If you haven’t seen the new series of Skins yet here’s what you’re missing: lesbian fondling, MDMA, weed, coke, brothels, sex rooms, kids losing their virginity, guys fucking their best friend’s sisters… it’s pretty epic.
Thursday’s episode was Pandora’s pyjama party. Recalling my teen years, these gatherings usually involve face masks, communal spot picking, cake and hair braiding (I shit you not). The Skins pyjama party was ever so slightly different though. Here’s what I thought of the clothes they did it in.
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 | 19 Comments
Tagged: drugs, party, Skins, sluts
When we got offered the chance to interview some of Skins, we affected our most billowing air of superiority and sent Billie JD, Skins biggest fan.
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Posted on February 13th, 2009 | 16 Comments
Tagged: Billie JD, interview, Skins, uncomfortable viewing, video
E4’s Skins is returning soon. In celebration of this, I went along to ask the show’s costume designer, Edward Gibbon, how he feels the pretexts for Israel’s recent actions were laid by the infinitely less successful actions in Lebanon in 2006. Of course I didn’t, retards. I asked him about fashion. Edward is bombarded online with questions about who’s wearing what and where it’s from so I tried to get him to give me some insight into his choice of wardrobe for the cast.
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 | 4 Comments
Tagged: Skins, video
Effy from Skins
Vice recently caught up with Joanna Lawes, the winner of the Skins costume designer competition on-set in Bristol. We met in the props section – a large space, like the closet of this woman, filled with plastic lobsters and porn. Read the interview below.
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Posted on January 15th, 2009 | No Comments
Tagged: Skins
A while ago we told you about a competition the people from E4’s Skins were running to find an exciting new costume designer for a web episode that will be made solely by unknowns. The brief was to come up with a costume design concept for either Juliette or Alex – new characters who will be played by unknown actors picked online.
There were some excellent entries (all of which can be viewed online), but the winning entry came from university student Joanna Lawes, whose girly, floral concept included the Louis Vuitton logo, bows, and enough pastel to last you all summer. Read more »
Posted on January 9th, 2009 | 6 Comments
Tagged: Skins
