Brittany mon amour

by Anthony Lycett

Despite completing a massive project for a big international company, I manage to escape few days for my traditional holiday in North Brittany.. but it wasn't a quiet holiday. I was recruited to help organise the challenge, a kind yearly nautical event, (can't really explain… you have to experiment it to understand it)  the theme this year was "sports" I was coming back from Wilderness, and preparing a meeting with the project manager and the friend in charge of the event told me they have ordered costume for everyone, except for me as she thought I would prefer to make my own. So I rushed to the Poundland to fill my basket of kids outside games, foam balls,  golf, clubs tennis rackets, orange cones. I took it to France on the the Ferry (the advantage of travelling by car).  

When your dress match the sunset -by Anthony Lycett

performing in my costume specially made fir the day during the nautical rally! 

Then in my holiday house, rather than going to the beach, I stitched the balls and equipments all on a silver bomber jacket just before the event.  Because like Churchill, I don't do sport, I decided to wear it on my with the symbol of the different sport sewed on the jacket and the headpiece. Also the theme colours was orange, a colour I don't really wear normally, but I like the contrast between the very sophisticated orange sheath dress which has nothing of sportswear and the difference sport equipments.  I also liked the graphic and dynamic lines created but the cones & golf club.

by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

"Orange is the new Black"by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

Every year, I also organise a party in the old Germans' bunker in the garden of my parents house.  This year, the theme was "space invaders",  but this summer I didn't really  had time to make a costume especially for the occasion because of my big commissioned project,  so I took a dress I had in my last fashion show that I feel was the closest to the theme.  The weird plastic wire makes it quite futuristic looking for me like spaceship pipework, and my boyfriend offered me an holographic headpiece from Jane Bowler that completed my space princess outfit.  

wearing Jane Bowler headpiece & earrings by Anthony Lycett

Going to holidays is also an opportunity to  change your skyline and discover new magical places.  With Anthony Lycett, we works on the Into the Wild project in the UK but why not taking advantage of going abroad to shoot in  exceptional location?  

L'écume des jours, between foam and Jelly fish -by Anthony Lycett

We wanted to find a landscape with a dramatic rugged landscape so some locals advice use "Pointe saint Mathieu" in North Finistère , and we didn't hesitate to drive there. We were not disappointed in front of the hostile rocks endlessly assaulted by the violence of foaming waves.  

by Anthony Lycett

Forecast in Brittany is always capricious and you never know what to except with the changing weather.  Unfortunately  one the day we came we didn't get the best light for the picture as it was quite covered but the moody weather kind of add to the dramatic atmosphere.  

by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

Who hasn't dream of being an archeologist or palaeontologist  as a child watching indiana jones or Jurrasick park?  When I was 7 or 8,  I remembered some holidays in the mountains where I found a small fossil ammonite among the rock and I felt so proud as if I made a major discovery! 

by Anthony Lycett

The outfit was shout on a magical location at Saint Samson Chapel on Kersaint touristy road.  Brittany is a land of legend and spirituality, and the presence of Gallic headstone is a sign of very ancient sacrality.  

We found interesting to draw a parallel in the picture by bringing together the dress and the chapel,  two timeless archeological vestiges that both crossed the ages.  

I also remember during my childhood going to the Natural History museum in Paris and be completely fascinated by theses imposing dinosaurs skeleton and wondering how something so old could have been found and preserved.  I find the geometrical disposition of the bones make it very interesting to incorporate into a design and make the headpiece.  

 by Anthony Lycett

Like most of my designs, it is a found that give me the impulse the create the piece, so in this case, finding a lot of sand mould in dinosaur skeleton shape gave me the idea of turning them into a dress.  

 I stitched theses mould on a base  after drilling some holes. The difficulty was to reconstitute the jigsaw with the different limb and make sure they wouldn't clatter.  

by Anthony Lycett

The light was surprisingly harsh one that day and we had to wait at least an hour in the car for the light to soften, watching a old man sitting on the chapel's stone wall,  contemplating the landscape.  Too grey or two sunny, Brittany is definitely a land of the extreme.  

Into the wild of wilderness

wearing my little pony headpiece & neckpiece, & numbers ruffle collars with Kiss&glitter make up   picture by Anthony Lycett 

For the second year, I went to trade at Wilderness festival in the Secret Emporium tent.  The weather wasn't as good as the year before and caused lot of trouble with the set up and impacted people's mood but I still had an amazing time. 

With my favourite girls gang  from the secret emporium, Ciara is wearing her own headpiece & my hello kitty necklace, Jessica from Dazzle&Jolt is wearing her own designed dress with my ice cream neckpiece & jacket with Ciara's headpiece and Poly is wearing dazzle&Jolt and my pearly jacket  
picture  by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

At my stall in the Secret Emporium tent  wearing my flamingo costume by Anthony Lycett

The benefit of having a stall rather than just selling online is you can meet your customers in person and people who love your work and feeling part of a community?  I was extremely surprise of the amount of people that said they were following my work on instagram. Some were nearly hysterical to meet me which was quite strange but quite touching.  

It was great to see customers from last year coming back, like an amazing eccentric Australian woman treated herself with  two new pairs of earrings and said it will become a tradition.  

A lovely lady said I remember her a young Vivienne Westwood, a comment that obviously made my day! 

The amazing Louise O'Mahony from L.O.M fashion wearing my purple hair barbie collar she got from me last year, So nice to see your pieces on amazing creative creature mixing so well with their own designs.  

The Great Raquel Strada, fashionista, TV presenter  & public figure from Portugal got this bespoke duck dress from me, she said she couldn't find this kind of design in Portugal. So nice to get customers that appreciate the uniqueness of my creations.  

Beautiful Trishy Kitty from Australia wearing my little pony headpiece & purple dinosaurs earrings &  Alex Lucas wearing my can can necklace & hand barbie earrings

by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett

by Sabrina Dallot-Seguro 

After my fashion show in July, I decided to take my clothing line to the festival, which got a lot of attention. For example my bespoke dinosaur jacket became a festival attraction,at list a 100 tried it on, got their picture taken in it. Festival-goer were coming to my stall saying "my friend told me about this jacket" so I cam to see it, as if it was a kind of pilgrimage or something.   Someone said seeing this jacket changed her whole perception of life! 

I got in touch with the curator of the exhbition through the assemblage Australian artist Freya Jobbins who I am a massive fan of the work and great admirer.  I knew her work before but through the magic of instagram I had the honour to establish a kind of digital relationship with her. She felt an exhibition linking toys and design would be right down my street! 

For a French person, having an exhbition in the North of England sound quite exiting as you branch out of London! The amazing thing was  that the curator took everything in charge. He sent a van to down to London collect the Art piece and printed himself in big format Anthony Lycett picture of me and beautifully curated my headpiece on pink stand.  

"The Toy Box: From Pop to Present is a new exhibition, exclusive to The Gallery@ The Civic, exploring the use of toys in the world of contemporary art and design. By using British Pop Art of the 1950s and 1960s as a starting point and the movements it inspired, the exhibition will showcase paintings, prints, photography, fashion and sculpture from around the world." 

Wearing Rosie Von Boschan bespoke hand beaded bra & pearls & piggies necklace, glitters make up by kiss&glitters by Sabrina Dallot-Seguro

by Sabrina Dallot-Seguro

by Sabrina Dallot-Seguro

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close up of toy matriarchy headpiece made especially for the event 

On top of all my current projects, having an exhbition with my headpieces and printed pictures by Anthony Lycett at The Civic, Barnsley in Barnsley, come and visit if you are up North!

glad that my pieces are featured on amazing fashion editorial 

FABRICADO our pink inspired story is out on REKT
A take on feminism and political activism.
Model: @kristy sorley 
Stylist: Victoria Carr
photographer Yannick Lalardy
Makeup : Ellie Yermakova

"Oh materialism you beautifully magnificent whore. How you bestow happiness upon my heart and bless me with things; things are the best - things make me happy. Things fill the abyss that grows deeper by the day because reality is a unpredictable and loathsome bitch."

After the Pink Shoot, the Purple Shoot: 

Stylist: Victoria Carr
photographer Yannick Lalardy

Stylist: Victoria Carr
photographer Yannick Lalardy

Stylist: Victoria Carr
photographer Yannick Lalardy

beach reading/ lecture de plage 

So nice to hold in hand  a printed  version the beautiful editorial with my pieces inSustainable Fashion Journal and read great feature on the beach!

Print and the feel & smell of paper is amazing but online feature is also quite appreciable! 

summer is good for getting press, here a great feature with a  very good quality interview for WEHEART

Other great feature  on Alt Mu Magazine (ALT-MU) 

see the article here (p.26-31)