Last season there was a lot of hype made over the House of Blue Eyes show because Alice Dellal came out and got naked and rubbed blood all over her body or something controversial like that. Also, Kate Moss trotted down the catwalk (for the first time in four years) at one of the shows, so this guy Johnny Blue Eyes is supposedly a big deal.
They had their show at Jalouse in Hanover Square last nigh. We went to see what the fuss was about.
This is me and my body being out of proportion an hour after the show was supposed to start. Jamie Taete posited that perhaps this was the show. Perhaps Johnny Blue Eyes wanted us to look at ourselves. On that note, let’s take a look at Mr Blue Eyes’ devotees.
A sex kitten ready to be blown away by phashion.
Deaf mutes can be FIERCE too!
Memoirs of a gay-sha.
After an hour and a half of nothing, “I Feel Love” came on, and this happened.
Ohhhh, it’s so good, it’s so good, it’s so good (apparently).
According to the press release, the models had been sent from the future to bring hope and make help our world shine again. The collection was comprised of an assortment of shoddily customised American Apparel one-pieces and beige sweaters covered in gold body paint. It was all a bit Foxy Cleopatra from Austin Powers.
The models held their spots on the dancefloor facing every direction, then, as “Bring it Back” by Moloko was cued, they all pointed their heads towards the ceiling as a few flickering lightbulbs were lowered a couple of inches.
EPIC!
FEEL… LOVE!
When the whole thing ended and the dudes in gold thongs filtered out of the main area, Johnny Blue Eyes himself appeared, and pranced around the club, crawling across tables and bowing a lot.
He is the creature on the right with the confusing physique. We all watched him run about and throw his arms around, then sat through a solo dance performance to “Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel” for an uncomfortable length of time.
The whole thing sort of offended me. The goodie bag was full of shitty literature, like a poetry book for fat girls with low self-esteem with a foreword from Kate Nash. Yawn/puke.
I also learnt from the logo adorning the tote bag that House of Blue Eyes is sponsored by Nandos – something the idiots really should have taken advantage of. Some free food would have been sweet.
WORDS: BILLIE JD
PHOTOS: JAMIE TAETE
September 20th, 2009 @ 13:03
Reader Comments
September 20th, 2009
looks like the worst thing ever.
September 20th, 2009
wow ugly! :(
September 20th, 2009
Is that Siavash from Big Brother i see?
September 20th, 2009
gash
September 20th, 2009
twat, it was a great show. full of energy and love. you wouldn’t know fashion if it hit you in the face.
September 20th, 2009
Nice to see you’ve missed the point of The House of Blue Eyes work entirely. Well Done you for slagging the entire event off in typical angry Vice style.
September 20th, 2009
Oh, I saw him doing a “thing” at Latitude festival. Odd. Sponsored by nando’s though? That’s not very cool.
September 20th, 2009
whatever
i was there. it was stupid and attention seeking. what is the point that she missed?
September 20th, 2009
Well, you must be confusing it with another show because I don’t recall any customized American Apparel.
September 20th, 2009
i’m glad you’ve put into pictures how i’ve been trying to descibe hell for years.
September 20th, 2009
It’s as much about performance as the fashion. It’s not taking itself seriously. Johnny is about empowerment, frivolity and fun, it’s about positivity, not slagging everything off and judging.
September 20th, 2009
Wot no scum fashion, too middle class for the scum bois.
September 20th, 2009
when you’re a fashion designer you can get foundation students to come in and make you coffee and collect orders for you, but you’re not actually supposed to let them design your whole collection. fuck it, most foundation students are 100 times more talented than this mollusc
September 20th, 2009
i would do you billie.
email knives.knives@gmail.com
and we can arrange something.
seriously.
September 21st, 2009
i for one enjoyed the show very much, it was lighthearted fun & a great evening. i really enjoy what house of blueeyes stand for too.. freedom, happiness & being yourself. great start to fashion week for me. x
September 21st, 2009
As much as I’m happy for the blue eyes people to feel free and express themselves their choice of venues and stuff like that makes me think they are all really shallow and probs right wing.
September 22nd, 2009
I met lots of fashion fans/people and most of them were very stupid, shallow and even rude, but I never felt that on a House of Blueeyes party!They are genuinely kind and loving people! If you don’t like the style and the show fair enough, but calling them idiots actually makes you unintelligent, ignorant AND shallow.
By the way he is always doing his catwalks with ordinary people, with different sizes and colours, which is quite a healthy approach to the fashion industry.
Let the man indulge in his creativity whether you like it or not it is always good to have something different than the mainstream…even if you don’t like it.
But that is just my opinion.