On “Hell is Round the Corner” Tricky admits that his one weakness (besides being totally mad) is sharp streetwear, hence, “Reduce me, seduce me, dress me up in Stüssy” – which proves just how much of a rebel brand it used to be. The original premium streetwear label was founded in the eighties by surfer Shawn Stussy and was massive by the nineties, but since he left so did some of the cachet. The t-shirts, polos and shirts in this Fred Perry collaboration are a return to form and make you feel all excited and desirous again.
CLOSET ROCKS
I am an Ebay addict. I have to go cold turkey for months at a time or I get lost in an endless vortex of disappointment, bidding on things that are amazing but ultimately losing auctions because I am always, ALWAYS outbid. That’s the problem with being a cheap-ass I guess, I only win if no one else bids on an item. I am also unfortunately talent at finding weird things I want that are way way way out of my price range. Read more »
Annitian’s flimmery colours
Fashion designers tend to be the most boring people in the world (right after models and dentists), but Anntian, aka graphic designer and a graduated fashion student Anne and Christian, are not. They’re cute and shy and quiet and instead of loud and grand and therefore, stupid. We intruded on their silent bubble for a somewhat incoherent chat.
London College of Fashion BA catwalk show
Alex Rosewald’s model appeared unhurt after parachuting in through the roof.
The LCF show featured a marathon of 28 collections hand-picked from the graduating class. To be honest, they could have been even more picky, because it lasted for an unfathomably long time. Still, despite the arduous task of sitting through it all, a lot of the collections were worth the effort. Read more »
Viennese dreams of a gold-shitting donkey
Christina Berger is probably the most exciting thing that has happened to the Viennese fashion world since anything that’s happened in the staid and serious Viennese fashion world. After studying in Vienna and London, she presented her first collection, called “Auto:Erotik (Lips, Hips, Tits, Power),” in 2007 and now her clothes are sold by people with eating disorders in fancy Berlin boutiques. The clothes themselves are like a patchwork dressing gown of sex, irony, female superheroes and apres-ski. This sounded interesting to us, so two collections and two Vienna Fashion Award nominations later we decided it was high time to find out if any of what I just wrote is actually true. Read more »
Carri Mundane is trying to do “normal”
Back in ‘06 Cassette Playa designer Carri Mundane was totally ubiquitous. She styled Klaxons and at some point everyone in the Old Blue wore that bleeding-eye t-shirt. Since then though she’s sort of ignored all the rules and decided that she’d rather have a streetwear brand rather than exist in high fashion. Of course her version of streetwear is all about Vikings, you don’t get that with Fubu, Read more »
Lotta Volkova used to dance, now she stitches
When Lotta Volkova, Russian daughter of a nuclear physicist and navy captain from Vladivostok, was Lotta Skeletrix, the Kashpoint bothering, lesbian space Empress, of London’s electroclash scene, she used to wear a glitter-ball on her head. That was out-there enough to make art photographer Wolfgang Tillman a little obsessive. Then she got into Blade Runner type double-breasted power-suits, matched with the odd toy gun slung round her neck and tape-measure braces from the DIY store. Volkova went on to design a range of death metal and militaristic post-punk inspired menswear, moved to Paris, morphed into a bit of avant-guard crumpet, gave up designing, started styling for magazines based in Japan, Paris and Russia, and married this guy that used to be gay. Now Volkava’s designing again, this time for women.
What are you wearing? - Little Boots
This is the blog that celebrates the fact that if you’re good at playing instruments then people throw clothes at you in the hope that you’ll wear it in NME and Topshop will buy the collection after seeing it.
Little Boots is kind of a big deal. Don’t know if you’ve heard about a little thing called blogs, but yeah, she’s pretty big on them. Personally I’ve been listening to the Fred Falke remix of “New In Town” all day. She’s got some pretty sweet togs as well, all wizards and puppy dogs. Read more »
LFW: Richard Nicoll show and Alexa Chung interview
Richard Nicoll’s A/W 09 was the most somber show I have been to this week. I know I keep on mentioning the recession but it seems relevant at LFW’s Caligulian wealth orgy and I think Nicoll’s approach was one of the few which actually seemed to take the mood of day onboard. He used greys, blacks and creams in a variety of fabrics and was never pompous. The soundtrack was classical and confident and not as wildly optimistic as everyone else’s. It seemed that there was a weird clinical vibe in the whole space, even on people’s faces; but maybe I was just tweaking on free Red Bull.
Nicoll collects celebrity fans including Chloe Sevigny, Christina Ricci and, of course, London’s indie princess, Alexa Chung – who I caught up with briefly back stage. Read more »
London Fashion Week: Arutyunov SA: feathers + polkadots + confetti = total gaudy goodness.
As a 6-year-old, there was nothing I wanted more than a huge billowing ‘80s taffeta ballroom dancing dress (preferably in fuchsia or fluorescent green, with tonnes of sequins and feathers and junk). Naturally then, Arutyunov SA’s newest dress collection read like an updated childhood wet dream: a visual assault of bright colours, sequins, crushed nylon, gauze, feathers, and just general indulgence.
