Friday 26 April 2013

SURRENDER













Peace lies in surrender, even though we fight it half our lives. I was listening to an interview with Morrissey this week and he was saying that sleep is the brother of death and i guess death is the final surrender. It's pretty morbid but i thought that was beautiful. Death is only a big deal for those that are living. Dead people don't care....they get to sleep forever.

Tuesday 16 April 2013

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST


Latest cover of HERO magazine by Hedi Slimane, so awesome....not just because i grew up riding horses and being a cowboy was my all time greatest childhood dream.

Watching spaghetti westerns beside the fire as a kid....cheeks on fire......burning up with sunsets and buffalo stampedes and open plains and cactuses and tumble weeds and prairies with long grass that sound like the wind would sound, if the wind had a noise of it's own.






















..and then some indians...some danger, bows and arrows and near death experiences and vultures hopping over the cracked earth like great creepy feathered old men........ then of course the galloping free and open through the land and connected to it....maybe some electrical storms...a few lightening rods flung down by Thor from the heavens just to remind us of how small we really are. Then the dawns that rise like a great flaming phoenix over the canyons to soothe the wet cold right out of your body.....and a sunrise that lifts you up by the scruff of your neck right out of the saddle and sets you back down gently like a kitten at the next watering hole.























Clint Eastwood....the ultimate cowboy with a baby armadillo.....A FREAKING BABY ARMADILLO!!!!!!!! So cool. A boy i know told me that Spaghetti Westerns are so called because they were filmed in Italy!!!! I never knew that and I'm crazy about Westerns. I think if he could wear a poncho everyday and ride a horse to work in Soho he would. Clint Eastwood is his hero.























These two young dudes were photographed by Mary Ellen Mark....when i was riding my pony as a kid and jumping over the benches in my local park i imagined i was as cool as this chick on the left and the guy on the right was my boyfriend and we just rode around all day jumping shit and being awesome....and eating beans and watching the sun go down and falling asleep beside each other on potato sacks with our boots still on.

2nd picture is by Cass Bird.

RAG & BONE



Thank you so much to Rag&Bone for my mega coat which has come in handy considering it's barely Spring here in London and we had snow a week ago (big fur hood lifesaver)!






















The white tee shirt and boys number vest i also got are perfect.....the ultimate white tee-shirt is a tasmanian devil hunt down and Rag&Bone have totally nailed it.  So good.

























Check out the new collection on style.com here. I have a long wish list, top of it is the parka below...dreeeeammmyyyyyyy.


Tuesday 9 April 2013

MANSON FOR SAINT LAURENT























I 100% dig this.....i also dug this..my friend Marique's outfit...ballin'.


Monday 8 April 2013

POPPIES



A film of our collections story for Dazed made by Kasia Ganfield who had the perfect temperment for a film maker as in..... we barely knew she was there but she managed to capture everything on camera in spite of this. I also love that they called it Celestine's boys shot by Jacob Willis (haha) it's Lillis.
It makes such a difference to hear someones voice sometimes and i think in some cases that's where film can triumph over stills. It can make you fall in or out of love with someone and often they sound nothing like you expected them to and that can be refreshing or disappointing depending on your preconceptions and whether you wanted to sleep with them or not.

Sunday 7 April 2013