Went to the Tate Mod to see Gauguin's exhibition.

Before I begin this post, I must admit Gauguin's work is not really my cup of tea. But this exhibition was fantastically stunning. His bold experimentation with colours was spectacular. Also brilliant use of medium and compositions too.

Also saw Ai WeiWei's "The Unilever Series"

This was actually a surprisingly interesting exhibition.

Made up of millions of sunflower seeds, each apparently identical but actually unique, the process of this took five to six years. Every single one of the sunflower seed is, in fact, intricately handcrafted by many workers in China. I didn't understand it at first. But having watched the documentary I understood that they were not just sunflower seeds. What laid in front of me was the sweat, effort and hard work of hundreds of people over the course of five to six years.

In the documentary, Ai WeiWei explained that during the period of Mao, he was constantly surrounded by sunflowers, symbolizing that he was the sun. To the chinese culture, sunflower seeds meant, well, more than just sunflower seeds.

Click here to read more about the exhibition

Warhol

Lara Stone and Georgia Jagger make gap teeth the new face of fashion

Popularity of models has made unusual looks the new perfection


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Calvin Klein

This ad campaign featuring Lara Stone has been banned by the Australia Advertising Standards Bureau due to its suggestive violence and rape.

This should really come to us as no surprise though. On top of my head I can already think of a few other Calvin Klein campaigns where they have victimized or portrayed women as sexualized objects. Degrading, perhaps. But who doesn't like a bit of skin?

This idea of sexualizing women reminds me of Terry Richardson's work. Known as "fashion's raunchiest photographer", Richardson has already faced several allegations on sexually harassing his models. In his most recent work with GQ (november issue), he shot the Glee cast where the female leads, Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, were stripped down to their underwear whilst the male lead, Cory Monteith was fully dressed. Richardson also childified these "high school" stars with the use of lollipops and long socks.

Suggesting this is paedaphilia is perhaps pushing it a bit too far. Afterall, members of the Glee cast are all in their mid twenties. They must of known what they were getting themselves into...surely?

Yesterday I joined my friend Amber Atherton at her myflashtrash pop up store at Shoreditch house.

FLASH TRASH was set up by Amber Atherton in October 2008 in an attempt to give unique jewellery designers a platform to display their creativity and sell their pieces online to savvy, fashion forward consumers. Flash Trash jewellery is hand made by real designers in their studios, offering you more than the generic, mass produced accessories on the high street. After all just because you want to be fashionable, doesn’t mean you need to follow the herd.

Flash Trash currently features jewellery from over 30 designers from around the world including Patricia Nicolas, YUEN, Lucie Ellen, Cheung Lik, Naomi Sheppard, ElsieBelle, SilverService, Astali, RJJ Jewels, Vera Meat, Hafsteinn Juliusson, Defiles From Paris, Alexander Davis, Jasmine Chan, Bexi, LUALUA, Glint Jewellery, Ines Suaseta, Silver Service, Stephanie Thonet, TACH, Serretta, Chloe Hope, Twinkle, Bexi, LunarraStar, ROKCHIX, RubyRouge, N@talia, Vivi+Vivi, Eclectic Eccentricity, Sandrine Tessier, Halycon Days, Anna Bee, Défilés from Paris, Pebble London and Pistachio. We are constantly on the look out for new talent, if you would like your jewellery to be featured on Flash Trash send us an email telling us a bit about yourself with images of your designs and we will review your collection.

Amber

Rosie Forstescue and I

LFW street styles

Here are some of my favourites

The resemblance?

 

Black is back

So is minimalism

  

Details

Androgyny

Young guns

 

 

 

young love