Sunday's paper...Lula and Oh Comely

Tell me if there is something better to do on Sundays than to flip through our favorite papers that are delightful like a piece of candy? Today misslikey was hanging with current issues of Lula and Oh Comely and she took some photographs for you as well in case you didn’t see them yet.

Lula Magazine as usual is like a fairytale, full of dainty stories. For the issue seventeen, the clever mind of Leith Clark and associates Clare Shilland, Damon Heath, Davina Catt, Valentine Fillol-Cordier, Kristina Golightly, Pamela Hanson, Jessie Lily Adams and many others brought us amazing selection of interviews and enchanting fashion fairytales. Marvelous spreads such as Dance for you, How come you never go there, Love me if you dare, Knowing the things that I know, My own world and others filled the pages of Lula with our favorite autumn collections while interviews with Jemima Kirke and Simone Rocha will inspire you and reveal some new things that you haven’t expected from these girls. Nevertheless, Lula has always been a magazine that is featuring lovely, talented and smart women. Also there’s one super interesting feature, tribute to Lula’s favorite magazines Nova and Stockholm New that are not in the press any longer.

While Lula is showcasing a divine beauty of fashion and talent of some ladies we admire, issue 17 of Oh Comely is all about space, stars and astronauts. In between Oh Comely’s artistic and written interpretation of the sky above, on the other side, down on earth writers Fab Gorjian, Benjamin Brill or Jason Ward are dealing with amazing stories that only daily life can create. And misslikey has a huge crush on Framed spread, inspired by Russian costume styled by Emelie Hultqvist and Stelios Stylianov and photographed by Romain Sellier.

see more snaps below and tell misslikey what kind of papers are you reading this autumn that you would like to see here as well?

Adieu Deborah Turbeville!

I don’t like mourning. Nor the news of blues. The death or illnesses are not dreamy at all in reality. But they are part of this petite world we know. We just cannot avoid them, I guess. We rarely talk about these kinds of things here. Therefore, misslikey is so sad to share among the others the tragic news that Deborah Turbeville, one of the most influential female photographers passed away of lung cancer on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 76. 

Deborah started her fashion career at the end of the 1950s as a fit model for Claire McCardell in New York. After working for mentioned designer as an assistant, she had a decade long career as editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Mademoiselle. Inspired by avant-garde cinema and influenced by great photographers of her time whom she worked with, Deborah at Mademoiselle started to photograph her own sittings. At the beginning of 1970s she fearlessly decided to pursue career as a freelance photographer. As a self- taught she didn’t really understand photography techniques but she knew she likes soft focus and grainy films. From the thing that most of “professional photographers” would name as a mistake, such as models out of focus or scratches she created a really unique and dreamy photography style. ‘The imperfections in my pictures were the things people found charming’, she said in one interview. 

music videos in 1960s style..oh oui!

If you haven’t heard already about French singer and songwriter Petite Meller (which is offence per se) now it’s the right time for a proper introduction. The girl with a sweet voice and pink cheeks recently came out with a new video for her newest single Backpack that was filmed around the village Garabit, the summer residence of Matisse and Picasso. The video for the single is kind of homage to Petite’s childhood days spent on French Riviera where she as a child was giggling at all old madams and gentlemen in tacky bathing suits. Therefore the talented team responsible for the video together with Petite tried to capture her juvenile memories through the lens of the 1960s masters Truffaut and Godard. 

Petite Meller is one of those French girls that with her beauty a la Brigitte Bardot and charm of Mia Farrow could easily fit in the days of Nouvelle Vague cinema. Actually Petite reminds a lot of Mia in a curly hair days. Besides we could look at her for ages, we could easily listen to her easy jazzy melodies all day long with carefree breeze somewhere by the pool. 

Jauntiness, prettiness, pools and châteaux are really misslikey’s thing so that’s the reason why Backpack deserves total respect here. Talented London-based stylist Nao Koyabu did an amazing job with the styling of Petite Meller and models. With the girly dresses, striped little things that remind of lingerie, Victorian nightgowns and lovely boater hats, swimsuits designed specially for the video by Vin + Omi and swim caps in 1930s style, she recreated aura of French Riviera in the 1960s. And yes we are totally jealous how that pinkish coat and Simone Rocha plastic heel brogues look on Petite! 

see video and loads of pretty video snapshots I took below
Petite Meller's facebook page

little witches going sweet

Sweet details are something that is not usually familiar with the Gothic mood. Since we like unusual, we love to add a little of sweet and simple to our dark moods. Therefore contrast collar (Peter Pan, circle, ruffled or the narrow one) will turn us into Gothic princesses with the help of proper black dress. And simple neckline embellishment is always a good choice for sweet little witches that are so cool these days. Inspiration: take a look at eternal inspiration, mademoiselle Wednesday Addams (illustrated here by adnamaamanda on deviantart) or absolutely adorable The Little Witch of Greenwich on The Ones To Watch, photographed and directed by Hana Knizova and styled by Lucia Hajnikova. If we only had the ginger hair!!

Dresses in collage: Meadham Kirchhoff black velvet Ophelia dress from Avenue 32, black oversized crinkled dress from Comme Des Garçons with contrasting white French collar from Farfetch

the shop that rocks on Brick Lane

This Saturday yours truly went for East London exploring mission together with my new dear friend Linda, talented stylist and photographer that also writes amazing Alice in Wonderland blog. After Columbia Road where I almost fainted when I saw Ryantown, shop of my favorite collage artist Rob Ryan, the road and Linda took us to Brick Lane, the heaven of hip and vintage. On the first glance, as soon as I stepped into This Shop Rocks store I knew I would adore this place. Two floors of the shop are full of all kind of vintage things from home décor, toys, books and postcards to delicate clothing pieces. The friendly couple (maybe) that works there look like from some aged novel and place has such a nice unpretentious and serene aura. 

Linda bought herself vintage silky nightdress in pale pink trimmed with nice delicate lace and I fell for adorable cake tins that are all over the place but since I have one suitcase I don’t allow myself any décor till I find a permanent place. However, I’ll be visiting this place often! 

address: 131 Brick Lane E1 6SE 

mail: info@thisshoprocks 

Emily Winfield Martin illustrations

Emily Winfield Martin is amazingly talented illustrator and painter based in Portland, which really seems to be today’s mecca of prettiness full of creative folks that we thanks to this huge virtual world discover on daily base. Therefore, I was happy from the moment I discovered one of Emily Winfield’s illustrations that featured a girl wearing a striped top and Mary Janes and riding on carousel surrounded by ducks and other dear animals. From an early age Miss Winfield had a quite picturesque imagination therefore as a little girl she was spending every moment drawing, reading, dressing rabbits in fancy clothes, and having many peculiar daydreams.
Besides she is known worldwide and her works have been published in many magazines, she is the author and illustrator of an illustrated novel for children Oddfellow's Orphanage and a paper doll epic called The Black Apple's Paper Doll Primer. Her illustrations are like little secret doors to another vivid world where magical prettiness lives. And we adore secret worlds like this one of Miss Winfield. It’s good that she lends us a key for this door so we can enter into this imaginary and picturesque world.

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Emily Winfield Martin's portfolio, shop, blog