Hilarious! This is cabaret theatre for the fashion crowd – Bourgeois & Maurice are 2 cabaret singers who are strangely as attractive as they are twisted, with great costumes by London designer Julian J Smith. In their new show "Shedding Skin" they lovingly skewer Lady Gaga, Rhianna and Beyonce for their fashion excesses in "I’m Going To Out Outfit You" and cheerily sing songs that have a lot more swearing and dark humour than anything else playing in the West End – fun! They also sell signed copies of their CD after the show, which I just had to buy. The most stylish, sick and twisted song and dance pair I’ve ever seen!
Bourgeois & Maurice after the show at their CD signing!
I loved the hair and make up we that we did for Andrew Majtenyi show. It’s important to meet with the whole team and talk about the vision and what hair, makeup and styling can do for the collection – there are so many different direction that one can go. It’s just so important to chose the best one.
I’m quite partial to big hair. We worked with Leigh Keates from Michael Van Clarke and they came up with several hair styles that would work for the show. You have to look at each part on it’s own merit and then how it comes together. It’s all about synergy.
Andrew’s collection is mainly grey, black and neutral with some delightful 50’s inspired prints. The silk prints are quite quirky with poodles, dachshund and cafe scenes. He also used beautiful crepes and wools with flocked damask. It’s very grown up and very easy to wear.
Since the show I’ve become addicted to new id Cosmetics eye gel but dying to try the i flick (a Double Ended Liquid and Kohl Liner)!
Alex Box did blue lips for Hannah Marshall’s A/W2010 catwalk show. Generally I don’t like blue lips, every makeup artist loves doing them but usually badly…
The makeup for Hannah’s show was beautiful. Alex used Mac Pro Lip Mix in blue blended with Lip Mix in black. The contours of the face and the silvery highlighter completed the look and the blue lips look beautiful and other worldly.
This was Stefán Orschel-Read’s second season at London Fashion Week and I really enjoyed working with him. It really was beautiful and the models were just lovely – there was a lot of excitement backstage. The collection was called "Fågeln" – Stefán was inspired by the beauty of female birds and the ceiling murals of Stockholm’s Storkyrkan Cathedral.
The collection had a very English country life feel: it included birds embroidered on pockets, delicate floral prints in soft leather with dusty pinks and poke-a-dots, and more abstract floral print that recalled the early pattern work of William Morris. The birds print was used on the hoodies – a very feminine print on a masculine piece of the clothing. In this collection you really noted Stefán’s tailoring skills, beautiful crafted chevron jackets in natural earthtones with his signature trousers.
The jewelery was from Marie Parsons. It worked beautiful with the collection. Parsons is in her first year at the RCA studying textiles and specialising in Mixed Media.
Doii Lee may be one of the cutest people that I’ve ever met. I just happened to meet her upstairs at Fashion Scout when she was packing up. Fortunately I’d seen her stand during the exibition and just loved her collection. It’s fun, sparkly and whimsical.
Lee gratuated from Central St. Martins in 2002, her first job was with John Galliano, before being head hunted by Antonio Marras to work at Kenzo. In 2005, Doii launched her own label, Doii Paris and she’s shown at Seou, Paris and London fashion week.
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