NEW ISSUE: OPEN LAB MAGAZINE #8 SS13

The new issue of Open Lab Magazine is out! This issue features editorials form Lena C. Emery, Saty + Pratha, Daan Brand, Mark Rabadan, Kate Cox, Georgie Wileman, Delwin Kamara, Daniel Evans & Brendan Baker, Aline & Jacquline Tappia, Raff Grosso, and portraits by Alice Rosati. We also have interviews with Rad Hourani, Diane Pernet, Kenji Kawasumi, Martine Rose, Sibling, Highland, Lucy Bridge, Marquis Almeida, Haizhen Wang, Erol Sabadosh, Kevin Sloan, Kevin Francis Gray, Nathalie Miebech, Judy Fox, Trevor Young, and Melanie Bonajo. Not to mention amazing models such as cover star Ash Stymest (View Management), Chris Arundel (Storm), Ysham (AMCK), Flo Dron (Select), Ben Waters (Models 1) and promising new faces such as Kelsey Gerry (DNA) Grace J (MandP Models)! We also have amazing designers such as Damir Doma, Raf Simons, Vivienne Westwood, Hugo Boss, Rad Hourani, Martine Rose, Eudon Choi , Matthew Miller and more!

This issue is also very special to me as Fashion Director of Open Lab, I feel this is a milestone for us and use this message as an opportunity to thank team Open Lab; our Editor in Chief Delwin Kamara and  Arts editor Katherine Nonemaker as well as or extended family of contributors. You can get the new issue now!

Here's a little a preview of some of my work in the new issue...

Also here's a souvenir from the London party held at Apartment 58 last night! Pictures will be released soon!!

Exclusive: Biophilia; the beautiful consequences of time

Don't like to blog at night but thought I'd "strike whilst the iron is hot" and figured it's morning time somewhere in the world. Here's a story I shot last year! We all all had a field day in our department of creativity to make this one... also I realised I was a master at bandage wrapping.

 Photography Sarah Brimley

Styling Nickque Patterson

Set Design Leo Todd and Samuel Overs

Make Up Lucy Gibson

Hair Marcia Lee using Oribe and Fekkai

Nails Pinkita using OPI

Model Danielle Cooper @ Select 

Photography Assistants Andras Bartok and Nadine Dix

Styling Assistant Kitty Paterson

Tim Walker: Inspiration

I've struggled with categorising myself a "stylist". Thoughts and rants... I hate fashion and how some perceive or react to this shallow path in comparison deeper callings such as a healer studying and working to save lives... why am I doing a job that couldn't be more fashion. Now I'm my biggest critic (yes that familiar sentence, but yes...I am) and with an analytical thought process mixed with an unpredictable nature everyday I am understanding this industry more and more. Creativity is speculative, there's no artistic barometer nor a test to monitor who is more deserving of certain pedestals. This no longer frustrates me because I know and see others who are doing what they love amazingly well even when there's no one watching.  Fashion CAN be a serious art form which just like other industries has it's "clowns". Unfortunately fashion folk are just easier to point at and harder to manage. I've come to realise that this industry is my lane. My medium to channel stories I want to share. Not everyone chooses what they do for this innate possesion and that's fine, some arrive as and develop and others learn to love/live. I relate to Tim for this reason, vision is a gift that I believe your born with and if correctly focused greatness is achieved...  TIM WALKER: STORY TELLER

Niqed!

Up/DownAway/HereLight/DarkPositive/Negative
LIBERATED.

Dear Erykah

Song spoke to me. Video put my current mental in movement.

Sincerely, Nickque

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Fashion Fades but we won't forget McQueen..

Crafter

Artist

Innovator

As creatives we can be treated as our Art. Sometimes we too need to be treated as a person, no sewing machine, microphone, paint brush, ballet shoes or any other instrument attached.

R.I.P. Lee Alexander McQueen

17th March 1969 - 11th February 2010

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Hairy Ass!

Declare your Art before the mental asylum come to collect.

Designer| Dejana Kabiljo

Check out her creations e.g. a "book" stool I need!