_Nazir Mazhar A/W09 Part.II

_Just a few more shots from the amazing Nazir Mazhar A/W09 showcase. If anything's gonna make you buy hats, its boys in not much BUT hats ;)

_Scrittarello

_Castiglioni, one of Italy's most respected design talents, had an outstanding career spanning almost 60 years and left a large legacy of exceptional products when he died in 2002. A long-term collaborator with Maddalena de Padova, he created the allestimento or display and windows for her Milan flagship store yet he designed just three products for the brand's collection. One of these is Scrittarello, a small writing desk made of beech plywood with a white laminate top and solid beech legs.

'Scrittarello'
Small table /writing desk - White
£991.00 - Bargain.

_Moleskine

_My Life is in this Moleskine - I love it. Its about my 15th in the last 4 years: I have kept them all, and each one is a differing memory of the time it was produced, from my first to final years of my degree, to my first 6 months of working, from ideas, to polatoids, shopping lists to magazine editorlials. I pulled my newest out the other day and a friend remarked how it reminded him of his old school exercise books with all of its high schoolesque stickers look - I liked that.

_'Cabinet of Curiosities'

_Christiane Celle celebrates the expansion of her bookstore chain with an exhibition of Lyle Owerko's portraits of the Samburu. Photography bookstores are rare, even in New York City. That is why Clic Bookstore & Gallery is such a find. Despite the morphing retail landscape along the city’s main shopping districts, the bookstore is expanding to three more locations later this month. Because, even when everything appears to be changing, some things always stay the same – things like good photography, which never seems to go out of style.

Celle, who is married to fashion photographer Antoine Verglas, marks the opening of her three new stores with an opening exhibition of Lyle Owerko’s portraits of the Samburu, a nomadic warrior tribe also known as “The Butterfly People.” A portion of the proceeds from the sales of Owerko’s photos will go towards the Thorn Tree Project, which supports the Sereolipi Nomadic Education Foundation. Owerko’s photography coincides with Celle’s future plans for Clic, which were partly inspired by a recent trip to Kenya.

_AH+S/A09

_Arena Homme + Summer/Autumn 2009, cover: Helmut Newton by Bruce Weber. Launched the begining of this week, and, as ever, is incredible. If you do anything this week - Buy this.

_To the KithKin Boys . . .

_When you're in Milan for the Furniture show, please could you steal this for me?

Design agency TOBYhouse are launching a whole new stunning range of lighting products, the 'Beach Ball Lamps' (Above) at the Milan Furniture Fair. These playful and exciting pieces will be shown in the Designersblock exhibition (In the same Area Collective Kithkin will be working thier 'live studio') in the wonderful Revel Scala D'Isola space (Via Thaon De Revel 3) throughout the Salone Del Mobile.

_Love Asia

_I just found these late 90's shots of Asia Argento taken by Terry Richardson and it reminded me how ace she is - Punk as hell, and completely unhinged - Brilliant. The perfect portraits of her by the perfect photographer for her.

_Want Want Want

_'30 years of Pierre & Gilles' : Pierre et Gilles create dreamy portraits that transport their subjects—as well as the viewers—into an alternate world where camp, pop, burlesque, religion, and eroticism mingle in perfect harmony. Creating the sets themselves, and with Pierre as photographer and Gilles as painter/elaborator, they create one-of-a-kind artworks of an unmistakably original style. A host of stars has passed before their lens, such as Iggy Pop, Madonna, Marc Almond, Nina Hagen, Catherine Deneuve, Laetitia Casta, Marilyn Manson, Mireille Mathieu… though many of their portraits also feature unknowns.

I'm currently watching . . .

_The 1995 classic: "Clueless" on Film4 - A teen favourite - Its SO GOOD.

"Emma, Jane Austen's novel is modernised and given this very accurate title "Clueless." How vapid can one girl be? And how rich too? Or popular!! Cher can be all three things quite easily and still have perfect blonde hair and a manicure. She lives in Beverly Hills and drives a great Jeep, but doesn't exactly have her licence yet... With her best friend, Dionne, whose a sassy plastic too, she's living the high life. Or is she? She is absolutely horrified when her grades drop, but they're only negotiation grades anyway! All the other teachers give her a boost in her grades for extra work, but the stuffy debate teacher, Mr. Hall, isn't bought! As if this isn't totally puke-arific, Cher's smart and hunky ex step brother, Josh, comes to town! He is way too environment orientated for her liking, he listens to "whiney college music" and is a couch commando. A new girl, Tai, comes to school and is quickly made over by Cher and Dionne! But Tai's crush for Elton, a rich kid, is soon stomped on when he says he likes Cher! No worries her heart's mended by a good Christian Slater and ice cream. Cher is then after the pretty boy, Christian, who turns out to be gay!! So much for sending herself chocolates and showing extra skin. Cher also does a match making bit on Mr. Hall and Miss. Geist, soon her debating grades are sky high! Then Tai gets a scare from some guys at a mall, and becomes popular due to her supposed brush with death! Cher is way confused and irated when she pulgs her learners, sees Tai with Josh and starts falling for Josh herself! She then resorts to a make over of her soul and gets involved in charity work and mending the romance between Tai and the skater, Travis. But she soon learns that Josh is madly in love with her! And they kiss on the staircase! Miss. Geist and Mr. Hall get married in a white wedding deluxe. Through all the antics, the heartbreaks and the "whatevers", Cher finds true love and isn't so Clueless anymore!"

_Rankin Live

_If you have ever imagined your portrait adorning the walls of an art gallery, then this summer you might just get your heart’s desire. In August, the notion of instant gratification is being pushed to radical new extremes with the hugely ambitious Rankin Live!, an ever-changing exhibition in which you will get the chance to have your portrait shot, framed and exhibited in record-breaking time.

As the accelerated pace of the digital age reaches full velocity, Rankin is teaming up with Dazed to create the definitive quick-fire “documentary” of what it is to be British today. We are looking for 1,000 people aged 13* and over whose distinctive look and idiosyncratic style will help to create a unique photographic record of Britain in the 21st century. Look sharp and your image could be sharing gallery space with the likes of Kate Moss a mere 15 minutes after Rankin’s shutter has closed.

Today I applied to have my photograph taken. And the sole reason? - I need full documentation of all this hair. Then maybe I can FINALLY bring myself to cut it all off.

_Want Want Want

_At 29cm x 40.5cm and 666 pages, Tom of Finland XXL contains over 1,000 images, covering six decades of the artist's career. The work was gathered from collections across the US and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland Foundation, and features many drawings, paintings and sketches never previously reproduced. Other images have only been seen out of context and are presented here in the sequential order Tom intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact. This elegant oversized volume showcases the full range of Tom's talent, from sensitive portraits to frank sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love and haunting tributes to young men struck down by AIDS.

Completing this collector's edition are eight specially commissioned essays on Tom's social and personal impact by Camille Paglia, John Waters, Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, plus a scholarly analysis of individual drawings by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith. For the man—or woman—who thinks bigger is better, Tom of Finland XXL is certain to satisfy.

_I knew this book was coming out about 6 months ago, but never actaully thought that it would be physically Extra EXTRA LARGE - Its huge! And lets be honest - The bigger the better! with publications that is ;)

_Hair Icon

_Today my hair looks like this - I got 32" weave and curling togs just to try the look out, and I'm loving it ;)

_Nazir Mazhar's Gothic Wonderland

_Headwear Designer Nazir Mazhar's A/W09 showcase at an old Church in East London, Set design & styled by Nicola Formichetti - Really simple, really dark, mood and tone are perfect - just great.

Image from: www.annatrevelyan.blogspot.com

_Wrap it, bag it.

Love this shoot for Ponystep.com (?!) - It's one of those things that everyone had thought of doing (The 'recycled shoot' made entirely from binbags), and quite a few have done it, but its very 'A-level Art', However, somehow this really works - I think its the focus on shape, texture and light, and not being affraid to show them for being binbags (bottom) - It looks brilliant.

Photo: Paul Scala.
Styling: Michelle Jank.
Hair: Kenneth Stoddart @ Artist Group.
Make Up: Natasha Severino @ Artist Group.

_Spring is Here

_Cherry blossom, Cute boys in the park, Vintage sunglasses and late sunsets: All a boy needs.

_Inspired

_These are the three subjects / images inspiring ALL I do at the minute - A young sunkisses kate, Straight boys fighting in ripped checked boxer shorts and cute boys in creepers.

_GaGa for Galliano

_AW09, Gypsy Chic meets Russian Doll, in heavy snow storms. Those shoes are pure Art. And the dark, wet, and glittering makeup is quite simply Perfect.

I love it all.

_RBPMstudio Work in Progress

_I spent my final week in London killing myself working on this project - These shots were taken of my screen just before I sent the final book to the printers at 4:00am the day before I came back up to Yorkshire - Really pleased with the final product, I just cant wait to see the final book now, arriving this Wednesday - Stay tuned for updates.

_Ellis 4 Mathew 4 Gareth

_Just some amazing shots of my Mate matt by another mate Ellis - I love the idea of wearing such extreme get up and doing normal things - and new season Gareth Pugh at the bus stop and down the corner shop does just the trick.

_Elegantly Waisted

_Mrs Prada has been throwing her heart and Seoul into the Waist Down exhibition, which is about to open at the new Rem Koolhaus designed Prada Transformer space in Seoul. The Transformer is a groundbreaking temporary building that over the course of the next year will actually rotate and transform three times.

Waist Down is essentially a big collection of skirts from Mrs P's personal archive, dating back as far as 1998. She claims that season on season the skirt persists as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, which is why this exhibition has constantly traveled and evolved, morphing its way across five cities since it opened in Tokyo in 2004.

This time round the show includes extra skirts designed by fashion students from eight design programmes across Seoul, which, according to the organisers means that the show "intergrates internationally acclaimed fashion design with the seeds of creativity sewn in Seoul."

Article from: www.thelovemagazine.blogspot.com

_Happy Easter

_OK, so it isn't quite Easter Sunday, but it is Easter Monday, and I'd had a glorious weekend with all my family up north. Then spent my evening browsing Style.com, with my sister laughing at how stupid fashion is - Its good to get an overview sometimes. When we were looking I found these - AW09 Louis Vuitton (Top) and AW07 Comme Des Garcons (Bottom) - Both working thier Easter Bunny look - Brilliant.

Happy Easter Everyone.

_Glorious

_I'm really annoyed - I wrote down which studio it was that created this, then I tidied it away. But thought I'd Blog it anyway, just because its so nice - Clear, White and Cream - Perfect.

_Jaiden Rva James

_Jaiden Rva James presentation at Fashion East Menswear was amazing. Totaly unexpected pieces and such a huge step up from what was already a very directional collection. floral print fabrics, combined with bright coloured pvc and leather fetish/fashion wear! V. impressed.

From: www.annatrevelyan.blogspot.com

Oh, and my model muse boy of the moment Ryan Pickard was also in the show (Far left) - Perfect.

_Back up Norf

_and well happy to be here. Minimal stuff, Grey bedroom, 1950's Italian ceramics collection, glass desk, record player, old magazine collections, vintage 'Interview' Magazine wall - All Glorious. And, family, dogs, Yorkshire tea and fresh air!