Metamorphosis of the internet kind

So I’ve slowly made the transition to tumblr. Or I should say I’ve started to fully commit to it. I’ve been on tumblr for about 3 years now and at first its only been a place for references and inspiration. And really when they first created tumblr it was intended for micro-blogging purposes only. But its slowly growing out of that. As more people are using it as a full time blogging site. They’ve improved the way you are able to upload photos, the countless number of themes make it easier to set up a blog so close to looking like your own website, information travels like sound, and really its just so much easier to follow others.
That being said, I’ve now set up my official tumblr that you can go check out. I’ll be spending more time there. Well I’ve kinda always had. But yahh. I even made a new shnazzy logo and stuff.

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TO BE THE SELF: Coco Chanel

SO I had an epiphany, and here is my post on it. WARNING ITS LONG.

In the middle of my sophomore year of high school I chopped all my hair off. It was at the longest its ever been; about to my shoulder. And yes compared to others that doesn’t seem so long but to me it was. And I had waited quite awhile for it to grow out. 

But it was a very spur of the moment choice I had made just because of a movie I had watched the night before. There was one particular line I had taken very personally. 

"A woman who cuts her hair, is about to change her life.”

A few days later I was sitting in Master Cuts swiveling in my chair and staring at my cut locks on the marble floor.

Its said that all women can relate to Gabrielle ‘coco' Chanel, but when I watched that film for the first 

Fashion on Films: W.E directed by Madonna

The cinema has always been a huge influence on every artist. Almost everything I do is inspired by a motion pictures I previously watched. Its so easy to be instantly inspired by a movie when you’re sitting in a dark theater, and you’re only focused on one thing. The plot, the characters, the way the camera moves. Its an absolute different type of inspiration from scrolling through pictures online. You’re not only looking at those photos but you’re also on Facebook. Your attention is not fully on the art. making it harder to be inspired. make sense? enough about my theories...
Fashion and Films go hand and hand. It was my goal this summer to watch as many fashion forward movies as I can since I had no plans at all for my 3 months off. But instead I got a job and am working at least 28 hours a week. such a fail. ANYWAYS, I recently found out Madonna has made her directorial debut in the upcoming romatic drama entitle W.E about "a modern-day New Yorker obsessed with the royal love story between Britain’s King Edward VIII and American divorcee Wallis Simpson” OH MY GOSH THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT MY FIXATION OF THE ROYALS... just kidding. i’m no new yorker. yet.  
Shots from the September issue of Vanity Fair. Preview of the stars of Madonnas film and whats to come in future fashion film inspiration. 

MAY THE WARDROBE LUST TRULY BEGIN. 

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BEYOND YOUR BONES

Photographs by Pranaya Soeraadiningrat

Styling by Mie Manniche. Tess Oakland. Jasmine Suarez

Muse: Mckenna Miller. Yvette Fischer 

And a view a few more of this series visit and like my Facebook Page. I would mean an awful lot.

click through for a few behind the scenes. 

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BEYOND YOUR BONES

Velvet on the Rocks shot the other day. The photos turned out absolutely stunning. Although I didn’t get all the shots I really wanted and it didn’t really go according to my vision. But hey, when does it ever. Its apart of the whole game really. Although, I did get some shots that made for the lost vision. Heres a little sneak peek GIF if created last night.

I keep forgetting to post a link some where on my side bar that links up to my online portfolio. So heres a link until I get that set up. Oh and one more thing, you know that thing called ‘Facebook’ well I’ve got a page on there too. Just press the ‘like’ button and I’ll love yah forever.
PORTFOLIO. FACEBOOK

alright alright I’m done spamming you. 

cheers!

-Pranaya

Original Icon: Patti Smith

So its been awhile since I’ve dedicated a post to a style icon. And it was most recently that I became very passionate about the story behind one particular artist. An icon that every girl today emulates without even realizing it. This one goes to Patti Smith. the poet. the artist. the female bob dylan. the original thrift shopper. the style icon. the maverick. You’d most likely think Patti Smith, with her signature androgynous cool, her tousled angel hair, her oversized boysish jacket, a boater shirt tied at the waist(a homage to Ava Gardner) and her beat up jeans were anything but a fashionista and follower of high fashion. But when you look closer you’d find that her roomy jacket was designed my Ann Demeulemeester and her jeans? Ralph Lauren. Patti Smith discovered high fashion at the age of 7, by chance when she stumbled upon a stash of discarded issues of Vogue and Harper Bazaar. Her family could never afford to purchase high fashion magazines. To Patti Smith those outdated issues of Vogue and Harper Bazaar were windows into cultures and the world. And through those pages about Morocco and articles about what to wear while hunting Ms. Smith found herself. She created an identity that would later influence the likes of Christophe Decarnin of Balmain or even you with those distressed jeans sitting in your closet now.

Fashion became a major factor to her musical success. In my opinion without it she wouldn’t have had a career. Fashion and her personal style gave her balls and guts. It gave her confidence. With her white silk shirts, baggy trousers and severe asexual fringe, she was confident she had the look. “Baudelaire Catholic schoolboy,” she called it. The look that would appear on her debut album ‘Horses’

What I admire most about Patti Smith is how she has complete control of her personal style. And how she is entirely aware of who she is. After all, fashion and style is all about being mindful of who you are and then using all your strength to communicate that. 

Is it weird that the last time I posted a style icon post I mention how much Freja Beha resembled Francoise Hardy and then I post about Patti Smith and she’s in my collage playing the character of Patti Smith from a recent photoshoot?