Andersen Ben-Hilliens is Denmark’s premier rock and roll photographer, he agreed to hit London Fashion Week for Vice.
Agyness Deyn, Vivienne Westwood, Henry Holland and Alexander McQueen
Was hard get them to sit still – AND HARDER FOR ME TO STAND STILL! XD
Sure, I may be a Fashion Week novice, but I know a good thing when it hits me in the camera lens: Qasimi’s A/W 09 collection struck a perfect balance between drama and defilé. Shown in a church in Marylebone with opera in the background, the immaculately tailored Victorian gothica outfits borrowed as much from The Matrix as they did from Tim Burton movies.
[Insert tiresome anecdote about someone you've never met doing something outrageous at an event you weren't invited to] OKAY, now we’ve covered the pre-requisite in-joke that is the live LFW blog, I can move on and show you this picture of Emma Watson’s ear:
We just saw the best show of the week, even though we were made to stand despite having second row tickets and press passes. But the room was so packed there was no point sobbing about it. There was theatre and good music and dancing and the models were all having fun and the clothes were really cute and playful – kind of like if Barbie took over Topshop. Vice caught up with designer Emma Bell post-show. Read more »
Obsessed with bold and colourful prints and patterns, it was only a matter of time before the husband-and-wife design duo took the Orient Express (err, Tikka Masala Air in this case) to mine the rich and pungent palette of the slums and spices of India for design ideas. Getting to Mumbai from London does take something like 10 hours, and I hear smoking opium on-board is totally allowed, so it’s not surprising that Eley and Kishimoto’s airline attendants’ apparel made almost as much of an impact on their A/W 09 line, titled “Jet Set Masala”, as the in-flight microwave curries. Read more »
This fashion week I failed to get passes to any of the shows I wanted to go to, but hey, that’s fine; there are loads of trendy parties during fashion week, right? I can just spend my evenings farting in a corner, eating low-cal fruit bars and nursing sticky cocktail after sticky cocktail, then go home to write about architectural pleating, or, more likely, Archchuitexytk oleeting. Hmm, turns out the reality of these parties was actually far more depressing than I predicted.
Johnny Blue Eyes has styled Beth Ditto, Scissor Sisters and Take That. His LFW week party was naturally full of famous people covered in his gear.
Pamela Anderson dropped in to make a scene. The boys went completely wild.
Once upon a time 125 years ago, Jaeger used to be called Dr Jaeger’s Sanitary Woollen System. Putting the word “sanitary” and “woollen” next to each other makes me think of period pads made of itchy grey school trousers so it’s a good thing they simplified because now the name makes me think of Jägermeister. Sadly there was none of the latter. Still, Jaeger made up for the lack of free shots with a neat dose of celeb spotting. Read more »
I always thought “gigolo whose phone is ringing off the hook” would look a lot better than this.
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We walked for three days and three nights to ask this guy the meaning of life and when we got there he goes, “Welcome, I’ve been expecting you” and we were like, “Holy fucking shit, a talking dog.”
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