Easter dress

By Anthony Lycett 

As you may have noticed, I like to make seasonal costumes for every events of the year, Christmas, Halloween Valentine day…so I couldn't not do a Easter dress this year.  

Glitter make up by Kiss & Glitter  picture By Anthony Lycett 

My idea wasn't to dress as a character like the Easter bunny but as often, more as an abstract concept, an allegory.  So I decided to gather all the elements representing Easter in the pagan version (colourful eggs, yellow chickens, rabbits) 

By Anthony Lycett 

 I wanted to give it a springy/gardeny aesthetic so I used some artificial grass left over from a previous projects to make shoulder pads and skirts pads on the side, creating a little pastoral scenery with pink chickens and wicker baskets. I created a path with pink, blue, green, yellow and white pompoms intertwined with glitters pastel polystyrene eggs to represent the eggs hunting.  

By Anthony Lycett 

 I finished the dress with a lot of pink raffles (you can never have enough raffles!)  

By Anthony Lycett 

I decided to make the dress interactive to be able to perform I had to find a system to attach the eggs on the dress and make them detachable.  So I decided to use velcro, on component was stitched on the dress and the other glued one by one on the 100 eggs I got at Poundland!

photographic project  by Pierre Gaucher gallery called "Ardoises" I have been asked to write on the board my name, my age and any word I wanted.

I organised an alternative egg hunt at Pop Brixton for local children.  I performed with the amazing Francesca from Mythical Menagerie, who wasn't a simple Easter bunny, but a bunny-corn a hybrid creature cross between a rabbit and a unicorn! 

Children has to find the plastic eggs with the Velcro on and then put it in the dress in order to decorate the garments and in exchange they got an actual chocolate egg.  Some children actually played the game but some just wanted chocolate and where very competitive! 

I took so long to make the dress that I had to wear it for several occasions around Easter in order to amortize it! 

With Simon Dodi from Luxuriouxs Snacks, we did our monthly kitsch bingo at Number 177 a brand new venue in Hoxton. 

 The back room as a small stage and a bi-frontal device that foster interactive performances.  Simon also became DJ-bunny B dressed as a pantomime Easter Bunny! 

On Wednesday 12th April Soho's legendary Kala Kala and David Gersch invited an array of beautiful artists, eccentrics and socialites to experience a brand new experience of creativity titled MAD ABOUT YOU at the private Club the "Kings Head". 

 From outside, it just looks like a Old traditional Pub, but inside it is a complete different surrealistic world and decadent atmosphere. The room are filled with taxidermy and stuffed animal that contribute to psychedelic environment.  

A complete different audience from Pop Brixton, very grown up children of an underworld crowd, but I can say, they are still crazy about chocolate and might even more like playing game than children! 

By Anthony Lycett 

After Easter, all the eggs cracked, and chocolate eggs became like normal one! I have a big passion for eggs, I could eat them every meals, fried, scrambled, boiled... 

By Anthony Lycett 

I find fried eggs is a great pop art iconography and I already made a fried eggs dress with squeaky dogs toys modelled by Marnie Scarlett.  Because I found it couldn't be worn by anyone so I decided to transfer the plastic eggs on a sequins base, from fetish to disco! 

For the make up, I wanted to glue some Haribo eggs on my face, but because of the weight of the sweet, it didn't sticked straight away so I had to lie down on the floor and dry the glue with a hair dryer in order to fix them on the face! 

By Anthony Lycett 

The set is my own kitchen, we had to cook many eggs before getting the right picture, because I broke a lot of yolks! 

How to stage a very mundane and trivial moment of the existence, transcend it and make it glamourous and unique! Life is a show! 

Glitter make up by Kiss & Glitter By Anthony Lycett 

After cooking many eggs, with my sweet tooth, I decided to only eat Haribo eggs. This is the new diet, the new trend, just eating miniature food! 

Point presse: 

Very interesting article about for Phoenix Magazine printed edition about the link between performance and the art of dressing up for which I have been interviewed featuring my Self.Styled picture byAnthony Lycett

printed version of Phoenix magazine 

Street Catwalk

my construction toys dress ❤️💜💚💙💛 caught at London fashion week by @rodwey2004 in front of black telephone box 📞 Londoncalling 🇬🇧 ✨ fascinator, lego necklace, Barbie legs earrings and kawaii bag available on my online shop 👉🏼sophiecochevelou.tictail.com 💌 glitter✨ make up by @glitopia

By Stuart Tingini 

For me, during fashion week, the real catwalk is always in the street, I always found people more inventive and playful with their clothes outside the fashion show and show room.  

I know, this is a though of someone who is not part of the fashion world, who doesn't have the right connexions and express its frustration.  In my case,  It is a bit true I have to admit it, but after a day of working in my studio I find it hard to go out and try to socialise.  But this season, I made a big effort going to few show and event like Joshua Kane fashion show, Amechi Ihenacho presentation, Sorapol presentation and last but not least, Daniel Lismore book launch who was meeting point  between the fashion and the art world.  And maybe my day I will have my own show! 

by Anthony Lycett 

by Anthony Lycett 

I always had a fascination for construction games as they are inventive imaginative, stimulating creativity at a young age.   Coloured and non gender specific, non figurative they are the perfect material to play with as it is just about shape and colours and possibilities of assemblage are infinite.  

Stitched on fabric, they become less less square, more fluid and flexible as you changing the original rigid shape of the construction game. 

picture by Chris Taylor 

 The idea is to product a garment which is not only visual but  seek other sense like touch or hearing producing  brand-new sounds by the clinking of elements that shouldn't be stitched together on a garment producing a new reality.  

by Anthony Lycett 

by Anthony Lycett 

I am not a tactile person and I don't usually like to be touched by people and especially strangers but the construction game create a kind of colourful armour around my body.  Paradoxically enough it makes me more accessible by the way I dress, I remain protected and my personal space preserved. 

More and more, I just  dress for the occasion, when I don't have to go out or meet anyone, I tend to wear very basic and comfy clothes.  As dressing up is is like a ritual, it takes time and energy, you know it is going to be uncomfortable, physically and emotionally as you will have to deal with people staring (positively or negatively) at you. For fashion week,  I carefully curate my look and accessories but above all, I need to be able to cycle in them to the Strand in Central London.  

For the shoot, I wanted to make an ironic version of a "badass look" by making it not credible by using a plastic red cassette  as  a ghetto blaster.  

I got it from a friend who was getting rid of stuff,  it is very bulky and take lots of room in my tiny flat  but I always know I will use it at some point as a prop! 

With the amazing Anna Kompaniets at RSA show presentation  by Anthony Lycett

by Anthony Lycett 

This butterfly dress is an experimentation with material. I reused my magic balls I got for this dress (see picture).  I go through the all process of recycling as I even recycle myself! I took them apart with a pliers and I stitched them individually on a base dress to create a 3D geometrical & graphic  pattern (with the help of the designer Ariana Davis). The sleeves inspired by Kimono are felt table runner found by my Mum in a charity shop  cut in half  creating a kind of "shadow puppet effect" and the butterfly on the sleeves are from a plastic lampshade that I also took apart.  I like the idea of mailing an outfit looking very design and structural from basic homewear elements. 

By Stephen Allen 

By Valeri Irina 

With Florent Bidois 

With Florent Bidois and Kala Kala at Sorapol presentation show by Benjamin Szabo

picture by Mary Germanou 

As I say a lot, a final garments come from an object rather than an original design.  For this white dress, I find this weird springy material as a designer chandelier  in a car boot sale near my place. Straight away I saw the creative potential of this strange plastic fibre tube with metallic wire inside (can't really describe it). The guy who was selling it to be said he could look for bracket in his car but I told him not to bother as I won't use it as a lampshade I will take it apart.  I think he though I was crazy but I am use to it! Then I played with the material and stitched it to a vintage top with silver and shiny sequins I found in the same car boot sale few month before.  

With Kala Kala picture by Mary Germanou 

I usually don't wear white but I feel it just bring the light of the colourful looks of all the guests building nice contrasts! 

With Florent Bidois 

I like the mix of material, between fabric and plastic, vintage and modernity  between a psychedelic medusa and a Pinnochio fairy on acid!   With my hat, I wanted to make it a retro futuristic Mia Farrow in post modern  Great Gatsby  remake.  

point presse: 

The heroine's journey, on Peter de Kuster's blog.  I think everybody could be the hero of his own life! In my interview I also talk about major influences and my own heroines!