The Doors

Some doorways you pass on the street deserve a

streetspaghetti award for excellence. Winner is the

pale blue one with found wooden collage elements

creating a serene cubist styled entrance.

Honourable mentions go to this lantern framed,

curtain swathed entrance in a small town in Vietnam,

the door to the smallest restaurant I have ever seen

(an Italian Restaurant in Paris), and the naively

stacked animals brightening up a door in San Francisco.

Follow there lead and do something creative and

inspiring with your front door.

First impressions last remember.

Ectoplasmic Goo

A friend of mine challenged me to do a post mentioning

the word 'ectoplasmic'!

So here it is. And better still I even did a post about

that very word, because the streets are dripping with

type, lime green droplets of lettering, slimey and ,

well, ectoplasmic indeed.

Not only that, street sculpture is also following suit

with futuristic , green, egg- shaped public TVs

just outside the Art Gallery in Melbourne at

exhibition square. Are our streets melting or are

designers just embracing goo in all its glory?

Girls ( and guys) do make passes...

Simple and face framing, rayban frames,

shapely curved glass, retro style;

Streetspaghetti loves spectacles!

Window

A Harvey Nics. extravaganza, a retro 80's

inspired frieze, a junk shop assemblage of carefully placed

treasures from various decades.

Great windows make a walk down the street so much more

interesting. They tell a story, invite us into a shop, and often

become changing art displays that are the master works

of talented window display artists such as those done

by the Harvey Nichols team.

If you are ever in London, make sure you catch them

because they are the best out there.

Cutting edge, incredible and pushing this art to the limit,

always.

Burlesque Babes

These girls are so smoking hot they are

the new glamour pin ups on the street.

With old school style, not a hair out

of place, eyebrows plucked to perfection,

sleek, fierce and graceful.

You gotta love a bit of burlesque

va va voom that would make Dita stop

and redo her makeup.

Architectural street

Sometimes amazing architecture brings something

to a street scape that elevates that streets aesthetic to

another level.

When the Eiffel Tower was built , not only did it do

this , but it created a whole new excitement in Paris and

changed the shape of architecture in general.

Frank Gehry's buildings have that effect also.

As have the sweeping Japanese influenced sweeping

roof of the Serpentine Cafe in Hyde park , London,

and the glass filled space station like Prada building

in Tokyo.

My favourite has to be the new Art Gallery in

Melbourne.

It has created such a buzz and has transformed this

pocket of the city into something really special;

an inner city , futuristic sanctuary.

Vietnamese Classic

Could this, the Non La be the most stylish hat ever

designed.

I love its architectural simplicity, its conical shape

and its form follows function practicality. Don't you?

In The Hood

The hoody is a street style classic if ever

there was one. I love my grey

American Apparel hoody as it goes

with everything. It is my staple when

I want to feel as snug as a bug in the hood

in a hood.

It protects me from a sun shower,warms me

thrown over my gym gear and looks

just right under a black leather jacket.

I bet you have one in your closet.

The Sitting Buddha

Giant sitting atop a mountain in Hong Kong, only

reachable after climbing hundreds of steps, or sitting in

a flea shop in Hanoi amidst dusty clocks and rusty

coins, the image of Buddha brings serenity to any

street scape.

Personally I have always loved the Thai Buddhas with

the opulently flaking gold leaf, and the fat Buddha

with his rosy cheeks , always laughing in his peachy

robes and swathed in opulent gold.

Ship Ahoy

Who needs to take to the sea in a Cruise ship?

The art deco style of architecture was all about taking

inspiration from sea fairing vessels. Port hole windows,

curved lines, whiter than white exteriors.

The excitement if sea travel came to cities all over the

world. This in turn created an exciting, futuristic ( at this time)

design aesthetic at this time.

Living in a 30's deco apartment myself, I know how

soothing all those flowing curves and ship shape lines

are to live with. And in cities by the water like Sydney,

Miami, San Francisco and LA, it is only natural that

this nautical inspired architecture evolved. All hands on deck.

Just pretend anyway

Walk of Shame

You know the times you are walking home

from a party the night before , in broad

daylight, still wearing the clothes from the

club, and a crazy blogger stops you and

asks for your photograph?

Sprung !

Yo Homie

If music has influenced fashion through the

ages, there is no genre that has more so than

Hip Hop.

Here are just some examples of the style

that has become so prevalent on today's streets.

It is not so much the items of clothing themselves

but the way they are worn that is the essence

of this style.

Jeans worn super low and baggy, jocks exposed.

Hi tops or white trainers and timberland boots.

Loose tees, chains, beanies, bandanas.

Thought to have originated in American prisons;

this look is all about bravado.

Don't try all of this at home if your ass can't

cash the cheque though. Unless your pretty fly for

a white guy or you are going undercover on the

streets to expose a drug gang, take inspiration. .

but nothing to literal. Please.

Buttons

Buttons, buttons, buttons, buttons, buttons

buttons , buttons, buttons and more buttons.