American Apparel Rummage Sale


This Weekend Only: I especially like the part 'starting at £1'

Amore Toujours

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One Night - Driis and Ozwald

My last tweet reads: 'If ever a time rushed spontaneity made reverie it was tonight. Merci beau @ibigunstoppable @Tahirah @Driis and even Ozwald B!'

There is something wildly beautiful when a man of ruggedness and strength (based only on apppearance) provides unadulterated vulnerability in singing and softly rapping so openly his deepest of thoughts, wants and desires...even sometimes unashamedly on top of not so masculine melodies. That is Driis, Idris Elba (Actor, singer, rapper, DJ) who has just released 'High Class Problems' a medley of hard and soft realism that I would recommend at least sampling if not acquiring. 'Best I can' and 'Looking Crazy' tickles my fondness. It's bad of me to include Mos Def and Mike Skinner when talking of this man at the foot of paving his own musical way but it's a certain compliment. Last night on nothing more than an invitation and a whim I went to the Driis Album Launch (well of sorts) at The Big Chill Bar in Brick Lane. He happened to DJ also, though my wicked way of noting fine details couldn't miss his comical bungle of the Clipse mix, oui Driis I noticed, but little care was given since his general skill superceded this fault. By the by, this man is a handsome sight to behold, I understood why the girl in the middle for a moment danced with her frontal area as if chanting to him her crutched longing with a rather upset rhythm. No judgement...honest! But, as if my opinion carries any weight, I would have much prefered to hear his songs instead of the classically lovable hip hop he feed us. It was as if he was too shy or humble to display his understated hardwork which incidently would have sat nicely and perfectly in my ears. Twas ok though.

But onward to my next unsuspecting delight, right around the corner from being ushered out by bouncers and dizzy with non alcoholic merriment (though I did have a Disoronno and coke). Me and ibigunstoppable bid adieu to our companions when a tall statuesque black man with midnight sky bouncing off his darkly glowing head, adorned in very skinny trousers and a perfectly fitted blazer locks my eyes. In between the waves of laughs and smiles and a fulfilled breathe, with a nice confidence and a smile I looked straight into the dark of his eye and said comfortably 'What the f**k you looking at mate! No, but that would have been funny, instead I said 'Oh, hello' as if caught off guard with familiarity. I suppose he may have said 'hello' or in likeness but I do remember his deep and bass rendered voice say something or another. I figure a raw niceness cannot really be ignored and so with the little time he had to look, walk in front of and pass behind, he stopped whatever he could have been doing, saying or thinking and like a Hewlett Packard scanner, powerfully scanned me from the stray strand of hair on my head to the gravel I kicked with the sole of my green boots and we both walked not fully aware of what just occurred. With delayed shock I turned to ibigunstoppable and said that was Ozwald Boateng! I heartedly laughed all the way to the car.

And that my friend fills my last tweet with correctness. Oui, tis the little to this lady that makes her happy!

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Show Post: Markets, Summer and Great Head

Show post: A post to accompany my weekly radio show 
(www.bangradio.fm Saturday 11am)

 

Me Me Loves Markets

 

 

The idea that markets were a poor man department store is no longer. For the most part it is a haven of delights, delights of the fashionable kind. A where’s Wolly of treasures and anything but poor. The shining and alluring constant in such a variable place is there is a uniqueness that the High street is without. It is laden with all styles and more and is definitely the eclectic option from the vacuous franchises – where you’re likely to spot your clothes on someone else or worse still someone will spot where you shop! This week I’m urging you to forget trends and shop market! Here’s my pick:

 

  1. Portobello Market
  2. Brick Lane
  3. Spitalfields Market
  4. Camden Market

Thank technology for the internet and the internet for this link where you will hit upon a reliable guide, otherwise I might have had to copy and paste and pretend all that work was born from my blood sweat and tears.

 

Before we move to the next…if you venture through the eclectic route it’s good to equip a manual for inspiration. I recommend peeking at street style photo blogs (Style Clicker and The Sartorialist) for this inspiration. They are far more original and distinct than glossy mags and ultimately they are REAL people not airbrushed models with weight issues.

 

 

Summerwear as Winterwear

 

 

Me Me says ‘continue to wear your summer clothes this winter’. Don’t dismiss your feather weight wardrobe because you can still wear it despite the urge to nest in wool jumpers and lined trousers. Clever layering is the facilitator, just use clever layering. There is an impression that you must pack it up and stow it away until the first daffodil but this is some kind of wicked myth. The key is to be warm while wearing it not wrapped in cotton wool. In fact I'm wearing a boob tube now, but with it a plain cardigan and my biggest mummy cardigan (and a car). There’s no saying that you cannot wear short skirts, tee shirts and a flimsy top just make sure on goes two cardies, a coat, some tights and boots! And instead of halving your wardrobe and even spending on a new one, simply work with what you got!

 

 

Great Head

 

 

Don’t be fooled by my clever use of words…excuse the pun indeed. It’s anything but sexual in fact it’s about what you put on it (that makes it great) not what (great things) you do with it – wink wink carry on style. I wrote recently about a man using hair as his differentiation but it doesn't stop there....there's more than one way to get great head! Look below:

 

Make up - Lipsticks, eyes etc

Hats

Piercing

Hair - cutting, dying, curling, straightening

Ornamental/funky hair clips

Tattoos

Earrings

Glasses/shades

 

I change my hair every other month but thats not enough...lipstick is next on my list! why not try something new with yours...Get Great Head: Ok so I think I have exhausted the sexual conotations it might as well have been about head of the sexual variety.

 
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