Fall Wishlist

Hi everyone, I'm back! I've had a wonderful holiday in Marocco, where I went backpacking with my family. I've seen very beautiful cities and extreme landscapes, I've met so many nice people and I've learned a lot too. I hope you all had fantastic holidays!

Well, I'm back home, and the new school year's about to begin (I have two free weeks left). For me, that means three things:

1. My birthday, I was born on September 22nd(finally fifteen)

2. The new school year; new classes, teachers, subjects...

3. And, of course, the new fall fashion!! I can't wait to decide how my new fall wardrobe is going to look like....

This'll be my wishlist:

1. Studded boots, like these from topshop;

2. A military jacket to throw over my distressed jeans, like this one from Balmain;

3. A men's blazer to wear with a white lace dress, like this girl on the streets of Paris does;

4. The perfect shade of red lipstick;

5. Bright scarves in all kinds of colours and prints, like this pink one from Marc Jacobs;

6. A big red bag for school, like the one this stylish girl is wearing;

7. I always love the bright, colourfull ads from Juicy Couture, but I just gotta have their newest fragrance: Couture Couture. I collect perfume bottles, and this will be one of my jewels.

The single thing I don't like from all the fall fashion, is the obsession about the extremely high boots. I don't know, it just looks ugly to me. I prefer ankle booties! What do you guys think?

Be Pretty, Be Reckless

Taylor Momsen's band, The Pretty Reckless, is one of the coolest bands I have heard in years. The little girl from The Grinch rocks out, literally. It seems like the wardrobe changes did change something inside of her, and brought out rockin' Little J. The band makes heavy, kind of dark rock music. As she said: "it's probably not what people are going to expect." And that's right, because people wouldn't expect such good music from a freakin' 16 year old. People will expect some kind of Miley Cyrus/Taylor Swift songs, but they couldn't be more wrong. Taylor can sing, pretty good actually; her rough voice reminds me a bit of Courtney Love. The music sounds like a punky dark mix of the Veronicas/the Clash/No Doubt. They will be opening for the Veronicas until June 30. Their debut album will be released this fall. I can't wait!

You can listen to a demo here:

Blender

Tomorrow morning, 5 a.m., I will be flying to Morocco. I will be there for four weeks, and I don't know if there will be internet, so I may not be able to post. It's possible that you won't hear from me the next four weeks. But I'll be back! I wish you all great holidays and loads of sun!

Walkin' on sounds...

'Soundwalks' is a project that I was working on this year. A soundwalk is some kind of audio tour, you're cycling a route while you're listening to instructions. The soundwalk can be played on an iPod as podcast. You'll hear a voice that tells you where to go, you'll hear some background information and you'll hear recorded sounds like birds and talking people. At the same time, you'll see beautiful photos on your iPod. It's the cool combination of seeing, hearing and being there at the same time that makes you really experience all the places.

The soundwalks are designed for expats: children whose parents work at multinational companies; who are living in The Hague for some years. With the soundwalks they can learn something more about the place where they live. I made a soundwalk with two friends; it was really fun to do. We planned the route, wrote the script (the script had to be in English. This was sometimes hard, because English is not our original language, but I think we learned a lot of it), recorded the sounds and made the photographs. The soundwalks are not completely finished, but you can sneak a peak on the website; watch example A, that's the one I made.

Soundwalk

Currently listening to: So What - Come With Me

Feeling kinda like Blair Waldorf today.

shirt: Temt, skirt and headband: vintage, ribbon: found it somewhere in my closet.
The headband, check. The skirt in the waist, check. Plaid, check. I even had a Good Hair Day. Add to that the flats, and Oh Yeah, I felt like Blair Waldorf!

Currently listening to: Vampire Weekend ~ A-Punk

I LOVE Paris...

Finally I have time to post on my blog again! I'm very sorry you guys, that it took me so long, but I had a lot of work to do at school. The good news is: my list of marks is very good! Now I'm done with school, I can enjoy my summer holiday and I'll spend a lot more time on this blog.

I have to catch you up on a lot of subjects, and one of them is Paris. It was definitely awesome. It was better than the best I imagined. I took a lot of photos, almost 600, so I will post a few of them. These are the first five photos from day one:

Across the street where we booked our hotel, there was a Christian Louboutin store! OMG, we just couldn't stop admiring the shoes...

A close up of the Notre Dame

Inside the Notre Dame

Jesus

The Centre Poumpidou, an interesting building.

There is more! I will post other photos soon.

Paris, je t'aime...

I'M GOING TO PARIS TOMMOROW!!!!

Omg, I'm so excited! I'm going with school, with my art class. We're going to visit a lot of museums. I've prepared all this stuff and I've been looking forward to it for so long. I even worked very hard at my French! So this is my Paris list:

Movies:

Amélie

Paris, je t'aime

Coco Avant Chanel

French Music:

BB Brunes

Brigitte Bardot

Francoise Hardy

Rose

Yelle

Paris Music:

Paris Théorie - Assasin

I love Paris - Ella Fitzgerald

April in Paris - Frank Sinatra

Free Man in Paris - Joni Mitchell

Paris Samba - MC Solaar

I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris - Morissey

J'aime plus Paris - Thomas Dutronc

Paris is Burning - Ladyhawke

Blog:

My Secret Paris by Lisette, a wonderful blog with all the secret places to be.

I will take many pictures and upload them all when I get back. Oh. My. PARIS!!

The Runway Will Be RED!

I'm sorry I haven't posted for so long, but I was so busy all the time! I just got sucked up in all the end-of-the-year madness. Apart from all the work from school, I'm also involved in all sorts of projects. This post will be about one of those projects; A Red Line(Een Rode Draad). I became involved with this through school, because I'm in the art class.

The project was invented by Sara Vrugt, a fashion designer. On Saturday, June 13th 2009, three hundred inhabitants of The Hague will parade over a red runway of three kilometers long through the city. All will be dressed in red, and musicians and dancers will acompany the parade. There will be an after party later. With this project, Sara Vrugt wants to make a bridge and bring people together, because there are so many different people with different cultures living in The Hague. I will walk too on the longest runway ever! We all worked very hard at school to get our self made clothing done in time. I made a dress, and I think this is the first piece of clothing that I made all by myself. It was so much fun to make it, and I'm so looking forward to June the 13th!

This is the dress I made:

Check out the website:

A_Red_Line