Fashion: Everyone just thinks it's a joke!

Chuck's ponderings on life...

Without just one nest

A bird can call the world home

Life is your career

 - Fight Club : Chuck Palahnuik - 

The world of commercialisation, in which we live...

'Something which was a bomb, a big bomb, had blasted my clever Njurunda coffee tables in the shape of a lime green yin and an orange yang that fit together to make a circle. Well they were splinters, now. 

My Haparanda sofa group with the orange slip covers, design by Erika Pekkari, it was trash, now.

And I wasn't the only slave to my nesting instinct. The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.

We all have the same Johanneshov armchair in the Strinne green stripe pattern. Mine fell fifteen stories, burning into a fountain.

We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti.

All that sitting in the bathroom.

The Alle cutlery service. Stainless steel. Dishwasher safe.

The Vild hall clock made of galvanized steel, oh, I had to have that.

The Klipsk shelving unit, oh, yeah.

Hemlig hat boxes, yeah.

The street outside my high-rise was sparkling and scattered with all this.

The Mommala quilt-cover set. Design by Thomas Harila and available in the following:
Orchid.
Fuschia.
Cobalt.
Ebony.
Jet.
Eggshell or heather.

It took my whole life to buy this stuff.

The easy-care textured lacquer of my Kalix occasional tables.

My Steg nesting tables.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple of years your satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handed. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug.

Then your trapped in your lovely nest, and the things that you used to own, now they own you.'

- Fight Club : Chuck Palahnuik -

Is fashion evil?

People trade in on image...

Ladies in waiting...

I'd just like to direct your attention (a few seconds of your busy lives...) to the clever musings of Jessica Brinton of the Sunday Times Style Magazine. She's kindly shared her thoughts and insight into a current generation skirting the 20-year-old milestone, these are the 'girls' that will grow in a new, more sophisticated, extremely savvy version of the Future Lab's H.E.I.D.I.

These are the generation (or a section of a generation) that live by the concept that 'you have a brain and a body, and, in this world, it is acceptable to use both; but the way you choose to use them, and in what proportion, will determine where you end up.'

They are a force to be reckoned with and I say... Go ahead girls! I'm with you!

Kate Leadbetter...

Now lets be honest, Kate is a God of Knowledge and I love just spending time with her - I feel like I'm learning things by just breathing the same air... but here are the facts!

She is a twenty-year-old, third year English Literature student at Manchester University and is applying for a Masters in Film - 'Which is ultimately where I would like to end up.'

So then I asked her all about herself and here's what she had to say ... who better to describe her but her right? (The literary genius that she is!)

'I go to the cinema about 3 times a week and watch way more films than that on top. I am very much a film nerd and what I don't know about cinema would struggle to fill a matchbox! - Geeky and sad, but true! (Not at all geeky and sad Kate! I love to see someone with such drive and passion for what they want to do, and such an interest in broader culture...)

I read a lot and listen to a lot of jazz and Patti Smith is my hero! (She listens to Jazz - How cool is that!)

I'm chair of a film society in Manchester, as well, which is the biggest student film group in the country, which makes me even more of a nerd!' (Again, Nerd? I know this girl is smart and all but can't she see that it's darn impressive to be running a film society at just little old twenty?)

Any final thoughts Kate? Here's your platform...
...'There is not much I wouldn't do for a bowl of Chili and glass of Lambrini!

(Oh well, at least she knows how to relax - that's how I lured her into talking me for so long! Note to all: If you ever want a students opinion... just offer them free food! - That's all it will take!)

Thanks Kate! - Clever thing.

You want to know about Ella Alexander eh?

So, you’ve already had a sneak-peak into the mind of this one, but let me introduced her properly, because she’s damn sure worth it!

Ella Alexander is one of those people, that you just wish there were more of in the world… This 20 year old LCF, Fashion Journalism student is living in South London and has already built up a contacts book to rival the best of us (ahem, Christopher Kane, The Observer, Glamour, Relative PR, Nylon to name but a few…) with experience in PR, show production, retail, editorial, management, feature writing and styling, she’s also got a broad range of skills and an extremely in-depth knowledge of the industry. She has to be one of the hardest working, most caring and involved people I know.

But enough about her accomplishments, we want to know more about her… being a clever little, cultural thing, Ella keeps up with all the right things; fashion, news, current affairs, cinema, theatre, art, film, music, gigs, eating out, bars, socialising… and loves music from The Fratellis, The Clash, The Cure (and all those other ‘The’ bands…) oh and you can never go wrong with a bit of James Brown or Ella Fitzgerald apparently.

Ella describes her style as forties and fifties, but a whole lot lazier…. with a Parisian twist.

Due to graduate shortly she hopes to get into supplement writing, and remarks that she would sell her own mother to write for the Guardian!

Dictation Manipulation teams up with Fashion University TV.

I recently learnt about a new and exciting initative from a group of clever Londoners...

Their vision? - Fashion University TV (It's so new that they are still popping the bubble wrap!)


FUTV, a fast paced, highly current, visual and provocative fashion themed television programme to be shot across London and broadcast nationwide via SUB.TV. The show will feature Industry interviews, street intercept Vox Pops (that I'll be hosting!) and high profile studio debates such as The size zero debate and Is fur fair?, reaching a potential audience of 1.8 Million viewers each year - that's pretty darn impressive figures if you ask me!

So, look forward to the odd excerpt of their innovative work, and make sure you keep an eye out, come April, when they are set to broadcast across all student union bars in the nation...

... but for now, if you'd like to contribute to, or be part of FUTV then please contact James on fashionunitv@hotmail.com.

Until then, 'F U!'

Dictation Manipulation earwigs on... Ella & Kate