Centre partings were all over the Spring Summer catwalks…and everywhere else, which I am loving! Its such a laid back and easy style that always makes you look effortless and cool, even if you’ve done nothing to your hair! Lucky for me too as I have a natural centre parting that wont let me do much else! haa. What do you think? Will you be rocking the centre parting?
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Polka-dot hair!
There’s a warm cool shit scene blowing in from the East and I think we might be looking at a K Pop explosion. Kpop is a South Korean music genre that swept through the country in the early 90’s and continues to dominate the music scene. In terms of looks, styling, slick and shiny these kids have got it nailed. I’ve been lucky to visit Seoul on a number of occasions and I rate it as one of my favorite cities in the world along with Tokyo, Berlin, Barcelona, YC and of course our home town LDN.
2NE1 is a girl band at the forefront. They’re poppy, fun, cute, cheeky and sexy but in an innocent way that teenage girls should be. There’s nothing innocent however about the shiny cellophane designer vacuum pack – we’re loving the Jeremy Scott and our very own Kokon To Zai packaging.
I’ve watched this about 5 times.
Gaga’s production borrowed Japanese and Korean TV show references for the Telephone video. I think we’re gonna see a lot more of these to counter balance European minimalism.
I’ve written about the far East’s influence on trends before, how Eastern youth culture takes western references, tweaks, saturates and hyperbrights them to sell them back to us 3 seasons later. Nice little game of trend tennis we got going on. Game, set and match KPop.
Oh yeah and…..we’ve just had our AW of Kokon To Zai.
Shot by Danny Baldwin.
Images via Labb
So here’s how it works. Trend starts in Tokyo, fashion forecasters go to Tokyo snap it, high-street copies trend too soon, trend doesn’t sell, trend goes into mark-down, directional buyer casts head down in shame for having bought “dog” of the season, trend goes back underground and naturally filters through on street trends, 3 seasons later trend is deemed “commerical” by high-street and sells.
I know this becuase I’m an ex-buyer and designer and I was Queen of “too soon” . I picked up on this trend on a visit to Tokyo 2 and a half years ago – luckily at that point I was a senior designer so I didn’t have to hang my head in shame – some poor buyer did. “Oh dear” my bad, sorry. Anyway I think we’re finally ready for scrunchies on the streets – the Japanese are just incredible. They’re all over something seasons ahead of us – they’re bonkers, my kind of bonkers. Me likey, me lovey. It seems to be the natural progression for the top-knot.
American Apparel – I think this girl is slightly OCD.
As seen at Marc Jacobs SS10 – I think it looks cute. I just wish my hair was long enough. FAIL.
Greetings.
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…..
Peace
Suzie (suzzaaaaayyyyyy if you are Marion) xx
Too much technology in one shot....
The Loverly Jeremy Scott
My Favourite piece from the Art Show
I like to call it the BRIXTON facelift.
Love love love everything about this shoot - American Vogue.
Don’t know what’s wrong with me but face paint seems to be my latest venture ever since seeing Avatar and listening to too much Empire of the Sun…So definitely squealed when I saw these red brows on the SRC783 blog.
Ever since i was 5 years old, i would dive into my GodMothers make up bag and ask her if i could apply her YSL Red Lipstick to her lips. However i never thought i would one day become a make up artist.
I studied visual merchandising and then went on to Interior Design.
Finally one day realising i wanted to do MAKE UP and i LOVE it
