Fenchurch was set up by a skater back in 2000 and named after the street in London where he used to skate. Since our stylist Kylie and our photographer Jamie already had a retarded idea to do a shoot in London’s seaside resort Southend – the sort of place where everyone dresses in streetwear – and since Fenchurch make streetwear and since the trains to Southend run from Fenchurch Street station, there was a certain lo-fi poetry to doing this shoot.
When we interviewed Fenchurch’s creative director Christopher Isherwood he told us they had a new word, “furk”, for the way they combine fun and work. Yeah, maybe. For some people, like DJs or artists or vicars, maybe fun is work and work is fun – it’s a new class divide or something. It’s why a lot of those jobs don’t pay much for most people. This trip looks like it was fun, but no one really got paid.
All clothes by Fenchurch, except Reebok Classics.
PHOTOS: JAMIE TAETE
STYLING: KYLIE GRIFFITHS
WORDS: DARYOUSH HAJ-NAJAFI
Reader Comments
October 22nd, 2009
12:14 pm
Pretty lame?
October 22nd, 2009
12:45 pm
Is way better than Southend
October 22nd, 2009
1:20 pm
Wow some of Fenchurch’s stuff is actually OK
October 22nd, 2009
4:17 pm
dem kids are HOT
October 22nd, 2009
5:33 pm
i’ve always liked fenchurch..southend looks like as much fun as Great Yarmouth.
October 23rd, 2009
8:56 am
I like these.
I’d almost given up on Vice fashion.
October 23rd, 2009
8:57 am
Also, who is writing the text on these things? you write like a press release without any punctuation.
October 23rd, 2009
9:31 am
please give the job to someone else, this is getting worse and worse - styling and photography-wise
October 23rd, 2009
10:37 am
These aint bad. Not great. But not bad. I’d do that girl in a second though.
October 29th, 2009
11:30 am
are you all on about?!?!?!?! THIS IS SHIT. The photos are shit, the clothes are shit. Bobbys hot but THATS IT!! JEEEES
October 29th, 2009
11:31 am
how is jamie taete one of your photographers? minimal effort. shit camera. no imagination. boring.
November 11th, 2009
1:13 am
…that’s your stylist? and jamie taete is your photographer?
vice slags off everything and everyone if it’s the world’s biggest authority…. i can never take this shit seriously again after seeing that manky heffer as your stylist and that talentless jizz stain as your photographer.
so jamie taete never studied photography. he fucking should’ve done.