Controlled Art Attack

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>> Alright, so I've been lazy today because I've just landed in New York and having dealt with a very odd flight of Delta pizza boxes sliding all over the floor and policemen stomping onboard when we landed, my brain can't handle any more than just a note to say that today is an Ana Locking day with sentiments towards her shoes shared by Kingdom of Style.

I never got to say how much I would have loved to have seen Locking's A/W 10-11 collection in motion given that as a backdrop to her 'Spinning Destiny' collection was an actual spinning wheel of projected colours reflecting the palette of the intensely bright marbled collection.  Give me a set with spinning wheels and I'm a square-eyed piece of pliable putty.  Give me slightly garish, slightly naive ways of colour application and I can't help but regress to reruns of Art Attack in my head.  Ana Locking's colour wheels are therefore most welcome…

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From the shot above though, rather than going wild for the heels and wedges that come paint splattered and caged up…

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…I'm more taken with the printed desert boots for men that would make a sturdy companion (with an artistic temperament…) for my Clarks paisley print boots…

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Despite all the colourful strokes that made for an exciting show wheel and finale of acrylic painted textures, I also favoured the more muted looks… the camel and dusky pink working a treat in this sharp wool cape… as well as in the menswear blazer where a little gem of pink shines through.  There are only so much wheeled capers the eyes can take after all.

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23 comments

  1. I totally love these colourful jackets and boots!! TOTALLY!
    I have an old white trench that I’m bored of.. maybe I should give it a try and see what happens!
    I’ve already coloured the bottons and it already looks a bit more interesting.. I guess I’ll give it the “full treatment” this afternoon 😉

  2. MY GOD!
    a) I used to have a crush on the Art Attack guy, and
    b) Those wedges – not to mention the whole collection – are amazing!!!
    Thanks for posting, I would have missed this otherwise!

  9. Makes me want to start splashing colors all over certain clothes! Although that muted camel-pink cape steals my heart!
    p.s.That flight sounded odd alright, I’d say scary!

  11. Why have I not heard of Ana locking before?? These are amazing. Gotta check out her website! Love the paint wheel in the background too – did you make those as a kid? I used to love doing them.
    Did you ever find out what was going on with the arrests on your plane? When you tweeted about it I googled “delta jfk arrest” but nothing recent came up…
    xxx
    Duck

  13. OMG, this is just stunning. The colour combinations are absolutely awesome. I know how hard it might get sometimes to pull together great colours for a collection and especially to make sure that they all work together. Well, Ana s done some pretty good job.
    Thanks for sharing Ana’s work. Loved looking through her website.
    http://elenavasilieva.blogspot.com/

  14. The shapes are as bold and elegent as the colours, I have a wedding to attend soon, I am itching to wear colour. I also demand that as well as Art Attack, Fluffets come back. FLUFFETS.

  16. this art attack so crazyy !!!!!!!!
    i love iiitttt !!!!!
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  17. Hi!
    I don’t know what to think about this collection in acrylic painting!
    I prefere the man’s blazer. so nude. so chic.
    In this connection, I’m looking for more information about a fresh parisian brand: “Studio Mega Fun”.
    Do you know this brand???
    Samuel.

  20. From the bottom up, the second picture is so your style!! The pale pink, the long blazer, the casual… 🙂
    litlstrawberry.blogspot.com

  21. Your arrival reminds me of the t-shirts that say “Welcome to New York” — then there’s an image of a gun — then “Duck, motherfucker!” under that.
    Just how we like to greet people, that’s all.

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