Breathing

The smile of fashion week's hysteria...

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath".

And I believe that great style is swimming under water, holding your breath and if it's ever possible, forget about ever breathing again cause when it's that great, it's that worth it. No, don't die on great style...It's all figurative you know... But really, I think the whole drug of beautiful things is the breathlessness it casts on you...Like after reading a good story, you feel like you've lost the ability to breathe properly and your heart's at a race, going far from your rib cage and you just couldn't stand it anymore...It could be euphoria. It must be euphoria. It's what I get from fashion...I'm not one of them and if I'm being very blunt about it, I only dream of being one of them. Those handsome boys and beautiful girls the cameras go snapsnapsnapsnap for, wearing all such amazing style...That's the dream right there and seeing people live the dream is in fact holding my breath and if they're as cool, amazing and handsome as these ones, I'd already forgotten how to inhale.

And I am so privilaged to have interviewed Nam of Streetfsn before...He's getting bigger and bigger and better at his craft...All these amazing photos are from him and these ones, are all worth a picture frame.

So, I welcome you to a very difficult breathing exercise...Well, at least for me it's hard...God, I wish I was as stylish as them...

-Gerard

The Urges and the Taboos

The boys at Milan Fashion Week so far, thanks to Tommy Ton's absolute work for GQ

"Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos." ---- Rene Konig

To Aaron "McDreamy" Articulo & Lesley "Le Sizzle" Choa, these photos would serve as the latest challenge for you two....

-Gerard

The Mood Board # 2

Prada on Daria Werbowy with David Strathairn. Photographed by Peter Lindbergh. Fashion Editor: Grace Coddington 

VOGUE always takes readers back to the good old days...

They always have stories that are simple, boring for some, but when looked at carefully, they're actually reflections of real life experiences...It's probably the romance that VOGUE has perfected for centuries now, I believe, that makes it such a magical read despite their pretty commercial covers.

Daria Werbowy is incredibly beautiful and Mr. David Strathaim looks perfect as well. Great styling, thanks to the Grace Coddington.

This is all about a reporter, Daria Werbowy, falling in love with her subject/photographer, Mr. David Strathaim...Which accounts for all the romantic angle on the photos. Enjoy!

-Gerard

The Mood Board # 1

Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil, See no Evil...

Before heading to bed hours ago, around 2 something am, I went through my usual fashion inspiration hunting game, clicking here and there, typing this and that and finally landing on the best editorial I've seen in ages: Last year's GQ Style UK story Cool School styled by David Lamb and photographed by Doug Inglish, who has got to be one of the better photographers of this time. I've always dreamt of a photoshoot like this, where it's playful, and acting candid did turn out to be candid after all. These are the kinds of shoots I like and when Lesley takes my photos, I think I'd do well posing in these ways rather than just standing still. Others have got that down quite well, but I have to be more lively. (Dear Lesley take note! :D)

Anyway, this is my first "mood board" and a friend of mine, Kaye Matriano who has a blog of her own, please do visit, told me one day that while searching for inspiration she went through this blog. So I figured, well, if people go here for inspiration, meaning fashion photos or just photos I guess, why not be selfless and share with them some of my favorite finds around the web? I do that sure for THE EDGE, but here, it's all relateable and less themed, as another friend of mine puts it. 

So anyway, welcome to my very first The Mood Board, and whatever I post for The Mood Board will probably be my current state of mind and this exactly how I want me to be right: wearing these no brainer clothes, chilling at somebody else's cool front porch, choking someone else while wearing Ralph Lauren  this or a GAP that (of course the brands don't matter, but they fit in this situation cause it's from a fashion magazine), hanging out with Noah Mills, Arthur Kulkov and Andrey Ivanov, doing all silly things, and just taking it easy. What I like most about the whole story are the colors, they're fresh and bright but not verging on a sort of juvenile optimism that would probably feel too blinding or unbecoming for a story in GQ Style UK. This one, has got a slight darkness to it and it appeals real and just as fun. I love these photos, even when they're from last year's Spring collections. Enjoy!

- Gerard