[aanddinspired]

Honeybee

I wanted you to be my water, my sunshine and protector. Only to discover that you were the night’s shade cloaked in the shadow of your own demons. The ones you pass off as unhaunting. But quietly they rule you to your core. We could have bloomed. Planted and rooted as one. Grown to be as tall as palm trees or flourished like a meadow of sunflowers. Instead you harvested the nectar of my souls to feed your hive. One that you shared with other women. I will never be like them. And that is the unsweetest part.

[aanddinspired]

at the speed of “like”

Overwhelmed by just how much is going on today’s world. Everything moves at such a fast paced thanks to social media that it’s suffocating at times.  Paralyzed by having to keep up with it all. At work, at life, even the practice of “downtime” or “self care” is seamingly monetized and monopolized. 

Social media has a way of making you feel like you have to be part of the conversation - even if the conversation is garbage. Basura. It makes you feel like you have to provide an opinion or a thought - but when done at the speed of light, almost often those thoughts are not nuanced. So to get your two cents in, you type and hit post on thoughts that aren’t necessarily opinions or arguments but more in the vain of “saying this will get me the likes, retweets, follows.” 

It’s hard to not see the parallel effect of it into other factors of culture/pop culture. Fashion designers are creating collections with questionable, and often offensive, pieces only to serve as a way to stay relevant in a world of “drops” and fast fashion. What are the repercussions of these behaviors? Are we creating a generation of lazy consumers? Only paying attention to whomever is screaming the loudest or the ugliest?

140 characters to get a nuanced point of view across.

1 minute runway show to showcase months (even years) of design work.

We’re turning into a culture of no longer appreciating layers or nuances. Which is hurtful when sub-communities and sub-cultures are now more than ever able to be spotlighted. Ironically in an era where we’ve reached a height of representation, we also succumb to wanting just the tip. 

[adhocposthoc]

[mtvstyle]

We need to talk about Hilary Duff’s looks on Younger

[hilarydaily]

[girliswashedup]

[viceland]

Explore Karachi Fashion Week in Pakistan with Hailey Gates. Watch STATES OF UNDRESS first episode for free: http://bit.ly/1RwuYYU

[wmagazine]

Jet-à-Porter

Photo by Jeff Henrikson, styled by Nora Milch; W Magazine November 2015.

[paradefantome]

[eisenbernard]

Smokin’

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[shejuststoppedsinging]

Me, whenever someone says anything that remotely has to do with Amy Winehouse.

[quotemadness]

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Sylvia Plath (via quotemadness)

[milk-honey-tea]

Madhuri Dixit in Phool (1993)

[gummybearorgy]

Quick little Hold Up doodle 😘

[claraishikawa]

Enaltecendo a rainha.

[pettycentral]

[throckmortonianfluid]

The level of petty I aspire to be

[earthshaker1217]

A++++

[baileyresearch]

Mobolaji Dawodu - Stylist