I set out on an endeavor in like 2014 to make a toy collection and even got to the point of ordering hundreds of eyes, but the person I was working on them with disappeared along with all the eyes (no hard feelings, I think there was something heavy going on) and I lost my drive for the project. Maybe one day I'll pick it back up? Anyway, here's some fucking toys!! I love character work so much and am totally inspired by old toys. There are new toys included in here as well and I'll do my best to credit the artists. Sorry in advance for any low quality photos!

This guy reminds me of mean 12 year olds

This one is by Yoshimasa Tsuchiya

Wow

@@@ all the cool instagram makeup girls to cover this look

The watermark on this one is for an etsy store that is sadly closed now - mama deer looks kinda evil

I really love this one, the spots are a perfect detail 

Incredible

I'm sure some of these are famous characters that I'm not aware of

I believe this one is by Yuji Nishimura

The credit on this one is "Max Toy Kaiju Negora & Konatsu Mini Negora (Calico version)"

I love him!!! This one's on ebay listed as "T9G x Shoko Nakazawa Koraters Rangeron Neon - Sofubi Sofvi‬ Kaiju". Wanna buy it for $115? Click here

This one is an old soviet toy piano!

I think Brittany would like this one

This one is credited as "Customized Tigan Figure (Bullmark/Yamanaya) painted by ILANENA"

The faces on this one are kind of scary but I absolutely love how they're inlaid and the petals are bangs!!

This one is perfect

This one's def gonna kill you in the middle of the night

This cutie came from this website

I want to get into more character work!!! V inspiring. I hope you enjoyed.

Keep fighting for what's right. 

Looking to help out?? Two of my amazing friends in LA created a database of black trans women/queer femmes to donate to. Please scroll through and help out!!! They took a lot of time to compile this database and it is pretty amazing. Community support on an individual level is powerful and beautiful. Join the movement!!!

https://linktr.ee/btqflist

So much love,

Sideara 

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Some different images that are floating around in my feed and head and pushing me towards creating another collection:

Beginning to compile images that inspire me like this, without discretion, as I start to narrow down and figure out the inspiration and purpose for my next collection! I'd really like to figure out a cohesive specific place to go as opposed to the kind of scattered experimentation that usually guides what I make - this new process may not work well for me but there's only one way to find out!

Hope you're all staying safe! 

Big love,

Sideara

IBRAHIM KAMARA

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Frequently utilizing a-typical fabrics, materials, and mixing utilitarian objects with high fashion pieces in addition to accessories and custom details for each look, Ib’s style is recognizable, bold, unique, and surprisingly refreshing amongst a fashion world that feels as though it’s stretched itself to the limits of “already been done”.

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All of these homes are created by architectural design team Nitin Barchha & Disney Davis at The White Room.

Organic House

The Garden Room

This one’s my fav!!

So incredible!!! Hope you enjoyed :-)

x

I was lucky enough to shoot this angel in human form a few weeks back. Bass is a model, actor, and bibliophile. We live really close to each other and DO NOT HANG OUT ENOUGH! Now I’m moving, c’est la vie. His warm playful personality shines through in these tuff photos.

BASS IS WEARING SHOP SIDEARA EARRINGS FROM THE COMEBACK COLLECTION.

XXOOOOO

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DON'T BE AFRAID

OF YOUR OWN POWER

USE IT.

River is wearing the Dot earrings, Girl Power, the sold out Fortune back, the Lucky earrings, the sold-out Juliets, & the vintage Sweet Bag. Get that shit before I need to change the description! Which I will forget to do.

xoxoxo

[[ This was written before his death, if anyone was wondering ]]

Ok so, maybe we don’t like Karl Lagerfeld. He’s a self-hating fatphobic dickhead. But he’s also an incredibly creative, driven, self-made, self-hating fatphobic dickhead. And he’s pretty funny. But I’m not here to praise Karl Lagerfeld. To be honest, I don’t even really know that much about him.

All I really care about is how incredible his apartment was in the 80s.

“Lagerfeld had embraced Ettore Sottsass’s Memphis movement — the tongue-in-cheek riot of colour, disjointed lines and feral ideology of the early 1980s that has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. Along with friend Andrée Putman, Karl had assembled an elaborate collection of key pieces and prototypes from the Milan-based postmodernist design group — and Spelman would document this salient collection.”

To read the full article that accompanied the majority of these images, click here.

Memphis was born in the winter of 1980-81 when a group of Milanese architects and designers felt an urgent need to reinvent an approach to design. The movement was defined by a reckless desire to be radically different from current circumstances and ‘good taste’ according to the international convention of housing being furnished with ‘real design.’ The group's colorful furniture has been described as "bizarre", "misunderstood" and "loathed.”

Some of the pieces featured in Karl’s apartment:

• a bright, light-up dressing table by Michael Graves

• furniture by Peter Shire

• colorful sofas by Marco Zanini

• inventive wardrobes and cabinets by Michele De Lucchi

• slanted bookshelves and lamps by Ettore Sottsass

Basically an endless hole of inspiration to travel down here. Goodbye!!