We’ve had our eye onEmma Mullhollandever since our trip to Australia in November. We spent an afternoon hanging out with her and Ksubi’s resident artist Paulie in their workshop picking things apart, playing with their samples, taking pictures and distracting them from their workload.
Stuck in the middle of the February lull this seems a lifetime away. I’ve been spending far too much time frying my brain on Tumblr and discovering other social media distractions including Svpply, Fancy, Pinterest and plotting to set up another blog and another label. Occasionally a tumblr trail leads somehwere a little more interesting than onto more pictures of more protruding spines, wrist tattoes, bitten lips and cotton knickers. Just now has been one of those moments.
Stumbled upon a really nice image on PoisonedCandyfloss. Yeah saw the shark-print pants, thought the print was insane, led me to Oyster mag(the whole link manouvre was much less laborious than this in web time) and right back to the antipodean star pupil Emma Mulholland.
So we’ve just started selling in Australia and we’re constantly in trouble with our agent because the seasons are back to front so basically what we call AW is actually their SS so we’re doing fur coats for AW becuase they make sense in Europe but they’re NEVER going to sell in Australia because it’s like 50 degrees. So I guess an Australian designer has the opposite problem. This is where I think Emma’s collection is really really clever because although it’s got ocean iconography and sharks it’s simultaneously dark and gothic. Not top of the ocean with the waves dolphins, sea horse, love, splashiness and sun-rays, it’s the depths where there’s evil stuff lurking, sharks swimming to some sort of anthrax soundtrack. It’s clever because it’s seasonless – I’d be just as likely to wear this in the winter with a sheepskin coat as I would in the summer with some shorts. She’s also got that whole laid-back low-effort Australian thing down which kind of suits her – she seemed pretty chilled when we met. Her graduate collection really blew me away and was pretty far reaching web-wise but this collection represents a really clever move-on. This girls got it figured out and she’s going places fast – go you xxx
Here’s some great imagery from one of my faves Elvis Di Fazio and a tasty GIF to boot. Terrifying crazy bitch also known as Renny from Priscillas models wearing Ksubi at General Pants. Awesome body paint byBecca Gilmartin.
We’ve been having a bit of an East 17 “Deep” week in the studio and are loving all things camouflage. So when we saw this camouflage collection by A Bathing ape we were completely overcome with emotion as often happens when we chance upon really really cool stuff.
We’re planning on having sofas in our new studio and we’d be very very happy indeed if they looked a something like this. That way when we’re hungover or bored we can sit on them and disappear. I’m also a bit obsessed with cool chairs and I’m learning upholstery so maybe I can incorporate this into one of my projects.
Basically there a 3 things in life that I LOVE – a)Versace b)Nicki Minaj and c) – you’ve guessed it – The Pope so to see all three in one place at the Grammys has really made my day.
Thanks everyone for the tweets, texts, facebooks etc about this on Saturday night. One of the few nights we were all tucked up on our sofas thanks to the snow so we actually saw this. Inverted cross shorts from our current collection and Tiger Necklace, matching ring and earrings(not visible) which are a sneak preview of what’s in store when we relaunch our Remade collection with a fully Made collection.
I guess now is a good time to let you know that we’ve been busy travelling the world to our factories designing awesome digital print lycra as well as our own denim and jewellery lines so things are gonna get a whole lot more interesting.
I think a lot of clothing colours trending at the moment are being driven by what we’re seeing in hair and not vice versa. Charlotte Free has pretty much owned pink since she debuted the colour on the catwalks last season and it’s become her trademark. Obviously Nicki started it off with her album Pink Friday but the trends been edging further west from the Japanese Kawaii scene over a couple of years now.
Loved the air-brushed living doll perfection on the shoot in this month’s Wonderland Magazine.
