Each pair distressed by hand, it’s all about the cut and we like a bit of cheek. We go to great lengths to source high waisted Levi’s for girls trying each pair on to ensure the fit is flattering. Be a superstar yourself and buy them in our shop.
Cute as a button…
A few weeks I had the pleasure of a visit to Kino – a regular film night in Elevator Gallery in Hackney Wick. It’s a great venue for a cinema club really cheap entry – I think it was £3 – and cheap beers too which is always a bonus. I seriously need to get out and do more cultural escapades. Being stuck in the studio really limits your creativity.
I went to see The Holy Mountain, a cult film directed by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky. It reminded me of Dante’s Divina Commedia which I studied for my degree in Italian. I watched the film with no context in which to place it but strong religious allegories run throughout and the inherent symbolism is the visual imagery was unavoidable. The characters in the film are on a similar journey of self-discovery to Dante as they climb the Holy Mountain to reach the Divine. It’s the kind of film you need to watch, study, then watch again which I will be doing once I’ve studied up and contextualised. I’m not going to go into great detail on the plot – Wikipedia that one yourself but it’s worth mentioning that Marilyn Manson, Santigold and MGMT have all shot videos inspired by scenes from The Holy Mountain.
Back to fashion…..so many religious, cult references – not to mention nudity – around at the moment. This film provides a seventies slant on the looks we’ve seen which are more about the dark arts. Seventies is trending strong already in commercial fashion with bell bottoms and stacked heels making their way back.
All in all, it’s a fantastically surreal film, simulatneously beautiful and arresting, wouldn’t advise watching it on a full stomach. There’s so much inspiration for graphics and fashion.
Wonderful play of light emphasising natural textures.
Doppelgangers shoot from Fashion Served
Today sees the start of a new feature on the blog called “We’re not lesbians but……”. This is one of our studio catch-phrases as everyone seems to think we’re a couple or maybe would like us to be a couple. The minute Kath got a Staff it was inevitable – we’re not girly girls so we knew there would be assumptions made with the geezer dog, two Mums, short hair situation, ability to put up shelves. I might get a teacup Chihuahua and some pink marabou in the office.
Anyway we’re not lesbians but ……we are constantly talking about how hot other chicks are so this feature is gonna be about hot girls and starting with Nenah Cherry who I’ve always kind of had glad eye for.
I watched Boyz in The Hood last night and I’ve come over all nineties today – high waited jeans big chunky belt. I was a little obsessed with Nenah Cherry when I was younger. I even had a little mustard quilted bomber jacket which I chucked out – bad move, bad move. We’ve even had some of our vintage 90’s gear used in her recent video but I haven’t got a link to that yet.
So here’s how it works. Trend starts in Tokyo, fashion forecasters go to Tokyo snap it, high-street copies trend too soon, trend doesn’t sell, trend goes into mark-down, directional buyer casts head down in shame for having bought “dog” of the season, trend goes back underground and naturally filters through on street trends, 3 seasons later trend is deemed “commerical” by high-street and sells.
I know this becuase I’m an ex-buyer and designer and I was Queen of “too soon” . I picked up on this trend on a visit to Tokyo 2 and a half years ago – luckily at that point I was a senior designer so I didn’t have to hang my head in shame – some poor buyer did. “Oh dear” my bad, sorry. Anyway I think we’re finally ready for scrunchies on the streets – the Japanese are just incredible. They’re all over something seasons ahead of us – they’re bonkers, my kind of bonkers. Me likey, me lovey. It seems to be the natural progression for the top-knot.
American Apparel – I think this girl is slightly OCD.
As seen at Marc Jacobs SS10 – I think it looks cute. I just wish my hair was long enough. FAIL.
Found on www.ffffound.com
U have to see this. We’d just been hanging out in the park with them havin beers and bitching(that was last week before we detoxed and started being all nice). Checked their website out and were gobsmacked by their visuals. Truly the best visuals we’ve ever seen and we’re party girls so we’ve seen a lot.
See out their other work including Louis Vuitton Stores and Glastonbury at The Dark Room.
If ur fk'd up and you know it clap your hands.....you could rock back n forth too and bang your head against the wall 
Featuring neckpiece and eye-patches by Lake and Liberty as well as pieces from Bitching and Junkfood Vintage.
With so much sheerling, fur, wooly and feral textures coming through on AW catwalks, it’s clear that “Where the Wild Things Are” has been impactful. German born Iris Shieferstein has been immortalising nature in her art/taxidermy/fashion pieces for several years. Below are some of my favorite works.
