Saturday , November 8, 2008
Everything I Know, I Learned From the Ultimate Fashion Challenge
I wrote my first UFC update post almost exactly three months ago. It was a weirdly chilly day for being August 10th, and I was practically chomping at the bit with misplaced excitement. I had no idea what I was about to put myself through. I was stupid. I was a child. I distinctly recall thinking that the UFC would most likely conclude in about a month's time; I also distinctly recall thinking that it would be fun.
It was a little bit fun. It had its moments. But in the end, it became too much. I am a big believer in the sentiment behind the best James Bond theme song Paul McCartney ever wrote: LIVE AND LET DIE. Dude, I tried. The downfall of the Ultimate Fashion Challenge was that it died before its time, but I couldn't let up. It was sort of like: DIE AND LET LIVE.
To give you a shorthand idea of what the UFC was actually like for me:
Week 1: Nothing; I was so naive; pretty much the same as not-the-UFC
Week 2: Confusing; stressful; rife with unnecessary over-thinking; still pretty naive
Week 3: Semi-fun; began to find my groove
Week 4: Pyjama-centric; kind of boring
Week 5: Entirely overshadowed by Spirit Animal House
Week 6: Got kind of frantic; looked cute
Week 7: Hella conceptual; insanely fun; felt "relevant"; fell in love with the UFC
Week 8: Regularly felt like I had the best style of my life; developed UFC-OCD
Week 9: Revelatory; the last fully Good Week
Week 10: Tiresome; occasionally good; malaise began to set in
Week 11: Grew highly resentful of my August-self for getting me into this mess; tried my best to cope with the reality of how, even though the UFC was kind of close to being over, it was SO NOT OVER
Week 12: I hated the UFC and wanted to die
Week 13: I hated the UFC and wanted to die more than I did during Week 12, but there was an end in sight, which made me want to live
On August 10th, I wrote:
I'm hoping that throwing myself outside of my comfort zone and introducing restrictions and limitations into an inescapable ritual that I suppose I do take for granted, will force me to think about things I never stop thinking about in ways I never would have considered without having those constraints pressed upon me. And if not, whatever, maybe I'll just come up with some cool outfits.
Well, Laura Jane, you did it! This definitely happened; I guess I succeeded. It's true: I AM THE ULTIMATE FASHION CHAMPION. But let me tell y'all:
Ultimate Fashion Championship is a cruel, cruel mistress.
Click behind the jump for UFC Lessons Learned, the UFC Top 5, the UFC Bottom 5, and a brief report on the beautiful sparkling magickal magick that is LAURA JANE'S POST-UFC EXISTENCE!
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Saturday , November 1, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Thirteen (RIP UFC)
In the grand tradition of 9 out of 12 UFC collages, my final UFC collage background is ripped from John Hopper's ever-amazing Textile Blog. It is Cosmic Fog by Robert Oerley. Cosmic Fog! How appropriate. The UFC itself has been one hell of a Cosmic Fog, to say the least.
PS: For those unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fashion Challenge: formal UFC rules, guidelines and regulations can be accessed HERE
PPS: Stay tuned for LJ'S UFC "LESSONS LEARNED" WRAP-UP, to be posted sometime this coming week.
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Sunday , October 26, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week 12 (I HATE THE UFC & I WANT TO DIE)
(this week's background image is the first extra-large picture that came up when I Google-imaged "early computers". I don't really know why I did that. All I know is that Google is cool by me).
PS: For those unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fashion Challenge: formal UFC rules, guidelines and regulations can be accessed HERE.
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Wednesday , October 22, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Eleven PS: For those unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fashion Challenge: formal UFC rules, guidelines and regulations can be accessed HERE.
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(this week's background image is the first extra-large picture that came up when I Google-imaged "forestry". Thanks, Google Image. You really get the job done).
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Sunday , October 12, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Ten
(this week's background image is by Astrid Sampe. It has something to do with IBM, which is similar to UFC in that they are both three-letter acronyms. How novel! It is taken from John Hopper's ever-amazing Textile Blog).
PS: For those unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fashion Challenge: formal UFC rules, guidelines and regulations can be accessed HERE.
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Sunday , October 5, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Nine
(this week's background image is by Helen Littmann of English Eccentrics, from 1984, when I was negative one years old. It is taken from John Hopper's ever-amazing Textile Blog).
PS: For those unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fashion Challenge: formal UFC rules, guidelines and regulations can be accessed HERE.
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Monday , September 29, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Eight
To keep myself from either getting deadly bored or going completely insane (whichever may happen to come first), this week I employed the creative talents of Kat Asharya, Meggy Wang, Laura Jane Faulds, Emily Richmond, the Oxford English Dictionary, Elizabeth Barker, and John Delk to act as Guest Conceptualizers. Each one of these people (or reference books) was assigned the task of coming up with a snappy idea for me to sartorially articulate. I wish there was a synonym for "sartorial" that wasn't "fashion-wise" or something equally lame. The Ultimate Fashion Challenge has forced me to overuse it. The Ultimate Fashion Challenge has forced me to do a lot of things. The Ultimate Fashion Challenge is my life. My life is the Ultimate Fashion Challenge. When it ends, do I die then? I hope not.
PS: For those unfamiliar with the Ultimate Fashion Challenge: formal UFC rules, guidelines and regulations can be accessed HERE.
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Sunday , September 21, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Seven- the DEADLIEST Week
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(the image is one-third of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights)
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Sunday , September 14, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Six
(background image taken from The Textile Blog).
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Tags: Albert Einstein, American Eagle Awesome, avant-wack, jammers, John Lennon, Kat & Laura's Sartorialist ambivalence, orphan chic, Spirit Animal House, tees please, Thai food, Ultimate Fashion Challenge, waxing nostalgic
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Thursday , September 11, 2008
Laura Jane's Ultimate Fashion Challenge: Week Five
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