A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was employed as a junior copywriter. Salary 4.5K. 1-month holiday a year. 1½ hours for lunch. I was not the only junior in the creative dept mind. There were three others and one guy in particular had some very peculiar tendencies.
Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
Offloading. Does Loaded’s decline mark the end of an era?
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Loaded, the title from which all lads mags sprang, is to be sold for the second time in as many years. Its publisher, Vitality, was taken into administration last week, owing creditors £1m and liquidators Cooper Young have been tasked with dispensing with Vitality’s assets. By all accounts there has been some interest in the magazine, but its currency has never been lower.
Loaded’s latest circulation figures show a 30% year-on-year fall to an average of just 34,505 copies. For those unfamiliar with magazine sales, that is not good. Not good at all.
One for the Glam Rockers. British Design 1948-2012 exhibition
Monday, April 9th, 2012
If you’re in your late 40’s and happen to be passing the V&A between now and 12 August, go see the British Design 1948-2012 exhibition, for no other reason than the Bolan, Bowie, Eno, and Ferry stage outfits.
10 amazing blogs
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
The blogosphere is a daunting and hectic place, millions of voices are fighting to be heard, most of them probably shouldn’t be if all they can talk about is their latest bought of PMT or how much they hate their boss. However, in amongst the mindless self-indulgence are little beacons of inspiration and knowledge which can brighten up your day and provide a little much-needed inspiration for us creative-types. After a day spent clicking through link after link, these are some of the juiciest fruits we found on the blog tree…
Cash From Chaos – how a fashion label stole a logo
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The connection between punk’s pop cultural movement and the political ideology of ‘anarchy’ stems from the 1976 debut single from Sex Pistols: ‘Anarchy In The UK’. The Pistols weren’t actually a political or anarchist band, more of an art statement, and their reference to ‘anarchy’ was a statement of provocation and disgust rather than a manifesto. They did, after all, sign to three major record labels and fought tooth and nail for the money they earned.
Boxpark
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The corner of Shoredich High Street and Bethnal Green Road is a funny old place. There is a scuzzy strip of wasteland, the rather exclusive Shoreditch House (the members-only gym and club as frequented by many celebs), the new(ish) Shoreditch overground station and on a Sunday morning, what we have come to refer to as the ‘Crack Boot Sale’ where East London’s most questionable bring their supermarket trolleys to sell whatever they have managed to rob from charity shops and bins the night before. Now, a new level of intrigue has been added to the area because as of last week, Boxpark opened it’s doors – a pop-up shopping mall made from 60 metal shipping containers.
On the ridiculous …
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
As things currently stand, wealthy business men are far more likely to face a mob brandishing flaming torches than the accolade ‘national treasure’. Even Alan Sugar is, at best, a rather grouchy figure of fun. But if there’s one glaring exception, it’s Richard Branson. With his silly mullet and toothy goatee, he’s the capitalist it’s still okay to like.
So how did Ricky B set himself apart from the evil, bonus-guzzling fat cats? What makes him so different?
Perhaps it’s his hippy roots, or his bottle blond roots. Or maybe it’s his ‘jeans in the boardroom’, call-me-Richard, relaxed approach. Yep, our Richard sure is the ‘People’s Tycoon’. Which is quite surprising because his enterprises tend to be … well … a bit rubbish.
Richard Avedon – fashion’s greatest photographer
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
If there is one iconic image which sums up all that is glamour and stardom within the realms of fashion and Hollywood then it has to be that over-exposed, stark image of Audrey Hepburn’s eyes, eyebrows and lips from the 1957 musical ‘Funny Face’. Though the image might be familiar, you might not know much about the man behind the camera, the photographer is the late Richard Avedon.
How ethical is your wardrobe?
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
You can hardly move in an inch in a shop these days without being confronted with fair trade this and that and an ending array of ethical options for your every consumer need. Once an option for dreadlocked hippies and mother earth types, ethical living has become a necessary way of life in modern times when draining the planets resources and exploiting impoverished people is just not an acceptable way to carry on any more. That said, there is still a hell of a lot of exploitation and reckless greed going on at the end of the chains of production, particularly in the fashion industry. It still seems that the vast majority of people want their fashion fast and cheap and they don’t pause to think much about where or how their £5 shirt has come to land in their wardrobe.
99 problems. Should Jay Z really be designing logos?
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012(more…)
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