Solaris Illus in Upstreet magazine

Already big in France and launching December in the UK... inc. some Solaris 100 created illustrations. Shout out to Roy Lichtenstein, Brrrap! Brrrap!

Mr. T - Fashion Tips

It's all about style baby!

Wild Japan!

After checking out Female Convict Skorpion in a small nerd cinema in Germany earlier this year I was thrilled as the London National Film Theatre showed a small season of 70ties Japanese Exploitation flicks last month. Unfortunately I was just able to catch Yakuza Graveyard which was amazing!


In both cases the attending crowd was rather small which I find strange as everyone is so in love with Tarantino. So I urge anyone to burn those Kill Bill DVDs and see the real deal if possible... 70ties... Gangsters... Japan... what more can anyone possibly want?


Wild Japan Festival

New INSA Expo

I love his work... really looking forward to this!

Dues have been paid

Superblog graced me with a small link after some hasseling. Fair enough they didn't want to point out they lifted their entire story off my blog *cough*. But I got a proper apology from slam x hype so thats all good!

Supertouch Blog in theft shocker!!!!

Hey Supertouch blog! I know the pics I took of the Stussy event are great... but nicking them from my Flickr account without asking or giving credit? BOOOOO...

The big Supertouch picture heist HERE

KAWS Stussy Worldtour Snippet

He has such a strong visual style. Damn why didn't I come up with that! *sob*

HAZE Stussy Worldtour Snippet

The man... the legend...

Futura2000 Stussy Worldtour Snippet

Visually the best portrait of the whole movie methinks...

Stussy Worldtour Documentary screening

Just returned from the screening of the Stussy Worldtour Documentary at the National Film Theatre in London. What can I say... too much free beers and still star-struck from meeting KAWS , Geoff Mcfetridge and Kostas who came down for a quick Q&A after the red curtain of the screen closed.



Check out more pics of the event here:

Stussy Photo Set

Gonna post three snippets from the doc as well... no sound tho thanks to the state of technology 2001... when my digital camera RULED! *d'OH*

Expo 17.11.06

Kraftwerk 1973 tanzmusic

It's still amazing to see how far these guys were ahead of the game... plus nice german mustache stylez!

Let's get drunk at Dragonbar... again!

The Dilly and Goldtooth presesnt.......

"UPSIDE DOWN LOOKING UP"




A visual clash of some of the UK & Oz's finest artists, upstairs at the Dragon Bar. Featuring Goldtooth, Lister, Rinzen, James Alley, Dscreet, Adam Neate, Cept, Paris Hair, Mysterious Al, MuteID, Mjar , Showchicken and more to be confirmed.

Opening night party Wednesay 15th November with Live DJs

Everyone welcome.

The Dragon Bar
5 Leonard Street, LONDON, EC2A 4AQ

Exclusive Loki drop at ryöüki :: sneaker böütique in oxford

Looks like today is official Loki Day!
Hot off the press: One of my favorite Loki tees gets the exclusive colorway treatment! The ryöüki colourway of the Lyrics tee will be dropping this weekend and it's black w/ silver print and will only be available at ryöüki :: sneaker böütique in oxford. Sweet...



http://www.ryouki.com/

Loki girls sneak preview...

A first look at the upcoming girls stuff...

Featured: Loki Clothing

With their Autumn/Winter range in the shops now, some new stockists, and more pieces to come including girls' tees/sweats & the cut 'n' sew all-over printed Cassette hoody it's time to drag Will Kemp and Rufus Exton out of the shadow of their Loki fashion empire for a quick Q & A... *EXCLUSIVE!* ... holla!

First things first: What’s the story behind Loki and how does your creative process work...

The two of us were at school together and met up back in London in our mid-twenties. Rufus had just got fired from his job for reasons which we legally cannot go into, but suffice to say it’s why he’s now known as Slappy. Will had been working in
the fashion industry where he’d learnt a lot about the T shirt game, or at least how to fold them. We named Loki after the Norse God of mischief. We don’t have a company motto yet but we’re trying to figure out the Latin for “For c*nts, by c*nts”.

In terms of the creative process we come up with a load of ideas, then try and think of a theme which loosely connects them.
Will does the designs, Rufus rejects half of them because no-one apart from Will would find them remotely amusing.

You had a fantastic reception when you launched your first collection last year. Overall, is it hard for a new small independent label to break into the market?

No…yes…kind of…

Tell us something about your new collection...

The badge design is being featured in an upcoming book by Gavin Lucas and Creative Review – it’ll be available at Magma
books. It’s about badges.



The theme for this season is music. The Tupac zombie all-over print failed to make the grade, but had a good reception this Halloween…maybe if there’s enough demand we’ll resurrect that dead homie.



Word on the Street is that Will has quite an unhealthy obsession with David Hasselhoff. Does this reflect on the brand? Any secret collabos in the pipeline?

We both respect David as an artist and there have been subtle references to his oeuvre in both seasons. Everyone knows that David single-handedly brought down the Berlin Wall. In terms of collabs we have sourced a range of Hasselhoff x Romika
moccasins which we are looking at retroing for 2007.



That would be amazing! What do you guys think about the current state of streetwear? There is a lot of bitching going on about hype vs quality...

Don’t want to add to the bitching but there seems to be a little too much reliance on the streetwear mathematics formula of:

[(Star Wars character x sneaker colourway) + old school hip hop reference] x Google image search ÷ Photoshop filter = hype

With a new webpage live as we speak Loki surely is taking a shot at global fashion world domination. What are the future plans?

We’ve been putting a lot of time into building up the right list of stockists in the UK and we’re now pushing out into Europe with Cali Roots, Solebox and Starcow. We’re expanding the range – all the new pieces will be up on the website as and when.



Any final thoughts, shout outs or insults?

Definite thanks to Bond for the leg-up and their continuing support. Shout outs to Billy Banjax and North London’s best wrestling duo Team Beautiful.

Final thoughts? Jail R Kelly.


WORD!!!!

Keep the eyes peeled for future Loki drops... more stuff can be seen at their sparkling new website: http://www.lokiclothing.co.uk