Mine at The Big Fashion Sale in Sydney

The i (heart) secret suit and other gems await at the BIG fashion sale this very weekend! One for my antipodeans...

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I wish...

... i could go for a shopping trip in my dream last night. Just tried to do some sketches to remember, but there were elements of a new collection in there. Was a beautiful dream... i could fly and i was recording the golden hour, panning the countryside with my camera eyes, tracing architecture from the primitive to the now on a long windy horizon line, grass thatched huts to sky scrapers. Was nuts. This futurism you speak of, well I wish they made a gadget to record your dreams. The dresses were futurist folk, some quite couture and sculpted, others more loose and voluminous with elaborate embroidery in panels and cut-out shapes forming patterns on the skin. It wouldn't be the first time I've dreamed about clothes then used it as inspiration for a collection. 'I gave my love a papercut' began as a dream.

Until they invent a contraption to permeate our dreams and document them ( stranger things have happened, the Jetsons was not that far off huh? ) this blog entry will remain without pictures, just fading imagery that pop back to haunt me, in a nice way... x

Nouveau Mine x

Limited edition but not out of reach... a small selection of

"The Tear Drop Story" is featured online at

mine.yokaboo.com

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If you wish to make one of these MINE and cannot find the style you like on the web store, please contact me here

mine.yokaboo.com/pages/contact

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Styling by Milena Silvano, photography by Poppy French

& modelled by Christina xxx

Half Moon Dress

Young actress Yasmin Paige snapped in her Mine 'half moon' dress with co-star Craig Roberts at the Dublin Film Premiere of 'SUBMARINE'...
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Mine X Lily Vanilli

Hint of deco, pinch of 50s diner and a sprinkle of 80s pastel... I recently made this invite for Lily Vanilli's upcoming pop-up venture '180 at 98' promising an evening of cakes and cocktails. Reminds me of the the speakeasy style sundays when Swanfield first popped...

cake

fight...

cake fright !

Lily Vanilli's Bloody Valentine from Alex Turvey on Vimeo.

and amidst these theatrics, her cupcakes and brownies can be found at Harrods, there is another book on the way... and I will continue lending Mine eyes to Lily V on upcoming projects
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Bee line woman

The bluesy woozy beauty, lady bee Jess wearing her
Mine 'tear drop top' on stage at the Brooklyn Bowl in NY this month.
Big heart and a HUGE voice.


Make sure you see the She Keeps Bees play this month!
Due to hit London February 24th at the windmill...

Youch
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Summer dreaming on a grey day...

Styled by Milena Silvano and photography by Gemma Booth, the lovely Ayesha wears the Mine Dizzy Heights Halter 'Kini in crimson and bronze silk, with chevron detailing in black leatherette.

Third Eye Surfer from Gemma Booth on Vimeo.

Some escapism for you...
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For the lovers of things...

And of all things MINE... I have a new year wish to find wardrobes for the last of the "tick tock order" collection so steal a glimpse here, and window shop to your hearts content. Shipping is FREE!

MINE ONLINE SALE....
STARTS....
NOW!

tick tock x

Mine X HOBO

A dappled horse knight, a Bowie-esque harlequin king and his ballerina queen flipped from a deck of bahaus inspired playing cards... some artwork for the lovely Alison Whalley at Hoxton Boutique for her inhouse label HOBO. New prints instore soon... x

Cry me a rainbow

TOMORROW NIGHT AT SWANFIELD ON TOUR!
Come by to see the new collection of tear drop crops & dresses by Mine.























These are limited edition pieces and will be made locally by the hands of friend and collaborator Nicola De Main. There are only 25 to be made, and so I am offering a bespoke service to Mine Eyes and my mailing list, so you can select the colour you love the most... an envelope will be made up there and then with your name and address, and when your order is sewn up stitch by stitch, your dress will arrive in the post within the month. This will be the last hurrah as I away to Mexico for some sun, colour & inspiration, so I'm crying you a rainbow as a little goodbye...

Much love from Mine and the swans
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Time: 6-8pm
Date: Thursday 9th September
Venue: Swanfield on Tour
Address: 1.2 Kingly Court, Soho

swanfield.blogspot.com

Colour as an afterthought... PART I

Feel like I am opening the door to an abandoned room, & Mine Eyes are squinting, trying to re-adjust to the light. Sorry for neglecting you blogdom, our travelling boutique 'Swanfield on Tour' has been keeping me busy. Loie Fuller can scare away the dust with her "Serpentine Dance".



This is the most beautiful footage, and I could hardly believe it was made as early as 1896. It kind of pre-empts the rise of fashion film today over the frozen image, and shows a hyper real quality given to film by early colour tinting. The inky lilac blending to pink as she lifts her arms, constantly weaving new shapes which burn into acidic yellow & banging orange... it's mesmerizing to watch. The movement of her dress as she dances suggests a continuing metamorphosis, as if she is turning into a butterfly.






















Pinched cheeks, cherry stained lips and eyes like crystal pools… when black and white photographs were hand-coloured, part of their charm is when they went outside the lines… Not an exact science, portrait artists paid attention to heightening their subjects features, yet in doing so, create a somewhat warped sense of colour. This is what I find most alluring about these tinted postcards.






















Here is a postcard of twenties film star, Lilian Gish who was the muse for my AW08 collection “Elsie Moved in Circles”. One of the pretty young things emerging from the jazz era, she fared better than some male actors who were also attacked by the paint box.






















For sometime I've been interested in the idea of "colour as an afterthought" and so I dabbled with this mode of colour in my drawing of Lilian Gish, her hairline merging into the city lights of skyscrapers and refracting into kaleidoscopic shapes. This was the key digital print for AW08 which is still one of my favourite collections.






















Judy Garland sang wistfully “Somewhere over a rainbow"... and when she stepped from the grey scales of Kansas into the colourful canvas of Oz, the rainbow came and Dorothy's shoes got their magic.
































The symbolism of colour appearing within a black and white film makes for some poignant moments, like the red that appears on the lips of a fifties housewife in 'Pleasantville' when she rediscovers love, or the red coat in 'Schindler's list', or the red and green siamese fighting fish in 'Rumble Fish'...









... oh k, time to close Mine eyes, and click my heels. There's no place like home x

Mine featured on A R C A D E M I x

For those yet to discover this blog, Arcademi is a nice one to get lost in. Loads of great designers & artists... & as of yesterday, Mine.

Thanks to Ina at Arcademi, might have to borrow your words x

Drifting into the +HOBO+ life…

My pencil has been wandering the page since meeting with fashion designer Alison Whalley, the woman behind cult store Hoxton Boutique. Very excited to be working on graphics and textile design for her instore label +HOBO+

a wink to the vagabond...

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Birthday Suit

actress, poet and minx... Maya Lubinsky in her birthday Mine
the zigzag railroad dress


and a crown of candles x

greyscale

...little eyes refracting light and static lines like an old tee vue


...before my sketch book rubs them away

PS. been watching Treme on the Tee Vue about New Orleans post Katrina, and the water marks left by the flood collaged in the opening credits remind me of the impression a lead pencil drawing leaves behind on the facing page.

pencil ghosts

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Woman who play shop... x

In homage to the girls who took the fun of dress ups a little further,
here are some of the woman behind the wardrobe door,

and their favourite Mine pieces sold instore.

One of the first patrons of Mine,
Teresa Skrgatic at NO.ONE boutique in Shoreditch

'Hi-wire skorts' & 'Endless afternoon cami'

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Kate Bonhôte & Kristjana Williams at
BEYOND THE VALLEY
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'Grandfather clock jacket' & 'Drummer girl shorts'

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Francesca Francolini of
LABOUR OF LOVE
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"Tight Rope Romper"
silk playsuits with circus collar and innovative button gusset,
so you are not trapped in your outfit.

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Luna & Curious

Rheanna Lingham, Polly George, Grace Wilson, Kaoru parry
& lil' Mabel... A collective run space on
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Always Late Cape

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And for nostalgia sake, here is a snap of myself & designer friend Cecilia Hammarborg playing shop at our traveling store
'Swanfield on Tour' in Soho last summer.

Photo by Sam Peach

Never know when we might pop-up again!
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