Marguerite Davis - Illustrator

one of a kind is my new favourite shop

One of a kind on Portobello Road is now my new favourite little shop (not that I am going to but anything from there in the near future as I am a poor student) But still, I could spend all day in there just sifting through the millions and million of beautiful, vintage garments that ooze from it's every pore. It's lush.

I love how it's so dark and feels a little bit seedy, and like you shouldn't really be in there. It's so cluttered, it feels almost like your in a really old, flamboyant actresses dressing room who has just hoarded every single piece of clothing she has ever worn, holding onto it for the memories of stardom.

I love how if your quite tall, like me, you get hit in the face every couple of seconds by some adorned sparkly handbag or a scarf. It makes you feel like your interacting with the shop, rather than just walking around having a look, you have to actually move thing and touch them, great.

They have so much stuff hanging from the ceiling, it's so fun to just look up for a minute and take it all in. I nearly fell over doing this. I had the shop assistant asking me if I was OK? I think she must have though a was a bit weird standing with my head tilted back as far as it would go, with my mouth slightly open in awe. She didn't seem to mind. The staff in there are really welcoming. I was expecting them to be a bit stuck up, as they have so manycelebrities going in there all the time.

I asked a girl about her experience in there and she said that as she was about to enter, the owner came out and ushered her and her pal into a van(a bit creepy, i thought) and told them to wait there as some paperazzi were around trying to get a sniff at Kate Moss who had just been in... It all sounded a bit dubious to me. I was certainly not going to let some guy put me in a van!

Luckily no one did and i had a really good time browsing and getting inspired by the fabulous array of vintage wonders.

The end of a brief romance is when I find out that you are just trying to be someone else.

After visiting the uber cool Digitaria boutique, in Soho, I cant help but come to wonder, is it all just copying?

I know I'm harping on about the Leigh Bowery thing, but I'm a huge fan and have been for sometime. That was the very thing that drew me in to Digitaria. The clothes with his signature black eyes and red lips, outragousness of it all. I refereed to it as a shrine.

But after researching Scottee the performance artist who has a creative role in Digitaria, I have discovered that he is basically just a Leigh Bowery wannabe. He dresses like him, promotes himself like him, and performs like him. take a look

Here he is in one of his performances giving birth to 'hare lipped still born judy Garland'

which is accompanied by a vert amusing poem. But Leigh did something very similar 20 years ago. Its hardly modern art, it's just down right copying.

(this is one of many copy cat thing he does on his blog)

I think that if I hadn't discovered Scottee as a fake, Digitaria would probably be my favorite shop, but now i feel like when I go in I'm just looking at everything thinking "copied" "copied" "fake" "fake" Maybe I just don't understand the real ethos of the shop, but I think that they have crossed the line between homage and just making money off of someone else's genius. It's sad because I wanted to like it so much.

Unfortunatly One Of A Kind will not let you take photographs inside their lovely shop,

I would draw you a picture of what is inside but there is that much stuff in there that I would probably be drawing it for the rest of my life, as I like to pay attention to detail, and you still wouldn't understand how magical it is in there.... your just going to have to go see for yourself.

Anish Kapoor Exhibition at The Royal Academy was epic...

Every twenty minutes a little gun man comes out and fires a pellet of red wax into this doorway so the artwork is constantly changing and developing,

check out this link to watch a live webcam of the eventhttp://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/about/

These are all made from wax, it's really slimy looking... I had to touch it, it was really soft and stained my finger. Everything in this exhibition was very tactile and made you want t touch it.

This is going to be hard work to clean up for the Van Gogh Exhibition which opens in Jan... Apparently they are going to freeze the wax off.

I know one of a kind and two of a kind aren't really the same thing but this is what I think of when I think of the shop name 'one of a kind'

Maybe this was what I was thinking of.... sicko same difference, Not really relevant.

or even worse and more fitting.... Two of a kind, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in there disscusting little TV series of the 90's

Or even worse and yet sicker, this Two of a kind film with the Grease sickos that are Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta starring in it.

The rainbow circle of doom... little bastard.

I know that macs are better, faster and less likely to crash than P.Cs. I am a Mac girl all the way. But I cant stand the the little circle of doom which appears when something really bad has happened. Especially when your doing something really important and then it rears its ugly little spinning face, to tell you that you cant click on anything. and you end up having to force quit and lose everything.

I especially hate the fact it pretend that its something nice and pretty "oohh look at those pretty colours in a little circle" ... NO! its deceteful and evil, a wolf in sheep's technicoloured clothing... It needs to die.