Thursday 7 July 2011
Dream outfit for Melt Festival in Berlin
Damn I want this, the perfect outfit for getting down in the industrial wasteland that is Melt Festival. I'm leaving on Monday, it's going to be wonderful.
Monday 27 June 2011
sum arts
Here are three artists I like, I saw Henrijs Preiss and Maurizio Anzeri Giovanni at Newspeak Part 2 at the Saatchi Gallery, and came across Jason Treagar online. Not much else to say, click on their names to find out more.
Friday 17 June 2011
Kaboom
NEW GREGG ARAKI FILM! EVERYONE STOP WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND GET TO A CINEMA!
However, doesn't look like it's going to live up to his other offerings. Mysterious Skin was much more mature than the Teenage Apocalypse trilogy and I hope Kaboom continues in that vein. It has good reviews so here's hoping.
caring is sharing
I know this song is already overblogged, but the video features the pastel loveliness of the care bears, which I owned a small troop of as a child.
The 2 Bears are starting a club night with some of the guys from Horsemeat, and they're calling it BUNGA BUNGA. We already have one by the same name in Oxford! Everybody loves Berlusconi, what a joker.
Friday 10 June 2011
Tuesday 7 June 2011
The trouble with Yves Saint Laurent
Ok, so these are some random musings I have been having over the last year or so about why Yves Saint Laurent aren't as big as they should be. I have always loved YSL since I visited Yves's house in Morocco as a child. When I said I wanted an YSL bag one of my friends pulled a face, and using YSL Paris or Opium seems to be some kind of retro statement. Yves Saint Laurent Tributes should be as covetable as Louboutins but they're not.
The Seventies style that dominated recent collections and shoots can be attributed to Stefano Pilati at least in part, and therefore his designs should have graced the majority of shoots inspired by this era, but they were often missing. Of course Yves Saint Laurent has a presence in the major fashion publications, no major advertiser could be entirely absent, it's just that in comparison to Chanel, Dior or Prada the house barely had a look in.
The reception of the collections has been somewhat varied, but on the whole positive, and the last campaign featuring Arizona Muse has certainly been seen on blogs everywhere, so perhaps the brand is starting to garner the attention it deserves. Choosing a model who is so indisputably cool, and only just gaining a high level of notoriety, was a smart move. Arizona is one of the most blogged about models around, so choosing her connects them to a vast amount of internet hype.
The brand is owned by PPR, one of the biggest fashion conglomerates, and the company has recorded an underlying full year profit of 1.53 million euros. Yves Saint Laurent have recently posted a profit of 15 million euro, but this comes after a decade of losses. The most profitable areas of a big fashion brand seem to nearly always be the beauty and accessories sales. The YSL Muse is one of the most covetable bags, but there don't seem to be enough high profile celebrities and models carrying them recently. I had the good fortune to work (as a lowly production assistant) at a sales meeting for YSL beauty, and sales certainly didn't seem to be going well. The Belle d'Opium perfume release last summer didn't seem to make much of an impression, barely featuring on billboards and television in comparison with other new perfume releases. How is it then that the company has recently posted profits for the first time in so long?
The recent turn around could be traced to the greater concentration on publicising the brand online and through social media. The recent shows were streamed live over Facebook, and there has been an exhibition of Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche in Paris. Back in 2009 the website was hard to navigate with little sense of who it was aimed at, but now it is a solid, if uninspired, example of how large fashion houses' websites look. Slick, simple and concentrated on the collections.
To stay current the brand need to use the newest faces, continue to extend their presence across social media (no blog? are you kidding?), and make sure their campaigns are not only in magazines, but talked about in them. Chanel is the prototypical example of a fashion house that doesn't veer from a core traditional identity in it's collections but uses the right models, photographers and show production garner publicity. Flashy gimmicks and avant garde style are less valuable to consumers than a sense of heritage in the current fashion climate, and Yves Saint Laurent have the ability to combine freshness and a sense of tradition to make themselves into the successful big name brand they once were.
All opinions in this blog are my own, and I know nothing about business, and very little about branding, so if anything seems stupid or wrong, it most probably is. Figures are taken from the following articles-
http://www.fashionologie.com/Stefano-Pilati-Finds-All-Yves-Saint-Laurent-Rumors-Infuriating-Distraction-14745206
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23924112-over-1bn-profits-for-luxury-retail-group-ppr.do
Monday 6 June 2011
the doom generation
Gregg Araki is one of my favourite directors. Here are a load of stills I took from The Doom Generation. Nihilism, satanism, orgies, castration, murder, death, and valley girls.
Amy Blue gets all the best lines.
why don't you go passionately fuck yourself/wake up and smell the cappuccino geek/you're like a life support system for a cock/if bullshit were music you'd be a big brass band/that guy has the intelligence of a stool sample/could you please take a reality pill
Post Apocalypse
Hello
I banned myself from all blogs, including my own, over finals, but here I am in the post-apocalyptic waste that is my exam free life. Just joking, it was all fine, really enjoyed it actually. I almost felt guilty that I wasn't more stressed and scared.
Here are a couple of songs that got me through the lonely nights in the library:
I am pretty much in love with this guy, he is South London and three of my friends have bumped into him since I played them his songs, strange small world. He seems too young to be so mournful (16!). Gingers have it hard I suppose.
This is such a beautiful version of Laura Branigan's Self Control (my vote for best music video of the 80's). Sunday Girl is also a stone cold fox, so that helps. Also check 'The Earth Plates are Shifting' by The Young Empires.
The Wooden Birds seem somehow a little more adult than the usual low-fi guitar fare, and being a bona fide, genuine, grown up I can appreciate that. Music for people who like to read and drink whisky of an afternoon.
Dreamy summer daze hip hop. Can't wait for the sunshine to return and spend the day lazing in Port Meadow.
Going to do a couple of photo posts in the next couple of days, got a real fine collection going since I last posted.
Saturday 16 April 2011
Friday 25 March 2011
liscious living
all photos by meeeee.
Monday 21 March 2011
90's child
Bought some bright ribbons from a children's craft shop, and some children's jewellery from Primark. And lo and behold my new Nike ID Dunks. Had them made about a month ago, because I couldn't find any all grey trainers, and got enticed by the neon peach lining at the last minute. Super brights. Yeahhhhhhhhhhh. Top Gap, skirt Reiss, trainers Nike ID, jewellery customised Primark.
I was inspired by the tutorials on Honestly WTF?
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