Style Bubble

Hairy Cherry

>> Sunnies Sunnies Sunnies!  Say those words with me and breathe a sigh of relief that we're finally getting the opportunity to wear them when for so long, they had literally been gathering dust (no seriously, I had to give my sunglasses case a good rub down with a j-cloth when the sun emerged).  Sheriff & Cherry are a newish label that hopefully a good majority of people can get down with namely because of their sub-£100 price points and their growing number of stockists (get em' at Matches, My-Wardrobe, The Corner and more).  Sheriff & Cherry started off as a design studio of creative director  Mauro Massarotto (fond of all things primary-coloured, sporty and fresh - check out hisportfolio!) and Aussie stylist supremo Mark Vassallo, they found an old optical factory in Croatia and set about on their line of classic frames given a colour-led twist.  They don't take themselves too seriously but instead serve up a range of well-made, solid frames in enticing colours ready to be embedded in sun, sand and water wherever in the world.  

Just to show that hot sun-drenched girls and boys need not be the only Sheriff & Cherry wearing candidates, they've teamed up with another duo, Ukraine-based photographers Synchrodogs aka. Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven to place their pre-fall 2013 collection in an altogether odder setting filled with Cousin-It type characters adorned with silly string, confetti and party wigs galore.  

They've also shot a more conventional lookbook just in case you don't want to be distracted by Bluebeard-esque facial hair and pre-fall promises to be just as colour drenched as previous ones have been.  They hit stores this month and I believe they'll be launching an online store soon, giving you better opportunity to break your Sheriff & Cherry cherry soon.    

Glitterbug

>> I still need to work on that index card system (don't ask me why it has to be an old fashioned library card type set-up) of young designers and graduates who I've written about so that I can routinely check up on them to see what they're up to.  A wee update on Estefania Cortes Harker, whose glitter4eva MA collection for Central Saint Martins last year inspired by the strange veneer of American child beauty pageants, has earned her much editorial attention (all that glitters loves the camera evidently) and so she's quite rightly thought, why ruin a good thing?  For A/W 13-4, she's created a range of clutch bags that use the same glitter covered material as the dresses in her MA collection as well as the surprising ditzy floral linings.  The shapes are derived from the flat accoutrements that made up her stellar collection where graphic shapes would jut in and out from a dress like oversized jewellery.  These clutches continue that narrative of too-much-right-on adornment and decoration and inevitably catch the glint in my glitterbugged out eye.  

Bullet Magazine - Photography Eleanor Hardwick, Styling Tess Yopp

Clash Magazine June 2012 - Photography Harley Weir, Styling Matthew Joseph

Dazed Digital - Photography Amy Gwatkin, Styling Nell Kalonji

Dazed & Confused May 2012 - Photography Leon Reindl, Styling Nell Kalonji

Vogue.it - Photography Nuria Rius, Styling Ines Fravezzi

Clash Magazine - Photography Willem Jaspert, Styling Matthew Joseph

Eyeballs and Skulls

>> I'm a cartoonish simpleton.  I like ridiculously literal things.  I like cho-kawaiiiiii!  I like mega cute.  Therefore prints with little emojis all lined up as per Antipodium's pre spring/summer 2013 hero print, designed by British Vogue's art director Jaime Perlman, with googly eyes, tiny bows and roses cooing at me with their cuteness are always going to be instant pleasers.  In Sydney, I picked up another print that has a slightly more twisted edge but is nonetheless in a similar vein of verbatim bluntness. Illustration power duo Craig & Karl, who just keep adding to their varied and rich portfolio (and incidentally have worked with Antipodium on many of their prints), teamed up with another duo Lyn and Tony, a jewellery label that I discovered whilst out in Sydney, to collaborate on a print.  Eyeballs, pills, Cluedo weapons of murder, keys, bones, molars and skulls come together in a pop macabre arrangement, which graces a range of shirts, collars, scarves, ties and charm pieces.  A skull or an eyeball thrown about can be a cliched sentiment but it's hard not to like them here in its composition.  Like I said, I loves me a memorable motif.