THE CALAMITY KID: style

Monday, 14 November 2011

PLACES: GRAYSON PERRY LATE AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM

The British Museum threw a late night spectacular celebrating the craftsman to coincide alongside the current Grayson Perry exhibition 'Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsmen.' A night of pom-pom making and lots of other artsy, crafty activities which was attended by some incredibly well dressed folks, including my dear friend Stella. Three outfits by St Marten's graduates caught my eye...

Anna Bel Luton was inspired by 'femme fatales' throughout history. Her smoking hot model definitely has the potential to fall into this category. I was a huge fan of the banana yellow sheer shirt with over-sized pockets and leather piping. Not to mention the beautiful ochre velvet skirt (of sorts). An interesting colour combination which shouldn't work but most definitely does.

Unfortunately my photos do not do justice to James Nolan's use of crisp minimalist lines and pleats in this awesomely dour outfit. Based on L.S. Lowry's 'The Funeral Party,' Nolan has taken the naive silhouettes of the painting and transformed them into a working garment. I WANT THIS OUTFIT IN MY WARDROBE.

Jake Wiseman used African tribe, the Shangaan, and their dancers colourful costumes as basis for this outfit . I love the heavy, intricate pleats and the jingle jangle (technical term) quality of the cuffs.

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

PLACES: FUCK YEAH! SHOES!

I hate how women are supposed to have an ingrained lust of shoes. It's like we're supposed to have part of our brain proportioned off especially for shoe pondering. Because ya know, nothing actually important goes on in a woman's head. KMT. I blame SATC. They made it perfectly acceptable for women to aim for two things in life: 1. A husband 2. A shoe wardrobe to put our many pairs of over priced shoes. It's like yes, Emily Davison threw herself under a horse just so us birds could get the right to own as many pair of Manolo Blahniks we can squeeeeeze into a wardrobe. We come kicking and screaming into this world just to shove out feet straight into a pair of Jimmy Choos. LUDICROUS. Rant. Over.

Now I am going to massively contradict myself and show you some pretty pictures of some pretty awesome shoes. YEAH! SHOES!