STUFF & NONSENSE

WRITINGS, STYLINGS AND OTHER-INGS BY RACHAEL CICCARELLI

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🍂🍁🍂🍁Phoebie in this week's West Weekend getting intimate with nature 📷 @robertodunkino 💋 @makemeupbek 👠 @rachthething

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This week, in things I do for money: write about passion for onesies under the guise of fashion advice #copywriting

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/life

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"Actress acts" - actual, non satirical front page news from yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. Is it possible to select the speed and victims of the death of print?

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This week, in things I do for money: turn flowers into jewellery

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Hot dog.

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How The Fuck Did This Get In My News Feed part two: feeding drama. If this is your idea of unconditional love, you're going to spend the rest of your days trying to top your self-created dramatic insanities in ways that you secretly hope make you an outrageous diva- unfortunately, it will do nothing but to make you the butt of your acquaintance's inside jokes. Drama queens: stop using "it's who I am" as an excuse. Sit down, have a cold drink and a long, hard think about the fact that who you "are" isn't a string of events that you shriek down the phone to your ageing mother after 8 glasses of $10 sem sauv blanc. You're not a fucking child. Be a decent, balanced human being, take down your Marilyn posters and maybe less prospective suitors will run screaming into the night.

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Now with bonus TLC!

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Oh, hi there! Sorry I abandoned you. I promise I’ll be back every so often, probably posting more screen shots like this in a segment I think I might call: How The Fuck Did This Get On My Newsfeed? First up is this inane rubbish from Instagram: a sentiment I’ve seen laid in bold cinematic emotive font over various unsuspecting pubescent individuals. I wonder how damaging, exactly, is romanticising the idea that you should want to be with someone only for the reason that they’re wanted? Do you think the people that subscribe to this, excellent and totally infallible notion that some sort of reverse hero-worship is the best way to select a mate are the same people who are turned on by mean, assholish “bad” behaviour? The girls (and women probably, but I’m pretending not for the sake of brevity and my own sanity) who think that THIS seemingly impossible pursuit of the unapproachable deserves a little virtual heart are going to grow into bored women who run a mile whenever anyone demonstrates even a passing interest in them - because love lies not with the person themselves, but with the pursuit of them. And once there is no pursuit? Well: a WORLD of successful, healthy relationships awaits! Wait, Is this why all those teenagers love that fucking vampire series? Have sex with me and be doomed to eternal life, that sort of thing? Shit. I’m through the looking glass.

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Testing, testing, 1-2-3 (with Kaye at Chadwicks, who is both versatile and a total babe).

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Seriously? It looks like a floatie for your feet. Although, if you're wearing diamante encrusted satin platform peeptoe stilettos, perhaps we shouldn't even bother with this conversation.

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The problem with online runway is that I want everything, NOW. So, I’ve decided I want my summer to look like a 60s Sicilian vacay by way of @stefanogabbana and co, and I'm not waiting til 2013. OK? (Taken with Instagram)

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A sample of one (of many) bits of TVC wardrobe I've done lately for Perth based production company The Penguin Empire. This one was directed by the beardly Corrie Jones for Western Power, and features poor Brett running in and out of rain machines on an icy winter's day. GLAMOUROUS.

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This was actually shot on the rooftop of a skyscraper - not that you can really tell, it mostly looks like it was shot against some uncle's shed. One of the many hilarious things about being a stylist is choosing the most inaccessible, ridiculous locations to shoot only to see it realised as a tiny snippet of ordinary in the end. Worth it, though.

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Not my work, obviously - but Lena Dunham is the best, ever. oystermag:

Lena Dunham x ASOS

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An old one for Forrest Chase. Essentially, I got paid to find vintage photos of Tom Selleck. Hashtag: living the dream.

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Getting physical (Taken with Instagram)