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

Ajouter une légende

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)

Alligators & ice creams

Make up by Steffy Shaw,  picture By Anthony Lycett 

For Sue Kreitzman, the urban legend about the albino alligator in the sewers of NYC have a very important place in her personal mythology.  As she is a brilliant story teller, her eyes will spark when she tells you the story: 

 In the 40s, kids in Florida were getting babies Alligator as presents.  But when they began to outgrow, parents where flashing down the toilets, 

They would grew up in the sewers and become albinos due to the lack of light.  For Sue, Alligators personify the power of myth and the sheer delight of urban legend. 

By Anthony Lycett 

As it is very picturesque, it  inspired me a narrative neckpiece where I put actual plastic toy alligator into plastic tube to represent the sewers. It was hard to find the right diameter to fit the crocodiles as the marble run one would be to narrow to get the toys inside.  I finally find on Ebay a clear acrylic tube of Perpex which was deliver as a one meter plastic pipe.   I had to melt it (don't try this at home) to cut it in several section and drill some holes in order to stitch all the pieces together.  

Make up by Steffy Shaw,  picture By Anthony Lycett 

But my own version of the sewers is not dark and stinky, it is a very colourful and psychedelic one.  In this sewers, marble run element, that remind me the guinea pig circuit as a child create a very dynamic and geometrical structure.  

Sue Kreitzman very happy to discover the Alligator necklace! 

...and the drawing version, by Sue Harding, or the privilege to get sketched on a regular basis! 

Make up by Steffy Shaw,  picture By Anthony Lycett 

By Anthony Lycett 

The radioactivity from all the chemical waste that run through  the pipe make the alligator grow glitters and gemstones on their back!

By Anthony Lycett 

By Anthony Lycett 

From a party I worked at, I got a box full of ice cream bubbles tubes, which I was more happy to get than my cash for the evening!

By Anthony Lycett

I decided to create a club kids ice cream look especially for the Lipsitck club at the Muse Soho, 

First I emptied the soap from the tube and cut in half the plastic ice cream that I  adorned with gemstones.  The donuts are dogs  squeaky toys from Poundland 

With Anthony Lycett & Andrew Logan by Daniel Radchev

with Diane Goldie by Daniel Radchev 

"Soho's culture is being destroyed before our eyes through rampant gentrification.The Lipstick Club is a new all inclusive monthly night deep in the heart of Soho.

It’s the perfect platform to come out to play and experiment with your identity. Soho is back!" 

With Mette Sterre & Andrew Logan by Daniel Radchev

with Daniel Lismore by Daniel Radchev 

With Prince Jason by Daniel Radchev 

by Daniel Radchev

By Anthony Lycett 

For an every day look, I declined the ice cream theme into a top that I combined with a sequin Marc Jacobs skirt. 

details with my clutch bag entirely embroidered with sequins, plastic flowers and poly pocket dolls.  By Anthony Lycett 

By Anthony Lycett 

I found the Marc Jacobs skirt, it in a carboot sale, it was more than my weekly  allocated budget which is around £20 in car boot sale shopping .   But handmade real mark Jacobs, could be around 800£ in the shop I though what could I get in top shop for £45?  Maybe just a basic top so I decided to treat myself.

By Anthony Lycett 

By Anthony Lycett

I made this headpiece especially for an exhibition in The Civic, Barnsley the Toy Box.  I had the desire to make this statement piece for few years now and the exhibition actually set me a goal and a deadline.  (I am convinced that a piece of work always come from a profound desire and you can't create without joy and passion).  

By Anthony Lycett

I like the fact that through a joyful and light medium which is toys, you could convey some political and social issue.  As toys is a miniature version of the world, you could recreate and rearrange your own microcosm.  

Toys are quite sexist, the majority of feminine figure are white & young princess whereas male figurine are more super heroes, action man, warrior…   

  It is quite difficult to find different age group, different ethnicities and skin colours.  But through years of perpetual rummage  through car boot sale, I achieved somehow to find a real mix of figurine , representative of all  kind of women pursuing all kind of job.  

The image was to bear the all womanhood on your head like Atlas bear the whole world on his back. 

By Anthony Lycett

For the shoot, it was important to not to keep my very fair skin to not be classify as a certain type of woman , but create something unnatural that doesn't correspond to any colour skin. So I spent an hour covering myself with pink glitter  like a pink version of Goldfinger.   

I actually blocked my sink with the glitters when I took my shower! 

By Anthony Lycett 

I am fascinated by Japanese culture, a place I would have to visit at some point! 

Here I am posing with a bespoke Hello kitty neckpiece, cat figurines mostly found by my Mum in charity shops. They are different sizes and different characters adorned with gemstones, and an holographic Merry-go-round fascinator.  

By Anthony Lycett 

My idea was make an  ironic and over the top version of Kawaii look.  In a society that infantilise women,  you can take the ownership of you own status and destiny through creativity and reinventing yourself.  

For the photography, Anthony wanted to experiment with a Plexiglass device placed  in between me and the camera on which we sticked fake flower.  The idea was to recreate the instagram filters aesthetic over used by kawaii girls but using traditional technique and real crafty objects.  Anthony   photoshoped the flowers  in different colours to create this pop art effect.

By Anthony Lycett 

I love to collaborate with photographer and see how she reinterpret my garments and do they own reading of my costume, here with Tatiana D'Andréa

Model: Thaila Camila Brilhante/ Photo, makeup, hair : Tatiana D'Andréa Assistant & Model: Atilio Diglio 

Model: Thaila Camila Brilhante/ Photo, makeup, hair : Tatiana D'Andréa Assistant & Model: Atilio Diglio 

Photographer: Tatiana D'Andréa

Model: Cinthya Machado
Makeup: Jessica Favaro

Model: Thaila Camila Brilhante/ Photo, makeup, hair : Tatiana D'Andréa Assistant & Model: Atilio Diglio