Inspiring us today….Pyramids.

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Erm today has been one of those days

Are we allowed to say this on our blog? Oh no we’re not? Oh well too late.

Today has been one of those days, haven’t had a day off in 3 weeks, already been in Paris this week, 11pm finishes 3 days so we’re allowed to right? Luckily myself and Kath haven’t done our usual go out, get smashed, kill each other trick(we’ve a whole two weeks before fashion week to do that) it’s been a bit more like this, a more composed kind of freak out…..wouldn’t you say…..

Do you know the best thing about days like this? It’s that tomorrow’s not going to be another one…..

erm that is unless the pneumatic drilling from our studio building persists….we might have to resort to far worse obscenities.

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Nicola Formichetti’s debuts for Mugler

Possibly the most anticipated menswear show of the season Gaga stylist and Fashion Director of Vogue Homme Japan, Nicola Formichetti debuts his menswear collection for Mugler. The foundations of the collection were in fine tailoring with a twist.

Gimp-masks and the use of latex throughout the collection lent a sinister tone to the collection

Some of the other references were a little more subtle with 60’s mod styling appearing in polo-necks, jackets, colour blocking and footwear.

There was also a nod to Mugler’s famed motorcyle bustier with biker detailing on legs and arms.

Introduction of a loser 40’s silhouette after so many seasons of skinny.

Given the promotional images released in the run up to the show I was ancitipating something far more flambuoyant, more of a spectacle. Having read other reviews there have been comments that the collection is over-styled, I beg to differ. The collection is ulitimately very wearable, avant garde element elements introduced through the styling. It’s a clean, sophisticated well cut collection with a solid colour palette and subtle references to the history of menswear. The styling and design features intimate the sub-cultures from which Nicola draws so much of his inpspiration and provide the theatre and excitement for which he has become famed.

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Our Pre-fall highlights.

HELMUT LANG

PREEN

BURBERRY PRORSUM

ALEXANDER WANG

CELINE

GIVENCHY

Jesus Christ I love Givenchy.

STELLA MCCARTNEY

3.1 PHILLIP LIM

GUCCI

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Showstudio – Gareth Pugh debuts at Pitti Imagine

Gareth Pugh debuted at Pitti Imagine #79 with a fashion film created with Ruth Hobgen and projected onto the ceiling of a 14th Century church.

The collection was inspired by religious iconography and Florentine opulence. It reminds me of Baroque and Renaissance frescoed ceilings and sculpture in the churches of Italy. Everything from the perspective and writhing physical forms to the gold and cornflower blue colour palettes directly reference artworks of the 16th and 17th century. The inflated billows and folds of undulating fabric are regularly found in images of female saints and madonnas of this era. Even the lighting nods towards the technique of using strong contrast of light and dark(chiaro scuro) by artists like Caravaggio

Contemporary inspiration is apparent in sequences of images reminiscent of digital prints. Gold shines in rays like the light of god shining through clouds as was often seen in paintings of this era. Altogether a very clever and considered work of art.

Much like the frescoed ceilings I imagine this is best viewed in situ, watching the projected film from below. We can more than make do with it projected on our Macs.

A detail of perspective from the Sistine Ceiling by the Renaissance painter Michelangelo

St Theresa in Ecstasy by Baroque Scultpor Bernini.

The Taking of Christ by Carvaggio – one of my favorite paintings of all time.

I could go on about all of this at great length but I won’t.

Ok art wanky over. Back to sticking studs on things.

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Model Muse – Abbey Lee Kershaw

Obviously we might be slightly biased as Abbey Lee is Australian like Bitchy Kath but she represents our aesthetic perfectly . The below picture has been on our studio wall since we ripped it our of Pop Magazine this SS. We really liked the easy rider/cow-girl look and I personally loved the chaps. She’s been in so many amazing shoots that she’s made it onto our regular wall several times over for inspiration on both of our labels.

V Magazine love her so much that they’ve a whole shoot titled A is for Abbey in this month’s issue. There’s something reminiscent of Michell Pfeiffer in Scarface in this shoot – great to see big hair making a come-back and shapes gradually moving towards a slimmer silhouette coming back after so much draping and loose layers.

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Featured on The Ones to Watch – Child of the Night Shoot

Fetured on the TheOnes2Watch Styled by Fernando Torres, Photography by Daniel Gil Rodrigo, featuring our labels and some vintage pieces. Nice.

Swarovski crystal embellished skull shoulder-piece – price upon request.

Wolf vest-Remade by bitchingandjunkfood.com

Feather trimmed Jacket Remade by bitchingandjunkfood.com sold out at Urban Outfitters.

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Two Bitches 2010.

I’ve not really blogged over Christmas – like I’ve always said blogging should not be a pressurised thing and I needed to unplug myself for cyberspace – it’s a big black hole you can get lost in. The end of 2010 left both myself and Kath pretty exhuasted. We crammed so much into last year – we’ve always been the girls who can’t say no. More is always more. Bitchy was only one year old at the end of July and year two has been amazing so far. I’ve looked over all of the pictures from our adventures and projects and we’ve had so much fun. Our motto has always been “if it’s not fun, it’s not worth doing” and I’ve had more fun running Bitchy with Kath than I’ve had doing anything else. Jokes, laughs, creation and inspiration every day makes it all worth while.

So here’s some of my pics from last year, a reminder of the fun things we’ve done, people we’ve met, good times we’ve had and little stories to go with them. Some shot by others, some shot by us on our Iphones, just our day to day experiences, people we’ve seen and things we’ve done.

DECEMBER 2009

The day we discovered our new studio by London Fields and Tash dancing around in excitement – she’s now working in Hong Kong for Guess, we miss you Tash. xx

Myself and Kath at our studio warming – we were sooo happy to be out of our freezing cold warehouse in Hackney Wick.

Stylist Miss Jacqueline White and Designer Lindsay McKeane, our studio buddies also at our studio warming – Lindsay’s just had some work done on her lips.

JANUARY 2010

Myself and Kath blatantly ignoring the cardinal “don’t stand next to the models” rule. The studio was freezing, we had big parkas and cardis on, she had to wear shorts, price you pay for being skinny and hot!

FEB 2010

Miguel Dare who was one of the “models who can act” in our film for our label TWO WEEKS – we are slightly in love with Miguel, they broke the mould when they made him. On a Friday I had a mad idea to shoot a conceptual art fashion film two days later – no models, no director, no hair, no make-up, nothing sorted. When I put my mind to something I make it happen so a few phonecalls later I’d roped in Gabriel Gettman to direct and was pretty much confirming everything else until that morning – nothing is impossible.

Kath doing boss lady at our installation in Weknowhatyoudidlastnight’s fashion week pop up showroom where we launched TWO WEEKS.

Myself and Kath at the presentation, Kath’s other half Christian with whom we have IT jamms in the background.

Toby Summerskill, studio manager and Gabriel Gettman, Director of our film and good friend.

MARCH 2010

Shoot for the TWO WEEKS lookbook AW10 – shot and styled by yours truly.

MAY 2010

This was the day we delivered our very first collaboration to Urban Outfitters wearing “The Headdress” that pretty much paved the way for a lot we’ve done since. It only launched in May but everyone went mental for it and it sold out everywhere. This was in our friend’s Lynch and Leigh’s multimedia studio. We shot against chroma green because Lynch was going to drop in some pyramids behind us – we’d decided we wanted to go on holidays to Egypt in celebration.

Myself and little Suzie Street who started interning with me and we recommended her to our PR where she now works – you can’t let the good ones get away, she’s a bright little spark and we love her. We’re pictured at Rachel Freire’s TG show where I co-produced the show, we also provided visuals with our Film.

At the start of May we did a gallery installation at Live Magazine in Future Gallery, Leicester square in London. We were exhibited alongside Rachel Freire and Pam Hogg so we were pretty stoked. Rachel gave me the key to her bike to look after(very stupid idea) but I lost it in the toilets and everyone freaked out – Pam Hogg saved the day when she found it.

JUNE 2010

Myself and Kath messing around with sqauro glasses at The Clothes Show London where we had a pop-up shop.

We’re very friendly so this means we get a lot of visitors to our studio who just come in the hang out and talk our make us tea which is nice but sometimes we just have to shut the door n spell it out for them. This is one of those moments.

These are two of the worst offenders…..

Will from Lynch and Leigh

… and Ben Winston, who worked on the set of Jodie Harsh’s circus promo. He looks kinda tired here becuase Gabriel Gettman had worked him into the ground on this 14 hour shoot.

JULY 2010

We ran the market beside our studio for a few months over the summer and helped get it off the ground before our deadlines really kicked in and we had to pass it on to someone else. These are our friends Lindsay and Andrew who had earlier brought a tramp to a party – he hadn’t been home yet, we love Andrew.

Don’t ask don’t get, I’ve a real problem with bad tea and sorry but PG tips is rubbish so I got in touch with the good people at Thinkhouse PR in Dublin who represent Barry’s Tea and they arranged for a hamper of tea to be sent to us. We were overcome with joy so we took some pictures in celebration and we even were their guest profile picture on their Facebook fanpage. I think this might be my fave picture from last year.

AUGUST 2010

Our friend, cheeky charming chappie, Christopher James, Weknowwhatyoudidlastnight.com. He puts on this weird Irish accent I’ve never heard anywhere in Ireland every time I phone him – he’s a loveable rogue.

SEPTEMBER 2010

Kath doing a washing experiment whilst sampling for our Urban Outfitters collaboration.

On location shooting our SS11 lookbook with photographer Diego Indraccolo and stylist Kay Korsh.

OCTOBER

Msyelf, Kath and Kath’s best mate from Australia, Sharn. She wanted to change direction in her career and came over to intern with us. She’s now gone back to Australia and we miss her dearly but she’s joined Bitchy for good and has decided to represent us as our Australian agent whilst developing her own collection. This is us at Shoreditch House Pool Party – we love you Sharn. x

DECEMBER 2010


VOGUE – what a nice way to end a year.

Littly doggy and Kath’s baby Pepper – another new addition to the Bitchy crew when she started fashion dogging for us.

All in all it’s been an amazing and totally surreal year. 2011 sees us show our label Two Weeks in the static exhibition at London Fashion Week. We’ve also been taken on by Snow who will be showing our label during Paris Fashion Week alongside big guns PPQ, Pam Hogg and Horace who we’ve actually bought for the online store SS11 . Our Remade label is being rolled out to all Urban Outfitters across Europe and we’ll be launching a capsule menswear collection in their Shoreditch store. I’ll also be getting a little pal for Peps to deprave(bit like the Kath/Marion relationship ).

Our new studio will be finished by the end of January so a big move is on the way. We’ll be doing a lot of travelling as we expand our manufacture overseas and we’ve got some pretty exciting collaborations on the way too.

Big thankyou to all our amazing interns, we’ve tried to hook you guys up with fashion industry jobs where we can and some of your have ended up becoming freelancers with us.

We love all our customers dearly – you guys are crazy brilliant, you believe in the things our old jobs told us were too “quirky”, not commercial and that inspires us to push things that little bit more.

We take pictures of everything that inspires us on our Iphones so let’s start 2011 by saying

Love Living – we do, do you?

XXX BITCHY LOVE TO Y’ALL

ps thankyou Christopher for letting me rob some pictures from your wonderful site, I didn’t ask u but thanks anyway.

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