Head gear

This Winters must head accessorie for me would be a beautiful Leather flight hat. May it be a vintage or a beautiful Felipe Oliveira Baptista one. Its quite a daring piece but will keep your head extremely warm and you can pretend you have an amazing bike just parked up out of sight . Taking influence from WWII fighter pilots look out for them in maybe Portabella market on Fridays and Saturdays or maybe a War memorabilia store. Also the Supreme Trooper hat from this season as a more wearable street version.

Felipe Oliveira Baptista:

Helmet head.

A bit special.

The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City will be soon holding an exhibition of a masters work. Tim Burton an American film director producer, writer and artist. 

You must be familiar with this guys work, its so distinctivly dark, eerie and quirky. Among my favourite films of his have to Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Pee-Wee's Big Advnture, his work over the years has been epic and genius. 

Its a shame I wont be able to visit the exhibition as it is located in New York, but I will be certainly watching his next release Alice In Wonderland which is due to release in March 2010.

Feeling Inspired.

Few of my favourite things.

Top 10 at this moment in time:

Double Goose Leather V Bomber:

This is pefect for the winter months and would probably make you sweat in the antartic!! French label, and made iconic by Run DMC.

Aquascutum Double Breasted Trench:

Customised by me, it has been cropped to waist length and shoulder pads taken out as this was originally a womens long trench. Fits a 38'' chest.

Vintage Varsity Jacket:

Timeless piece for me and picked up for next to nothing on eBay. Made by Delong and probably from the early 60's.

Christian Dior Monsieur Blazer:

Simply cause of the fit and cut of the jacket as if it was tailored for me by the man himself.

Paul Smith Floral Shirt:

Paul Smith floral print is definately my favourite, very distinctive and are beautiful fitting shirts.

Levi Vintage Clothing 1901 501xx Indigo Immortal:

I only really wear Levi denim, and this is definately my favourite pair. They are falling to bits so I had to fuse the inside so they dont tear so easy. I also tapered the leg slightly with the option of making them straight again leaving the fabric on the inside. Limited to 1010 pieces worldwide.

Supreme T-shirts:

Various tee's by Supreme amongst my favourites are the Charlie Ahearn, Terry Richardson x Kermit, and Malcolm McLaren collaborations. Next purchase will be the John Coltrane Love box tee.

Jordan Collection:

Avid sneaker collector and my Jordans are probably my most prized possesions, Jordan VI being my favourite shoe of all time with close runner up Jordan IV. Also the Jordan VII Bordeaux which has never been retro'd.

Trickers x Present Boot:

By far one of my best purchases this year. Brogue boot with a Vibram sole, I wear it everywhere and anywhere I have not taken these off since I have got them, considering bying another pair in Green. Has a little more sophistication then a Red Wings shoe with the brogue detailing.

Visvim Ballistic Backpack:

Taken on all my adventures, white patent and pure quality within fabric and production, which comes as standard with Visvim products.

Cultured Materialistic.

The Factory

As im soon moving to London to work on a few projects; Work. Collaborations. My own label, I would ideally love a huge studio appartment where I can work continuously. Something like The Factory but a little more disciplined! Maybe a few experimental videos :)

Find my very own Edie Sedgwick! But yes this what I am aiming towards.

The Surgery.

Leeds Fashion Show Designer of the Year 2009

Yep! 

I won was not expecting it and I thoroughly enjoyed the event. My acceptance speech consisted of two words: "Thank You!" It was fun and I was proud that my graduate collection won. The highlight of the night had to be mum getting very excited when she met JoJo the presenter, only previously hearing her voice on the radio and a very distinctive one at that, she made my mum smile as she constantly burst into her signature laugh!

A few snaps from the show. 

Photographs by Isi Adebe

hopefully more to come.

Off the boat, on for a hike.

Following on from the summer trend of boat shoes I feel this winters up coming trend for shoes could be a hiking boot more fashion related rather then for its actual purpose. Few brands have released there version of the shoe. Also if you looking for one a budget Top Man have a very nice slim shaped one at £75.

Gravis:

Bathing Ape:

Terrem:

Visvim:

"Get on ya hike!"

Leeds Fashion Show

A charity event where all proceeds go to the newly-built Bexley Wing encompassing the St James's Institute of Oncology in Leeds, is an outstanding facility that now delivers unparalleled levels of cancer care and treatment to the people of Yorkshire. 

The facility provides a focus for treatment, teaching, research and development. Some key researchers and practitioners in the field of cancer across the UK provide high quality cancer care by developing and maximising leading edge science, research and technology. 

I will be showing there tonight and the event is sold out.

 

Charity work, works.

Lifes a bitch

Along with some skate decks he has collaborated with Supreme on a box tee, using his own graphics, iconic Spot paintings. Hirst's work always grabs my attention as he studied at the same establisment as I did, Leeds College of Art & Design where his first application was denied.

If your a Jazz fan look out for the John Coltrane tees too. The legendary saxaphonist and composer of "chill back relax and create tracks" well thats how they make me feel, has done a series of tees which have already been released. His son also a sax man was called Ravi ;)

A Love Supreme. 1965.

Must have.

I pretty much want anything to do with this movie! MedicomToy x Disney ‘Up’ Kubrick & Be@rbrick Set, this bearbrick set is pretty dam cool, due to release in March 2010, im guessing there will be an UP2. Here we have Carl also im sure there will be a Russel set too.



Can only hope!

Halloween ensemblé

Inspired the boys from Cobra Kai. Karate Kid was the man but the shower curtain could be rather awkward gettin to the toilet. So I opted for the skeleton jumpsuit! Hope Mr Miyagi dont kick my arse!






"Sweep the leg Johnny"

Home made

I find cooking kind of therapeutic. Being a big food lover I like to cook up a storm every now and again. Latest dish was my take on Wagamamas Chicken Katsu with the Japanese style curry sauce.

Yum.

Irving Penn

Only recently have I discovered the work of Irving Penn maybe due to his recent publicised death on 7th October 2009.Penn worked for many years doing fashion photography for Vogue magazine, founding his own studio in 1953.

Clarity, composition, careful arrangement of objects or people, form, and the use of light characterize Penn's work. Each image has the ability to involve the onlooker in a deeper sense. I particularly like his black and white portraits. His still life has an element of Surrealism to its images.

As many great artists his work was ahead of his time, my philosophy for a genius almost.

"Photographing a cake can be art" Irving Penn

"theres no tigers in South America, ZOOLOGY"

Possibly my favourite Pixar film. UP.

It was incredible. The build up of emotion, the irony of Charles Muntz from hero to villain, the animation and detail as always, and just to add the newly developed 3-D experience. So good I went to see it twice. Amazing.





"SQUIRREL!"

Ian Wright Wright Wright!

Being a man of very many talents :) I grew up playing professional Football for Leeds United, but the first team I supported at a young age, mainly due to one man was Arsenal!

Ian Wright, down to his goal scoring ability but also down to his charisma and the way he celebrated his glorious finishes! Eventually playin for Leeds and having a family full of Leeds supporters I leaned towards my Yorkshire roots!

Anyway I recently started playin again and invested in the boots I played in my so called glory years, Nike Tiempos, these boots are almost ten years old now so it was hard to track down the 1999 edition of these boots. eBay produced the goods:

Then came Gazza. Spurs and Puma Kings. :)

Couple of bits from Jimmy Choo x H&M

Jimmy Choo probably most well known for his beautiful hand made womens shoes has done a collaboration with high street store H&M, from the collection seen so far there are a few bits that I thought I might invest in. The plain grey pocket t-shirt, and the white shirt depending on the cut. The womens is not that great, in my opinion. There were a few pairs of womens shoes that I did like tho.













expect queues worldwide November 14th