REVIEW OF 2010 : Erik Nilsson-Gullstrand

My name is Erik "Tonrie" Nilsson-Gullstrand and graduated secondary school from a swedish gymnasium with a text communication profile last summer. At the moment I'm back in Sweden doing some personal projects however I have big plans returning to the UK and London quite soon.

My creative work isn't much but I enjoy working in a kind of scandinavian way, I do love my scandinavia. The woods, the mystique, the cold.

I worked with Alùn on a few projects in 2010, I came to London to assist Alùn on the SZ Magazin shoot with Daniel Sannwald. But when I was suppose to go home, my flight was cancelled so I stayed for another week and assisted on the Vincent Peters shoot for British GQ and helped out with Alùn's fantastic accessorising for the exibition at Machine-A. So you can easily say I had a great end of 2010. The Daniel Sannwald shoot I thought was great, the team who worked on the shoot, the atmosphere was great - listening to Fever Ray nonstop for two days, running around London looking for ivy and emptying that pool which took for ever, but no complains, I enjoyed my time there and I feel like this is not the end. 2011 is going to be a good and productive year.















This is one of the most recently projects I've been working on were I provided with the artistic parts and also created the west-dress. Photography by Amina Rose.

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Piers Atkinson x MACHINE-A AW11 Pre-Collection Film

Last night we were lucky enough to view the premier of Piers Atkinsons fashion film for Machine-A, Directed by James Barnett & Poppy French and featuring model Aaron Frew.

Also to coincide with the excitment Machine-A launched their super brilliant new online Video store at www.machine-ashop.com






MACHINE-A presents Piers Atkinson from Ashley Smith on Vimeo.

Piers Atkinson at Machine-A

Today Piers Atkinson Launched his X Mas window display at Machine-A, I was able to attend and view some of my handy craft working on the manequin's fashion accessories I had made under some very brilliant fashion direction from the wonderful Miss Kim Howells. The Party was a brilliant success and Pier's fashion film went down very well with a few Vodka Shots to add to our Winter chill thrill! Bullet Nipples indeed.

The windows were created under the artistic direction of Piers Atkinson and realized by Planarama.

You can win one of Piers headbands as featured in this window display at Vogue.com

Piers inside his brilliant sexual window of futuristic excitement touching up his mannequin.

Erik Tonrie my dashing Sweedish assistant, Bright Light Bright Light and Miss Christa Holka attending the event with myself.

Art Direction - Piers Atkinson
Design & Installation - PLANarama
Neon Headpieces - I Catchers Neon for Piers Atkinson
Neon Art - i Catchers Neon
Laser Niples by PINS London
Stylist - Kim Howells
Make-up - Martina Luisetti
Assistants - Reuben Esser and Daisy Newman
Models - Kate & Neil @ PLANarama

MACHINE-A and Piers Atkinson / AW 10

I shall be attending this tomorrow evening!

Christmas Lights switch on at 6pm
with Special Guest!

Piers Atkinson AW11 pre-collection preview
exclusively for Machine-A

CHARLIE CUT

Last week I mentioned on the blog that I was going to the Machine-A Charlie Le Mindu Pop up salon for a bit of a hair cut. Charlie took it quite short on the sides for me and as you can see in these photo's it was hair of the extremes. But we loved it!



































Photography by Takahito Sasaki www.changefashion.net

Charlie Le Mindu Pop Up Salon at Machine-A

Yay!!! I have an appointment at the Charlie Le Mindu Pop up Salon at Machine-A Press day tommorrow..

On Saturday 17th of July 2010, celebrity hairstylist and pioneer of the pop-up hair salon, Charlie Le Mindu will be returning to his roots and launching a new luxury pop-up salon at MACHINE-A, one of London's most exciting boutique/gallery concept stores. Charlie will be offering cuts and style.

Charlie's past clients include: Peaches, Florence and the Machine, Uffie, Lady Gaga, MGMT, Bloc Party, Metronomy, , Eason Chan, Ayumi Hamasaki, VV Brown, Luke Worral....

For further information and appointments please contact ella@machine-a.com

Rosie Knowles Signs out for Now!

After my day off on the Saturday I was back in the studio bright an early helping Alun prepare for the photo shoot for German fashion Magazine Sleek. I was very excited due to the fact I have never been on a professional photo shoot before and anything to do with high fashion clothes and shoes will always have my hearting pumping. After a quick trip to Tesco to get breakfast for everyone, I started to finish off a dream web capture which was going to be used for the shoot. The making was so simple but so effective I am looking forward to seeing what the photographs will look like!

Due to the fact that Alun was designing the set I was given the task of going to The Camden Crawl to dress Samuel Chase for his performance. At first I felt rather nervous because I would be in control of how Samuel would look. I found the Jazz club were Samuel was playing and waited outside to be taken backstage which was all very exciting as I passed all the people queuing to get in. The night went really well and I was able to take a few photographs.






















The next morning I was back at the studio helping Alun tidy up after the photo shoot. I knew that later that day we would be starting the new project for Machine A which I mention on my last blog. At lunchtime another intern Amy was introduced as she would be helping out as well with this new venture. We arrived at Machine A very impressed with the space and the shop which was ultra cool. We met the owner Stavros Karelis who was very friendly and got painting the space black. When it was time to go home I was feeling very excited for Friday to see what everything will look like, I was very tired but happy because I had made a new friend in my fellow intern Amy.

The next couple of days we finished painting the room and started making the graves. Before we knew it, it was Thursday and time to take everything to Machine A for Friday. I was impressed with how everything was starting to come together and I couldn’t wait to see the pieces designed by Charlie LeMindu. As always organised chaos erupted on Friday with everyone trying to finish everything off, it was fun because everyone got involved helping each other out to get it all finished and perfect. And this is exactly what happened. The set installation looked amazing, which came together really well with the sound and the gorgeous naked women looked fabulous in their head pieces by Charlie LeMindu. Amy and I quickly ran to Marks and Spencer’s to get changed and before I knew it I had finished my two weeks with Alun and was drinking a Peroni with a massive smile on my face.

Machine-A & Charlie LeMindu

Last Friday we made an installation set for Charlie LeMindu's night of Horror's with styling by Anna Trevelyan at Machine-A store and gallery. Also featuring some whorish legs that have been around in my work quite a bit.





























































































Special thanks to my assistants Rosie Knowles and Amy Simmons. And Season, Tree and Arianne for great performances.
Photography by Amy Simmons
Illustrations by Stefan Scwartzman

Rosie Knowles

Hi I'm Rosie Knowles currently interning for Alun Davies Studio, I am a 2nd year Theatre and Performance design student, studying at LIPA in Liverpool.

At the start of this week after getting a little lost I arrived at Alun Davies Studio. I was given my first task to buy fabric for Alun's costume project for Samuel Chase (singer). With my A-Z in one hand and my tube map in the other off I went on the first of many mini adventures around London. I returned successful and was presented with my next task of finishing off disco mirror covered cuffs for Lady Ga Ga's dancers. I thought this was most exciting because I find her so fascinating so to be actually working on something she will see was fun. I even got the chance to drop off her clothes. My friends were impressed when I told them that evening as it wasn't the average Monday.

The rest of this week I have been helping Alun finish off Samuel Chase's costume for his first performance at the ICA which took place yesterday night. Samuel's performances are based around audio visual effects interacting with his music, which are then projected onto him as he stands alone with his microphone. Alun's design was to create a collar which would have a major impact under the lights, so I have been gluing all sorts of sparkly crystals, broken glass, bondage straps, whistles, nails, door hinges, feathers to name just a few which appear on the piece.

Finally having covered the whole piece we proceeded to pack everything up and head over to the ICA. This is where Samuel was able to see the finishing touches we had done and also the addition of a smaller collar to go over the larger piece. I helped Alun attach the collar and then it was out front to see the performance. The piece really worked great under the lights considering how dark it is when all the other lights were out. I really enjoyed the different colours and Samuel's shadow which gave a very mysterious silhouette. After a lot of well deserved congratulations it was time to have a glass of wine and head home for bed.

Coming up next week I will be assisting Alun on MACHINE A fashion art installation which sounds very exciting so I look forward to telling you all about it!


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Here is a little look at what work I have done recently while at university....