I'm writing this on Saturday and the weather recently has been pretty dreary so sorry if this post doesn't apply to your current situation. However, you know when the weather is just a bit not nice and you need a bit of a pick-me-up? Nothing in particular is wrong but you just need a lil bit of inspiration, whether it be film, music, celebs or art work.
I like to save anything that i find personally inspiring to a folder on my laptop so i'm going to share a few bits and bobs with you today.
If you're still searching for the perfect human being to obsess over, sorry, beat you to it. Elle Fanning is beauty personified. Her gorgeously crystal-clear skin and long wispy hair is enough to be jealous of without even hearing how wonderfully charming she is when she speaks. I am much more a fan of Elle than i am of her older sister, Dakota. Although only 16-years old, Elle has some sort of infectiousness about her and maturity that I haven't seen with anybody else. She is so lovely to watch in interviews and I suggest you get well into her films, starting with Ginger and Rosa (you can find this on Netflix).
Bit weird but I've had this painting saved to my laptop for absolutely ages and the whole aesthetic of it pleases me. It's really bad because I don't know the name of the artist but there you go, just stare at it.
I am indeed super hopeful that when I turn 19 I will somehow miraculously turn into 19-year-old Angelina Jolie because she is a super babe. I think the top photo is a lil bit younger but just imagine for a second that you were that flawless (and still are). I was going to say that there is a sort of innocence about her but I don't think there is, not like Elle anyway. Angy has so much depth to her, the innocence/sexuality/ability to create such diverse characters. And most of all, THOSE lips.
MOVIES. I picked out a rather select few for you. I tend to screenshot the hell out of films when i watch them and save them in a folder too so here are a little selection of what I have. All of which are my most inspiring and favourite.
1) Benny and Joon (refer yourself to wikipedia because I am crap at sweet'n'short summaries) Johnny Depp, perfect perfect perfect. A movie depicting the difficulties of living with mental disorders and the innocent sort of love between, well, Benny and Joon.
2) Breakfast at Tiffany's. If you have never seen this 1961 classic then I beg of you, get up and go and buy it and then GO AND WATCH IT. It's a very-well talked about film and rightly so, I didn't know what it was about or what to expect from it but it didn't disappoint (for once, as a big hype generally means it will).
3) Mysterious Skin. Don't jump into this one light-heartedly thinking it's all about pretty boy JGL because, well it is, but in a small-town-rent-boy-catches-an-sti kinda way.
4) Hick. If you're well into Chloe Moretz then give this one a watch. I read somewhere that it is like a Lolita meets Kill Bill sorta thing, which is totally true and it makes me feel sort of lost like I went hitch-hiking across America accompanying her.
5) LOL. Apparently this film totally flopped at the box office but I don't care. I found it on Netflix and watched and instantly fell in love. The whole aesthetic of it has me hooked and every featured interior is beautiful. I'm not a huge fan of Miley Cyrus' acting but all of the above pointers are reason enough for me to watch this and rewatch it over and over and over.
6) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. One of my favourite and one of the better Wes Anderson films. There are slight undertones of humour in his films but especially within this one. It follows the adventures of Steve Zissou and his team in finding the mysterious sea creature that killed one of his dearest friends and their plans to take revenge.
7) Une Femme Est Une Femme. I'm not quite sure what I feel about this film. It's a French film and, well, the French are rather weird. the whole thing revolves around Anna Karina's character who has some weird baby obsession and spends the entire time bugging her husband to conceive a child with her or threatening to do so with another man when he refuses. Still great though.
8) When Harry Met Sally. Again, a classic and if you haven't seen this, get off your goddamn butt and get to Netflix. I was told about it by a friend, went to watch it and instantly fell in love. The idea of it sounds like a sort of cliché rom-com but, as someone who is especially turned off by rom-coms, i was completely obsessed and Meg Ryan's style in this movie remains one of my ultimate inspirations.
I don't know..... I found them inspiring and so saved them, do you not find them fascinating? Images like this often pop up on my dashboard on Tumblr and i'm not a huge eye make-up person but this makes me totally want to convert.
Teenage badass/superhero/icon/expert blogger Tavi Gevinson should be in EVERY teen girl's (and possibly, boys) list of inspirations. She started her blog, Style Rookie, in 2008 and in 2009 my old year 6 teacher showed me a magazine interview with Tavi, thinking that I would be interested. I sort of forgot about her between then and 2011, by the time I rediscovered her she had totally transformed and didn't look like 12-year-old-Tavi any more and her feminist focus totally had me rehooked. Since then she founded Rookie Magazine in 2011, which is a collaborative blog written mainly for an audience of teenage girls. I don't know why I just said all of this because most of you probably have heard of her and all of the above is enough to explain just why she is featured in this post.
Not enough people talk about Lisa Simpson's importance and how some of the things she comes out with should obtain much more focus. I read somewhere that the writers of The Simpsons had a lot of feelings about the world that they liked to share via the views and opinions of their characters. Lisa is the baddest of asses and is the most important 8-year-old in the history of ever.
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I guess that is it, I just wanted to show that I write about more than fashion and I do more than just take photographs of myself. I don't like to write too much about inspiration because my words get jumbled (this is bad because I have turned down too many zine/writing opportunities) so I hope the amalgamation of pictures fulfilled your inspiration-thirsty needs.
- Rachel xo
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