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A/W 08 Collection
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A/W 09 Collection
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S/S 09 Collection
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Christmas Card 2009
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Accessories for Oliverio Toscani
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i-D Mag Tank Girl Accessories
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Paloma Faith Tiger Head
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Patrick Wolf Plane Shoulders
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Selfridges Window Prototype
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Fred Butler
Guest Posting 4 - 8 May 2009
When you see Fred Butler’s work you can’t help but feel astonished by the amount of colour, vibrancy and excitement she manages to generate. She specialises is creating props as accessories for stylists such as Nicola Formichetti, Patti Wilson and Francesca Burns as well as commissions for costumes with numerous musicians including Patrick Wolf, Bishi and Sigur Ros.
A/W 2008 saw Fred Butler launch her first official fashion collection of inspirational creations and has won sponsership from the British Fashion Council and Top Shop New Gen award to showcase her A/W 2009 collection as well as a film presentation in the exhibition at London Fashion week. All of that and she still finds time to regularly contribute to SHOWstudio, who knows how she fits it all in.
What have you got planned this week?
There is a list but if I look at it, I cry.
What do your parents think you do?
Make stuff for magazines that they can’t find in their local WH Smith.
Who do you look like?
Big Bird on a yellow day, a Tango advert on an orange day, Pink Panther on a pink day, or even like I got St.Patrick’s Day on the wrong day when it’s a green day.
What’s your favourite sense?
Intuition
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
When I go home I move the Marmite from the savory side to the sweet side of the accoutrement shelf to see how long it will take to be put back.
Did your education count?
I do not want to be ungrateful here and discount it, but I didn’t enjoy it. The majority of it was a waste of time. I think that creative degrees should revert back to practical teaching of craft and technique. You can’t teach an artist talent but you can teach them skills to harness that talent.
What word can’t you spell?
Their – every time. But I love dyslexia and the accidents! The other day my best friend addressed me as ‘trickle’ instead of ‘treacle’...unintentional genius.
Tell us a good fact
John Waters and Divine were friends from childhood. God had fun on that day, planting them in the same place!
What’s next?
Getting my accessories out to the public. I have just supplied my first stockist.
What’s your ‘Plan B’?
Self-sufficiency – The Good Life?!
Guest Posts
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Craig Lawrence
- Guest posted by Fred Butler 4 May 2009
Craig Lawrence is a knitter by trade, but his avant-garde garments are far from your expectation of a comfy cardi. Not only does he use giant tools to loop lashings of ribbon, but the end result is garments that could easily make home hanging as sculpture in the MOMA. As it happens, they are best appreciated in movement when they billow and sway like anemones under the sea. His recent collection was captured on film with models seemingly in flight against a blue sky. Inherent to his risk-taking nature, this ingenius vision was achieved by hazardously bouncing them on a trampoline set on the roof of his East End home. Photo by Kenzie Burchell
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Maki Lou Lou
- Guest posted by Fred Butler 5 May 2009
Maki Lou Lou first rocked up to my studio with a plastic octopus on her necklace, a sandwich embroidered on her jumper and a cup cake for me iced with the word “Boss”. I had a sneaking suspicion I was going to like her.
Maki studied illustration but has since gone on to turn her sketches into costumes, props and sets. Her drawings have a very particular graphic retro look with cheeky characters that are undisputedly an extension of her comical self. I’m a big fan of this new talent and can’t wait to see where her distinctive charming ridiculous works will crop up.
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Marcelo Krasilcic
- Guest posted by Fred Butler 6 May 2009
Brazilian Marcelo now lives and works in NYC but his photography regularly takes him worldwide. He starting out in fashion editorial with affiliations to the first issues of titles such as Purple, Self Service & Visionaire, and is now synonymous with unsurpassed portraiture. My favourite thing about Marcelo’s work is his new venture into sculpture. It’s rare for a photographer to step out from behind the lens and Marcelo has successfully stamped out a signature style of incorporating his 3D work as set design. It all started using the cushions in his flat as spontaneous props, but developed into a fascination with padded shapes and graphic scenarios.
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Peter Philips
- Guest posted by Fred Butler 7 May 2009
Whenever I see makeup that prompts involuntary ooh and arh appreciation noises similar to that of fireworks night, the man responsible is always Belgian artist Peter Philips. He uses the face as a canvas and consistently pushes the boundaries of makeup as a medium. It is clever, concise, breathtakingly fresh and innovative; using random materials integrated into the cosmetics. No wonder he has been appointed Global Creative Director of Chanel makeup.
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Three as Four
- Guest posted by Fred Butler 8 May 2009
The day I met threeASFOUR was the day I found what I had been looking for all my life. They live and breathe an otherworldly energy as if they are channelling a A divine gift from another planet. ADi, ANGE & GABI collided together to form a creative constellation in NYC but originally hail from Israel, Tajikstan and the Lebanon respectively. With a fascination in natural forms, their pattern-cutting stems from spirals which envelope and encase the body with anitomical precision. Many designs are made from just one piece of fabric, and named after the way the flat pattern looks e.g. “Moustache” is a pair of trousers that looks exactly that. (Read more)
