Tuesday 31 August 2010

TOPSHOP A/W


I styled the brand conference show for Topshop recently, a proper big mid August fashion show where they present all of the upcoming trends to everyone that works there. Of course i love this, as i get to preview of all of their new collections and hang out with the girls in there who are all super cool and fun.

My favourite look that i assembled was this Stepahnie Seymour/Axl Rose/November rain inspired super-trash wedding ensemble. I want to wear this to my wedding, i think its amazing.



This is Alys from Next, she'd arrived in the day before for a casting with home bleached eyebrows in skinny jeans looking all 'Twilight' and vampish. I think she should wear this to her wedding too. Thanks Alys.

Sunday 29 August 2010

AT THE END OF THE DAY


This is one of my all time favourite images ever, it's just so pure and perfect. I think Corinne had a way of capturing that youthfull intensity and naiveity like no one else. Even when the images were beautiful there always seemed to be lurking a darker underbelly like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

R.I.P Corinne Day (1965-2010)

Friday 27 August 2010

SPEARSMINT RHINO


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The new POP magazine with that iconic celestial face of pop music that is Britney Spears on the cover.

Firstly there are two deliciously hazy, sunburst-y covers to choose from. Above Cover 1, the immediate thoughts that came tap dancing into my mind were of the tragic child pageant beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. Maybe thats just the tiara and the freshly blown out golden halo of blonde hair so popular with beauty queens, child stars etc...or the spray of teeny white flowers around the crown of the head? or the big doe eyes? or the pink lipstick on those perfect cupids bow lips stretched nervously over bleached out pearly white teef?

This is starting to sound like one of those books that tells you how write a number one pop song....except this is with human beans not music....it's a formula....15 extra eyelashes here, some botox there, some hyper shiny bulking extensions for that, spray tan all over, vaseline on the teeth, lipo underneath, lose two extra ribs to accomodate 300 fast backflips in row then into the splits, extra artificial cartilage in the hips for that and all before the the age of 11.....

Squeezed to one side by the undeniably seedy sexy undertones of Courtney Love, also a fan of the tiara for casual outings, but to be honest, tiara's aside, i think they just look the same.

It makes total sense that Cindy Sherman's name is on the cover too (it comes with a free bookzine by the artist like some smaller twisted side order of a three toothed teratoma twin).

Cindy + Britney = Cibri (sounds like a delicious cocktail (ps. I know it sounds like seabreeze with out the z))

In my opinion a beautiful fusion of perfectness like chips and tomato ketchup, bananas and white chocolate, beans and cheese, beer and peanuts, Hula Hoops and Primula spreadable cheese in a tube with ham bits....


Cindy Sherman's, Untitled 276

All of this gorgeousness is jizzed up with some Japanese cartoon characters and happy, open mouthed, giggling flower face fonts by Louis Vuitton favourite Takeshi Murakami. Makes you think of those Vending machines where Japanese business men can buy day old knickers. Talking of underwear vending machines and the obvious fucked up slash amazing Japanese porn insinuations the second cover number 2 is pretty hot. Love a teenage bride in swimwear with her honeymoon gear in her back pack all ready to go.



.... and after all that..... it's just brit brit shot through a lens with what looks to have a reasonably intense layer of vaseline smeared over it.

I love it/them both/everything.