Negatory. Probably like the sad individual in the news this week who is being treated for smart phone addiction, the billowing gaze of ghastly white phone screen glare is caressing my face like a cheap balaclava.
It's a genuinely rare occasion that I even make it past 9pm without being seduced by the sandman but this occurence stood out for all the wrong reasons.
NEWS----->Following-----> Sorry at this time this feature is only available to users following under 1000 users
Oh the horror!
Was this really appropriate instagram etiquette? Should there even be a worry over instagram etiquette? Either way, with semantics aside, I have altogether been denied access by the technological robot gods for (quote from 16-year-old brother) "Being an internet stalker freak". Well excuse me Libby Chessler.
I may be spending a nauseating amount of tick-tocks by being extremely rude in peoples company, scrawling through gif after gif of cats and breakfasts but it's all to feed my addiction, not to instagram or smartphones, but to swedish style. Why do the swedish girls seem to be outdressing the globe!
Stockholm and Gothenburg as travel destinations are seeming dreamier and dreamier as the days roll on and Scandanavian style is always something I looked to for adaptable summer looks, without losing your essence and taste, come rain, shine, or rain, or rain again, and rain...
There's something very adorably Suzy Bishop about their dainty collars, innocent 60's prints and coquettish berets.
Circa days of 2007/2008 when I first grew a penchant for blog browsing, I was always more inclined to delve into Scandanavian blogs like the beautiful Sandra from Niotillfem or Alice Point.
Since then, H&M has come all Beyonce over us and high street brands such as Monki & the sought after Orjan Anderson & Adam Friberg creation, Cheap Monday, have made us Brits prick our ears up like clog fancying meerkats. AND BEYOND RETRO! My word!
Brands like Weekday and Acne have only strengthened fascinations, with collaborations with Antwerp graduate Mariel Manuel for Weekday. Scrummy mermaid musings. I want to be a mermaid!
In terms of design graduates, alongside St Martins, I think Antwerp Royal Academy Of Art squeezes the best of fashion grads like Mariel, Matthieu Thouvenat & Cedric Jacquemyn. Their graduate show this year was stunning.
DD: Do you have a type of person in mind when you are designing?
Mariel Manuel: I love women from David Lynch's movies and they always inspire me. I like to work with his feeling of displacement, of people that are not in the exact right setting
-Dazed & Confused
My appreciation is seeming to stem from my love for the more trend-escaping, pure & small intricate details that make life what it is. I love breathing in and getting foolishly giddy over the smaller things in life, and the instragram users I love so from Scandinavia seem to be of the same ilke, not just in fashion terms. No one can underestimate the power of coloured hoisery & t-bar's to drop you back to princess-like innocence. Theirs an element of me feeling like they are ahead of a fashion timeline that no other have hit yet!
So here are a few (to myself) inspiring pictorals from my favourite instagrammers who keep making me want to keep upping my game!
VIA @carolinbrigelius
VIA @carolinbrigelius
VIA @johannanyberg
I'm a wee bit obsessed with acquiring some Swedish Hasbeen's . The closest store for these scrumptious yodelling cuties is in York.
