ROMANTICIZED GANGS.

1.FKA twigs x inc.

2. images out Teen Angels magazine.

It seems like every FKA twigs video will have a dedicatory post from me around here. And is it just me or this girl is incapable of failing musically?!

Although you all might have experienced this video already (IN HD I HOPE), I just needed to talk about it. Too many of us see things nowadays, love them, but never pay hommage to them or the people behind these great creations that touch our senses. IT'S NEEDED to do so! genius people need to continue to do genius things and they need our encouragement. Share it, don't keep it to yourself, dare to flash your inner groupie once in a while...it will be appreciated.

I love the atmospheres she creates with each of her videos. In this one I just feel like being at that house with the three of them, smoking it and dancing in the desert around the fire in slo mo. A small gang so beautifully romanticized. This is exactly the kind of video that makes you feel like hopping in a car with your favorite people and just getting lost in a ghost town.........hopefully where houses have pools, XL bbq's, monster sound systems and 24 hours liquor stores.

"Teen Angels magazine – The Voice of the Varrio Since 1979. Made in Los Angeles, Teen Angels was first published in 1981 and featured Chicano gang graffiti, artwork, poetry, fashion, photographs of readers, obituaries and articles on topics like teen pregnancy and relationships. As mentioned by 12oz prophet, the later issues contain more disturbing subjects—babies throwing gang signs, gang bangin’ girls, weapons pictures—as well as some sick low-rider artworks, typographic pages and touching poems from dudes locked down for life. A 1992 Los Angeles Times article reports that police used Teen Angels magazine as a training guide to learn gangs fashion trends and graffiti tags. It was banned in Ventura Schools.

...Although Teen Angels prints anti-violence and anti-drug slogans, authorities say the magazine glorifies street gangs and their violent lifestyle. …" -Kelly Rakowski.

FANTASEED.

photos by Cédric.

You all really need to do your ears a favor and trip a little with Hood By Air's FW14 runway music.

I've replayed it at least 10 times and counting.

On-pointness

TOTAL FREEDOM

The thought of an early spring around here has everyone acting like they don't need a jacket anymore and catching pneumonia lol. Not that pneumonia is anything to joke about, but you get it. It IS cute to see flowers blooming in february though, THE FANTASEED!

I'm kinda crazy about turtle necks right now, TRUST and Beck's new albums and Céline FW14. She did it again. Those Dr. Martenified ankle zip up boots dear lord!

I really like my new job at Rika.

I miss Paris and hate having to skip fashion week, but these are times of shit togetherness.

There's solid plans of shooting with Carlijn Jacobs and I'm really excited!

Also hope to be able show you a little something to be featured on Elsewhere and Platinum Love magazine soon.

CSM MA 14: CONTEMPORARY BIZARRITIES.

1. Jessica Mort Fall.

2. Drew Henry.

VFILES, HBA, Prabal Gurung, The Row, MARNI!!!, Jacquemus!!!, Tom Ford, Simone Rocha, Prada, Emilio Pucci....and although PFW just started and is still going on, these are the names I'll put my hands in the fire for this fashion month. The rest can burn. Not literally but you know what I mean.

The fashion weeks just passed us by and I snoozed throughout the whole thing. I never thought I would become the kind of person that could feel so bored with a 95% of collections throughout a whole fashion month but maybe fashion is moving on and the bitch dumped me far behind. Thank god Nicolas Ghesquiere is still to make his debut at Louis Vuitton aka probably what we all need. The king was gone for far too long and no one knew what to "reference" anymore lol. any which way I know he will shake things up for good or for good. Orelse I can always expect Phoebe to knock me off my chair as usual.

But now you must think, why is he taking such a big dump on the fashions but then praising and entirely selection of wooly army green outfits with goat fur skins hanging out their pockets? well maybe I DID lose it and it's starting to show, but I love it this way. I rather act like a sour looney for a season than be part of a world where everyone goes nuts over Mcdonalds inspired ready to wear.

Let's more talk Central Saint Martins' MA class of 2014. Out of eleven collections, I had three favorites including one of the L'oreal prize winners, Michael Power, but these two right here just really called my name out. I love how both of them read as uniforms but within the constant flow of military or rugby aesthetics they both evolve into contemporary bizarrities.

YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL FRESH MEAT.

1.  A friend wired a picture of this boot to me earlier on whatsapp today and I've been daydreaming of summer and festival outfits ever since.

2. CHICKEN GREASE is Jayson Hindley's latest styling stunt, shot by Sam Bayliss Ibram, which once again presses all the right buttons in me. The models add a lot to the type of boy he tries to create everytime and I think he does a great job at that. And although half of the shoot consisted of really gorgeous black and white photos as well, I'm still sticking to these colorful and steamy ones....okay the second last one is one of my favorites too but I think that might have to deal with Jordan Barker's smile more than anythingelse. Sorry not sorry. Check the rest of the story here.

COURTNEY LOVE ON LOVE.

THE NEW EMOTIONAL TEA SPILL!

Courtney Love's LOVE ON LOVE is as I said, the second best thing to happen online for our generation's lost hope on love after IMBOYCRAZY.COM.

Although there's only 2 episodes out and each lasts around five minutes only, Love is shown in front of her computer adressing live questions from fans via skype about all things love! 

Her answers can be very long and substantial or very short and shocking, but either way I think it was around fucking time we heard Courtney talking to the cameras about somethingelse than her troubled past, drugs and relationship with the most gorgeous rockstar that ever lived. But maybe it's because of that same reason that she has such a wise side to her and it's only lovely to see her clean, on top of her game, still making music and giving back to the fans! even if it's only 5 minutes!

So if you are a fan, you will defo have a laugh and hit that subscribe button! but if you're not and you have never been able to handle even 5 minutes of a Courtney Love's rant on anything then you should skip this post...or maybe you shouldn't?! and become a fan right after this post? or do whatever you want to be honest, your loss anyway.

As a bonus: two of my favorite late pictures of Courtney keeping rock alive.

By Francesco Carrozzini for Interview Russia november 2013.

THERE'S AN ART TO GROWING OLD.

photos by Cédric.

The third photoshoot of 2014!

HUGE thanks to Eric Hirdes whom openned the doors of his gorgeous painting atelier once again for us to make this story happen. The first time I stepped into it, was around my graduation period last year and I was so stunned by how perfectly daylight had it's reflection on all the tiny paint drops of his dark wooden floors; I knew then this place had huge photogenic potential.

So the whole idea was to make the gorgeous Roel look like the artist and atelier owner. A young succesful painter who is portrayed within his artistic bubble posing for the lens at different stages of his day, carreer or however you'd like to see it.

Roel was all over the runways last Men's Fashion Week including Burberry and Valentino in between other heavy names! so we were very proud of having the opportunity to shoot with him.

Here below, "Lock Up" by BC Kingdom and a picture of spanish hyperrealistic painter Eloy Morales....YES, this is a photograph of a painting! not only is he bomb-diggity-handsome, but the photographic quality of his self-portrait paintings are trully stunning.

BC Kingdom - Lock Up
 

BLUE BUT NOT IVY.

wearing hema white t-shirt, sleeveless trenchcoat, broken sweater found at school, motorcycle racing pants and Prada platform oxfords.

photos by Cédric.

It trully feels like we fooled winter this year

So I'm starting to work on my summer hip hop abs

And you should too, cause we had time enough

The nicest hair is the one you don't give a fix to in a whole day

The nicest hair is also always too greasy to go out of the house

The I'm a Slave 4 U Britney kind of greasy which only looks good on I'm a Slave 4 U and on Britney

Sometimes it just feels the best right before it ends

Last night I dreamt I went back to Colombia which looked like a mix of Mexico and Paris. I was wearing a white cotton dress (?!) and was being driven really fast in a baby blue convertible old timer with white leather interior (I was probably in Cuba). I was listening to house music with wind in my hair till two bitches who sat next to me (all of a sudden) tried stealing my iPod.

I didn't know I had an iPod till it was gone

Everyone's breaking up around me

Maybe they don't know what they had either...yet

Blue joke, indelicate stroke

WELL HUNG.

photos by Meinke Klein.

styled by Phoebe Arnolds.

Just another story that draws a smile on my face; the attitude, the name, the clothes, THE BOYS!

The wonder duo Meinke Klein are one of the few around here that can deliver time after time such joyful and effortless productions at the same high end level than everyone else and even higher. Like all PROs, they just make it all look so easy.

But my hat goes off to Phoebe too as her styling for this shoot is so on my lane it only makes me feel and think like DAMN! why didn't _I_ come up with this! I love the latino-fied thing going on with the braids, hip hop chain and sunglasses as well as the cowboys, the torero air, 70's shimmer, moustaches and stoner white boy look.

This is just another reminder of the usual january-february sudden crave for spring and summer every year! by this time we're all done with layering, the comfy cocoon-like coats and rather start losing them clothes than keep on covering up; even if that would mean catching the meanest cold ever. Fake summer till you make it summer.

And as last but most deff not least, I leave you to TRUST's new song to match the level of Meinke Klein's steaminess.

("A DREAM")

1. New favorite abstract homo erotic tumblr find.
2. THE BEST J.W. Anderson ad campaign this far. S/S 14

3. The attack of Pope Francis' peace doves by the bizarrely teamed seagul and crow. An apocaliptic painting-worthy composition.

4. More ad campaign perfection by Guess. 1997

5. Valentin Silverstrov - "A Silent Song". The lyrics (see bio) are really cute. Perfect for late rainy/snowy nights. ("A dream")

GRAB 'N BRAG.

Photos by Boris Postma.

Models: Dieudonnee and Maurits @ Rocket Garage 

Make up & hair: Frances Krol

Styling by moi!

In exclusive for Elsewhere zine #02 - RIOT issue.

I guess by knowing the issue's subject was RIOT there's not much left to explain right? except the fact that maybe I'll think twice before tying and taping models faces next time with non skin-friendly materials, woops!

It was good to finally be able to work with Boris since we're good friends and he made it to my new years resolution list of "talented photographer friends I need to work with already". And although this shoot was based on a concept and vision which is more close to his world and aesthetic than mine, there's still plans of getting together again to create a new story that fits both of our worlds.

As for now I'm happy to have stepped out of my comfort zone and have created that one picture of Dieudonnee (another awesome name) where she looks like jLo's daughter running away with a brand new pair of sneakers from the mall in an ostrich feather bra, black grape earrings and Moncler jacket!

for more of my styling stunts click here! x