James Long

James Long is a menswear designer and accessories specialist who graduated from the Royal College of Art (London) in 2007 with an MA in Menswear and Accessories.He debuted his own name collection at London Fashion Week’s MAN show (a TOPMAN and Fashion East initiative) in February 2007, working with AnOther Man / Dazed & Confused menswear editor Bryan McMahon on styling. After what many reported as MAN’s best show to date, Long was reselected to show with MAN for the following two seasons.

He says his inspiration for SS10 was Andy Warhol’s Oxidation paintings. How cool is that? Andy says he used to get the Factory regulars (including Mick Jagger) to piss on the metallic paints to get an oxidizing effect.

Nasir Mazhar

"I try to create a world for myself, but I know real life subconsciously seeps in and has its effect," declares Nasir Mazhar, currently the brightest star in London's galaxy of young designer talent, and the creator of the spiked headguard that Madonna sported on her Dazed & Confused cover shot and the Orb headgear that Lady Gaga rocked on the cover of V Magazine and in her Bad Romance video. The 25-year-old headgear designer started out as a hair-stylist with Vidal Sassoon before turning to theatrical design to fulfil his desire to work in a more highly conceptualised way.

His work ethic is as idiosyncratic as his personal aesthetic. Mazhar claims his main inspiration is the city he lives and works in, but he likes to weave stories for his pieces.

Mazhar's blurring of the arcane and the modern comes together in a collection that swoops from dramatically draped medieval hennins and crimson cardinal hats, to Hannibal Lecter-esque muzzle masks and nuclear decontamination hoods and visors. That presentation marked him out as part of an upsurge of creativity and methodology on the East End design scene that has eschewed the "street style" and "hipster" mentality, which has been so prominent on the Hoxton circuit, for something more fundamentally artisanal.

via Independent UK

Fred Butler

Fred Butler’s accessories have been seen in publications such as Dazed and Confused, i-D and Vogue. as well as the music world with special commissions for Patrick Wolf, Skin, Lady GaGa, Bishi, Little Boots, Beth Ditto and La Roux. I am always blown away by her signature show-stopping theatrical style.

Heliocentric Electric SS09

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Hibiscus Ridiculous AW09/10

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