Dominic Jones Blog

The Incredible Dice Sculptures By Tony Cragg

2011-11-02T10:39:00.001-07:00

Quantum Levitation

2011-10-18T16:21:00.000-07:00

ALBINO

2011-10-09T17:40:00.000-07:00

GARAGE MAGAZINE- BLOOM- FRAN BURNS & ANGELO PENNETTA

2011-10-09T16:32:00.000-07:00

I made some Jewellery out of fresh flowers for the first issue of Garage magazine
http://garagemag.com/

Photographer Lisa Wassman

2011-10-09T16:12:00.000-07:00

SHUGA- HEY BABY!!

2011-10-09T16:03:00.000-07:00

The beautiful birds of painter Maurizio Bongiovanni

2011-10-09T15:43:00.000-07:00

SNOOP DOGG!!!! wearing my knuckle duster!!! BIG

2011-06-02T03:05:00.001-07:00

FLOW- Not Fade Away By Tabitha Denholm

2011-06-02T03:03:00.000-07:00

Florence Welch: Not Fade Awayfrom Tabitha Denholm on Nowness.com.

the sky.

2011-04-27T05:00:00.001-07:00

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

the earth from space

2011-04-22T17:10:00.000-07:00

really interesting!

2011-04-20T16:45:00.001-07:00

give it a read....

2011-04-13T15:32:00.001-07:00

http://asyouaremagazine.com/

my good friend Zoe started a new online magazine!

Kate Mcgwire

2011-03-17T18:20:00.001-07:00

:-)

2011-02-27T07:55:00.001-08:00

bill hicks

2011-02-25T16:08:00.001-08:00

still so inspiring

Flow on gossip girl!!

2011-02-22T08:53:00.001-08:00

wearing my ss11 jewellery

U-oh :-/

2011-02-15T15:53:00.000-08:00

I've never given two shit's about shoe's before.
They're fine but they have never caught my passion, I tend to have one pair at a time that i wear until they die.
But then last night I wore a Pair of Mr Hare shoes and somethings change i think forever.
I'm in love with his work!! his Shoe's are so elegant, sharp and modern but with a strength of design that make them feel timeless.
I'm seriously worried as I had no desire to find a new expensive diversion for my money and yet I think I'm going to have to start saving up as there are at least 5 pairs I NEED to own. Gutted.

http://www.mrhare.co.uk/Home.html

Thank you ELLE!!! :-)

2011-02-15T15:37:00.000-08:00

I never thought three seasons in, i would be given such a great honour!! very proud and humbled.
thank you so much!
and huge thanks to Alice Kirkpatrick who I some how forgot to thank in the nerves of last night.
you are my rock!!

Jessie Ware

2011-02-07T04:10:00.001-08:00

Inspiring and interesting Talk by Kevin Smith

2011-01-30T10:19:00.000-08:00

Still my favourite creator Andy Goldsworthy

2011-01-29T18:39:00.000-08:00

In general I have a loathing for art, which is strange given that my favourite creator of all time would be categorised as a artist.
Above even all fashion and music, I find his work to be the most captivating and honest.
His instinctive, elegant sensitivity almost tricks you into excepting it to be the work of mother nature, the kind of beauty that only comes around by the infinite chances of evolution.
His dedication to is own outlet of talent can not be questioned. It is utterly humbling and inspiring to watch him work.
I often wonder if personally we would get on?
I worry, probably not as we are HUGLEY different people, but at the same time I almost enjoy that fact as it is probably the reason why i find such value his work.

where's wolly?/ spot the moth

2011-01-23T13:21:00.000-08:00

JAMES BLAKE

2010-12-27T14:18:00.000-08:00

Sean: Walter hugo, Exhibition

2010-11-08T11:26:00.000-08:00

some things i've been listening too

2010-11-07T10:54:00.000-08:00

mostly because of the influence of Lauren Dillard my good friend and one half of CREEP who pimped out my itunes!

so into goliath tiger fish!!

2010-10-22T07:18:00.000-07:00

R.I.P. BENOIT MANDELBROT

2010-10-18T16:19:00.000-07:00

The man whose mathematical method revolutionised our understanding of everything from economics to cauliflowers and coastlines has died of cancer at the age of 85.
Benoit Mandelbrot, a French mathematician, died in hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His work with fractals, a term he coined himself, applied mathematics to the natural world, and formulated a method to help understand its infinite complexity
His seminal works, Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension and The Fractal Geometry of Nature, were published in 1977 and 1982. In these, he argued that seemingly random mathematical shapes in fact followed a pattern if broken down into a single repeating shape.
"If you cut one of the florets of a cauliflower, you see the whole cauliflower but smaller, Then you cut again, again, again, and you still get small cauliflowers. So there are some shapes which have this peculiar property, where each part is like the whole, but smaller." The mathematical principle has been used to measure shapes previously thought unmeasurable, including coastlines and mountains.

IF YOU DIDN"T WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY THE FIRST TIME I POSTED IT WATCH IT NOW!!
It will blow your mind then re-asemble it! and if you need to be, show you why Mandelbrot was a Genius
http://thechroniclesofacreep.blogspot.com/2010/01/most-amazing-documentary.html

IS TROPICAL!!!!>>>>

2010-10-11T08:40:00.001-07:00

my three boys are smashing it!! so so SO proud!!!

Tom Beard / James Small

2010-09-24T02:29:00.000-07:00

A Journey with James Small from esquireuk on Vimeo.

So Beautiful.

ShowStudio Nick Knight I-D

2010-08-25T08:18:00.000-07:00

http://showstudio.com/project/200_portraits/portrait/dominic_jones

ACTUALLY CAN NOT WAIT!!!!!

2010-08-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

RUM SHEBEEN!! best thing ever.

2010-08-02T13:40:00.000-07:00

I'm An Old Punk by Rum Shebeen from Rum Shebeen on Vimeo.

http://www.myspace.com/rumshebeen

The Hypnotic brass ensemble

2010-08-01T11:58:00.000-07:00

GET RIPE

2010-07-23T01:57:00.001-07:00

Tropical by Rum Shebeen from Rum Shebeen on Vimeo.

Amazing but not cool!

2010-06-29T15:49:00.000-07:00

Martin De Thurah amazing director

2010-06-20T05:34:00.000-07:00

Fever Ray - When I grow up from The Free Neutrino on Vimeo.

HOME from martin de thurah on Vimeo.

Daisy!! girls got game!

2010-06-18T09:34:00.000-07:00

Daisy Lowe for UK esquire HD from Greg Williams on Vimeo.

Ouch!! literally too hot to handle

taken from http://completelyadorable.blogspot.com/

Southend cemetery covered in silk caterpillars

2010-06-17T15:48:00.000-07:00

DON"T LET THEM DO IT!! PASS THIS ON!!

2010-06-17T02:39:00.001-07:00

Mac Advert By David Lachapel staring Amanda Lapore

2010-06-15T16:07:00.000-07:00

my favorite advert/short film of all time, total genius! i remember when it came out i must have watch it a hundred times in a row

NewGen time

2010-06-10T16:01:00.000-07:00

had a really lovely time at the spring/summer 2011 NewGen announcements today!!
pics by Alistair Guy

burst bubble

2010-06-10T15:35:00.000-07:00

Cat walk

2010-06-06T08:50:00.000-07:00

more sinkholes!

2010-06-01T15:40:00.000-07:00

really in them!

The Boss.

2010-06-01T15:23:00.000-07:00

Alice looked so Amazing at the vuitton store opening!!

The amazing sinkhole in guatemala!

2010-06-01T15:20:00.000-07:00

R.I.P. Louise Bourgeois December 25, 1911 – May 31, 2010

2010-05-31T15:23:00.000-07:00

Pics from RHS Chelsea flower show, with the World Land Trust

2010-05-31T15:13:00.000-07:00

i had a truly amazing day at the chelesea flower show, the work that the World Land Trust is doing for the Atlantic rain-forest was rewarded with a gold and best in category. well done guys!!
http://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2010/05/world-land-trust-awarded-gold-medal-rhs-chelsea-flower-show.htm

CHROME HOOF

2010-05-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

they're so amazing only seen them twice but possibly the best live band you can see.

creepy/fear music videos i love

2010-05-09T15:28:00.000-07:00

THE FACE still missing you :-(

2010-05-06T06:35:00.000-07:00

the only magazine i ever bought religiously. i owe a lot to the face it taught me a lot and equipped me with the info i needed to drop straight in to the best of london when i moved here at 18.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00s7dvt

Oliver De Sagazan

2010-04-20T07:06:00.000-07:00

seriously dark and sinister. but totally amazing!

film taken from http://simplycryptic.blogspot.com/ my fav blog

Pharrell Williams Tank Chair

2010-04-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

I've been a long term fan of Pharrell Williams from the first time I herd Noreaga super thug, I became obsessed with his beats and have followed his carrier enjoying every turn he's taken.
I have to say I didn't see this coming but I'm so impressed! this chair smashes it.
The perfect balance of idea, execution, humor and practicality. A brilliant product!
It makes me happy, in the sense that it proves creativity is boundless, so long as you have the right skills to facilitate it. I don't doubt he had more than a little help, but i'm still very pleasantly surprised and a little more in ore.

in love with Aurel Schmidt

2010-04-17T13:56:00.000-07:00

such beautiful work!!

more behind the scenes on the death becomes her shoot for Vice

2010-04-13T07:57:00.000-07:00

oics by ellis scot

Behind the scenes at the vice death becomes her shoot

2010-04-13T06:20:00.000-07:00

pic's taken by NIALL KENNEDY, Ellis Scott's assistant

Barbara Hepworth

2010-04-13T06:01:00.000-07:00

She is one of my favorite sculptors.
My grandfather is a wood craver and was influenced by her work, and i guess went on to influence me.
Although not all of her work is to my taste, this period of work from the 40's i adore the fresh fluid curves, the crisp white isolating the warm natural wood grain and those graphical lines of the string. They are still so contemporary and look like they could have been made yesterday.

Exit through the gift shop

2010-04-09T06:05:00.000-07:00

i once was lucky enough to meet banksy briefly. it was at the huge don't attack Iraq protests in london in 2002. me and a friend had traveled down to london take part. It was such a epic day, i will never forget the visions of all the those people taking control of central london. Right at the end of the protest as we were coming in to hyde park and i spotted a small group of placards with what i instantly recognized as Banksy's work (helicopters with bows and grim reapers with acid smilie faces). At that time in my life i was 100% dedicated to graffiti and had been painting solidly for nearly 2 years. Banksy was a big hero of mine and not many people outside of graffiti had herd of him at this point as it was before he had released his book (which actually has a pic of this event init) so he was a bit more chilled about it. anyway i decided to go up and to chat to them as i new a couple mutual friends through graffiti and sure enough there he was! He was really nice and gave me one of the hand painted placards with the helicopter with the bow on it.
unfortunately i got into some money problems in 2005 and had to sell it, i got a grand for it which at the time i really needed but i wish more than anything i still had it!! :-(

A film made by some of my favorite people!

2010-04-07T06:12:00.000-07:00

The Juke from Juke on Vimeo.

and staring some of my favorite people!

abandoned biosphere pics by Noah Sheldon

2010-04-06T09:07:00.000-07:00

Biosphere 2 was an ambitious project to create a self-sustaining gigantic sealed structure where people can live indefinitely. It ended up as a failure in many ways. Sixteen years after the last inhabitants left, photographer Noah Sheldon captured the current state with a series of eerie and captivating photos.

Relative press days

2010-04-05T16:16:00.000-07:00

pic by Alistair Guy

http://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/blog/?tag=dominic-jones

http://tankmagazine.tumblr.com/page/2

http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/archive/2010/04/01/beautiful-beetles-from-dominic-jones.htm

http://www.vogue.co.uk/blogs/the-vogue-blog/articles/100407-animal-magic.aspx

These New Puritans/Matthew stone

2010-04-01T13:16:00.000-07:00

love the track and video matthew did for attack music

Matches fashion week project

2010-03-27T09:22:00.000-07:00

SO FESH ITS UNREAL

2010-03-27T09:17:00.000-07:00

jack showed me this guy last night and i'm beyond obsessed already!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTSTU track is the most exciting thing i've herd to come out since THE XX
JAI PAUL learn it because he's going to smash it so hard.

http://www.myspace.com/jaipaulmusic

TRUSH METAL!

2010-03-23T06:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.myspace.com/thrushmetal87

went to see thursh metal on saturday and fuck me! they're fucking amazing!
the music and songs are funny and sweet as well as kick ass.
I know i'm probably bias, but i was genuinely so impressed. Laura is a great front woman.
and they're what a band should be mates having fun.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Antony Gormley / Shaolin Monks

2010-03-23T05:17:00.000-07:00

madeleine showed me this! so beautiful!

book your tickets now.
its only on till the 26th!!

Impressive animation directed by the French collective H5

2010-03-22T16:56:00.000-07:00

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

This is a short film by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain. It was presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.

In this film there are two pieces of licensed music, in the beginning and in the end. All the other music and sound design are original. The opening track (Dean Martin "Good Morning Life") and closing track (The Ink Spots "I don't want to send the world on fire") songs are licensed pre-existing tracks. All original music and sound design is by, human (www.humanworldwide.com)

amazing!!
and i haven't counted or anything but i think it even has more product placement/ advertising than the new gaga video

something to watch

2010-03-21T18:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ht6lc/Tsotsi/

if you've not watched tsoti before i highly recommend it! i've seen it a few times now and i'm still not tired of it.
its up on bbc iplayer so now is the time!

THIS BLOWS MY MIND SO HARD!!

2010-03-18T18:06:00.000-07:00

the hardest thing on planet, evaporated into thin air in seconds.
i feel like seeing this has some how changed me for life.

if only i was Jonathan creek, i could use this information to come up
with some sort of cunning plan............??

shoot I did for vice magazine

2010-03-16T17:08:00.000-07:00

Jewellery made from bones, skulls, octopus, fish heads, baby giant African land snails, tripe and blue swiming crab
PHOTOGRAPHER: ELLIS SCOTT
STYLIST: ALDENE JOHNSON
ALL JEWELLERY AND CONCEPT BY DOMINIC JONES
Make-up: Kate Lindsey using MAC Pro Hair: Klare Wilkinson Model: Suki at Union Models
Photographer’s assistant: Niall Kennedy Stylist’s assistant: Holly Barnes

CLINT MANSELL musical hero

2010-03-12T13:24:00.001-08:00

in my opinion one of the best composers, he works closely with Darren Aronofsky and is most famous for the track lux aeterna
from requiem for a dream. but i love the score from the fountain the most. the film is beautiful hard to follow the first time you watch it, but really rewards re-watching as there is so many subtleties to it.

DIRTY THREE musical heros

2010-03-12T13:09:00.000-08:00

when ever i'm stressed they sort me out. hauntingly beautiful elegant musical valium.

get out of here and get me some money too

2010-03-12T07:52:00.000-08:00

herd a horrid remix of this on the radio reminded me how much i love peggy lee tho.

Dominic jones for Thierry Mugler

2010-03-11T10:33:00.000-08:00

black gold plated thorns studs, claw rings and knuckle dusters

Megan Fox on the cover of Harper's

2010-03-03T07:01:00.000-08:00

wearing fang necklace, thorn studs and double claw ring.

taken from dazed.

2010-03-02T17:37:00.001-08:00

Issue 26, November 1996

British Designer of the Year
ALEXANDER McQUEEN
in conversation with
DAVID BOWIE.

David Bowie: "This conversation took place on the phone, as is always the case with my conversations with Alex. We have worked together for over a year on various projects and never once met. It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon and he is in the verdant green hills of Gloucestershire visiting at the house of his friend, Isabella Blow. Ring ring. Ring ring. Ring ring."

David Bowie: Are you gay and do you take drugs? (laughter)
Alexander McQueen: Yes, to both of them. (more laughter)

DB: So what are your drugs of choice?
AM: A man called Charlie!

DB: Do you find that it affects the way you approach your designing?
AM: Yeah, it makes it more erratic. That's why you get my head blow up shot. (In reference to a Nick Knight photograph at the Florence Biennale.)

DB: Well I once asked you to make me a specific jacket in a certain colour and you sent me something entirely different in a tapestry fabric, quite beautiful I might add, but how would you cope in the more corporate world?
AM: I wouldn't be in a corporate world.

DB: Even if you're going to be working for a rather large fashion house like Givenchy?
AM: Yeah.

DB: So how are you going to work in these circumstances? Do you feel as though you're going to have rules and parameters placed on you, or what?
AM: Well, yeah, but you know I can only do it the way I do it. That's why they chose me and if they can't accept that, they'll have to get someone else. They're going to have no choice at the end of the day because I work to my own laws and requirements, not anyone's else's. I sound a bit like yourself!

DB: Unlike most designers, your sense of wear seems to derive from forms other than fashion history. You take or steal quite arbitrarily from, say the neo Catholic macabre photographs of Joel Peter Witkin, to rave culture. Do you think fashion is art?
AM: No I don't. But, I like to break down barriers. It's not a specific way of thinking, it's just what's in my mind at the time. It could be anything - it could be a man walking down the street or a nuclear bomb going off - it could be anything that triggers some sort of emotion in my mind. I mean, I see everything in a world of art in one way or another. How people do things. The way people kiss.

DB: Who or what are your present influences?
AM: Let me think. I don't know. I think that's a really hard question because in one way, one side of me is kind of really sombre and the other side of my brain is very erratic and it's always this fight against the other and I chose so many different things. This is why my shows always throw people completely: one minute I see a lovely chiffon dress and the next minute I see a girl in this cage that makes her walk like a puppet and, you know, they can't understand where it's coming from because there are so many sides of me in conflict. But influences are really from my own imagination and not many come from direct sources. They usually come from a lone force of say, the way I want to perform sex or the way I want people to perform sex or the way I want to see people act, or what would happen if a person was like that. You know what I mean? It's not from direct sources. It's just sort of from a big subconscious or the perverse. I don't think like the average person on the street. I think quite perversely sometimes in my own mind.

DB: Yeah, I would say, from just looking at the way you work, that sexuality plays a very important part in the way that you design.
AM: Well, because I think it's the worst mental attitude. Sexuality in a person confines you to such a small space and, anyway, it's such a scary process trying to define one's sexuality. Finding which way you sway or what shocks you in other people and who accepts you at the end of the day when you're looking for love. You have to go through these corridors and it can be kind of mind-blowing sometimes.

DB: There's something a lot more pagan about your work compared, say, to Gaultier. Your things work at a more organic level.
AM: Possibly. I gather some influence from the Marquis de Sade because I actually think of him as a great philosopher and a man of his time, where people found him just a pervert. (laughs) I find him sort of influential in the way he provokes people's thoughts. It kind of scares me. That's the way I think but, at the end of the day, that's the way my entity has grown and, all in all, in my life, it's the way I am.

DB: Do you think of clothes themselves as being a way of torturing society?
AM: I don't put such an importance on clothes, anyway. I mean at the end of the day they are, after all, just clothes and I can't cure the world of illness with clothes. I just try to make the person that's wearing them feel more confident in themselves because I am so unconfident. I'm really insecure in a lot of ways and I suppose my confidence comes out in the clothes I design anyway. I'm very insecure as a person.

DB: Aren't we all? Could you design a car? AM: Could I? It would be as flat as an envelope if I designed a car.

DB: Could you design a house?
AM: Yes, very easily, very easily.

DB: Do you paint or sculpt? AM: No. I buy sculptures. I don't do it, I buy it. I buy lots of sculptures.

DB: Do you ever work in the visual arts?
AM: No, but I just did a show the other day. I don't know if you heard, but we did this show, it was on water and we did this kind of cocoon for this girl made of steel rods and it was in the form of a three dimensional star and it was covered in this glass fabric so you could see through it and this girl was inside it, but we had all these butterflies flying around her inside it. So she was picking them out of the air and they were landing on her hand. It was just about the girl's own environment. So I was thinking about the new millennium in the future thinking you would carry around with you your home like a snail would. She was walking along in the water with a massive star covered in glass and the butterflies and death-faced moths were flying around her and landing on her hand and she was looking at them. It was really beautiful. It threw a lot of people completely sideways.

DB: It's interesting how what you're talking about, is somewhere between theatre and installation.
AM: Well, I hate the theatre, I hate it. I used to work in the theatre. I used to make costumes for them and films, and it's one thing I've always detested - the theatre. I hate going to the theatre, it bores me shitless.

DB: Well, I'm not talking about a play.
AM: I know, but I just wanted to tell you that anyway! (laughs)

DB: All right, change the word to ritual.
AM: Yeah, that's better. I like ritual... (laughs)

DB: Armani says, 'Fashion is dead'.
AM: Oh, so is he... I mean, God...

DB: Now you sound like Versace...
AM: He's close to dead. I mean, no one wants to wear a floppy suit in a nice wool - the man was a bloody window dresser. What does he know?

DB: Do you think that what he's really saying is that maybe...
AM: He's lost it...

DB: He might still be making an observation in as much as the boundaries are coming down...
AM: Yeah.

DB: The way fashion is presented these days is a quantum leap from how it was presented say, five years to ten years ago. It's become almost a new form, hasn't it?
AM: Yeah, but you know you can't depend on fashion designers to predict the future of society, you know, at the end of the day they're only clothes and that never strays from my mind for one minute.

DB: Is the British renaissance a reality or a hype do you think? The world is being told that it's so. Through all strata of British life and from fashion to visual arts, music, obviously, architecture, I mean there's not one aspect of culture where Brits haven't got some pretty fair leaders, English designers in French houses, you know what I mean? It's like were pervading the whole zeitgeist at the moment.
AM: Being British yourself, I think you understand that Britain always led the way in every field possible in the world from art to pop music. Even from the days of Henry VIII. It's a nation where people come and gloat at what we have as a valuable heritage, be it some good, some bad, but there's no place like it on earth.

DB: But why is it we can't follow through once we've initially created something? We're far better innovators than we are manufacturers.
AM: Yeah, exactly. But I think that's a good thing. I don't think that's a bad thing. It makes you holy, it makes you quite respectable about what you do and the actual moneymaking part of it is for the greedy.

DB: So you're not greedy, Alex?
AM: I'm afraid I'm not. Money's never been a big object. Well, I mean I like to live comfortably, but I've been asked by this French fashion house how would I put on a show and I said, well, the sort of money these people buy these clothes for in this day and age, you don't want to flaunt your wealth in front of the average Joe Public because it's bad taste and with all the troubles in the world today, it's not a good thing to do anyway. I'm sure these people that have this sort of money don't feel like showing their face on camera, so I said it would be more of a personal show and people with this sort of money who do appreciate good art and good quality clothes and have these one-off pieces made just respect the ideal, not the actual chucking money around. They can do that anywhere.

DB: So when you are affluent, which I'm afraid is probably on the cards for you, how are you going to deal with that?
AM: I'd like to buy Le Corbusier's house in France... (sniggers)

DB: Here's a nice thing. What was the first thing you designed ever? Like when you were little or a kid or something?
AM: Oh. I can't think that far back, but for my own professional career, it was the bumsters. The ones that Gail, your bass player, wears.

DB: Was there a point when you were sort of playing around with stuff, and when you used to dress up and go to clubs when you were a kid, and all that, where you would do original things?
AM: Actually, yeah. I would wear my sister's clothes and people wouldn't recognise it because I'd wear them in a male way. I did go round my street once in my sister's bra when I was about 12 years old and the neighbours thought I was a freaky kid, got dirty looks and all that... and you're talking about Stepney here.

DB: My father used to work in Stepney.
AM: Yeah?

DB: What age were you when you left home?
AM: 19.

DB: Did it give you an incredible feeling of freedom? Or did you suddenly feel even more vulnerable?
AM: I felt really vulnerable actually. Because I was the youngest and I was always mollycoddled by my mother, so that's why I turned out to be a fag probably. (laughter)

DB: (laughing) Was it a clear choice?
AM: I fancied boys when I went to Pontins at three years old!

DB: Did you ever go on holiday to Butlins or Bognor Regis or Great Yarmouth?
AM: No, I went to Pontins in Cambersands.

DB: Cambersands?!! I used to go there too!
AM: Oh my God!

DB: They had a trailer park with caravans...
AM: Exactly.

DB: ...and next door to us we had a, at the time, very well known comedian, Arthur Haynes, who was sort of like a bit of a wide boy; that was his bit on stage, you know, and I used to go over and try and get his autograph. I went three mornings running and he told me to fuck off every day. (laughing) That was my first time I met a celebrity and I was so let down. I felt if that's what it's all about... they're just real people.
AM: Two memories on Pontins - one, was coming round the corner and seeing my two sisters getting off with two men. (laughter) I thought they were getting raped and I went screaming back to my Mum and I wound up getting beat up by my two sisters! The other one was turning up in Pontins when we first got there and looking out the cab window 'cos my family was, like, full of cabbies; it was like a gypsy caravan-load to go to these places, and I looked out the window when I got there and there were these two men with these scary masked faces on and I shit myself there and then in the cab! I literally just shit my pants! (laughter)

DB: Which comes to... who is the shittiest designer?
AM: Oh my God...

DB: Who is the worst designer?
AM: In my eyes?

DB: Yeah, in your eyes.
AM: Oh God, I'm open for libel here now, David...

DB: Do you think there's more than one?
AM: I think you've got to blame the public that buy the clothes of these people, not the designers themselves because it turns out they haven't got much idea about, you know, design itself. It's the people that buy the stuff. My favourite designer, though, is Rei Kawakubo. She's the only one I buy, the only clothes I buy ever for myself as a designer are Comme des Garçons. I spent about a thousand pounds last year (I shouldn't say that) on Comme des Garçons menswear...

DB: I've never paid, Alex! (laughs) Until...
AM: Until you met me! (more laughter)

DB: Until I met you! Yes, but I knew that you needed it!
AM: I did at the time! But I tell you what I did do when you paid me, I paid the people that actually made the coat!

DB: No, listen, you were so kind about the couple of things that I didn't need that you actually gave me. I thought that was very sweet of you. You work very well in a collaborative way as well. I thought the stuff...
AM: I still haven't bloody met you yet! (laughs)

DB: I know, I think it's quite extraordinary that we've done so well with the stage things that we put together. Do you enjoy collaboration?
AM: I do, but the one thing you have to do when you collaborate is actually respect the people that you work with: and people have phoned me up and asked me to collaborate with them before and I've usually turned them down.

DB: Do your clients really know what they want and what is right for them, or do you usually have to dress them from the floor up?
AM: It can work either way and I don't resent either because, at the end of the day, I'm the clothes designer and they are the public. If you want a house built you're not expected to build it yourself.

DB: Here's a fan question. Who would you like to dress more than anyone else in the world and why?
AM: There's no-one I'd like to dress more than anyone else in the world, I'm afraid. I can't think of anyone who deserves such a privilege! (laughs)

DB: The sub-headline there! (laughs)
AM: Oh my God no, 'cos I'm an atheist and an anti-royalist, so why would I put anyone on a pedestal?

DB: Well it does draw one's attention back to your clothes and what you do is actually more important than anything else.
AM: Well, I think it would limit your lifestyle somewhat if you said your music is just for that person down the road.

DB: You just sort of hope there's someone out there that might like what you do.
AM: And there's always someone, I mean the world is such a big place.

DB: Yeah. Prodigy or Oasis?
AM: Prodigy. I think they're brilliant.

DB: Well, you haven't answered this one. I have to drag you out on this one. Armani or Versace? (laughs)

AM: Marks and Spencer. I'm sorry. I don't see the relevance of the two of them put together. Actually, they should have amalgamated and sort of formed one company out of both. If you can imagine the rhinestones on one of them deconstructed suits...

DB: What do you eat?
AM: What do I eat?

DB: Yeah.
AM: Well, I've just had a guinea fowl today... it was quite an occasion to come here... It's such a lovely place and I love to come here. Bryan Ferry comes here a lot. It's an amazing place and it was built in the Arts and Crafts Movement by Isabella's husband's grandfather. It's on a hill in Gloucestershire and it overlooks Wales and everything. And my bedroom is decorated with Burne-Jones' Primavera tapestry - I always come here to get away.
DB: So this is your sanctuary is it?
AM: Yes, it is. Very much so.

DB: Did you ever have an affair with anyone famous?
AM: Not famous, but from a very rich family. Very rich Parisian family.

DB: Did you find it an easy relationship, or was it filled with conflicts?
AM: No, it: he was the most wonderful person I have ever met and I was completely honest with him. Never hushed my background or where I came from, and this was when I was only 19 or 20, I went out with him and I said to him whatever we do, we do it Dutch and he didn't understand what I said. He thought it was a form of sexual technique! Going Dutch!! (laughs) I said it means paying for each of us separately. He thought it that was great, but he gave the best blow job ever! (laughter)

DB: How royal! Was it old money or was it industrial wealth?
AM: Long time industrial aristocractic wealth.

DB: Do you go abroad very much? I mean just for yourself, not for work?
AM: No, not really.

DB: So you really are happy in your home grown environment?
AM: I like London, but I love Scotland! I'd never been to Aberdeen before and I went to see Murray's friends in Aberdeen for the first time and it was unreal because I stepped off the plane and I just felt like I belonged there. It's very rare that I do that because I have been to most places in the world, like most capital cities in Japan and America, and you feel very hostile when you step off the plane in these places. I stepped off the plane in Aberdeen and I felt like I've lived there all my life. And it's a really weird sensation. I like more of the Highlands. My family originated from Skye.

DB: Are you a good friend, a stand up guy, or a flake?
AM: I'm afraid I have very few friends and I think that all of the friends I have, I can depend on and they can depend on me. I don't have hangers-on, and I'm very aggressive to people that if I read through 'em in a second, they've usually found the wrong person to deal with. So if you have got me as a friend, you've got me for life. And I'd do anything for them, but I don't really have associates that use me or abuse me, unless I ask them to! (laughs)

DB: Are you excited about taking over at Givenchy?
AM: I am and I'm not. To me, I'm sort of saving a sinking ship and not because of John Galliano, but because of the house. It doesn't really seem to know where it's going at the moment and, at the end of the day, they've got to depend on great clothes, not the great name.

DB: Have you already formulated a kind of direction you want to take them?
AM: Yeah, I have.

DB: Is it exciting?
AM: Yeah, it is, because the philosophy is mainly based on someone I really respected in fashion. There's a certain way fashion should go for a house of that stature, not McQueen bumsters, I'm afraid.
DB: My last question. Will you have time to be making my clothes for next year's tour? (laughs)
AM: Yeah, I will. We should get together. I mean, I want to see you this time. (laughs)

DB: We could put this on the record right now... are you going to make it over here for the VH-1 Fashion Awards? I can't remember.
AM: When it is?

DB: October 24th or something...
AM: My fashion show is on the 22nd.

DB: So you're probably not going to make it. 'Cos you know I am wearing the Union jacket on that. Because millions of people deserve to see it.
AM: You've got to say, 'This is by McQueen'! (laughs)

DB: Gail will be wearing all her clobber as well.
AM: Oh, she's fab!

DB: Oh, she wears it so well.
AM: I'd love to do your tour clothes for you again.

DB: Oh, well that's great. I can't wait to be properly fitted up this time!
AM: Yeah, definitely. But I've got to see you. I don't want wrist measurements over the phone, 'cos I'm sure you lie about your waist measurements as well! (laughs)

DB: No, not at all...
AM: 'cos you know some people lie about their length! (laughs)

DB: I just said I'd never lie about the inside leg measurement.
AM: What side do you dress David, left or right? (laughs)
DB: Both!
AM: Yeah, right.

DB: No. Yes. Well, maybe.

in love with Kate Lanphear.

2010-03-01T09:13:00.000-08:00

sweetest lady and a honer to adorn.
"she looks good and she wears it well"

flow at the brits

2010-03-01T08:59:00.000-08:00

wearing the one off earrings i made stuart her boyfriend to give her on her birthday
she told me "they brought me luck"

some pics from my london fashion week presentation

2010-03-01T08:29:00.000-08:00

PLEASE EVERYONE SIGN THIS!!

2010-02-28T12:03:00.001-08:00

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/TruthaboutKelly/

the second collection "terror with turing"

2010-02-25T03:49:00.000-08:00

Dominic Jones Jewellery Fall/Winter 2010-2011 collection is an exploration of man’s relationship with nature--his respect for the wild as motivated by fear, instinct and desire. Progressing from themes first established in his debut collection, this season’s work maintains similar motifs in examining the beauty of nature’s power and the allure of its danger.
Employing a focused array of natural references and biological theories, the collection takes inspiration from nature’s design and its interaction with man, investing particularly in those animals and insects which instinctively prompt unease, to translate the repellent and terrifying into the desirable and luxurious. Influences range from literal aesthetic cues such as animal traps and specific fauna like the man-eating Humboldt squid, to more abstract ideas, like Alan Turing’s work on morphogenesis, the biological process by which an organism develops its shape. Ultimately, the collection serves as an investigation of the complex struggle of power between man and animal, an appropriation of the things we fear the most into something far more seductive and menacing.
all anatomically correct and to scale
vampire bat skulls
crocodile skulls and lower jaw
scorpions
beetles
giant huboldt squid beak
vulture skulls

styled by Fran Burns and Max Pearmain
shot by Atiken Jolly
make up by Georgina Graham
hair Tomo Jidai
nails Sophie Robson
models Kine storm, Daphne union, Josh models 1

number one on my present wish list!!

2010-02-13T15:44:00.000-08:00

a colony of dermestid beetles for bone taxidermy

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you bring the marsh mallow's!!

2010-02-13T15:38:00.000-08:00

In the hot, expansive Karakum desert in Turkmenistan, near the 350 person village of Derweze, is a hole 328 feet wide that has been on fire, continuously, for 38 years. Known as the Darvaza Gas Crater or the "Gates of Hells" by locals, the crater can be seen glowing for miles around.

The hole is the outcome not of nature but of an industrial accident. In 1971 a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punched into a massive underground natural gas cavern, causing the ground to collapse and the entire drilling rig to fall in. Having punctured a pocket of gas, poisonous fumes began leaking from the hole at an alarming rate. To head off a potential environmental catastrophe, the Soviets set the hole alight. The crater hasn't stopped burning since.

Though little information is available about the fate of the Soviet drilling rig, presumably it is still down there somewhere, on the other side of the "Gates of Hell."

today we lost a Hero

2010-02-11T11:23:00.000-08:00

a inspiration to me. this image was the spark. the singular beginning to my devotion and interest in fashion.

it scares and upsets me that i have lost another hero to suicide.
i worry that the industry is to devouring. that even those who you would expect to want for nothing could so easily feel alone.
The stress and expectation is never ending, seasons don't stop for depression or recuperation.
first Issy then Lee, the unique and forward thinking give all to their love and little to them selves.

sad times.

R.I.P. Lee Mcqueen 16.03.69 - 11.02.10

LOL

2010-02-02T16:33:00.001-08:00

really want to visit prypiat

2010-02-02T16:21:00.000-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prypiat,_Ukraine

pictures taken by the amazing nadav kander

Maison Martin Margiela : Atelier Artisanal

2010-01-28T16:12:00.000-08:00

so interesting seeing the work being made!

Maison Martin Margiela : Atelier Artisanal from Materialiste Paris on Vimeo.

elsa forever

2010-01-24T10:18:00.001-08:00

the most amazing documentary

2010-01-24T10:09:00.000-08:00

the best hour you could spend

THE LOVE OF MY LIFE.....

2010-01-08T20:36:00.000-08:00

MY HEART BREAKS OVER AND OVER AGAIN AT THE THOUGHT I WILL NEVER HEAR HIS VOICE LIVE, OR KNOW HIM.

HOT SHIT!

2010-01-08T13:17:00.000-08:00

two of my favorite people and the hottest couple in town!!

My Baby Rocks Me With One Steady Roll from joostvandebrug on Vimeo.

a new hero of mine! GREGORY COLBERT

2010-01-08T12:37:00.001-08:00

in my mind the interaction between man and animal comes close to contrived but it's done in such a elegant and and graceful way the images could never be viewed as anything less the beautiful.

2009 round up

2010-01-06T15:42:00.000-08:00

me and alice got shoot for vogue by david bailey. it/ i was awkward as hell!

http://www.vogue.co.uk/video/voguetv/player.aspx/exclusives/video,9162/

2009 round up

2010-01-06T15:04:00.000-08:00

Jack Penate! i love jack to bits he was the inspiration for the jack ring in my collection, i know for the sake of professionalism I've never corrected people when the presume that the jack ring is teeth as it ties it to the rest of the collection. but i feel its safe to set the record straight they are actually guitar plectrums not teeth. i designed the ring for him as a way of my almost jamming with him i know how hugely fucking naff that sounds but i'm a unrequited musician at heart i'm always singing badly to myself and have always surrounded myself amazingly talented musicians. one night at a after party at kai from the mystery jets house they were all sat around playing away, bouncing off each other and i got really pissed off that i couldn't join in. after i was chatting with jack while he was strumming away. he's such a passionate and warm person and i was annoyed that my talent wasn't instant and couldn't be shared in the moment. So in my fucked 5 in the morning state i was like" i hate this i'm going to make you a ring!!" and i did. now loads of people wear a little bit of my appreciation and respect for him.

2009 round up

2010-01-06T14:46:00.000-08:00

Orlando weeks the maccabees

this years christmas card

2010-01-02T15:57:00.000-08:00

Beyonce

2010-01-02T15:53:00.001-08:00

rihanna

2010-01-02T15:50:00.000-08:00

everyone must take the time to look at Arthur de borman's blog!

2009-08-11T16:12:00.000-07:00

its actually the best thing ever.

http://simplycryptic.blogspot.com/

a overwhelming archive of incredible imagery, the sort of stuff that could inspire u for a life time.