March 10th, 2010 | Kath | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 1 Comment »
We went on the hunt to find a really cool, unheard of leggings brand for our BITCHY girls (and for ourselves too of course). Can I tell you it was a bit of a challenge. Considering leggings are such a staple we thought there would be dozens of leggings brands out there just waiting for us to get in touch. But they were pretty thin on the ground. We rolled up our sleeves, we persevered, we searched high and low, and we are very happy to say that we came up trumps.
We stumbled upon designer Sarah Claire and her lovely collection of mesh leggings “Dainty Things”. What a great way to wear leggings in the summer, with built in air-conditioning!! Wonderful. This small capsule collection ticks all the boxes for us:- cycle shorts – check, mesh – check, nude colour palette – check, knee pads – check! Now check it out in the store.
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March 2nd, 2010 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 4 Comments »
Just back a meeting in Dublin, we have our first bitchingandjunkfood.com Re-made and Vintage ranges hitting down in two weeks time. We also have out first hit of a jewellery range we’ve done for Urban Outfitters dropping in two weeks so we’re up to our elbows in feathers, fringe and crystal at the moment.
We were greeted today by three shiny copies(not one, not two, three, need to be specific ) of Sportswear Interntional. We were featured in “New blood” designers to watch shoot from the Jan/Feb edition of Sportswear International. We’ve lots more coming your way for SS10 and will be posting a preview of our Uni-sex label TWO WEEKS in the next two weeks.
- White Feather Blazer and velvet Bicycle shorts by bitchingandjunkfood.com
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February 24th, 2010 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 4 Comments »
Jacket by James Hock
Another shoot that happened a few months back that I’ve been meaning to blog for ages. Readers of the blog will already be familiar with Rachel Friere, one of my very close friends and a big inspiration. She regularly collaborates with photographer David Alexandre on shoots and the team came together again for the shoot in this post.
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February 16th, 2010 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News | 3 Comments »
We’ve been really bad bloggers of late, all of us. If you read “the rules” you’re supposed to blog daily. But what if you’re just too busy designing. Everyone who writes for BITCHY has a full time job in the fashion industry and sometimes squeezing out a blog post at the end of an 11 hour day just isn’t possible. It’s something that should be organic, we do this our of passion and we don’t feel like anyone should feel ‘forced’ to write or guilty for not.
We haven’t just been sitting there twiddling our thumbs, although we have been twiddling fabrics and trimmings. We’ve just shipped our first two major international orders on our re-made range and are working on two other collabrations – one London based the other, Tokyo.
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January 25th, 2010 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 3 Comments »
Rachel Freire Suspender Trio
We’ve been a fan of Rachel Freire since we became warehouse buddies where we had our last studio. It was inevitable that her designs would find their way into our store. We managed to persuade her to recreate her AW09 sock garters and suspender trios exclusively for Bitchingandjunkfood.com. We’ve been keeping a close eye on street trends and have seen this look cropping up worldwide. Ties in nicely with the boudoir trend everyone’s talking about for Spring Summer but a little less obvious and a whole lot slicker.
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January 24th, 2010 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News | 3 Comments »
I-HAVE-THE-DRESS
We ran a competition this Christmas to win a dress of a lifetime that we found in one of our vintage suppliers. We were struggling to put a price on it so we decided not to sell it but to give it away for free. We asked entrants to come up with imaginative ways to get our brand out there and the winner would be sent the dress completely free of charge.
We’re happy to announce that the winner of the dress was an Australian girl who is also a talented fashion blogger. She mailed us with pictures of the T-shirt that she’d made each image titled to spell out I – want – the – dress. BITCHY girls heart her and her blog….you can check it out for yourselves at Thrifandthread
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January 7th, 2010 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News | 11 Comments »
So we’re at a cross roads with our photography. We’ve been on a bit of a journey learning and experimenting with our style so we’ll put it to you guys to see what you like best. We know that everyone there’s a talented bunch of people following our blog and BITCHY is more than just us guys in the office so with that in mind we’d like your feedback ….BITCHY was born in an East London Warehouse so our launch style was pretty raw but we’re never gonna be a squeaky clean label, it’s just not us. What you think?
Shot in August
Bitchy Metal Head
Starburst Warrior
Pretty Bitchy
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December 27th, 2009 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News | 5 Comments »
Kath and Marion – BITCHY A and BITCHY B(interchangeable though)
“One month, one month, 3 weeks, 3 weeks, 2 weeks, 2 weeks” – uttered by either myself or Kath every time a train got cancelled, the bus was late, it pissed rain. Since Kath joined Bitchy we’ve been working between the Far East(aka Hackney Wick, miles away from anywhere) and South London which has been trying at the best of times. I met Kath 4 years ago when we worked in fashion buying and design together and we’ve been mates ever since. At the start of 2009 we both decided to go it alone, me with BITCHY Kath with her label Danoki. The more we were in the touch the more we realised we were working towards the same ends so we decided to join forces on BITCHY to take it to the next level and I can honestly say it’s been a match made in heaven. We were even born on the same day!(two Leos can be challenging at times)
We were handed the keys to our new studio just off Mare Street on the 4th of Dec and been working round the clock to get everything ready. Thanks to everyone who helped us. We had little studio warming just before Christmas for our nearest and dearest some of whom you will see in the pictures below.
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December 23rd, 2009 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 3 Comments »
Big thanks to Guy Hipwell and his wonderful team at Fashion156 for their continued support this year. We’re proud to be featured in their Soiree issue and we’re very happy to say there’s not a sequin beret in sight. This is what Christmas Fashion and Beauty editorials should look like, take note….
Crystal Dog-clip necklace by Bitching and Junkfood
Crystal Dog-clip Necklace by Bitching and Junkfood
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December 2nd, 2009 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News | 1 Comment »
SKK Skull Lamp
This year we’re pretty sure that we’ve managed to track down some of the coolets no-brainer Christmas gifts for lil BITCHY sis, big BITCHY bro, BITCHY best friend, cousin BITCHY, BITCHY girlfriend and BITCHY boyfriend. What’s even better, if you sign up to our newsletter, you get a 15% discount off your first order too as a little welcome from us. Dead nice.
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November 18th, 2009 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion, Video Footage | 16 Comments »
This dress will change your life
I’ve started this post maybe seven times now because I struggle to put into words the giddy excitement myself and Kath felt when we layed eyes on THE DRESS. I guess that’s where my grasp of language falls short becuase this dress deserves a high-brow blog post that I, unfortunately, am insufficiently eloquent to write so dress I’m sorry but I will give it my best shot, go easy on me and don’t look down on my humble ramblings.
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November 16th, 2009 | Jenny-Los Angeles | Bitching and Junkfood News | 4 Comments »
This phrase is one of those phrases that when I hear it, or think it or even just write it, I will burst in to laughter.
My friend Amanda, an American from Boston, not the Bible belt, was in the UK to visit her boyfriends parents over Chistmas. On the very eve of Christmas, she was taken along to midnight mass. As is (apparently) custom at the end of mass, the congregation turns to each other, shakes hands and wishes “peace be with you”. Amanda, unfamiliar with this behaviour, accepts the hand of the woman next to her and replies with a big smile on her face-Pleased to meet you too-I am Amanda!
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November 7th, 2009 | Sumo- Dublin | Bitching and Junkfood News | No Comments »
To follow my fellow bloggers introductions:
Me and my mane on full attack...don't ask what the green slime is in my glass!?
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November 6th, 2009 | M | Art, Bitching and Junkfood News | 18 Comments »
Created by Harry Lunt
The first of a two -part post, an epic tale of warehouses, fashion shoots, graffitti, cold, sewing, blogging, tweeting, partying – or maybe just a little rant.
We’ve not been hear a year yet and it’s sadly come to an end. As Bitching and Junkfood expands we move to new studios by Broadway Market at the end of the month. We’ve felt it for a while, started with Chloe(fine artist friend), then Martin(another fine artist) then the Dubstep producers next door and, last week, Nick IDM. I was going to wait a couple of weeks before I bid my fairwell with a final blog post but I guess that what I witnessed today underlines the end and pretty much puts a full stop after it too. The is the Hackney Wick Argmageddon and this time it’s not a fashion trend.
When Bitching and Junkfood was a Swarovski-size glint in my eye I decided that Hackney Wick(an East London Warehouse District) was the place to get the little Bitch off the ground. This time last year we started looking for studios – I googled “Warehouse Hackney” and up popped the most amazing space I’d ever seen – a huge warehouse, empty and draughty , the kind of space you’d ususally find a B+Q or maybe even a Tesco. Six of use came together to make this our studio and moved in on the 22nd of December. I flew back from Dublin on the 28th to work 12 hour days with a team of 7 people to build our studios and I mean build – we built the floors, ceilings, stairs, walls. It was probably the most challenging thing I’ve done so far – it was -5 degrees inside and we worked day and night to get the space ready.
Lovely Summer's Day on the canal with some charming graffiti vandals
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November 5th, 2009 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 2 Comments »
Yesterday we were talkin hair jewellery today let’s have a chat about Hair – always been one of my fave topics. I received my lovely daily mail from www.whowhatweardaily.com and to be honest it was almost like they’d read my comments on hair rage and other follicle induced disorders.
I spent years chemically straightening mine. One of my first buying trips to the far east saw me step off a 12 hour flight only to be whisked away to Toni and Guy for a Yukko treatment involving 6 hours of chemicals, straightening irons, some mild jet-lag and culture-shock induced halucinations.
Been wondering what to do with my tantrum throwing tresses since going cold turkey on my chemical straightening dependencies. Had it shaved last year after stepping off a 12 hour flight from LA(note to self, must leave hair alone after flying), toyed with the idea of corn-rows one side, curls other, still not convinced corn-rows on white scalp is for me – give me a few months on that one though.
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