Ghost of Xmas Present

Maisy under last year's tree =^.__.^=

'Tis the season to be bored because everyone's doing family-related stuff. Don't get me wrong - I love coming back to my hometown to see my cat and raid the fridge, but other than that home is definitely not sweet.

If I wasn't constantly giving off Scrooge-vibes this would be how my perfect Christmas day would go down:

My pastel Christmas tree would be up and decorated with Slayer themed baubles and I'd be stuffing my face with chocolate whilst watching the Most Haunted Christmas Special DVD in my limited edition pink dinosaur kigu.

Wrecking bauble

#elfie

My Scroogey face

For those of you who actually enjoy the festive season -- Merry Christmas! Have a good one. 

Ctrl, Alt, Delete

Here's an outfit for when you have to go and cry to the IT repair guy because your laptop is broken but it was your fault for spilling juice all over it. You'll have to illegally download every item though because they're all US based.

• Leo Dicaprio t-shirt from YtinifninfinitY, approx £18.50
• Windows 95 shorts from O-Mighty, approx 
• Windows 95 backpack from O-Mighty, approx £42
• Qozmo hi platform sneakers by YRU, approx £49

And if you're feeling like you want your irl space to look like your online space, you could always invest in some glitch-art inspired throw pillows.

Dolphins are the new nits

Slacking Off

Front window display featuring two illuminated side-portraits

On the walk back home from my slack-free internship yesterday, I stopped off at the Old Truman Brewery to ogle at Stevie Gee's motorbike-inspired solo show. His drawing style is fun and I love his use of colour, but my personal favourite was the customised actual-real-life motorbike illustrated with a cat-head on the most perfect gradient I've ever seen. If I ever have a mid-life crisis, it's the bike I'm going to get. 

Gift shop featuring prints, tees, beanies, patches and zines. The cat shirt was so good! 

Sophie checking out some artwork

Framed screen-prints

If reincarnation is a thing I want to come back as this bike because it's the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life

Could someone please get me the pink helmet? I promise to wear it all the time, even to the supermarket or in the shower.

Mr. Gee was there himself, he gave us these stickers and wrote his website on the back in pencil.

Shouts to Nick for alerting us to this show on his instagram. 

As Punk as You Can Be Whilst Surrounded By Soap

Punk pals: my flatmate Tom, and my friend Ariana who works at LUSH.

As someone who enjoys baths and likes to buy good quality products that are cruelty free, I've always turned to LUSH for cosmetics and gifts. To celebrate the launch of Vivienne Westwood's line of eco-friendly scarves made in conjunction with the brand, the Regent Street branch threw a Punk Day. Or, as I'd like to call it, As-Punk-As-You-Can-Be-Whilst-Surrounded-By-Soap-Day.

Very squishy shower jellies!

I want everything in my life to smell like Snow Fairy.

These deformed penguins are bath bombs! Felt sorry for the one in the pic by itself, he had no beak and looked sad.

I dunno who this guy was, apparently he was in some indie band in the mid-naughties. Definitely wasn't punk but seemed nice enough, he gave me a mince pie. Unsure whether I like mince pies.

From the picture above, you can sort of make out a couple of the Vivienne Westwood scarves on the right of the guitar-man. The guitar-man, as you can tell, is not punk at all. In fact, the only punk thing about the day was the Sex Pistols poster behind him that had the word 'bollocks' censored, which in itself is a not very punk thing to do.  Despite this, I had a good couple of hours of fun and the shop smelt really tasty. 

Some of the goodies I took home with me, notice I adopted the sad penguin.

Also we got given goodie bags so expect some product reviews in the near future. 

Bleached Brows

Bleached brow babes

On Saturday morning I sleepily walked into into CNG Derby thinking I was going to get my roots done and my fringe trimmed. Two coffees later I convinced my hair colourist and friend Emma that bleaching my eyebrows would be a good idea, so we went for it. 

Bleach and toner, defs think foil-brows should be a thing...

Probably wouldn't try this by myself at home just in case I dripped bleach into my eye and blinded myself. 

Before and after on CNG's isntagram

Alien princess looks 2k13

I really like how it's turned out and I'm super excited to try out crazy eyebrow colours but will probably dye them back dark when they start to grow out. 

Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop

Today the new Meadham Kirchhoff collection for Topshop was released! The collection is based on an imaginary four piece girl band, The Cherrys, who each have their own signature style. Obviously each item is cutesy and kitsch, because Meadham Kirchhoff, and a lot of the stuff draws inspiration from the 1970's. It's as though the designers watched The Runaways and then were left to their own devices.

Of course the item I wanted most (the red heart pinafore on the left) was sold out by the time I checked the website this morning, not that I could afford it anyway, but I decided to mock up what I'd like most from the collection and how I'd style them if every item of clothing I'd ever wanted was suddenly at my fingertips.

Left: 

• Shoes, headband and pendant from the Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop collection
• Pink latex skater dress from Syren, £150

Right:

• Pinafore from the Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop collection, sold out.
• Lace ankle socks from Topshop, £3.50
• Eye print silk blouse by Kenzo, £255
• Black clompers by Vivienne Westwood, £715

Booth Babery at Warped UK

We had to test the camera was working, obviously.

We had to test it more than once,  obviously.

Last weekend at Warped Tour, rapper Watsky stupidly stage-dived off some light rigging hurting both himself and some of the crowd. The day before this, me and Sophie were there running the photo booth. Highlights from the day include taking many selfies, having Zoe LDN come over to have photos taken whilst filming for Big Deal Clothing, some girls in our booth with The Maine and possibly making their life and going making use of our staff pass and having free unlimited jägerbombs backstage amongst bands we haven't even heard of.

Sophie and the photo booth

Our view of the merch room before kickoff

Me (right) and my hair twin Zoe LDN

Zoe's photos and the Honour Over Glory foam hand

                       

By the end of the day I'd probably tried every single prop on

10.55 Vth Anniversary Party

The only non blurry photo I managed to get of the after party.

To commemorate 10.55's fifth year of existence, FiftyFiveDsl threw a celebratory exhibition of the new limited edition t-shirt designs in Shoreditch.

The FiftyFiveDsl brand began it's journey as an experimental streetwear line for Diesel, getting it's name from the original line being composed of fifty five designs. The current creative director is actually the founder of Diesel's son, Andrea Rosso.

Gavin Watson standing proudly in front of his work.

Rosso himself was at both the exhibition and the after party. As was photographer, Gavin Watson, who created the image for my favourite design in the new collection of the boy in Mickey Mouse ears throwing the v-sign. I didn't get a chance to speak to Rosso but Watson was very friendly and told me he liked my boots and that they were apparently "the first thing he noticed as he entered the room".

Nic Tasker doing what he does best.

At the exhibition itself, there were framed t-shirts from the new collection on the walls but I was mostly distracted by the projector that screened designs onto blank a blank t-shirt, possibly because the picture changed every few seconds and I'm easily amused.

Crystal Head vodka was free of charge at the after party and I definitely felt like my head had turned into a crystal ready to shatter the next morning.

Grown-up versions of children's party bags; a tote bag filled with free stuff.

Welcome to Chronic Sans

If you've made it here the you probably follow me somewhere else on the internet and have found me through that, if not, it's ok, here's some stuff to know about me:

• My name is Hatti Rex
• I live in East London
• I've just finished a degree in BA Illustration 
• But I did Contemporary Media Practice in the first year
• I have a cat called Maisy but she lives in Derby
• I won a Blue Peter badge when I was younger for drawing a dog
• Sometimes people take pictures of me for things
• Because of that my face has featured in exhibitions in London and LA, and in Rookie mag
• My artwork has been in exhibitions too
• I interned at a screenprinters called 3rd Rail where part of my job was to blog and I miss it so I created this blog
• Now I do the same type of thing at Vice
• My favourite colour is green
• My favourite food is mushroom pizza
• I have an obsession with ghosts
• Ian McKellen once told me politely to move and I didn't say "you shall not pass"

There's probably a billion more things but I don't want to write an endless list that nobody will read. Feel free to follow this blog and comment, if you have any queries/complaints/want to hire me for something/chat/whatever, be sure to email hattirex@gmail.com