Today is London Fashion Week’s final day, MAN day. Komakino aren’t on the official schedule, no one knows why though. It’s exciting as shit, involves wearing loads of black and flirting with humanity’s dark side. That should be the established route to becoming the sort of label that’s loved by fashion insiders, misunderstood by the press, and eventually becomes massive. We said hello to one half of Komakino, Frederico Capalbo.
Posts Tagged ‘London Fashion Week’
LFW - Gordon Brown loves Dominic Jones
Bashing metal into the form of jewellery is just a little harder than printing t-shirts, but we still see Dominic Jones out at every good club night we go to. As well as being our fave, the purple-haired 24-year-old squatter is also (sort of) the designer for Sarah Brown, wife of the prime minister. In fact today he’s going to some fancy tea or something at Number 10. He’s also showing at London fashion week for the first time thanks to Newgen, a Topshop-backed fund for young designers. BTW, the last British designer from a squat to get this much love was Gareth Pugh and he’s done alright.
London fashion week takeover
When London launched its own fashion week 25 years ago, only a couple of other cities had one. Now there are hundreds of the them and you could easily circle the world hopping from fashion week to fashion week. But this week it’s our turn.
Fashion is really about partying and meeting people you want to have sex with, and liking new stuff. The clothes are just a way of paying for that to happen. Fashion is just particularly lucky because when it’s good it’s art, and people look better wearing art than walls do. Over the next few days, the Vice fashion blog will be updating you on all the parties and shows at London Fashion Week, through the blog and our mega modern Fashion Twitter. Everyone who couldn’t give a shit about fashion, and there are a lot of you, should just go and chill out in other areas of this terribly broad site.
Big fashion news!
London fashion week is here again, even though it was only here about fifteen minutes ago. I can’t really imagine that the world of fashion has taken such dramatic strides in the last few seconds that it demands another expose, but I don’t run fashion. If I did, we’d all be in Wu-Wear, and even I admit that that would be shit. The beautiful people who do run fashion are in a friendly mood, however, and so are we, so we’re giving away a pair of tickets to a Vauxhall Fashion Scout show during this month’s London fashion week. Read more »
Andersen Ben-Hilliens’ fashion week
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
LFW: Emma Bell likes dogs
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 »
LFW: Eley Kishimoto’s Jet Set Masala
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 »
LFW: Danielle Scutt - BFC NEWGEN sponsored by TOPSHOP
There goes Kanye West with his fro-mullet. And there goes his new girlfriend (who one of my colleagues mistook for a dude earllier), model Amber Rose, bleached and shaven-headed in black sheeny leggings with her butt looking like an upside down heart. It’s perfection, and man, she knows it. See for yourself. Yes, it’s Danielle Scutt’s show and it’s pretty ill.
LFW: Ossie Clark and puke
Staying up until 3am drinking when you have to get up at 7:45 the next morning should not be allowed. After a night of heavy fashion partying (and when you say fashion you have to say it like faaassshhhioooon, in a really whispery voice for dramatic effect), I woke up with Jamie’s (Vice photographer) horrifying, drooling face staring back at me, saying something about Ossie Clark, being hung-over, and having dreams about being slaughtered by Erin O’Connor.
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