_Now thats a cover . . .

_Vogue Homme Japan, Issue. 3
Out September 10th

It reminds me of the British Vogue Gold Issue cover from 2000 - Glorious.

_New Favourite Store

_On a scorcher of a day last week I popped into Aesop on Mount Street to pick up thier Geranium hand wash (possibly the best thing ever), and truly fell in love - the store in beautiful and simple (Not to mention thier incredible graphics), with a huge 4 way antique sink in the middle of the store for you to test out the products. A massive thank you to Sarah, who hooked me up with a bag full of the most amazing goodies.

_A Lovely Little Blog

_i-D stylist, fresh womenswear grad and now famed BF of artist Matthew Stone, Young Mr Josephs has some lovely bits on his blog, including these great little backstage shots from a recent Gareth Pugh MWAW09 preview he shot for i-D this month. Check it out at: www.matthewjosephs.blogspot

Ms. J has Landed

_Fresh from NYC, via Antwerp & Paris, my girl Ms. Andre J arrived in town last night. After putting shoreditch to a stand still we had beers in the park (yes, the look is a lifestyle choice, not just for evenings and weekends, so you can imagine the looks we got for a genderless black man, with 25" lacefront blonde weave, and backless couture), we then headed back home for over 18 months worth of late night catch ups and candies, J'adore xx

Hook her up.

_And there's me thinking it couldn't get much worse . . .

_How wrong could I be?
RED & BLACK?!
OMFG WTF?

Still not convinced on that title font either.
Released Monday 24th, or if you need it that bad, a few issues dropped in DSM yesterday morning.

_RBPMstudio Preview bStore Exhibit Publication

_Another bit of work from the last week (and also the piece I'm having cover issues with, see below). I feel theres extra pressure now as it has been suggested that the publiction be presented in mass (3,000 of them) filling the windows of bstore for the duration of the month long exhibit. Which will look amazing, but the pressure is on for good cover art. The work itself is beautiful, and due to the incredible imagery, honestly couldn't be easier to layout. Stay tuned for more previews of this (no doubt the entire thing could change before print on Friday) and for details of the opening night.

_RBPMstudio Website Preview

_I spent a day with my photographer this week getting together the first part of the Studios website imagery shot. The work looks great, I'm so pleased with it, here are just a few previews of the first bunch of stuff to be shot.

_Cover Art

_I'm currently having cover 'issues' so went on the hunt for some inspiration, and found these completely glorious examples of the perfect cover art. I hope you enjoy and are as inspired as much as I am.

_My New Favourite Book

_'Some Faggy Gestures' by Henrik Olesen - Strange and beautiful.

'Since the mid-1990s, Berlin-based Danish artist Henrik Olesen has used collage, sculpture and Minimalistic spatial intervention to investigate the social construction of identity and its historiography. Through the appropriation of source images and contextual shifts, Olesen probes the associations between homosexuality and its past and present criminalization.'

Martin, Thank you so much for introducing this book to me, and thank you for such an inspirational day on Friday.

_January Jones

_Possibly the best name ever. January (star of Madmen) is the cover girl, and is looking pretty damn amazing inside, throwing face in the most incredible Marc Jacobs Body suit and Jil Sander Gloves. If you do anoything this month, pick up this issue, not only is the January feature fantastic, but there's also an amazing feature on the New Joe Dallesandro Documovie, for which I have UK premier tickets for - Cannot Wait.

_The Details

_As an avid vase collector myself, these images appeal to me so much. I love how the vase palettes are picked up as accent colours through the room.

_Want Want Want

_Nike Gucci Air Force II's.
Alexander Wang AW08 Studded bag.
And this 'Kids' movie poster are all complete genius.

_Record Beauty

_These 12" Vinyls are simply beautiful, I have no idea who made them, but they are so so good. if anyone out there has any idea who they're by please let me know, then I can re-post them under 'Want Want Want'

_RBPMstudio Preview . . . Quite a Day

_On Tuesday this week, I went to the mountains of Wales to feature on the Channel 4 TV show 'Country House Rescue' with one of the companies I work with. It was an incredible day, The team was fantastic, as was the owner of the jacobean house built in 1610, the decor was crazy, and dark as hell, with the old hanging rooms trap door still in tact, pagan stars cut into most fireplaces and a painting of the dismembered head of madusa over the main drawing room fire place. Anyway, the reason we were there was to deal with her 'wardrode' (shown above), alot of crap, but some absolute pieces of gold dust. Cant say too much right now, but stay tuned to see what happens with the pieces we left this incredible 'Famous5' inspired day ;)

_looking forward to this . . .

_"BUTT magazine presents SUPERGAY!, the bank holigay weekend party where breeders pay and faggots get in free. To celebrate the launch of BUTT No. 27, The “Straight” Issue, we’ve invited 10 homosexualist deejays including über-special guests Justin Case and Open Mike (Pet Shop Bears, Berlin), Macho City deejays Dave Kendrick, Paul Flynn and Charlie Porter, and the ever-amazing Dan Beaumont (Disco Bloodbath). Sunday, August 30th 2009 from 9 PM til 4 AM at Dalston Superstore 117 Kingsland High Street, London."

I'm sorry but the statement "a party where breeders pay and faggots get in free" is possibly one of the bes I've ever read.

_Todays style Inspiration . . .

_As per usual, a bit of tribal, a bit of pop and alot of hair, some heavy wool, traditional stripes and some light stitching details.

_Bag Lady

_These images were released at the end of last week, showing Miss Lilly Allen as the new Face of Chanel Accessories - Complete Genius, and the girl looks brilliant.

_Current Obsession

_Kelis 'I like you'
YouTube it and get happy ;)

_October 1996, One of the best Face magazines ever, Part .III

_A fantastic little feature about a project executed by the then young graduates Jake and Dinos Chapman - Shooting 50 rolls of film of thier lives and then selling off the undeveloped films for £50 a roll. making a statement about ownership in the art world. The Face bought a film and printed the film, so as they say - to clear up, the studio is thier old place just off Brick Lane, the girl is (Jakes then girlfriend) Sam Taylor wood, and, the pissing dick, also belongs to Jake.