Shot by Jonny Mallen
HMU by Anna Payne
Working on my website at the moment and looking through my old shoots. Big thanks to Anna's parents for this one, who lent us every rug in their house...
30 September 2016
How I'll be looking on the beach this autumn
Lachlan Bailey and Geraldine Saglio for Vogue Japan
October 2016
29 September 2016
28 September 2016
Grotto
I always enjoy making the journey to Hauser + Wirth, Saville Row and peering in at tailor's workshops below street level.
Mike Kelley takes up two rooms at the gallery at the moment with 'Framed and Frame', aiming to explore the place between reality and the imagined.
Detail from Chinatown Wishing Well
Mike Kelley, 1999
Interested in Middle America's 'diverse and alternative subcultures', Kelley presents two installations that look at Los Angeles' marginalised Chinese-American community. Honestly, it's pretty weird. The grotto-like piece (above) consists of spray painted concrete with religious paraphernalia stuck and frozen on to its facade. It has a small cave underneath it, where a tatty looking mattress is hidden - it all feels a bit dark.
Detail from Chinatown Wishing Well
In some ways I was surprised it left me feeling a bit cold - aesthetically it ticks lots of boxes: the candy coloured spritz' of colour, the gaudy religious trophies - both things I really like. It reminded me of the drug fuelled hippie days described by Eileen Myles in her autobiography 'Chelsea Girls' which I've just finished. (NB: not for the faint hearted).
It also sort of reminded me (in a good way) of Koons piece, 'Play Doh' which you can catch at Newport Street Gallery now.
Play Doh
Jeff Koons, 1999 - 2014
3 Americans working at the same time, there's probably something in that (insert emoticon with rolling eyes here).
27 September 2016
26 September 2016
Them Apples
Love the play of textures in this jewellery still life
Shot by Anthony Cotsifas
Set design and styled by Haidee Findlay-Levin
For NY Times Style Magazine, August 2016
23 September 2016
18 September 2016
Autumn on its way...
Just home from a week in Majorca, seeing out the last of the heat that summer has to offer... Stepping off the plane at Gatwick is always a bit of a shock! Especially when you're still wearing your sunblock smeared (and small) beach clothes from a last minute dash to the beach before take off.
But things could be worse, especially when your flatmate's a florist and creates beautiful autumnal bunches like this.
18 August 2016
George Shaw
Slightly dark but interesting paintings by George Shaw at the National Gallery at the moment
19 July 2016
18 July 2016
Spain
A week of rest and reading... and gin and tonics and a delicious diet of beige
Lunch in Madrid at what I think is my favourite restaurant (ever).
5 July 2016
Party bags
Last weekend's party bags
Feeling gutted the beads are loosening on my smiley face bag...
16 June 2016
Wardrobe in the woods
A dreamy set up last weekend on location - until the rain came! New editorial in the pipeline....
3 June 2016
Namesake
When you're 16 and literally can't think of ANYTHING cooler than making a pair of jeans in to a mini skirt and sewing your name in gold beads. A great archive find...
2 June 2016
His n His
Bruce Weber and Clare Richardson, Holiday Magazine SS16
Matching father and son looks - reminds me of holidays in Spain as a child, and marvelling at smartly dressed and matching families.
1 June 2016
Birkenstocks and Boots
Aged Birkenstocks at home
My version of Van Gogh's boots
Boots with Laces, 1886
Bought from a flea market in Paris and not worn (didn't fit) but instead painted many times
31 May 2016
Driving in Your Car
Driving in your car I never never want to go home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtW1MAZ32M
The Smiths, There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Latest t-shirt embroidery
24 May 2016
19 May 2016
Earl Grey
The most beautiful bouquet keeping me company on the bus home last night. I love how wild and natural it looks - I'm told this bunch is called 'Earl Grey'.
Tube Style II
Maybe I'll start a series of people on the tube?!
Loved the 90s style length and print of this skirt - and the thick satin ribbon used as laces
Loved the 90s style length and print of this skirt - and the thick satin ribbon used as laces
17 May 2016
Pink Sequins
Charity shop updates: a new bed throw and two essentials for the styling kit....
Thank you, Hammersmith!
16 May 2016
Boscono by Lindberg and Richardson
A British summer by the seaside.....? In reality a lot less chic
Mariacarla Boscono by Peter Lindberg and Clare Richardson for Vogue Italia 2014
One of my all time favourite shoots
13 May 2016
12 May 2016
10 May 2016
Elsie
Elsie 'Toodles' Thomas, c 1907-8
Alvin Langdon Coburn
I went to see the new Pre-Raphaeltite and Photography exhibition today, and while being pretty underwhelmed was struck by how modern some of the early color photography looked - this c.1907 photo could be straight out of a current fashion editorial.
London's Skyscrapers
Shooting amidst London's Skyscrapers last week for a SS16 campaign... This was shortly before it started snowing!
6 May 2016
Bow shoes
Imagine my happiness this morning when at the National Gallery, I realised my latest shoe purchase would not look out of place on the foot of an early 19th Century landscape painter:
Louis-Auguste Schwiter, 1826-30
Eugene Delacroix
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