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Planet Notion is looking for guys and dolls to film and edit features for its new TV channel, PNTV. Accompanying Notion to artist interviews, gigs, fashion shows, festivals and international events, you will be skilled, passionate and full of ideas about how to produce shit-hot video content. Camera-folk will be experienced and ideally have their own equipment, or at least access to equipment, while editors must be able to turn projects around quickly, and with stylistic flare. If you can both film and edit content, we would especially like to hear from you! These casual, unpaid positions would be ideal for those looking to develop their showreels, and to get the chance to travel, film major artists and top events.
 
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Artful Dodger
Forget the 80s as a foundational year for fashion and youth culture: according to the Artful Dodger school of design, it’s all about the 1800 s! The 1800 equivalent of castrating yourself in skinnies and donning a guitar or slavering your mug in face paint and stepping out like a technicolour terrorist was to join the Swell Mob. Oh yes, these guys were the business – our very own hooded Tower Hamlets tribes aren’t a patch on these authentic crews of cool and criminality. Their ‘flash-dress’ as described in an 1816 document, was ‘unruly hair, blue frock coat to the knees, blue trousers tight to the knees... velvet collar waistcoat, low riding fancy worked shoes... hat, generally tilted on one side... (as they) go about with a cigar in their mouths.’ Unruly hair, tilted hats and cigars? Dahling, how uber! Anglophile American brand Artful Dodger takes these stylish scamps as their inspiration, stitching mischief into streetwear garments and keeping it quirky. The S/S ’07 Artful Dodger collection marked the brand’s very first birthday – graphic blazers, hoodies, polos, tees and hats flooded in to deck out Dodger disciples along both sides of the Atlantic. Just as Dickens’ celebrated ‘Oliver’ character revelled in intricate plots for thievery and the minutiae of people’s insecurities and flaws, these are designs where detail is key. Like the storytelling, trickster ‘cutter lads’ who are the label’s muse, every item spins a tale via its special visual language. Humble hoodies become exotic canvasses where bright embroidery and prints yield jungle creepers, majestic creatures and all manner of weird and wonderful imaginings. Welcome to the rich visual world of British born, New York based creative gurus Vault 49, the collective who head up the graphics for Artful Dodger. Vivid stripes overlay whimsical illustrations on the back of a jumper; sun dials, zodiac imagery and mythical beings dance across jacket arms and satin gets stitched up with leftfield visions in neon thread. Media slogans and street art, travel, nature and architecture are just some of the worlds Vault 49 ransacks for Artful Dodger like veritable 19th century swell mobsters. — In this swell mob spirit, ingenuity and flair are the order of the day for Artful Dodger apparel. Don’t be surprised to sneak at a snatched glove or an illicit charm smuggled into the design; wayward ideas and imagery are all ensnared as the brand casts its net. Nab yourself some swell mob attitude as Artful Dodger brings coveted swagger and cheeky detail to streetwear gear. www.artfuldodgerny.com
tags: | artful dodger | new york | apparel
Hot tips for hipsters
Head Candy Introducing New Era LDN. We have proof that calling our hometown LDN in conversation with foreigners will rile them, so desperate are they for a piece of our cool. I mean, dude, we’re so cool. As, of course, is New Era. But you know this. If you consider yourself sorted, you’re already quite rightly stoked that LDN is going to have the largest available collection of New Era headgear in the world, with over 50 percent of them exclusives, as well as the Marvel and DC Comics ranges featuring Spidey, Bats and Supes. When we mentioned the New Era store-launch to Dizzee, we thought we were going to have to make him put it away, so excited was he. Weller From being unable to afford Ben Sherman threads as a nascent scenester, to heading up his own shirt design via a hit or two with The Jam (just a band), Paul Weller has had a close kinship with the brand. Introducing ‘Candy,’ a British-made, sweetie-striped buttondown shirt according to the frontman’s exact specifications: from cuff size and fabrication to colour ways. Move over, rockers and stand up mods! If you’re keen you’ll swipe 1 of 100 numbered and boxed collectors’ shirts at Ben Sherman’s Carnaby St store (£120, available now). Those with their fingers not quite on the (chocolate) button can still get a sugar rush – Weller’s main line (£55) shirts carry all his signature mod-style features and are available in selected stores. Lick it up, baby, lick it up... Lee in the sky with diamonds. From dressing Wild West American cowboys way back when to being the first brand to style The Beatles in an ad campaign (collaborating with the creators of the motion picture ‘Help!’ in 1966), Lee Jeans has done denim proud. Its first zip-fly jean (101Z) and slim fit jacket (101J) were the authentic pieces the Fab Four flexed: a cowboy quad from the rugged plains of Liverpool, how apt! Now we too can rock (n roll) a bit of cowboy cool; happily, Lee Jeans have distributed 1001 of each of the pieces across their stores, for us to lassoo into our wardrobes and wish lists. Made from left-hand twill denim woven on old American narrow looms, this is a jeans n jacket combo where credibility comes stitched in. Lee has priced the limited edition pieces at £155 and £175 respectively. Perfect for hard days and nights... Whipping floyd Devilish designers Whipping Floyd have come up with a T-shirt collection to see you through a suitably debauched summer. The ‘7 Deadly Sins’ line features one tee for each of the sins, with this illicit tribe each affiliated to a colour and, quite randomly, an animal. What’s more, on the reverse of each T-shirt a suitable punishment for the particular sin is inscribed. Gluttony, symbolised by the pig, will land you a force-feeding of rats, toads and snakes, while lust, here beefing out a cow, carries the retribution of being smothered in fire and brimstone. Check out WWW.THE-7-SINS.COM to see which tee best suits your dark side. Wickedness! Freshly squeezed East London is already like one interminable extreme catwalk, the willfully whacky zone where deadly serious bright young thangs road-test their latest self-styling. Stroll down Brick Lane on a Tuesday afternoon and you can be sure to catch at least three pairs of neon love bugs, the occasional strappedon electric fence and an off-putting array of rainbow spandex. Where better than here to celebrate and showcase fresh fashion talent? FasChion has been devised to do just this, embracing unknown designers and flinging them a platform to wow us upon. Creatives and curators, head to http://www.fasChion.com to book yourselves in for the ultimate summer uber session.
tags: | candy | ben sherman | carnaby street | more...
DKNY trainers for Cream
tags: | cream | dkny | mark farrow | more...
Yamama
'Don't compromise. Do what you want you feel you have to do. If you have flair and originality, eventually you’ll get the recognition you deserve,' is the advice Yamama label head Ray would give anyone wanting to start up on their own in the fashion world. Since he and his business partners bypassed the bank loans and pooled their own money together to fund their passion for original designs, orders have come flooding in for the Brighton based brand. Proving that you don't need to re-mortgage your flatto be involved in the fashion game, their collection is produced in Bali to give their customers inexpensive, high quality pieces. Fashion conscious in a non-obvious way, Yamama’s latest line seescasual streetwear acknowledge the recent catwalk love for acid colour. Leggings, animal print and gloves in electric pink and midnight blue mix with nylon and muted shades of grey and black for the wearer that likes to merge their day and night time look. It’s hard to make streetwear interesting, but details like this help break Yamama away frombeing 'just another label'. It has also helped that over the past few years, design has undergone a shift in the way it is processed. 'Clothes design has again be deconstructed,' Ray explains. 'So each design was taken apart to see how it was structured and functioned. This meant that new processes for design and stitching were possible and more emphasis was given to detailing and graphics, which in itself was inspiring.' Grabbing influences from the past, present and future, Yamama aims to insert some much needed individuality into a post-modern world. Their use of unusual materials and audacious graphics on their popular jersey waistcoats and cardigans for men has even attracted some major high street players. 'Design is customer led to a large degree so if something flies off the shelf we immediately re-order it changing maybe only the colour,' says Ray. 'Each season we get particular pieces that shine. Like good comedy it's all about the timing.' But his future plans for Yamama are no joke. Hoping to open another store in Brighton this summer and one in Madrid at the end of the year, Ray's sights are firmly set on the brand becoming more 'out there' to 'everyone who takes pride in the way they look.' With an international store in the pipeline, is the ultimate goal world domination? 'Top Shop and Hennes are making good designs now and I've always seen them as my main competition,' admits Ray. 'So who knows...maybe a chain of Yamamas!' Showing the diversity that goes into the label, Ray confesses that he would love to see wayward rocker Pete Doherty and award winning actress Cate Blanchett wearing his designs. Although he cites the reason as 'just so I could go for a cup of tea with them!' the two completely different personalities reveal how flexible he wants his clothing to be. 'In the beginning we just went with the flow and the business snowballed thanks to originality in our designs and the demand from consumers for our products,' he says. 'Now we take it more seriously, it's a tougher industry these days with a lot of talented competition.' Check out the Yamama website for their latest key pieces, from mohair cardigans and soft wool trousers to biker jackets and zebra print jersey dresses. Each piece in the range is priced under £50. WWW.YAMAMA.CO.UK Words: Lauren Tones Photography: Liam Gleeson
tags: | yamama | fashion label | hennes | more...
Victim
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Laura Lees
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