When I last visited my military Surplus supplier looking for interesting post war vintage whilst browsing row upon row of aisles stuffed full of anything from old parachutes to iron cups I spied a box of these red crossed throws. Immediately I fell in love with the concept of them as I love anything with a cross on it…I always loved SwissAir purely  for it's logo for instance! Anyway I immediately bought a box home with me and set about adding my badge log and name embroidered in bright red in the corner. These are something that would look cool draped across a chair or as a beach towel or a bedspread. They are all an off -white colour and each one is slightly different..the ravages of time have not been cruel..even though the reason they were made was not for peace….

 

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I have joined istagram, thanks to Client C who cajoled me at midnight last night and we spent the next hour playing iPhone buddies and downloading the entire Istagram app onto iPad, iPhone , Facebook, twitter, tumblr…you name it we now have it ! I am going to upload all our Client images…band and brand slowly to my Istagram and hopefully you will all start to follow ClientA. Client was so much about the imagery I am excited that a whole new audience can share our kinky Kraftwerk artwork. Client C

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 Gary from the Libertines Dj'ed saturday night in Paris with Adam from the Babyshambles at Club 114. Here he is wearing a crossed hands T shirt playing pure Rock and roll.

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Here are some photos from the launch party at the Marais shop Ly Adams.
It was a wet night but that didn’t stop the party! I dj’ed all night and played a mixture of electronics – old and new mixed in with some Joy Division and the odd Stone Roses. the French seemed to love the music and in between drinking beautiful fruit cocktails from the Borderline brand and scoffing macaroons Client C and myself had an amazing time!
Thanks to Stephanie our new Client PR in Paris , Masha and Severine the place was full and the decks were loud!!
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Here are Client C and Client S – stars of the Military Finishing School For Young Ladies. They are wearing the Nato Strict trench Coat and silk client scarves. The shoes are by the talented London shoemaker Red By Wolves. I think you will agree they finish off the coats perfectly and are a hint of what the girls might or might not be wearing underneath….

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Here is Cecilia aka Swedish Client C wearing the Pan Am-like SAS Stewardess in grey wool..the dress has a slit of blue at the front..suggestive yet not slutty and puffed sleeves and a very strict button down front. It is well fitting in a slightly stretchy wool and will make every girl feel very Office-chic. Inspired by the SAS summer uniform 1960 courtesy of the  uniform freak website..which I discovered to my immense pleasure when i was researching outfits for the Client band's tour of europe circa our City album.

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The last 3 weeks have been spent moving the Client london website onto a UK server…the main reason being that we can access UK date better and can get more through Google. The blog is also at the moment on Joomla and we need to put everything through WordPress – including the site…this is also for google analytics..don't ask me why!! I have added more pages to the website and it has it's own music page now with video's and links. We are moving the entire shopify shop onto the actual site so we can link in with facebook too…social networking! that is why I have been sitting in seminars in dreary London hotels listening to "experts" talk about the future of the internet. Did you know that the UK was the worlds no 1 portal for internet shopping? That we spend £6 per person a year and in the next 10 years will triple or quadrupal. Now is the time to set up online! I don't bother with all the scare-mongering about the downfall of the Western World. I see client as a long-term project and early signs are that it is a niche market with a USP ( that's unique selling point!) that people love. The site was about to launch but the server was being updated for 24hours..the exact time my webmaster was off to the states for 2 weeks…he is back week of the 4th .

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I am currently updating the website with a London- based web genius who is going to link all the social networking sites with Client and help generate more web traffic.

My google analytics tell me my traffic is pretty bad…BUT sales-wise this is translating to a high proportion of visitors who are actually purchasing…so the logic is if I increase traffic significantly tis will translate to sales. What is interesting is I am getting sales from Hong Kong to NYC which is pretty exciting.

My web guy Steve has a separate site on a new UK server which only we can see and we talk every few days..it is still early days but hopefully the new site will be up the 3rd week of November,,in the meantime i am busy packaging up Nato Strict coats ( my bestseller!) and tomorrow I am off to Paris to see a couple of potential shops ..having lunch with my Japanese friend Masha …hopefully in some Left Bank brasserie before my Eurostar home..then Friday a really exciting breakfast with 2 business mentors who have been helping me along the way….

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Just had first main UK press for the label…whole page in Wales biggest weekend magazine and the reason I am buzzing is the review of the clothes was great..and the lovely journalist used a good selection of photo's .. This starts the ball rolling and ironically is more UK coverage than the band Client had here …strange how the media works… here is the online version minus pix . http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/showbiz/2011/07/16/kate-holmes-starts-her-own-fashion-revolution-91466-29064877/

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some mentions of the launch – thanks so much to -

 

http://www.thedollsfactory.com/

http://www.thehifashionsite.com/

http://adaisychaindream.blogspot.com/

http://www.pixelpony.co.uk/

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The shop is online and you can view some of the collection at Bordello, Great Eastern Street, London EC2. There is a 15% discount for the next 2 weeks if you put in the code shop opening at check-out on the website… client A x

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I have worn it out the last week…it's so sexy the way the zip goes all the way down the back with a little red ribbon to pull it down….

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Hay On Wye..festival madness..and tucked deep in the enclaves of the little market town is a mad little festival called “how the Light Gets In” …far away from the Telegraph readers main Hay Festival and more music/philosophy based less Literary/mainstream. I Dj’ed there saturday night with Client C to a packed mixed audience… Scared that my German Old School Electronica would get misinterpreted by such a young happening crowd I shoved in a couple of crowd-pleasers like the Droyds Girls on Pills and Visage Fade to Grey…

However the piece de resistance was Client C who saluted the crowd magnificently throughout the entire 90 minute midnight set and danced to DAF and Les Liasons in such a manor that the crowd who had probably never heard of them let alone the minimal bass-heavy sounds danced along ..

The only problem we had was on our return home when it took 3 girls to get our tight Client Uniform dresses off…to leave them creased , sweaty , thrown onthe floor..awaiting the next night out.

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I am at home in the blustery mountains of Wales sorting out my launch party with the gorgeous swedish Cecilia ( artist and model in the Client film). The launch will be in the shop where Cecilia works – they have just placed an order..my first London order for this new launch – all to be revealed soon but suffice to say the shop is super cool and in a great part of London. We are planning a launch party – which starts with the right invite to the right people…tweaking at the wording I also suggest a more provocative photo on the invite.. you only get one shot so I feel best throw in the most eye-catching…We’ve picked the date June 23rd…now there is a month of work to set it up right! starting now.

Cecilia in grey SAS stewardess..shoes by http://www.redbywolves.com/

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This is Client M wearing the new Nato Trench from the upcoming "remade" line. I found the coat in the bottom of a warehouse stuffed full of thousands of different items , tried it on and fell in love with it immediately..The reason being simple and threefold; it felt sexy as soon as I put it on, it felt expensive as the fabric is good quality and lastly I knew I could make it better…changing length, buttons, adding embroidery..it all fitted into the Client ethos. But the reason I truly fell in love was that it was cold war…it was a reminder of something long-gone and it felt very British..i could imagine myself wearing that same coat many years ago and nostalgia came over me in waves of what I might have been…

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I took a couple of days off from the immense excitement of setting up a brand new shop! ( online I hasten to add!!) I think if I was actually opening a retail outlet it would be stress I would be going through! I need to upload all the outfits with descriptions and prices..most are already photographed but I have a few items I need to photograph myself…So I took myself and a couple of friends off for the weekend..we sat on glorious sunny beaches and ate cardigan crab and chips..all very british..what I did notice that as I travelled further into west wales we saw only one Royal Wedding flag flying – soley and lonely on a little holiday cottage in Llangrannog….think wales missed the royal wedding!

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I took a rest over the bank holiday and had a houseful of girls to stay ..the beautiful welsh countryside sparkled in the heat and we spent our time sunbathing then shopping vintage in Hay on Wye and Llandeilo.

 

We found some great Abigails Party type 70’s dresses – made out of sweaty polyester! and wore them as we sprawled on the chamomile lawn drinking tea out of vintage teacups and reading rubbish magazines and chatting…miles away from urban smog, factories and contracts!

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I’m back in london…took a week off to do a course in Somerset… whicj was great but now I have SO much to catch up with….sitting in my flat in London with piles of paperwork..and a hard-drive full of pictures for the look book which I have to go through

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So the last week has gone by in a whirl of driving car loads of people up and down the M4, cooking vast dinners and waking up excruciatingly early for “the light”! But finally , as they say in the film world , we have it all in the can. Stills for the lookbook need to be sorted out and I need to sit down with Caroline for an afternoon to view the “directors cut”! exciting!! Michael Nyman has offered us some music so we also need to listen to a pile of CD’s to find one suitably suspenseful enough! I am still mulling over whether to put a Client composition in the video…being able to can use whatever music I want is great..when I started the brand I was going to keep it all separate but now things have changed I can use what I need from the Client catalogue..music, artwork, videos..it’s just a question of being selective and using what is right for the film…i think a beautiful piece of classical music will compliment and add to a kinky edgy little 3 minute film…head rules heart x … (read more…)

I spent my weekend..which started on the friday morning at 9am and ended monday at 5pm having a creative bomb let off in my head! 7 girls and a male DOP decamped to wales…in the middle of the Black Mountains to shoot a film for Client London in a haunted Georgian house. From the minute we arrived the atmosphere just gelled and the house fitted straight into the wonderful art direction..helped by the moody skies one day and filtered spring sunshine the next. We treated the “Military Finishing School” film as one should with regimented 7am start-time filming, meal-times and forced exercise ..and spent the evenings in front of a large open fire watching foreign language films, the terrible Tsunami footage and drinking wine to wind down. The 3 models..Cecelia, Marilyn and Xsarah were both beautiful, sexy and relaxed and each put more into the shoot then they needed too…and the sombre and slightly dark element of the house..set up on the hill in it’s imposing position lent itself to the story-line…

with the sinister male who we found in the local village! A walk to the little river cafe on the sunday – where GQ Dylan Jones was also there …broke up the monotony of the set and I spent the afternoon filming stills with Marilyn…We ended the weekend with a 6am start on monday followed by a mad 2 hours of galloping with the director and me on the mountain on welsh cobs…before the drive back to London. I have now made more friends and revelled in the utter girlyness of the weekend…

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I have had a very eventful productive week…starting off in my accountants office, bumping into Pixie Geldof in the foyer on monday and ending in a warehouse in essex stuffed full of army surplus gear from around the world. In between I ate a great lunch at Soho restaurant Polpo whilst getting retail advice and had a meeting with Lorraine who is shooting my lookbook on monday, went up to the factory in North London and collected all the new samples and even managed to fit in a bit of retail therapy on the way! the army stuff fascinates me….it's speculation and it's another world.. I got picked up at 7.30am and was driven to deepest Essex whilst talking non stop to the owner of the place..who knows his stuff about fashion and also gave me great advice. We then spent 4 hours talking , trying on clothes, looking at websites and generally bonding over 1940's bags and swiss flags. I left with a bundle of clothes and a lot of great ideas…Clientlondon will have a new label…"RE-made in England"…

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i love blankets..as long as they are made here in the British Isles! here is a welsh one..and the one underneath is from Scotland

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It is much harder to be the innovator. so many times the person or group who pushes a new look or sound is overtakeN commercially by someone quicker, cleverer and perhaps luckier…It is as if the person that innovates puts the idea into the sub-conscience for others to pick up on…We have a great Client Pinwhich says “innovate never imitate” I’m going to add one to every piece of clothing in the new shop when it is relaunched. it is my Motto. Here is one of the great innovators…listen to the Blue Monday bass-line which followed 2 years later in 1984 … (read more…)

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I discovered that nearby where I live there is a tumbledown abandoned mental hospital…last used to house military casualties from world war 2. Have a look at the website. The images are both beautiful and sad as this once majestic building is slowly left to rot away…

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got a busy mad week…firstly my 500 metres of original nurses uniform fabric is ordered and should be arriving soon….where to store it is a big problem!! Hope I chose the right colours? thinking Japan will like it…hoping Japan will like it!!.secondly have to download all the Client set list, backing tracks and write out all the lyrics to send to the brand nu Client for rehearsals…oh and in between ride the pony, clean tack, go to London and back..and sew on labels on T shirts as think might have my first order ! … (read more…)

Every band takes inspiration from others…musically and artistically. This is the new album artwork for White Lies new album ritual. My immediate reaction when I saw it was: Very Client imagery!!…Peter saville graphics…Joy division /New order Title. The colours are reminiscent of the Eastern Bloc and it has a certain sexuality and innocence. Marsheaux – a Greek female ( excellent!) duo did similar post Client artwork too but hinted more at electronic disco. I wonder how many client singles and Albums White Lies looked at??!!

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jeff , my pattern cutter, sampler, overall amazing production guy just called me…He had been away in Ghana fora month and I desperately need a uniform dress – ordered a while ago to be made up asap….He was NOT happy. apparently he rented out a flat in Peckham and whilst in Ghana received a phonecall from the police to day that his flat had been turned into a cannabis farm by the tenants who were now in prison! They had taken out all the furniture, put in extra ventilation in the roof, changed the electrical supply to make it stronger. Basically his lovely flat was now an illegal factory. He now has to refurnish it and turn it back into a habitable living space. this happened in London!!! Anyway i am meeting him next week to have a chat and go through plans for this year…so much to sort out..all good…but alotof back -end basic stuff to get in order before I relaunch the website .

I added a picture taken by Fabrice Lachant at my friends shop in Lots road, London – Knowles and Christou. They have just had their beautiful fabric selected for the new Roland Mouret Flagship shop in London. They let us do the whole shoot for our Client Command Album last year…all squashed into their tiny space…

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I have just got back home… and the dark winters night clouds hover above… but there are no blues here… just a feeling that there is soooo much work ahead this year… I have come back to mountains of phonecalls to make, invoices to sort out, fabric to order, website to rebuild… some would say insurmountable pressure but I would say it can all be done with optimism and a sense of humour… so instead of burying my head in the gloom of January – and all that the political climate predicts… I remind myself that the future is there if I work for it. As I lie awake from Jetlag at 5am I look at pictures from that Roger vivier show… when a well – know financial journalist told me my unifom dress was a dress every girl wants to wear and every man wants to rip off… eating my secret stash of Lauderee chocolates under the duvet.

Happy new year xxx

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Lying on a tropical desert island for 2 weeks I started to muse as to why certain swimsuits suited certain bodies… how you can disguise obvious physical imperfections with the right costume/colour/accessory… or how you could get it so wrong. Here I had a myriad of choice though every age- although a bikini looks great on anyone under 25. That’s a fact… and I – maybe through boredom – started to take snaps of bottoms… every shape and guise covered. Every faux paux and every disguise.

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Lots of fledgling businesses spend literally thousand of pounds building a brand name. I had a meeting with a top street clothing brand last month. Purely for advice and encouragement. They told me that so far what my brand has got so far would take alot of money and time to achieve. They absolutely loved the logo and the name but above all they loved the fact that all my friends are wearing the T shirts already – I showed them my portfolio of photo’s taken this summer… all to be revealed when I re-launch the website next year… they told me to continue as I was and slowly build up the business side… I hired a web detective/guerilla last week… he can tell me things I would never find out even if I was on the internet all day and all night… he’s young and savvy. I also visited a top fashion/brand lawyer who took me on… in an amazing office overlooking trafalgar Square I had the same buzz I felt when Client first signed to Mute… they have already registered all the designs from Berlin… it’s been a long haul and I haven’t even left the airport…

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He will be helping me with Client London. To keep up with our weekly interactions please have a regular look! We met at House of Harlot choosing rubber dresses and pencil skirts for our first ever shoot for Client’s debut album on Mute Records and 6 years later we met by chance at a London College of Fashion Course. He sat beside me and out of a room of 24 people we clicked …he didn’t recognise me out of my uniform and it wasn’t until day 2 that he told me one of his favourite bands was Client! I believe in the power of fate… so does he! Our journey begins… music and fashion, fun and laughter…

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Cowley manor was amazing! the pool reminded me of a moutainside in Germany… minimalist massive glass panels overlooking pine trees in a frosty setting… stunning and inspiring… a perfect way to spend a monday birthday.
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five friends swimming.. six pairs of shoes left on the beach… all flip flops apart from my french friends gorgeous gold Dr Scholls!

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This is Hay On Wye, Wales on a bleak November weekend at the Institute of Arts and Idea’s Crunch festival. Pagan world map burning and fire dancers/eaters with hip-hop drummers and eclectic outfits followed by a serious art v human rights talk with bianca Jagger and Mark Quin. Eclectic , enjoyable. I talked to the curator of the London Museum Of Everything.. who had a small pod exhibition here along with 3 other galleries all housed in lock-up bunkers… with not a banker or hedge funder in sight… thank fxxx

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Oh vienna, romantic, big, beautiful city. When you drive into Vienna you realise how close it is to Eastern Europe and how during the cold war it must have felt like the dividing line between East and West. We arrive early as the traffic from augsburg was nothing… and check into the super trendy hotel Roomz by the Gasomentre in the industrial area of Vienna.. Nick Cave is also playing that night and it is the Vienna elections and a sunday so I am slightly nervous about the turnout… the venue is great… the best lighting rig and stage and a nice backstage area… the show is respectable… not too busy but full enough to feel good onstage.. we did a couple of filmed interviews.. one for an online site and one for a feature film about musicians – all grainy and black and white… lets hope it sees the light of day !

we have a day off before our evening flight so the next morning we are up and straight into the centre to look at the Lippizaner horses based right by the main Opera house. We then have lunch in a traditional Austrian Coffee House… lovely heavy rich Austrian pasta- comfort food joy! We We call into FM4 on the way back to say hello to Eva who has her own night-time show at the state-run music /alternative/ coolest radio show in Europe ( along with Eins 1 in berlin)!

then it is Adieu Vienna, goodbye Europe as we sit on the BA flight home drinking a well-earned glass of chilled chardonnay and reading the obligatory free newspaper…

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Augsburg… home of one of our very first ever client gigs at one of their infamous Depeche Mode parties… ground hog day.. deja vu! we are playing before the big DM party of the weekend… in a lovely club… packed and hot!! sweating in our green Stasi outfits… we saw some of our first ever client fans… connie from munich in the front row and it was like a blast from the past with just the 2 of us onstage and no bass!!

hotel was mad… we were given keys and felt like imposters as we quietly entered the hushed lobby empty of anyone and crept into our beds in the vast concrete building… slept my best night yet… no noise, no maids waking me up banging on the door, no noisy lift… not nothing… bliss.

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The autobahn to Koln was a nightmare 7 hour journey – all squished into our little hire car… stopping off to buy an overpriced coffee and pay ( thank you guy Hands!!) 50 cents – or even 70 cents for the privilege of a clean loo! in one of the Guy Hands Owned European Services stations – that is how he made his millions to buy EMI!! Koln was a great show! all the usual suspects like the Koln Client fan club ( thanks for coming!!)… loved the show… great sound, stage and lights!! Ever onward…. augsburg next….

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We arrived at the Reeperbahn after a nice day off in berlin… Hamburg was cold!! surprisingly so as Berlin had been almost T shirt weather… and the venue was in the absolutely mad Beatles Museum… yes a true homage to the Fab 4 complete with a Yellow Submarine!! Of all the dates on the tour Hamburg was the strangest for sure… the stage was non-existant and the sound system much to be desired… it almost felt like going backwards as I am sure we had alot more people last time but hey -what the heck its the recession and a thursday night… it was small but it was packed so the atmosphere was great…

What wasn’t great was the terrible B and B hotel by the side of a motorway… I changed rooms ( as I always do!!) 3 times but ended up back in the first room… it didn’t feel like a cell and had a nice double bed and some funky furniture but by 5am the drone of the rush hour started and I had to move my mattress into the shower room, put earplugs in and finally drifted off into a calm noiseless sleep…

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Here are a few shots from my recent soujorn into Europe… first stop Berlin… one of my favourite cities in Europe.. below you can see the healthy backstage rider, my hotel bed, up- and -coming Kreuzberg- the “new Mitte” and Turkish Cake shops!…. Berlin has it all.. from Cold War to Cool the City spans everything from Gritty urban to Upmarket – not forgetting it’s unique historical and electronic musical uniqueness…

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The Roger Vivier party for London Fashion Week was in Lauderee in Harrods… a mini patisserie based on the famous french one that Marie Antoinette supposedly was obsessed with.

Necker , the Client sound man was in charge of the all French band and he had a very tight job as the PA was only allowed into the building at 7.30 and the show was 9pm prompt… he not only had to build it but do the soundcheck for ukilele, electric, bass and vocals… and infront of alot of very chic French women dressed in black…whilst a whole catering crew was also assembling the champagne and delectable canapes! all very surreal as the only way to the ladies was to walk through a deserted Harrods accompanied by a security guard!

This was Jeannes first show… just 5 songs… but every single person from the fashion world was there! I had Masha and Nicholas from Paris with me… they are part of Collette and arrived on the Eurostar just before the show.. delayed by the infamous Popemobile as the whole of london was shut off! here are a few pictures… the shop, the shoes, the band, the show… and the macaroons!!

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here is a cool British film star wearing one of my t’s…all will be revealed soon!!

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…of the wrap for a mad soprano’s- ish video starring Rhys Iffans.. shot in one day in Mallorca and featuring a classic old Mercedes..

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an italian who lives in London and who I usually meet for tea in Liberty’s once a month. Last time we met she was wearing these amazing Miu Miu-ish purple tinged large sunglasses.. wow I tried them on.. and was shocked and pleasantly pleased as she told me they were from Boots and cost £14. I rushed straight down to Camden where I found a pair after much rummaging around amongst a load of totally geekily unstylish glasses… and when i went to pay they told me it was two for the price of one… so I took another pair for another friend…. … (read more…)

I am making a special Uniform dress for Jeanne Marine to wear at the Roger Vivier party tomorrow night at the launch of her 5 track CD – where she will be performing a short live set. I helped her find a producer for the tracks and Alan Mcgee tweaked a couple of them – really impressed by their etherial almost Slowdive (remember them?) like resemblance. I then got it all mastered for her so it jumps out of the speakers in true rock and roll style! Anyway back to the dress… I choose a petrol grey with off blue/ slate split and with all the right measurements set Jeff to work in the tiny clerkenwell studio… and then whilst I went off to deepest wales he promptly lost his phone and all communication was lost! I then get calls from Instyle as they want the dress for a shoot with Jeanne and I am stuck incommunicado… stress levels boiling as jeff is no- where to be found and the dress is lost somewhere in WC1… … (read more…)

It is hard designing a collection when you have to choose colours… I love sombre Comme de Garcons grey and navy – which are great in a tight uniform dress but not so great if you want to add a splash of colour without going mad.. so I injected flashes of colours in zips.. bright fuscia pinks and sunblast orange.. perfect for a summers day clubbing or a winters day…. think green trenchcoat tightly buckled over the top…

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My 19 boxes have arrived from Berlin! it cost me double the price from berlin to london as it did to move 3 km in Berlin!! hows that for the German economy! now I have all my jackets, tights, T shirts stored up against a wall in Wales – very un rock and roll but my mission now is to dress every indie popster in the UK !

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Spent the day at Middle Temple – home of the high Court and anything related to everything Legal and Correct!.. it’s just by my new studio but a world apart from the corridors and crumbling paint of Grays Inn road! Middle Temple is London’s own Ivory Towers; green squares with immaculately dressed lawyers drinking coffee on the manicured lawns.. romantic and dreamy – halycon days of summers gone and as far away from reality as is possible…

How I wanted to strip and rip off those dreary perfect suits, skirts and blouses and re-dress all the well groomed citizens of Chancery Lane in my Kinky Kraftwerk homages to sexy secretaries, cool stewardesses and RAF pilots… In my dreams I suppose.. but one can hope. …here is photo of the beautiful Middle Temple… .. and another of a typical lawyer in a typical suit.

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I have bought back from Berlin 3 new grey t-shirts. Along with the 2 black designs I now have 5 shirts.. all piled up in sizes.. with lots of empty client boxes from the East Berlin cartonage factory to put them in. Now the hard work begins.. getting my shirts on the right bodies! Indie pop stars, starlets, friends and aquantances.. my wish-list starts…

I’m sitting on the train with a package for friend Gary who is drummer with the reformed Libertines and headlining this years Reading and Leeds Festival and who is a friend and All-Round lovely guy.. also the person who actually invented the Libertines skiffle beat- much copied by just about every Pete D wannabe. Also I am sending one out to the enormously talented and wonderful James from Glasvegas.. hoping he will like the s and m-ish hands tied with microphone leads as much as I do! Got meetings pencilled in with all my music friends… the ball starts here… a slow, frustrating hell of a ball but a journey alright… starting slow and hopefully moving in the right direction… fingers crossed. … (read more…)

London has everything you need for absolutely anything fashion related.. you just need to know exactly where to go. In the capable hands of Dom I am finding my way around Drapers London.. all the specialist shops tucked away in the furthest corners of East and West. Today we needed Zips.. meaning a trip out East to commercial road and the Wonderful London Trimmings. Here there are a myriad of shelves stuffed with every assortment of Zip… metal, plastic, thick, thin, long, short and in the wildest colours from shocking pink to white. We chose around 10 different colours.. a couple of really wide plastic thick Tongues in brilliant orange and red and then headed back to the studio… via the Whitechapel gallery for a bit of culture on the way… Jeffrey can now sew these into our mustard and khaki Office Zip dresses.. ready to wear tomorrow.

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I am moving my office officially to the UK from Berlin (and that’s another story why!)storage in wales and office in Clerkenwell London shared with the lovely Ms S Gray who I also met on the London College Fashion course I did last year… it’s a nightmare… in the end I begged on my facebook and the knight in the shape of Nick from Spitalfields and his white van came to the rescue… you know it’s not all glamourous and fun… it’s bloody hard work and sometimes you just want to put your head in the sand and forget why you ever decided to start a fashion line!

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At Tegal Airport Berlinok thank heavens I am not on Ryanair… I managed to check one large suitcase rammed with all sorts of material, T shirts, scrunched up F2 jackets etc etc whilst hiding my “hand baggage” behind a pillar.. then sneak 2 big wheelies surreptitiously into the queue for security… I got spotted 3 very well dressed uniformed guards and thought sxxx back to check in and an oversized baggage sting… and but imagine my elation when it was not my extra wheelie but my I-Pad that had got them going! they crowded round me asking for a go, and then passed it round the entire security… examing my apps and asking me numerous technical questions before reluctantly handing it back. Needless to say I boarded that plane with all the excess and no fine.. and enjoyed my free cup of tea and paper thank you very much!

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At Tegal Airport Berlinok thank heavens I am not on Ryanair… I managed to check one large suitcase rammed with all sorts of material, T shirts, scrunched up F2 jackets etc etc whilst hiding my “hand baggage” behind a pillar.. then sneak 2 big wheelies surreptitiously into the queue for security… I got spotted 3 very well dressed uniformed guards and thought sxxx back to check in and an oversized baggage sting… and but imagine my elation when it was not my extra wheelie but my I-Pad that had got them going! they crowded round me asking for a go, and then passed it round the entire security… examing my apps and asking me numerous technical questions before reluctantly handing it back.

Needless to say I boarded that plane with all the excess and no fine.. and enjoyed my free cup of tea and paper thank you very much! … (read more…)

Giffords Circus was full of 40’s inspired dress.. the 40’s are my favourite era for clothing.. I love the cut, the designs, the fabrics and the images evoked… I also especially love the underwear and the colours..

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Red shoes and legs… a blue hem brushes against her thigh… where is she going… is she in a hurry?

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Here are some photo’s of the beautiful grand Hotel Porto.. a three star hotel with a 5 star heart! the bar area was beautifully designed and strewn with AD and newspapers to read as you could chill and pretend you lived in 1930!

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I am relaunching the website… with a new lookbook and short film… but of course everything takes so much time.. especially in fashion! In the meantime i will be updating all the trials and tribulations of setting up a fashion line so keep checking in to see the latest news..

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