la la la lula...

#8 is here!

iceberg lovesong

this is our destiny:
you will swallow me.

frozen and stoic,
impervious to your wild thrashing currents,
i rise above your inky depths in the midnight sky, flash like a diamond.

liquid silver -
you race past,
blind to the northern lights that crown our nights with a dancing diadem.

i yearn to understand your constant churning,
the pleasure you forever find in pushing and pulling away from yourself.

oh! but i am glad you so seldom seek to rest...

your gentle grace as you glide across my face sends shivers to my core.
and when you are feeling foul, beating against me with all your might,
your rage reminds me why i am here.

ever your eternal witness,
i stopped long ago to marvel at your many moods.

now i cannot leave your cool, murky embrace.
i will stay until time melts me away,
sinking more with each new moon,
dissolving daily into your frenzied swirling.

and when at last you have completely consumed me,
i will know the secret of your ceaseless surge.

finally!

i knew this was inevitable! barbara hulanicki, aka the genius behind the original biba, has just finished designing a collection for topshop. can't wait to see it! here's a brief write-up from telegraph magazine:

"Designed by Barbara Hulanicki of Biba fame, Topshop’s new designer collection includes body-con dresses and palazzo pants plastered with supersize animal prints; wide-leg catsuits with cutaway shoulders (a Hulanicki trademark), cute, printed silk chiffon blouses and three-quarter-sleeve suede jackets. Given that this is the woman behind the cult label largely considered to have defined the Swinging Sixties and louche Seventies, the collection looks set to rock the late Noughties. Barbara Hulanicki’s 20-piece collection will be available nationwide from April 20. Prices from £20-£120"

and one of the sketches: