Bingo &co

It is an established  institution now, every month, LuxuriouxsSnacks meet to host the Hackney Bingo Club at Number 90 in Hackney Wick.  For every single edition we now have a precise theme.  That challenge us every time to embody a different character or caricature when my others costumes are more conceptual, Essex girl, 80s Madonna, US gangsta rappers, and the last one French Clichés! 

By Anthony Lycett 

For the "Vive la France" Bingo I created a dress inspired by the union jack flag dress from Meihui Lui, Victim Fashion Label, combining vintage laces and british flags.  I also created a British flag a couple of years ago to dress as the British national anthem! So I mixed some white & cream petticoats with French flags bunting looking like a Bastille Day allegory mixed with a Delacroix painting "Liberty Leading the people". We pushed the French cliché to the caricature with a beret,  the Jean Paul Gauthier style marinère, a garlic necklace that Simon put glitters on but they didn't stay on.  

Inspiration Victim Fashion -designer Meihui Lui 

inspiration: my British flag dress 3 years ago 

By Anthony Lycett

I also have my eiffel tower earrings and  bleu-blanc-rouge shoes… everything is in the details 

It is quite funny to see Simon dressed as a typical French guy with a moustache drawn on as he looks more like a Italian gondolier, but you have to me sure the sacrifice as he is so proud to be British! 

Luxuriouxsnacks also did a balloons performance for Number 90 second birthday. We spend more than 2 hours blowing up  dozens of balloons with helium filling them up with glitters and confetis (with a few balloons popping) tying them up to the costumes, dress and headpiece. 

Then, we were glitter bombing people, I had a ring were I attached a needle on to pop the ballon over the dancing crowd.   Also the fabulous unicorn were blowing them with their horns.  

For the press day of bar 90 birthday,  I hosted journalists and bloggers in my presents dress. Goodies and drink tokens were hidden in the boxes of my dress and people has to open them in order to find their surprise.  

For the Only way to Essex, we used all the beauty code of the Essex style: fake tan, blond extension, fake eyelashes, painted eyebrow…  big balloons boobs. 

 By exaggerating  the character I realised that what is normally considered as "hot", "sexy" as a man fantasy become repulsive, monstrous and grotesque.  

US Gangsta bingo, using bling bling rap US code & aesthetic embodying Tupac or 50 cent,  the twerking competition was quite memorable! when the attitude come with the costume! 

Nostalgic years bingo, for the first round we dressed 80s style, Madonna and Freddie Mercury and we changed for the 90s into grungy Curt Cobain inspired icons! 

This is a collaborative project with  Yildiz Dogamemisoglu, graphic designer, interactive installation  student at Central Saint Martins.   She sculpted and casted mundane objects & tools  and covered them with crystals. 

The concept behind this was creating an anti-extravagance campaign and celebrate kitsch. I felt my costume would fit well with her designs.  The new B&Q campaign?  I also like the fact men models are wearing my dress that celebrate gender fluidity into clothing.  

 photographer: Nick Dunne 

makeup artist:  Robyn fits Simons 

 retouch: Oscar Snare  

models: Philip Xavier walton & Vonnettte

 art director: Yildiz Dogamemisoglu

 photographer: Nick Dunne 

makeup artist:  Robyn fits Simons 

 retouch: Oscar Snare  

models: Philip Xavier walton & Vonnettte

 art director: Yildiz Dogamemisoglu

With dios de los muertos inspired bespoke neckpiece 

Beautiful shoot styled by Ane Kruse with some of my bespoke neckpieces, revealing the mischievous  and regressive child within the model and adding some playfulness and colour to the beauty shoot!

dinosaurs earrings  

4 ages of the woman neckpiece 

barbie arms neckpieces 

vampire dolls neckpiece

hyper japan kawai  lolcore neckpiece 

When I came back to London, had the surprise to find a hard copy of Times style magazine with a full page with my picture from Damien Frost, next to a fabulous costume designer Samanfah Wilson. 

The journalist that interviewed me was surprised I was getting all my make up from pound land and not luxury brands brands! Get stuff for a pound and make it look like a million!

Shoreditch colour bombing wearable art fashion show

by Anthony Lycett 

On Saturday, 12 March, with Diane Goldie, Sue Kreitzman and Meihui Lui (the shoreditch four) we decided to put on a colourful wearable fashion show, inviting our inspirational friends to models for our respective design. 

By Sarah Gilbert 

Not using super tall and skinny super models but individuals with their originality and personality that can inhabit and understand the creation they are wearing. I choose the outfit according to each of my friend personality and aura, encouraging them to bring accessories in order to keep their own style as a meeting point with my garment and their own individuality. 

Behind the scene of the show, great video by Dan Harley 

With Estelle Monsterlune wearing my moshi monster dress and Kim Anne Freeman wearing my kawaii kimono 

by Anthony Lycett 

when I showed everyone the outfit they were going to wear,  I could see sparkle in their eyes, as if it was Christmas day.  I was so grateful to my friends they give their time and energy to be involve in the project but I realised that they were also extremely please to be part of it.  

With my mentor and inspiration, the great Sue Kreitzman by Anthony Lycett 

The fashion show consisted into a colourful mach, a joyful procession, psychedelic bacchanalias, an  iconoclastic pilgrimage for wearable art religion, stylish carnival where the fools become the kings and queen of fashion! 

by Anthony Lycett 

Loulou Reloulou wearing y colourful leather scraps dress 

by Anthony Lycett 

Great painter Ella Guru wearing my 50 shades of pink dress 

by Anthony Lycett 

Explosion of colours! I wish every weeding picture or class picture look like this!  by Anthony Lycett 

details from back of costume By Sarah Gilbert 

Priya Saujana wearing feather headpiece 

I choose each outfit to match my model style, for example I felt the moshi monster dress will fit Estelle Monsterlune psychedelic punk style, she even made monsters eyes shoes especially to match the dress! 

Dani Marsh wearing my traffic jam dress and little cars headpiece and Amber Bryan-Smith wearing puprle hair dolls neckpiece and Diane Goldie jacket 

We paraded on Calvert Avenue, around Arnold Circus, before making a spectacular entrance at the Taiwanese Food Market on Cleve Court.  

We were lucky with the mild and sunny weather for this early March. Strollers an walkers were wondering if they had hallucinations, if they sobered up from their night out! 

the shoreditch four, 4 women of different generations, different backgrounds, different country linked but the same passion of colours and wearable art 

I felt very energised and inspired from putting up this event.  I feel it is important to have theses moments of freedom and gratuitous , parenthesis in our grey everyday life.  

When different  people of every age, every background come together to share a pure moment of beauty and love.   These kind of evens could bring more of social mix and  inter-culture dialogue and would be nice to be developed…  

You are going to say I am an idealist, but i will say I am more a realistic optimist person. I read press, watch the news, I am fully aware we don't leave in "Care Bears world". I just try to contribute at my own  humble scale to bring a bit of lightness and joy in people life. I feel we also  brought creative vibe to an area threatened by galloping gentrification.  

Estelle Monsterlune & Diane Goldie

In front of Arnold Circus 

A friend that I know from Paris who now live in London said to me she was very " moved," because she felt as the witness of a moment of pure beauty.  

look left and right! stopping the traffic in my circus tent! 

Kids peeking out of under my circus tent dress, I found my kids catcher! 

the shoreditch four 

little girls playing with my drag queen queen! 

Free hug and creative vibe with Kaka Kala 

Alice Edwards wearing my chinese dragon headpieces with Sue Kreitzman kimono (love all the cross over between the different designer) 

picture that resume the joy and madness of the day! 

Point presse: 

thanks to ticketscript for mentioning me in an article about "6 event entertainers who have been hiding too long" even if I never tried to hide!  hope to keep you entertained for a long time!