May 2010
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kewl is the new cool has moved
HERE:
WWW.KEWLISTHENEWCOOL.COM
February 2010
7 posts
WLTM: clashing patterns for eyewatering good-times
This summer I’m gonna make like a Versus Calyspo Queen on a bad acid trip and wear all my patterns at once.
McQueen is dead, long live McQueen.
My A-level fashion/textiles teacher was a massive Alexander McQueen fan. I got put in his textile/fashion design class having not got my first choice of graphics (which was massively oversubscribed by the time of my late registration) and after having been passed on from the head of sculpture department who washed her hands of me in dismay as I refused to touch clay or wire in favour of...
December 2009
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We Have Band (and another anecdote).
Darren Bancroft and I used to work in a bar on Kingsland Road. We enjoyed the odd tequila and tonic together and spent our Sunday afternoons sitting on the street outside the bar making each other laugh with our weak impressions of people we knew or swapping anecdotes (true or half true) on the Shoreditch locals that passed by, usually tales of friends of friends of friends with just a grain of...
November 2009
29 posts
I-D Parade
I used to buy I-D magazine and the Face (before it folded) when I was at school, mostly to cut out the pictures but also to prove to myself that I knew what was ‘cool’ on the inside, even if I looked like Harry Potter on the outside. But then I discovered other lame props that can be obtained to promote an air of ice-cool and make people think you’re ‘ok’ to invite...
Layer up. Get your glow on. A/W '09 = good times.
Getting up for and returning home from work in the dark are, admittedly, joyless experiences. As are guaranteed rubbish weather for 6 months and being sneezed on the tube daily. In fact, one could argue this time of year to be a bleak and miserable one, dished out by a particularly malicious unseen force so we might remember to be humble in the presence of sun for two days between May and...
October 2009
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Best ever pt.2
So, in addition to the earlier post about BEST EVER’s fresh taking on wall painting, here’s some more: you can vote for them in the 2009 Street Art Awards too.
youarebestever:
Not really sure how it works but our wall from mutate is up for the street art awards this year. If you like our work and want us to win click here, register, and click on the 10th yellow star. cheers
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Man dem.
Fantastic Man is a magazine that (finally) shows the other boys how it should be done.This tome is not a how-to-guide-for-children-in-men’s-clothing-who-havent-grown-out-of-their-wanting-to-be-David-Beckham/James Bond-phase. This is something all together different. The ‘Return of the Chap’ by chaps for chaps. Dressing up & taking care of yourself guide for gents +...
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Cans that can.
In the murky field of Urban Art, where Bansky-a-likes pedddling tired, over-egged statements about how capitalism and shady politics are corrupting our very souls lurk around every corner, it is hard not to lose interest. Fast. However, there are those who put soul and humanity into their work and deal with themes that approach the bigger picture, not whose only trump card is the ability...
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Lagerfeld in 'I love Skeletor' shocker.
What is most shocking about Karl Lagerfeld recently adding his tuppence to the debate on size zero models, is not that he described haters of the skeletal look as ‘jealous’, ‘chip-eating mummies’ but that anyone would expect him to say anything else. Not least because he himself appears to be a fan of the Posh Spice school of eating-is for-quitters, having shrunk from the...
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Sweet as a nut.
Shane Connolly took this snap. All in all he’s pretty handy with a camera. His pictures are of the understated, ’silence-after-the-cheer’ type on slightly bleached-out film. He’s also into Grime in quite a big way. One day around springtime Shane, his pal Asher and some buddies decided to start an online art & music-centric magazine that (perhaps unwittingly) mirrored...