"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys."

So my lovely mother scored a free copy of the September issue of VOGUE from her workplace... And I was just noticing a couple things as I paged through.

First:



Fantastic pair of jeans in a new ad for Hudson... very artistically destroyed, with the key being the Union Jack underlayer. I have been googling trying to hunt these down for sale, but all for naught. I hope they are released as an actual buyable item eventually, even if it's at a ludicrous price.

Obviously I can't move on from these without noting the HAIR "Manchester England" connection, a song I featured in a very recent entry! I'm sure a real-life, modern-day Claude would flip out if he came across this ad. But then, so would Mr. Neil WOOF Donovan... to make things more uncanny, the model wearing the jeans is none other than Georgia May Jagger, daughter of Micky Mick, Micky Jag himself.


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Second: Remember just last week when I did a little red riding hood post, featuring this clip from Sondheim's Into the Woods?

Well...




Yeah. Really.




It's like they knew.

This photo spread is definitely a highlight of the issue. Check out the rest of it out here, where a kind and google-able soul has shared it on their own blog. My favorite shot is probably this one. Amaaaazing riding coat. (Too bad it's 3,000 dollars...)


So then. Life's pretty funny, right?

And look what you're ignoring...

Today's post inspired by & dedicated to my friend Emma, who gets hit on by too many creeps.






Little Bird Riding Hood - TrilliumArtisans on Etsy


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"Just one would be so boring..."




Into the Woods - Hello Little Girl (London Cast)


My first time seeing any clips from the London production! Rather different from the American take -- at least in the general styling of the Wolf...




Into the Woods - Hello Little Girl (Broadway)


I love the American wolf, Robert Westenberg; I think he's one entertaining B.A.M.F. and no mistake (plus I dig the loud jacket and kneesocks, haha)... buuuut I may be digging the London wolf, Clive Carter, even more. Not in every single aspect, but on the whole. He's especially great in the verses when he's interacting with Red and persuading her. ((I vastly prefer the American Little Red to the British one, though.))

Like everyone and their dog (wolf?), I was in a student production of Into the Woods in high school. Our Little Red and Wolf were actually both pretty great, and aptly cast; offstage Red's actress was a spunky lass, Wolf's actor sort of a persistent weirdling. O, memories...