Maluca and The Party Squad – “Lola (Ginga Danga)”

August 24th, 2011 | M | Videos | No Comments »

What would you spend 269,000,000 on?

August 18th, 2011 | M | Art | No Comments »

We sell swimsuits, you wear swimsuits when you’re swimming, you might one day go swimming in this building in one of our swimsuits and put all the Speedo freaks to shame therefore this is a relevant blog post. I also set up BITCHY in a warehouse right beside the development site for the Olympics so it’s of great personal interest.

I’m sure this has all been written up in the Metro but we live in a .5 mile radius bubble(we never have occasion to take the undeground) so when things happen like Volcanoes erupting etc we generally don’t hear about it until someone abroad calls us and tells us they’ve been stuck in an airport in the arse end of nowhere. Luckily we did actually hear about the riots because the riots were in our .5 mile radius. Well actually that’s half true, Kath didn’t hear about it because she was in a Volkswagen van in a valley somewhere in the misty rain in Ireland and all her mates in Australia thought she’d been burned along with all those books – hang on that was that Salaman Rushdie? I dunno, I only do fashion.

So yeah, back to the question, if you were in the market for a swimming pool you could potentially get Zaha Hadid Architects to build you one of these.

The concept is inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, an undulating roof sweeping up from the ground as a wave. Grandiose architecture quite often serves to make man feel insignificant. Acts of nature such as massive waves and bodies of water are similarly humbling. Pretty amazing that they’ve managed seamlessly connect a manmade object to the natural world.

The future is now. Go swim in it.

Current obsession photographer Miles Aldrige

August 15th, 2011 | M | Photography | 1 Comment »

Recently featured in 125 Magazine, which is an amazing magazine – you should buy it, I’ve become more than a little obsessed with photographer Miles Aldridges work. London based, born in 1964, Miles went to Art school before turning his hand to fashion photography when he submitted pictures taken of his girlfriend to a modelling agency.

I’m really interested in the sinister David Lynch edge he lends to his work though clever use lighting and image crops more likely to be found in art composition. He’s worked extensively with magazines including Vogue, Numero, Vogue Homme, Vogue Italia, Vogue Japan and the New York Times.

The “Madonna” shoot below was featured in Numero back in 2007 but is more relevant than ever today.