Mob at Christmas

Posted on December 12, 2011 by PUSSY

You know that when Married to the Mob drop some new stuff its going to be on my wish list. Their holiday collection is no different. I want all, especially the cute grey studded track suite and socks, for the upcoming winter nights…

Sample This

Posted on December 5, 2011 by PUSSY

This weekend was the first Sampled sale that took place on Saturday and Sunday. I was down to paint some nails and check out all the cute hip – hop boys that were there to pick up a bargain (or 10). Damn was it a fun weekend, amazing tunes, incredible brands at a fraction of the price and I got to paint some gorgeous girls’ nails. As I was busy, I didn’t manage to take photos, so I stole a load from the AnyForty & Sampled blogs (sorry guys!). Peep the Sampled website and start getting excited about the next one, and check out some of the nails I did here.

Get Sampled

Posted on November 18, 2011 by PUSSY

Do you love clothes? And Music? And Fun? Of course you bloody do! That means that you should DEFINATLY come to Sampled, an amazing event put on by The Orders and Main Squeeze. It’s the whole weekend of the 3rd – 4th December and there will be your favourite street-wear brands for a fraction of the price, art for sale, music to listen to, oh and I’ll be there doing all you nails! Yep yep! come along…

The Orders & Main Squeeze in association with www.WhoSampled.compresent SAMPLED

Midday – 6pm Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th December 2011
@ Bar Music Hall, 134 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AR

£2 all day or £5 with entry to the club included!

Sampled combines a sample sale with a record fair and a club night featuring your favorite street wear brands at a fraction of their usual price, some of the UK’s best record dealers, sets of original Soul, Jazz, Funk & Disco breaks from some of the finest DJs in the UK, a nail bar and a stall selling art.

THE BRANDS
We have hand picked brands to trade on the day making sure you get your hands on your favourite street wear brands at a fraction of their usual prices. Brands trading include: Stussy, Alife, Fenchurch, Depehct. Stones Throw, Generic Surplus, Gimme Five, Any Forty, Stones Throw, DGK, Expedition One, Organika, BLVD, Osiris, Circa & more.THE RECORDS
Trading in new and classic vinyl & CDs from Hip-Hop box sets to rare Soul & Jazz LPs are Mr Thing, Crazy Beat, Rapandsoulmailorder.com, Jake BBE, JP & Nice Up making sure there is plenty to interest even the most avid collector.

THE MUSIC
Throughout the day we have an army of the finest DJs all spinning sets of original breaks as sampled by your favourite producers be they Hip-Hop, House or beyond. DJs include Spin Doctor, Mo Fingaz, Who Sampled DJs, Shepdog, JP, Jake BBE & more.

THE NAILS
One of the hottest new talents on the London nail art scene is will be setting up shop for the week end so come and get pampered by Nails By Hells.

THE ART
The Scrawl Collective are some of the most sought after artists in the land. Travelling the world for exhibitions and commissions alike you can see what all the fuss is about for yourself as they host a stall giving you the chance to get your hands on a one off piece of art.

THE CLUB
After the sale on Saturday night we are re-opening for a one off club night with an incredible line up for DJs including Mark Rae (Rae & Christian), Andy Smith (Portishead), Mr Thing, Spin Doctor, Mo Fingaz & BobaFatt all spinning sets laden with samples and the music they created.

For more information on this event or if interested in getting involved in future events please contact rod@sampleduk.com or tarl@sampleduk.com

Here are my prices for the event, what? £10 for a full set of amazing nails? I must be joking right? Nope, it’s true, come down to show some love and I’ll show some love right back by doing your talons…

Join the Facebook event page here. xx

Super-Heroines Wear Nike

Posted on November 14, 2011 by PUSSY

I get very bored of lookbooks, it’s very rare that I find a lookbook that actually inspires me and makes me want to buy the clothes. One think I never get bored of however, are comics (yes, I know I’m a geek! I own it!). So the lookbook for Nike’s Autumn 2011 collection really took my breath away. The lookbook is a collaboration between Nike and two female comic book artists; Jan Duursema & Amanda Connor entitled “Make Yourself a Superhero.” Which is meant to take the focus off of the celebrity athlete and put it on the every day woman.

Ponystep Magazine Covers

Posted on November 2, 2011 by PUSSY

Glorious!

Vans x Jesse Jo

Posted on November 1, 2011 by PUSSY

Yes or No?

Vera Wang Fall 2011

Posted on November 1, 2011 by PUSSY

Seriously gorgeous dresses from Vera Wang…

SMUT-ty

Posted on November 1, 2011 by PUSSY

I came across SMUT clothing years ago when I saw an ad for it in an underground London magazine. The advert showed a girl receiving oral from a guy while wearing a t-shirt that has an illustration of the same thing. Thus, SMUT logo is born! I can’t quite decide my feelings for this clothing line. I wouldn’t really wear any of their items, but I can’t help but love the logo: a girl getting oral sex, which makes the ‘M’ in the brand’s name? Genius!

Fashion Blogs / Bloggers

Posted on August 27, 2011 by PUSSY

When you spend so much time on the internet looking for content/inspiration, it’s unfortunate that you’ll have to trawl through hundreds of “fashion blogs” written by kids who are usually younger than you, have more money than you, and more followers. Now, I’m not usually one to hate (why are you laughing…?!), but I’ve been silent about this new breed of androids for long enough.

One thing I just don’t understand is this shy, coy, awkward body language that fashion bloggers seem to adopt. The simple fact that you spend your days photographing EVERY outfit you wear screams that you are anything but shy and awkward about yourself. If your blog is named after you, and the majority of your posts include you, then sweetheart, you are not a shy little wallflower.

Call me old fashioned (because I damn well am!), but what the hell is going on with boys fashion on these blogs?! Don’t get me wrong, the girls’ fashions are no better, but I can’t even be bothered to get in to that now… I don’t know when boys changed from dressing like normal people, to dressing like a cross between Kanye West and Edward Scissorhands (…just not half as sexy!). I have never had a wet dream (or even wanted to see) a boy in jeans that are skinnier than the leggings I’m wearing and tops that are baggier than the plus size section in New Look. It just doesn’t do it for me.

Now, let’s all be honest, the kids who run these blogs seem to go to the “cool” parties, have the newest “fashion items”, and an expensive camera to document it all with. So where do you think all this stuff comes from? I’m guessing by their perfectly manicured (but intentionally chipped) nails and their pre-worn, vintage, new clothes, that they have never done a day’s work in their lives. So, either they are making thousands of £££ through their blogging skills (ahem….) or they have a special bank that not many of us are lucky enough to have. The Bank of Mum & Dad. I’m not against kids who get money off their parents, hey, if you can go for it! But if that is the case, why the hell are these kids so intent on looking like they’re so hard up that they have to resort to looting Oxfam?!

This world of fashion bloggers is not one I want to ever be involved in, and I’m getting pretty tired of seeing photos of kids who just don’t resemble anything that I find remotely interesting. Where the hell are all the old hip hop kids? The country girls? The lives-in-the-real-world-works-a-9-to-5-grafts-for-a-living-dresses-normally-honeys???

I’m sick of it.

Rant over.