SEPTEMBER ADD-TO-CART SPECIAL
we’re now firmly back to school and winter is looming hard and fast ;) time for a little treat ya’self pick-me-up, spittle suggests!
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Featured in our recent Elephant column, Cult filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s online store offers an array of clothing plastered with imagery from the artist’s (often) sexually explicit movies. We’ve got our eye on this raunchy vest depicting Tony Ward as hustler Montgomery Ward in Hustler White (1996). Available here for $23
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We LOVE Ana Viktoria Dzinic’s Instagram stories wherein she performs the art world’s chi chi cliches to post-ironic effect. Continuing this vibe is her painting Intersectional Drag Act-Two #6 which re-renders a single photograph from a childhood project to document everything in her wardrobe. *presumably* available here from new London space Bye Bye Gallery.
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We couldn’t help but include this next item, delicately listed as ‘Maggi Hambling’s cigarette butts, picked carefully from her studio floor’. So obsessed that Maggi smoked these babies right down to the filter tip, we don’t even care that the price is only available on request. Hopefully the cute little baggy is included too.
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Sitting somewhere between the Proenza Birkenstock and the Yeezy x Adidas Foam Runners, these goth-core clogs by Collina Strada could easily be dressed up for office vibes and dressed down for studio visit philosophising. 100% cruelty free and vegan, they are also made 30% recycled materials including a sustainable rubber produced from sugar cane. Available here for $179.00
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We kid you not, www.EnglishSalvage.co.uk is a treasure trove for second-hand interiors and garden finds and we have lost more time scrolling on this page than we care to publicly admit. Think trophy pieces like solid marble fireplaces, antique painted wooden sphinxes and huge stone statues of Hermes. Now is the perfect time to pick up the above creepy gargoyles - an art direction must-have for Halloween! Available here for £35,000.00
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The Oxo Food Book – Cook Book Set is vvv cleverly designed to look like a disco stock cube. We envision cracking this open during a first date and cooking something glorious - a surefire way to start any long-term relationship. We have no idea what cuisines the recipes reference but if the same amount of effort went into them as evidently went into the design, they must be good! Available here for £30.
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London-based interiors guru Jermaine Gallacher is a young designer-to-watch. His fusion of camp aesthetics with a gothic twist has been capturing our attention since we found him on Instagram last year. Check out his online store, an emporium for rare artist products by the likes of Viola Lanari and Barnaby Lewis. We’re dreaming of Miranda Keyes’ handmade jesmonite bowl in acid yellow with beads of glass cheekily g-forcing from its edges! Available here for £700
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Artist Mary Heilmann’s bold, geometric style is rendered in cotton and for sale via Karma Bookstore in aid of planned parenthood. Heilmann’s work is a fitting choice for such a fundraiser - inspired by 1960s counterculture in her native California, the artist’s playful, vibrant works reclaim the prevailing narrative that minimalism is objective, serious and male. Our fav Vivian (2015) is available in shades of pink here.
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"I might be coming to Baton Rouge... and if I do I will call you, because I will be looking to have some fun, which as you know usually means violence" said Hunter S. Thompson in an answerphone message to Jackass' Johnny Knoxville (don’t ask). Why do we have such a strange relationship between violence and fun? spittle fave writer Philippa Snow asks in her new book Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment. *aggressively turns page* Available on Repeater books here for £9.16
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London’s resident art-game-culture critics The White Pube have released another round of merch - but hurry, you only have until the end of the week to cop. If you missed out on their critical tees before, now’s your chance! We’ve loved seeing their criticism of non-art-related culture grow over the years, and their ‘Game Pube’ merch from this drop is hilariously on brand.
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This book by cosmic Instagram influencer Stephen Ellcock looks super intriguing. Exploring Albion (the Greek word for Great Britain) through its psychic landscapes, Ellcock depicts us as the unhinged population that we really are. From animal-masked community rituals to occult dreams and psychedelic prophecies – it’s all here. Also featuring artists like William Blake, Derek Jarman, Sutapa Biswas and Chila Kumari Burman. Available here for £18.99
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Everyone’s favourite democratic designer bag Telfar will be available online in any colour plus any size - and when they’re gone they’re gone! Put Friday 23rd in your diaries, set your alarms for 5pm BST, and spend the next few days pondering the endless colour combinations. We’ve got our eyes on the chocolate brown (ver chic) and the silver (fun and festive).
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