What do you collect: a Queensland Museum project

‘What do you collect?’ is a project started by the Queensland Museum as part of their 150^th birthday celebrations. The idea is to ‘collect collections’ from people all over Queensland and work with community to co-curate the results into an exhibition.

The Museum will then be delivering a series of pop-up Museum events in different parts of the state, I believe, working at halls and museums and with local communities who hopefully have one or two people featured in the project themselves.

 If you want to become involved you can submit a video, a photo or a story online. Or you can just check out what other people have submitted. Collections range from the more predictable – old cameras, hats and surfboards - to the unexpected – butter wrappers, taps and My Little Pony tattoos (you wouldn’t believe you collects those).

Personally, I collect stamps. Not avidly and not for any reasons other than ‘I like stamps’. But I’m thinking that maybe I should submit my collection. After all, there isn’t a stamp collector mentioned as yet …

Christian Louboutin anniversary collection

Does anyone else just love the phrase 'capsule' collection. It's small but perfectly formed. 10 - 25 looks or shoes or whatever it is the designer in question happens to be capsualising.

To celebrate his 20th anniversary, Christian Louboutin has released a capsule collection : 20 shoes for 20 years.

These might be a little too fierce for me:

But I could definitely see myself in these:

Or these:

Not to mention these!

Images from the Christian Louboutin Facebook page.

Missoni for Target

There has been a trend over the last few years for designer collections for lower-cost fashion outlets. H&M have had innumerable collections – Karl Lagerfeld, Lanvin, Stella McCartney, Roberto Cavelli, Jimmy Choo, Matthew Williamson and Versace. Stella McCartney gets around because last year she did Target.

Now the most recent collection is Missoni for Target. It isn't just clothes, it's vases, pillows, kid's outfits, a laptop bag and even a bicycle! I kind of want some of it. If it makes it to Australia.

I might almost ride this bicycle!