Letters to Emi

News

2009-09-24T12:58:00.000+03:00

Dear Emi,

please go over to Nounou de la Falaise to read my new blog. If you like it, you can add it on your blogroll.

Also, follow me on Twitter.

Every single word I'll ever write will always be a letter to you, no matter where I am and under what heading I'm doing it. That will never change. Only my life has.

Koko.

Love & Anarchy

2009-09-09T12:16:00.003+03:00

Dear Emi,

I've made reservations for two tickets to each of the following movies at the Rakkautta & Anarkiaa 22nd Helsinki International Film Festival:

1) The September Issue
2) Valentino: The Last Emperor

My wild card this year is The Girlfriend Experience starring Sasha Grey. I find her porn rather ghastly but I'm willing to give her a chance to do a role of an upper class escort.

Koko.

Lovely Lumi

2009-09-06T19:18:00.004+03:00

Dear Emi,

I had a wonderful time at the Design Market and even received this tiny tan Lumi Accessories handbag as a gift from Maija:

It holds the essentials while keeping its delicate shape. According to my calendar (which doesn't fit in the bag, mind you, but who needs calendars, anyway, especially when their job is that of a Project Planner) it's "take your handbag to work" day tomorrow.

Koko.

Hot Boys on Lookbook

2009-09-06T10:19:00.010+03:00

Lookbook

Or maybe it's just the sunglasses.

Koko.

Pheww! 2

2009-09-06T09:49:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

I almost forgot about Helsinki Design Week, as well. Had the wrong date.

Koko.

Pheww!

2009-09-05T17:14:00.003+03:00

Dear Emi,

good thing I'm still in Hki: I'll be able to join the Interesting Helsinki event. I wish you could come with me. Maybe the event will make my life + blog interesting. Doesn't hurt to try.

Koko.

News

2009-09-05T16:10:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

please go over to Nounou de la Falaise to see my new blog. If you like it, you can add it on your blogroll.

Also, follow me on Twitter.

I'm not sure what will happen to this one. Every single word I'll ever write will always be a letter to you, no matter where I am and under what heading I'm doing it. That will never change. Only my life has.

Koko.

Clothing

2009-08-30T17:21:00.004+03:00

Dear Emi,

my camera's beyond repair and the warranty slip's missing, but will you look at this African (Kenyan? Or more western?) cloth? I feel so dignified and interesting when I wear it, so I've taken to wearing it with everything.

I had had my mind on something like this for a few years, but never imagined finding it in the orthodox Yemenite neighbourhood of Nahlat Binyamin, Tel Aviv. Looks like they've gone all cosmopolitan and hipster since I last visited.

Ah walla!

Koko.

30.8.1993

2009-08-30T16:21:00.008+03:00

Dear Emi,

I remember seeing this Richard Avedon for Gianni Versace/Italian Vogue in 93. I fell in love with the pants and me and mom had to go all the way to a Seppälä in Tikkurila to find something similar.

I felt like a complete rockstar! I wish I was still so stylish and obnoxiously fashion-forward!

Koko.

Reality TV

2009-08-30T15:25:00.005+03:00

Dear Emi,

so Twilight's a given, although I found Breaking Dawn deadly boring (no pun intended). I now love True Blood, too.

What is it about these "normal vampires" that makes me feel less like an outsider and more like a "normal person"?

Koko.

My Daily Style

2009-08-30T11:04:00.005+03:00

Dear Emi,

she reminds me of you for the following reasons:

1) She's a mother, but not in an annoying way,
2) She's beautiful, and
3) She pulls off "understated" without ever looking frumpy

Koko

Rauha Mäkilä: All We Want Is Everything

2009-08-28T10:50:00.010+03:00

Dear Emi,

you have until September, 27 to come to Helsinki and check out Rauha Mäkilä's exhibition at the Gallery Kalhama & Piippo.

Case in point, her interpretation of M.I.A. on the left.

Her work is not just contemporary and fun, but so graspable and inherent to our generation that it's almost as if we ourselves participated in the painting process.

Koko.

Issues.fi

2009-08-28T10:48:00.001+03:00

Dear Emi,

another awesome blog by friends for perfecting your Finnish.

Koko.

I Love You, Posters and Prints

2009-08-27T20:15:00.005+03:00

Dear Emi,

oh! How appropriate and smile-inducing! They're Made by Girl. For all the Keep Calm and Carry On types out there.

Koko.

Lemonade

2009-08-27T12:10:00.001+03:00

Dear T,

f*** it all. Lemons is good. Just let go.

Koko.

140909

2009-08-27T10:28:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

better start looking for the most efficient torrent sites. Gossip girl season 3 starts airing in no time! Until then, feel free to watch all previous episodes in crappy quality here.

xoxo,
Koko.

Gregory Thielker: On a Rainy Day

2009-08-27T10:11:00.006+03:00

Dear Emi,

talk about photorealism at its finest. Suddenly, fall doesn't seem so bad. If only I could spend the whole season in a car on a freeway.

Koko.

Cash Only, 2006.

Division, 2008.

Shakespeare: Sonnet 116

2009-08-24T23:37:00.002+03:00

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

The Ninth Floor

2009-08-24T22:27:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

this is the only reason I miss my job already. Changing my life means that I won't be able to try and change the lives of others any longer. Please say it isn't so.

Koko.

2009-08-24T22:12:00.002+03:00

Kama Shirim

2009-08-24T14:01:00.002+03:00

La maison non plus de mon rêve

2009-08-24T12:37:00.003+03:00

The Depp Moss Household

2009-07-19T13:26:00.002+03:00

This Is What I Look Like in My Dreams

2009-07-18T22:25:00.002+03:00

Buffalo Records

Just A Thought

2009-07-18T19:59:00.002+03:00

Making of Repetto Ballet Shoes

2009-07-18T14:27:00.002+03:00

via Scout Holiday

Nylone

2009-07-18T13:05:00.005+03:00

Dear Emi,

did you know that the first ever issue of Nylon magazine (04/99) is available for everyone to read on its Flickr? I actually have it IRL, it's in my Safta's closet, stacked in a high pile of old Vogues, Nylons, Stress rap magazines and Aisha magazines. I bought it from a bookstore on Rotschild street.

Koko.

List of Demands

2009-07-18T12:55:00.001+03:00

Stella for NAP

2009-07-17T11:03:00.003+03:00

Stella McCartney for Net-A-Porter, go see the 4th one.

How to Get Shot by Sartorialist?

2009-07-16T18:49:00.002+03:00

Yayeveryday!

Pullerina Bamps

2009-07-15T18:18:00.003+03:00

Dear Emi,

I present to you yet another effortless and gorgeous way to learn Finnish: the PullerinaBampbs cartoon blog. It's 1 of those more amazing than life itself -things, close, in its demure grandeur, to when you put a pin in your hair to find it nestled in your bun 6 months later.

Koko.

YLE Puhe

2009-07-14T21:02:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

I'm sure you want to learn Finnish, and I have the perfect teacher: YLE Puhe radio station. I recommend the nature hour and the programme about the meaning of life (today the guest was the ex-Idol Antti Tuisku).

I learned so much today: e.g. about a police officer and a social worker who cook booze in the foorest.

Koko.

Fakta & Farfalle

2009-07-14T20:24:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

what can I say, my family likes to play with, describe and eat food. Some of them even have enough patience to take pictures before stuffing it in their face.

Koko.

When All Else Fails II

2009-07-14T20:15:00.004+03:00

Dear Emi,

the one good thing this condition provides (in addition to having caring visitors drop by and bring sweets) is ample time to dream. I will:

i. attain my very own chanel bag - check
ii. move to paris
iii. write a novel
iv. have a daughter
v. love myself
vi. stop reading books in the middle if they don't do nothing for me
vii. live until 100

Insh'Allah.

Koko

Koko's Chanel v.2.55

2009-07-14T20:01:00.004+03:00

Hey everybody, drop by to say hello to the new family member:
Chanel classic double flap 2.55

I Wannna Be Just Like Her II

2009-07-14T09:19:00.005+03:00

T to B: Miranda Kerr from The Skinny Website, Gala Gonzales from Am-Lul's Closet and unknown from Jak&Jil

Textures

2009-07-14T09:16:00.001+03:00

Unofrtunately, lost the source

Fall 09 Couture

2009-07-13T16:46:00.006+03:00

Dear Emi,

this has been the most un-couture couture week I have ever seen in my life. Only one of the pictures below represents true haute couture, craftmanship and fashion art to me. However, it's still all awe-inspiring, so it's not really the end of the world.

Koko.

Clockwise: Givenchy, Alexis Mabille, Chanel, Christian Lacroix, all from style.com.

When All Else Fails

2009-07-13T15:13:00.005+03:00

Dear Emi,

today marked the beginning of my third week in complete bed rest. I have a herniated disc in my hip and I can't do nothing but lay still. Needless to say, I smell awful and talk to myself. And order things off eBay like nobody's business.

The drugs are too strong for me, but at least I can read and vouch for each and every one of these:

i. elizabeth gilbert: eat, pray, love
ii. juhani aho: yksin
iii. pirjo hassinen: isänpäivä
iv. tons of old issues of french vogue
v. carol shields: the stone diaries
vi. antti manninen: puretut talot. 100 tarinaa helsingistä
vii. truman capote: summer crossing

Indian Summer

2009-07-13T15:10:00.004+03:00

Pulp a collaboration between Joni Harbeck + Neil Krug

TLC: Waterfalls

2009-07-13T11:41:00.000+03:00

Virsi 439

2009-07-11T12:45:00.000+03:00

Devendra Banhart: Carmensita

2009-07-11T10:49:00.001+03:00

Hotel Chevalier by Wes Anderson

2009-07-10T20:07:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

now it all makes sense.

Koko

The Depp Paradis Household

2009-07-10T11:40:00.001+03:00

U.N.I.T.Y.

2009-07-10T11:26:00.000+03:00

Cindy Crawford

2009-07-10T07:21:00.005+03:00

Milla Jovovich in 1990

2009-07-09T12:04:00.003+03:00

Thank you, Internet, for providing the picture I used to stare at for hours as a child.
One of my 1st fashion loves.

Real Girls Use Colors

2009-07-09T01:01:00.004+03:00

The fierce redhead on the right is Taylor Tomasi, Teen Vogue's accessories director aka the holder of my dream job!

Dree Hemingway's Place

2009-07-07T20:34:00.007+03:00

Once more, she reminds me of Maija.

Shoes I Thought Were Only in My Dreams

2009-07-07T18:19:00.002+03:00

StockholmStreetStyle

Top 2 Michael Jackson Songs

2009-07-02T09:40:00.001+03:00

Markkit

2009-06-27T19:20:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

Marrkit makes studying easier than ever for copy/paste academics. Can't get enough of it, I sense a Laudatur in my immediate future.

Koko.

Happily Never After

2009-06-27T17:09:00.003+03:00

A project by Dina Goldstein

Did You Know?

2009-06-27T16:51:00.001+03:00

Beautiful Floors

2009-06-27T11:18:00.006+03:00

I Wannna Be Just Like Her

2009-06-27T09:52:00.001+03:00

Coconut Records: Any Fun

2009-06-27T09:46:00.000+03:00

Any Fun - Coconut Records - Music Video

Koko <3 Radio Raheem

2009-05-17T09:48:00.003+03:00

Sixpack France

Design for Obama

Xue Lei

2009-05-17T09:41:00.001+03:00

Lei Xue
Tee trinken, 2007

Confettisystem in Cantaloupe

2009-05-16T21:22:00.004+03:00

Confettisystem

The Miracle of Life

2009-05-16T20:01:00.004+03:00

Dear Emi,

I used to flip through these all the time as a child. My Mummi had them in Finnish and my Safta had them in Hebrew. It's a miracle I'm not any smarter.

Koko.

John Baldessari

2009-05-16T19:56:00.006+03:00

Pretty in Pink

2009-05-16T19:35:00.004+03:00

Dear Emi,

Garance Doré has the prettiest friends in the world. Right after me, of course. Are pink cigarettes as cancerous as white ones?

Koko.

Suit Baby

2009-05-16T18:46:00.005+03:00

Dear Emi,

I recently learned that my coworker is having a new baby, and somehow I'm 100 % it's a girl. Here's what I imagine her wearing:

Album di Famiglia

It's also what I imagine myself wearing as soon as the temperature goes up.

Koko.

Home Sweet Horse

2009-05-16T18:22:00.010+03:00

Dear Emi,

in honor of Maija's new place in Hki, my latest home favorites from fffound:

I used to beg my mom to buy me the wooden horse in the bottom pic since trying it out at the nurse's office during my yearly check-ups. She refused, telling me I could ride my grandpa's carpenter's bench. That was that.

Koko.

The Other Asa

2009-05-16T09:47:00.000+03:00

MoA 09

2009-05-09T22:15:00.003+03:00

Dear Emi,

please come to Helsinki and join me for the exhibitions and seminars that are held in the honour of the new masters of arts of the university of art and design in Hki.

Koko.

Mammoth

2009-05-09T21:43:00.001+03:00

Dear Emi,

have you seen it yet?

Koko.

Ps. The soundtrack is perfect

Grey Gardens

2009-05-09T21:41:00.000+03:00

Dear Emi,

have you seen it yet?

Koko.

Lamps I Want + Love

2009-05-09T21:06:00.003+03:00

Chanel No. 5

2009-05-09T21:00:00.000+03:00

Favorites from Toast

2009-04-26T22:19:00.003+03:00

source

Tulip Season

2009-04-26T22:02:00.004+03:00

Source

Dear Emi,

doesn't the Netherlands look a lot like a straightened-out version of the infamous Paul Smith rug?

Koko.

Hedi Slimane Diary

2009-04-26T21:49:00.004+03:00

Source

I Can't Believe It's That Time of the Month!

2009-04-26T21:29:00.001+03:00

Dear Maija,

have a safe trip home, dude! I've already picked our Vappu theme song (also applicable to running, Emi!!!).

You'll be my slim and I'll be your thug:

Just One of Those Videos That Make Waiting for the Summer Almost Unbearable

2009-04-26T21:11:00.004+03:00

Dear Emi,

I've been meaning to post this 4-evah:

TOP BILLIN On Tour With M.I.A. from Top Billin on Vimeo.

Feather Love Photography

2009-04-26T20:48:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

I know I have been a bad blogger. Call me crazy, but life's too much sometimes.

So, for inspiration, let me direct to my favorite place. They even play music by Devendra Banhart, my other current favorite. Long story short, I like beards and 70's-inspired things in the shade of smelly armpits.

Love,
Koko.

Simply Pictures That I Like from the Internets

2009-04-26T20:42:00.006+03:00

2009-04-10T15:17:00.004+03:00

So, Maija is coming back soon! Not by boat, I think. She just happens to look an awful lot like the sailor in the pic.

Holly Farrell / Heart-rending Photorealism

2009-04-10T15:08:00.005+03:00

Holly Farrell: Gardening Books, 2009

Couch, 2009

Blogsplanations

2009-04-10T12:06:00.002+03:00

Dear Emi,

I know, I know: the video has killed the blog star. Please hang in there, these are actually a very nice pass-time for passover. Good visuals for Good Friday. I'm sure you get my drift.

Note to self: one must not take breaks from blogging. Breaks are bad for verbal skills and grace.

Koko.

My Little Film

2009-04-10T12:03:00.002+03:00

The Rockstar Diaries, a beautiful love story

Tamsin Egerton for Hoss Intropia

2009-04-10T11:52:00.003+03:00

Dear Emi,

please see this Hoss Intropia video and tell me it's absolutely tantalizing and just how you imagined this summer will be.

Koko.

The Limelight

2009-04-10T11:39:00.004+03:00

The Statue of Liberty by Hanna
+
the single most perfect candle I have ever seen

She is one of the most talented kids in the world.
Just thought you should know.

La Roux

2009-04-10T11:27:00.002+03:00

I've never gotten Dubstep. I don't understand how to dance to it. But this song gives me the goosebumps. The good kind, too.

Koko.

The Dress or the Curtain?

2009-04-06T18:03:00.006+03:00

Dear Emi,

remember this Sophie Theallet dress from Fall 09 RTW NYC?

You do? Good. Then check out this curtain from the living room of designer Anna Katriina Tilli, featured in the 03/09 issue of Divaani magazine.

Don't you just love these the-chicken-and-the-egg sorts of things?

Koko.

Screw You, Atkins

2009-04-06T09:54:00.003+03:00

Dear Emi,

in honour of my new, healthier lifestyle, I present you with this gem. Watching it alone made me lose 20 pounds, it's that energetic:

Koko.

Livingroom of My Dreams

2009-04-05T11:18:00.003+03:00

Style Files

2009-04-03T08:51:00.003+03:00

Dear Emi,

first I didn't come here because I didn't know where to start with all the pics from Paris. Well, Apple did the deciding for me: my hard disk blew up and everything is gone. All our pics, song etc. Only work and school stuff is safe, mostly. Yeah, I know, stupid us.

Just give a couple of days to recoup, I promise the blog is not dead.

Koko.

Stunned by Studded Slippers

2009-03-16T20:45:00.003+02:00

Capezio, the one and only ballet shoe company

Things

2009-03-14T15:06:00.004+02:00

Artek's "The Tank" Campaign by Perfect White, 2008

The Objectified film poster by Build

Simon Evans: Everything I have, 2008

Sis

2009-03-14T14:12:00.003+02:00

Sarah + Eden

have no idea how boring the first 4 years and 9 months of my life were
and how good it is to know that
they're always on my windows live messenger
whenever I need someone to talk to.

Koko.

Family Tree

2009-03-14T13:30:00.003+02:00

Dear Sarah (and Tom, Moran + Noy),

Do you remember how we used to name all the palm trees in Rishon? There was the papa tree (the big one close to the bus stop) and the mama tree (on the other side of the big road, where the sands and the pardes begun) and the baby tree that died in safta's front yard?

Such nice trees they all were, I wonder how they're doing now...

Koko.

Tema Stauffer: White Horse

from the American Still series, 2007.

First Aid Kit

2009-03-14T12:15:00.002+02:00

Dear Emi, Maija & Hanna,

I've found our long lost sisters, First Aid Kit. Please give them a warm welcome to your lives.

Koko.

Marry Me

2009-03-14T11:30:00.004+02:00

Dear Emi,

Yesterday I found out that me and Hanna, simultaneously, were really inspired by scented, colorful erasers and miniature porcelain tea sets. We didn't talk about it, but I'm sure she planned to marry some boy from her neighbourhood like we all did.

Who was your first crush?

Koko.

Erin Wasson x RVCA

2009-03-11T20:51:00.003+02:00

Erin Wasson x RVCA • Fall 09 Collection from RVCA on Vimeo.

After all the shows, this is hands down the best next fall has to offer. PM Tenore is one of the most handsome men on earth. Ever. And Erin Wasson hasn't done a bad job in the beauty department, either.

Koko.

Sophomore NYC

2009-03-11T20:12:00.008+02:00

Dear Emi,

sometimes I dream I'm a New Yorker. Easy-going, long legs, hang out with boys, thin hair, bruises.

Koko.

Sophomore nyc s/s 09

The Supermodel is Still Here

2009-03-11T19:34:00.005+02:00

Dear Emi,

it's kind of nice that the same girls of whom I used to cut picture out of glossy magazines in 94 still get all the good jobs. It makes me feel young and there's the convenience of not having to learn the names of all the new models.

So far this s/s it's Christy Turlington for Escada and Bally, Stephanie Seymour for Valentino, Eva Herzigova for BCBG Max Azria, her and Shalom Harlow for H&M and Claudia Schiffer for Ferragamo.

Look out, Agyness! (How the hell do you pronounce that?)

Koko.

Favorite Fall 09 RTW: Paris

2009-03-11T19:08:00.004+02:00

Stella McCartney

Isabel Marant

Dear Emi,

I truly hope Paris nex week won't be as depressingly homogenous and bland as their fashion week this year. Everything seemed just so unfinished.

Koko.