tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51071815404815935232024-03-06T07:51:20.479+00:00Bona Drag Boys.The good things in life.Jord.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04523873781693255604noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107181540481593523.post-62291665233807505682011-04-29T00:20:00.005+01:002011-04-29T00:28:30.250+01:00Jewellery for a monarchist or an ironist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tatty Devine are setting the royal wedding in perspex with a set of commemorative crown jewels, the cameo collection is a silhouette of the royal couple, made into everything you'd expect from a set of Tatty Devine jewelery, including pendents, earrings and necklaces.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If suffocating in a crowd to maybe but maybe probably not get a glimpse of our new princess and her dress (most likely by Sarah Burton) - then head down to Camden from the time the wedding starts, to beautifully eccentric Philip Normal and his Happy Shack, as Tatty Devine are opening a pop up shop within his madhouse. Check out the facebook event details for 5% off - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147465945321278</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. The pop up shop is there for all of the bank holiday weekend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Harriet & Rose, the founders of Tatty who still design every single piece they sell, were nice enough to answer a few questions about their royal collection:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Royal Wedding of course! and they also refer to a back design we made in 2005 of a kissing couple which we were hoping to bring back and the wedding was the perfect reason to update the piece.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Online and in both our shops! Covent Garden & Brick Lane. Also don't forget in store pop up shop & Philip Normal's Happy Shack </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>What advice would you give to the newlyweds if you could?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Stay on honeymoon as long as you can and don't forget to get your photos printed and framed to give to the in laws.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No, not really but still definitely not anti-sovereign. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The artist described the song as a representation of <strong>"pining for a loved one but realising that maybe you're in love with a ghost, or an idea of something long gone." </strong>A quote relating to a mindset which everyone suffers, two close friends are at the moment finding it difficuilt to find any piece of mind because of lost love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">I couldn't think of anything more relevant to those friends than this, simplistic yet epic and obviously heartfilled song. listen - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKs2QepeLVg"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKs2QepeLVg</span></a></span><br />
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</div>Jord.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04523873781693255604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107181540481593523.post-79763518691498851222011-04-18T01:06:00.001+01:002011-04-18T01:09:40.352+01:00LONDON'S FORWARD THINKING FASHION IS FEELING BLUE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFuJg18wa6VmYjyr9b531r5DryIKfVpmwUmriEp1EZGcmsWK_xAI8CZle-YYuZdajz1T213sKGlHLn5EM0rUEvGi0Acc_zhyphenhyphenrCbYIz6LfMjayvN6C0j8qfKFJFAnAiGja6QJJptNQUqImX/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFuJg18wa6VmYjyr9b531r5DryIKfVpmwUmriEp1EZGcmsWK_xAI8CZle-YYuZdajz1T213sKGlHLn5EM0rUEvGi0Acc_zhyphenhyphenrCbYIz6LfMjayvN6C0j8qfKFJFAnAiGja6QJJptNQUqImX/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This photo was taken from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">houseoforganza.com</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">, as my phone died on the day and left me camera-less.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The projects curators are stylist Kim Howells and designer Lyall Hakaraia who bring together the talent, personality and inspiration of different disciplines to focus on interpreting one vision which could either result in something beautiful or disastrous but either way, exciting. Last season HOG produced a mythical looking gold collection inspired by the folklore surrounding Elizabeth I.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</div>Jord.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04523873781693255604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107181540481593523.post-50761590404807026002011-03-27T21:39:00.002+01:002011-04-17T13:49:16.951+01:00Interview/Profiling with Lu Flux<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lu Flux’s Sea and Be Seen collection for AW11 plunges into the alluring mysteries of the deep blue sea. The brands distinctiveness is present in the form of great British craftsmanship and trademark wide shapes. She describes the colour palette as paying credit to the murky depths of the sea and, “embroidery referencing the bioluminescent creatures who make their own light to attract mates and dissuade predators, in an underwater world teeming beauty, colour and hidden dangers.”</span></b><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Returning from one fashion capital to another, Lu relocated to London in 2008 but says of the time that, “I still wasn’t committed to fashion, it wasn’t until I put myself down to show off some work at a friends gallery in the east end, that my career kick-started. I was then put down for the Ones to Watch show at Vauxhall Fashion Scout in 2009.” Here, she showcased ‘Innocent Merriment’ a collection full of British eccentricity with sculptural pieces that had a life of their own. Lu was awarded the Innovation award in conjunction with the Ethical Fashion Forum who celebrated her inventive designs, this led to an exhibition at the next three Estethica showcases. By September 2010 her collections were also being shown in Paris, Amsterdam & Tokyo.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span>Jord.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04523873781693255604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5107181540481593523.post-49159460560576328662010-10-07T22:58:00.001+01:002010-10-09T00:27:37.544+01:00D-Gnak by Kang-D s/s 11<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Korean based designer Dong Jun Kang launched D-Gnak back in 2006 and two weeks ago held his debut London Fashion Week show at Vauxhall Fashion Scout.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This s/s 11 collection is exploring the hectic, stressed and harassed life of an overworked man; their rushed lives being shown through the chaotic anti-attention to detail. Gentlemen's tailored suits had been rebelliously altered with drawstrings around the ankles, ties out lapels of jackets and exaggerated length of the sleeves. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the increasingly popular gentlemen and sartorial elegant image both on the street and catwalk, i'm sure most men wouldn't dare to risk a zhooshy shirt with a completely contrasting panel or a third sleeve sewn to a shoulder which all looks slightly omi-palone. However many of the clothes here are true to D-Gnak's aesthetic of casual tailoring with a heavy use of asymmetry and with well made, classic tailored clothes, they're perfect for this season and for any gentlemen's' wardrobe.</span></span><br />
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