we are coming up to the last last days before the one november night of decadence  that will be T.A.C. is upon us….the final preparations are taking place as we speak and one of the things i am pondering at the moment is decorations…….i have ideas of what i want to do and i am trying to be as creative as possible but if anyone has ideas of what could be done to make T.A.C. even more unique as an event in dublin we would love to hear, and if your up for helping that would be great.

excited!!!

look to michael alig….party monsters star for inspiration!!!

had a minor hemorrhage today…….found out there had been a miscommunication double booking for button factory for the night of T.A.C. ………heres hoping we still have it cause we have put 2 solid months of work into this and the coolness are so excited to come over!

tongue and cheek intensely dislike stress!

does anyone else think that comme des garcons move to colaberate with h&m was a bad idea? okay i was great for us fashion hungry consumers that cant dish out the big euros for a real comme piece but they have never dipped into the mass market and i thought that really made them special! they are such a unique brand that never  conformed to trends and was wouldn’t necessarily make pieces that would appeal to everyone. These more paired  down designs(dont get me wrong, they were still avant garde pieces in themselves) lessened the brand. comme des garcon, to me, has always been one of those unobtainable status symbols that i dream about getting, and now the chance of seeing some random person walking down grafton street weraring the same “comme” trench that i have pains me a little. i know i may sound ignorant but i would like to see a piece from them to be a couture, keep for the rest of your life kind of garment rather than a remember that time they did that thing with h&m.

it has to be pure talent juice as there has been a steady flow of top standard music men and ladies emerging from the depths of this sweedish city. i saw lykke li (one of the latest wave) perform her song i’m good i’m gone in a toliet cubile and kept meaning to search out the video but here it is and it is simply charming!

this comin Wednesday the lovely mixin vixen and myself shall be taking over the NCAD Film Society and creating TAC PRESENTS NCAD FILM SOCIETY (we like to be very ‘outside the box’ when it comes to naming our projects!) As the first theme to our lovely night TAC is party monster disco, we thought it would only be smart to have a showing of the movie for the lovely dublin people! so if you have 5.30 till 7.00 free this coming WEDNESDAY(19th november) and you want some FREE popcorn and rice crispy treats then this is realy for you!

COME PLAY

*heres a taster*

so there has been an obvious art deco revival with the female side of fashion (flapper girls and the such) but what about the guys?? I think it is really time for us to bring back some of the classier times that was the 1920’s onwards this winter! im thinking really gentleman-esque attire here……..the cold has really hit us and I’m feeling the ‘gentleman’s’ coats, just above knee length, raglan sleeves , cashmere (of course) with large rounded fur lapels and fur lining.  high-waisted  beautifully tailored pleated trousers is a must! and I’m thinking mix it up with some classic patternsa mix up between dior homme pleating and embellishments with balenciaga tailoring would be perfect, but we cant have everything we want!! it has been all about the check/tartan for a good while(and it has been raped by the high street(mainly topshop and pennys) so for winter let us mix it up a little,(thats not to say ditch the tartan, i love it myself but simplicity is the way forward!) also it (being fashion) has become far too disposable, i know this is no major revelation and it has been stated by many other people but i have major of respect for the people who buy the more expensive new or really search out the vintage staple garments that are built for endurance and they wear again and again rather than trying to reinvent their persona again and again.

thats my rant…….take it or leave it!

opinions?

i now really get what lykke li is talking about in this song……..she OBVIOUSLY went to london for the summer, had the time of her life came back and saw that everything was smaller greener and colder and decided…..”ahhhhhhh u know what lads, I’M GOOD for this whole dublin life, I’M GONE back to london”

its all so simple.

i miss london:(

I feel very like a pretentious cliche writer at the moment,

laptop……check

flat in fashionable city………check

strong drink by my side……..check

cigarette in an ash tray  with smoke slowly drifting through the glow given from my screen…….check!

as cliche as it is i love london unimaginably and hate to leave the last week has been absolutely incredible. Midweek i got to take part in the event that my whole summer has been building up to, the Fashion East show.  It should be kind of depressing that my entire 3 month internship was down to a 10 minute window but i couldn’t care less because the show was great.

Natascha Stolle kicked off the show  with  a collection that had a  1930’s cut combined with  several different  prints from a kind of  multicoloured  candystriped to printed ruffles.

daviddavid followed with a short film to which 12 models performed a choreographed routine  to the  remix of Santogold’s I’m a Lady.  The collection’s prints had developed on from the well known geometric patterns that were inspired by visions created by kaleidoscopes and has now moved on to abstract patterns inspired by several different sources including layered highly decorated cakes and gardenscapes but still keeping a similar playful colour palette.

Louise Gray topped it all off with her signature style focusing mainly on embellishment. In this collection she focused all the embellishment on the back, keeping the silhouettes very clean and simple and incorporating chain mail in to contrast the conventional fabrics used.

it was an amazing experience to be part of and from what i could tell everyone was recieved very well.

i am trying to get my hands on the david david video but here are some pictures of the other colections.

Natascha Stolle

Louise Gray

R.I.P. summer 2008

www.daviddavid.co.uk

this week has been a very busy week. We have had many visitors to our magical london home. The mooney shepards plus friend and averil and hannah(the stitch bitches) arried on the same day so we had a total of 14 people staying in the house as becky(former NCAD head) came down from her village! lets just say there was alot of spooning done!

We had a few nights out including Electricity Showrooms, the Macbeth, Durrr and Trailer Trash Warehouse Rave. These were some of the views from our photo box.

click on thumbnails to see them full sized!

Since my arrival in london i have been given many amazing opportunities, helping out at a dazed and confused shoot was one of the and while i was there the photographers assistant Amy Gwatkin asked me if i would be interested in doing a shoot for her. she is a very talented photographer and had the concept of doing a shoot influenced by David Hockney. these were  the results..

check out her work if you get a chance.

www.amygwatkin.co.uk

http://spadgerdisco.blogspot.com/