Jaime Ibarra

"I am a professional Flamenco guitarist, graphic designer, web designer, and photographer. As a result, I do not sleep much. 

"I like colours as I see them with my eyes... but I LOVE colours as I see them with my mind. Welcome to my colourful world, it is a happy place. 

"I love photographing people wearing whooshy things that fly in the wind.

"I am rather fond of elipses"

Lace

I have mentioned my fondness for lace on many-an-occasion. I love the delicacy and fragility of lace, which nowadays is toughened up with the items it is worn with. I have collected quite a few lace garments over the last couple of years but there's always room for more. Here are some items I've recently been eyeing up:

My appreciation of lace however, also stems from the booming industry my home town was famous for. For such a small town, Darvel established a large lace-making reputation throughout Scotland and our lace was exported all over the world from the handful of factories. Unfortunately, over the last couple of decades, cheaper foreign production has wiped out the industry and only one of the factories stands intact with its looms but completely dorment.

The next Apple advert?

(Thanks redjotter.)

NYLON style sight

Apparently NYLON knows a good thing when they see it. It seems that when Christopher Kane did his masters degree at Central St. Martin's college, NYLON were so impressed that they photographed  him and his work for their September '06 issue. 

Not only this, but 4 years ago in their STREET book of style published, a 19 year old Robert Pattinson - then an unknown actor - was snapped in the streets of London. 

Yup, the Scrunchie is back.

It's official. I posted at the start of July about American Apparel bringing back the scrunchie. But now that it has hit Topshop shop floors, Carrie Bradshaw must be eating her words.

Neurotica Lookbook.

After posting of the partnership between Neurotica and Topshop last week, the Lookbook has now arrived. Ooooh! Topshop do it with style as usual.

Beautiful Illustration

As Seen On Screen

Since it's beginnings in 2000, ASOS.com has established itself as the UK's largest independent fashion and beauty retailers. 

Twelve in-house womenswear designers constantly create new lines, which are turned around within a maximum of 2 months. Up to 90,000 orders are shipped out of their Hertfordshire warehouse every week with Sunday evenings apparently being the most popular buying time (no doubt from customers needing something to cheer them up before going back to work the following day). 

Apparently clothes sell better when on certain models. ASOS employs 25 in-house models with every single item of clothing being photographed and filmed on the catwalk before becoming available on the site. But typically items sell best on long haired, good skinned and curvy models. An item doesn't sell quite as well as expected? It is re-shot on a different model and re-uploaded. 

Calvin Harris' Humanthesizer

M&S team up with Lewis Hamilton

Along with their new Autograph menswear collection, Marks & Spencer is launching a boyswear range in collaboration with Formula One team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and the reining F1 champion Lewis Hamilton.

The range - 'Living The Dream' - will feature racing motifs and branding of the team’s drivers Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen.