Black and White World

James D Kelly’s diary has been in my bookmarks for ages and I believe I discovered it somewhere between my crushes on Valetine Fillol-Cordier and Annie Monroe. Except that black and white party world of James D Kelly is a secret door through which you can peek how our beloved Alexa, Tennessee, Valentine or Annie are having fun, you can see bunch of other fashionable crew. Tess Yoop, Paloma Faith, Jack Guinness, Tom Wooley, Irina Lazareanu, Holly Taylor, Edie Campbell, Suki Waterhouse, Dree Hemingway, Sharin Foo from The Raveonettes, Matthew Williamson, Faris Badwan (The Horrors), Yasmina Dexter are just few of them. This photography dairy that is inspiration in every way, makes you to put on your prettiest dress and grab your dancing shoes.

meeting suzy bishop from new penzance

M-a-r-g-o-t. Tenenbaum. I really believe in Margot. I often imagine her in diverse situations walking around hauling her vague Nico melancholy and brown Kelly in hand. The one with missing finger. In vintage Lacoste tennis dress, Margot is an icon, and probably for 20 years or more will be Angela or Lula Mae to some new kids. Those kids would probably think of Lacoste as something really really cool so Lacoste peeps, if they haven’t already, should pay a huge amount of money to Wes Anderson. Being updated with The Rushmore Academy and everything that is happening in the world of Wes, loyal fans were waiting and waiting. We needed new female heroine, Wes! There’s no doubt that Bill Murray is genius but honestly, can Bill wear a dress? That’s why we can finally exhale – it came the time of Moonrise Kingdom. Suzy is much younger than Margot and is far from a lesbian affair in Paris or lusty marriage experience. Girl that listens to Francoise Hardy’s sensual melodies wears 60s dresses with white cuffs and collars, knee socks, saddle shoes and basket bag. When you see her, you can easily imagine Tennessee Thomas, drummer of The Like. Or Ye-ye girls. But Suzy can be also one of the Beatlettes. Is that a reason we tweet and tumble and google her peachy pink outfits? Kasia Walicka-Maimone did a great job as costume designer. But will Suzy become our favorite Halloween costume and a girl that we can relate to, like Margot Tenenbaum is. We’ll see. But I can tell you that I am very excited to meet her. Are you? 

Collage made from Moonrise Kingdom stills

Who's that girl; Tennessee Thomas

You can think of nowadays hip indie kids whatever you want but you must admit many of them have great sense for style. It goes also for Tennessee Thomas, drummer of girl band The Like and daughter of Elvis Costello’s drummer Pete Thomas. This rock infant from indie-royalty cliques (one of the BBFs Alexa Chung and ex boyfriend Mark IT girls-radar Ronson) in teenager years formed a band with two school friends. The Like today has 4 girl members and they intrigue both music and fashion spheres. They were performing at Vena Cava’s fall show, and Zac Posen hired them for short film to promote his collection for Target. (Directed by Gia Coppola, another school pal)
Talking fashion, Tennessee is already a star of the field. Not happens to every girl nowadays that has glasses frame named after her (Charles Anastase oversized Tennessee glasses). Talking modeling she was recently hired by FOREVER 21 for Boutique and with above-mentioned Alexa was star of Wren lookbook. The Lula Mag cosset, which is a frequent face on Lula’s scrapbook, also appeared in a film Spell, collaboration between Topshop and Lula, directed by Maximilla Lukacs and Sarah Sophie Flicker. It’s not strange she is Lula Darling since she has a glance of exact girl from the dreams that popped out from pages of vintage Polaroid editorial.

The rock'n'romantic blond wears loosen mane and bangs that go almost into the eyes in a manner of old school rock star. Her Peter Pan collar dresses look like she spent some time hanging with Marianne Faithfull. And all of the 60s sweetheart romantic dresses and lace items she wears makes you want to delve into her closet. Recently in the Band interview for Refinery29 she stated she has a style of a Beatles fan and that dresses with white collar are her secret style weapon. Sure they are -Just look how she wears them. Details like Saddle shoes, basket bag, heart tights, over knee stockings, tell Tennessee is a girl that knows how to have fun. And apparently it looks like she is dressing up for herself. That is why she is so irresistible-in style.


photos via Lula Mag, the cobrasnake