Tuesday, 31 May 2011

ILL BE YOUR DAWG

























Kid, you're destined for stardom, big city, bright lights, you'll probably never even remember that you used to draw all over the family pet when you're famous and the whole world is at your feet and you're like King Midas and everything you touch turns to gold. When in doubt you'll just get your crayolas out.

As a kid i was obsessed with drawing, i drew on everything, i would draw all over the walls of my aunties and uncles houses, all over their flocked wallpaper.... as well as my parents walls at home. I was crafty back then, I would draw under picture frames and under the hanging photo's of all of us kids in our school uniforms. 

One day as i was having a particularly good time scribbling sweet nothings with a blue marker in the gap between the grandfather clock and the stairs, my dad caught me red handed and let out a roar 'to stop drawing all over the fucking walls'.

I got such a fright i laid off the wall drawing for ages but i got itchy about it, fingers got twitchy and so one balmy summers evening i climbed up on top of the 6ft high wardrobe in my bedroom and drew all over the ceiling. My mum walked into the room clocked me mid doodle and was like "Jesus Christ I cannot believe this Celestine, i'm getting your father'. My response was 'this is not a wall' whereupon the old animal instincts and i jumped off the top of the wardrobe and  knocked myself clean unconscious.

The next thing i remember is my dad holding up 3 fingers and saying how many fingers am i holding up Celestine?' and me saying 'oh for gods sake...6 fingers, i can see 6, is this a dream?'

Friday, 27 May 2011

POESY & JESUS UP A TREE

























My poesy and the Meadham Kirchhoff painted and glittered jamjar vase they came in from the Topshop secret store party on wednesday evening. Poesy and Jesus look great together dontcha think, they go together like bread and butter....



...... just like Ben and Ed the Meadham Kirchhoff boys who gave a great interview in this issue of Twin and Nick Dorey took this picture of them that i love. 

Thursday, 26 May 2011

HEYA JANE....YOURE SO COOL























So i was searching for a picture of the white Supreme box logo/Birken bag that i saw on someone's arm in a photo at a party.... and the only ones i could find had lady gaga in them but every cloud has a silver lining cos i did find this awesome picture of Jane Birken with her namesake birken bag and her rad dog. How cool is she!

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

DOROTHEA'S DISPLACED BONES




























The amazing Dorothea Barth Jorgensen who I worked with on this story for the new issue of Twin. She is awesome and so is her blog http://displacedbones.blogspot.com/. Check it out.

Saturday, 14 May 2011

THE HILLS HAVE EYES












Rodarte Feature I worked on for Twin IV with photographer Ben Toms, lots of birds including the beautiful and cool Sara Blomqvist. It was a great day we got to meet all of the feathered beauties here and at the ned of the day we all got to hold the eagle who was about the same weight as a can of stella, you would have thought he weighed a tonne but i guess that's where the saying 'light as a feather'  comes from. Raj, the little grumpy looking one with the orange eyes almost had a part on harry Potter, he was trained to turn the pages on a book for the film so he's the mini celeb with buckets of attitude there at the sanctuary, he won many hearts this day. Among other highlights i was transfixed by the sight of Elsa the owl mercilessly chowing down on a (pre-dead) baby chick. Fascinating and barbaric (they are predators after all) it deserves a post all of it's own. Big thanks go out to Randall the head falconer who was the hostess with mostess on the day. www.countrywidefalconry.co.uk

Photographer Ben Toms
Hair Naoki Komiya
Make Up Lucy Burt

Model Sara Blomqvist @Viva

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS































































































New editorial i styled for Twin IV with the amazing Dorothea Barth Jorgensen and a host of beautiful  English boys here in London.

Photography Jason Kibbler
Hair James Pecis
Make up Kirsten Piggot
Casting Sarah Murray

Saturday, 30 April 2011

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.

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

TAN LINES










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.


Monday, 25 April 2011

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. 

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

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.

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

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.




Thursday, 24 March 2011

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