Adieu

I think I have made the decision to move into the next life. My short lived blogger will be no more. Instead I am going to reinvent myself on tumblr. No offence blogger.

http://samuelrowe.tumblr.com/


You can expect much more of the same. But with added personality. Not as in attitude, but just more general stuff. Me kinda stuff. And lots more poor grammar and silly spelling errors.

So this is it. This must be what Test Icicles felt when they split up.



That was a very large joke.

If I was a Wintour...

I have hit a mental wall. Like usual I have run out of subject matter. Well mildly decent matter anyways. I wish I was a famoius writer and was invited to all teh parties at LDN fashion week and Paris fashion week and NY FASHION WEEK.

Instead I have to read about them in magazines and imagine. Goddamit.

On the upside this dude called Nicolo contacted me and I realy like his stuff. He has single handedly created a label called Victorian Uncut (and is a friend of those genii at 5Preview) has a really nice freshers line! The logo is especially good. Appaz they are going to do some collaborations. Excitement!

Yall should check him out and send him monies for clothes. I guess I should put some pictures up or something. I'll do a better profile oh V U some time soon though. Promise.

Too Many Sheeps.

Sorry Gracia but you have quite definately identified youself as a sheep to fashion. Absolutely no pioneering or original thought happening there. Maybe I was unlucky and this week's issue is just a bit lacking in oomph. But from what I have read there is no way I am going back to look for any advice or ideas for future reference.



Congratulations. You have given a succinct summary of what was on the high street circa two months ago (Brogues, grunge like stuff ect). Not only that but have also given us an insight into how the young socialites are managing to leach onto the industry and imprint themselves for roughly one season before falling back onto their parental assets, buying a nice house in Notting hill or somewhere equally cliché. I'm not that cynical but there are certain things that get on my nerves. A major annoyance are meeks. Be bold! Make your own decisions. Just please, please, please do not be behind on basis of your glossy mag. One last thing. These stupid hats that everyone seems to be sending down the runways are really not good. They look at best very strange and most of the time just plain stupid. STOP NOW. Before someone gets hurt.

p.s Gracia I am sorry. It must be hard producing a magazine every week and still managing to keep fresh info on the go. Oh and stop using the word next. Ping words do not make you sound young.

Wana See Something Horrific?

I won't write much, right, instead I will give you a warning. What comes next is not something to be messed with. It is a lethal mix of shoe on croc and must be feared by all. No messing people. This is the real deal so deal with it! Lock up your daughters, in fact lock everything away. It is a CROC-DECKSHOE-MASH-DEATHRAY-HELLHOLE. I'm sorry. So, so sorry.




ps Has anyone else noticed how Katy Perry actually looks like a man?!

Autumn Blues

I hate this time of year. Christmas is too far away to get excited about, yet summer has completely gone now. It's all grey skies and rainy days from here on in. But why let the weather get you down? Let's embrace this time of change and take it in our stride. ,,I'm just kidding you. Why the hell would you want to do that? It's horrific outside and there is no getting away from it. So let's look at warm things that will keep you reasonably happy this wintour.

To get under way I am going to tip my blog hat to my good friend Lowell. Last autumn he said that this year the deerhunter hat would come into fashion. I agreed with him and low and behold would you look at that: Asos have started stocking them. I reckon if you want something to keep your barnet at bay in the gale force winds or just want to keep your little auricles warm these babies are the thing for you.

Then moving down the body, onto outerwear. QUILTS. I know Silly Hoe (Daisy Lowe) and Touchmy Bum (Alexa Chung) were spotted at various festivals wearing Barbours and I already have one but what is stopping you, the fashionistas, looking like your grandad? I am currrently searching for another Barbour as mine is falling apart. Uniqlo also provide a nice lasses quilted coat that has a furry hood and is shorter. Good if you aren't into looking like Death Himself and swooping down the leaf littered streets. To cut to the chase basically quilts are the new macs. Although I reckon macs should be the dark horse of the outerwear this season.

Then to jumpers. I don't really care for them as for me jumpers are just additional layers. But if you are into them then I guess a nice childish pattern always goes down well. Teddy bears, snowflakes, whatever. Just make sure it fits and is warm. Unless you are a girl in which case baggy jumpers are actually very fetch. Although fetch is a very lame word. Once again whatever.

Moving swiftly on, tshirrrts. I have already sung 5preview's praises (ps I bought their tshirt and my god does it look good!) but I think you have to take size to extremes. If your a bit twiggy like me then let it hang off you OR keep it snug. Don't be a conservative, make like Green and go all out. And kill off the stripes unless it's Breton.

This is getting seriously long so for jeans, basically your usual super skinny fit with either high turn ups or pin rolls. Then for shoesies let's go for some Shofolk
shoes or some DM's. Anything sturdy.

There. All set and done. Roll on even further weather depression. Oh and for the record Daisy Lowe is not a silly hoe. She just happens to have an unfortunate rhyme in her name. Good bye and good night.

Is It A Man? Is It A Woman?

Is it a tumour?! Today's rant comes from my reading this month and the A/S seasonal i-D and Pop magazines last night. I know I've had a go at fashion magazines in the past but of late they have been getting better. In fact I loved the editorial in Pop and I don't usually read editorials. But back to the point, it wasn't the way the mags were written, it was some of the fashion included inside.

I'm not one to judge on appearance but some of the "fashion" I saw was just silly. To start with let's take a look at i-D. P.56, the title is 'Shape and Form: Build, make destroy. Taking a look at the two pictures below the heading it is clear to see that the two designers have clearly thought about doing all three and ended up only the latter. Giles and Junya Watanabe are the convicts up for trial. Starting with Giles.

i-D described his season's work as "sexy michelin men". I'm quite sure that that is an oxymoron. To be fair it looked like someone had given the model a dress made out of an air bed and then blown it up. I wish we were in the days when fashion all about looking a billion dollars. Not like an oversized blueberry. If I could find you a photo of it I would happily pop it down. Instead I'll move onto Junya's work before I annoy someone.

Now it was her work that got on my nerves the most. I can easily relate her work to conceptual art. Now I'm not one to be biased either but personally I find Stuckism a LOT better than the YBA's. I've drifted off subject again. In short I am not a fan of conceptual rubbish. Therefore when I saw a woman wearing what appeared to be a pair of tights over multiple tumour like growths coming out of the top of her head needless to say I wasn't very impressed. I-D described it as "sculptural face covering turbans." To me it looked like something out of Resident Evil. Utter rubbish. I mean how can you say "Oh yeah I totally get what she is getting at," because what she is getting at is NOTHING. If the film Idiocracy was real this is what fashion would be like.

On the other hand I found Pop's mixture of cheese and jewellery very refreshing. I always like their Juxtapositioning of strange items. Although some of the time it makes little sense it always makes me chuckle. Oh and i-D is worth reading. I just found a couple of articles exceptionally goriffic. I loved their interview with Stella McCartney.

Rant Over.

Henry must be kicking himself!

Mr Henry Holland, producer of fine goods and head of the House of Holland. A name that many of you will know, possibly due to the rocketing fame of Agyness Deyn, possibly because you were one of the first people to rock a slogan t-shirt. Either way if you know him or not you will definately know his work; those day-glo tops with comical and rhyming slogans about various celebrities and fashionistas.

In the early stage of their lives these tops where the cheeky wares of the well dressed and those people who are always two hearbeats ahead of the trends. Then things changed. For the worse. Somehow the tops became a national phenomena. Everyone from rich to poor, old to young was wearing them. But they certainly weren't wearing old Holland's slogans. Nope this happened to coincide with the nu-rave fever. As a result the even brighter copy t-shirts adorned things like "Frankie says rave" and the revival of "Drop beats not bombs". Just writing these makes me cringe. I can happily say I never bought a silly slogan t-shirt.

Back to subject, so now fashion had moved on. Rave was no longer a featch term to drop into a conversation nor was it seriously used as a statement. It had gained more of a tongue in cheak meaning. Well for the It kids it had. But those among us who shop at sport world and jd sports, well well well. Now they just kept it all alive. You see the tops had become their staple upper half item. So when everyone started to think Doherty had some style ideas and swapped their glowsticks for strawhats and Fred Perry poloshirts the more "sport centered" to put it nicely were keeping The House's first escapade alive.

Mr Holland, you must be kicking yourself. At least they won't be able to afford your sunglasses.

The Fantastic 5

I stumbled across these guys when seeing the Teenagers at Reading festival. Quentin (the singer) was wearing this t shirt on stage and all weekend I was trying to work out where it had come from. At first I thought it was a special edition Chanel top but upon getting home and trawling the nets I found nothing. Then by chance I found Dorian from the Teenagers' flickr.

I commened on one of the pictures where you can see it and Quentin nicely told me it was from a company I had never heard of before: 5Preview. Upon checking out their website I found that they had a whole array of brilliant monochrome tops down for beeswax. Then it turns out that my flickr comment is on their blog!

Enough yapping.. some pics to feast your eyes on.


ps im know this is a short post but its getting me in the zen state to actually write some half decent posts. Check back soon xo

There's Something About..

Fashion Writing. It sucks. I am pretty sure that in most sectors of journalism when an editor becomes an editor it is because they are prolific writers. Not simply because they can put the most exclamation marks on the end of a sentence. But it would seem that that is how most fashion writers manage to get into the business: they simply have an over dramatic writing style and thus are given a job for being 'down with the kids'. I am a kid. And they are not down with me.

For a while in my life I really enjoyed reading i-D and Pop as they seemed to be cool and up to date with trends I could actually relate to but of late I can't read a single article without cringing due to lack of personal flair and sheer boredom. I am quite sure that nu-rave is thouroughly dead and rightly so. Yet somehow the two mags mentioned earlier manage to dig up some reference to glow sticks or other crap. Surely they should be trying to update all the time like Cheekbone in Mighty Boosh!

Now I'm not trying to rewrite the rules of fashion journalism, as obvisouly I have no influence in it (just you wait) but if the afformentioned magazines could possibly become slightly more like Vice or Vogue then maybe they would keep up in the world of fashion and keep us interested. Well me at least. I'm not conddemming them, only a few of the writers. Just please, please learn to use proper punctuaion and write like your 20 not 13.


P.s Aggy Dean we need something new and clean. Like a new style. I hate it when things become over hyped and over used. I'm all for you "keeping it punk" and what not but lets try something other than the music scene. Or why not champion a new fresh face Sir/ Madame Fashion Magazines.

Rant over. I'm back in the writing swing.

Sozzards

About the lack of written communication over the past few weeks. I'll get writing soon. My excuse is that I've just been doing my GCSEs. But once they are over I'll get straight back on it.