sad—especially when it’s sad.
I know, I want the same thing reflected on the back of a dirty spoon or the spine of a library book in the patterns of the greasy counter, between the folds of the sheets on the bed.
It’s the way things are stacked a certain way or a certain note of a song flickers a switch inside of you. But I’m impatient. I don’t want to wait. I want it all and I want it now. I want it burning my finger tips and exploding above my eye lashes. I want it in every glance I meet, inside the colors of flushed cheeks and heated touch. I want it in the spaces between things you’re waiting for and things that will never come.
You want the same thing. I’m sorry if I’ve misread. I’m sorry if I misunderstand. I’m sorry, so sorry if I can’t offer it to you,
not in these grandiose sketches at poetry or in those stories of bleak pretty fantasy. I’m sorry I don’t have an happy ending."
Pretentious and Pop

Just Because...

Sorry I havn't been posting very much lately. Lots of work on! Will show you photos when its done but for now here is the beautiful miu miu collection shot for 'because magazine'.

Indulgent

I have just been having a bit of a Tim Walker indulgent afternoon, cutting his recent editorials from Vogue Italia to slip into my collection, reading up on past interviews and watching clips on YouTube. I find him to be such an inspiration, not only the amazing images he creates. For one person to have such a wonderful imagination and then to capture it to show the world is something very special. I found the bellow interview to be so interesting (although the quality isn't incredible and I cannot read the questions or subtitles), especially when he talks about fashion photography being the only medium to capture the unreal and fantasy, and that he never shoots within the studio or uses flash photography (something that I myself am not keen on). I hope you enjoy it as much as me! Please comment on what you think or if you have also seen something incredible that creates passion within you.

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Image: Found..Le Love (?)

Your dreams are as you make them

You know your becoming a bit obsessed when you start dreaming of whatever your obsessed about (if that makes sense?). For me it is Tim Walker's photography. Example: Last night the above image was the setting for my dream. I was working on the boat as a waitress, as the space around it became a restaurant. It was rather peculiar (as dreams are and it is already pretty peculiar) as I had to stop the guests from getting on the boat and stop them from eating cakes that they were gorging on. Anyone want to analyse? (Apart from I think the cake thing may have something to do with the bake sale in Glee). Goes to show you are a creation of your surroundings!

Image: Tim Walker

Right from Scratch

I have been considering giving this blog a fresh new life for a little while. It seems when I look at my favourite blogs, they give an insight into the bloggers lives, opinions and the bloggers themselves almost become Internet friends that you can look to, to cheer you up or inspire you, even if its without them even realising it. I personally find tumblr pages to be a little un-personal, however I do have a tendency to indulge in beautiful images posted, and really appreciate them as a good source of research.

So, where does this leave 'oh my'? Well I originally set up this blog to be a little different to the norm of blogs regurgitating content that has been written before. I always knew that I wouldn't be the first on the fashion news, as there are bigger blogs that already do a fantastic job of this, and to be honest trending fashion has never excited me very much. 

I started this blog to do what I love, creating imagery and what I like to call 'fashion collages' in a similar way to a magazine. I feel my approach is more unique and overall stays true to who I am and what I do. I still love this approach and will continue to create my posts through Photoshop however I think after a year it is time to mix it up a bit and give you all a bit more of me! A greater insight into who I am, my adventures in the wonderland of fashion, my loves, thoughts and passions and I would love to hear from all my readers and enjoy this journey together. So lets start...

♥ My name is Rebecca. 

♥ I am 20 and a student studying Fashion Promotion and in particular fashion styling and photography. I love it for its imagination and absurd nature. 

♥ One day I hope to work at a magazine that inspires and excites people, in the city I feel complete, New York. A city where anything can happen at any moment and most probably is somewhere near by. The city that has a bubble fight in the middle of Times Square and throws parties on the Subway. 

♥ I will one day live there with my lovely boy (My Name is Tom) and have many adventures. 

♥ For now I live on the outskirts of London, another city of beauty and eccentricity.

♥ I work at a wonderful magazine, Glass (check it out here). 

♥ I spend my time with my head stuck in magazines, scouring clothing from different eras in jumble sales, car boots and charity shops, collecting peculiar cameras and baking an assortment of healthy and (very) un-healthy goodies!

So how about you?

pretty moving film

The Cat that got the Cream

Miu Miu!

(A/W 2010)

“People always ask if I think about a concept or the show or the front row or whatever first. No! Fuck off! The client comes first! The collection is driven by what clients want in different parts of the world, so I want them to be able to see it straight away and to judge it for themselves. Well I just think that which celebrities are wearing it, what reviews say—none of it matters if it’s all there for people to make their own minds up. I’m 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I’m dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above the earth.” -Alexander McQueen