TEEN VOGUE MAY ISSUE

Jewellery shoot I styled for  the May issue of Teen Vogue, shot by Matt Irwin.

TWIN VI

Twin VI has finally landed like a mind boggling ring of crop circles in the middle of a corn field only visible from space or maybe Waterstones or Colette in Paris or Opening Ceremony in nyc and lots of other good bookstores and newsagents ...you cant miss it cos it comes fully equipped with it's very own high viz health and safety orange cover that i totally dig.

It's filled with cool stuff like interviews with Kim Ann Foxman who i have a crush on, she is a girl but looks like a very beautiful boy, actress Imogen Poots shot by Colin Dodgson (above), artist Javier Perez, Sue Davies OBE founder of the photographers gallery, also my buddy Kate Merry illustrates one of my fav writers around Karley Sciortino's (slutever) feature on the kunst of self love. www.twinfactory.co.uk

BLOOMIN

SS12 shoot I styled for Twin VI with photographer Jason Kibbler. There were two days spent in the most beautiful little flower shop in Brooklyn NYC with super cool Valerija Kileva and the little dreamboat Matthew Hitt with whom i had some great poetry and literature love ins, on the couch in the winniebago. Matt is like a modern day lord Byron. Beauty and Intelligence.

Sooooo nice to be surrounded by plants and flowers for two days.... it smelled so good.

Hair by James Pecis and Make up by Benjamin Puckey

HARMONY

Shoot for Twin VI with my buddy and photographer Colin Dodgson. A day spent romping around my house with model/musician (Vava Vultures) Harmony. I kinda love that all my fav things are featured in this shoot like shark face who lives on my couch, my courtyard, my fridge, my magnolia tree, my shower puff......most of all i love the full Celine look on my car. Celine VS Mazda MX5.Hair by Teji and Make up by Shinobu

DRAW IN LIGHT

Draw in Light is run by two hot girls called Polly and Harry, i consult on the label which is easy because their clothes are awesome and i love working with them.  They named a jumper from the AW 12  collection after me ...how cool is that! It came all wrapped up in this beautiful little box. Here i am wearing the Celestine jumper, i love it!!! Thanks Harry and Polly. Check out Draw in Light here.

ELLEUK.COM

Thanks Alannah Sparks for interviewing me for  Elleuk.com and thanks Niall O Brien for the photo to go with it.

LEVIS MENS FIT PORTFOLIO

The Levis mens fit portfolio that i worked on with photographer Christophe Coenon. He shot the whole thing on large format polaroid which was super chilled i think we did about 3 polaroids max per image.  Oldskool. You can view all the images here.

KANYEVIL

Okay so i must admit i love it when people are mean to other people who think they are awesome and actually come across as total douches people liiiiikkkkkeeeeee.......kanye

he takes himself waaaaayyyyyyyyy too seriously

it makes me really happy that someone stuck googley eyes on him and made him look silly i bet this would really piss him off.

GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST

For my dad's birthday a couple of years ago i got him some Koi fish, he'd just built a pond in the garden...carved it out, sunk it in and heaved a great big boulder/stone into the middle of it.....into which he had painstakingly drilled a hole into so he could pump water through it and out of the top. It's actually a bit more than a pond really, he calls it the pool of two hearts, as there is another one, up slightly higher that feeds into the bottom pool with the big stone in it via a waterfall, so they're connected and don't exist happily without each other. It represents him and my mum which is seriously cute and kinda romantic to the max.

Anyway the other day i was thinking about when Sissy Spacek throws that big old fish in to the vegetable patch in badlands and its kinda tragic and it got me thinking about the ones i got my dad for his birthday...there was one in particular called ghost he was pure white and very beautiful. He grew like you wouldn't believe.... it got to where he was so big it was unnerving...you know when a fish gets to a certain size and somewhere in the back of your mind you know that you can't just flush them down the toilet sending them back to their mother ocean like all the goldfish you ever owned in your life......well it kinda gets you a bit nervous like you may actually have to comtemplate digging it a grave, burying it...eating it.... or offering it to the cat.

I was watching him  this one day and he was suckering all the green stuff off the big boulder...loudly it was a big epic sucking sound in the world when fish are meant to be quiet...the rock had become a great  big slimey algae popsicle. It was kinda cool watching him be a valid animal and not just a fish cos now not only was he massive and significant but he was noisy too.

In the winter on 2010 our lake froze over and was so solid we could all walk on it, my whole family and tehre are 7 of us...all except my aunty angela she walked around the lake and thought we were all mad. Of course the pond froze over too....i don't know if we all forgot or it just didn't occur to us ...as the weather was extreme and not usual but the fish died that christmas we didn't actually know until the thaw came. It was pretty heartbreaking and i remember thinking oh god were they all just hanging out under there like you do when you get a snow day off school and everyone just has a laugh and goes sledging and builds snowmen..etc..so i presume they were all just under havin a bit of a gas you know just waiting for the ice to melt and then it didnt.

I like to think they all just fainted from lack of oxygen and by the time they were dead they were not even aware that they had died you know..... hmmmm the reality i think was probably less idylic than that.

It was like the time my mom was minding my brothers love birds (he'd been given them by a girlfriend on valentines day (i thought this was a rad present but they were quite annoying actually) my mum would pop them out on the picnic table in the garden for fresh air in the day time,  anyway this one time she was late home from some event and the weather took a funny turn and temperature plummetted and by the time she got home they were dead....little sticky feet up. flat out. back down...gone from the world. My mum was all 'oohhhh god love them.... they died together so romantic' i was thinking.... hmmmm yeah they froze to death to be honest.....i'm thinking not so romantic unless its televised... no broken hearts in that cage.

It got me to thinking about leo and kate in titanic when he freezes to death and she lets him go and he floats down into the deep murky depth of the ocean and old winslet the survivor holds it together floating on her door or piece of furniture or whatever it was.. i mean i always thought she coulda just budged up and let old leo squeeze on but she didnt.......to be fair i bawled so hard at this scene my face changed shape.

yeah freezing to death...never pretty...unless youre like a wooly mammoth or something.

SIMONE ROCHA AW12

The Simone Rocha AW12 show I styled during London fashion week. The 25 year old phenomenon that is Simone Cecilia Ming Ming Rocha delved into the ancient tribes of Papa New Guinea and their New Ireland tribe, her native old Ireland....nature, grass, apple trees, ponies...and the random perfectness of Juergan tellers Zimmerman book.

The result of this came beautifully formed... in traditional lace delicately cocoon shaped, lush irish tweeds with tulle seams, woolly sheep dresses moulded with a plastic dress body, solid silver mirror leather was married with textured spotted 'mackeral belly' coats and skirts and calfskin jackets that felt just like simone's daschund Rufus (shiny like a conker) who we love a lot. The black donkey version of this is my soul mate, we are meant to go through life together,  i was compelled to wear this jacket in the studio everyday even just for a few minutes and now in time for next season he will be coming to live with me forever. The shoes were mens brogues and pumps with perspex soles of clear, green and pink that when the light hit them looked like lit up lime and strawberry jelly.

The wonderful team of James Pecis  who gave our girls their wild connemara pony forlocks of hair and Shinobu Abe who blessed them all with freckles and a touch of sunburn from lolling around in the bright grass fields of Co.Galway for too long. You can see the whole show here on style.com and the film here with the awesome soundtrack done by Simone's super talented brother, the little panda that is Max Rocha.

MARGARET HOWELL FOR DAZED

My Margaret Howell page for Dazed Collections with the beautiful Josefien Rodermans, shot by Jason Kibbler in between the rain showers and streaming sunshine in Brooklyn baby in December.

ABBEY LEE FOR US VOGUE

Portrait of Abbey Lee that i styled in the current issue of American Vogue.

Photographed by Beau Grealy.

GET TO THE CHOPPER....

Givenchy Spring 2012 Couture. I love everything about this, the gym hall, the basket ball, the nose rings that make all the girls look like baby predators.

I also enjoy this Arnie Schwartz soundboard immensely.

Awesome Dazed cover styled by my friend Robbie Spencer with the Givenchy haute couture jewellery on the musician Grimes.