Need...

Tickets to Jacko... the greatest performer of all time. I must go. I cant miss this!




King of Pop.

Day at the Surgery

Put on some tunes:

Draw some patterns:

Surgical Tools:

Do some sewing:


Karl has left the Building. Leaving his collar behind:

I put it on a shirt:



Something I stitched earlier:

Selvage:

A regular day at the Surgery.

Balmain Fall 2009

The cult peaked-shoulder Balmain jacket was reiterated in force, and has a strong relation to areas I considered for my collection, but also for men, using this structured shoulder design, maybe take it forward into jumpers, sweats, knits and even the hood piece. Also looking at the interesting use of embelishment, in the form of swarovski crystals I intend on pushing this with my own personal Surreal touch.

Balmain

Bargain!

I regularly shop on eBay to find hidden gems and collectable goods. In the past I have sourced all kinds of bargains. Today I recieved a lovely pair of Salvatore Ferragamo tassle loafers, for a beautiful price of $24!

"Like a Glove I tell theee!"

Hugo the Boss

Our studio technician and Couture magician, Hugo made his first dress when he was the tender age of 4...yep while some of us were just about grasping the concept of speech, he was putting in princess seams at 0.5cm allowance.

Been in the game for some time now he has worked for many different companies such as Jitrois, and offers an answer to every sewing problem! A wonderful guy who always on hand to help... especially on making one of my first professional looking garments, a leather bomber jacket. Even tho he laughed continuously at the quality of my leather!! Making that jacket basically taught me how to put things together.

Teaching how to Knit

The Upholstery Jacket!

Alexander the Great had Aristotle, we have Hugo!

End Of The Beginning- Second Garment

Garment that has next been produced with surgical care and skill is the BlazerHood. A collaboration with bespoke hoodie makers House of Billiam.

A personal take on their philosophy of making hooded garments with traditional suit fabrics of your choice. I emphasised the suit aspects and also added detachable accecories, seen here made in calico, experiment material. The final piece will be made from Black Nappa leather, Grey lightweight Tweed as it is reversible the lining will be a printed fabric will remain a mystery until the final one is made!!

Bet the suspense is killing you!

"All Good in the Hood"

Nike Air Yeezy

These are due to release early April, and im still in two minds whether to purchase a pair. Well the upside is, the design, elements of the shoe taken from the Air Assault and Jordan 3. Kanye worked closely with Mark Smith from Nike to create a modern classic. All the re-relesing of old shoes, the retro fad is great, but often Nike change certain original details which for me spoils the retro, and the shoe completely.

The Yeezy is a Hybrid concept, harmonising the old with new, with great attentive detailing and quality of fabric. So im pretty sure the price will be touching £130 which for a shoe of this kind is acceptable, but not when you hardly wear the bulky models anymore.

“I’ve been designing Nike’s in my sketch pad since the fourth grade. So to say I’ve been prepared for this would be an understatement. The really fun and challenging part for me was learning about Nike’s design process, learning more about fabrics and functions and colorways, and all of the details that go into designing a shoe of this quality.” says Kanye

Haven't all us creative minded shoe enthusiasts. I remeber sketching up a pair, annotated telling you where various parts of the shoe were. They had everything on them!! Pump, Hexalite, ERS, Torsion and dont forget the AIR BUBBLE!!! Obviously they ended having the swoosh on them!

For UK buyers these will be Quickstrike. SIZE? will be stocking these.

End Of The Beginning- First Garment

Seen here in calico experimenting material, the garment is the first from what is hoping to be an 8-9 outfit collection.
The unorthodox tailored jacket, influenced by Surrealism movement and the works of Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvadore Dali. Elaborate structured emphasis on the shoulder area which distorts the conventional silhouette, detachable Fur collar and fitted shape, aimed at a luxury market the garment will be finally made from Leather, Rabbit Fur and Wool, colour being all black.




End Is Nigh...

Gareth Pugh to take over at Dior Homme

Its official. I think. He will be taking over from Kris Van Assche. Regarded as a creative Genius by some, Pugh may re-ignite the spark that Hedi Slimane left behind over two years ago.

Similar colour pallette, and slim silhouette, he showed at his premiere Menswear show in Paris, is something LVMH's Dior Homme would of been heavily influenced by. His work is often regarded as more artistic, his distinct style, and use of BLACK but is it appropiate he joins this huge Fashion House. Look forward to seeing the first collection under Pugh.








"UHU GARETH PUGH"

Papa's Got a Brand New BLOG!

Probably my favourite brand...the double S does the same thing to me as the the double C of Chanel.
Well anyway, Shawn Stussy founder and creator of Stussy has started his own Blog.





SS Blog

Who isnt in it!

Im loving the new Adidas advert, even tho im my preference leans towards Nike and rarely wear Adidas, I love the whole atmosphere this advert captures! The fact that the cast of the advert is 99.9% celebrity based!!

Some images of Jeremy Scott x Adidas Coming Soon.

Who isn't in it!?!

DMC
DavidBeckham
Missy
Red Man
Kevin Garnett
Katy Perry
Estelle
Jeremy Scott
The Ting Tings
Method Man
Russel Simmons
Young Jeezy
Ilie Nastase
Mark Gonzales
Dynamo

Can you name anymore?

Colour Palette....

Has now changed. After considering to use all black for my Graduate collection I have decided to use Black, White, Greys, natural tones and diverse surreal prints influenced by Salvadore Dali's paintings.

Overplayed

The tune is somewhat overplayed but this is the first time I have seen this video. Big fan of the mix media used the overlay of animation, which gives the charaters ambiguous meanings and movements, the Mischka type eyeballs surrounding the hotness!

The track is that bit more dope when u watch this video.




MAN ON THE MOON

MonkeyLectric wheels

These are dope! wonder if they will fit onto my SkyWays.... more info below.

Monkey LECTRIC

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

So I decided to avoid the rush for to watch NOTORIUS, the thoughts of loads of RUDEBOYS' singin 'BIGGI BIGGI CANT YOU SEE...' whilst watching a movie I have long waited to view was not too appealing so i decided to go watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.



A masterful piece of cinema, and a moving treatise on death, loss, loneliness and love. Was quite moving and made you think of your loved ones, mainly the ones you have lost. Elements of the film reminded me so much of Forrest Gump, and later I realised that was probably due to the the screen writer was same for both: Eric Roth.



The most gripping part of the film for me was the Fashion! Not materialistic at all! In particular the Levi clothing used, filmmakers worked closely with Levi's to obtain clothing items from their Levi's Vintage Clothing collection to authenticate various time periods captured throughout the film. It was like a time line of Levi denim, starting with what looked like the one pocket Levi 1901 xx cinchback washed out.





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