TO LOVE AND BE LOVED

SURRENDER

There is great peace in surrender, even though we fight it half our lives. Death, the final surrender, the raising of the very last white flag.  I was listening to an interview with Morrissey this week and he was saying that sleep is the brother of death. It's pretty morbid but i thought that was quite beautiful. Death is only a big deal for those that are living. Dead people don't care....they get to sleep forever.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

Latest cover of HERO magazine by Hedi Slimane, so awesome....not just because i grew up riding horses and being a cowboy was my all time greatest childhood dream and for a while baked beans out of the tin was the only thing i would eat. Sitting beside the fire in our sitting room as a kid...very safe and very loved, in my ALF pj's and one side of my body roasting up like a chicken on a spit.
Cheeks on fire......burning up with sunsets and buffalo stampedes and open plains and cactuses and tumble weeds and prairies with long grass that sound like the wind would sound, if the wind had a noise of it's own.

..and then some indians...some danger, bows and arrows and near death experiences and vultures hopping over the cracked earth like great creepy feathered old men........ then of course the galloping free and open through the land and connected to it....maybe some electrical storms...a few lightening rods flung down by Thor from the heavens just to remind us of how small we really are. Then the dawns that rise like a great flaming phoenix over the canyons to soothe the wet cold right out of your body.....and a sunrise that lifts you up by the scruff of your neck right out of the saddle and sets you back down gently like a kitten at the next watering hole.

Clint Eastwood....the ultimate cowboy with a baby armadillo.....A FREAKING BABY ARMADILLO!!!!!!!! So cool. A boy i know told me that Spaghetti Westerns are so called because they were filmed in Italy!!!! I never knew that and I'm crazy about Westerns. I think if he could wear a poncho everyday and ride a horse to work in Soho he would. Clint Eastwood is his hero.

These two young dudes were photographed by Mary Ellen Mark....when i was riding my pony as a kid and jumping over the benches in my local park i imagined i was as cool as this chick on the left and the guy on the right was my boyfriend and we just rode around all day jumping shit and being awesome....and eating beans and watching the sun go down and falling asleep beside each other on potato sacks with our boots still on.

2nd picture is by Cass Bird.

RAG & BONE

Thank you so much to Rag&Bone for my mega coat which has come in handy considering it's barely Spring here in London and we had snow a week ago (big fur hood lifesaver)!

The white tee shirt and boys number vest i also got are perfect.....the ultimate white tee-shirt is a tasmanian devil hunt down and Rag&Bone have totally nailed it.  So good.

Check out the new collection on style.com here. I have a long wish list, top of it is the parka below...dreeeeammmyyyyyyy.

MANSON FOR SAINT LAURENT

I 100% dig this.....i also dug this..my friend Marique's outfit...ballin'.

POPPIES

A film of our collections story for Dazed made by Kasia Ganfield who had the perfect temperment for a film maker as in..... we barely knew she was there but she managed to capture everything on camera in spite of this. I also love that they called it Celestine's boys shot by Jacob Willis (haha) it's Lillis.
It makes such a difference to hear someones voice sometimes and i think in some cases that's where film can triumph over stills. It can make you fall in or out of love with someone and often they sound nothing like you expected them to and that can be refreshing or disappointing depending on your preconceptions and whether you wanted to sleep with them or not.

CHILDREN & ANIMALS

WAREHOUSE SS13 CAMPAIGN

The Warehouse SS13 Campaign I styled with photographer Freddie Helwig who is awesome and really fun to work with. Shot on location in London with models.com Of The Minute Agne K.

FRENCH CONNECTION SS13 CAMPAIGN

The French Connection SS13 campaign i styled, shot by photographer Tim Barber on location in the Amalfi coast Italy. Tim is also the founder and curator of Tinyvices.com and takes really beautiful pictures like these guys below.......

DAZED COLLECTIONS STORY MARCH ISSUE 2013

The Dazed menswear collections story i styled, shot by wunderkind Jacob Lillis and produced by dream woman Laura Holmes with a whole host of awesome boys and animals.

SIMONE ROCHA AW13

The Simone Rocha AW13 show that i styled during London fashion week. Another incredibly accomplished, innovative and beautiful collection. We always end up naming certain looks after animals...last season we had mackerel's and sheep and this season in with the pep to-bismol..... there was a leopard, a polar bear and a freshly hatched chick.

Hair by James Pecis & Make up by Shinobu.

MIXT(E) SS13

Mixt(e) SS13 editorial with Carlotta Manaigo in Paris.

DRAW IN LIGHT AW13

 

The Draw In Light AW13 lookbook shot by big bear Ben Weller. Art Direction and Design by the supremely talented Toby Evans.....and beautiful seascape imagery shot by Brain Doherty.

JESUS AND THE PROCESSED CHEESE

Sooooo while i'm on a bit of a religious slam dunk. I'm really into Cheesestrings at the minute. I was eating them with my buddy Sam the other day and he stated that they don't taste of anything...this is 100%true.

Anyway it reminded me that when we were kids, my brothers and i would tear up easy singles processed cheese squares and pretend that they were the holy communion....so one of us would be the priest and the others had to queue up like you do in church and then a bit of cheese would be put in our upturned palms and the priest would say body of christ and you would say amen, bless yourself and eat it and go join the back of the queue...and so on until we had probably eaten like 15 slices or something.

Somehow making that processed cheese square into holy communion made it way more exciting.....juuusssstttt like cheese strings...being all stringy etc...and that's just the thing it's not even about it being delicious... its the experience of eating it, thats what's so cool.