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.

One of a kind? Eeww.

I have been told about this really cool, vintage shop on portobello Road. Sounds cool but the name has really put me off... One of a kind. It sounds like an act of Britain's got talent or X factor or something like that, I don't watch them shows but I'm sure there was a group with a similar name... Am I right?...

digitaria... The Leigh Bowery shrine

Having been really intrigued by the fabulous, yet quite intimidating artwork which Adorne the front windows of the Berwick St boutique, I eventually decided to venture in,

I noticed a definite mix of the futuristic, ultra modern exquisitely designed clothes and retro, Leigh Bowery inspired decor. I cant decide if i like the Leigh Bowery thing that seems to be plastered all over the walls of this shop (quite literally)

As you enter the shop you are greeted by a wooden Cabernet on which stand a totally 'Leighified' bust complete with head dress and strap on mouth piece. on the wall above hung two stuffed bodices reminding me a lot of the padded undergarments which would have been worn by Leigh under his ornate costumes to create which ever unnatural shape he was going for.

The rails were packed with a combination of selective pieces that were ultra modern, sophisticated and futuristic, with a splashes of crazy outlandish statement pieces like a shiny, metallic blue, bomber jacket with oversized piping, very fun, totally unwearable but embodying the essence of the shop non the less. My favourite piece in the shop had to be a pair of jodppars that had been meticulously pleated, and at the back yoke which created a dramatic fanning effect as the pleats flowed down the grey/pink trousers. Niicccee..

All the garments in this are are either designed by Eleftheria Arapoglou and Stavros Karelis, or their guest designer, at the momement it's Lee Benjamin who is unfortunately 'ungoogleable' but is very Leigh Bowery inspired, as is the performance artist Scottee who is responsible for the art space situated downstairs of this rather modest sized shop.

Digitaria window displays

I love Digitaria, the fantastic, futuristic little boutique on Berwick Street, Soho, London. Established by Eleftheria Arapoglou and Stavros Karelis, They are Greek, can you tell? They have already had success with their Digitaria shop in Athens and are now doing it here in London too! We are so lucky.

The window displays are amazing and as you walk past, you wonder if it's a shop or and art exhibition. Well the answer, I discovered, is both.

Take a look at a few ....

This one is my favourite i love the mixture black and white, creepy looking, animal photographs and childlike illustrations.

Is it a window display or an art installation piece?

Always changing, always moving forward with inspirational ideas

Liking the penis print

Remember these?

These Wade Pottery baby pigs made from 1984- 1989 for Natwest,

Unfortunately the Wade pigs aren't valuable, but if you were lucky enough to get one of the first 400 families, they were made by Sunshine and are quite valuable I hear.....

I haven't got one of those, just the normal one.

My sister bought me them from a car boot sales as we both used to have them when we were little, but these things always go missing so she bought me the baby and the sister pig, recalling how we both used to love them.

She also replace the sister pig, which I have kept at my parents house, in a safe place. I also remember owning the whole family of pigs when I was young (minus the brother, because we didn't like boys).... How things change.

They are all a bit creepy looking, I still think they look pretty cool on your shelf of nik-nacks. They do the job too, I've saved about a fiver since I've had mine. I think thats pretty good going.

Luella (sad face)

A little drawing i did of Luella A/W 09 dress

So sad.

This week, for some reason, I have the clothes making ability of flora, the red fairy from sleeping beauty. (without magic)

"Its eerr... not exactly how it looks in the book is it?"

" I improved it".... thats me.

clips about clothes

suicide, A trend?

Roh Moo Hyun 16th President of Korea committed suicide on 23rd May 2009

Choi Jin Sil, Korean actress who committed suicide 2nd October 2008

Jang Ja-Yeon Korean actress who committed suicide on 7th March 2009

I was very sad to learn of the death of Korean Model and Actress Daul Kim....

after reading an article about her death, I was shocked to discover that she is not the only Korean Popular personality to commit suicide this year. In fact, she is the 9th,

which leads me to wonder... what is that is causing Korea to has such a fast growing suicide rate... is this a social trend?