TIME MACHINE: JANE MAGAZINE FEB 2006
I loved Jane magazine. I had a subscription and my back issues are among my most prized possesions. I was looking through one the other day and was once again struck by how funny, irreverent and great...
View ArticleHOOKWORMS ARE AWESOME
A while ago I reviewed Hookworms debut album Pearl Mystic for Talkhouse, I obviously loved it, because they're a fantastic band. That review is below. MJ from Hookworms is a Good Guy, he seems funny...
View ArticleSEQUIN SUMMER
This ASOS dress isn't really my outfit of the day, it's my oufit of the summer - or at least the summer festivals as I've worn it at quite a few. I love the details, it drips with sequins of all sizes...
View ArticleSTYLE DISSECTION: SEINFELD
One of the best decisions I think Jeremy and I have ever made is to watch Seinfeld, in its entirety, this summer. I first watched it when I was at drama school, so I have a lot of memories of being...
View ArticleINSPIRED BY: 'SEINFELD'
Yep. So this week I roped Jeremy into dressing up as Jerry Seinfeld, while I tried to emulate the style of the excellent Elaine Benes. We also strongly considered dressing up as George and Kramer...
View ArticleTHE BEST BEAUTY MOMENTS IN FILM
This is a piece I wrote for i-D Magazine, it's always a thrill when I get to write for them, as I grew up reading those glossy pages. It now seems like a serious error in judgement not to have Lauren...
View ArticleRODOLFO LOAIZA + DISNEY
I'm so behind on this! Mexican artist Rodolfo Loaiza first exhibited his Disney re-imaginings this time last year at the La Luz De Jesus gallery in LA, well, Hollywood in fact. I only discovered him a...
View ArticleINSPIRED BY: 'ALMOST FAMOUS'
This week I wrote about the music and style in Almost Famous - my personal favourite of Cameron Crowe's oeuvre - for Noisey. That West Coast music scene in the '70s was all about big hair, boho, fur,...
View ArticleTHE SCORE: 'ALMOST FAMOUS'
This is a piece I wrote for Noisey about the music and style in the Cameron Crowe classic Almost Famous. The best time to be in a band? Definitely the 70s. Sure, bands were mostly touring in a bus...
View Article'SAVED BY THE BELL' LIFETIME MOVIE
The Lifetime Saved By The Bell movie is coming on September the 1st, and I am giddy with excitement. The fabulous Anne Donahue has just written about it on The Guardian, so far we know that Dustin...
View ArticleCANOODLING WITH MY CABOODLE
Meet my Caboodle, AKA possibly the best thing to ever happen to my life. Think of the touring possibilities! The snacks and strepsils I can put in this baby! The space for my earplugs and hair...
View ArticleMISSGUIDED DRESS + SHEARLING JACKET + KEW GARDENS
COME ON AUTUMN, I'M READY FOR YOU. No seriously, I see you, lurking round the corner, the wimpy sidekick to winter's beefy bully who packs a icy punch. And when you do show up for real, and stop...
View ArticleGUIDE TO GIRLS ON FILM
This is something I wrote for i-D magazine about how girls are portrayed in film, it was for their i-D girl week and I was chuffed to teeny weeny pieces to write for them again. I've never had the...
View ArticleTRAILER FOR 'BEYOND CLUELESS'
Beyond Clueless, the debut film by Charlie Lyne that we were extremely chuffed to soundtrack, now has a trailer! The film will be showing at festivals and one off screenings in the next few months,...
View ArticleLOUISE'S PRINCESS BIRTHDAY CAKE
OK so this was the first time I used food colouring in a cake, and it was also the first time I iced the sides of a cake. But when you have the chance to bake something to celebrate one of the...
View ArticleSTYLE DISSECTION: 'REALITY BITES'
I can't believe this film was directed by Ben Stiller. Ben Stiller! The man who gave us Zoolander also delivered the hottest slice of '90s post university counter-culture, generation Y babes, these...
View ArticleINSPIRED BY: 'PRETTY IN PINK'
THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN. I don't think I will ever be able to do anything for Jeremy that comes close to matching how huge a favour he has bestowed upon me by allowing me to dress him as Duckie. Duckie!...
View ArticleTOMMY HILFIGER READY TO WEAR SPRING 2015
He NAILED IT. This is late '60s rock and roll dreams, but with a very 2015 twist in terms of the cuts and textures. And so. Many. Stars. Stars on fur, stars on sequins, stars on gauzy floaty pleats,...
View ArticleROME + NATIVE ROSE
There are a lot of things about the job of being in a band which are tough. It can be heartbreaking, exhausting, you have to motivate yourself to get up and do something every day, and then of course...
View ArticleTHE PIG HOTEL
For my birthday this week we went to stay at The Pig hotel in Hampshire. There are four Pig hotels to choose from, but I wanted to visit this one because it's in the New Forest and ahem PONIES. The...
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