So the low-down is i attend this Fashion Business and Design school called FBI (Fashion Business Institute) and it's a pretty rad place.
Just recently i did the 'Fashion journalism' class and we had to write a 500 word piece on anything fashion related.
So of course i left it to last minute due my brains lack of co-operation and my minds preference to watch Skins instead, until BAM! idea galore.
Why not write the bloody assessment ON Skins!Genius, I know. So here is my homework. Relish and enjoy.
Then I saw this angel, she was dressed in leather.
Sex, drugs, parties and cute English accents, what more could you ask for in a cult television show. Fuck new level, Skins take teen dramas to a whole new dimenion.
I CAME ACROSS this God-scent of a show one lazy Friday night channel-flicking session. Adolescent attention caught, I watched. Forty-five minutes later I had to turn the telly off and just sit there in the dark to absorb what I had just witnessed.
Seemingly antithetic to the dubious and fabricated sob stories explored within 90210, Gossip Girl and others alike, Skins offer a whole new take on teen dramas. Basic storyline involves the youth culture in Bristol, London with a heavy, HEAVY emphasis on sex, drugs and all things decadent. Know not only are the father-son BAFTA* award winning duo, Brain Elsley and Jamie Brittain on my “People I must meet before I die” list, but also Mr Edward Gibbon – the all mighty, all knowing, all divine show stylist.
Providing style flavours to suit all your tastebuds, Gibbon bestows a fashion fiesta of all the threads you wish you were brave enough to wear. The fore-mentioned angel in leather is no more than the enigmatic and elusive Miss Effy Stonem. Rocking the grunge look, I have never seen anyone look more beguiling and beauteous. With a colour range of black to dark blue, one would think options are limited, but by golly I have never seen such a selection. Juxtaposing stiff leathers with lacy legging, androgynous looks with feminine statement jewellery, and heroin-addict makeup with beautifully trashed frocks.
If the whole “I don’t give a fuck” look doesn’t rev your engines, there’s another two whole sets of cast members to pick from (they completely re-cast for the “second generation”), where no character is analogous. Whether it is Cassie in a retro spiral, Freddie dominating the “I never shower, but I can still pull chicks” demeanour, Cook the archetypal James Dean model or Pandora, the naive virgin who appears to get dressed in the dark but still look adorable.
Come one, come all, take your pick, I guarantee whatever your fashion fetish is, it will be in Skins. So check it out on http://www.surfthechannel.com/ and I pledge my soul you too will become addicted.
