Bitchy featured on Fashion156

In recent years I developed a weird fascination with animal skulls. Not content with leaving them RIP I felt inclined to illustrate and stick crystals on them. They found their way onto Fashion156 one of my favorite blogs alongside Kingdom of Style and Stylebubble. These are not to everybody’s taste but they are to my mine – they are my indulgence. When you say on a CV what your pastime is some people put Yoga, others put travel – I guess I could put making dead things pretty. This particular piece is painstakingly hand embellished with hundreds of Swarovski crystals and hand illustrated. I spent endless hours of dark evenings last winter sticking each one on by hand. They kept me off the streets, in my studio and out of trouble – sort of(actually that part’s a total lie).

Hand Embellished Real Animal Skull

When Guy Hipwell, creator of Fashion156 came to my studio I had no idea he would be styling in a menswear shoot – I guess given my boy/girl/girl/boy/boy who cares attitude to style and aesthetics at present it makes me very happy to see them so beautifully styled alongside mensewar designers I really respect – I actually posted about Katie Earie a few months back.

Vintage Tiger Necklace Styled as Headpiece

This morning I woke up to the sound of rain like pebbles against my window – it was cold and it was grey. Receiving this link in my inbox was like a mini trip to carnival, the kaleidoscope of colour providing fashion escapism from the bleak urban landscape that we all faced today. Print these pictures off, stick them on your wall and escape for just a moment.

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