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

VOGUE NIPPON

Some of my favourite things in Vogue Nippon.

STICKS N STONES WILL BREAK MY BONES BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME

By Steven Meisel

I've posted my three favourite campaigns this season Balenciaga, Celine and Jil Sander. I'll stop now.

CLEVER YOUNGER ME

My older sister who i shared a bedroom with for the best part of my innocently mispent childhood and just told me the other night that i would sleep in my school uniform so that i didn't have to get dressed in the morning! I had totally forgotten this, what a genius. If i could go back in time i would be high fiving myself for sure.

Sometimes it really hits me that i was one of those kids that people didnt want to babysit or take to the circus etc.. but most importantly i seemed to be completely unaware of this and as far as i was concerned i was cruising through my youth and fitting (like a glove) into every social strata known to the human race.

Here is a picture of me on my confirmation day in my school uniform.

CLEAN CELINE

by Jeurgan Teller

JIL SANDER NAVY (ORANGE N BLUE)

by the original and the still the best one and only David Sims

HEYA TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN, NICE TO MEET YA

.... and here we are now with a brand new squeaky clean year, she's pure as the driven snow, she's a bright new penny in a shallow drain, she's a lamb, with a curly bright white pelt and a soul like a sparkling clean plate straight out of a well salted dishwasher ....ahhh i can do better than that....she's a virgin beauty with alabaster skin like a sea worn stone, smooth and poreless, fresh and lightly salted. She's a face lit up by a cigarette at a party when you're higher than the Empire state and her voice is soft and her skin is honey and she's all letting the smoke crawl out of her mouth and curl around her chin like a girl you saw in a movie once, never left you and here she is now sitting in front of you with her beautiful little collar bones and she's smiling and her eyes are endless and in them they are holding everything, hope, love, glory, the rollercoaster, the theme park of everything in those eyes, Bumper cars, Waltzers, Ghost trains, Pirate ships, Death slides, Candyfloss, Burgers, Mini donuts, Ice cream, Goldfish in a bag, Big wheels....looking down all over it all cross legged on a cloud up there just looking down, searching for this famous two thousand and eleven that everyones talkin about. Ready to take it on with relish.... with chutney, tomato ketchup, mayonaise, butter.... Kerrygold of course, keep it Irish, remember your roots and where you come from. Truth and beauty and all the rest. Come on two thousand and eleven my arms are open my bosom is ample i'm ready for you now. Where have you been all my life?

HOME IS WHEREVER IM WITH YOU

ACHILL E'S HEEL

This is one of my favourite pictures in the book, it's a caravan park.

My childhood buddy and very talented photographer Linda Brownlee has just published her first book, pictures taken on the windswept, hostile shores of Achill Island, Ireland. Depicting a landscape hacked out by the weather that comes in from accross the atlantic like a herd of dark and stormy raging bulls and the teenage dwellers awkward in their youth, their love and complete with that great teenage vice; suspiciousness that i love so much.

I spent some time here surfing, climbing mountains and drinking a lot (alcohol not sea water). It's freezing, the water is freezing, the wind is freezing but everyone still gets drunk rips all their clothes off and sprints into the ocean for some skinny dipping. There are no lights so it's really dark and the shooting stars were all over the sky, i mean there were hundreds i could'nt make wishes fast enough. I counted over twenty of them blasting off in all directions over my head. I always recall this memory as someone standing on the shore and all the lovely moonlit wet goosebumped skin and the dark sky and the fireworks display of shooting stars over everyone's heads and us all looking up and right and left counting as many as we could, it seems very romantic from the shore, like a painting. the reality i'm sure was more like impending hypothermia and frostbitten essential digit loss.

So it's a magical place, Achill, it's the ends of the earth like in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, drinkable light and the sea filled with white lillies and all that.

Linda's book is beautiful and captures the essence of everything that is there but you can't quite put your finger on. You can buy Linda's book here http://www.lindabrownlee.com/index.php/book