January 29th, 2010 - jessicah -
By Jessica Hazel.
The Women’s Institute (W.I) was first established in 1897 and now has over 205,000 members in the UK alone. The W.I carries a somewhat frumpy reputation and most people imagine a gaggle of old ladies, who meet each week in the village hall to discuss jam making techniques and various health complaints. This is indeed the case, except for a pocket of women from East London who go by the name of the Shoreditch Sisters, who have been tipped as the most glamourous W.I group in the country. I tagged along one Tuesday evening for the first meeting of 2010.
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January 14th, 2010 - jessicah -
By Jessica Hazel
Now it’s 2010, the 1990’s are officially vintage… doesn’t that make you feel old?
Selfridges has teamed up with Rellik in their first ever retail collaboration to present a selection of original nineties and nineties-inspired products, all up for sale in one neon-coloured corner of the Oxford Street store. Grunge, Britpop, Nearly-There Technology, YBA’s. Grrrl and Girl Power, Supermodels and the rise of the Super-band are the main themes of the collection, which come together in eclectic and authentic harmony.
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October 16th, 2009 - Hynam -
East End graffiti artist Cyclops, has become an ubiquitous part of London’s trendy East. It’s hard to turn a corner without being presented with his trademark one-eyed Charlie-Brown or toothy grin. But, judging by his latest exhibition of fine art light-boxes and political badges, London’s favourite graffiti artist has grown up.
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October 16th, 2009 - Hynam -
After wowing London Fashion Week with a presentation teeming with abundant colours, abundant layering, abundant accessories, and a crowd of abundant celebrity purveyors, Central Saint Martins Alumni Louise Gray, treats Mooks to an exclusive look at her latest look-book, LFW show highlights and her up-and-coming line.
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October 9th, 2009 - Hynam -
A new exhibition at London’s St Martin’s Lane Front Room, shows rare photographs of artist Jean Michel Basquiat riding the 80’s downtown New York club scene, taken by GRAY bandmate Nicholas Taylor. The exhibition also features never-before-seen black and white images of the couple playing together in the infamous experimental band GREY, whose legendary Mudd Club residency brought them praise from Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, who called them “possibly the best band on the planet”.
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October 9th, 2009 - Hynam -
Though it looks like British photographer Anne Hardy has just stumbled on these abandoned rooms – a science lab, a basketball-littered storage cupboard, a dusty Christmas-tree filled living room – this is not the case at all.
Hardy has, in fact, spent months – two months for each set-up on average – sourcing each artifact, each decoration. That collection of weights and weightlifting trophies? A bounty of jumble sale finds. The derelict greenhouse, sanctioned by bio-hazzard tape? A mélange of second-hand pot plants and possessions from a particularly successful trip around the city skips. She’s spent hours moving each object maybe 5cm this way, 10cm that, to see where it perfectly fits. The seemingly accidental visual details – the clustering and stacking of things, the trodden-in dust and dirt are all her doing. Details in a larger story. A work of fiction.
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