TOMBURGER V'S DINOJESUS

ShaWowza what's not to love here ? Tom Selleck everyones fav moustache kicking back in his denim shorts with a cup of decaf in a lagoon with a waterfall and a mystic floating big mac hovering like a rampant little UFO in the background. Seriously who comes up with this stuff? 

It's almost as good as the time i found the Tyrannasaurus Rex being chaperoned by a massive floating Jesus rising up through  the cumulus clouds like the Space rocket swaddled in a white cotton christening robes. 

 Although I have a feeling that this may have been some evangelical imagery about god creating all and evoloution having never happened in the first place, for example..... jesus can make big things too, not just little animals and other humans in his form but he can also create from dust and rain and the heat of the sun and fertile earth, great big enormous thick skinned tusked things, like elephants, big multi-storey toothed things like Dinosaurs, great horned ferocious things like rhinocerous, and swimming slippy things like whales and giant squid..etc....



there are really great references to this in CS Lewis's 'The Last Battle' when the earth starts bubbling like a saucepan of porridge and burps forth all kinds of delightful herbivores, carnivores, reptiles, amphibians......from the bulbous compost blisters. Aslan is god and he creates everything and the new world is dark and silent before he puts his heavy padded paws upon it and sends wave of new life through it like lightening which starts it bubbling and spewing forth animals of all shapes and sizes and everything is born for the first time. All Life starts here.

TAN LINES

I guess with all the blisteringly hot weather here in london recently i'm getting all summery inside, all misty eyed, dreamin' of pimms and pina coladas, hot brown skinned boys with far away salty eyes, strawberries and cream, sandy sandwiches, the ocean lapping around my belly like a litter of wet kittens, the sun in my eyes, girls in bikinis with tan lines, tan lines are hot.....when we were kids my brothers and sister and I would keep our watches on for the whole holiday so when we got back home we had proof of how tanned we had become and who had won by being the brownest.

I believe this may have been an early foray into my competitive self.....i really gave a shit about winning. The satisfaction i gleaned from watching the white patch get brighter and brighter day by day was unrivalled, it was like secretly polishing the ultimate tan trophy that was going to be mine at the end of the trip. The luminous graphic strip felt like a tiny but very significant success story right there on my little 11 year old wrist,  just like Tom Cruise in Cocktail or Matthew Broderick in Ferris Buellers day off.

MAD

Britney, Nicole, Paris and Lilo, what a guest list. Wowza

Batman and his super gay little sidekick Robina.

Joker

My particular all time fav lil Wayne. Leg end. I did a whole blog post about him and my conclusion was this.....

'It's just the cacophony of shit thats going on here, the lip piercing, the tats, the plaster, the jewellery, the dreadlocks, the diamond teef, the raybans, the smoking, the smoking and drinking at the same time. He's like a bull in a china shop in his own body. It kinda blows my mind'.


I am seriously into lil Wayne.

Bush as Mr.Potato head/mad

Obama looking fit as a ginger. Love those freckles like i love train tracks.

Mad is so good, smart and funny and a bit wrong but mostly very very right about important things, tongue in cheek when necessary, blatent when required, exposing in all the right places like a flasher with buckets of integrity. 

HEY SUMMER HEY NATASHA POLY

April 2010 Mario Sorrenti for Paris Vogue and a prediction of what my summer is going to be like.....bit of a tan, bit of baby oil, sea, sand, seaweed, a balcony, some socks, trainers, a small bikini, a life ring and a horse of course.

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.