Christopher Kane, Crocodile Dress

Because I look good in it, and that's enough reason.

W.H. Auden, If I Could Tell You

'There are no fortunes to be told, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.'

Because it says what's been running through my head far better than I can.

London because it was a poem on the underground. Talking of which, I wish Transport for London would bloody well stop misspelling the poems on their website. 'cuold tell you' indeed. Humph.

Susie Freeman and Dr Liz Lee, Veil of Tears

Because it tries to tell a life, and an illness, in gauze.

Maya Angelou, Still I Rise

'Does my sexiness offend you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?'

Because, again, of the singing line. Try reading that aloud without wanting to clap and applaud yourself, her and the world.
St. Louis because she was born there.

Byron, So We'll Go No More Roving

'So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breath,
And Love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.'


Because hearts don't pause to breath, and yet it still makes sense.
London because it was a poem on the underground.

Abbot Simeon & Others, Ely Cathedral

Because it looks like a painted backdrop, and because there are ducks.

Topshop, Flag Dress

Because it made me happy when I tried it on.

Anonymous Mamluk, Bottle with Polo Players

Because we never got round to seeing it in the Pergamon.

Charles Robert Cockerell, A Tribute to Sir Christopher Wren

Because 'imaginary geography' can be about how someone else imagined changing a place, and not just about how I remember/imagine places.

Samuel Palmer, Coming from Evening Church

Because of how it looks kind of sci fi and kind of like it grew of its own accord.

Vermeer, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid

Because it was lost and found.

Charles Walters, High Society

Because I don't care that you're supposed to like the Philadelphia Story more.

Louise Goldin, Skater dress

Because it's cute, and I got it for £40.

Edmund Spenser, Fairie Queene

'Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please'

Because of how this line crept back into my memory - starting off as a vague sense of rythym and meaning and taking shape over days. And because in the poem it's spoken by Despair and that, I'd imagine, is what despair sounds like.

Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno, Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle

Because what else has ever or could ever be described as being 'halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation'? They tried, at least.

Guareschi, Don Camillo

'Non mi sono mai pentito di aver fatto domani quello che avrei potuto fare ieri o un mese prima. Spesso mi rattristo rileggendo le cose che ho fatto: ma in fondo non me ne cruccio mai soverchiamente perché posso dire, in piena coscienza, che mi sono sempre arrabattato per non farle. Sempre mi sono sforzato di rimandarle al domani.' [dalla prefazione di Don Camillo e il suo gregge]

Perché visto com'é andato il mondo oggi voglio rifugiarmi nel passato. E la filosofia di vita (se non la politica) di Guareschi stasera mi attrae. Viva la procrastinazione e l'inazione selettiva!

Milano perché il paese di Don Camillo non e' mai stato scoperto ma si sa che é nella valle del Po.

Topshop, Asymmetric Ruffle Jacket

Because (even though it might be less impressive in real life, and the ethics behind it probably aren't great) it is still wonderful that this is on the high street.

Jeroen Moleenar, Object Two

Because it looks as though the Wright brothers had designed a spaceship.

English Comedy Club, Diana of Dobson

Because taking frivolous things seriously is (nearly) always worth it.

Bletchley Park National Codes Centre, Enigma Magic Mug

Because I've rarely seen a present please anyone more.

Pashley, Sonnet

Because this is why bicycles make me happy. Look at it - isn't it beautiful?