lundi 29 mai 2017

Flower of concrete in Dismaland



Flower of concrete By Anthony Lycett 
I originally made this outfit for a costume party in Paris on the theme "dress as something starting with a C", In French number is "chiffre" so i just decided to dress as a chiffre.  

By Anthony Lycett 
I created this ruffle collar (helped by Kasumi Kishi).You may have notice my design include a lot of ruffle which actually may translate a lack of designing skills, as when I don't know what to do, or something is not really finished… I just had ruffles! The are all hand stitched and the foam numbers are then glued one by one.
By Anthony Lycett 
I found this sparkly vintage dress in a car boot sale, it was a bit expensive for my weekly car boot sale budget, but with my sequins addiction I couldn't resist to acquire an umpteenth shiny dress! So fabulous that it actually as been stolen by a drag queen a club night.  I changed to get into my performance outfit and 20 minute later I saw a drag queen wiggling on the dance floor in a glittery dress that looked like mine.  My heart skipped a bit, coming closer I realise it was actually MY DRESS. I compelled the night creature to take the dress off immediately. For her defence she said she though it was left to be taken for free.  A dress of this quality?  I don't think so.  Whatever, as my goal in life is to be impersonated by drag queen it was quite successful in a way.  

By Anthony Lycett 
I actually grew in the outskirt of Paris  and the vital link between Capital and my home place was the RER, the suburban train.  It crosses terribly depressing places, decrepit high rise estate from the 60s, industrial zones, gigantic work areas. I have done a lot of shoot with a postcard background, Montmartre, Trocadéro, Notre Dame… but with Anthony we thought it would be more interesting to create a contract between the beautiful, graceful light costume and the heaviness and gloominess of the concrete in an hostile urban environment.  The fluffiness and round shape of the costume also clash with the straight horizontal and vertical  lines of the rough architecture.  


By Anthony Lycett 
We went exploring on our  bicycle, luckily we found a spot near Nanterre Université station, a kind of disaffected stocking zone, …and we didn't get into trouble!
By Anthony Lycett 

Simon Dodi , a friend you can count on! 


Back in London, I found the number outfit was a perfect costume for bingo hosting as most of the job is calling the numbers.  It is a bit of a ultimate paradox for me as I use to be very bad at mathematic at school and didn't wanted to deal with numbers anymore! So I made a black velvet bow for Simon and a matching jacket, is it not cute?
Getting ready for the photoshoot, yes we do everything by ourselves, applying glitter make up by Kiss & glitters 

By Anthony Lycett 





Accompanying the release of the Beauty of the Beast Disney, we decided to organise a Disney bingo theme at Number 177 with some kitchy Disney prizes and dub step Disney song remix. 
By Anthony Lycett 
For the costume I wanted to make an adult version of the Disney princess dress I wore as a child.  We all know this tragic situation then we realise we don't fit anymore in our princess costume, as a kind of loss of innocence moment.  My idea was to keep the original dress as a kind of relic from the past and add some PVC plastic on each side to fit an adult size. Like the theatre director Kantor in his play "The dead class", you carry the child within you as a banner.  

For the shape I was inspired by the  Comme des garçons A/W  2012 collection  2012, with oversized flat shapes of bold colours, like cut out paper-dolliness with a trompe l'oeil aspect, as if the dresses hasn't been cut out from the original fabric.  

By Anthony Lycett 

The plastic PVC represent something of the lost childhood, of nostalgia and remembrance by this supplement of material that show the evolution between the child and the adult body, the "added soul" and extra body you acquire with ageing.
Modern disney princess By Anthony Lycett

The transparency adds a part of sexiness as you have to choose carefully your underwear, From long princessy dress it becomes a short party dress playing with the ambiguity of loss of innocence.   


With Cherry Stevenson who made the effort to dress on a Alice in Wonderland theme for the bingo! 
t wasn't planned but next the bar 177 in Hoxton, there is a big Estate of council flat. We found it quite dystopian, as in a kind of Bansky vibe with his Dismaland project, a  Disasterland for delusional postmodern millennial kids.

By Anthony Lycett 

 Like a distorted vision of Pop culture.  While we where shooting the picture we could hear people shouting at us "Hey Mickey Mouse, … I think it Cinderella… no this is Snow white?" 
My Mum, who is also my best costume assistant helped me sewing the dresses together as it was a lot of work. We had to cut them half by unstitching them,  re-sew some seems in order to avoid threading,  before stitching the two side on the PVC. I like this picture because it look like she is making some costumes for the end of year school show when I was a kid.  

In april I took part again at the Classic CarBoot sale in King Cross displaying  the finest vintage fashion, accessories, homeware traders and designer makers all operating from the boot of classic vehicles alongside a show stopping display of vintage cars.  


I made the Flamingo at especially to protect myself from the sun, which wasn't very useful as I was in the covered area! 

 As always it was great to present my new creations and meet the enthusiasm of my new customers.
Meeting the stylish regulars, like the fabulous Retro Bambi  






vendredi 5 mai 2017

Goddess telephone hat


By Anthony Lycett 
I have a thing with old telephone and curly elastic telephone cord. In all the show I used to direct, I had a old telephone to symbolise communication. 
For this hat, I wanted a retro-futuristic aesthetic  to match the dynamism of my marble run jacket.  

Lady Gaga telephone hat by Fred Butler, 2009 

I am not the first one to make a telephone hat, lots of my design are inspired by Lady Gaga music video and the genius telephone hat made by Fred Butler.  


But before her, in the 50s, surrealist played with the phone accessory and Jean Barthet, made a Phone-Hat, photographed by Robert Cohen in 1951. 



By Anthony Lycett 
The holographic fabric and the colourful cords give the impression the phone is directly connected with my brain like in bad science fiction movie and that you could access directly yo my though by picking up the phone.  

By Anthony Lycett 

Tribute to "Telephone" my favourite song from Lady Gaga which was the soundtrack of all my parties in 2009!




By Anthony Lycett 
For the jacket, I drilled holes in the pipe and stitched them one by own to the jacket in order to create a kind of extension of the woman body as if I was a machine powered by all my pipes!
By Anthony Lycett 

By Anthony Lycett 

By Anthony Lycett 


March colour walk By Rupert Hitchcox 
With Florent Bidois, By Richard Kaby 

By Rupert Hitchcox 

By Rupert Hitchcox 
 When Sue Kreitzman  saw my hat, she immediately wanted one as Telephone is part and parcel of Sue's imagery.  

Sue Kreitzman is wearing one of my unicorn necklace, By Rupert Hitchcox 


Sue normally doesn't wear hat as she feels she is not a hat person and prefer big neckpiece and bracelets so my challenge was to prove her wrong.  

We went to a very nice guy stall in Spitafields who sells traditional English hat and know everything about History of hat and Sue bought a bright yellow bowler hat as a base. 

By Anthony Lycett 

Then she asked me to do my magic, I took the hat to my studio and added the telephone handset and, cord and dial.  I painted a lips brooch in red to represent the goddess talking to the phone, with some smaller shiny mouth representing all the Sheros the Goddess is communicating with.  

By Anthony Lycett 


picture by Elena Rostunova

For Sue Kreitzman, the Goddess telephone is the direct line to the after life, this is her conception with her own words of it: 

I have no idea if there is an afterlife or not, and - if there is- what it would be like. I suspect that, when we die, the lights go out and we have had our time on earth.

BUT!! I have a fantasy. A fantasy of the afterlife. This is for women only. (I'm sure that men have their own afterlife fantasies, but I really don't need to know about them!)


The telephone hat looks as good in Sue's place on London or in NY! 

This is my version of the afterlife:

We die, and then...we wake up in the waiting room. The goddess phone rings. 'NEXT'. It's our turn, we go in for the interview. The interview will determine whether we will spend eternity as a Goddess or a Shero (a female super hero). And lo and behold: we are dressed for the interview. Sparkles, glitter, wings, sequins, lightening bolts, halos, bright dazzling colour...all those things that a shero or a Goddess will need for all of eternity. 'Choose me, choose me' we cry. 'Look at my glitter, my wings, my halo! I am perfect for the job.' 

Of course, we pass the interview. (I myself will be a Goddess. At somewhere between my late 70s and eternity, I am halfway there already.)

So for eternity, we dress in colourful and fantastic garb, and swan around the universe doing our best to right wrongs, establish justice, banish beige, and generally make the world a better place.


By the artist Sue Harding 

By the artist Sue Harding

By the artist Sue Harding 





Another commission I made for Sue, this giant colourful dolls on an Egyptian inspired breastplate adorned with red pompons.  



The beautiful @kellyannsaunders 💋 wearing my colourful dolls neckpiece 💜💙💚💛 made for @suekreitzman combined with her own headpiece picture by@anthonylycettphotography for@self.styled ✨ 


By Anthony Lycett 
In March, for the launch of Number 177, Number 90 little sister, I was commissioned a present dress performance.  I recycled the dress I used for La Cage Royale performance, I covered the Circus children tent with burgundy velvet and stitched present boxes from the Card factory. 

Performance for number 177 launch

I offered the audience to open the boxes and inside where drink tokens, goodies, sweet and small dinosaurs! 

By Anthony Lycett 

Then I did it again for bar 90 third birthday so I changed the costume a bit, I made a birthday cake fascinator and a pieces of cake neckpiece! 
By Anthony Lycett 

By Anthony Lycett 
People could also go under the skirts to open smaller boxes with more presents lightened by LED lights!
By Anthony Lycett 



polaroid always made cool picture whatever face you do! 


performance for Number 90 birthday 



Point presse:

For French reader: Un article pour Waynabox sur mes bons plans à Londres articles par Léa Capuano http://blog.waynabox.com/…/week-end-a-londres-bons-plans-m…/

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