Monday, 20 February 2012
Issa. London, 18/02/12
Taking the fashion pack on a Tran-Siberian journey to a forbidden city, Issa’s elegant AW12 evening-wear was refined, sculpted and luxurious. Embellishing velvets, woven gold silk coupe and babushka lace with ornate Faberge-inspired prints and paisley patterns, a stellar cast of models wandered delicately down the Somerset House runway to an all-consuming orchestral soundtrack. Contrasting textures and fabrics with rich wool threads and feathers, wide leg trousers and body skimming silhouettes stayed true to the classic aesthetic of Brazilian designer, Daniella Helayel’s laid-back, vintage-inspired signature style. Perfectly capturing the decadence of a bygone era, whilst still nodding to the future, Issa made sure next Winter’s months will be packed with opulence!
issalondon.com
Text: Milly McMahon
Photography: Mitchell Sams
Sister by Sibling. London, 18/02/12
Progressive knitwear label Sister by Sibling boldly went where no other designer has gone go before at 10am on Day Two of LFW. Sending a series of thirteen serious full looks down the runway of the Portico Rooms in Somerset House, they trio behind the label showed eye-popping tangerine, hot pink and ocean blue brights with mouse skull and cross bones, leopard prints and shimmering sequin adorned twinsets. Keeping models faces hidden behind Leigh Bowery-esque masks, hardcore disco music blared from the speakers. Blow-up Polaroids of Barbie entitled Test Shots by Alastair Strong formed the backdrop to the show and six Barbies dressed by Sister by Sibling stood proud on their stand in the NEWGEN space. Feeling like a scene straight out of Party Monster, enormous mohair coats, bobbled ski hats and trademark Underground brothel creepers accessorised each outfit and injected a much-loved dose of drama into LFW proceedings. Designers Sid Bryan, Joe Bates and Cozette McCreery kept their risqué signature aesthetic true to that of the brand’s more masculine brother. Even the British Fashion Council scheduled a special bus to ferry in blurry-eyed East End-based fans, including i-D and Barbie, who also wore by Sister by Sibilng. Sibling AW12 took no prisoners but felt dangerous and exciting, a real London label with friends in all the right places.
siblinglondon.com
Text: Milly McMahon
Photography: Mitchell Sams
House of Holland. London, 18/02/12
Ride it! Placing his girls firmly behind the handlebars, Henry Holland’s 70s sci-fi-inspired AW12 sportswear was metallic and marvellous. With Pixie Geldof perched front row, NY DJs The Misshapes spinning discs live behind the decks, the House of Holland, bicycle-themed AW12 show was an extravaganza of sickly sweet fun! A nod to London’s ‘fixie’ trend, leather peaked caps, tight-fitting bodysuits and striped trousers flew down the runway in the lavishly decorated Goldsmith Hall. Nail technician Sophy Robson kept everyones’ cuticles in check and Queen sound-clashed with Azealia Banks on the stereo. A palette of pillar box reds, fuchsia, navy and sky blue was scattered across striped and houndstooth patterned leggings and dungaree dresses. Pop art in motion! Here’s to Henry.
houseofholland.co.uk
Text: Milly McMahon
Photography: Mitchell Sams
Click here to see our AW12 Womenswear coverage in full.
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Creep Go Head to Head
Brewing up bewitching trip pop charged melodies, noir artistes Creep are two inseparable, Brooklynite female DJs, who like to make hot women move.
Cranking up the reverb, smudging grey kohl around their mysterious eyes and laying down disjointed sinister sounds interwoven by haunted vocals, Lauren Dillard and Lauren Flax are ‘Creep’. Mates with Tiga, Sia and Romy Madley Croft, these two dons of the dancefloor first started making music for the sheer fun of it with fellow electronic musician Melissa of Telepathe. Creating raw, mesmeric sounds tinged with dark melancholia, the pair have travelled the world on tour, spreading their intriguing beats whilst always clad in Doc. Martens, leather jackets and Adidas hoodies. i-D online turned everything upside down and got the girls to go head to head, discussing garbage, mainstream rap and Moschino.
LF: What’s it like being a woman?
LD: Good question. I absolutely love being a woman. Sometimes though I forget I’m a typical “lady” and wear men’s shirts, short skirts, trainers, combat boots, but that’s all about me being me and the best thing about being a woman is you can be yourself; colour your hair, do what you want. Shania would know.
LD: Which mainstream rap artist would you fancy marrying and why?
LF: Jay-Z obviously, because let’s face it, he’s the coolest guy in the world and I’m sure his apartment is mental. He’s probably twice my height as well. Just think of how silly we would look when we went roller skating.
LD: Who was the first musical artist that you ever fancied and why?
LF: I’m going to tell you the first one that counts because in my younger years, it’s embarrassing. Flash forward to 10th grade. I saw the video for Vow by Garbage. Ever since then I have always had a deep, non-mutual love for Shirley Manson. I even met her after her concert in Detroit in 1995. She told me I have cold hands. I love her.
LD: What is the fanciest thing you own?
LF: I just bought my first piece of couture in Milan. It’s a black Moschino blazer where one sleeve is checkered and the other is black. Also, the buttons say “keep fashion tidy”. Sigh.
LF: What animal were you in a past life?
LD: A giraffe eating salad from the trees and complaining about it.
LF: What is the greatest fear that you’ve had to overcome?
LD: Probably stage fright. I used to be absolutely terrified to get on stage. It took a while to get used to it but now I enjoy performing so much, it’s a nice feeling to overcome fear.
LF: Describe me in four words…
LD: Fabulous. Laughing. Asymmetrical. Xylophone.
LD: If you were stuck on a deserted island and could only bring one thing with you what would it be?
LF: Lauren Dillard. Sike! I would bring Jay-Z’s yacht so I could get the hell out of there in style.
LF: Michael or Janet?
LD: JANET, OBVZ.
officialcreep.com
i-N Session: Jake Bugg
Looking like a young, rugged Ian Brown and sounding like Bob Dylan, Jake Bugg is 2012′s answer to Alex Turner.
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A teenage singer songwriter with mansize talent, Jake Bugg’s arresting vocals sound as though they are from another era. First picking-up a guitar at the age of twelve, the young romantic began to write spine-tingling tunes about devastating love and heartbroken woes when he was just fourteen. Unusually confident and forthright, he’s a proper scally with awesome stage presence. Arriving onto the radar last year after his performance on the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury seventeen-year-old Jake is now signed to Mercury and recently unveiled his debut single ‘Trouble Town’ which Zane Lowe swiftly earmarked as his ‘Single of the Week’. Still a Clifton, Nottingham boy born and bred, this Northern soul prefers hanging-out at his mate Jaz’s yard to spending time in The Big Smoke and never leaves home without his phone or lighter. His songs are for lovers, running away just for Valentine’s Day.
What was the first song you ever learnt to play on the guitar? ‘Mad World’ was the first song and the first riff was ‘Day Tripper’. Which person has had the single greatest impact on your sound? Probably Don McLean or Donovan it’s hard to say. Tell us about the first gig you ever played… I was about 14 or 15 and if I remember rightly the crowd was decent and I wore a tracksuit top. I enjoyed it very much. How do you feel when you listen back to your music? When I listen to my music, I listen to see how I can improve it. I can’t say I’ve ever enjoyed listening to it, but you have to get used to that. What’s your favourite class at school? Probably P.E. to be honest. If you weren’t pursuing a career in music what would be your dream job? Being a footballer would be cool. Lyrically what are your songs about? A number of things, most of them are about girls. Where do you buy your clothes? Fred Perry, Burberry, Lacoste, J.D, whatever’s comfortable. If i-D online could grant you three wishes what would they be? Let my album do well, bring Hendrix back to life so I can jam with him and and take me back in time to see The Beatles live. What are your top 5 hang out spots in Notts? 1. Fairham Fields. 2. My mate Jaz’s yard. 3. Spring Onion. 4. Black Path. 5. Up the shops.
facebook.com/jakebugguk
Text: Milly McMahon
Photographer: Ellis Scott
Film: Asylum Films
Head here to see more from our i-N Session series.
Thursday, 9 February 2012
High5Collective
Laying freaky visual narratives over strong tunes, High5Collective are an anonymous community of visual artists who first met around an open urinal.
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Relieving their creative juices via the medium of moving art, the faceless film buffs behind Hi5 take an ingeniously alternative approach to entertainment. Engaging audiences with elaborate plot lines, exploring characters and relationships in an emotive manner, each music video the five co-write, direct and shoot is unique, charged and dramatic. Exploring extreme scenarios, predominately based upon abduction, bloodshed, lust, love and voyeurism, Hi-5 started life making music videos for songs they stumbled across online. The buzz around their offerings grew little by little; until the hype exploded earlier this year after a certain Master Frank Ocean hit up Hi5 for a video to track Thinking Of You. The five film school friends turned business partners have written and officially released music videos for Jay-Z and Kanye, Theophilus London and Citizens since. Recently signed to Partizan, the collective continues to seek out lesser-known acts that are right for a heavy dose of the Hi-5’s hench treatments.
Why did you decide to work as collective? We moved in together, so it made sense to work together because we’re all poor and couldn’t afford to do stuff on our own. What is the most accomplished video H5C have ever made? People started to take us more seriously after we did the video with Frank Ocean for ‘Thinking About You‘. It was like we became legit because he co-signed. So we owe him gratitude. Thanks Frank! How do your video scripts evolve? For music videos it’s all about what we feel when we listen to the song. The five of us will sit in the living room and throw ideas around, and it keeps snowballing until we come up with some shit that gets us really stoked. How do you inspire one another? We have krump battles and karate fights. How do you source the actors in your videos? Sometimes we write roles specifically for our friends, because we’re all about keeping it in the family, and creating a community. Sometimes we’ll have a role that we don’t feel can be represented by people we personally know, so then we cast actors – which normally consists of meeting up and seeing if they’re rad people. More often than not the people we decide to use end up becoming our friends, so our pool of talents keeps getting bigger! What draws you to particular artists? We’re huge fans of music, so we want to work with artists that get us hyped.
high5collective.tumblr.com
Text: Milly McMahon
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i-N Conversation: Mark Hoppus (Blink-182)
Last week Blink 182 bassist and frontman Mark Hoppus braved the London snow, was invited to The Simpsons’ 500th episode anniversary party and made plans to pop for dinner in parliament. Busy Blinking.
Young Heezy, aka Mark Hoppus is the Sunshine State born surf-pop rocker who has been breaking hearts and inspiring air guitarists for over two decades. Splitting with bandmates and Blink comrades Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker back in 05 the rude, lewd, spiky haired trio who embodied a generation’s coming of age called time on their award-winning success after thirteen years of chart-topping action. Throw forward seven years, in 2012 the Blink boys return to the scene with their sixth studio album to date, Neighbourhoods. Mark stripped down, to tell i-D online all about what he’s been up to since the spotlight switched off.
Text: Milly McMahon
Film and photography: Dexter Navy
twitter.com/markhoppus
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Thursday, 2 February 2012
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