RADICALANDELEGANCE

radical and elegance are two words that are difficult to use together in any context.

yet they describe mark "gonz" gonzales's style in just about everything he does.

be it as a master street skater, a professional skateboard producer, or a recognized visual artist.

photographed by ari marcopoulos and featuring behati prinsloo

scans by pistolwhipped

THEROUTINE

summer is finally here all you club kids and beach rats.

we'll be listening to our parents vinyl record collections. abusing our lungs and brains.

hitting the beach and lathering up with reef oil.we plan on road tripping to byron bay for the vibes and sydney for the acne store. building a teepee, still incorporating black into our wardrobes and seeing fleetwood mac in concert.

attending golden plains music festival, getting into the playground weekender spirit, hitchhiking. rocking high waisted short shorts and bare feet, riding bikes and jumping the fence of our local pool during those especially warm summer nights.

peace love pistolwhipped xx

TWOHUNDREDCIGARETTES

what more could get you into the halloween spirit then bloody tampons, cigarette butts, budweiser beer, green nail polish, hairy underarms, aurel schmidt and terry richardson? not much else we think.

all scans by pistolwhipped.
aurel schmidt by terry richardson for purple magazine

ELLERYINSPIREDBYELLERY

very sweet editorial for UMAG styled by kym ellery. even though we are fans of miss ellery,
we cant help but think the model looks a little too similar to what kym would rock whilst running her daily errands.
too easy and a touch uninspiring to style a shoot based on your own wardrobe yes?

LONGHAIRFOREVERCLUB

mad vibes on miss sarah from LHFC.
she knows how to pull together an outfit
and how to drop a good tune
fellow blogger and melburnian.
whats not to love!
oh and the hair lets not forget about the hair

LHFC

CRACKERASSFANTASTIC

if you haven't checked out stylesightings before y'all are missing out. snap happy at new york fashion week and always out and about in europe, HE manages to scout out our fav models and everyday babes on the street. mixing street fashion and beautiful pictures perfectly.
shits all over the sartorialist.

stylesightings

YOUTHISWASTEDONTHEYOUNG

one of the better social photography sites hobogestapo went backstage at mr a wangs NYC show.
it was all happening with the standard amount of fiji water,
terry rocking his signature flannie and pretty babes with messy hair.
rad pics for what looked like a rad event.

BULLETPROOFBRAT

we are turning all paparazzi on you. jethro spotted out and about in london with none other than mr. hunter. rocking that crazy haircut, green nailpolish, a gumby earing and not to mention that total babe on his arm. jethro has got it all going on. werd up!

source: mark hunter. of course

WINTERENDSPRINGSTART

spring is coming. we will be listening to cypress hill. watching the entire works of john hughes. avoiding idiots. making daisy chains. visting zimmerman for bikinis. hating work. attending parklife. stocking up on polaroid film. celebrating our birthdays. booking plane tickets.
blogging more.

NEVERTRUSTAHIPPIE

this week marks the 40th anniversary of the festival that we all wish we could have experienced. mud. music. madness.
we could have rocked dirty hair and ran around half-naked with jimi hendrix and his acid dipped headband.
going to a woodstock themed birthday today hopefully it will be just as fun. peace out mo fo's.

MEANDMYBITCH

photographed by greg kadel for vogue australias 50th anniversary abbie and catherine are looking so fab. known of late for its mediocre editorials and dull covers vogues kirstie clements proves she still knows whats hip. the last image is almost worthy of a place in purple mag.

who wants their nipple pierced now?

COLDAFTERMIDNIGHT

we love stumbling across inspiring photographers. especially if they are australians and take pretty pictures of babes with amazing hair who play in parks . thank-you darren mcdonald for brightening up an overcast melbourne day.











cold after midnight

PAPPAWANTSYOURPAYCHEQUE

time to party serious and not feel guilty about spending money. help big daddy sanjay raise money for his short film. its going to be rad fun so come down to ffour nightclub (innercitywaste) in little collins street this thursday 30th july. more details here

Dj's
O-Be1
Megawouti
Herbie
Ando

megawouti photographed by jesse o'brien
sanjay wears ring courtesy of pistolwhipped.

KIDSOUTONTHESTREET

hopefully we will be out on the street soon taking our own snaps instead of stealing them from melbourne street fashion! here are a couple of our favorite looks. props to everyone who works there you do a fantastic job. hayley hughes from melbourne blog fashionhayley takes alot of the photos. she has a great eye!

IGGYANDLOULOU

our favorite australian jewelry award goes to the creative spirits behind iggy and lou lou. the medium of choice is ceramic, they love skulls (like us) and each piece is lovingly handcrafted to inspire.

their amazing new collection 'the look of love' has just hit alice eumphemia and the exhibition will be open until the 26th july. if you on the hunt for individual and conversation starting jewelry definitely check them out.

here is just a taste of their greatness.

and here are our very fashionable friendship necklaces that the lovely ladies at alice ordered in for us.

iggy and lou lou website

EATSHITANDDIE

artist dash snow, whose polaroid images chronicled the sex and drug-fueled party circuit of downtown manhattan in recent years, died at the age of 27. this is our little tribute. rest in peace motherfucker.

photographed by terry richardson. purple magazine 2008

DROPTHISZIPLOCKTHAT

look of the week goes to miss lesley arfin. representing with her lover high waisted shorts. a rad casio digital and rocking her sick tattoos as always. obvioulsy cause tattoos are permanent....



photo credit through hanneli.com if you haven't checked this site yet. do it now.

DIRTYLEATHERBOOTS

recent purchase from lost and found. leather boots. what every melbournian needs in winter.

they are nearlly as rad as daria's.

SHITFUCKINGHAPPENS

yeh so we know you all read the selby religioulsy. but we couldn't resist giving george a special mention. he designs sunglasses like no other and is so crazy creative. he's been keeping the kids cool since 2001.