The folks at
Blitz, London's first and only vintage department store asked me to style a S/S '12 advert shoot for Disorder magazine with photographer
Anders Brogaard. We wanted to go for something fresh and modern with a vibrant pop art twist, proving that you can work vintage into a forward-thinking wardrobe. In my head I was thinking 90s brights mixed with the block sophistication and simplicity of a Mondrian painting. Think Acne S/S 12 but on acid. So brights with more brights clashed in loud and offensive ways. Colours which shouldn't be worn together playfully combined in a multitude of layers, offset by simple, clean, crisp, lines associated with a more traditionally tailored aesthetic, such as neat collars and cuffs. Nothing too formal or grown up (yeah, like I'm capable of that) but nothing that resembled the tired, twee vintage look.
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| TLC offending the eye on so many levels. |
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| Clean lines. Block opaque primary colours. |
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| Acne menswear. This is how I want to look this Spring. Minus the short hair and penis. |
So with these references buzzing around my head, we started to pull some of the most garish and blindly colourful peices Blitz had to offer. Seeing as this was going to be a one-shot wonder, we had to pare down our choices to one outift... and off we went. Naturally I used the whole experience to nose around the studio and get some sneaky snaps of my own.
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| We toyed with the idea of creating a top out of a silk scarf, abandoning the notion when it brought back too many mid 90s Christina Aguilera memories. |
