I’ve been a big fan of V mag since I was a teen. It was impossible to read due to its A3 size but I kind of liked that it made you bow down, work harder and respect it more. Is it still A3 ? I don’t know as I only ever see it on line. I used to dive straight into it’s saturated shiny pages for inspiration – fashion editorials pack a lot more punch in A3 format than squeezed onto the little screen on my MAC. We’ve got a print-out of this shoot on the wall of our studio. We love 90’s and we love double dropping denim so of course we love this shoot.
Starting to plan for SS11 on both our Two Weeks and Remade labels and just having a look at what’s coming through. LOVING Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony. Love this whole shoot, great styling, lovely shots, hot Chloe, the ultimate BITCHY girl.
Pretty much looks like she stumbled out of the Vice party we went to on Wednesday although I imagine she’s a bit more sober.
How cool are the shoes??? Seriously wishing I could shrink a bit – me in these heels 6′4″
ZUUL. Human Hair Neckpiece – TWO WEEKS by bitchingandjunkfood.com
Today sees the lauch of Vicestyle.com VICE’s online fashion site aimed at the next generation of youth culture. For me VICE has always managed to tap into the “it’s wrong but it’s kinda right….am I weird” element of my brain so I was interested to see how they applied the same aesthetic to fashion.
Despite any pre-conceived ideas you might have about VICE, vicestyle.com is not just a Tits and Fan-fan fest(not that there’s anything wrong with that, we love tits and fan-fan).
I’ve taken some time out of our hectic keeping all the plates spinning schedule (they’re plastic though so if we drop one we’ll just dust it off and spin it again) to peruse the website and pick a few of my favorites. I guess I’ve chosen images that resonate with reality rather than shiny fashion, images that resonate with my reality too.
REAL WRESTLING GIRLS. Actually just round the corner from our last warehouse! Some tits, no fan-fan.
So I have been in LA a few weeks now and have successfully eaten everything in sight and have gained more freckles then you can shake a stick at. One spectacular adventure included kesh and suzies day out to Gay Pride…Il let the pictures speak for themselves.
Another random observation of Yank life is the ridiculous signs that seem to pop up everywhere I go, see below………
Lady Love......Pure Class
Nice Combination
Direct at least....
I cant figure out which one I like best.....
So yes……random signs……..
Now to ilustrate Gay Pride…..which resulted in me getting stupidly drunk by 4pm and suffering the mother of all hangovers at 9pm…..
Gay Pride indeed
And just to conclude this post…..heres one for you Marion……..
So for the next few months I hope to bring you a slice of the LA pie (its juicy and fattening) and share with you the crazy and stupid adventures of me and my bestest sister Kesh.
So I arrived after an horrific flight, no sleep for like 48 hours and hungover to hell, but I made it. In true LA style we went straight to eat chicken wings and watch the Lakers game (??) , I stroll in with my goth black maxi dress draped in gold jewellery and clearly did not fit in, the chicken wings were damn good though.
I then arrive at our wonderful magical shack, I love it, its bulit for leprachauns and trolls to live in, but me and kesh are making it work….
Our Magical Shack
For those of you who know Kesh’s blog (http://therealkesh.blogspot.com) you will be familiar with Kitty, for those of you not familiar..here she is:
KITTTYYYYYYY
Kitty is here to protect us from savage mongooses that attack us in the night……….
So I have been here 2 days in total, and have been wasted for yep…..2 days in total. The first night we sashayed over to Moustache Mondays, youve gotta show some tranny love. Those of you unfamiliar with the wonderfullness of Moustache Mondays: this will sum it up……..
WERK
The last few days we seemed to have covered alot of ground: CobraSnake store opening in Hollywood, Art Gallery Openings and the amazing Freak City, all of which have had a free bar.
Tomorrow we are of to the Fabric District to haggle with some cool mexicans……
Anyway thats enough rambling so I shall leave you with some pretty pictures…..
Just got delivery on some new shoes, we’ll be shooting and uploading next week. That’s the beauty of LDN – you can actually get away with wearing boots all Summer Long. Actually we’d probably be wearing them regardless of temperature – we just love our boots.
If you’re gonna be trussin up your toes we suggest getting laid back everywhere else…..just like Kath in her French Workwear pants, more of this look also coming soon.
8 creatives were asked to interpret Nike Sportswear icons. Olle Hemmeendorff, ex advertising/creative agency joy and now freelancing, constructed his using one of the most powerful and durable materials known to man – the hamburger. Yum.
As some of you know, bitchingandjunkfood.com is no longer headed-up by just me Marion, it’s now Kath too. Kath and I were both doing the own labels and increasingly crossing over so it made sense to join forces and build BITCHY together.
MAX VOLUME PLEASE…
Two Weeks label came about this AW10 in order to represent both our design aesthetics, my background in jewellery/accessories and Kath’s in clothing design. We’re loving menswear just as much as womens and both our own styles are kind of sporty(occasionally slutty but our remade label serves that purpose well) so we decided to do a Unisex collection – we also just wanted a pair of tracksuit bottoms we could throw on and still look cool(guess it’s a bit lifestyle).
We’ve been invited back to do an AW collection for Urban Outfitters and our meeting is today. I was just going through my inspiration pictures and found this one. According to BITCHY Kath, it’s “everything in my mind”. Human Hair, studs, sunglasses, black – what exactly this says about my mind I’m not sure but I love this picture. I don’t think our next range for Urban will be as dark at this but some inspiration might make its way into BITCHY.
This week was all about Fashion week in Melbourne plus me sourcing fabrics, kill two birds with one stone I say, or three or four. Women are natural multi taskers so I managed to fit a whole lot of other shit in there as well as fashion week. So after a hard day of walking ALL OVER Melbourne sourcing fabric stores and agents by 3pm my feet were fucking killing me!!! I also managed to wear out my new sandals, DAM IT!!!!!
PIT STOP, OUTFIT CHANGE, ICE….COLD…..BEER….. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, just what the doctored ordered. Boy, was that a site I had my thigh, high chocolate, brown, suede boots on with shorts, ripped fishnets, a FABULOUS top and jewelery to the nines, hmmmm AWKWARD on public transport.
Ah tangents, tangents so back to the Melbourne fashion festival crowd whom I was there to pap.
When I first got there women and fashionistas everywhere , I was quite excited. But the closer I looked the more I was sorely wrong and quite dismayed let me tell you. Now, I just want to say Melbourne, I love you and I do not want to ever put shit on you, because your ACE but I am going to tell it how it is and it wasn’t good. I was searching, searching the crowd for fashionable women but alas, many women, not too many fashionable. It made me sad and started to make me kinda angry but I didn’t want to be like that. I am not nasty and I could feel a nasty coming on. I started to look at all the women’s faces and you know what, they ALL looked so happy, so GOD dam proud because they were dressed up to the nines, whatever nines they have in their mind and they felt good, they felt fucking great in fact and you know what , that was a wicked thing to see, good on them. I was now at peace again and papped away. I actually had a great few nights and found some wickedly, stylish women here.
Trends I saw were BLACK! You know what my bestie was recently here from London and made a comment on how much Australian’s love to wear black in Summer, I never thought about it, but we do, we really do. I have just been in Melbourne and Brisbane and have seen the 2011 summer fabric ranges and guess what black and dark colours, I don’t know when it happened but it did. Summer is all about dark colours for us.
Other trends, Shoulders of all kinds, embellished caplets, shoulder pads, pleated, puffed, accentuated balloon shoulders
I guess the fact that we were once told not to wear out Lady Gaga’s name on this blog makes it more likely that I will as I never do what I’m told (which could possibly be why I haven’t shown my virtual face here in centuries?). Anyhow, my Gaga reference of the hour is what I heard in my mind every time I thought of approaching my Bitching and Junkfood blogger account again: “You’ve been a very bad girl, Gaga.” – Beyonce.
BUT UNLIKE EVERY OTHER POST IN THE BLOGOSPHERE, I ASSURE YOU THIS POST ISN’T ABOUT THE “TELEPHONE” MUSIC VIDEO! Although it could easily be…if you wanted it to….BUT NO! (as if M wasn’t mad enough at me already). This post is about Sandra Backlund’s S/S 2010 collection! Yeah, so we’re well into F/W 2010 ish but I’ve been AWOL for so long (tackling my first full time magazine position, starting up an accessories business, gallivanting around Manila) that I’m still coming to terms with S/S 2010 gear so I’m all over her latest collection.
Human Hair Zip Necklace by bitchingandjunkfood.com
I’m a sucker for ripping out pages, printing things off, sticking them in folders and forgetting about them but I know they’re going to be useful someday and if I chuck them then I know that within a week I’ll need them.
