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$hukrie

clothing designer / stylist

About Me

About Me
Studied clothing design in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as apprenticeship under my father for Joel's Tailors. Relocated to London and Sweden where I was garment technologist...ie.pattern making/design for Iggi MFG mainly.We also subcontracted for Unabomber & Silas...freelanced for Kurios PR,Dunlop Greenflash,The Dispensary, Michael Keller,Artomatic and Fletcher...started SHH...worldwide with Shigeto Ikeno from Sendai, Japan in 2001. Distributed mainly in the U.K and Japan through our agency in Tokyo,Japan called Style Co. Returned to South Africa continued with our lable shh...worldwide.Opened a store called DSTRCT 26 in 2004 with 2 friends where we housed my collection as well as other labels such as Cacheral,Chloe,Puma,Adidas and some vintage glasses unfortunately that did not work too well in APE TOWN and we had to go our separate ways...In 2006 started a new label called Copy Cat with my 2 partners.Mens&ladies clothing mainly and some accessories.a small collection of future basics...work in progress ...

My Interests

GOD and Creation ... family,vintage clothing,deadstock i.e. ... Cazals,Christian Dior,Fila,Maminna,Zeiss and Courreges sunglasses,shoes, trainers,record collecting,garment construction, the future of humanity ...

I'd like to meet:

First and formost THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR Insha-Allah...PLEASE TAKE NOTE ! ! ! if you a GUY / BAND / SOMETHING i don't know please don't bother with a friend request 'cos i'll deny your a$$ and you will be blocked for LIFE...don't mean to be rude.i have enough of the above on my page already but if you are industry peeps then hit me up fo'sho i will accept...

Music:

hip-hop,reggae, soul, electronica, jazz ... or whatever suits the mood of the day. if i enjoy it thats all that counts to me. maybe the kwaito kick and the kwaito march for those in da know ...

Movies:

Bladerunner, Blow Up, Brother, 2001 and 2010 A Space Odessey,Spirited Away,Great Yokai War,Babel...

Television:

Bold and the Beautiful & &de Laan...? nawh just kidding only watch it with my mom...

Books:

The Qur'an, kitaabs, anything by William Gibson and Haruki Murakami, magazines ... Oyster, Purple, Self Service, Sleek, Numero, Tank, Another Magazine, Vice, Exit, No.10, Mens no, no ... Wallpaper, Dansk, Fjords, i.d ... etc.

Heroes:

Nabi Muhammad (S.A.W.)and His Companions ...

My Blog

No more Magic...

Damn!!!assholes at the DTI denied my application 'cos they could'nt differentiate between a Sole Prop. and a C.C...anyway better luck next time all the same something more suitable has come ...
Posted by $hukrie on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:49:00 PST

copy-cat...spring/summer 06/07

hello everyone... did a shoot with peter christianson recently for www.zoozoom.com some online glossy...shoot is called nightfalls.the clothing is under my name shukrie joel...also some menswear from ...
Posted by $hukrie on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:53:00 PST