UK Vogue feb 1967

UK VOGUE NOV 1967

Folk

AHH THOSE FOLK! ... PIRATES?

I love folk music, my friend  Chris Millington is what you may call a folk pirate. His music is amazing and so is his style, check out a photo i too i took-

www.chrismillington.com 

LISTEN TO HIM!

Metal Heads

OOh gosh, Yes ! I have been a metal head haha! oooh all that head banging and bashing about is like a really original workout haha!..Alot of metal heads i recall looking really ugly with sweat dripping all over them 24/7 , i can assure you i didn't allow myself to sweat, i was more hardcore than any of them! 

This is Byron from God Forbid and me.

This is Paolo from Trivium and me.

I think Metal Heads can be so serious sometimes that it's funny

GOTH

well once upon a time i was a little goth. 

I went by the name of Gothnad, and i was really cool! haha.

Yes i am the one at the front with my 2 friends Jodi and Sophie beside me.

ooh yes i had real looking hair back then!

Me being a typical goth!

Goths have been around forever, they even existed in the Victorian times! 
OOh the dark music, vampires, magicalness, and day dreaming, make the world of Goths seem like some sort of folklore fantasy.

MODS

Ohh Mods, i find them boring. So uninteresting and bland riding there scooters around like an accessory... Yet sometimes some of them do pull it off quite well, but i think it can be a hard look to pull off, i mean if you don't have the face and the body of a model and no sense of your own style, then you could just end up looking a bit crap.!

so you could end up looking really cool...

http://whisty.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/subculture-fashion-and-music/mods-scooters/

or errrm bland and boring! eurrghh!

Da sinistra: Steve Marriott, Roger Daltrey, Rod Stewart & Ronnie Lane (1965)

http://tarkus-magicmac.blogspot.com/2008/12/fashion-mods.html

Check out Pete Doherty rocking a bit of a Mod look-

http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f63/pete-doherty-news-thread-please-put-all-pete-news-here-60767-52.html

Mods apparently were around in the late 1950's to early 60's . But I'd still say there is a Mod scene around, it may take a bit more digging up than Punk, but it is still popular with many people and there is still something there. Also elements of the clothing have been taken and styled in different ways through fashion. I mean lots of people love to wear braces and they are a very popular item to embellish yourself with.

PUNK

Well I really love the punk scene, I love the music, the attitude, the outfits.It is a way of life. I would say it is  a bit more than a sub-culture.

Many people will refer to Punks and make them seem like they only existed during 1977 to the early 80's. This is obviously not true, there are still Punks now and many more to come!

 Here is a photo of me a few yrs ago!  

and another one of me  modelling an outfit my friend Katy made.

There is also a punk festival which has changed it's name many times, but at the moment it is called ;Rebellion', before this it was called 'Wasted'.

I went to Rebellion back in the summer of 2008, held at The Blackpool Winter Gardens

. Here are some images i took:

Choking Susan

The Duel, ( they played at my 18th birthday party)

Some amazing looking guy, someone once told me the name of, but it has slipped my mind!

Vice Squad.

...

This is a photo someone took of my friend James and I. Doesn't he look just like Sid Vicious? haha

Also a photo i just found of me in the audience at rebellion 

enjoying the band Mere Dead Men (MDM)

I thought i would leave you with this photo i took of myself Years ago. haha! well it really deserves to be here.

HOUSE OF VOLTAIRE

oh yeah! House of Voltaire, flying through the windows into this mysterious lair, buzzing, friendly and flying off the chair.



HOUSE OF VOLTAIRE
11 November – 4 December 2010
Mon – Sat 11am – 7pm / Sun 12 – 6pm

So i went to check it out on a dark, gloomy Sunday evening. I rang the bell on this mysterious door, and awaited in silence. A buzzing noise came from nowhere and the door could now be pushed open, i wondered in curiously, climbing each stair like a spirit of the night......ERM OK! Anyway once i stopped prancing around like a ghost, i entered into this wonderful atmosphere with nice windows. The art was beautiful , i was drawn to well...almost everything really! I was handed some wine as i captured the scene, maybe this was my chance to join the vampires. But no! , they were just amazingly friendly :) . Princess Julia was there on  this day, matching those plates i could see around ;)  , if you purchased one, will you eat off of her face or simply frame it? ...I guess this leaves the audience to decide. 

ALSO CHECK THIS OUT - http://houseofvoltaire.blogspot.com/2010/11/exclusive-for-house-of-voltaire-richard.html

 

DANIEL LISMORES & JOSH QUINTONS POP UP SHOP!

Puked up glamour, vintage leaking and infested with creatures of the night

You have to love it, these photos were taken at an amazing and my favourite night in London at the moment- THE FACE

Also just found this fantastic photo or 2 of my friends at the pop up shop, these are an example of the types of people to shop here, photo taken by fabulous camera friend Dragarazzi De Jonge  . I love her. 

Sorapol, Yuan, Jonathon and some guy with amazing orange hair who is being held hostage by the clothes and personality creatures.

OOh and another AMAZING photo by dragarazzi se jonge <3

Hollie Hooper, Josh Quinton, Princess Julia and Sorapol  Chawaphatnakul

PLACES places and those striking faces

Me- Yes I am revisiting Machine A, Liberty and Daniel Lismore And Josh Quintons Pop Up Shop very shortly in the next day or so.

I think i need another picture of the pop up shop so i need to go and take more of what it looks like.

 

Josh and Daniel  

 

Outside the Pop Up Shop @ Punk in Soho(YMH) 

I need to revisit Machine A to see whats going on at the moment and have a chat with the people there.

I still need to go to Browns and explore. I think i will go and do some drawings of it. And if i see any customers and they look friendly enough i will talk to them and ask how often they shop there and just try and find out a bit more about the customer. I will also do the same with The Convenient Store.

MACHINE-A

 Artrageous, gobsmacking, fierce and fresh, it sucks you in and trashes your vest.

I Love Machine-A , it is basicly an independent boutique and gallery space dedicated to emerging fresh new talent, this brilliant place has been created by Stavros Karelis. The people that work here are friendly and great to talk to, a main part of this place is showcasing new designers by them doing an installation in the window... I went to the last one there- Craig Lawrences, which i infact got invited to the launch for!

I have also just now found myself there on a Japanese fashion site- http://www.fashion-press.net/news/1276

I went to Machine-A  on the 20th of October to Craig Lawrences private exhibition and party.
This post is taken from something i wrote previously on my other blog 'Naddys Fashion Aspirin'
http://naddysfashionaspirin.blogspot.com/2010/10/craig-lawrence-exhibition-party-at.html

CRAIG LAWRENCE exhibition & party at Machine-A

MMeowwwww,

Stunning stunning, beautiful, glamourous, gobsmacking, perfect, pretty, fierce, fabulous, inspiring, fun, freaktastic, brilliant, head spinning...there are soo many words to describe Craig Lawrence and his work. Touching the clothes was enough to give everyone an overdose, so it was super generous to have free alcohol and music as well.

The window display was so magical, lots of balloons !! yay! and various differn't poeple partying in the window every-now and then; including an elongated figure that came to life...or maybe it was just an outrageously tall drag queen with legs from heaven?!

I had so much fun, the best exhibition/party i have been to. It was so well put together, a massive success. As soon as the crowd walked into machine a ,it was like entering a tardis...where did they all fit? Everytime you turned round a different person would appear! And not only that but everyone was so-super-tastikly friendly, i met some wonderful people. I think its now time to brace yourselves and check out my photos:

Craig Lawrence and I