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BARBARA FRANKIE RYAN
I make a zine in my bedroom called BFR. It’s all hand drawn and then photocopied in the school library. Most of my time is spent on London public transport, getting home from lame house parties in zone 6 or just rifling around.
www.bfrmag.blogspot.com

I am wearing low NIKE dunks that I got when I was 12 years old, they are very pink and grubby having served me six years of physical education and some little socks that I took from my Mum’s draw this morning. I’m also wearing some greenish coloured drainpipes back from when I used to think nu rave was like the best thing everrr. Oddly clothes from when I was 13 still fit me. Then I’m wearing a standard AMERICAN APPAREL tri-blend male tank with a blue, red and green UNIQLO (again from the mens section) tartan shirt on top. Over that I’ve stolen my Dad’s MARKS & SPENCER cardigan, its super big and soft and navy. My mum bought it for him when we were at the seaside because he was cold, but he didn’t like the plastic buttons, so she has sewn on some rather dashing cork ones as a replacement. Unfortunately the moths are getting to it. My hair is an utter state as usual, but it’s down today because I went to a ball last night and pretty much rolled out of bed and into the library (for revision) and I couldn’t be bothered to sort it out because it’s rainy today. On my face, I have both my lobes pierced which are adorned with VIVIENNE WESTWOOD orb earrings and I have my cartilage pierced on the top of my right ear which has a ring in it. Because I am rather blind, I am wearing orange glasses and shit loads of eyeliner. I also have by MARC by MARC JACOBS school bag with me, it is oil cloth and has lots of funny drawings on it like a banana eating itself and a huge zip and a MARC JACOBS bone bangle (on my left wrist) and a TIMEX watch (on my right wrist).

WILL BOEHLKE
Author of A Suitable Wardrobe weblog, San Francisco. http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com

Navy mohair and wool double breasted suit by ENGLISH CUT, grey twill shirt body with white collar and cuffs by TURNBULL & ASSER, antique white gold cufflinks, grey silk & linen necktie with orange bar stripes of my own design, white Irish linen pocket square, navy wool socks with a large grey windowpane overcheck, espresso brown quarter brogue shoes by GAZIANO & GIRLING, ORMONDE JAYNE eau de parfum, soft sided leather case by MARK CROSS, black silk THOMAS BRIGG umbrella, blue silk scarf with orange dots by DRAKE’S LONDON and BURBERRY microfiber trenchcoat. And I should have worn a hat.

Thursday, 23 February 2010 at 1PM; visiting a custom leather goods maker in a downpour.

BIRDIE CASSELL
Artist and writer

It is another day in my work pen. I am wearing black LEVI 501’s, a black three prong belt, cotton ocher socks, black Born slip-ons, a vintage orange cotton-poly long-sleeved shirt, a self-made corduroy vest in Kelly green, sage green, khaki green and dark brown stripes, and a wide tie foraged from Goodwill. My vest is lined with a cotton topographical print in greens and blues, and the tie is a BARINI Original in greens and oranges with pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge, and accented with orange diagonal stripes. It is unseasonable chilly, so when I brave the city for lunch I throw on a severely beaten-up black leather jacket made by SCHOTT that my lover gave me, a 5’ long self-knit wool ocher scarf, and a brown plaid wool Italian cap made by BAILEY of Hollywood.

San Francisco, 3:30 pm, December 10

OKAPI AKIMBO
Dj/Artist/Performer
Sydney, Australia

Tonight i am wearing two singlets because it suddenly got cold again but I’m not ready for a jacket. The underneath one is black and the one on top is bright neon orange. I’m wearing a badge I made myself that is made of sparkly stickers that says ‘faggette’. Around my neck I’m wearing my new favorite neon kerchief, something like an Andy Warhol print, it has a green background with purple, pink, orange and yellow fruit. Im wearing a high waisted body hugging purple and blue leopard print skirt. On my legs I have a pastel purple pair of stockings that I bought when I was living in Japan, with vivid purple fishnets over the top. On my feet I have 90’s style space boots (because i like to be tall but tonight I’m not wearing heels) with black calf length leg warmers over the top. On my left arm is seventeen bracelets in pink, purple and silver and on my right fourteen clear, silver, green and blue bracelets. Above my cupid’s bow I have spirit gummed a tiny jewel. My ears are stretched up big now with new pastel pink tunnels my friend, and local piercer, gave to me. My eyes are all dusty and sparkley with BEN NYE sunset colors and gold i.d. BARE MINERALS makeup. The hair wax I got in Japan, that I’m wearing tonight, makes me smell like sherbet. 

Gig 10.41pm 4th December

OLIVER OF THE SKY
www.oliverofthesky.tk
Artist, currently in Dunedin, New Zealand

I am wearing a pair of much loved KTZ track pants, from autumn 07/08 (is that retro yet?), I think. I inherited these from a friend in Berlin and they function as both my most comfortable pair of pants (soft, warm, balloony) and one of my most expressive. They’re bright turquoise with a dorky pattern that combines chunky 80s bus seat material graphics with a cute sporty KTZ logo, in green, blue, purple, black and yellow. They are hemmed and waisted with big bands of black ribbing, and have low pockets detailed with a similar strip in black that swoops round the bum as well.

On the top I have two t-shirts and a jumper on, cause it’s cold. The first t-shirt is an 80’s ADIDAS t-shirt I was given by my friends in London who I helped cutting garments for their recycled clothing collection. It is a light mottled grey with flowery, multi coloured satin panels on the sleeves. There is also a small flower shaped patch of the same material on the left breast with ‘Universal Spirit’ in cursive script embroidered over it. The second t-shirt is a black DIAMOND t-shirt (a skateboarding distribution company from the states) my gf and I found at a market in Melbourne. It has a large line based graphic in blue on the front, of a diamond with arabic writing underneath. I’m assuming that says diamond, but I don’t know arabic yet. I also tie-bleached the shirt myself a few weeks ago in a lightning pattern that goes from beige through purple/aubergine to black. The jumper is a turquoise crew neck with a screenprinted graphic of three geese wearing pink bow ties, that was bestowed upon me by my doppelganger/older brother figure in Berlin.

On my feet are white cotton socks I bought in Poland, and round my neck I have a Pounamu (jade) necklace given to me by my mother for my 21st birthday. The shape is known as a Toki, symbolising strength, determination and creativity. 
My nails have been painted bright orange with a layer of iridescent flake, although it has almost all chipped off now.

Worn at 10:45 am, 3/12/2009 at my Mum’s house.