Films

Painted lady



Reading the new BON magazine, I came across the work of Dr Lakra, a tattooist who overdraws old magazine photos with tattoo-like artwork.


These Dr Lakra pieces remind me of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s short film, ‘Everglade’, made on the set of Balmain’s AW10 campaign. Described as ‘half horror, half Disney’, the film features a Jo Ratcliffe animation of a snake slithering and sliding over a writhing Kate Moss…

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London Fashion week AW11: Orla Kiely




The film and presentation format seems to be working a treat for Orla Kiely. Her signature mid-sixties silhouettes – high waisted dresses, Peter Pan collars, school girl coats – were styled on a coterie of bouffant haired, Hitchcocky heroines and choreographed in a three-minute film by Mercedes Helnwein. (more…)