Husk Magazine \ Shorts

Around the same time as shooting 'The City' still life shoot for Husk Magazine Kim Jakobsen, Kim Howells and myself shot a series of images which work as individual editorial stories again for Husk.

Props and accessories were made for each image with my favorite being a pair of Swarovski encrusted WESC headphones worn by model Arthur Olecki and well with little else.

Husk Magazine \ The City

Here is a still life shoot I created with the brilliant Kim Jackobsen To and Stylist Kim Howells for Husk magazine which launched Friday night in Berlin. Such a fun day of miniature props and models, and the final result was a city scape, somewhat London mixed with New York with an apocalyptic fashion danger zone just bursting out of the ground. Have a look and see what fashion treasures you can find.

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I made a new mix tape... enjoy!


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1. OAR001-A (Orginal Mix) - Oni Ayhun
2.This Must Be It (Rex the Dog Remix) - Royksopp ft Fever Ray
3.Fashion Of His Love (Fernando Garibay Remix) - Lady Gaga
4.Call Your Girlfriend (Azari & III Remix) - Robyn
5.Colourless Colour (The Subs Popup Mix) - La Roux
6.Stay [The Lisa Marie Vocal Experience] - Sash!
7.Destroy Everything You Touch (Sasha Invol2ver Remix) - Ladytron
8.Lady Gaga - Electric Chapel (Alessio Silvestro Remix) - Lady Gaga
9.Garden - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
10.OAR001-B (Original Mix) - Oni Ayhun

LFW \ Fred Butler SS12 Installation

After the completion of Fred Butler presentation it was then time to build up the installation space where all the garments and accessories would be shown for the remainder of London Fashion Week. Below are a few images of the installation space.

LFW \ Fred Butler SS12 Film

Another element of Fred Butlers SS12 presentation was the film which she had made for the collection was launched on Style Bubble as the event opened. A week before fashion week and on the day after traveling back from Bestival with our overnight ferry journey I worked alongside Zaiba Jabbar and Crane TV on Fred's film to create a set which felt like the lining of a world from one of her accessories. I also worked on transparent visuals that we projected which were taken from the painted textures which Fred had made for the garments. Cutaway shots of water tanks and food colorings were filmed and textured panels of her paintings were used as backdrops.

FRED BUTLER SS12 'SONIC SINUATE SUPERTEMPORAL SEQUESTADOR' from Kim Howells on Vimeo.

LFW \ Fred Butler SS12 Presentation

This London Fashion Week I had the great opportunity to work with Fred Butler and create installation props for her SS12 presentation at Somerset House in the Portico Rooms. This season Fred's collection was all based on Sea slugs and showed her accessories off on a much larger scale, this time encompassing full body suits, slinky style jackets, sunglasses, headbands and some rather amazing shoes. The collection as always was a cosmic mix of colour and textures, with hand painted fabrics by Fred herself and the presentation was styled by Kim Howells.

For the event staged in the Portico rooms 5 flat base mats were created as circles each of which had a photographic print of Fred's painted texture design on. In each corner of the room lay 1 each of the 4 smaller circles, individually colour coded in blue, orange, lime and lilac along with a speaker enclosed in a hood of the same colour designed by Fred. In the center of the room lay a larger circle in a multicolour effect. As the models entered the room they took a base station at their colour corresponding circle. There was a sound track created by Patric Wolf which was broken up into 4 sound channels, as the channels increased in sound the models would take their place moving into the center and when all channels were playing they would finally all meet in the middle.

The event turned out to be very busy yet the atmosphere in the room was extremely serene. People exchanged comments on the extraordinary garments and were all taken away to another cosmic world for a short space in time.

Let Them Eat Cake Shoot \ Bright Light Bright Light

As part of the physical release of 'Disco Moment' by Bright Light Bright Light it was only fitting that we created some additional artwork to coincide Christa Holka and myself worked on a mini editorial for Let Them Eat Cake and Ashley Mauritzen was running an interesting interview with Rod Thomas. Here are the images from the editorial and you can click here to read the interview.

Photography by Christa Holka
Art Direction and Post production by Alun Davies
Special thanks to Aqua and Ella Dror PR

Image 1
Jacket, Aquascutum; Shirt, artist's own; Trousers, Topman
Image 2
Shirt, Aqua by Aqua; Jeans, Levi
Image 3
Shirt Aqua by Aqua; £50 note tissues available in dalston £stores.

Paper Crows \ When Friends Survive Video

Here is a new music video for Paper Crows we made last month with the very talented director Zaiba Jabbar. It was particularly busy day as are most music video's where we were creating a range of cut away shots and generally making a lot of colourful powder and mess. The live action shots were hazed with coloured smoke, sprinklers and an unusual urban garden backdrop. We all had a lot of fun despite our tight schedule and the post production edit has created a really brilliant video.