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chadchad of the day 7.6

top / Issey Miyake Men
trousers / American Apparel
shoes / G.I.L. Homme
sunglasses / Resurrection
clutch / Louis Vuitton

This outfit shot was taken last month during London Fashion Week, I've just been way slow in updating these days.  I was so in love with this pleated neon top that Issey Miyake Men lent me to wear and the color popped so well against the navy trousers, cobalt blue clutch and sunglasses and powder blue loafers.  I'm definitely a fan of shade blocking at the moment!

See if you can find me in this adorable spread from the LFW Daily featuring a rainbow of street style.  London is so vibrant and not so into the black on black looks that many fashion cities routinely follow.

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Six Boys One Skull

I styled this menswear editorial for the 5th issue of 1883 Magazine photographed by Charl Marais featuring models Christian von Pfeffer @ Select, David Valensi @ AMCK, Francis Lane @ Premier, Harry Gilliam @ Next, Jed Texas @ Elite, and Misa Patinszki @ M&P.  







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Top: Linda Farrow x Jeremy Scott sunglasses, Louis Vuitton rubber loafers, Burger Kim horse hat.  Middle: The Hat Gallery M/V, Coffin on Cake PR, Lara Jensen crystal face mask.  Bottom: Cat waiting area, Issey Miyake Men clear bowtie, Riitta Hakkarainen for Dans La Vie & 'Die' hat by Destroy Culture.  
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chadchad of the day 7.1

blue check jacket / Vino
yellow shirt / Marni for H&M
navy trouseres / Vino
green sunglasses / from a street stall
woven slippers / vintage
pocket scarf / Vino
button hole pin / Vino

A few weeks ago I was asked by a Korean menswear label called Vino to style myself wearing a mixture of my own clothing and some of their new collection for a few street style photographs.  I chose this blue check jacket and styled it with bright yellow, blue & green pop colors perfect for spring.    




My flatmate Oscar Lindqvist (check out his blog Le Roi De Noir HERE) was also asked to join.  This kid has a very black and impressive wardrobe and he styled this black check suit from Vino with some smart, luxury accessories.  

black check suit / Vino
navy shirt / Givenchy
black studded clutch / Yohji Yamamoto
navy brogues / Prada
sunglasses / Linda Farrow x Raf Simons




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chadchad in the Evening Standard

Hey! I guess London really loves this blue suit from T.Lipop. Not only was it featured last week in the Metro daily newspaper, tonight I found myself on the 'Fashion, Style & Sex' page of the Evening Standard. I'm on the same page as Rihanna and Angelina's Right Leg haha!

Unfortunately they misquoted me. I'm guessing I said Canada or perhaps North America when they interviewed me, oh well.  Click HERE for the article on the Evenings Standards website.  


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chadchad of the day 6.8

Quite the nice surprise reading the Metro Lifestyle section on the tube to work this morning and seeing one of my fashion week outfits on display for 4 million readers to see.  Also feeling very good about the fact I'm alongside such dapper company including menswear designers like Patrick Grant from E.Tautz and David friggin' Gandy himself!  Big thanks to Paul Hartnett for the photos - he was such a nice and talented gentleman to get to talk to during fashion week.




Also thanks to T.Lipop & Cutler and Gross for lending samples for me to wear.  For this outfit I decided to play with tones using blue accessories on T.Lipop's very sharp (and buttonless!) blue suit.  I found the braided belt at a street stall in Myeongdong in Seoul and the dark blue leather gloves at a street stall in Covent Garden.  


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chadchad of the day 6.7

patterned trench / Human Potential

yellow shirt / Issey Miyake

teal trousers / Topman

blue clutch / Louis Vuitton

orange socks / UNIQLO

maroon shoes / Zara

brown sunglasses / Cutler and Gross

I went hella bright for London Fashion Week day 4 as it was a blue skies kinda afternoon and I wanted to put myself in a spring sort of mood.  Korean label Human Potential sent me this bold trench coat a few months ago as a gift and fashion week was the first time the weather felt right to wear it.  The neutral almost burnt looking pattern has pops of aqua and purple and I wanted to bring those colors out by color blocking the rest of my outfit - yellow shirt, aqua trousers, blue clutch, orange socks, maroon shoes.  It's a lot but I'm not afraid to experiment with color.

Below is another one of the daily videos I made for 1883 Magazine's Fashion Insider during the week.  This time we focused on the confidence and craziness that makes up London's street fashion scene, which is louder and prouder than most other cities in the world.  

**X's and O's to London Fashion by Paul and Rachel Phipps for some of the photographs!


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1883 Magazine promo video with Tom Hiddleston

Check out the super badass video promo made by Yeast London for the upcoming 4th issue of 1883 Magazine with cover star Tom Hiddleston, which will be available everywhere just a few weeks time.  Currently starring in War Horse and The Deep Blue Sea, you can also see Tom Hiddleston as the bad guy Loki in both Thor as well as in the spring release of The Avengers.  


You can see a sneak peak of some of the very cool clothing from the cover shoot by the likes of Versace, Louis Vuitton and Tom Ford, all styled by my fashion editor at 1883, Filippo Giuliani.  This was one of the first shoots I got to assist on since starting with the fashion team at 1883 and it was a pleasure meeting Tom and working in such a cool location (The Roost in Dalston).  


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chadchad of the day 5.0

bright green shirt / Topman
bright green trousers / Topman
black shoes / H&M
blue clutch / vintage Louis Vuitton
black matte frame sunglasses / Resurrection


This is one of my favorite looks that I wore to London Fashion Week. I wore it on Day 3 when I was backstage photographing the Fashion Shenzhen catwalk show then later in the evening at the Bloody Gray x Zilon after party at Concrete in Shoreditch where Lydia Lunch was playing. It actually seemed to garner quite a bit of attention from other street fashion photographers around Somerset House. This particular image was shot by Sofia Bak from frolic72.blogspot.com who also takes street fashion photos for Vogue Italia and Harper's BAZAAR Russia. Check out her blog, there are some great videos interviews of street fashionistas from London Fashion Week.



Thanks to Sheer Magazine for this photo - you can see more of their street fashion shots HERE. They launched their premier issue during fashion week and I immediately became a fan. I love that they focus on the photographer or model of some of the editorials with an interview that gives you some background information on how they started in the fashion industry.  Very dark & very sexy.


I bought this outfit because I was immediately attracted to the bright jade green color of the shirt. Then when I saw the trousers on another rack in Topman, I knew I had to wear them together for a bold head to toe splash of color. I added the bright blue vintage clutch, which I found in Dongmyo flea market in Seoul, for a bit of contrast. The glasses were a gift from Korean designer Lee Juyoung / 이주영 from her brand Resurrection.


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vogue fashion's night out london 2011

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