Go Gaga for Naja

If there was a Fashion God (no, Anna Wintour does.not.count) and he was given a million blank canvases, I'm pretty sure this is what it would look like. Very psychedelic and hypnotic. In a good way.

Once I'd clapped eyes on Naja Conrad- Hansen's Illustrations/Paintings/Graphics/Prints (again, fingers in pieeeeee) I thought her work was brilliant. No words needed...but mainly because all you need to know is that she's abstract, contemporary and bloody cool. Her 'fashion fiction' does all the talking.

Enough. Look.
.

I tried to pick favourites.

I gave up.

This blog post does NO justice. http://www.meannorth.com/
Illegal not to.
Kind of.

Her mate STELLA

The only words I seem to be typing at the moment appear to go along the lines of ......
"urgent.
call in.
sample.
high-res image.
bike booked.
look book.
fashion special."

followed by "pls.pls.pls" and a lot of "kind regards".

These words are flown from my computer along to what seems like a million and one PRs in the hope they will favour my request before many other similar ones flying around their inbox. (my favourites so far; Tatiana from Net-a-porter,com, Jordan at ASOS & Imogen at Miu Miu who never seem bothered by the overload of emails/calls from me a day).

However- - -
whilst sending a lengthy email to the Stella McCartney press office I was rather overjoyed that I was assigned the 'task' of flicking through her website to pick out images for our Wardrobe Mistress page. I've always been a fan of good ol' Stella. Pretty much one of the only designers to make a leather/fur 'animal friendly' collection look so good. ..........(If you don't believe me, head down to the North Laines and look out for a shop called 'Vegetarian Shoes'.)

And with Natalia Vodianova (f-ing HOTT_) fronting the collection, I think it's fair to say that Stella's got it all under control.
My fingers officially hurt from typing so I'm gonna let the pictures do the talking.

Pssst. She also has a 'knicker of the week' pack for only £125. A-dorable.

(Yummy)

WANT WANT WANT

Girl on Film

In recent years fashion designers have begun experimenting in more creative ways to showcase their collections, rather than cramming too many buyers, press and photographers into hot and dark rooms.

A trend has kicked off the back of the recession and designers have begun taking it upon themselves to come up with some ingenious ways to get the buzz going about their latest designs. Not only are designer presentations going to be popular this season again, so are films.

Back in 2008, Yves Saint Laurent released a video of the A/W menswear collection, and who better to take the lead. *(No one.)

Drum roll please for Miss Kathryn Ferguson who is fast becoming the go to girl for edgy and innovative short fashion based films. Basically.

She's racked up a rather snazzy portfolio including collaborating with eclectic new designers such as Richard Nicoll, Theatre de la Mode, Erika Trotzig and DAVID DAVID.

She has also used footage of Lady Gaga from her Glastonbury 2009 rehearsals to create a short piece for dazeddigital.com and Paloma Faith and Beatrice Brown feature in her 2007 'Tingel Tangel' short film about chorus line girls in the 1920s. Sometimes helping a designer's collection come to life and sometimes helping to build a brand asthetic, her work is never short of sharp and exciting.

With her work being showcased alongside other directors on 19th February this month - just in time for London Fashion Week, Kathryn has a pretty impressive knack to creat abstract, kooky, charming and charismatic short films. Which I enjoy watching. You should too.

(Pssst. She also helped photographer Cat Stevens direct these rather beautiful photographs. Ah, a girl with her finger in more than one pie. Yum.)

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