WHO WANTS CAKE?

The funniest dinner party ever from my current favorite TV show, Californication. Who's at the table? Writer Hank Moody and his longtime girlfriend Karen, and their daughter Becca. Family friends Charlie and Marcy Runkle who have had a little too much refreshment on the way over. Mia - the impish daughter of a man Karen's left for Hank on her wedding day, and who also has a schoolgirl crush on Hank. Sonja, who got with Hank once and her fiancee Julian, a new-age spiritual guru and self help entrepreneur who may or may not be full of it. And Lew Ashby, a successful record producer who Hank met in jail and his date, who Hank also got with, (but by mistake). If that isn't confusing enough, there's a big surprise at the end of this meal for everyone .... I think that deserves a slow hand clap. 

TEACH ME YOUR WAYS

Also, Forever21 officially has a store on Oxford Street in London - I dropped by yesterday and it looks very promising. Wahoooo

GOD CHUCKLES, AND SO I LET GO

{music: Sugar Water by Cibo Matto, 2 Japanese-American sampling queens of the 90s}
{title: lyric from spoken word artist and musician Dizraeli}

I'M VERY UPSET THAT YOU CALLED MY FIESTA A WASTE OF TIME

Detail shots from LGN's summer showcase. Designers from the top are: Rose Willis, Agnieszka Światły, Cernei, Rose Willis

{Title: A quote from textsfromlastnight.com. Classic}

GIV MIG DEM

RIP Lucien Freud.

{Image: Boy Smoking by Lucien Freud 1951-1952}

YOU FIRST

Blogging has introduced me to some seriously talented London designers I'd never have heard of otherwise. Goodone. Kayinsola Onalaja. Zed Eye. And on FRIDAY NIGHT! I found another.


Yolande Letshou was kind enough to invite me to La Geneve North's Summer Catwalk Show and I was really excited to see what talent she and her team had found to present. The cool thing about LGN's events is that each one gives you a variety of designers. Fashion shows are actually quite short - even the grandest couture show only lasts 15 minutes. Not so with LGN. We got a proper show - a 10 designer presentation that ran the entire gamut of ready-to-wear, evening gowns, handbags, conceptual fashion and even a performance piece showcasing convertible custom made designs. 


However, when the dust settled and the curtain closed, Rose Willis stood head and shoulders above the other designers. I get a young Barbara Hulianicki vibe from her line - Rose Willis - which she designs and produces from a garden studio in Surrey (an analogy for those who aren't familiar: Connecticut is to New York as Surrey is to London). She's currently got two collections going - her S/S11 line, and another she expressly designed and produced for the LGN summer show. And I WANT IT ALL. First images below.





  

Stunning stuff. More images to come when my digital camera gets its life together and decides to cooperate.

Anyway, thanks so much to Yolande and the team at La Geneve North for inviting me out, I can't wait to see what you come up with next...!

{Clothing images and info from www.rosewillis.co.uk}

PS: I was on my way back from the show, which was in Central London, when I turned a corner and saw the Spirit of Soho mural. If you look closely you can see St Anne, Karl Marx, Mozart, Dylan Thomas and George Melly, and as much as I've walked around that area, I'd never seen it before. Kind of matches Rose's summer collection.. 

WOW THAT WAS REALLY HEAVY

{Music: Janis Joplin Ball & Chain at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967}

{Title comes from what Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas said after Janis finished performing}