Friday 18th April: Mishkin

A meeting with photographic partners "Mishkin" (alias Anna Leader and Amy Gwatkin) at their new studio in Dalston.

Friday 18th April: Blood on Paper

We customized a book this week for a display that will be on show during the Friday late event for the current exhibition "Blood on Paper" at the V&A. Artists have been sent a penguin book to transform, which will be placed together in a special library in the main entrance.

Thurs 17th April: Who is It?

Bjork at Hammersmith Apollo..............Highlight for me was "Who Is It?"...............and white streamers that burst from her palms during hunter ...............

Thurs 17th April: Design Editions

My friends ADi Angela & GABi have designed a shift exclusively for Gap as part of the new design edition range. They were invited alongside a few other designers, from making the shortlist nominees in the recent CFDA awards. Finally their genius pattern cutting is getting the distrubution it deserves to spread the word of ThreeAsFOUR.

Tues 15th April: Gloved-Up Birthday

Laura a.k.a "Gloved Up" spent her birthday party on roller skates, dancing to the beats on wheels and inspiring a resurgence of trips to the local rink. Here are the gloves that she gave out to guests...............inverse generous gift giving............
Gloved up make gloves on comission for stylists such as Patti Wilson and Lucinda Chambers, designers such as Hetherette and Diesel and for musicians Madonna and Peaches............Anna Piaggi is a big fan too!

Tues 15th April: More Birthday Treats

Maki brought a perfectly fitting blue sparkly giftbag for my blue glitter makeup day. Contents of which, being my birthday presents .............hand crafted birds you can see here and an insanely lush concertina fold out book of artwork.

Tues 15th April: Butler-Style Boxes

Holly Ormrod joined the team in helping with all aspects of the collection. But I think that her favorite part might have been sole charge of designing and making the boxes for the pieces. As the accessories are so delicate, they need special care in transport. We solved the problem by cutting special boxes to house them. Recycling has proved not only environmentally friendly but also an unexpected graphic treat!

Sunday 13th April: Spadger Kitten

My fellow Blondie-in-crime Amy Gwatkin has undergone a beautiful new shade..................

Sunday 13th April: Plink Plonk

Grey Gardens screening hosted by Jeanette, feigning as a Beale descendent, aptly dressed in pink fur and blue head scalf. His silhouette seen here, doing a majorette dance to great applause whilst the credits scrolled.

Saturday 12th April: Warrior Princess

My favourite stylist Susie Lloyd has requested me to make a new piece for a shoot with music artist Bishi. Based on a feeling of warrior queen/romantic pierrot - she wanted a cape with feathers. So I have breathed new life into this piece I had from another project. By making honeycomb balls and sequins out of aluminium coated fabric for some understated shimmer and femininity.

Friday 11th April: Principal Colour

Teo finished the look book and we received the mock-up back from the printers to approve. I love the colour keys that come on the edge of the print out.............

Thurs 10th April: I Love Pictures

Two thirds of the studio are feverishly working away on the upcoming Tim Walker exhibition at the Design Museum (9 May - 7 September). Andy Hillman is co-curating the layout with integrated installations and Teo Connor is doing the artwork and graphics for the project campaign. Here are some of Alex Cunningham's beautiful behind-the-scenes shots from an Italian Vogue shoot last May. I am having fun peering at the mock up model of the exhibition and imaging myself already there. It is going to be INCREDIBLE!

Thurs 10th April: Lucky Star

Maki Lou Lou (a regular face on my blog) has recently made minature replica dolls for Dazed's latest Madonna project. They have been turned into an animation which is showing on Dazed Digital...............check out the attention to detail of the teeny tiny costumes.............

Weds 9th April: Aggy on the Rocks

Bistroteque hosted a fish'n'chips dinner to celebrate former chippy Agyness Dean's Icon Issue of i-D with 6 collectable covers. The restaurant was crammed with eager takers like a rowdy school canteen. Probably due to the limitless cocktail menu that featured special sources such as "Aggy on the Rocks". This portrait was taken by her boyfriend who mixed up the roles by turning my camera back on me .............hence I have cropped myself out! But here is one of my pics of Judy Blame who made an eyepatch for her in the Tank Girl shoot similar to the hat he was sporting last night.

Tue 8th April: New i-D

The new Agyness special edition i-D is out..........including a shoot of her styled by Fran Burns as Tank Girl...........featuring accessories I was commissioned to make for the story.............here is the rocket bra that I made out of satin to mimic an old fashioned bra.......amongst the other pieces is a set of elbow pads that are from a Tank Girl outfit I made in 1995 for GCSE textiles ............this proves it is always worth keeping things..............they always come in..........even if it is 13 years later!......

Mon 7th March: Archive Photo

I have trawlled my photos from the Arnhem Biennial and cannot find a picture of Henrik Vibskov's installation............but did rediscover this inspiration snapshot (primary school classroom) ..........subconsciously I must have retained it, now I look at my collection...........

Friday 4 th April: Will Broome

Here is the illustrator at his new installation as part of the Toilet (literally) Bienniale at Bistroteque. I love the cheeky characters that he has emblazened onto the walls with speech bubbles suggesting toilet related conversation between them.
He has previoulsy collaborated on surface designs for Marc by Marc Jacobs and is about to launch a capsule collection for TopShop. His agency represents new London based talent such as Husam El Odeh, Ben Weller, Matt Irwin, Robbie Spencer.

Friday 4 th April: Fig

I am so chuffed with this gift from Agenturv who also represent the Airbrush beauty mavericks "Uslu Airlines". Feride and Jan have devised this new nailvarnish to celebrate their 5th year of being with Collette. In addition to the Colette logo on the bottle, the hue is derived from the store's trademark blue. But better than all of this is that once the laquer has dried, it smells of the Colette house perfume! If I close my eyes I can imagine myself walking up the Rue Faubourg St Honore, where I am more accustomed to wafts of this signature scent.............I have never been transported by a nail varnish before..........I guess that is the wonder of the Uslu Airlines..............

Friday 4 th April: Press Day

I met up with Kim Howells at her last press day appointment. Scandanavian specialist agency "Agentur V" who represent Raf Simons, Bless, C.Neeon and as seen here Henrik Vibskov. This is a giant mohair jumpsuit/sleeping bag which has a label in the same pattern as the item itself! I have some picutres in my archive from the Arnhem Bienniale of his "boob" sculpture garden, so I will try and find them for a future post............

Thurs 3rd April: Smily Faces

Dolls I found at the Sunday Market in Brighton for inspiration..............they didn't come into use this time round but i'll keep them hanging on my desk as they are such cheery souls..............