Just for those of you who don't know me personally, I thought I would write this post to you and tell you a little about me - the title of this post is self explanatory really; this post will be auto-biographical, but by freehand I mean this has been in no-way shape or form thought of or written beforehand. What I mean by that is, I am just going to fill this with whatever first comes to mind about myself
I'm Jacob-Alexander, as you will have hopefully already presumed so from the title of this blog, I'm 17 years old currently although it is infact my birthday next Friday on the 9th of September - very excited, I shall tell you more about my plans in another post soon. I have dark brown hair, well I did have naturally until I decided to dye it all different shades and I am now currently sat here with silver hair - which again I will talk to you about in another post - I have dark brown eyes, and I am naturally olive skinned due to my mothers family being Spanish and my fathers family being Italian; this is my favourite fact about myself haha! I am studying at college and at this current moment in time I should really be in bed asleep as today was the last day of our summer holiday term and I start back at college tomorrow, unlike others I'm actually looking forward to lessons again! Speaking of lessons and college, I am currently studying for my A Levels; Photography, English Language, and Graphic Design. I was also studying English Literature last year although I didn't really enjoy it so in my second year I have chosen not to continue studying it at a higher level. My favourite study would have to be Photography, near enough my whole life revolves around it. I'm always taking photos of everything haha, in time you'll soon find me posting some of my work on here and asking for your opinions! Within photography I tend to base all of my projects around Fashion as it is what I wish to carry on with and study at University, (hopefully at London College Of Fashion). In my free time I tend to see my friends a lot as we usually go for meals, shopping trips and casual trips to the cinema, amongst many other things. I personally like to keep fit and healthy, I do a lot of running and cycling but I really need to join the gym - I think once I pass my driving test I'll probably join the local gym and try to keep in good shape! If I had to choose, my favourite colour would probably be Black or different shades of Brown - although I like all different shades of colours, EXCEPT orange. I have a passionate hatred for the colour! I don't know why myself but I have never, ever liked the colour orange and most probably never will. Strange I know?
My favourite names in the Fashion industry in no particular order are as follows; Alexander McQueen (okay maybe it is in a little order) - I love his skull designs and I own a few items from his collection and plan on purchasing a new skull-ring whilst on my next trip to London. Nicola Formichetti - the creative director of the haus of Mugler - I absolutely love his work and ideas, and ofcourse I admire his muse - Rick Genest, a.k.a Zombie Boy. I deeply admire Formichetti for his choice of using Genest in the latest collections for Mugler and yet again I will be creating another post to explain why I love his idea so much. Fashion photographer Mario Testino and his photos of Kate Moss are sensational and exquisite to look at - check them out if you haven't already! Also Tim Walker and his work, breathtaking. I love his style of photography, it could be classed as hypo-constructed scene - basically constructed scene photography but to the extreme in some cases, by extreme for example I'm talking about bringing extremely large skeletal displays into a field and setting off multcoloured smoke bombs and having his subjects extravagantly dressed posing in this wild scenery - simply amazing, hopefully one day soon I too will be able to mimic this extreme constructed scene sort of photography! My favourite models would have to be, in no particular order again; Isabeli Fontana (1) - her face and hair and just everything are nothing other than beautiful, River Viiperi (2) - absolutely gorgeous Coitus boy, Andrej Pejic (3 & 4) - yes he is used as both a male and female, earning double the wage of an average model and booking twice the amount of shows, him and Rick Genest (5) have by far been this years biggest living-extraordinaire to hit the runway. Daul Kim, R.I.P, (6) the tragically beautiful south korean model who committed suicide in her Parisian apartment in November 2009. Images of her are still used now in some fashion ads! Naomi Campbell (7) a beautiful, world-renowned ethnic model. Leebo Freeman (8), I admit I do personally have a crush on this guy - his facial bone-structure is admirable and his eyes are too intense to not be found attractive! And finally, Jesse Burgess (9) - most of you will recognise him from the recent hit tv show, Dirty Sexy Things, shown on E4 for 8 weeks. I love his hair and I found him really quite funny on DST and after viewing his portfolio on Storm Model's website I thought some of the work he has done was quite interesting!
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On with the list and more randomly so, my favourite material - chiffon/mesh. I love chiffon and I recently bought a Unisex chiffon shirt from American Apparel - pictured below - and I cannot wait to wear it for two very special upcoming events, it has literally been sitting in my wardrobe for two whole months - it's been so hard to resist the urge of wearing it! My favourite food? Hmm, Italian always. At home we tend to eat a lot of italian dishes, Penné Pollo being my favourite - penne pasta cooked in basil oil and mixed with tomato and basil sauce and chicken thrown in there too - a lovely dish! I may actually blog about some meals I make myself on here, as I said this blog is about fashion and my life - and food is quite a big part of my life, haha! Favourite sweet? All my friends should be able to answer this - Marshmallows and Jelly Babies. Ultimate classic. I could eat bags and bags of flumps and marshmallows, yum!
Anyhow, I really have posted enough about myself for now - stick around for the rest and keep reading as you will find out more and more about me with each post. It is now 1am and I shall only be getting 6 hours sleep before college starts, cool bro!
Oh and 9 is my favourite number, you'll start to notice I do things in nines.
Au Revoir!
