TigerMilk arrives...

Here are a couple of sneak previews from a new line of clothes I have been designing and making with my dear friend Lotte. Our brand is called TigerMilk and will be shortly stocked in Syd and Mallory's in the Forum, so keep your eyes peeled!

Alex Box

I was just remembering my time on placement in London, my supervisor took me to the launch of Alex Box (the makeup artist) and Rankin's collaboration book. It was an amazing night (there were some very interesting characters, Alex Box was dressed all in black and white and there was a man dressed as jesus... crown of thorns and everything). 

Anyway I was looking on Rankin's site and found the photographs, this one is my favourite. The combination of such amazing makeup design and well staged photography is stunning, check out the whole collection at

http://www.rankin.co.uk/portfolio/alexbox 

Frida

I recently saw the film Frida, a biography of the artist Frida Kahlo, and thought it was brilliant, I knew a little about her life and admired her Surrealist work but thought the performance of Salma Hayek in the film showed Frida's amazing character and bravery. 

The reason I'm posting about this is not only because I recommend the film, but because after I watched it, I looked up some of her works, and found this ('What I saw in the water', 1938).

I remembered the first time I saw it, probably when I was about 9 years old, my Mum had The Art Book and I used to flick through it, I remember spending hours looking at the images and detail of this painting and found it fascinating. It was probably the first Surrealist painting, or painting actually, I'd ever properly studied. I think it was one of the reasons I started to love art and subsequently design. One of the things that engaged me was probably the setting of the painting in the bath and that the perspective of the painting means you are seeing the scene through the eyes of the person in the bath, sharing in the emotion and feelings that are being experienced.