sunday
from the science museum to carnival to an unnecessary stop at a traffic island to a semi-eventful walk to and through the park to a queens gate basement flat to the 345 bus to sleep
miller wore skinny jeans and a leather bomber
zoe d. wore a raf simons denim jacket and oversize shirt with a braille print
dean k. wore a static tee-shirt, battered plimsoles and rosy cheeks
rachael b. wore grey ankle boots and denim shorts
me, I wore an oversize breton stripe tee-shirt and clarkes original brogues
rhyming
mr. dean kissick, my co-writer (happy finish) said something quite brilliant, and it goes like this:
“£2 chicken, £5 POP, Peckham’s finest chicken stock!”
the boy with sapphire eyes
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liam evans, with his love of a diva, who keeps the dancefloor alive, who is famous for his epic spreads, who loves a steak dinner, whose flan is revered in certain circles, who produces beautiful drawings, from shropshire to manchester to london via a long weekend in italy (where the sun was so so strong), who wears an awful lot of black, who calls me monkey…
emma maud
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emma maud corrall
she has just returned from a residency in new york
she studied at camberwell college of art
she lived with us for one whole year
she makes excellent canelloni
she is a fan of a legging with a stirrup
speaking english with a slight hint of kiwi
jarah – kensington – 2008
Jarah the Dutch girl I used to phone from the 7th floor womenswear studio, she was in menswear (at the other end of the building), the girl who used to make her bags and stop for a tea and lucky strike break at 3pm, who had a signature move for the dancefloor, who once dragged a bench around with her on a Friday night (some French chick made it for her and she didn’t want to lose it unnecessarily), who speaks English with a slight hint of Kiwi, she dressed up as a teddy bear for Halloween (2008), rocked the Baywatch terrace look on a warm day, she use to live in West London, but is back in Holland for the moment, her website is super nice, like her and she has possibly one of the greatest badge collections in Europe.
I saw Jarah recently, but forgot to ask her the following questions, because we were talking about our developing MTV addictions.
spring/summer 2009 – city excitement
D.H: Jarah, hey, how you doing, that was ever-so pleasant to see you the other day…what are you wearing?
J.S: Fishnet stockings, patent leather nurse outfit.
D.H: Okay, dirty dirty slightly flirty, so, what is your favourite Destiny’s Child lyric of all time?
J.S: At Night, When You’re Far And I’m Alone
I Feel The Fabric From Your T-Shirt
Close To My Body
I Can Still Hear Your Baritone
D.H: Amazing, I’ve never heard that lyric, but then there are lots I haven’t heard. You know how I like stripes-what about you and what kind of decoration makes you happy?
J.S: I love stripes too. I personally like badges, medals and brooches!
D.H: What is your favourite badge at the moment?
J.S: At the moment I am into my beaver-badge.
D.H: Is it hot in Holland at the moment?
J.S: It’s quite nice: sunny blue sky
D.H: Where would you like to be in your ideal world right now?
J.S: With you
D.H: You just made me blush, lets get serious, a fashion question, who is better – Hermes or Loewe?
J.S: They are specialized in such different product categories that it is hard to say, but if I have to choose I would say Hermes. Better use of colour, material and overall more comfortable.. have u ever tried wearing Loewe? I rest my case.
D.H: I call you “manager” because of when we were ushers (at the R.C.A. Fashion Show 2007) and you were such a natural leader – why do you think this was?
J.S: Because I have had loads of training when I was at the S.D.T.C.(secret dictator training camp) in the
hills of Holland.
spring/summer 2009 – city excitement
D.H: Wasn’t it great seeing Whitney Houston looking well at that Albert Hall thing (Fashion Rocks 2007)?
J.S: Yes sometimes I put on her music and go back to that “one moment in time”… it was glorious!
D.H: What is the worst advice you have been given-don’t mention any names?
J.S: Hmm… the worst advice was… to use brown leather! BLECH
D.H: Can I have borrow the mirrored suitcase, I’ll take extra special care of it, make sure it doesn’t get cracked?
J.S: Yes, after the V&A is done with it…
D.H: Thankyou Jarah.
jarah and david
(We are both showing in an exhibition at the V&A, with lots of our friends and peers: Future Fashion Now).
You can find Jarah at
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www.jarahstoop.com
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this is a photostory of a nice evening in Camberwell
starring: dean.k, miller, rachael b., zoe deschanel, liam, islington and david h.
I eat breakfast in the same French cuffs that I eat supper
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Samuel J Fouracre lives and works in London, and has caused sensations throughout the worlds of art and fashion with his spectacular new work All Girls Wear American Apparel. But what are the secrets of his success??? All is revealed in conversation with Dean Kissick, exclusive to StandByMe…
All Girls Wear American Apparel
DK: How did you choose the girls for your photoshoot? And were you happy with them???
SF: The girls were conquests of one sort or another. As such, I can’t say I am entirely happy or unhappy with them. I am ambivalent. They are a complex collection of creatures, each one delightful in their way, each one a failure or a success, each one reflecting my strengths and insecurities.
On the day of the shoot, of course, they were delightful. No cat fights. In fact, we all sat and had strawberries together. It was a bittersweet experience.
All Girls Wore American Apparel
DK: And how did you choose their clothes?
SF: That was simply a matter of what excited me. It was important to me to have clothes that were instantly recognizable as American Apparel but that did not demean the girls. Someone asked me recently if I shouldn’t have had the girls more scantily dressed. That would be wholly inappropriate. Clothes are a flirtation. If the women were naked it would have closed down the relationship between the models and myself. It would have only one inevitable reading. But clothed, they hold possibilities… we are in that delightful moment of flirtation where no one has committed. That’s how life should be always… a perpetual state of endless, suggested possibilities.
DK: Would the world be a better place if all men wore smart tailored suits and all women wore American Apparel swimsuits?
SF: What other men wear is entirely irrelevant to me. Sometime ago, I think it was around the time that combat pants were made available to the general public, I had to develop a kind of male blindness due to a crashing disappointment in my sex.
There needs to be a definition here between women and girls. Girls of a particular age are exquisite in American Apparel and really should wear nothing else. But it is not for all women. Women are mercurial, and as such should dress according to mood. A woman of elegance will look beautiful in sweat-pants and sneakers, and then slide into an Alexander McQueen and just blow your mind. This is the pleasure of femininity. Masculinity on the other hand demands a certain degree of restraint. A limited palette if you will. I eat breakfast in the same French cuffs that I eat supper.
The Secret of My Success - Too luxurious to be bohemian, too singular to be bourgeois
DK: You’ve previously described yourself as “too luxurious to be called bohemian, too singular to be called bourgeois”, and praised “the sophistication of self-knowledge”… who is Samuel J Fouracre?
SF: I am the perfect collection of imperfections.
DK: You recently titled an exhibition “I climbed up the black mountain in a pair of sky blue Paul Smith loafers”… did that really happen? What was it like???
SF: There is a little artistic license in there. They weren’t sky blue loafers but ivory white, leather-soled brogue-style shoes with pink laces. However, when the gallerist asked me to title the exhibition I thought the “sky blue loafers” added a poetic aspect to the expedition that simply cannot be evoked by the brogue.
I still have them and wear them occasionally to remind me that even the greatest and most ancient impediment is surmountable with style.
The Secret of My Success – The sophistication of self knowledge
DK: Could you let us in on some of the secrets of your success?
SF: The secret is to embrace the spectacle and engage.
DK: Ok brilliant thanks!
