In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview.
38 years later he made a film about it.
(via Mr Bingo)

Do you remember that crazy drunk guy hanging around at the Luna Park with a kickdrum on his back playing an off-tune guitar and singing bewildered?

Looks like he’s a superstar now, and girls go crazy sitting on his bouncing knees.

Bob Log III is playing in Berlin tomorrow at Kaffee Burger.
A kinky location for a kinky artist. See you there guys.

Bob Log III

Nathan Jenden went tribal with a vast array of animal prints this season. Leopard to zebra in the form of dresses, catsuits, hat and coats were not at all gaudy and tacky but wonderfully bright and powerful. The colour of the collection was a lovely contrast to the dominating black of the season. In an interesting twist, Jenden did not use any white models.

Photos by Jimmy James

Following on, another designer famed for his love of dresses and use of print, William Tempest was this season inspired by Islamic architecture and the Queen of Sheba. He sent wonderfully structured and tailored dresses in metallic hues down the catwalk. Black dominated this collection, as it has for a majority of A/W 2010 but Tempest lightened the mood with jewel greens and cream. A wide range of dresses was seen here but they flowed and had a cohesive nature, indicating Tempest’s skill as a designer.

photos – catwalking.com

Osman had a dramatic start to his show, stamping his signature style early on by sending four models in black draped dresses, walking down his catwalk in a regimented row. The collection that followed saw round sunglasses, embellished wedges, boater hats and suede thigh high boots acessorise gorgeous funnel neck jackets and fur coats, wide legged trousers and curved hem dresses. It had the feel of a 1950’s stylish lady in the country, something Katherine Hepburn may have worn in her heyday.

It is fair to say I was more than a little bit excited to be attending the Christopher Kane show. The hottest name in British fashion at the moment, I had high hopes and he didn’t let me down. He is an expert at producing concise, clean collections with clear and often simple ideas. For A/W 2010 he sent black PVC, leather and lace dresses and jacket / skirt combos down the catwalk. The first half of the collection was adorned with hand-embroidered flowers of many types and colours. The end evening pieces swapped embroidery for jewel embellishment. The overall result was striking, the tough and tender combination worked perfectly.

Photos – catwalking.com

Animation by Sjors Vervoor.

Full length documentary on Fela Anikulapo Kuti – the charismatic and talented Godfather of African music, the originator of Afrobeat, who inspired a generation of musicians and nearly started a revolution in Nigeria.

At Mulberry the models walked to Jungle Book theme tune – the collection was as always polished and well rounded, stand out pieces were the total leopard print combo’s  and the exquisite tulip coats.

Photos: Deborah Latouche

You may not have heard of Doii Paris but after seeing this collection, they will stick in your mind. Entitled, ‘Walk in the Forest’ a troop of red headed ivory skinned Pre-Raphaelite models showed us a colour palette that darkened from a pink and white first half of the collection to greys and blacks of the end. There was a whimsical Alice in Wonderland theme, with Queen of Hearts and white rabbit prints on maxi dresses and jackets. Lace and ruffle embellishments completed this soft, romantic collection.

Photo: Tilly Pearman

Part of the British design establishment, Jasper Conran presented an interesting, wearable collection featuring 1950’s shapes – pencil skirts and jackets – with a futuristic twist. The skirts and dresses had sheer panels, sometimes buttock exposing, and the jackets were extreme cocoon shapes. Throw some silver plated neck collars and wrist cuffs, digital cut dresses and electric blue leggings into the mix and it makes for an exciting collection.
This show also had a high celeb quota including the Sugababes, milliner Stephen Jones, Jo Wood and random spot of the week – Richard E. Grant.

For A/W 2010 Future Classics put fur sleeves on tweed jackets and mixed it with 80’s zig-zag print leggings. Sounds strange, looks fantastic. Alongside this they deconstructed then reconstructed classic tailored pieces to create striking yet relaxed garments; that gave a unique spin to jackets, cardigans and trousers. Chiffon shirt dresses, draped, slouchy cargo pants and multi layering made this a very covetable collection.

Photo: Tilly Pearman

Matthew Williamson has grown immensely since he headed Pucci and this is evident in this collection, he is designing for women, he used an abundance of copper tones which have to be the new gold for A/W10; mixed with oranges, cobalt blue and deep purple.  he still uses lots of embellishment but is a very sophisticated manner.

Eley Kishimoto held their static presentation at their shop round the corner from liberties.  The duo decided to give us an inside view as to how their prints evolve. The collection was very Eley Kishimoto beautiful loud prints on 70’s cut clothes pieces hich would give every wardrobe a unique touch.

Photos: Deborah Latouche

I was so impressed with the grand interiors of the Royal Courts of Justice and as my bags went through the metal detector I could not help but wonder how on earth Vivienne Westwood managed to get permission to put a fashion show on here.

Her collections are full of different ideas which enable her to cater for many tastes, Fushia plaid, power suits, well cut coats and plenty of asymmetric cuts – Westwood’s shows always have such an anarchist feel to them, but after all  she is the Queen of Punk.

Photos: Jimmy James

Seen at FW Paris, photos via Style.