This is the cutest room. It’s so tiny without feeling tiny but then I’m barely 5 foot 2, and I’m  sure someone of six feet would feel like a giant but I love this compact little room! My Hotel is just off Bedford Square. It’s  like a boutique hotel - which I just love. Who wouldn’t want to live in a hotel? Someone who makes your bed, leaves mints on your pillow, and cups of tea and toast in the morning…sounds like love! Have I mentioned how much I like hotels?

Now the cute little girl jumping around is actually the picture editor, Kali. We are shooting Nadia , who won Big Brother a few seasons back. She’s actually a small girl with big hair & big personality. There’s defiantly something about her! Piers MacDonald is the photographer today, ok so he’s a bit blury, but he’s very fast! I can’t wait to work with him again!!

Ginette Spanier, the Directrice of Balmain.

I love a good book and I cannot resist buying them at little sales, maybe
it’s a church sale or a market stall but I love a used book. Not a library
book, although I do have a library card. I think I bought this at a bookstore near Hoxton Square.

Anyway I recently read “It Isn’t All Mink”. I saw the cover and
just had to buy it. It was first printed in 1959 but the copy I have is from
1961. It’s not the year it was published that’s appealing to me, it’s the worn
pages, corners that are bent, also the black and white photos in the book and
everything sounds so glamorous. But it’s some how it’s just not the story you
expect from a “fashion” book. Definitely worth the read!

It’s good to take a day off, or maybe it’s really more of a day in. I didn’t leave the house today. It felt ok it be inside when the sky was dark & grey & there was drizzle, but as soon as the sky turns blue I feel obliged to go outside, but I resist and stay inside. Every now and then I really just don’t want to go out. I spend most of my days running around picking things up and returning things, oh and of course standing in line. What is London with our queues? Most fashion students don’t realized how much running around there is. It’s lots of logistics, how to find things, and find them fast! It’s all errands. I get lots of e-mails of wannabe fashionistas who all start their e-mail with "I have a passion for fashion". It drives me a bit nuts. Everyone asks how do I become a fashion stylist? Well, you just do it! It’s funny, in a way it’s like asking how to I become an artist? No one has asked me that.

Anyway, It’s good to eat popcorn,have a laugh, and just forget. Have you seen the movie Kung Fu Hustle?

Animals in the city!!!
Spitalfield City Farm! The urban donkey!!

I went to Spitafield market today to visit one of my friends who has a stall there. (Sheryl is on the left!) She designs fun girly clothes, lots of dresses! Spitafield market is great, lots of great food, and cakes and of course lots of clothes!!

Hans Richard’s “Dream That Money Can Buy” With The Real Tuesday Weld.
yes a movie night at the Tate accompanied with live musicians!! It’s oh, so cool. You can buy strawberries and cream and they give you a little cushion to sit on and you can watch a movie in the wonderful Tate Modern.

“Hans Richter’s
magnificent film Dreams that Money Can Buy (1946) will be shown in the
evening and features some of the greatest names in the Dadaist/Surrealist movement.
Artists such as Man Ray, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp were all involved in its
making. The Real Tuesday Weld, aka acclaimed British singer-songwriter Stephen
Coates has composed a score in response to the film which he will perform as a
live accompaniment.”

I’m not sure what I think. But if any thing it makes me think, and that’s want I’m always looking for. Something that inspires me, without judgment, it doesn’t matter that it makes me angry and sad. It’s just good to feel something. The women are already exploited, the artist is exploiting them, maybe I am too… They will walk around with a 160cm line on their back and will any of their clients even notice?

Santiago Sierra

born 1966

Santiago Sierra 160 cm Line Tattooed on 4 People El Gallo Arte Contemporáneo. Salamanca, Spain. December 2000 Línea de 160 cm Tatuada Sobre 4 Personas El Gallo Arte Contemporáneo. Salamanca, España. Diciembre de 2000 T11852 installation at the Tate

I’m not sure what this is about, but I keep seeing these little posting around the Tate modern. Who would want a "non photography day"? What does it mean? Any ,why, why ,why?

Last Autumn I went on tour with Billy Idol. This pic is from our last show in Germany. He’s doing another tour in Europe this July!

Some very cool t-shirts! They also have a shop near Carnaby Street.

Today I met with one of my favourite people, Gok Wan. He was
one of the first people I met when I moved to London.
I was visiting a PRs and he just happen to be pulling some clothes too. Gok was
so friendly, telling me different PRs to visit, where to find certain items,
just a wonderful wealth of knowledge! He’s an incredibly generous person.
Anyway this afternoon we had a chance to hang out in Soho.
He’s been quite busy as he is filming for a new tv show!!

How to Look Good Naked June 2006, Channel 4 – Fashion series from the makers of 10 Years Younger featuring advice from stylist Gok Wan

Link: ElectricNews.net:News:Apple and Nike become running partners.

"The latest Nike  Air Zoom Moire runners can connect to an iPod Nano through the soon-to-be released Nike  Sportkit. The wireless Sportkit receiver plugs into the iPod which can then display graphical information on time, distance, pace, and calories burned. This data is received from a sensor in the shoe, with audible feedback provided through the earphones, e.g. Run Forrest run! Or, stop Forrest, just stop will ya?"

How cool is that? I’m starting to want an Ipod but I very old but very cute MP3 player.

You can see the whole story of the wonderful enchanting Anina.net at flux shoot . The new issue of Flux is out!

You can now see more photos at Flicker!  

One of my favourite things is listening to the horses pass by my window in the morning.

I seem to spend much of my time running around central London, going to PRs and little shops to organize my shoots. I am always running through Oxford Circus, sometimes it’s too busy and too many people, but part of me likes that. I like that everyone j-walks. I’ve been told that it’s a hot spot for pick pockets!

I took this picture of Ray at a location house today. 

Ray showed me his polaroid books which were quite cool, it’s
really reading someone’s private diary. I don’t often see Polaroid books as so
many photographers use digital. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad. Things
change. My mobile is like a journal for me, I take pictures of all the things
that I like, and I even take pictures of the things don’t like, that I don’t
understand or that seem confusing to me. Often this is of what someone is
wearing. Maybe it’s so bad I’m just not sure what they were thinking, or they
weren’t thinking and I’m wondering how did they get to this point? Do they not
understand how much they are saying about themselves their life with how they
look?

Today I’m wearing a pair of bright blue patent flats with a velvet bow that I was given at the Kurt Geiger press day. I don’t really wear flats any more but I like the colour. I have small feet so I tend to like coloured shoes. These shoes remind me of when I bought my first pair of shoes. Does every girl remember where she bought her first pair of shoes? I bought a cute little pair of beige flats with a little bow on them. The weren’t really beige, they were maybe more of a cream colour with a sheen to them. I remember them quite fondly. I think I took a friend with me to confirm the purchase.

I met Anina on a fashion shoot for Flux magazine. She was so wonderful and just up for anything, I loved her energy and I felt like we has so much to chat about. Besides I’ve always loved red hair. All my best friends have red hair, and one friend colours hers…it’s not a prerequisite it just turned out that way. Anyway this is the cover from our shoot. The photographer was Takashi Kamdi, hair Claire Rothstein and Natash Laws did the make-up. They are an amazing team and I try to work with them whenever I can.

This is Takashi, we usually meet at a Starbucks.

I always knew that I was dependent on my mobile and that I liked
having one, especially a new mobile phone but today I forgot my mobile for the very
first time ever. I even take my phone to the gym with me. There are signs that
say “no mobile phones” but it’s on silent, in my pocket, why should I be deprived
of a call just because I want to exercise?

Before I leave the house I usually check to make sure I have my
phone, it’s more important to me than house keys or money. Today I was
styling Ruth Palmer, accompanied by Theatre de l’ange Fou for a short film to
accompany her DVD.

After an ordeal with the tubes I finally arrived at the right tube
station only to I realize that I don’t have my mobile so therefore I don’t have
the address of where I’m going and I realize that I don’t know my husband’s
phone number, as of course, it’s in my phone. I’ve never used a pay phone in London before and I
realized that I don’t like them: fiddling to put coins in, touching a phone
that appears rather dirty as the phone booth has several beers bottles
scattered about from the night before. I love how they look from the outside
all bright red…so London…Anyway I did find a business card of a make up artist,
Carla B, she was able to give me my husband’s phone number, so I could phone him
and ask him to look up the address in my text messages so I could get to the
shoot. I made it to the shoot but felt isolated; I kept looking at other
peoples mobiles on the table knowing I couldn’t take any photos. I don’t think
this will happen again.