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Nina

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About Me



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Sew, I mean, so...I'm Nina and I'm training to be a tailor at at Dege and Skinner on Savile Row, after quiting life in an office and finally figuring out what it was that I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing.I have now finally found it (although I have a sneaking suspicion that I've always really known it but it took a leap of faith to get there!!)Learning to make beautiful suits makes me happy...

My Interests

Makingdreamsreality/musiclistening/filmwatching/bookreading/ drunkendancing/alcoholingeneral..........................any thingthatdoesn'tinvolvesittingbehindadeskwithhundredsofother people/desksworking for someoneelse

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people who make their own style choices - be that in fashion, literature, music, whatever - as long as it's their own and not led by the myriad of magazines telling you what you 'need'!This is what I'm talking about! 'Tom Baker...Bespoke Tailor' by Mark Windows .. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

Tom waits,velvetunderground,bowie,beck,blondie,stone roses,dylan,mward, arcade fire,blues of all kinds,blur, charlatans, Eels, Coral, Dandy Warhols, Gorky's, Gomez, Super Furries, Hot Hot Heat, The Rapture, Joy Division,Love, The Stones, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Pulp, Radiohead, Van the Man, Leonard Cohen, the shins,Seafood,Muse, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash, Carole King, Tamla Mowtown, Beck, The Charlatans ....and of course the Fourers...

Movies:

Any nam films (especially Full Metal Jacket), Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid (Plus selected old westerns!) animation, noir, marilyn.....

Television:

Far too much....ask my brother! So I have banned them from my house to stop the distraction.. Damned TV...

Books:

Anything and everything by Richard Brautigan....a man who can make the everyday beautifulTalking of which...if any one still has my copy of Sombrero Fallout can I please have it back...I miss it

Heroes:

Vivienne Westwood, Tommy Nutter, Tom Baker, David Bowie and Rene Gruau for beautiful graphics

My Blog

Time to stop

Being so angry and so damned negative... So I apologise to those unknown people I have bitched about since I started blogging. I have come to realise that I was being a complete hypocrite nad generall...
Posted by Nina on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:18:00 PST

Angry&

Im always angry. Not at the state of our country, how Conservative our Labour government has become, how we seem to be hanging off the coat tails of the US and entering countries uninvited to cause fu...
Posted by Nina on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:19:00 PST

In love with

my suitI think the number 48 passed through a very brief but wonderful time wharp today on its way through Hackney, bound for the delights (!) of London Bridge.At the top of Mare Street, just opposite...
Posted by Nina on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:17:00 PST

Addicted to ID

or a walking Sunday Times Style spread...I can be quite angry but mostly I'd like to think I'm fairly laid back (those who know me may well disagree!) but there are just some things I really dislike.....
Posted by Nina on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:29:00 PST

There is no room for fashion to exist in nature,

but plenty the other way around.Unless that is I can design something totally fabulous that can be warn in the wilds of the forest and on a campsite, which is warm and lightweight and snuggly but fits...
Posted by Nina on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:09:00 PST

The Silent Dual

A blisteringly hot July Sunday afternoon....melting faces all around...the tube door opens with a swoosh and a blast of slightly less hot, damp, salty air cools the carriage for the slightest of secon...
Posted by Nina on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:38:00 PST

Fashion Stinks

Visit stinks at; http://fashionstinks.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Nina on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:11:00 PST

Fahionologist

Anna Piaggi - Fashion Legend or just too many clothes?Thanks to the V&A for putting on an at least vaguely intellectual exhibition on fashion. I've been meaning to gofor weeks but somewhatinevitably t...
Posted by Nina on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 05:26:00 PST

Standing on the cross roads....

...with a suitcase in my hand. So I've finally done it...I have handed my notice in and can no longer be considered a career administrator! So much has happened in the last few weeks that I felt compe...
Posted by Nina on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:05:00 PST