Author results: Tess Curran
Karen
Sometimes I wish I could be six feet tall and walk around in leather leotards and coloured tights, with mega pumps, feather lashes and hot pink make-up adorning my eyes and cheeks. This is what happens on the pages of KAREN, and life seems a whole lot funner there. How could it not be; dressed half like a flamingo and skipping luxuriously through palaces of mirrors and cushions?
This stylish glossy from the fashionable peeps of New Zealand is one of the most good-looking alternative fashion mags around.
Abstract City
One of my all time heroes is the illustrator Christopher Niemann. This talented American does all kinds of graphic-based work for loads of magazines and newspapers worldwide. You might best know his cartoony drawing of toothpaste lovingly embracing the bristles of a toothbrush (pictured).
A few months back Niemann started a curious blog over at NYTimes.
Madura Green Tea
So, the green tea-is-fashionable phase has long passed, I know, but that is no reason to lose interest in the product itself. (Besides, "it's so passé, it's probably retro - and retro is always cool"). What's even cooler is how good it is for you - packed full with antioxidants to fight cancer, help slimming, make your skin glow and cleanse your entire system.
Lula Magazine
LULA is the kind of girl you'd have a crush on. Or be intimidated by. Or want to be best friends with. Or all three. She's a babe (of course), and talented, and effortlessly cool to boot. Her style is all old-fashioned cameras, 70s dresses, patterned stockings, heavy mascara. She'd live in an apartment where the wallpaper is peeling off, but it would be held together lovingly by a litter of poems and polaroids.
Polaroid Film
Let's face it. Even a monkey could snap something pretty with Polaroid. Its nostalgic feel, its play of light, its instant development; Polaroid is one of the last standing, accessible, relics of photography past. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. 2008 is Polaroid's last year. This may not be surprising in our era of ever-advancing digital photography, but it still sure is sad.
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