24 hours in london featuring (randomly)

—the russian criminal tattoos exhibition (good, but… God, haven’t we had enough of this yet??)
—an unexpected procedure at take off
—”a” book at ln-cc
—Liam Sparkes tattooing Nathini’s palm (do you dig these fluo tones my iphone seems to find in anyone’s or anything’s appearance?)
—and Becca’s deer tattooed by Liam too
—JSR’s new Rick Owens shoes staring at me this morning <3

Snake Girl Indeed.

Coming.

Soon.

William Lasker is a third of infamous mid-west band SALEM. He also has a scheme for his tattoos. Hand-poked the Mickey Mouse himself. Realized he couldn’t reach far enough to finish it. This is a good story.

Guy le Tatooerdoes nice tattoos. I had already seen some of his stuff in his book at Tribal Act Paris, but his newly opened blog takes it to an other level. Somewhere between a now established french “graphic/comic” “school” and the Hooperian anglo-saxon avant-garde (but you can’t blame him for having good tastes can you?), Guy does bring a pleasingly personal take on contemporary tattooing.

Not the one he gets, but the ones he makes.
What makes a good tattooer anyway? Some skills and to fundamentally not give a fuck.
Chad Koeplinger is the man.

Boris Bijan Saberi gets tattooed based on a very precise scheme. And always set in Gill Sans.

To see a fashion designer claiming Hip Hop as their main cultural reference is unusual, but the fashion intelligentsia might have to get with the program and get used to it. First Adam Kimmel and his ghetto-burlesque, americano-centrique presentations, and yesterday, Boris’ ode to Berlin’s underground (pun intended).

I am a biased observer. Everything I love was there, in these humid catacombs: contemporary, experimental fashion, heavy drum beats, sweat, skin and mysterious nocturnal atmosphere. The birth of Steam-Hop? (phew, maybe I should consider working in a yogurt brand, invent new names all day.) I never thought I would feel again the way I used to feel at the “Battle of the year” in the early 90′s, but yesterday, I did. And I am grateful for this.

In the below images you will NOT find images of the actual performance, since I was busy drinking at the bar and chatting with Maxime Ballesteros and Jen, causing me to not notice it had started. These are only images of the rehearsals. Basically, the final thing was that but everybody had amazing Boris-designed outfits. And with tons of people around.

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