Louis Vuitton's £700 necklace...
Spotted in stripes in Glasgow
I loved this look, I think the trousers came from Brick Lane but they could totally pass for Rick Owens.
Sartorialism
The Sartorialist never comes to Glasgow, probably just as well because we'd definitely have gotten into fisticuffs over who got to photograph this urban dandy...
Hayley Scanlan
I was very excited to see this jacket in person. I was also looking forward to chatting to Hayley herself. More of that later...
In case you don't know the story behind this jacket, when Erin O'Cconnor saw it, at the 2009 Duncan of Jordanstone Annual Degree Show, she was so impressed that she commissioned Hayley to make her one.
"As soon as I saw the jacket on the catwalk...I had to be the first to have one"- Erin O'Connor.
Hayley didn't make it to the 'Zombie Porn Factory' event, someone said she was stuck in Spain after a bit of a drama. Later on I checked out her blog...
***HOLY SUDDEN INCAPACITATION BATMAN!!!***
Fortunately, despite breaking her 'drawing and making' hand in 3 places after a trampoline related accident, she no longer requires surgery and is healing rapidly. Phew. Get well soon Hayley...
Check out Hayley's blog for updates
Victoria Bulmer Doesn't Drop A Stitch!
Victoria Bulmer's an artist who 'knits paintings'... in the words of Armstrong and Miller's RAF pilots, "Random!". But it was knitting paintings that got Victoria her BA in textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone in 2008.
She describes herself as "A Knitted Textile designer for Fashion and Interiors."
"My work is all 'intarsia' based. My textile designs originate from my life drawing where I create the most exciting abstract patterns, I then translate my colourful drawings literally into a knitted painting."
She also designed the 2009 Fall Scarf Collection for Tait & Style during a recent 6 month Internship.
"I really enjoyed my time with Tait & Style and developed so much."Victoria starts her MA in Textiles at London's Royal College of Art this September.
Yard Sale in Woodlands This Sunday
Keep seeing these signs around the neighbourhood, no idea if it'll be any cop but here's the blurb...
Summer Yard Sale And Indoor Café:
Sunday 23rd August, 10am – 4pm, The Albany Centre, Ashley Street, G3 6DS Entrance: 50p, kids 10p. Join us for late summer loveliness and the sale of handmade arts and crafts, quality jumble, books, home baking, plants and allotment vegetables. Face painting. Come rummage! Indoor café will serve up a delicious mix of refreshments (incl vegan baking). Half My heartbeats DJs will be on site to provide a dreamy indie pop atmosphere. It might not be too late to book a stall – for more info contact: Joostoo@yahoo.co.uk
Sunday 23rd August, 10am – 4pm, The Albany Centre, Ashley Street, G3 6DS Entrance: 50p, kids 10p. Join us for late summer loveliness and the sale of handmade arts and crafts, quality jumble, books, home baking, plants and allotment vegetables. Face painting. Come rummage! Indoor café will serve up a delicious mix of refreshments (incl vegan baking). Half My heartbeats DJs will be on site to provide a dreamy indie pop atmosphere. It might not be too late to book a stall – for more info contact: Joostoo@yahoo.co.uk
07731 7731 32.
Dipsy Void a.k.a. Angela Canavan
Zombie Porn Factory @ Majestic Laundrette was a fascinating Art/music/fashion event which took over a laundrette and cafe in Glasgow's Finnieston for one night only.
I asked Angela Canavan about her own label 'Dipsy Void'...
"Dipsy Void, is a name I came up with on a night out drinking in 'Black Sparrow', Viki, Eva & I were messing around making up each others ‘porn star’ names, where you take the name of your first pet and your mothers maiden name and put them together. I misheard Viki’s and thought it was Dipsy Void. Eva & I then used the name to DJ under in various venues throughout Glasgow."
"When I started selling vintage clothing to outlets such as 'Retro' and 'Mr.Benn', I continued to use the name. So when it came to exhibiting my manga illustrations and clothing at The Zombie Porn Factory, it seemed sensible to continue to use Dipsy Void."
"I myself did not attend Art School; however Victoria (Bulmer) completed a textiles degree in Dundee. Where she met some of the artists involved in the night, others are just people we know from the Glasgow area, such as Esca and Mags."
"Hosting the Zombie Porn Factory has been an incredibly enjoyable experience. It started off as this madcap idea of having a night out in a random venue – like a laundrette. This then grew arms and legs, into this vagrant art exhibition, which instead of taking itself way too seriously, encouraged everyone to enjoy them-selves for one night and to completely disappear the next day. Leaving everyone scratching their heads and trying to determine weather or not the whole thing was a figment of their imagination."
"We are really happy with the reception we had in Glasgow, we have had some interest from London to hold a one off Zombie Porn Factory perhaps in Dalston, Shoreditch or Brick Lane, which we are taking into consideration at the moment. For now though just keep your ears open and your eyes peeled for the next festering instalment of The Zombie Porn Factory, who knows where the next one will be? An old fruit shop or barbers perhaps?"
Angela Canavan.
If you are interested in buying any of the art or clothing from The Zombie Porn Factory, just drop them line www.myspace.com/zombiepornfactory
Thanks Ang for letting me pick your 'zombie brains' x, Style Scanner.
Zombie Porn Factory Slideshow
So here's my slideshow of Saturday's 'happening' at the Majestic Laundrette, Glasgow. More to follow....
This Smells Dope
Be careful how you use it! This is not just any cologne, 'Black Afgano' by Nassomato is a new scent made from that most illicit of substances. Hashish.
Apparently, a man named Alessandro Gualtieri believed that an illegal substance would smell better than Calvin Klein's Eternity. So much so that he smuggled the secret ingredient out of Yemen himself before, ahem, "experimenting" with it in the lab for four backbreaking years......Only four?
Just don't pat any sniffer dogs with this on...
Here's is the official blurb:
"Black Afgano is meant to capture some of the scent qualities and all of the effects of the herb: smoky, smooth and deep; a mellow yet deep and distinct fragrance high. The black colored perfume is a study in how to arouse the effects of temporary bliss, without all the side effects. Rich and hypnotic, with dark and dangerous notes like coffee, oud, tobacco and hash, this is a beautifully relentless and utterly enveloping scent. Black Afgano is a strong smoke and incense fragrance that is surprisingly never overpowering. We can honestly say, this fragrance is dope."
30ml = $148
7ml = $6 (So no, the first hit isn't always free!)
Wunderkind by Sonny Vandevelde
Just seen these Wunderkind images by Sonny Vandevelde on 'Shaded View on Fashion' and I just love their casual nonchalance. I actually assumed they were the official publicity shots but turns out Sonny just snapped them informally at the launch of Wunderkind's menswear line a few weeks ago. Don't know what Wolfgang Joop has in mind for this campaign, but personally, I don't think he could do better than these. That they're not "trying too hard" is what appealed to me.
Brideshead anyone?
A touch of 'Quenten Crisp' don't you think? Like some of us, Quenten wasn't really into dusting and famously revealed "There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse." Bravo!
Scholastic in Plastic
A purse by Pipless Jam.
Made, as you can see, from a 1955 piano forte exam list!
There were other offerings too, like maps and comics, but this totally appealed to my inner swot.
Being the child of 70's schoolteacher, anything scholastic is very nostalgic, throw in some laminated plastic and things get really exciting.
I loved piano's but we didn't have one. As a teenager, I begged for a Casio keyboard one Birthday.
This is the sort of thing I had in mind...
This is the sort of thing I got...
Imagine it's a Bontempi from Woolco.
Even painting it matt black didn't help.
Still, Mr Carruthers the music teacher was well impressed, he promoted me to keyboards for the Xmas concert at the rival school. Just had to do do the bit of "Please,Please Me" that goes "dee-dee,dee-dee,dee-dee" before the C'mon,c'mon's start.
No, I hadn't rehearsed, but hey, how tricky can a Beatles ditty be?
We file onto the stage where our instruments await. Bit shocked to see my keyboard not only taking center stage but in front of my recorder playing chums.
Curtains open and there, in the front row, is my primary 3 teacher Mrs Douglas, a familiar face from my scholastic past. Strangely, this really threw me .... Stage fright .... all I have to do is play a few notes - but when? - Oh hell. I'll just crash in with them now and again, could tell from the audience's faces that this wasn't going well. Mrs Douglas was frowning now, when will this end? Curtains close, no one speaks, we shuffle off to the minibus.
Mr Carruthers didn't speak to me for a week, then one day came up behind me, lent into my ear and hummed those few notes mockingly. Think I was forgiven.
*Edit* The keyboard did get me into a band but I was dropped when they discovered an androgynous boy keyboard ace who,( just like me), wore white makeup, eyeliner and fingerless gloves. His keyboard was more portable and he was a twin! I couldn't compete with either.
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