Came across this Gabber inspired collection by dutch desginer Tom Nijhuis in Dis Magazineand thought it was pretty amaze. Gabber, a variant harcore techno, emerged as a scene in Rotterdam during the early nineties. One of it’s defining characteristics was it’s 180+ BPM, beats sometimes indistinguishable from each other. As with all musical genres Gabber has it’s own style usually involving some sort of shaved head and sportswear.
The scene still exists to some extent in Holland and the models used in the shoot are real Gabber girls – how cool is that. Just kind of fascinated by the whole scene and shoot and it reminds me of the French Vogue shoot below which also nods to sportswear of the same era.Tom Nijuis’website is pretty RAD as is the Facebook link to his Gabber girlfriends. I think I want to be them.
Randomly sitting on my sofa last night discussing Marithe and Francois Girbaud as you do and whaddya know I find it referenced in this month’s French Vogue. Styled by Marie Chaix and shot by Hans Furer the shoot’s received mixed reviews mostly in terms of what not to do. Personally I think it’s awesome.
Kloss is know for her body and despite being swathed in toggle tied billows this shoot still manages to be super sexy through a flash of upper thigh. The poses and layering create a ninja-like silhouette and it seems somewhat theatrical. Not sure who the clothing is but the whole look has a Marithe and Francois Girbaud feel – the boots are Rick owens. I want the thigh high version. I don’t intend to run anywhere in them.
If you’ve always wanted to see Jake Gyllenhaal go on killing spree in Dalston then you’ll dig this. The Shoes new video by acclaimed director Daniel Wolfe sees Jakey run amok, stabbing and killing in all our local haunts including Black Box, The Turkish Hamam that everyone thinks is a brothel(it isn’t I went there), Alibi, Stoke Newington High Street and a few dingy back alleys near my place. So hot right now. Dalston.
Well according to Google we do. When you Google “bitching”, out of 14,000,000 results, we’re listed third just after the Urban Dictionary. Have you ever heard anyone say “it’s bitchin hot ain’t it?” where do they get this shit from.
One day soon we’ll blog about stuff that matters and cool pictures again, heck we might even set up a Tumblr but for now we’ll give you fillers.
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.
Apparently becuase the long ears help them sniff out what’s been shot on the hunt. In the studio today making stuff for our AW12 lookbook shoot tomorrow and doing pretty much anything to avoid financial forecasting which is why we’re really supposed to be her. It’s Sunday, give us a break.
So whilst googling such matters as above we stumbled upon this….
We stand on our dogs all the time but we never apologise. Maybe this explains why my dog has an eating disorder and problems with posession.
So as some of you are probably aware we’ve been running two labels, an online store and a blog from the beginning. We showed TWO WEEKS in a showroom in Paris back in October and it’s now stocked in several concept stores and high end boutiques internationally. TWO WEEKS was always Remade’s more avant garde older sister. The label is getting lots of call-ins at the moment with the plastica and dip dyed hair-pieces getting the most attention.
We’ve decided to take a sabbatical for AW12 so we won’t be showing anything on this label in Feb. We need to catch up with ourselves and give our main line the attention we need to become a proper global brand. Everything has grown really quickly, really organically and in order to give everything the chance it deserves we needed to re-focus for this season, do everything properly and give ourselves time to grow both as designers and business people.
I wanted to shoot a Lookbook out of our standard bleak warehouse settings and yellow just seemed like a good colour to bring the bright to the collection. The collection was inspired by luxe-sports future-mermaids and we use dip-dyed hair, white leather, opalite and hematite pyramids, swarovski crystal orbs, mesh, liquid jersey, lycra and mesh. In case you were wondering what SS12 Looked like, here it is…
Prodcued by Major Lazer’s Switch and Buraka Som sistema this tune’s a heady mix of signature afro-beats and saturated tropical samples. Infused with elements of M I A, it’s my favorite Santigold track so far and the videos nay to bad neither. This comes ahead of her soon-to-be-released album Master of My Make-Believe. If you sign up on the Lady’s websiteyou can download it for free.
