Beards and Brogues: November 2013

Friday, 22 November 2013

Labrinth Come In!

kumusta may!
and if you're not filipino
Hello there!

It's friday so its time for my SCF or Style Crush Friday!
this week my style crush is Labrinth

- Photo By Phil Sharp 2012 -

What I love most about labrinth style is the way that he mixes hip hop and urban with classic vintage pieces.
To me Labrinth is the definition of the word 'swag' if there ever was one, he's the only man I know that can wear turtle necks with a hat and a chain and a scarf without it looking too crowded! Another reason I have chosen him is because I like the fact that his outfits never really look similar, I imagine that if you spread his wardrobe out through a whole room and asked people how many peoples wardrobe do you think this is, I think they'd say at least 4 because of that variety.

- normally I'm not a fan of cuffed chinos, but he makes them amazing!-
- Outfit all from Topman -

- I need this scarf! -

- Jumper - Cos, Jeans - Nudie, Boots - Topman -

- He even makes carrying a suitcase look cool -

- Tee - Urban Outfitters, Coat - Squadron HQ. -

This is one of my most favourite song, Earthquake and I like the Live Lounge version so much, my favourite thing about it is the choir that mix between hip hop and classic... I JUST LOVE IT!

TTFN

Beards and Brogues!

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Sunday, 17 November 2013

From Rags To Riches

Hello There!

As I'm an art student, I naturally get assigned projects of the art kind!
And I've recently been given my FMP (final major project! The theme for the project is....

'Inside Out - Outside In'
I know a few of you maybe thinking, 'like when you put your clothes on and then you have the label out and you have to make the choice between; keeping it inside out, going through the effort of getting changed or turning it right side out and risk getting a nasty case of bad luck!' because I know thats what I initially

thought of...
But then after some further thought and thinking in a more arts-y, textile-y, fashion-y way my train of thought lead me to eureka land! i thought of seams on clothes and how they construct garments and act as a skeleton. This then lead me to begin deconstructing some of my old clothes.

I began to take large chunks out of garment, and just leaving the seams and stitching to hold it together.

This reminded me of the cage skirt, which has been developed since victorian times and is now constantly on and off the couture catwalks! and is ever more popular with the steam punkers and cyber gothics.

-Cage Skirt by Chaos Latex-

-Those crazy steampunk gothics with their walking sticks and blue fringes-

-Cage Skirt by Alexander McQueen-

My next step was to dress my cut up clobber on a model!
My plan for the shoot was to make him look like he was dressed normal, but then have a piece of clothing that was missing about 85% of its substance.
(Because I might need my model model for me in the future I thought it would be best to pixelate his face, however I'm terrible when it come to technology so my finest Microsoft paint skills will have to do!)

These are my favourite 5 photos out of the entire shoot!

My next move was to create a seam myself. Luckily around the time this idea came around an open day was on where I was needed to act as an example of 'what the students are doing now', if I'm being honest I was staying for the free coffee! but whilst waiting for people to come up to me and ask about the course etc, I discovered a machine... the overlocker! I'm still in awe at its amazing-ness! I soon got the hang of it and even sooner whipped up a long patchwork scarf of different colour, size and texture patches of fabric which I experimented with by pinning it to a backpack and also creating a 'snood' or 'infinity scarf'!

-Scarf on my model-

-Scarf on a mannequin-

-Backpack on a mannequin-

-Snood / infinity scarf on a mannequin

-Close up of snood / infinity scarf-

I'm so inspired with this project and I'm really looking forward to see where it develops and leads too, I've already got some awesome ideas and if they work it will be AH-MAY-ZING but they could change depending on what happens with development etc.
But I'll keep you posted!

TTFN
Beards and Brogues!

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Friday, 15 November 2013

I Want To Start Something New - SCW

Hello there!

Long time no see (I'm Sorry -PLEASE DONT HATE ME-)

I've been chocka bloka with college work but the rolling programme is now finished, so I have more time to focus on other things instead of running around like dick dastardly after the pigeon!

I've been thinking of what I can do as something new to my blog to make it more a fashion blog and less of a random thing, and I thought maybe I could have like a set day for a set thing. - kinda like how monday night is bingo night- but in the crazy world of blogging of course. So I was scrolling through the social networks and hoping an idea would just spring to mind., and just like that it did!

I noticed that these 'man crush mondays/MCM and women crush wednesdays/WCW' things were becoming fairly popular and then I thought I could do a style crush type thing where I just post about someone whose wardrobe I would love to run away with, and probably elope - but not in a creepy way!

So this is my idea, i'm going to road test it for a few weeks and if it goes ah-may-zing then I might consider doing more things based on a daily theme!
so im thinking of naming it...
Style Crush Friday or SCF for short.
So here is my first post

Nick Grimshaw

I've chosen Nick Grimshaw for my first Style Crush Friday as I have always wanted to be him! he radiates cool and has a wardrobe to match. I love the way he mixes urban with tailored and tailored with casual to create an iconic look. Lets face it I'd be willing to say about 60% of men that know who Nick Grimshaw is has wanted to be him at least once in there life, I know I have!