my new favourite iPad app

Introducing my new favourite iPad app: Sketchbook Pro. This app has become my addiction! it's incredible for quick sketches and works almost like Adobe Photoshop for complete beginners. I've used it mainly to draw up quick designs, either from inspiration, or from imagination. It's available from the iTunes App Store for $4.99, and is any Creative's dream! 

A couple of my designs

Waaaay too much fun! 

Official H&M Look Book AW 2011

These are the new collections for H&M's Autumn/Winter 2011. When, oh, when will they come to South Africa?

 WOMEN'S COLLECTION AW 2011: 

A chic ladylike but at the same time edgy collection made in earth tones mixed with color and prints. Models: Karlie Kloss and Josefine E.

MENSWEAR COLLECTION AW 2011:

Casual daywear and classic eveningwear with coats and jackets, mainly in soft black, gray and brown tones. Model: Clement Chabernaud

beef or chicken?

There is something quite fascinating about the lives of air-hostesses. I'm not talking about the bored-out-of-their-skulls, average-Joe, polyester wearing air-hostesses and air-hosts (?) of today; I'm talking about the pristinely groomed, excitable, beauty queens, in their designer uniforms with matching luggage of yesteryear. I've been rather inspired of late by these curious creatures. One can't help but imagine a life filled with glamour and adventure (even if one is being completely naive and unrealistic).

Culture Chanel

I came across a feature on this current exhibition on the Wallpaper Magazine website (fantastic website about everything creative). I would LOVE to go! Looks fascinating!

From the MOCA Shanghai website: 

This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai with the support of the House of CHANEL and is curated by Jean-Louis Froment, a well-known figure in the contemporary art and design worlds.

"CULTURE CHANEL" highlights the historical and creative dimensions of the House of CHANEL.

The exhibition interprets Mademoiselle Chanel's universe through her designs, her iconic pieces and her literary and artistic inspirations. Throughout her life Mademoiselle Chanel was close to the greatest artists of her time, including poets Jean Cocteau and Pierre Reverdy, painters Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali and composer Igor Stravinsky.

From left: Original 'Cométe' brooch, created by Gabrielle Chanel for her exhibition 'Bijoux de Diamants', 1932, © Photo Didier Roy;

Pen and ink image taken from pavement of the abbey of Aubazine, the orphanage where Gabrielle Chanel lived, 1996, © Alexandre Céalac;

1965 - 1980 Haute Couture collection, © Photo Olivier Saillant;

Courtesy: Collection Chanel, Paris

From left: Half-Length portrait of Catherine de' Medici, by Francois Clouet, 16th century, © RMN (Domaine de Chantilly) / René-Gabriel Ojéda;

Gabrielle Chanel with a white collaret by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1939, © Horst; 

Carmen Kass wearing an outfit from Chanel's 2009 Autumn/Winter ready-to-Wear collection, by Dusan Reljin, © Dusan Reljin

From Left: Costume design for Potiphar's wife in 'Joseph's Legend' by Léon Bakst, 1914, © Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Theater and Dance Collection, don de Madame Adolph B. Spreckels;

Gabrielle Chanel in front of the Coromandel screens of her apartment at 31 rue Cambon, Paris by Boris Lipnitzki, 1937, © Lipnitzki/Roger-Viollet;

The ‘Coromandel’ coat by Karl Lagerfeld for the 1996 Autumn/Winter Chanel Haute Couture collection, © Photo Karl Lagerfeld

From Left: Portrait of Gabrielle Chanel with her dog, Gigot, at her villa ‘La Pausa’, in Roquebrune, France, circa 1930, from Collection Chanel, Paris, © D.R;

'Acrobats' by Pablo Picasso, 1905, © Collection Marina Picasso/Courtesy Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Genève (Suisse)/Succession, Picasso 2010;

Barbara Palvin wearing an outfit from CHANEL’s 2010 Spring/Summer Ready-to-Wear collection by Martin Lidell, © D.R

all new prettyprettypetticoat

You will notice a few changes (complete revamp) to the prettyprettypetticoat blog. I hope it is a hit! What do you guys think?

I've been in hiding these last few months. Largely due to a sport injury resulting in an ankle ligament repair op, and many weeks of frustration and pain. Also due to a bit of lack in creativity and inspiration. I've heard that when the body is under emotional or physical stress, the first thing to suffer is one's creativity. This has definitely been true for me!

Hence the revamp to prettyprettypetticoat! Here's to creative juices pumping and flowing again!