Off to Sarajevo! :)

Can't believe it's summer and I am wearing a knitted sweater.

I'm leaving for Bosnia in two days, can't believe it. Think this will be my last post, until I get back. Really looking forward to this vacation, not only because it's raining for days here, but also because it will be an old-friends-reunion :) And don't forget the Sarajevo Film Festival I will be attending! It's really awesome to have access to such an event (even thought this isn't like the festival in Cannes, it is a really big in Bosnia)

Anyway still need to pack some things up and that is (for me) the negative side of going on vacation :( I hate it because it's always so hard to figure out which clothes to bring with you and which not. Well we'll see if I made good choices.

With love,

So you may (or may not) heard that TopShop was put into the negative lights these days because they had a way to skinny and unhealthy looking model for their new campaign. You can read the article here

But what made it for me more interesting is the post that model Codie Young  wrote on her blog. Where she told her side of the story.

TOPSHOP ANOREXIC - THE HONEST TRUTH

"TOPSHOP CAUGHT UP IN SIZE ZERO ROW AFTER USING 'ILL-LOOKING' SKINNY MODEL ON WEBSITE"

 hey all.

I have recently come across this article to do with topshop and the lookbook I recently did for them in London.

And I feel very hurt by the whole article and comments made by professionals such as Helen Davies "from UK anorexia charity beat" and Karen Easthall "from anorexica support group in Norfolk".

Firstly I feel very hurt because these supposed professionals who deal with anorexic sufferers, everyday for the job/career. Are talking about me as if I'm not a real person (like I'm just a model used for them to prove some point) which is not the case I am a real person with real feelings just like everyone else and comments made by these people do hurt and affect me. So I feel its very necessary for me to say something!

Not only this but I feel its very unprofessional for two professionals such as these to ladies to accuse me of under eating and saying "The girl looks ill... I dread to think whats under her clothes" 'Karen Easthall" she further added "There are tens of thousands of teenagers battling to overcome anorexica who could be affected by seeing pictures of dangerously thin girls being glamourised", Helen Davies "For girls to see pictures of models who are this thin suggests that its okay to be like that, when its clearly not".

Firstly this is very hurtful to me as I am naturally skinny; and anyone who knows me would know that I have been naturally skinny my entire life as my dad is 6'5 tall and skinny an my mum is also skinny, not to mention that my entire family on my dads side are all tall and skinny like me!

For someone like Ms Davies to say its not okay for me to be this thin ( which is how I was created) basicly says its not okay for me to be who I am!

I am very happy with my body and how I look because its apart of who I am! Throughout my entire childhood I was called anorexic and people would ask if I was bulimic. And it was really hard sometimes for me to deal with as I have always been this way.

You know what some people are just naturally skinny and even if I tried to put on weight it wouldn't matter, because it doesn't matter what I eat, I dont put it on. sorry to dissapoint you but why should I be accused of something so awful as being anorexic when I'm most definitally not. I love food as anyone who actually knows me would know!!!

And finally yes okay I maybe an American size 0-2 and a UK size 8 so what. There are overweight/obese people who are a size 34 or 18 but know one says anything to them because you don't want to affend them! Just because someone eats a lot doesn't make them healthy. Just like not eating anything doesnt make you healthy. And funny enough saying I'm anorexic affends me just as being called obese affends overweight people, but the differences is that im not anorexic!

I was deeply hurt by this and I hope all who read my blog truely don't think I'm anorexic. As I am most definitally not!

Codie

This whole post made me think about it, we all say: OMG she's so thin, OMG I would love to lock her up in the McDonalds for days. But we never think about the models, you know if I were in her shoes I would feel the same. It's like calling a cubby person fat or a pig, right? I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject!

With love,

After seeing these photos in the THAT Magazine May/June issue, I wondered how the-once-so-slutty Nicole Richie became so stylish? I meen when she was part of The Simple Life and Paris BFFFF, she annoyed the hell out of me. And now she changed her slutty outfits for  bohemian dresses, floppy hats, and hippie chic jewelry. You can find this back in her own collection called Winter Kate and her designes for House of Harlow 1960.

With love,

I swear there is something creepy going on with me. In my last post I complained about the weather and now the weather is worse. Is this really God testing me or something? Anyway, because of the weather I think I will spend my friday watching Lee Min Ho save the day in the City Hunter ;) and searching new music for my Ipod. Maybe you guys have any good music suggestions ( and no Mylene (I can't put the accent on the e because it will become a HTML error) I'm not going to put Hamburgers met korting on my playlist :P)

With love,

I've been spotting cute messages like these for a while now and I found out that they are from the lovely Leah Dieterich. You should check out her book called thxthxthx: Thank Goodness for Everything. It's really worth reading it :)

With love,

When I was little I asked a person: What's the meaning of beeing an artist? He didn't respond. I thought he ignored my question, because he was writing/drawing something. I pretended like I never asked him that question, untill he gave me a pice of paper with the words: Never ask that question again, because a true artist knows what it is.

I really was blowed away, but still had one question. How should I know if I'm a true artist? He smiled, because you are. Maybe you'll not realise it now, but when you'll get older you'll understand it.

This person is my mothers nephew an architect and professional photographer, who showed me the world of art since my first visit to Bosnia. I still remember his atelier, it was an old apartment on Bjelave in Sarajevo. The scars the war left on the building where still fresh, he didn't want to remove them. They are a sign of surviving he told us. I didn't get it ( I was 7 okay) but now it's obviously what he ment. He gave me and my sister paper and some of his pencils to draw. I drawed the house we were staying at or let's say I gave the house a make-over. He smiled when he saw my drawning and he hang it up on his wall. My mom told me later he said to her and my dad: an artist is born.

So the next visits to Bosnia he gave me pencils, notebooks (and yes, my little black book) as gifts and I loved beeing in this atelier. My drawning still hangs on his wall even if he moved to an other place. Last time he told me it gives him hope that he's leaving the world in good hands.

And now you're probably asking why I'm writing this stuff? Well, it's been days since I drawed, wrote or done anything that has to do with art. I feel like I lost it :( So I hope after writing this it will come back, it has to. Whitout it I'm not myself anymore.

With love,