March 13th, 2012 | M | Fashion | No Comments »
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.
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February 28th, 2012 | M | Fashion | 2 Comments »
We’ve had our eye on Emma Mullholland ever 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
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February 6th, 2012 | M | Fashion | No Comments »
Next MASSIVE colour trend – Pink.
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.
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January 25th, 2012 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 1 Comment »
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…
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January 10th, 2012 | M | Fashion | No Comments »
Been rubbish at writing this blog recently which is made even more blaringly obvious by the fact that I chose to do a big new years countdown on the post below. My all time contemporary favorite Givenchy’s just released their Lookbook for Pre Fall AW12 and there’s more elements of wow than I have time to write about. To be honest I wasn’t totally sold on their SS12. I felt it veered a little too minimalist. Yep, get the whole surfers and mermaids, sea theme but I love Givenchy for the shiny, sharp digital prints layered back with super slick tailoring and a nod to the streets. I may have to kill someone for those boots and that dog sweater.
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December 29th, 2011 | Pantoniepony | Fashion | No Comments »
If you’re suffering from post-Christmas blues, as we are, then check out this cluster of colour and chaos that we found whilst searching for inspiration. Known as Ms Fitz, this gem has brightened up our computer screens no end. We managed to steal some time from her busy schedule to step into her rainbow world.
Us Bitchy girls love your style, it’s so different, how would you describe it?
I’d describe my current style as chaotic and neo-tribal.
You’ve got your fingers in all pies from blogging, designing and styling, is there anything else you do?
I express myself creatively and most honestly creative people can work in many mediums. I like to think of myself more as an artist who sometimes works through the medium of style, than a stylist. One thing that I am exploring more is my performance – I have always been a dancer and performer, I’ve been a back up dancer for Peaches, Rye Rye, toured with the Gossip and now I’m working on my EP with producer Chew Fu.
Is there anything else you’d like to do?
In another life I’d be a dog walker, or a chocolate chef! Puppies and chocolate are my favourite things!
Describe a life in the day of Ms Fitz…
Well, it depends on the gig. Some days I’m in my studio filling orders for my jewellery, other times I shoot videos and edit them for my performance art, other days I’m in the studio recording tracks, some days I’m up at 7am to get sourcing for for a shoot the next day….its always changing! But the one thing I do every day is walk my dog, Gulliver. He’s awesome.
You style for a wide variety of clients from Australia’s Next Top Model to magazines such as Oyster and Marie Claire, what do you find most challenging?
For me, styling is a challenge because it goes against pretty much every philosophy I have about personal style. I don’t believe that you need to buy designer clothing or to follow trends in order to have great style or be a valuable, attractive human being. Unfortunately, it is a stylists job to tell you the opposite…so I’m a pretty shitty stylist! ha!
I’m a believer that you should just wear what ever you want, express yourself. Break the rules, be a misfit! Wear all your favourite old hats at once! Wear the same stinky pair of boots that you cut the toes off of for a year straight! There’s no such thing as a mismatched print! Fashion is a very powerful tool to confront ideas of sexuality, gender, consumerism and identity, use it!
If you don’t already, would you ever style a celebrity?
I work with subversive performers and I like that- I’ve just styled the new Peaches and Cazwell video, I work with Narcissister, the Chicks on Speed, I work with electro producer Chew Fu and have made custom pieces for the Semi Precious Weapons. But “celebrity” in the modern sense of the word? Um, probably not.. But believe me, I have never been approached by a celebrity to do their red carpet. Can you imagine? hahaha! I’d probably send them out in something like this, which is the closest I’ve got to dressing a ‘celebrity’ ,and we turned it into a mockery of modern pop culture
We are big fans of your jewellery, what inspires your collection?
I’m inspired by chaos and tribalism. I love the traditional knotting techniques and mixing it with gaudy gold street style hardware.
What’s your favourite piece from your latest collection?
The nose to ear chains (I wear them when ever I party) and the hoodoo voodoo earrings. They make any outfit look spunky..
Are there any other stylists you admire?
hmmm I don’t read fashion magazines so I’m not really in tune with who else is doing what.. But I know there are many out there that are better than I am, in the sense that they are real “stylists”, like, they know exactly what collections were on the runway last week in Paris (duh) and all that stuff. I work more from my gut, luckily it’s usually pretty ahead of the game.
Who’s your favourite designer?
I love Rei Kawakubo for her subversiveness and John Galliano for his flamboyance. I also support upcoming designers like Brad Callahan, Genvieve Clifford, Asher Levine, Zana Bayne and Discount.
You’re originally from Australia, what made you decide to move to NYC?
Unfortunately there is only so much you can do in Oz, and although the talent surpasses the international standards in many ways, it’s hard to be taken seriously as an international brand from all the way down under. But I miss the beach and I miss my family.
Would you ever come to London?
FUCK YEAH! I love London! I love the fashion, I love the people, it’s the bombdiggity!! I have a European passport so I might be over sooner than you’d think. My mother is English and her side of the family is from Leicester, I spent some time in England growing up.
What can we expect from your next collection?
Something fab, glam and a little bit grimey.
All images are taken from Ms Fitz website and blog
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December 19th, 2011 | M | Bitching and Junkfood News, Fashion | 1 Comment »
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 Wilk on 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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