Monday 31 May 2010

DAYS OF OUR LIVES


The cover of Rika magazine for S/S10 that I styled with my beautiful sexy friend Daisy, shot by Liz Collins. It's beautifully art directed by Jacob Wildschioedtz, there's interviews with people like Pamela Love and Mark Hom among others and modelling the collection alongside Daisy Duke is Josephine de la Baume, Christina Kruse and Liberty Ross, if you havent seen Liberty in the latest Unkle video "follow me down' watch it immediately here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDD-mw69KMA her body is like a finely tuned racehorse before the Prix de L'arc de Triomphe.

Wednesday 26 May 2010

INDI GO GO DANCER


My mate Indigo hails from the land of wombats, kangaroos, and christmases on the beach, she's an ace fashion journalist and seriously good fun to party with. Indigo just interviewed me for her feature Fashion Love Story on the Sundance Channel website, check it out here...


It comes complete with a picture of me as a bold nipper back home in Ireland with my first pony Mindy (thats the evil looking little grey one on the left)


She bit me on the eye socket once, it swelled down over my eye onto my cheek like a fleshy eye patch and proceeded to turn every colour under the sun over the course of two weeks. I could genuinely have been rented out to the circus during this time. It's testament to my parents integrity that they resisted the urge to make a fast buck.

Thursday 20 May 2010

BIPITRON BLOGGER EXTRAORDINAIRE


So this is Bip, look how hot she is. Her blog is awesome
Bip does cool fun interviews with mega people on her blog including some of my best friends.....
Photo by Jonas Bresnan

like Duffy n Lucy who runs supercool Museum 52 art gallery check out her blog http://www.ninetyninea.blogspot.com/

and harry http://harrymaltdrawspictures.blogspot.com/ he's also behind a free quarterly magazine called Bare Bones filled with cool offensive funny clever inspiring things, if Bare bones was a person it would be a criminal and in prison.


She makes genius collages like this PP for Peter Pilotto made out of his runway looks.



My absolute favourite thing is when Bip puts her head and other peoples heads on animal bodies then gives them icecreams and cupcakes and other fun things to hold

I also just got an invite for Bips birthday, it has a hammerhead shark sticker with googly eyes, a glitter pony and shiny hearts on, i dig it. Bip is a pint sized beauty with a BIG personality and i interviewed her here on the Twin blog she's our girl crush No.3


This is Bip's blog it's like free milkshakes and skittles and things with E numbers in.

KARLIE DOES ASHISH



Karlie Kloss wearing Ashish's Sequinned Studded Shoulder BOOM dress in Teen Vogue this month. I work with Ashish he is my buddy and he's funny and super cool, here it is on the runway show i styled....


Check out the S/S10 collection here ......

Tuesday 18 May 2010

LOVE LOVE BLOG


The new LOVE website is almost ready and it's stupidly cute, i love the holding page there's a sleeping babby bear counter til launch day, bumbi, some sherbet coloured unicorns, pink ponies a mini piggy and then some naked BOOM hotties thrown into the mix!! There's a little movie by the creepy and brilliant Quay brothers for Comme des Garcons on there too. Check it out http://www.thelovemagazine.co.uk/

Sunday 16 May 2010

SPOT THE IBUPROFEN



TWIN ISSUE 2 IS OUT NOW


Look at Issue 2 with it's lovely Professor Plum Purple cover. These are some of my favourite things....


Our Hermes S/S 10 triple fusion scarf prints on the inside front and back covers. I love their sexy names, clockwise from left Aloha, La Legende du Poisson Corail and Le Dix Cavaliers.


Mega Magic Mushroom Cosmic art from Seana Gavin. http://seanagavin.blogspot.com/


My buddy Tom Allen's portraits of the East london school going massive. These kids are amazing, Tom did little interviews with them too.


Tracey Emin talking about Louise Bourgeois with the most beautiful portraits of her in her home taken by photographer Scott Douglas


Naomi's purple caterpillar sleeping bag styling on Tasha in the KT Auleta shoot.


Neil Gavins pictures of the poet Kate Tempest. http://www.neilgavin.com/



My brilliant mate Merrylegs aka Kate Merry's paintings of designers morphing into their perfume bottles. Her stuff blows my mind, it's too amazing and she makes me laugh so hard sometimes i think i may vomit. Check out her work here http://kate-merry.tumblr.com/

USE YOUR ILLUSION






The beautiful artist Christina Kruse styled by me and shot by supercool Paul Wetherall for issue 2 of Twin.


KENTUCKY RAIN







Our Kentucky Deep Fried adventure I styled for Twin Issue 2 with my Irish brother in London photographer Boo George who wore head to toe denim for the whole week!


This is boo in his Denim on Denim on Denim ensemble.

I also made a little film about the kids we met on our trip. You can watch it here....

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN TRIBUTE





A tribute to the wonderful late Alexander McQueen's last collection i styled with the talented and charming young photographer that is Scott Trindle.

Thursday 13 May 2010

DINOJESUS OR JESUSOSAUR



Tyrannojesus Rex or Jesusosaurus Rex

Jesus and a Dinosaur in one painting = WOW

Tuesday 11 May 2010

OOOOUUUUCCCCHHHH



I fell off my bike last night and bashed up my wrist, man it hurts, i also have a stigmata-esque cut on the palm of my hand. Anyway i was thinking about ET's bulbous fire 'Ouch' finger cos of the pain and so i googled ET and found this mega creepy pic of MJ and ET together which i think is pretty amazing, look at those colours, so saturated and gorgeous. I also found pictures of ET having sex with people which is wrong and sort of hot in an ' okay i get your alien sex fetish' kinda way.

Monday 10 May 2010

YOURE SO COOL



Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true, that three words went through my mind endlessly, repeating themselves like a broken record: you're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what I would have done if he had died, if that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, I always smile, as if I'm not going to satisfy him with a response. But I always do. I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis.

Wednesday 5 May 2010

'YOU ME AND EVERYBODY ELSE' PRIVATE VIEW TONIGHT


Photo by Linda Brownlee www.lindabrownlee.com

As a naieve 12 year old on my first day in Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham boarding school in Dublin, having put my things into my tiny wardrobe and laid out my Garfield duvet on my tiny bed in my tiny cubicle, I set out into the hundred girl strong dormitary to choose my best friend. I look back now and realize I was choosing a mate, my very own partner in crime for the next 5 years, I was seeking someone extremely attractive, boldly athletic and effortlessly confident.

As I cruised the dorm a beautiful golden haired girl with the best legs i've ever seen caught my eye, she was lit up from the inside like a little chef on a lonely highway, pretty as a rose and exuding an air of dazzling self assurance. She was perfection.

Over zealous and full of my own self worth I approached this glorious creature and tried to woo her by regaling tales of my boy conquests at Irish college.

I came on too strong.

She backed off like a yearling refusing to put a bridle for the first time.

It took me 2 months to convince Linda I was meant to be her best friend forever, she eventually realized this to be the truth and we have been best buddies ever since.

We have run across countries together, jumped metres into the wet sand of long jumps in all the counties of Ireland, rode ponies to victory flank to flank, orchestrated midnight feasts, tasted sweet triumph in the dizzy neon glow of the dorm toilets at 5am shoulder to shoulder conquering Mario Kart on our gameboys and had an extremely succesfull school christmas fete selling fimo penguin brooches that had been moulded under the tables of many of our maths, business studies and religion classes for the whole preceeding month of December.

In the last 6 years I've watched Linda blossom into one of the most talented young photographers that I know. She has a knack for making people love her, actually she doesnt have to make them, they just do. Her pictures as a result are beautiful, intimate and awe- inspiring.

This evening Linda Brownlee my lifetime best friend and rock is part of a group show of 6 super talented young portrait photographers in the print space on Kingsland Road 'You me and everybody else' from 7pm.

It's also her birthday, so come see some brilliantly observed portrait photography and help her celebrate being amazing and one year wiser.

Happy Birthday Linda, I love you.


The full lowdown is on the twin blog www.twinfactory.co.uk

www.theprintspace.co.uk

Tuesday 4 May 2010

ANDREAS LASZLO KONRATH INTERVIEW



My interview with Andreas is live on the Twin blog here

http://www.twinfactory.co.uk/blog/art/so-alone-i-keep-the-wolves-at-bay

Train tracks = hot

I'm getting a print of this for my bedroom wall!! Thank you Andreas, you are a prince of men.