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the poetic, epic scale and feeling of YOKOO's photography floors me. she also makes huge scarves whose scale and texture defies normalcy, in the best of ways.

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-i'm with nubby twiglet, sharing ideas and creativity with the world at large can be a good thing. as nubby suggests, forget about being copied...if something is really good, anything or anyone else that tries to match it or you will pale in comparison. as i often say to anyone who laments about this soft of thing (sometimes i'm talking to myself!), the cream rises to the top. let go/accept, move on, then produce more and different ideas. you'll be better for it.

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-be confident, love yourself, and positivity will follow. in matters of fashion, yes, but also in life! not sure how to be confident? consult the inimitable gala darling, she of the astute lifestyle advice, particularly this confidence-inspiring missal (via nubby twiglet).

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-german fashion/style blogger, wardrobe_remix member, and street fashion photo taker (over at http://tragflaeche-leipzig.de/) laura has turned me on to one of the most creative and original street fashion sites i've EVER seen, fak.org.ua, out of the ukraine. it's a color explosion over there, just the way i like it! and the photographs border on art. thanks laura! here's a taste:

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here's some more great stuff i've spotted here and there of late: -wanna do it yourself, make something out of nothing, and look au courrant to the utmost? check out this miu-miu-esque shoe re-do by morgan (of DC street fashion blog, pandahead, fame) featuring some fresh ruffles (on brightest young things), or this hooded tunic dress/sweatshirt redux by of-the-moment designers mike & chris, in the LA times.

-of all the european cities, amsterdam is the one that's most familiar to me. i've been there three times, and i'm probably going back for a forth visit this coming april. would live there if i could! i just found out this morning that there's an amsterdam street fashion blog, dam style, and it is good.

-fashion is spinach posted this exceedingly lovely and riotously colorful batch of photos from vogue girl (out of s. korea), and i am in adoration. so much better and more creative than the yawn-inducing blahness of any similar vogue from the west. someone was thinking outside of the box for sure. if i could, i hang those on my wall. *wishes she had a nice color printer in her possession*

-i love blogs that are very personal and design driven. ones wherein the author or creator is a creator of things and has a singular, idiosyncratic vision. examples of such would be: the brash bold graphic goodness that is the work of graphic designer nubby twiglet (whom i also interviewed earlier this year for the remix(ers)_revealed series) and the girly, often fashiony little drawer-ings of kate, the illustrator behind little doodles.