black pen diaries

laura j london legs

2010-07-04T01:50:00.000-07:00

jay - z holier then thou

2010-06-30T04:15:00.000-07:00

fashion life drawing class starts next week

2010-06-17T23:47:00.001-07:00

classes are will be held in the beautiful surroundings of the Laura J London shoe boutique in Angel. For more details go to our facebook page.

happy birthday leigh face

2010-04-29T10:31:00.000-07:00

you are the fucking best. looking forward to sushi and fizzy wine on the balcony laters.

Krystalina - the baddest bitch and sweetest boy in town

2010-04-29T10:29:00.001-07:00

arthur and albert magazine

2010-04-28T09:41:00.001-07:00

octopussy

2010-03-03T09:23:00.001-08:00

at the end of another very unproductive day, I'm left wishing I had more hands so I could get things done quicker.

orgasm head

2010-03-01T09:44:00.000-08:00

new york A/W 10 fashion week

2010-02-18T05:47:00.000-08:00

so... kids, what do we think, I always reckon NY fashion week is a proper bore personally. I look forward to Rodarte and Jeremy Scott. I loved the second part of Rodarte more then the opening, with the whites on whites on whites, and the amazing shoe/sock combo...

Jeremy Scotts show was dedicated to Fash-wan and I found loads of it very wearable, maybe thats why I was a bit disappointed, as I look forward to his banana themes past collections based on fast food and vinyl records rank as some of my all time favourites. Some of it was very 90's versace/neneh cherry, very east london, so very 'done', nothing too original here, But like I said, if I had the dolla I would rush out and buy a LOT of this collection, in particular, the crystal studded biker jacket and bustier pictured below. I also liked the target practice tops.

hannah does plastic chanel

2010-02-17T06:02:00.001-08:00

the wonderful Hannah from French Kiss Vintage rocking super duper plastic Chanel earrings on sunday.

pokey - poke - poke

2010-02-15T07:27:00.001-08:00

much fun was had last night at the POKE launch party. tres hungover today, wanted to draw a picture of my friend hannahs amazing Chanel earrings that she wore at the party, but alas, tea and the sofa calls, will do tomorrow, or after Glee tonight...here's my POKE contribution a portrait of the brilliant trio who form Gay Bingo at the ICA, Jonny Woo, Ma Butcher and John Sizzle.

R.I.P Alexander McQueen

2010-02-11T09:58:00.001-08:00

so sad to hear the news, McQueen was a genius and along with John Galliano, one of my all time favorite designers, I have always earmarked this Lady Haversham dress from 2006 in my memory, its not one of his most remembered seasons or his most spectacular by a long stretch, but it was my favorite. R.I.P Lee McQueen. S.x

aurel schmidt makes me jealous

2010-02-10T08:38:00.001-08:00

yeah, so hi, i'm aurel schmidt, I have the best glasses ever and i'm totally cool, oh yeah and i'm like, a TOTALLY BRILLIANT ARTIST.

Schmidt is the most interesting artist/illustrator i've seen in ages, I love her grotty hand-drawn paintings so much I would sell my new puppy to own one, they are so beautifully intricate and soft on the eye, then up close you realise they are pastel coloured treats of condoms, tampons and flys, even her fag - end necklace makes me insanely jealous. Although the subject matter and aesthetic style is always more important in art and design I think its really refreshing to see some-one who actually has real technical ability succeed in the fickle, fickle art world, especially as I hate to use computers at all in my own work, so yeah, insanely jealous, but also very inspired.

je t'aime yves saint laurent

2010-02-04T03:51:00.000-08:00

what i'd wear to the oscars...

2010-02-03T06:53:00.000-08:00

i've spent far to much time on this today, had a job canceled so have completely wasted all morning wondering what i'd pick to wear to the oscars. WTF! I should be looking for work but instead i'm trawling through couture archives on style.com

John Galliano is my absolute fave, and his S/S 10 show last week was a good un' i'd pick this charcoal dress and add the top hat from other looks earlier on in the show, very english, very aristocratic. but I'd beg him to let me borrow this dress from couture 08...

and team it with Princess Julia nails, I think. This is basically a 50's style bodice with a sheer black netting dress over the top, its proper well good. I think its a real shame no-one does a cher anymore, for fear of a worldwide slagging off on blogs - BORING! expect to see lots of chanel blah blah like this...

if I wanted to go completely over the top, i'd pick anything from Victor and Rolfs S/S 10 collection but in particular this yellow frill explosion,

girl crush - Alex Box

2010-02-02T01:34:00.001-08:00

I'm a fur addict, so its not really surprising that i'm currently a little obsessed with make-up artist Alex Box the woman has cruella de ville hair people! how brilliant is that. she's like a more rock 'n' roll Daphne Guinness, but its not just her personal style that makes me feel a little sick with envy, she's only a bloody creative genius too. When I go on the Illamasqua website, she makes me want to become a belin seductress with blue lashes, the thing I like most about her faces is the skin, which she uses as a pallet, and quite rightly, as another feature to accentuate with loads and loads of slap, even when she hasn't painted the skin, she favours a really luminescent base. I'm doing a collaboration with photographer Amelia Karlsen soon, and Box's imagry is really inspiring.

barney in breton

2010-02-01T07:54:00.001-08:00

...is my favourite type of barney

dick merkin

2010-02-01T07:28:00.001-08:00

dicks in drag

2010-01-28T08:06:00.000-08:00

This is a snippet of a larger piece i've just finished for POKE magazine. Its launching on Valentines Day during London Fashion Week and is the most original magazine concept i've seen in years in quite a boring homogeneous market. yup, POKE is aims to explore the role of the penis today. Its mission statement is to 'cover all references to the penis in our language, art, architecture, sex and politics . We are not about pornography as this aspect of the penis is well documented and represented in our society already.' I pretty much love it already, especially when I hear whispers of fashion shoots involving Swarovski covered testicles... you gotta love that. My illustration is accompanying a piece about the beauty's that are gay bingo at the ICA. But i'll post more about them when I can show the whole piece, drag queens need they're own post I reckon.

click clack jack kerouac

2010-01-12T14:40:00.000-08:00

typewriter hat anyone?

my favourite redhead

2010-01-05T10:54:00.000-08:00

my last post, plus me new 'do', plus my favourite song at the moment...gainsberg purists look away now... plus the fact she's married to the future mr stephens (i jest, barney. s.x) pluuuuussss the fact she is a totally weird looking babe - means Karen Elson was my scribble of the day.

vintage betty number 1

2010-01-04T11:04:00.000-08:00

This is for my good friends at French Kiss Vintage. The first for an ongoing monthly column, about vintage bettys, having just dyed my previously platinum blonde locks bright red for the 2010, the beautiful Joan Holloway character from Mad Men is currently my ultimate Belle de Jour.

2010 calender

2010-01-04T05:15:00.000-08:00

okay - so I know its the 6th of Jan, but I had a very good and very heavy New Years Eve and as everyone goes back to work this week, this is the start of my 2010. It seems fitting I should give y'all a sneak peak of my calendar I did for the lovely ladies at The Pix think its probably out now anyway. The pix is a brilliant fanzine, I've been picking it up since my first year at uni alllll dem years ago, cause' the photography was so ace and I really liked the fonts, Princess Julia and Hanna Hanra even came to do a lecture in my second year, so its amazing to finally do something for them.