Come back when you can't remember a single thing you own

My favorite clothes are not the ones that I wear, but the ones that I treasure the most. See, I like trifting, visiting second hands and recycling centres, whatever you want to label it. It's a cheap thrill - I just found fitting Levis 501's for 50 cents. In a places like these you can fulfill your dreams easily and without feeling quilty. My style might not be the greatest, but my clothes are. It's sad that they have to stay home because I don't take the time to train my eye and style them well. Soon!

Excuse me the lighting and setting and everything. I just wanted to take some pictures of my favorite pieces of clothing, and it was night and I had to take back school's DSLR the next morning. Took it like medicine, horrible in a hurry... I've made the backdrop myself in a textile course, it was back when Dior Couture had THAT Hokusai inspired dress and I was in love with it (still).

Shirt, Yves Saint Laurent Pour Homme, belt," Taimi Savio" clutch, all second hand.

The shirt was 33 eurocents, it was a really bizarre moment when I discovered it from the 3 clothes for 1 euro rack because I can't figure out the reason why it was there. But strangest things are known to happen, and this was one of them. The clutch (6 e?) was bought back in the boho heyday. It's so sickenly leathery leather. The belt (2,50 e) also doubles as a wristband.

Shorts, Mulberry belt, second hand, shirt from my Grandma

This shirt has been one of my favorites for a long time, and I still wear it occasionally. Thanks Grandma for collecting me clothes! The Mulberry belt (10 e) is such a quality piece that I've become really picky about belts. There are so many crappy belts out there. Did you know that Mulberry started out as making belts? Me neither.

Martin Margiela Line 6 dress from sale, bag second hand

I can't wait to wear this silk dress! Maybe I'll wear it with share to the fringe trend - a bag (3 e?), also bought in the boho-days, that is so weirdly wonderful that I don't even know why I don't wear it daily?! I know that MM6 is boredom and overpriced, but good for me that I got it for little over 100 euros, and boring is cool.

Cacharel dress, bag, belt all second hand

Look at the print! Birds! I love this light blue viscose dress (6 e), I'd pair it with 40 denier black tights, metal belt (8 e?) and black leather purse (5 e?) to make it more street credible. I bought the dress from my favorite jesus second hand-place, where I've found pleated, new wool Cacharel skirt and Hermès scarf. Someone is letting go of their French pieces and making me happy.

Antonio Marras shirt, HL U.S.A bag, both second hand

This shirt is is a classic white shirt (7 e) with numerous twists, and what I like is that it doesn't end up looking tacky but rather aristocratic. The vintage bag (15 e) is gorgeus up close, like the shirt is better when on. It's lined with the same light peachy satin the attached coin purse is made of.

Half of these were bought from Fida that is in 1,5 kilometre walking distance. I haven't visited it for a really long time, I guess I should soon. I love that place, my favorite Ivo Nikkolo blazer is from there, and it's the place that made me fall in love with used clothing. You see, I had nothing better to do when I was younger, and apparently nothing has changed, except the number of shops I visit.

It's just another hospital...

I've got certain things that make life easier, this occuring if and when I can find them. Some of them I never really use, like the Arvika badge and weird Versace hairpiece, but hypothetically speaking I could use them every single day, and that is what matters. Some of them are daily fixes, like a spritz of No.5 that every morning wakes me up better than any coffee or energy drink. Green Fairtrade jasmine tea can't be beaten, though.

Lately I've been really into plain white t's. Not the rap group, but surely I was the only one thinking about them. They have become trusty friends, and I've hoarded them because they only cost me 2.99 a shirt, from uncoolest place ever. I feel like a Finn who uses supermarkets as main place to shop clothing ETC. Because statistically speaking, that's where they (typical 40 yo) buy their clothes. Whatever rocks their boat.

And then there is the neck to cover. I rarely use jewellery because I seem to break everything and jewellery is easy to accidentally destroy, but I've grown fond of these two pendants that both origin from my mom. The light pink one was a gift, and the key was nicked. I recently saw an similar one of the latter by Just Cavalli and it was equally cool and not even that expensive. You never know what tomorrow brings.

Another piece I like close to my neck is my trifted Hermès scarf, it's not luxury just because it's Hermès, but because it's simply beautiful. You know how some people claim how certain people glow with inside energy and all that stuff? I feel like now I've experienced it, in form of a silk scarf. It's a good sidekick.

your cold white brother alive in your blood

We were shooting one scene of our short film today! It's going to be amazing. I realized modeling (and acting) is kinda boring - all you do is get your make-up on which takes minimum 30 minutes, stand in hot lights (My bestie Sanna burnt her finger badly!!! She has a piano concert coming up on Monday :(((( ) waiting for the directors to adjust everything, go through things zillion times and in the end you get really messy. Then you have to do a second take and it all starts over again...It's like...a real job, not easy at all. Bummer. To see the result is fun though, thanks Sanna and Max!

Grey would be the colour, if I had a heart.

The spring awakening this year has been crucial. I've understood that

A) I'm not getting any younger
B) I'm not getting any taller
C) Though it all looks different now, I know it's still the same

So lollers, it's time to hit the gym, I want to model, not to sell my soul to rock and roll. This is really personal, but I've lost 14 kgs, in a healty way, thank you very much. It's just that when you give up milk, it all becomes easier. Milk from cows = not healthy, meant for cow babies to fatten up in short amount of time, like you did when you were a toddler. I don't know the timespan of the loss because I don't have a scale. We don't have a scale! Think about it. Scales are evil, you weight 100 grams less than yesterday? Good for you, now what about the people around you, do you know what's up with their lives? I may not own a scale but what I do have is the promise to walk into an modeling agency this summer, after letting go of x amount of centimetres. Actually, I take that back. I can't keep promises.

It's hard to say things like these aloud ("I want to be a model","I need to lose weight") because you always get the same responses like"You don't need to loose weight, that's just the tricks that media is playing with us." or "Models are vain, sweaty rocker dudes with guitars rule, die." I love those arguments. It's only the media that plays tricks with us, it's only the models who are vain.

I have no other intrest with this weight loss than modeling. I know that media is evil, modeling biz is evil ETC. I'm fully aware of the concerns of everyone and I know that walking into an agency may not lead anywhere even if you get signed. There are 10 000 girls in front of you and atleast double amount of girls behind you, all wanting the same thing. You need to stay in the ideal measurements that make your bmi strangely look like 16. If you don't keep it that way forever, goodbye. So, if I'm not a victim of media trixx or having glamorized view on modeling, what does all this make me? A cold, manipulative bitch, like usual. If you want it, you already got it...Cheers!

This night has opened my eyes, and I will never sleep again.

I'm wearing my favorite leather jacket, it has faux-fur collar and sleeves. I bought it from UFF and got the price down a bit because the buttons were falling off. Now I don't have buttons in my jacket, but it brings happiness to my friends lives. Thanks Sanna for the pictures!

I'm not growing my hair just for the sake of it, I'm doing it for you

You know what? For once, I was right. The new Kasino A4 has a photographic picture on its cover! While it's not your average model with a smiling face, it's still a glossy close-up of one. Inside it has lots of colourful pictures, and the price has gone up to 7 euros. Well, maybe it's just for this issue, it's the 7th afterall, clever. The fashion features are wonderfully wonderful, featuring lots of my favorite designers like Daniel Palillo and Antti Asplund, though those are given. I'm shamelessly encouraging you to buy it, it's out today. I'm not going to the release party tonight...cheerz to all the kidz with fake idz.



Last Sunday I went to the Nan Goldin exhibition at Kiasma, for the very last day. It made me kinda sad, because I wouldn't mind if it was up forever, but the false fire alarm made me cheer up a bit. My favorite photographs there were the ones of Joana/Joanna Preiss, she's photogenic with long hair and magnetic look. She is more of an actress these days, but she used to model more actively and still does the important Paris runways - in the audience. To put it more shortly, she is one of those french muses who is besties with Nicolas and Karl.

She is also one of those people who make me grow my hair again and again. Hair is waste, but because it looks so nice, it's hard to resist at times. I already have a nice brown shade going on, I'll just let my hair be for a while, so one day it will be perfect. I just have to wait. Meanwhile, have I ever told you how much I hate my biological father whom I've never met? I don't have my mom's thick, black hair, blue eyes and pale skin with freckles just because of him. I'm cursed with brown hair and green eyes forever. Thanks dad. It's OK, but it would be so cool to wake up every day and notice you're a goth.

I'd want a summer job in retailing so bad. I applied to H&M, but everyone does that and you need to be over 18 again, because if you steal money or something crazy, goverment isn't going to return that to the employer. Of course I'd steal money, in a heartbeat. Shoplifters of the world unite! So instead I'm taking summer courses in Swedish...maybe it's better this way.

p.s Helvetica. What do you think? I liked Georgia too, but life is too short to only bond with one font.
pictures: style.com, imgmodels.com

Whatever, I never wanted you to be an accident.

Yo! I've had a great week, nevermind I skipped half of my tests. Ok to be honest, all of them, but it's spring and there is light and it's time to be happy again!!! Highlights of this week include: Rufus Wainwright lolling at my glitter cross, sorbet in various tastes, hours spent in recycling center, flight to Rome and a project that is really out there but I want to do it just because I could say I've done it no matter if it's successful or not. Thank the lord for small mercies...

I've got new sunglasses! I might aswell cut this economics crap and focus on searching vintage frames that cost me an euro, I've got plenty already. The newest pair of my collection is German Neostyle's, the style is called Superstar 1. I did some search and this ebay pair popped up, so the picture is from there. I have them in black though. My pair has sunglass lenses with my perscription....do you know how rare is to find cool sunglasses from second hand market with hardcore perscription lenses? It's really, really hard. And because with these I can actually see something, not to mention they are really trendy, I'll be wearing them everyday. I really want to get my new glasses too, but it takes four weeks to order the frame and blah blah I'll get them before summer.



In the meantime:
Download Elle Milano's Juliette's Death from their Myspace.
Click.
Their album is out in ten days.
Kasino A4 is out in fortnight.
Take care of your belts.
Read Jack Kerouac.

Picture: ebay

things like this make me sick - but in a case like this I'll get away with it

H&M has announced it's new designer collaboration and it's none else than Rei Kawakubo, the woman behind Comme des Garçons. WOW. I mean, this will be far cry from the Roberto Cavalli madness last year, the collection that wasn't that much raved about in the fashion circles but sold out really fast. I think this is an intresting turn - it's fun to see how japanese avant-garde and cheap chic will meet. She will design the womens, mens and childrens plus do an unisex fragrance and accessories. Childrens? I bet that part of the collection will be sold exclusively in Japan, where the collection will be launched in November after H&M opens its first, naturally superhuge stores in Harajuku and Ginza districs of Tokyo.



I really hope the collection will turn out well. After every announcment of H&M's collaborations I've always said to myself that this time I'll camp in front of the store, but when the collection is revelead I never really like anything for myself. I wish I'd bought more of the Karl Lagerfeld one, I bought a dress, from sale, that has been my favorite for so long and last year I found a button down from the collection from my favorite second hand for 1 euro. I wish I'd gotten the sequinned jacket that susie bubble has!



I wonder how well the collection will be sold outside Japan, and what route will she take with it. Will it be avant-garde pared down or more like CdG Shirt? Will there be lines in front of the stores in countries like Finland? Will ordinary folks and teenager girls be intrested? What about the caliber of the prices? We'll wait and see but one thing is for sure. The collection, like the previous collaborations, will go on eBay and sell like hot cupcakes. You see, cupcakes are so democratic, like the idea behind these collaborations. They can also be the same as always, just with different icing.

Pictures from Comme des Garçons Fall 2008 show from style.com