A Moment With Paula Selby Avellaneda

Name: Paula Selby Avellaneda
Age: 23
Education: Antwerp Royal Academy
Describe your label in one sentence: At the moment I'm working on my masters collection, and making clothes for music performances.
How long have you been designing? Since 7th grade? no.. much earlier.. like since the little mermaid came out.
Where are you based? I live in antwerp, but I'll be moving to London in June.
Who do you design for: People you cant stop looking at.
Whats inspiring you this season: Im making a sort of thesis based on what I think is beautiful. - designing through memory, recreating outfits worn in specific situations, that have left a mark in me for one reason or another.
Whos your style icon: Camila Gassiebayle
Fav other emerging designers: Thorbjorn Uldam
My fav:
Film: Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Fantasia
Record: Mj's Dangerous
Place: its a secret
Person: also a secret
Colour: i dont like orange
Must have item for next season: a team of seamstresses
If you werent a designer what would you do? I would freak out
Whats next? The Big Pink in Brussels!

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A Moment With Emma Bell

Name: Emma Bell
Age: 26
Education: BA (Hons) Fashion Design, University of Westminster
Describe your label in one sentance: Colourful, challenging, experimental and humourous.
How long have you been designing?
Pretty much since I was a kid! Then throughout my studies whilst freelancing at the same time, and then full time for 3 and a half years since graduating!
Where are you based?
London usually but, right now I am sitting in Vienna after being awarded a place as Artist in Residence in the Museums Quartier for a couple of months!
Who do you design for:
For an audience that appreciate humour in fashion and a magical 'experience'. I want to appeal to people who do not take themselves too seriously and love colour and sparkle as much as I do!
Whats inspiring you this season:
Statement silhouettes, hand dyeing, Victorian porn and British Boxing.
Whos your style icon:
Pat Butcher-she's amazing!
Fav other emerging designers: eeek, so many!!! Charlie Le Mindu, Mary Katrantzou, Scott Ramsay Kyle, Craig Lawrence, Natascha Stolle...I could go on!
My fav:
Film: Wizard of Oz
Record: Jimmy Soul-'If you wanna be Happy!'
Place: Rahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifilay in Thailand
Person: Too hard to pick one without pissing everyone off....so I'll stay neutral and go for Britney!
Colour: Pink!!!
Must have item for next season:
Foil printed hosiery and themed intarsia knits for winter!
If you werent a designer what would you do?
Be an Air Hostess or Author.
Whats next?
I currently have a couple of exciting collaborations in the pipeline and I am focusing on some International projects also at the moment following my stint in Vienna!

Frankie and the Heartstrings...part deux

FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS

ANNOUNCE DEBUT 7” SINGLE RELEASE ON ROUGH TRADE FOR 7th DECEMBER

LIVE SIX-TRACK LTD EDITION 10” VINYL RELEASE ON POP SEX LTD



Frankie & The Heartstrings are a brand new old-fashioned pop band from Sunderland. Coming fully formed out of the north-east, the five-piece played their first gig last Christmas and have been grafting solidly for a year, writing and rehearsing at night, holding down full-time jobs working in schools, social care and charity shops during the day.

They say that art thrives in the face of adversity, and in a town like Sunderland where the young would rather cross fists than swap mixtapes, Frankie & The Heartstrings are soul-brothers, the dreamers who dared to think big.


7” single & 10” live EP news…
F&THS are very pleased to announce their two-track debut 7” single “Hunger”/”Fragile” will be released by Rough Trade on 7th December 2009.

The band will also release a limited edition 10” vinyl titled “12.09.09” on their own PopSex Ltd label which will be available from 23rd November at shows and at http://popsexltd.com This 10”, with six tracks recorded live at The Independent in Sunderland on 12th September, will be limited to 500 copies and will come in a custom F&THS / PopSex Ltd bag, with a fanzine written and designed by the band, a special four-badge set and a unique postcard.

Watch them perform “Fragile” live at http://frankieandtheheartstrings.com/
Check out the PopSex Ltd archive at http://popsexltd.com


Upcoming live dates…
6th Nov Manchester, Ruby Lounge
14th Nov Leeds, Nation of Shopkeepers
28th Nov York, Fibbers
29th Nov Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire
9th Dec Glasgow, Academy w/ Florence and the Machine
10th Dec Manchester, Apollo w/ Florence and the Machine
13th Dec London, Brixton Academy w/ Florence and the Machine
14th Dec London, Brixton Academy w/ Florence and the Machine


“There are signs here that Frankie & The Heartstrings could be that rare creature, presumed extinct: the simply thrilling indie band” – Guardian.co.uk Band of The Day


For more information contact Pam Ribbeck pam@ribbeck.co.uk

Paula Selby Avellaneda‏

Antwerp based Menswear and womenswear designer.

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Supporting act...


The Main object of my affection

Jack White comes to our ends

One time rag and bone man selling his wears and tears to all us waifs n strays.

Get it drunk!

Based in Shoreditch Church, the London store is set to stock a number of records, t-shirts and other merchandise alongside some material crafted exclusively for the London location.

Jack White's Third Man Records And Novelties shop will be open on the following dates:

October
30 London Shoreditch Church (11am to 6pm)
31 London Shoreditch Church (11am to 9pm)

emma bell s/s 2010

Unadulaterated brights infused banter
Bell is the British designer and who has showcased for three seasons at LFW and most recently at Vienna Fashion Week having been represented as Artist in Residence. Previous collaborations and clients have included Irregular Choice, Vauxhall Motors and Designers Against Aids.

no sell by date

Once upon a time.....

by Marina Cicogna open until
until 14 November 2009
The Little Black Gallery is proud to announce its show ONCE UPON A TIME, an exhibition of
photographs by Marina Cicogna, sponsored by Fiat. The images capture a moment in time in the sixties
when Europe was the playground for the rich and famous. It includes legendary names such as Rock
Hudson, Greta Garbo, Brigitte Bardot, David Niven, Audrey Hepburn, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda,
Princess Margaret, Onassis, Valentino, Niarchos, Cecil Beaton and many more.
Marina Cicogna was born in Rome, the daughter of Count Cesare Cicogna, from an artisocratic Milanese
family, and Anna Maria Volpi di Misurata, whose father, one of the most powerful men in Italy, created the
Venice Film Festival. Marina grew up to become one of Italy’s most celebrated film producers, with films
such as ‘Once Upon A Time In The West’ (Sergio Leone), Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Franco Zeffirelli),
the Oscar winning ‘Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion’ (Elio Petri), the Palme D’Or winning
‘Working Class Goes To Heaven’ (Elio Petri), ‘The Seduction of Mimi’ (Lina Werimuller), ‘Teorema’
and ‘Medea’ (Pier Paolo Pasolini), and many others.
In the sixties, the young Marina was very much part of the jet set, friend of the glamorous people whom she
photographed without restraints. 85 of these pictures, lost in drawers and old albums, have now been
compiled for her book ‘Scritti e Scatti’ (Writings and Images) which contains the portraits and their
captions. A selection of these images are featured in the ‘Once Upon A Time’ show.
Marina Cicogna said: “What I am trying to do, is find through the pictures I took, places and faces that don’t exist anymore, testimony to a time where all that was extraordinary seemed natural and eternal.”

Lara Stone by Steven Klein for Vogue Paris October 2009

Edith Bouvier Beale

The eccentric impoverished cousin of Jackie Kennedy, Edith Bouvier Beale was an American socialite, fashion model and cabaret performer, best known as ‘Little Edie’. She is my hero, my inspiration, my fashion forefather.

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