Don't know what colour to wear?

This is crazy amazing... (and a little creepy) 

Pimkie colour forecaster tells you what are the hottest colours being worn in three fashion forward European cities; Antwerp, Paris & Milan. 

How? By scanning through a range of live images and videos and then nailing it down to a single pantone swatch. 

And just incase you don't already own anything in that colour, Pimkie even goes to the trouble of generating an array of fashions in that colour that are available for you to purchase online. 
So thoughtful! 

Check it! 

www.pimkiecolorforecast.com/ 

Love dani x

William Miller's Polaroids

William Miller is a photojournalist out to show the world what he is capable of shooting with an old, semi broken Polaroid SX-70 that he picked up at a local flea market.

Miller claims that ever since his first use of the camera, it malfunctioned... Spitting out two polaroids at a time, producing blurry abstract images and such.

Miller fell in love with the results, and refused to return the camera and instead chose to treasure both the camera and the artworks that it popped out with every click! 

The photographs are completely abstract yet dream like and completely hypnotising. It feels like you've taken acid and are watching some spectacular sun rise/ set in some kind of melting, Technicolor utopia.

More of William's photographs can be found on 

www.williammillerphoto.com

Love Dan xx

All the buildings in NY

This is so cool....

Australian illustrator, James Gulliver Hancock is currently based in New York and has one goal; to draw all of the buildings in New York (hence the name of his blog). 

“I’ve traveled a lot, as most artists do, and I’ve developed this weird relationship with each city I’ve visited,” he said.  “They become like friends, and I want to record them.”

As far as his obsession with drawing goes, he’s at ease with it.  

“It started pretty early with me,” he said.  “As a creative, it’s a way to organize my environment.  It’s part of how I see things.”

He talks of how he finds it almost impossible to put his pen down at times, even at restaurants Hancock scribbles away on napkins or whatever he can find to doodle on. Hancock says he often finds discarded sketches from lunches, framed and on friends' walls, funnily enough. 

Either way James has a long way to go, he's unsure if he will be able to literally draw each and every building in New York, but he is willing to try. 

You can follow his illustrative journey through New York by checking out his blog:

www.allthebuildingsinnewyork.blogspot.com

His prints are also for sale, so why not buy a little piece of New York?

Prices starting at $30 for an 8.5" by 11" sized print, ranging through to $90 for a 17 by 22" print.

Love,

Danielle x

Missoni: Amorè!

So i've always, always, always loved Missoni!
UK's What not to Wear's Trinny and Sussanah rave about Missoni's knack for flawless colour matching, juxtaposition and blending, and I can honestly agree.
How can you look at these beautiful, colourful patterns and not be inspired? The simplicity captivates me every time and the use of such vibrant colours makes me ga-ga!


I always love those bits in styling magazines (they even have them in sunday paper supplement mags too now!) where they show the inside of someone's home. I've always been so curious as to how people choose to decorate the space in which they inhabit.
But in one of these magazines a woman had Missoni hand towels in her bathroom, which automatically caught my eye. Her sneaky tip was to buy smaller (and lower priced) Missoni items such as the signature pattern hand towels and blend them in with the rest of her neutral/ white coloured bath towels. It automatically brightened up the whole set with that little designer touch and still looked fab! I suppose it's a little more boyfriend friendly too. Orson & Blake sell a range of Missoni towels in store and online, last time I checked handtowels started at an affordable $32 and bath towels $88. With beach towels at $299 - totally extravagant but definitely on my 'I want' list!



The other thing I love about Missoni's bold patterns is that they translate so well from homewares to fashion and almost everything inbetween. I guess it comes down to the simplicity of the pattern, but there's something so chìc about a little wrap dress in that signature print or their swimwear which is simply stunning. Needless to say when I found this Missoni swimsuit I fell in love, and I guess Giselle wearing it makes it just that little bit more breath taking!


I don't think I could possibly skip mentioning Missoni's range of Margherita dinnerware. I don't think I can put into words how much I love these pieces! They are just so gorgeous and it simply just makes me happy looking at them, it might be the joyful bright colours and patterns used but all I can say is that to me its a few dollars splurged- but well spent.



All this Missoni dreaming has really inspired me and i've been designing some Easter cards with eggs on them with a Missoni-ish print. Funnily enough I can clearly remember as a child loving to draw zigzag patterns over and over again in all my favourite colours, and here I am all these years later still doing the same...
I'll try to get some photo's of them up a.s.a.p

Until later...

Danielle x