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Zero-G fashion in Japan

Zero-G fashion in Japan
(01:20) Report
Oct. 5 - Designers take haute-couture to the stars at the Japan Aerospace 2008 show.
Young designers compete for the chance to come up with a real space suit for future space voyagers.
Susan Flory reports.

Child's Play; The Children Of The Damned

The recently opened shop Child of the Jago, in London’s Shoreditch area, is fittingly named after the 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison. It’s no coincidence that Morrison’s book, an account of criminal behavior among unruly youth, is set in the new boutique’s current digs — a few doors down from a pub owned by that other documentation of unruly youth, Vice magazine.






The brain child of the designer Barnzley, Joe Corre (son of the Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren) and Vivienne Westwood, Jago is born with a distinguished pedigree that extends past its punk-rock blood line: Corre, alongside his former partner Serena Rees, founded Agent Provocateur; the 43-year-old Barnzley, who first found favor during London’s late-1980s acid-house boom after printing smiley faces on a range of T-shirts, co-created the club-wear brand Acupuncture (famous for its platform trainers) and later the agitprop street-wear label Zoltar the Magnificent.
Their latest style offspring, Child of the Jago, was imagined as a place to sell off the remnants of Britain’s lost empire. An eclectic mix of antique jewelery, vintage sartorial bibles and even parts of McLaren’s record collection is up for sale. Jago’s Terrorist line is designed in a old subway car on his neighbor’s roof; its wasp logo derives from the pair’s belief that “the creatures are the ultimate terrorist.” (We assume he means the insect and not the blue-blooded variety.) The more tailored pieces range in style from what the shop describes as “Victorian Pimp” to reworked workers’ uniforms done in tweeds, felt and a impossibly expensive found lurex. Recurring house prints are a collage of Victorian pornography and the 17th-century artist William Hogwarth’s “Gin Lane” print, a piece that, according to Barnzley, documents “the degeneration of the working class to the benefit of a corrupt ruling elite, not unlike today’s Britain.” McLaren and Westwood must be proud.

Barnsley is an old friend of mine. I've known him since the 80's. He & I really did some damage back in the day. Running wild around London, Tokyo & NYC.

Always the wind-up artist Barnzley really put his neck on the line here on this one. Never one to back down from a fight and equally capable of setting some shit off! Barnzley's latest endevour might really have him going toe to to with some real heavyweights and get the championship belt he deserves.

We talk to Simon Barnzley Armitage about the new revolution emerging from a little East London shop and what it means to be a Neo-Jihad Dandy.



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