HOUSE OF HACKNEY

Get yourselves down to the House of Hackney Pop Up shop sharpish. I went to the launch party last night and what the talented Frieda and Javvy have accomplished in such a short space of time puts the rest of us to shame. Each story they have created is perfectly different but they all make you leave wanting each piece. You can't pick up a paper or go online without reading an article about HOH at the moment and they are defiantly set for high heights.

The shop is open until Sunday on Stokenewington Road and the on-line store opens in the next few days. Go see the magic for yourselves...

www.houseofhackney.com

''To coincide with the website launch the label is hosting a Pop up Shop over 4 floors of a Dalston Town house where the collections ‘ Dalston Rose’, Queen Bee and Hackney Empire can be seen in their glory. Grungy chintzed florals on wallpaper and monogrammed bed linen are ombre’d and tattooed in Dalston Rose; Queen Bee is a luxe tromp l’oeil and Hackney Empire sees animalistic debauchery with parrots and cranes, bush babies playing the accordion, badgers drinking cocktails, sloths smoking hookahs and a frog in a bowler hat. Wallpaper, bed linen, fine bone china, tasseled lampshades and antiqued mirrors sit alongside trophy pieces of furniture such as hand carved beds made for three, Victorian conversation chairs, Love seats and chaise longues in the eponymous fabrics and prints.''

Feeling a bit like this today.

Would you pay 1 million for this dog?

The Red Tibetan Mastiff dog, worth £1,000,000

R.I.P Elizabeth Taylor

R.I.P Nate Dogg

Latest Obsession: The Painted Rug

Le Flâneur from Luke Shepard on Vimeo.

This is exactly why I love Paris.

Back To The Future

Love this photography project by Irina Werning where she has got friends and family to recreate their childhood photos. See the full project at www.irinawerning.com

The New Must Have Accessory

The bow and arrow at Hermes...
everything about that show was just amazing.

After shooting the ‘Morrison Hotel’ images for said album, Jim Morrison’s need for drink drove the band down to L.A.’s skid row, where The Doors happened upon a little dive bar called ‘Hard Rock Cafe’. The boys were all piled in John Densmore’s VW van with photographer Henry Diltz, when they collectively spotted the joint with the now famous name on East 5th St. and all said, “Oh, we gotta go in there!”

Side one of ‘Morrison Hotel’ would end up being named ‘Hard Rock Cafe’, and famously pictured on the back of the album. The shots taken that day back in December of ’69 are some of my favorite Doors’ pics. Years later photographer Henry Diltz recalled–

“I guess though sometime the next year after the album came out with that picture on the back, they [The Doors] got a call from England and this guy says, ‘Hello. Would you mind if we use that name on the back of your album? We’re starting a cafe over here in London and we would like to use that name.’ And they said, ‘No, go ahead,’ and that was the beginning of it. Now every time I go into a Hard Rock Cafe, whatever city I’m in, I always feel like I should get a free hamburger.”

Taken from The Selvedge Yard.

Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX

'I'll Take Care Of U'
Lovely Stuff.

Givenchy AW11 is flawless.

Céline AW11

Bally X Central Saint Martins

Bally has chosen up and coming CSM student Craig Green to design a capsule collection that mixes the brand heritage with more of an industrial urban edge. It's way too kool for skool.

Come on people. Let's embrace the colour in our wardrobes. It might make the sun come out sooner?

H.O.H

House Of Hackney...Coming soon.
You will need it in your life. F.A.C.T

www.houseofhackney.com

all i want...

Missoni is smokin' for AW. My fav so far, its a breath of fresh air.