Showing posts with label Exhibtion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exhibtion. Show all posts

Monday, 26 January 2009

Kray Twins under the hammer

If I wasn't so lazy and miserable...today would have been a good day to go n have a ganders at 150 of the late brothers' personal effects, as they go under the hammer in a sale likely to raise tens of thousands of pounds.

The items, according to Tom Keane, co-owner of Chiswick Auctions, were given to a "very close friend of the Krays" who grew up with them and made regular treks to see Reggie in prison and Ronnie in Broadmoor. Heres a few of my favorites...




Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Fashion vs Sport

I touched on this subject a few posts back about Aitor Throup. I STILL havent been to the exhibition but have been reading more and more about it. Heres a video of 1 of the artists at the exhibiton Alex Nash. He customizes shoes...dunno if i'd have the bottle to fuck about with these jordans.

Tuesday, 9 September 2008

££ = Winter Jacket = Aitor Throup

Winters coming, and after having to sell my previous 'expensive jacket' to pay back debt for my reading ticket, I'm desperatley wanting a new jacket for the winter. After flicking through dazed&confused's autumn fashion section, I came across a few coats that caught my eye. One of the ones featured that I thought was a bit of a joke, was designed by Aitor Throup, It basically looked like an elephants tusk on the hood of a coat, with the longest fish-tail i'd seen on a 'parka style coat'. I checked out his website and all these mad illustrations of jackets he's designed came up. Some of my favorites are just below.

I read on about him and came across the title 'When Football hooligans become Hindu gods'.Now they we're making more sense and starting to look alot more like the CP company and other Massimo osti jackets i've been wanting to afford for years, only difference being, all this collection are based on hindu gods. Although I wouldnt wear alot of the jackets 'around town', If I was some ponsy rich bastard in an audi, I'd own all of these. His inspiration for desining these jackets came from the days when he was a Burnley fan, and noticed the style of clothing the other fans wore. He picked up on it and began designing at London college of Fashion, Aswell as writing the book CASUALS. His exhibtion is currently on at the V&A, But tickets are fucking pricey. If anyones down for going pretty soon let me know. Meanwhile heres a few flicks to do with him i've found on the www.