Exactitudes.

Thanks to a comment on an earlier item of mine from someone on the Culture Show (?!), I now know who the artists/photographers in question are! Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek are responsible for the documentation of the various fashion tribes throughout the world's major cities from 1994 - 2008. They have compiled the images in a book called "Exactitudes". I love the outcomes when all images are tiled together.

The website looks pretty cool too.

www.exactitudes.com

Below - one of their earlier documentations in 2004

American Apparel Ads.

I love the brazen sexuality in these ads. Sex really does sell - I have enough of their "apparel" anyway. With highly sexed poses and a tongue in cheek manner, they don't air brush their model's lumps and bumps - they stick two fingers up to convention.

The Satorialist.

A blog recommended to me by my friend Si Sherlock. It's a sort of documentation of fashion in NYC.

It really reminds me of a feature which I saw on BBC's The Culture Show a few months back, for which I have been searching high and low (so if anybody can help me out? I would be eternally grateful!). A pair of artists/photographers decided to photograph the different "tribes" that were apparent in the everyday fashion world of big cities. They took their subjects into a locally rented studio and photographed them in a pose which reflected their "personalities", each member of this tribe would indeed have the same fitting pose. Tribes included such people as, rich Japanese girls with a designer handbag, the student male with a cross over back pack, the power-dressing over 30s woman, the goth etc. Yes some of it was contrived, and they made their subjects fit their own "brief", as it were; but the end result looked brilliant. So many people thinking they dress differently, and yet, they fit so perfectly into a tribe with so many other people.

House Of Holland.

Passio Factionis - the latest range; and it's stunning. I love tartan, always have, always will (owning an outfit entirely of red tartan complete with a pair of red tartan Doc. Martin's at the age of 9 has got to prove this?) - which is why I'm so glad it's "on trend" for this Winter. I'm gonna stock up on it - I just wish I could afford Henry's range - I think it looks absolutely wicked.

Tim Walker.

I went to Turkey in May, and on my return was facing having to pay about £50 for excess weight on my suitcase and my hand luggage. So, first to go were the toiletries, then I put on tens of items of clothing, jewellery and accessories. Donned in every colour of the rainbow, I then contemplated getting rid of my Vogue (they weigh about the same as me, but it is blasphemy to throw a copy away). So I tore out my favourite pages to take with me - an article about Tim Walker. I love his fantastical view on life, photography, and fashion. He says in the interview, "Fashion allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist. I love beautiful clothes - but I couldn't give a monkey's what's on the catwalks". His photography is just charming and so beautifully shot - I'm so very jealous of all those who got to see his exhibition in London recently (it's reet grim up north).