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23 Dec

Extreme Cashmere Weather: Amsterdam-based Cult Brand Adds Warmth to

LONDON — The world of cashmere. Extreme Cashmere, the Amsterdam-based cult brand, has taken over Ssōne’s store on London’s Chiltern Street, neighbors with Andre Balazs’ luxury hotel and restaurant, Chiltern Firehouse, fashion label Casely-Hayford, and newly opened lab-diamond brand Kimai. Ssōne is a up to date women’s fashion apparel and lifestyle brand. The affluent street is the place for sustainable brands with a slow ethos. Extreme Cashmere has taken full rein of Ssōne for 3 months until February —  turning it into a colourful world of luxurious cashmere with the mannequins completely covered within the fiber. Some even have cashmere braided hairstyles in burgundy red and mud, which resembles a sandy blond. Inside Extreme Cashmere at Ssōne. Courtesy of Extreme Cashmere The brand experimented with Ssōne...
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3 Sep

Six cult fashion figures in dire need of a

LEIGH BOWERYFamed for monstrously flamboyant looks and controversial performance art, Leigh Bowery originally got here from a sleepy Melbourne suburb called Sunshine, before moving to London in 1980 where, after a short-lived stint working at Burger King, he made his name on the underground club circuit. Between nights at Heaven, Asylum, and his own lurid enterprise Taboo, Bowery began to radicalise his appearance, dressing his hulking 6’1 frame in gimp masks, towering platforms, and ratty pubic wigs. He’d carve holes in his cheeks for safety-pin piercings, gaffer tape his flesh into impossibly feminine silhouettes, and drip his bald head in hot glue. By day, Bowery designed costumes for Culture Club, Michael Clark’s dance company, and dabbled in art direction for Massive...
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