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…
…and now they’re doing GIFS. Might go round and bang on the door.
Following up on their award winning Numbers In Action video the boys next-door, Us Design, hook up with Wiley again to get us all back in the gym with their Boom Blast video – if Wiley can do it so can we right? (especially when ur lifting air).
Wiley
Boom Blast (Big Dada)
Director: Us
Prod co: A+
DoP: Ben Magahy
Producer: Liz Kessler
Production Company: A+ (Academy Plus)
Editor: Ed Cheeseman @ Final Cut
Colourist: Ned Al-Astrabadi @ Smoke & Mirrors
Commissioner: Jamie Collinson
Watch: here
A$AP Rocky
Well for a start he says SWAG and BITCH a lot so he pretty much had us there. To follow he’s got a dollar sign in his name. Someone in our studio used to practice writing their autograph with a pound sign in it – gospel. BBC nomianted him in the sound of 2011 poll. His father was locked up for selling drugs when he was 12 and his brother killed near his harlem home so on after. This inspired him to go into music, his sound and lyrics no doubt inspired by his harsh upbrining.
Doppelgangaz
Likin these two boys for their nostalgic early nineties sound. The gruesome twosome Matter ov Fact and EP hail from parts unknown. They cite brothel trips, moonshine and hard drugs as the insipration for their current album Loan Sharks and if you look close you can see them swiggin on rubbing alchohol in their videos. Performing in cloaks they call their similarly turned-out followers sharks and sharkettes. Their sound is ghostly, eerie and slightly haunting. The house used in the video below has an suitably interesting history – Wikipedia. All very spooky.
It’s refreshing to see two talented MCs/producers take things back roots with everything looking so over-produced at the moment.
2NE1
We’ve hadour eye on these girls since we learnt about the scene on a visit to Korea a couple of years back. Dressing in designers like Jeremy Scott, KTZ and JCDC these girls are as known for their fashion sense as their sound. Their collaboration with Jeremy Scott was released in Dec 2012 and it’s pretty well known in the K Pop twittosphere that Will I am has been working on a project with these Korean bubble-pop chicksters. There’s been much speculation around the release date many thinking end of 2012. With fashion designers such as Meadham Kirchoff spearheading cute this spring now seems like the right time for K-pop to explode cartoon stylee.
Azaelia Banks
Wrote about her a few weeks ago and yes everyone knows about her already now but still….
Iggy Izaelea
Also wrote about her but can’t get enough of her bossy australian rhymes.
Yasmin
Yasmin wears a lot of our stuff so obviously we’re biased but we think this tune’s got that an eclectic carnival sound that’s sure to get you moving or swiggin some red stripe at the very least. Due to be release in bleak mid January by Ministry of sound on the 15th. Produced by drum and bass legend Shy FX, the tune also guest stars one of our favorite female performers MsDynamite(she used our mirror in one of her videos so we’re kinda connected now). Random fact – You wouldn’t know from her singing voice bu Yasmin’s got a lovely dulcet scottish accent.
Clement Marfo and the Frontline
A vibrant mix of soul, ska, rock, reggae and grime, Celement Marfo and the Frontline are a seven piece urban collective. In the last year they’ve played support to Plan B, Rizzle Kicks and Florence and the Machine and have also been announced by MTV as their first of brand new for 2012. Headed up by charismatic front man Clement Marfo this high octane “mini-army” put a huge amount of effort into their live shows with 2 keyboards, 1 bass, 2 guitars and drums and one super mouthy man.
Azari & III
Another band championing nostalgic sounds, these guys from the dance room in the revival club. They played Annie Mac presents with Azaelia banks listed above at the start of December. The good news is that their first live London show is at Heaven on the 2nd of February just as we’ll all be coming off our detoxes. YES!
Action Bronson
Of Albanian decent this roundy New York rapper is another one channeling #nostalgia – felt it about time I threw a # in there since I’ve mentioned that word three times in this post. It’s trending. He used to be a fire-flame chef in a gourmet restaurant in New York so he raps quite a lot about food and enjoys eating it too – we see him buying salami and havin the craic with some old dude in the opening scenes of his video Shiraz below. He gave up cooking to become a rapper. It’s all pretty pared-back and lazy video included. The video’s kind of endearing – my favorite part is the end where the wino bird says she hasn’t had sex in 21 years – WOW!
To mark the launch of the styles we developed with cult rock n roll shoe label Underground we decided to shoot a series of animated GIFs. Starring two of our favorite BITCHY girls, model Lauren Smith(who you’ll recognise from our online store) and stylist Laura Chatterton we were inspired by the general idea of hanging around, something which a lot of London is doing at present due to the shortage of jobs – that and also just looking hot in a bleak winter landscape.
We work with local boy Alex de Mora for all our website photography so this time we took things out of the studio and called in the help of illustrator Izabella Wilkon the GIFS.
We kept things pretty simple with very gentle movement to lend a creepy quality to the images which seemed fitting for a brand known for creepers. We also like to challenge standard Christmas homepages since I pretty much banned all those Christmas cliche words like glitter, sparkle, twinkle, glitz, jingle from the studio – when I say pretty much I mean if anyone utters them they’ll be silenced. That doesn’t mean I dislike Chrismas though, Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas” is my favorite Christmas song ever and I spent all day Saturday trawling Dalston to find really atrocious decorations for my hideous white disco tree.
Other intersting facts about the shoot
-I really wanted to make a hideous jacket out of fake fur(the kind that gatecrasher kids make leg-warmers out of) that I’m now rather in love with. We cut the pattern for the fake fur jacket on the day and stapled it together.
-Laura’s lips are pink glitter(obviously I didn’t use this word when discussing the look as it wouldn’t really work if I was silenced)
-The girls almost froze but that’s the price you have to pay sometimes when you’re really good looking.
-it’s really hard to find good walls in East London that haven’t been tagged. You just can’t really use a tagged wall in a shoot without looking like a really naff Urban brand.
-Izabella is also called Dawid Gainsbour Wolf, Bellla Azi(note the 3 ls) and also Zuzanna Koppala depending on what e-mail account she’s using. I had to e-mail her to ask her what her actual name is despite having known her since the summer.
-if u’d like to see both models in person you can spot them on the odd night working in the Haggerston too, they’re very very professional bar girls.
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Possibly the best flyer I’ve seen in a long time not just because the chick’s naked – if that painting’s for sale I think I want it. This is for the PV of Once Upon a Wintertime at our studio building Netil House’s sister studios in Hackney Downs. There’s a big three day event happening this weekend and we’re going to be running the sample sale part of it.
This evening sees our favorite stylist Miss Jacqueline White debut her Dazzle collection at our favorite event space 18 Hewitt Street, headquarters of our favorite mail-out Protein. Her collection is also shot by our favorite(ok one of them) photographer Diego Indraccolo who we’ve also worked with on our own shoots.
I talked through her ideas for the collection with Jacqueline quite some time ago so it’s great to see all her work come to fruition. The collection is based on Norman Wilkinsons dazzle painting technique which was used to camouflage ships by distorting the the silhouette, dead clevs no? Apart from the camo references Dazzle pretty much sums up Jacqueline’s personality so it’s a quite fitting name for her collection. Jack’s also recruited a little army of local creative girls from the music and fashion worlds to model the collection. Bitchy Girls will be at the event supporting this eve. Here’s our favorite shots from the lookbook:
I’ve been a fan of 3D nail-art since visiting Tokyo a couple of years back. It’s kind of like icing a cake only it’s your nails. I’ve never actually iced a cake but I’ve made Disco Biscuits so that’s probably close enough.
Whilst in Guangzhou in southern China we found a little nail shop opposite our hotel and so in the spirt of “now or never” I went with know and got some 3D smilies and bows which are all hand crafted in acrylic by the manicurist.
The girl who did my nails had neon tips which were pretty cool and her friend who taught me how to count to 10 in Chinese had the little blingers below. I’ve since forgotten how to count to ten in Chinese.
Right beside our hotel we had Guangzhou’s answer to Emporio Armani – Amor Nini. Dead posh.
MBT standing for Masai Barefoot technology, was developed back in the 90’s based on the principle that the Masai tribe in Africa experience little or no joint and back pain as a result of walking barefoot. The basic concept was to build a shoe that cushioned from the hard concrete walkways of western life. In the UK they’re mostly associated with yummy mummies and weightloss.
With Buffalo trainers making a massive come-back at this trend seems like a natural progression with the added bonus of firming ur butt. We saw load of girls wearing them on our travels, including the chicks below at Liger Store, one of our stockists.
Other looks we liked:
Personal favorite, neon Nike’s also seen in Air Max 1.
We’re big fans of under-butt with side-tit coming up a close second. One of the search terms for traffic to our blog is actually side-tit and we’re on the first page if you Google it. Therefore we jumped with joy at news of INSA’s Girls on Bikes which features front-tit, back-butt, side-tit, mesh-tit AND under-butt all on bikes in front of INSA’s work. Following his recent exhibition in Hong Kong(we actually saw some of his work on the street when we were there last week) this show sees return to 18 Hewitt Street where you’ll also find one of his wall murals.
The event opens tonight and runs until the 20th of November.
Obviously it won’t actually look animated although it might depending on who the drink sponsor is.
I’m not entirely sure if the above is true but it’s certainly the best vintage jewellery collection I’ve ever seen and I’ve been a jewellery buyer and designer for a few years now. I LOVE jewels and I like things that sparkle but I NEVER wear pink and I’m not really a girly girl. I’ve always been into bling and my taste in jewellery ranges from £1 creole hoops from Dalston market to Vintage Chanel, semi-precious stones and diamonds. I think it’s totally acceptable to wear all together.
My first job in London was as an assistant Jewellery buyer. I was assisant to a black-clad fiery red headed lady called Carol who was responsible for maxing out my credit card(when someone else is splashing out at Neimann Marcus, New York you kind of get swept along despite your measly salary, for the record it’s still maxed out and for the record I’m still not responsible). During New York and Paris fashion weeks we’d visit showrooms in Paris and New York and try on great big whoppers of pieces by designers such as Lanvin, Dior, Gerard Yosca and Philippe Ferandis name but a few. It opened my eyes to statement jewellery which has doubtlessly had a massive impact on what I now design and my career direction in general.
You seldom find a store with a museum-curated collection but whilst out on our Sydney meander we chanced upon the jewellery mecca that is Harlequin. Harlequin is, in their own words, “a store sized treasure chest” and I can vouch for that. In this treasure chest we found the following….
Sterling silver rings by contemporary Melbourne based designer William Griffiths:
These are gargoyles, how cool is that?
Andy and Blondie by Parisian plexi-glass brand Yazbukey:
Vintage Chanel, all of it:
Harlequin Market vintage-inspired ear-candy:
Harlequin Market collaborations with contemporary designers such a David Mandell:
