Meadham Kirchhoff SS12

A little Meadham Kirchhoff SS12 for you, just because I can't stop watching it.  The frills, the flounces, the pure delectable fashwan of it all.

Image: The Style Crusader

Fashion Week Internationale

Vice sent me this trailer for their series Fashion Week Internationale, which started today.  It reports on some of the more unorthodox fashion weeks around the globe (Columbian fashion week, anyone?) and the political, cultural and religious issues behind the shows featured.  With Seoul fashion week coming up, this struck a chord with me.  Although I generally follow the more prominent fashion weeks obsessively through the internet, I'm going to try and witness Seoul SS12 firsthand.

I'm hoping it's going to be a lot like this.

Global Gathering

Digitalism at Global Gathering Korea were epic.  Especially this song.

Dr Martens and Attack! Attack!

Attack! Attack! are performing in Cardiff's Dr Martens shop tonight as part of the brand's First and Forever Festival that's ongoing throughout the UK this week.  There are also gigs in the Leeds and London shops, with the festival culminating in a three-night ticketed event at Camden Barfly (other Welsh bands Rolo Tomassi and The Blackout are playing some of these nights).

If you want the chance to win prizes such as tickets to these gigs through Dr Martens then you need to go to this website and write about a 'first' - whether it's a first gig, first festival or a first love (aww).

(Image: Attack! Attack!)

Aweh

One of my friends launched a website called Aweh last Saturday in Seoul.  The party was cool, it was at this tiny expat art gallery called the Laughing Tree Lab.  I love parties in obscure locations; it makes them way more interesting.

The party would have been interesting enough anyway. Lots of quirky art, people and music.  Because the Laughing Tree Lab is a compact venue, everyone spilled out onto the pavements in front of the venue, chilling out while drinking home brew and soju (Korean vodka).

Aweh is a super slick-looking website.  I've become obsessed with in the short time it's been on the internet.  The concept is simple: mini bios and interviews with creatives all over the globe.  I'm sure it's been done before and it'll be done again.  The difference is that the guys behind Aweh have such a good taste in all things subcultural and know how to make a website look aesthetically awesome.

Read my post about Aweh on Chincha!? and make sure you check out Aweh itself.

Mulberry SS12

You know you're a fan of a collection when you right click save, right click save, right click save nineteen looks from their fashion show.

Mulberry SS12 is divine in that it looks like designer Emma Hill has taken a bunch of lifesize Sindy dolls (the much hipper, much less obvious version of Barbie...) and rolled them around in some sugar and sherbert.  It's such a change from the murky and darkly disappointing AW11 collection.

I'm a particular fan of looks six and eight because these are exactly the kind of things that would have been perfect to wear this summer in Seoul.  In fact, I'm sure I saw more than a few Korean girls wearing those mint green shorts and I've definitely been rocking the socks and sandals look recently (sorry haters!).

Watch the show here and coo over the cute colours and even cuter puppies that are seen on the runway.

Images: ElleUk

VICE Party

So, I didn't get to go to the VICE party because I'm stuck in the land of kimchi and plastic surgery, but luckily my friend Finn (who you may remember from this post) stepped in to save the day.


And get a free ticket to see Tom Vek.

Anyway, here's his awesome review, which made me uber jealous.


Can I come home now please?

After years of attempting to secure the vice.com domain from a stubborn porn site, VICE finally beat down the final sex gimp standing in their way.  Some say it was a 3ft tall transsexual midget built like a brick shit house, armed with none other than a 12” black rubber cock and covered from head to toe in KY jelly.  This he/she was not going down without a fight, but, nonetheless VICE prevailed victorious and viceland.com and vbs.tv are now successfully married.  Cue party.

 Upon finally finishing work in the not so sunny welsh capital Cardiff, myself and my ride seated ourselves on the blood red leather seats of his mother in law’s Mazda MX-5 and speedily took to the M4 as hairdressers in disguise.  We needed a ride, judgement will not be tolerated! Running an hour later than planned because of speed caps, traffic jams and crashes we arrived at VICE mag’s busy-ass celebratory party in association with the new free music download site boinc.com, located at Factory 7 in Shoreditch, London. The excitement was as unbearable as the beer thirst that had built up on the journey.  Cool, calm and collected we got our wristbands, blended in with the hipsters, grabbed a beer and lapped up the atmosphere. Having missed half of the acts at this neatly promoted shindig due to our error in geographical placement on the map, we still got to catch all of live acts Factory Floor and headliner Tom Vek.  Factory Floor’s awesome post-apocalyptic disco synth, a really raw and enjoyable sound, brought a resemblance to early Joy Division and worked really well in the build up to Tom Vek.  

Whilst waiting for the latter of the two live acts to set up I thought I would go and check out the other room in the venue which saw Rory Phillip’s bring a fresh and uplifting vibe on the turntables making for a great atmosphere. Torn between the two I decided to head back and get a decent spot to witness the ever evasive Tom Vek who kicked things off with Aroused, carrying on to play most of the singles from his new album Leisure Seizure. It has to be said, the short but sweet set went down a storm, ending with the perfectly fitting I Aint Saying My Goodbyes from his debut album left the crowd screaming for more of his unique addition to the Rock genre. As Tom Vek said his goodbyes, reluctantly, so did myself and my lift. A thoroughly well organised and enjoyable launch party in the prime sector of London, big thanks to VICE and Tallullah Elle. 


Check out Finn's blog and follow him on twitter @finngnk