Working in a shop in Camden provides no end of entertainment. From street punch-ups, cross dressers and eccentric homeless people, to the crazy man who sits outside my shop every Thursday afternoon blaring out reggae from a ghetto blaster on his shoulder, there is never a dull moment.
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern is a dowdy gay boozer in South London – not the most likely of places to be graced by fashion royalty, but last week, Dame Vivienne Westwood put in an appearance and Mooks was there to lap up every word of wisdom which dropped from the yellow-haired Queen’s mouth.
So, in the realm of writing, you get ‘The Story’, and then you get the STORY behind the Story. You know. The Real Sh*t. The sh%t you won’t find on Google… until it is blogged.
After watching So You Think You Can Dance on TV like a religious bandit, I decided to race down to see some of Melbourne’s ULITMATES take the stage in “Parkland Avenue,” a new piece of unique, contemporary theatre from Collaboration the Project.
What is fashion? What can we do with fashion?
Fashion designer Yoshikazu Yamagata, works to emotionally expand the concept of fashion and tackling big questions like those above. He stirred controversy with his collections at Japan Fashion Week, including “The Everyone’s New Clothes” which questioned what fashion was about, ”Graduate Fashion Show 0′ Point”, which showcased the strength of starting from zero in fashion and “The Fashion Show of The Gods”, his Spring/Summer 2010 collection, which examined the origins of creation, presented in October 2009.
- “The fashion show of the gods” Photo: Daniel Sannwald
- “The fashion show of the gods” Photo: Daniel Sannwald
- “The fashion show of the gods”
- “The fashion show of the gods”
- “The fashion show of the gods”
- “The fashion show of the gods”
- “The fashion show of the gods”
- “A LONG STORY” Photo: Koomi Kim
- “coconogacco collaboration project”
- “coconogacco collaboration project”
- “Graduate Fashion Show”
- “Graduate Fashion Show”
- “Graduate Fashion Show”
- “Graduate Fashion Show”
- “the everyone’s new clothes”
- “the everyone’s new clothes”
- “the everyone’s new clothes”
- Yoshikazu Yamagata Portrait Photo: Haruko Uefuji


















































































