Monday, October 05, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Book cover ideas - Collab with Robbie Davies
Davies vs Fox-BohanThis is the result of the collab that I've been waiting for for ages.
My friend Robbie Davies' graphics work over my photographs.
I love Robbie's work and he generously offered to collab with me on some ideas for the cover of the upcoming book.
(I'm gonna try and pin him down for some of his amazing illustrations next.)
Thank you Robbie.
See more of his work here: http://pandpp.carbonmade.com/projects/2422305#7
(More to come)
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.” - Richard Avedon
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Saturday, August 01, 2009
WAH Mag. Little sister/Sharmadean Reid
SALLY BOHAN
London born designer Sally Bohan has been a behind the scenes unit of some of the most respected brands of fashion today. Her most recent position was maintaining the womenswear for Nike's NSW collection but now sh moves on to pastures new andName: Sally Bohan
Age: 27
Hometown: London, UK
Now lives: Portland, OR, USA
What did you want to be when you were a kid?
I went to my friend Hannah’s 8th birthday party as a Fashion designer. (I was wearing C&A jean shorts over snoopy leggings, some black sateen shoes from Woolies, a velvet scrunchie and a sequined bandeau top).
Have you always been into street/sportswear?
Growing up in North London between Arsenal and Tottenham, there was a huge streetwear influence; and a sportswear influence - mostly from the football. I was obsessed with having the ‘best’ Nike’s when I was a teenager. My friends got robbed for their trainers, there was such a cache attached to them. You knew not to wear new Nike’s to Wood Green shopping centre. I’d be that kid in a tracksuit and Air Max, but once I got older and more into apparel design, my wardrobe got less lairy and more minimal. Streetwear will always influence my design process though. It is integral to any kind of contemporary apparel design in my opinion.
I know you used to intern at legendary style mag, The Face, before it closed.....tell us about your career path - education, internships, first jobs....
I sent off my CV to The Face when I was 16. I faxed it over (no email then) with a picture of a Hot Rod on the front that I got from Microsoft clipart. Anthony Unwin, the then Fash Ed’s Asst, really liked the car picture, so he rang me.
I started interning every Summer, and on weekend’s I’d help out on shoots for the Face, Pop, Numero and Arena. During fashion week I’d work as a dresser for the shows Katie Grand or Anthony were styling. My first show was Luella Bartley. I remember her spray painting all our Chuck Taylor’s fluoro pink. It was that ‘era’. From there I ended up helping out any time I wasn’t at school or working. Eventually Katie left and Anthony became the Fash Ed so I got to assist more seriously and travel more extensively. They even started paying for my travel card! It was an awesome time. I was there on and off for 5 years.
I did Textiles all through school, and did A-Level’s in Art, Textiles & Media Studies. I went to Chelsea Art College for Foundation/BTEC in Art & Design, specialising in Fashion Textiles. I studied Fashion at Brighton University, I liked the course because they took 15 people per year vs the London Inst schools who took hundreds. The tuition was more focused and the facilities were better than most schools I’d looked at. That was important to me because I always wanted to experiment. I spent my 3rd year in industry. I interned at Alexander McQueen and for Hussein Chalayan during his stint as Creative Director at Asprey, and also in his own studio in East London. I also worked for Kei Kagami. I learned so much in this time. I spent 2 solid weeks sewing ruffles on a McQueen showpiece, each ruffle had to be hand dyed to create a rainbow effect in the finished piece. I had to color in a McQueen corset with biro moments before it was sent off to Anna Wintour because the stripes needed to be black not grey for her shoot and they found biro worked best. Katie England also once got me to create a free machine embroidery piece based on toilet graffitti (including ‘for free sex call’ & many, many pictures of genitals). My friend who worked at the store told me it ended up on a pair of jeans.
Asprey was an amazing experience because it was this calm, clean studio space – total contrast to any environment I’d ever worked in. I worked with Cass Dicker, she used to head up Pattern cutting at Central St Martins but left to work as Hussein’s studio head. I learned an amazing amount from her. Anyone who can cut Hussein’s patterns is clearly gifted. She is an amazing individual.
With Kei I got to work with an ironmonger and some unique materials. His heavily architectural approach to fashion was refreshing. He saw clothes & shoes as buildings.
I graduated with honours. Luckily I loved doing my dissertation, but I fumbled my way through my Business Studies plan. I’m glad I did though, I still think getting good grades shows ambition & an ability to persevere. This approach doesn’t work for everyone though, that’s for sure.
How did you get the Nike job?
I took a job in America upon graduation for Abercrombie & Fitch doing denim in Columbus, Ohio. I’ve always been a massive fan of doing the unexpected; in order to diversify after growing up in London and never working for a high street designer/company I figured why not flip that and move to the middle of nowhere and go commercial.
I think paying off my student loan also figured into this... I lasted about a year. The hours were brutal and it was a really oppressive environment. I continued to work on my portfolio and kept my CV up to date.
I learned about denim and I learned that I never wanted to work for a company that mainstream again. I got a call from Nike around this time, because my CV was up on a recruitment website and I had sent it out to several agencies, I am always incredibly proactive in putting myself out there and looking for new opportunities in the industry. I went out to interview at Nike, met the team, everyone was really wicked, then I was offered a job on the spot by the Creative Director. I said yes, and was there for 4 years. It was a brilliant time in my career.
What makes you think about London?
Multiculturalism. In music, in arts, in community, in politics - in general. I miss diversity.
Working for a huge global brands is daunting, are you ever aware of the impact you have on the daily lives of your consumers?
In our designs we tried to offer those consumers as many benefits as possible - so they are always on our minds, and we regularly had focus groups or meet with influential consumers as well as working on projects such as key collaborators.
What brands do you admire?
A.P.C.
Visvim
Acne
BLESS
What are your thoughts on girls streetwear brands?
As a designer I am always disappointed when I see it in the flesh because the make/finishing is so bad. It seems a lot of the people running these brands don’t know much about apparel. There’s a ‘slap a graphic on it and do it in bright colours’ approach. I would like to see someone step it up and offer the same level of craftsmanship in a hoody as is applied to any other item in the industry at that price point.
From a cultural perspective, I think it’s really positive to see more women’s-specific streetwear brands competing in the market. It all seems very East Coast USA-specific, it would be nice to see some stronger European and Asian brands out there too.
What kind of girl do you design for?
She’s not from one specific culture, she’s globally-minded, she is very culturally aware and proactive in seeking out what is new. She works in a creative industry. She appreciates sportswear, but integrates it very sparingly into her wardrobe. She appreciates innovation that doesn’t sacrifice design.
Whats the future for you?
To look for new innovations, to keep pushing the boundaries, to keep elevating and remastering design. I never stop learning, that’s what I love about my job.
Can you name your TOP 5 FAVE right now?
1. The “MacGuffin Library” project
2. Ron Raffaelli and Nicole Avril’s photography book “Extases”
3. Kilties (fringed tongue that flaps over a shoe instep)
4. I quite fancy Michael Leon
5. Martin d’Orgeval’s book “Touched by Fire”
PHOTOGRAPHY BY LEO CACKETT
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Man O War trails II
Muffy came up some words to accompany the shoot today.
See his blog http://cementyoucunt.blogspot.com/
Man O War
A hundred feet away, the perfectly manicured lawn of the football pitch lies empty like the thousand of similar pitches across Britain. Worse than London’s bus lanes, the playground of thugs unused 99% of the time.A hundred feet away in a shitty unkempt scrap of woodland the trails are growing. 20 years before in Thatcher’s Britain, I built a skateboard ramp in these woods. We shared this dumping ground with glue sniffers and skinheads. Skateboard facilities were non existent. We were treated as criminals, we were the outcasts. The ramp in the woods lasted a spring and a summer before ironically, being torn to pieces by bored Roman Catholic school children for want of better things to do. Let’s hope the Man O War trails last longer.Concealed in dense undergrowth, they kinda spring up on you. Invisible from 30 feet, my first reaction upon finding them was ‘What the fuck?’. The sheer magnitude and effort these guys have gone to dwarfs the achievements of 20 years past.I thought I was alone; such is the camouflaged way of the trails. Not so, my stumbling bewildered presence was quickly noted by the trail men. Topless and dirty, shovels and picks in hand, beautiful. My photographer roommate would wet herself. All these sun dappled savages for her to shoot.And it would seem that history repeats itself. The parties, the barbeques, the friends living life their own way. Positive energies doing something off their own backs. Creating and nurturing, crafting a perfect scene, a perfect growing landscape. I give the trails 6 months before the dozers move in, and every one of those 20 or so 10 ton, hand built dirt jumps will be leveled, and the woods will lay silent and neglected again. The dumping ground for fly tippers, whilst the tax payer pays for the upkeep of those barely used football pitches mere feet away.
Courtesy of Alex Brindle Johnson (Aka Muffy)
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Vogue Hommes Japan shoot (Ash)
I thought 'd lost this shoot forever. Just found it in the depths of my Hard drive. Ash, when he was in Muffy's band, shot for the launch issue of Vogue Homme Japan.
These shots were to tie in with Hedi Slimane's studio/Cover shoot with Ash.
The launch of this issue marked the explosion that is Ash's modelling career ...
We never saw him or the bands drum kit again!
Little scallywag. Good for him. Lost to fashion.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Keep it up kid - Sean Vegezzi, NYC
My friend Ariel posted about this kid on his blog http://www.smoking-drinking.com/ (which I love btw)I checked it out and his work is sick. He's got the magic.
Sean, don't get flattened by a train dude, you're works too exciting. Amazing.
Puts my current un-able-to-create- ass to shame!
Check it : http://www.seanvegezzi.com/#
Update: Sean has promised me he won't get flattened by a train. This is good news.
Update 2: Just found out Sean interns for Ryan McGinley...interesting...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
One & Other ... do it!
So, today sees the launch of Anthony Gormley's new project, 'One & Other', at the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. The deal is that for the next 100 days, a different member of the public will spend an hour up there, 24 hours a day. That's 24 people a day and 2400 in total. Keep up.
Anyone can apply so long as they are over 16 and once up there they can do anything they want, as long as they are alone and it's legal. Participants are picked at random, so if it sounds like your kind of thing, click this link to apply. You can also check out a sweet webcam which is going out live, kind of like Big Brother BUT REAL.
Right now, it's a guy dressed as a skinny panda, getting members of the crowd to call him so he can say, 'yeahhhh, it's like, soooo weird up here'. Think I'm going to get addicted to watching this.
Anyone can apply so long as they are over 16 and once up there they can do anything they want, as long as they are alone and it's legal. Participants are picked at random, so if it sounds like your kind of thing, click this link to apply. You can also check out a sweet webcam which is going out live, kind of like Big Brother BUT REAL.
Right now, it's a guy dressed as a skinny panda, getting members of the crowd to call him so he can say, 'yeahhhh, it's like, soooo weird up here'. Think I'm going to get addicted to watching this.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Sunday, July 05, 2009
1st week of July '09
New show.
St.Martins.
The proposition spot. N1
St. John St. Sunday wander.
Wanderlust. Always present.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Random LJW out takes, day 4
I feel much like this...
Sam's Installation. Halliford st.
Bex Rox - Browns Focus. Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
LJW - Out takes
Tina @ The Studio North Party.
Swarovski - Want it.
Liberty party.
More Swarovski.
Shaun Leane/McQueen for Swarovski runway.
William & Tatt lady, Liberty party.
Brilliance show @ Craft Central, Cerkenwell.
Fiona Wright Paper neck-piece @ Brilliance C.C.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Brett Lloyd - My kind of Photographer
One out of 2 ain't bad I guess, but that other one..he has managed to evade me ...until now...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
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