Being a Dickhead's cool

hahaha, East London baby!

Dear Santa...

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By OYEE DESIGN

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By NDEUR
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Seen on TheTrendyGirl

Un smok' avec le SMIC

Moi, quand j'ai le budget, je m'achète la veste pied-de-poule.
Oui, pour aller avec ma jupe.

Si seulement on avait les Inconnus en 2010..

Spéciale dédicace à Mathilde

Colorful Music - Part 2

As promised, Ebony Bones!

The first time I saw her and her band was at a free concert this summer in Paris in front of the Hotel de Ville.

Seeing is the right term. First you see the rainbow then you hear it.

Ebony mixes sounds and rythmes in a dynamic mess to dance away your worries.

You will quite understand why I have to mention her if I tell you that she was performing during JC De Castelbajac fashion show, Pirates and Parrots, at the last Paris Fashion Week.

Ebony Bones - The Musik (Clip Officiel)

This participative video clip is brillant.
It perfectly represents the best 2010 has to offer. Globalization of creativity, sharing of passion and music. .

http://www.myspace.com/ebonybones

ps: if one of you got the number of her guitarist, the Indian, your price is my price..

Colorful Music - Part 1

Sliimy is Pop, Sliimy is Funky.

French Mika-look-alike singer and musician, Sliimy's got a terrific style.

Refreshing to listen to and to look at, with a nice pop/graphic/colorful/stylish video that caught my attention.

Hey, I know that watch!

http://www.sliimy.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sliimy

Coming next: 'Colorful Music - Part 2': Ebony Bones, who else...

Seeing life through a Prism

Exquisite glasses from Anna Laub. Working in the world of trends and fashion journalism, she is the creative director of PRISM and has been tracking what people were wearing in cities like London, Rio, New York to create this collection.

Paris - CreamTortoiseShell

Rio - CrystalGrey

Newyork - Clear


http://www.prismlondon.com/ http://prismlondon.blogspot.com/

Now, my fake Wayfarer glasses from Guangzhou look pretty discreet...

Watch me!

I love watches.

I often joke about it saying it's because of my Asian origins (dont know if i have any but i feel like it ^^) The total budget of advertisement for watches in HK must be pretty close to the French GDP.. So there must be something about watches. Is it because it symbolizes Time, that precious commodity giving rythm and meaning to our life?

The thing is that I have recently experienced something with my watch that has given me some serious keys for a theory about it...

I have a watch from my favorite fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (give me colors, give me craziness and I'm happy). There it is: my Pop Hours!

And each time I am wearing it, people notice it and make a comment about it, mostly "I like your watch!". And that's how I realized: watches are always noticed. They are part of the few things that clearly define us to the rest of the world. It is like a super facebook profile picture we wear all the time on us: this is who i am, and on a higher level: this is how i want you to see me.

Imagine someone naked, wearing his/her watch. (I am not putting any picture to illustrate that, I am sure you all have it coming to mind).

Every other accessory or piece of clothes would never be enough on its own to let you guess the style of the person, his social status, his tastes. It depends on how they are associated to create a style.

And now, think of the watch. It's all there. The brand tells you how much money was put into that watch. If it's expensive, the style let you know if its for showing-off or real bourgeoisy. The classic ones are for serious people, who like sober style, and you can easily guess if it's linked to good-taste or i-dont'care-about-style-taste . The crazy watches are for provocative people. "I am big, I am colorful, you will for sure notice me" is what the watch is telling to the whole world. Of course, it means you control your style and you're proud of it enough to have the watch matching it. I could go on forever to cover all the posibilities.

This is my theory: your watch is YOU. That's why it is so important. You have a synthesis of your identity just there, at your wristle, and everyone sees it, they know you in the blink of an eye.

I am strongly interested if you also have theories about watches.
Enough with the boring, let's talk about JC de Castelbajac! With images.

The Lego Collection

Pirates! Parrots! And Paradise! Paris Fashion week (photo:AFP)

You love pop, you just have to love JCDC!

http://www.jc-de-castelbajac.com/

Hmm, in fact I can't resist to tell where I've got that watch... This my best moment of inglorious glory...

The few lucky (or should i say unlucky) who have seen this picture without the 'outch', could tell you...before I decide to kill them because they know too much.

How great is that: a fashion show is The place to look glamorous, sexy, perfect, and I just look like an ass.. haha, this is so ironic..

It was at the launching party in Paris last September of the first JC/DC collection 'Punkahontas and the the ducks". JC/DC being his new ready-to-wear brand, at a more accessible price for a younger generation.

Yep baby!

ps: sorry for my horrible French English, i'm trying my best... some day i'll be fluent..(plzzz, someone hire me for an internship in London/NY, plzz!)

ps2: why is my heading picture so blurrryyyyy?!!

Andrea Crews

"Fashion, Art, Activism"

Andrea Crews is a collective led by Maroussia Rebecq, resourceful plastic artist, who performs between art and fashion by federating stylists, illustrators, musicians, video directors and performers.

The fashion concept? Andrea Crews creates clothes and accessories, reinterpreting second-hand clothes, or classics of other brands, by getting back stocks and by cutting in the falls. For a second-hand stores lover like me, I can only approve. Andrea Crews also prints basics in association with associated artists, and can create for famous brands such as the reinterpretation of the Lacoste's crocodile.

You can find Andrea Crews' creations in a trendy studio/shop 10, rue Frochot, Paris-9ème or at Colette (where else?). Take me to Paris! Well, you can also find creations in shops from Miami to Hong Kong (and I only know it now...)

Of course, music loves Andrea Crews, ask Yelle, The Do, Santigold or Metronomy. When pop meets ultra-pop!

The jogging collection 2010

Fresco Palais de Tokyo, 2002

http://www.andreacrews.com/

Never-ending halloween with Tim

Ohh Tim.. You sure know how to turn into images the delightful poetry of our nightmares...
I will talk about his movies some day because i wanna post an article about the best movies i've seen in my childhood and also because he is my favorite director.

But for now, let's see what's the link between fashion and T.Burton. Seen on the Harper's Bazaar's website: "Tim Burton's Magical Fashion". Tim Burton reimagines the season's dark delights. Photographs by Tim Walker

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/tim-burton-halloween-fashion-1009

For all the lucky bastards passing by NY, Tim Burton is exhibited at the MoMA: November 22, 2009–April 26, 2010. The exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. Here you can see T.Burton's spot (as always, music by Danny Elfman):

And, as im sure you all already know, let's get prepared for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderwall... Coming out 7th April 2010 in France.

Hope you had your fill of Tim Burton for the day! :)