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This is a small selection of images from my picture blog Various Sources. The digital winter moodboard.

the soft moon

Without S4lem showing up to their gig in Gent the year in music seems incomplete (and so is the interview I was supposed to do with them). I’m counting on The Soft Moon to solve it for me. Looking forward to hear their release and a possibility to exchange a couple of words with the band.

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coat Anywho
headband Bernhard Willhelm
satchel Zara

the owl friday

Waking up to the fog and the dim light is not always fun, it feels like there’s no day unless you do something. I’m in a horrible writer’s block these past weeks and I just can’t get around writing anything substantial for my zine. Having to postpone the second issue release date has drowned me. So to remember that this Friday has ever happened I went shopping (yes, you are allowed to laugh at this). I passed by H&M, which I don’t do that often – it tires me to see heaps of stuff piled up one on top of another – so when I go in I pretend it’s a department store, I visit only one section at a time and in about a month I’ll visit the other one…or so I say, but then never have enough courage. All the same I went directly to H&M Trend picked up some stuff, chose the best colour and in a matter of twenty minutes I was out with two pieces: a polkadot skirt and an olive button-down.



Polkadots aren’t a huge thing in my wardrobe…neither is colour olive, but H&M price tags leave enough room for experiment. Or may be it’s a stupid idea I’ve got in my head? I rarely dare to buy special colours and print from more expensive brands or designers, thinking that on paying the nth sum of money I want to wear the piece as many times as possible and as long as possible too. I don’t want it to be good for one season only, hence the amount of black I own. And just may be I should buy the strong colours and the recognizable shapes instead, like all those Dries Van Noten customers I have – they are proud to wear a heavily printed and the bright coloured skirt from five seasons ago without ever saying ‘oh that’s so last season’. I think they are proud because they wear the pieces created by their favourite designer, they are pretty sure of themselves and their position in society to wear what they like…and those ‘old’ pieces look great worn with new ones.
But what am I to do if the brands I prefer to buy are mainly trend-led. What am I to do with this season’s ACNE, Opening Ceremony or Stine Goya come year 2015? I work hard to be able to afford a couple of pieces each, but would anyone be stalking my Opening Ceremony clog boots in five years from now, like they are stalking the Margiela tabis? I really doubt it…
All that long paragraph is only to say that I’m free to experiment when it costs peanuts, but just may be I should get a hold of a few strong pieces that are made to last…


When I got home from my quickie shopping spree the ASOS package was waiting at the doorstep. The bird claw bracelet has arrived and it feels like there’s a giant owl clasping at my wrist…so here it is, my Friday full of trophies.

queen Midas

One more crazy addition to my wardrobe is the gold Topshop sweater. I’m so amazed by it that I just went on to place an order without even a vague idea of what to wear it with. I’ll probably need a couple of hours of intensive outfit ideas research…but actually in the real world I just need sleep.

My camera is a piece of crap – Panasonic DMC-FX7, if any of you want to know. I will be getting a new one come spring. For now the Photoshop will do.
Being the shoe fetishist that I am, with (please, note) the upmost bizarre taste in footwear, I just had to have a pair of Opening Ceremony clog boots in pink velvet! They came in the post the other day as perfect as they are, down to the polka-dot shoelaces. I love shoes that make an outfit, which means I can wear the most boring clothes or dress up in the morning without looking at myself in the mirror (um, yes) and then pull on the craziest pair of shoes to make an outfit worth a day that I’m living. That’s my plan for tomorrow, basically.

today...

...I felt like I needed to breath the cold digital winter air…I felt that my current position in blogosphere was suffocating me…I took a ride out into the infinite snowy fields and filled my lungs anew…and I felt that I needed to share.
This is a more personal and honest part of what I do. I run an image blog ± (Various Sources) on Tumblr, write a good old fashion blog .origami mon ami since 2006, and since recently publish a fashion fanzine Various Sources. All Brussels-based, I’m no globe-trotter, although I do explore the Northern part of the Old Continent with immense pleasure.
I want to share what I think, see, like, wear, buy, want, make, do, visit, love, know, discover, find, lose, keep, get, give, take, share…