HOUSE OF HACKNEY

Above campaign I styled for House of Hackney with photographer David Dunan. House of Hackney is the new east London based interiors company set up by the super talented husband and wife team Freida and Javvy. I am in love with all of their soft furnishings and want this entire Dalston Rose bedset (above), including the giant square bed pillows and eiderdown. I swear i will stay in bed for a week, i will be so happy ensconced in roses drinking tea out of their custom china cups.

There is a pop up shop taking place at 76 Stoke Newington Road, Hackney, London N16 7XB where you can go and see everything for yourself from Thursday 31st of March until Sunday the 3rd of April.

HEY SUNSHINE, HEY SPRING, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN

What a difference a day makes, the sunshine makes the whole world feel better. Welcome back Spring, always a pleasure to see you in the face of flowers.

Photos from an old editorial I styled for Mixte with photographerDavid Dunan www.daviddunan.com

DAZED - BIRKENHEAD

Latest Dazed Editorial that i worked on in Birkenhead with photographer Jamie Hawksworth who was my partner in crime for the weekend, thanks to all the cool kids we met and that allowed us to take their picture up there. http://www.jamiehawkesworth.com/

MEADHAM KIRCHHOFF AW11

No surprise that I loved Meadham Kirchhoff AW11, what an awesome show, first off they ditched the conventional catwalk structure and marched their models out together en masse and not one by one. Opening in the pitch black the models gathered under the arches of the Topshop venue at old Billinsgate market like the bad gremlins in Gremlins the movie when they gatecrash the pub.

As the lights came up they marched forward like a stormy sea wave, with all the focus of one of those 11 year old chinese gymnasts that can do triple backflips on a 3 inch bar.

The music was unearthed from graveyards and old horror movies, the best kind of horror movies, with poltergeists and people getting thrown around their bedrooms in their pyjamas, waking up to find yourself floating on the ceiling like Micheal does in 'The lost boys' ('they're maggots micheal you're eating maggots'). I love a bit of unexplainable occurances, deathly hallows, the darkest recessions of the human mind....the unknown, the wierd and the wonderful. It freaks me out so much like i cant sleep and i get nightmares but god do i love a bit of horror.

The set was heartbreakingly pretty like all graves are, there were flowers and momentos, photos....memories....youth...everything that is not death. Ben and Ed are exceptional young men....they are bright, brave, insightful and romantic.The set brought me back to the 'Blessings of the graves' in Ireland where i used to steal the white quartzite stones from the graves of my grandparents and then go to the local shop and buy quarters of rhubarb and custard sweets in paper bags. I would recall all year the taste of them and the pungent smell of churches in my nose, the cold knees, the frankincense billowing out over the dead people in the churchyard.

This is ed, he looks like Peter Pan here.

This is Ben.

Ben again.

The colours even though they were bold and strong were sweet and rich like cake icing, reds staggered in between the blacks and navys, raspberry freeze pop blue, sugar mouse pink...with hair by James Pecis, make up by the delightful Florrie white and hats as always completely inspired and magical by the one and only Nasir Mazhar who must be one of the most adored men in fashion as far as i can see everyone that meets him falls in love with him.http://www.nasirmazhar.com

It got me thinking of grassy hills, Heidi and goats, except that even though I'm sure the Meadham Kirchhoff army milked the goats and made delicious goats cheese and loved them from when they were soft haired bleating kids, i have a feeling they also offered them up as sacrifices to their beezlebub.

There was definitely an air of dark worship about the place or maybe it was just death and that's probably scary enough. The dark glasses were very funeral, a bit wino forever in Beetlejuice, a little chink of lagerfeld.....you could think that behind the glasses they all had yellow goats eyes instead of human eyes. There was a menace and a beauty and a glory to it all. It kinda felt like a power from somewhere else, the power of more than one, the power of togetherness, a clan, a sect, an army. I think humans are way scarier than ghosts and the devil, at the end of the day the only thing we need to be scared of is each other.

So BE NICE.

ASHISH AW11 LONDON FASHION WEEK

Ashish AW11 show that I styled during london fashion week, probably my favourite ever collection of his, with the best moth eaten knitwear i've ever seen, the coolest sequin tartan punk trousers with knee and ankle zippers, skellington tracksuit bottoms...the most beautiful striped shirts inspired by m&s boxer shorts...holy knitted crop tops.....sequins that looked like wool blankets and herringbone that looked like mink fur....

We collaborated with classic English footwear company Underground England on the shoes, the high top creeper is houndstooth ponyhair and the black gold studded leather creeper comes with a bottle of tippex so you can customize your own shoes! We handpainted all of the ones in the show.

We made special cobweb knee tights inspired by punk elbow tattoos....

Added some lip piercings.....

And finally M.I.A did the never before heard soundstrack for the show which debuted on the catwalk! You can see the whole show here on Vogue.com

http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/show.aspx/catwalk-report/id,10194#/imageno/1

Black and White pictures by Nick Dorey http://www.nickdorey.com/ specially for Twin.

SIMONE ROCHA AW11

Simone Rocha AW11 that I styled yesterday, i want the entire collection in my wardrobe, so beautiful and my new favourite model below Maddy Ford at Storm opened the show.

Casting by Sarah Murray and her assistant Lucy Quick, we love these women.

Hair by James Pecis

Make Up by Shinobu

MINKY PINK

Really liked the cosiness and minky pink nudes at Wang F/W11.

THANKS HENRY!!!!!

Henry Holland S/S 11

I love henry, he's super cool and always really fun, i just got a sent a pair of his awesome fluffy green pom pom earrings and i love them too. THANK YOU HENRY.

UNTIL THAT DAY I LOVE YOU ANYWAY

My man harry is having his first solo show tomorrow evening at the Print House Gallery beside Cafe Otto in Dalston. He is smart and funny, he doesn't like the police or being told what to do, he's a street dawg, wise in his ways, he knows where to get a free meal if needs be and where to keep warm on a cold night, for the most part he likes treading the sidewalks listening to other peoples conversations and soaking up all the good lines like a human sponge.

Come along for cider and art from 6PM onwards..........

KC

What is it about Casey Affleck? His movie roles so far have pretty much consisted of an array of cold blooded psychopathic killers, which i might add he plays with effortless aplomb. Pummelling/stabbing/suffocating his chosen victims to death with all the deceptive innocence of a velociraptor.

He hardly ever smiles and when he does your heart kinda breaks a little bit, it's like an excruciating pain that relieves for a moment and then the relief is so seductive you almost can't handle the pain anymore and it just makes it worse. I'm not one for celebrities or falling for people i have never met but there is something about him that makes me feel like maybe we were married in another life and lived in a trailer park with 7 kids a German Sheperd and a massive tank of tropical fish.

OF MICE AND MENSWEAR A/W 11

Nirvana circa 1991

Raf Simons circa 2011

Comme Des Garcons circa 2011

The funny Comme hair reminded me of that wig that Raquel Zimmerman wears in Jeurgan Tellers book Zimmerman. It's not trying to be real or seamless it's very 'wiggy', there is something beautifully synthetic and pathetic about the crappness of it.

Dazed & Confused Cover by Marianno Vivanco Circa 2007

Mugler Circa 2011