Oscar's Threads: July 2012

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Concert at U D E S H I

Leo from The Streets is performing 24 gigs in 24 hours on the 11/12th July in various London locations ranging from the London Eye to a prison cell to The Rose Club. His 6am gig was in our shop.

Leo is raising money for the Prince's Trust and along the route, Leo will be joined by Professor Green, Calum Best, Cisse, Sugababes and Mark Wright.

The last gentleman in Hollywood

Our client on Jimmy Kimmel live. Notice the Union Jack cuff button on each sleeve.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style

I was really looking forward to this exhibition. Unfortunately I was neither shaken nor stirred. It started off promisingly enough with a recreation of Shirley Eaton in gold paint (Goldfinger) on a rotating bed, and the golden gun (Man with the Golden Gun), and a few other choice gold pieces, but the next casino themed room had a few mannequins that were horribly disproportioned, making most of the clothing looking dumpy and flat for chubby short actors. I have heard that the camera can put on a few pounds, but the way things were displayed, they would have made everyone the size of Humpty Dumpty on screen.

There are a few models of the underwater Lotus and quite a few villains' costumes, but the whole experience, split in to three separate areas left me underwhelmed and wanting a martini to drown my sorrows, not celebrate.

In a separate area to the right of the exhibition there is a silver birch Aston Martin DB5, paired with a recreation of the suit that Sean Connery wore to Goldfinger's ranch in Kentucky. At no point in time was Sean Connery ever filmed with that suit and the Aston. It somehow seems out of place and a poor mannequin makes the suit look limp and ill fitting.

The highlight for me was probably the first edition covers on display. Tells you I am getting old. We took inspiration from the first edition cover of Goldfinger to come up with a tie design in homage. They are almost all sold out.