Carousel -- Week Ending 14th December 2007

[ 14 December 2007 ]

Yay, it’s Friday! Here are some links I found over the course of the week. Lots of eye candy!

<3 The Lavazza calendars are always incredible. The theme (of course) is coffee, & every year the calendar is shot by a famous photographer. Here is every Lavazza calendar picture from 1993 to 2008. These make my jaw drop. I LOVE them! My favourite years are 2008 (Finlay Mackay), 2006 & 1995 (Ellen Von Unwerth) & 2002 (David Lachapelle). Yum.

<3 I am in love with this apartment.

<3 Photos from Jenny Hands, Mario Vivanco, Numero & Chinese Vogue.

<3 Vogue Paris 2008 calendar shot by Mario Sorrenti, & Vlada Roslyakova shot by Mark Segal, both from Vogue Paris Dec-Jan 07/08.

<3 Ed Westwick (aka Chuck Bass) eyecandy for the criminally pervy. (I include myself in that clique.)

<3 Join Shrinkle’s Chin Wars community! NOW! Seriously, chuckles a-plenty. I love this so much.

<3 Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen’s magazine appearances throughout 2007. Some of these shoots are amazing — especially MK’s shoot for Harper’s Bazaar (MK + Grey Gardens!), & Ashley’s shoot for Marie Claire.

<3 I just found a new blog called Self Made Chick. Here are three posts by her that I REALLY dig: How To Achieve Ridiculous Goals (highly recommended), Congratulations, You Are Now A Millionaire & How To Get What You’re Worth.

<3 I know I’ve linked to a lot of photoshoots in this carousel, but if you only look at one, make it this one by Suza Scalora. I loooove Suza Scalora. She does the cover photos for Francesca Lia Block’s books, so you can imagine. These pictures are absolutely drop-dead gorgeous.

<3 I’m not really here, from Exploding Dog.

<3 She loves the wet & wild, photoshoot featuring Natasha Vojnovic. I love the setting & towel as turban.

Finally… WHY DID I NOT SEE THIS SOONER?


Sex & The City movie trailer. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala <3


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  1. The Lavazza calendars are to die for. My favourites are 2007 (the cat woman is adorable and sexy), 1997 and 2008. Although I love little aspects of all of the sets. For example, In the 2005 set I like the little man dressed in red who is supposed to be a clown or ringleader, he is so adorable and in the 2006 set I like the Asian woman in a raincoat and a little unbrella over the coffee cup. Okay, so I have a wee obsession with small things. All of these photos are so amazing though!

    <3 Anaphora · Dec 14, 01:38 PM · #

  2. I love all those photoshoots:)

    Have you read Necklace of Kisses? It’s the sequel to Dangerous Angels (I just finished it), and its amazing! It really inspired me fashion-wise; I even wrote about it on my fashion blog here: http://modernmagik.blogspot.com/2007/12/necklace-of-kisses.html

    <3 Kori · Dec 14, 02:05 PM · #

  3. don’t mean to sound nitpicky cause i corrected you on something else lately D: haha but it’s actually ed westwick and not westwood. i feel like i sound so snobby but i really mean nothing by it, i just have way too much time to observe! but he really is some deeeeelicious eye-candy.

    and i saw that apartment, too on saucydwellings and i fell in loooove. i really think i’d enjoy living there!

    <3 sarah frost · Dec 14, 02:43 PM · #

  4. Ooooo! Do you have any other recommendations for a 2008 calendar? I didn’t get one this year and I wish I had. I’m pretty tired of all these nature ones my bookstores sell. I like that Lavazza one, but I bet you have heard of a few others as well! :-)

    <3 Victoria · Dec 14, 03:00 PM · #

  5. Kori — No, I haven’t read it! I have been meaning to for a long time. It’s been on my Amazon wishlist for ages! I will get my hands on it one day… I never see her stuff for sale in Australia so it’s going to have to be an Amazon order, I think. Sucks because the postage is a killer :\

    sarah frost — Haha. OOPS! I just fixed it. I am not good with names ;D

    Victoria — Hmm. I haven’t really investigated good calendars. Maybe that would make a good post! I’ll look into it. I love calendars, I am pretty keen to get my hands on the Vogue Paris one, but it’s not available here yet. Boo!

    <3 Gala · Dec 14, 03:47 PM · #

  6. Those photoshoots, they made me stare for hours!!

    And good on the Chuck eye-candy, I’m watching Gossip Girl right now so it just fits jeje.

    Kisses.

    <3 Julie · Dec 14, 03:53 PM · #

  7. Ahh! I love Francesca Lia Block! She influenced my writing style. Have you read her “Rose and the Beast: Fairytales Retold”? One of the best books by far. I love her dog’s name: Vincent Van Go-Go Boots. No other name tops that.

    <3 Ariel/thorns · Dec 14, 04:38 PM · #

  8. HAHAHA chin wars is the funniest! i would SOOO win!
    hahahahahaahahahhaahh ohhhh my best friend would love this :)
    xx

    <3 Tasj · Dec 14, 05:09 PM · #

  9. Thanks for the S&C trailer – I can’t wait til it comes out!!! In the mean time i’ll just be keeping the dvds on high rotation!!

    xoxo

    <3 Liz · Dec 14, 05:38 PM · #

  10. I feel your pain re: getting FLB books in NZ/Aus.. For a while there I was ridiculously close to getting a credit card just so I could buy FLB books from Amazon!! But then I found a ton of places :s (I’m silly.)

    www.goodbooksnz.co.nz – the oxfam bookshop, really really reasonable prices, I’m pretty sure they would ship to Melbourne :)

    www.fishpond.co.nz – the prices are a bit dicey, but they do have ‘em.

    Whitcoulls – YEAH!! I KNOW!! I’d never have thunk it either. But they do. They have to order them in, BUT THEY EXIST.

    Real Groovy – prices are (like practically everything in there) are heinous. But, worth checking out.

    Borders – again, quite pricey.

    My best recommendation would be goodbooks :) the prices are EXQUISITELY good & it’s for a good cause…
    sorry for rambling on!!

    <3 char · Dec 14, 06:12 PM · #

  11. Sex In The City Movie coming next year? YAYNESS :-)

    Yes insane moment over :D

    Things I love apart from that?

    My boss giving me Christmas Eve off which means I can go home for christmas :D even though he said that no one else could ask (which I didn’t realise until after I had asked)

    Extra love to my boss right now.

    <3 Rachael · Dec 14, 06:31 PM · #

  12. YAAAY Carousel!
    WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

    <3 zombella · Dec 14, 06:58 PM · #

  13. Hurray! I have a new found obsession with MK Olsen. A lot of people don’t get her style, but I really admire her, and also Ashley, for not getting caught up in the whole ‘bad girls in Hollywood’ scene. I love Fridays- lots of cool stuff to check out over the weekend! Thanks Gala xxx

    <3 MJ · Dec 14, 08:42 PM · #

  14. Great list again Gala! Mmm, Chuck is gorgeous!! Love GG! Oohh, I love MKA 2007 style! And I’m def. gonna check out the things from Self Made Chick!

    <3 Sarah · Dec 14, 09:57 PM · #

  15. Oh I’m in love with the MK and Ashley Olsen pictures, I was so searching for them, today I will dress Olsen style, to go buy a washing machine, hihi.

    OMG Sex & The City!!!! I didn’t know there was a trailer already… Did you notice the 80’s flashback?? o.O

    <3 Aurea · Dec 14, 10:07 PM · #

  16. I saw that trailer a few weeks ago and got actual goosebumps while watching!

    <3 Joleeeeen · Dec 14, 11:08 PM · #

  17. i am SO excited about the sex and the city movie! i say we go see it together since something is telling me i’m going to have a hard time dragging my boyfriend along to that one.

    <3 anna · Dec 15, 01:38 AM · #

  18. The great thing is, there are always adverts from the Lavazza calenders around here… so I can enjoy them all the time. :D ‘Get Carried Away’ is just perfect, of course.

    <3 Minn · Dec 15, 03:21 AM · #

  19. I really liked the advice given in “how to achieve ridiculous goals. It seems like common sense and yet it doesn’t come to you.

    Espically when she suggests that you need concequences for goals that you don’t make, this reminds me of why I always tried so darn hard at school, because if I didn’t get into university it was the end of the world for me, so I did. If you have no other choice but to suceed, I guess your going to, because what else is there?

    The article makes everything look dramatic (which it is, its life), but it makes me feel like I can motivate myself to get started now on attempting crazy new ideas. Because if not now then when?

    <3 Christy · Dec 15, 07:45 AM · #

  20. OMG, the BATHS! That photo shoot reminds me of last semester studying abroad in Paris, I discovered the Hammam (turkish baths) at the Mosque of Paris and it was my favorite place in the city. It’s single-sex by day, so when you can go and just be with ladies, and everyone is lounging around half-naked doing their own thing, hanging out in the sauna room, or in the cold pool in the sauna room, or lounging about on the tiled steps basking in the heat and wet. It’s all frescoed and tiled with beautiful colors and designs and the whole experience really fed my whole soul!!

    Now I really want to do a tour of great baths….

    <3 Sarah · Dec 15, 10:21 AM · #

  21. Aaahh, the photoshoots!

    <3 Alice · Dec 15, 11:12 AM · #

  22. Gosh I want the 2008 Lavazza calendar and I don’t even drink coffee!

    <3 Haley · Dec 18, 01:10 AM · #
 

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