luke brooks

Knitwear designer, Luke Brooks
A/W 2012 // Central St. Martins

"I did research in the conventional way but didn't know how to convert these into design. In frustration I shredded and boiled my material (drawings, photographs, notes, knit samples) down in a big cooker of water until it became a concentrated dark liquid. It felt like a magic potion."
Dazed + Confused, The Art Issue

"I feel like fashion, art and craft are the most relevant to my work. I have philosophical debates about my work internally, but am not yet sure how much of that I'd like to involve in the presentation of my work. Performance is something I think about and part of me wants to be a showman. I found that folks being around when we were making the pieces at college and discussing them added extra energy to the proceedings and this trickled down into the garments. I would like to propagate these kind of interactions around my work or the work of a group. I've thought about how exciting it could be to make a collection in strange surroundings, like a model Celtic village or something." Interview HERE 

a subtlety

 

Where I Was From

perfect clothes, perfect styling.
~ now on the hunt for the perfect offwhite tee, clog/wedge & corduroy trousers...

milk

Photography :: Laurence Ellis // Styling :: Ilaria Norse

Keeping the all white ensembles rolling on into winter; simplistically and gorgeously minimal ~

pretty & awkward, it's not always an either / or.

Pretty & awkward, it’s not always an either/or. true - my favourite type of person / object / art / music / thing...

Mikael Jansson for Interview

This is so so good ~ the photography, styling - layering, tones (i see deep crimsons and purples being a fundamental colour for my autumnal dressing), textures and a mash up of prints (i'm all over those print trousers / suits.) & the shoes! ~ clunky, chunky, bold, platform - YES.

At once awkward, eccentric, elegant, clumsy, avant garde... love.

only so many tomorrows

Lena Kholkina | Cake zine
~ whatever you want to do, do it. there’s only so many tomorrows ~

sundaze

sundaiz r dull | finding Gavriel Maynard's photos have brightened my mood loads though.

trawling through thecobrasnake (for whom Maynard occasionally shoots for) is giving me real nostalgia right now, back to the days when i was sixteen, when cory kennedy was at the helm of hipster life (remember her?!) and religiously sought style inspiration from + wanted to be the gurls n boyz who partied hard and looked rad in whatever the hell they chucked on. it's giving me the urge (again) to customize everything i own, chuck it all on, dye my hair + go dance. so here are some photos of hipsters rrly kl kids doing their thang and looking rlly cool doing it ~