London Fashion Week AW/2011

This London Fashion Week has been a special one.

On Saturday a whole bunch of my mates from Central Saint Martins took to the catwalk to showcase their hard work from the Fashion MA course earning L'Oreal Awards and a whole heap of well deserved press. I'm going to their static show next week, so I'll be sure to post photos later on.

In the meantime: Here are some crappy iPhone photos (they SO don't do this collection justice!) I took at my friend Tessa's show (Tessa Edwards). I love her super cool scifi luxury wear or as i-D tweeted "idiosyncratic, brilliant collection of post-apocalyptic glamour":









My favorite looks are the last one and the transparent suit with the amazing greeny blue scarab wing encrusted (or so it looked) piece underneath. And look at those amazing shoes!! How lethal is Tessa? Gorgeous AND Talented... eeek! God help us!

SEX

I posted about Isabella Rossellini's "Green Porno" a while back (HERE) but I was recently alerted via the guardian and Tom Houser that a selection of these works in addition to some excellent taxidermy mounts are being shown at the Natural History Museum until the 2nd of October as part of their "Sexual Nature" exhibit.

Check it out if you're in London:

Fancy a Crow?

For those of you that are London based:

Fancy a nice large plastic crow?

I have a few left over from the Selfridges window display, and you're welcome to pop round the studio and pick them up if you're interested. I've got a mix of "standing" and "flying" models to choose from.

Here's a crappy iPhone photo (sorry!) of the flying ones:



First come first serve, so get in touch via e-mail (info@rpencore.com) if you're interested!

Toadstool Lollipop Cakes v Southend-on-Sea

This weekend my dear friend Tom flew over from Belgium to celebrate his birthday with us in London.

We celebrated it in true style with a massive party boasting drinks galore (courtesy of Absolut Vodka), tons of amazing little frosted toadstools made of cake and presented like lollipops, popcorn a plenty and retro candy mania!

We even had La Roux do a DJ set!

Oh all right: so AnOther Magazine happened to be celebrating it's 10th birthday on the same night, and we maybe/kinda/sorta just went to that. But we did achieve the main goal of the night which was to ensure Tom's alcohol and sugar consumption reached diabetes inducing heights.

The following morning, Christopher decided we should take the train down to Southend-on-Sea.

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G

I've been meaning to visit some of the UK's seedy seaside cities for a while now, and Southend on a pissy rainy day did not disappoint!

Here are some photos:







There was even an amazing junk shop that sold these:

Pets

image: ©Jean-Francois Carly

Right now, if anybody out there has been unfortunate enough to loose an animal companion. Please do get in touch. Any animal! I wont discriminate.

---snakes are most welcome..

Helena

A reader sent me a link to this yesterday:



Apparently Grazia Magaizine believes my taxidermy (well, the crow headdress specifically) would suit Helena Bonham Carter's outfit for the Oscars.

Well chosen Grazia... I look forward to hearing from her stylists! wink wink

RP/Encore now sold at Kabiri!

Exciting News!

RP/Encore is now stocked with high end jewellery retailer Kabiri!

In the next week or so you'll be able to visit, try on and purchase almost the entire RP/Encore collection of cast item jewellery at the following premises:

Kabiri Marylebone
37 Marylebone High Street
London
W1U 4QE


Kabiri At Selfridges
Ground Floor
400 Oxford Street
London
W1A 1AB

Kabiri Covent Garden
18 The Market, The Piazza
Covent Garden, London
WC2E 8RB

RP/E Selfridges Window / Bright Young Things

This year has kicked off to a really great start. This month I was selected by one of the UK's most prestigious department stores: Selfridges as one of 20 "Bright Young Things" they thought were "the most creative and exciting new names from the worlds of fashion and art".




For those of you not familiar with Selfridges: this is a really big deal, and a stupendous honour!

We installed the RP/Encore window last week, and if you find yourself in London, why not stop by and take a peek? Mine is on Oxford Street, four windows down from Duke Street!

Here are some behind the scenes photos from that eversohandsomeandtallented Mr. Houser:







More photos to be shown soon!

Big big thanks to Jack and Josh from Devise London who loaned me the video wall, re-edited the video content specifically for the display, installed everything and made the RP/E logo! You guys are the best! Also big thanks to Flick for staying with us for what ended up being a 13hour over night install shift, and Tom for helping out in spite of having come straight from working a full 8.5 hour workday!

2011

So, this new year has been pretty fucking mental really. I was just about to list all of the shit that went down for me/RP/Encore in 2010, when I realized what a bragging douche-like move that would be.

Suffice to say, I have been extremely lucky this past year, and have been really fucking blessed to have such an amazing network of friends and helpers in my life! Thanks dudes! You know who you are!

Now looking ahead: here are some goals I hope to achieve this year:

- Get a USA stockist for my jewellery collection

- Expand my artistic practice

- More art, less e-mails

- More sleep, less all nighters

- Exercise (walking 2 min from home to studio doesn't count, neither does skinning a large mammal! time to get some regular cardio kicks in there before I die of bad posture and high blood pressure at the age of 24!)

- Clarify the difference between "Reid Peppard" and "RP/Encore" (Reid Peppard = artist, RP/Encore = jewellery / products designed from the offcuts of the artistic practice)--- this still often confuses me!

Right... wish me luck!

More From Viktor Vauthier

Here are some more images of my studio taken by my friend Viktor Vauthier:







These were all taken when I had just moved into my studio, and everything was still relatively nice and clean/tidy... I'll have to have him come round and take some more photos to chart the space's development!

For even more images click HERE.

All images Ⓒ 2011 VIKTOR VAUTHIER (obvs)

Holiday Bazaar

Here's a little pic the kids at Holiday Bizaar sent over...




This is how they're displaying some of the RP/Encore Stock they're selling.
Holiday Bizaar are currently my only US stockist, so if you're still looking for a unique gift for someone... hop on over to 82 Oak St, Brooklyn, NY 11222 (map HERE) and scoop up something special!

LOOK BOOK / POSTER

Hot shit RP/Encore Look Book by the disgustingly talented Tom Houser (is there a limit to his skills? Urgh...Tom, damn you!)



L O V E it!

For more images/detail shots check out his blog HERE. And while you're there, go ahead and leave Tom a comment telling him how hot shit he is ok? Thanks.

And to have a peek at his inspiration, click HERE.

Fashion Toast

Rumi Neely of Fashion Toast just did a beautiful post about the pigeon wing headdress I sent her.

Check it out HERE.

Thanks Rumi--XX

Contraban

Jesus Christ it's been an entire month since I last posted!

L A M E

Even my mum called me up from Cali to bust my balls! Ha.

It's just I've been so fucking busy alright?

Whatevs... so here are some amazing clippings from the New York Times Magazine showcasing a variety of contraband shit people tried to sneak through Kennedy International Airport:








oh wait... whats that???



Oh yes, just a little bird of prey in a softsend envelope... WTF?!

For the full blurb click HERE.