rosy nicholas

hero

2011-12-03T13:21:00.001-08:00

a new animation by me for Heroes: A Month of Worship on LEISURE. David Hockney/Grace Jones/Egypt/L.A/bums/hats/colour.you can go see it now downstairs in the video gallery at Dreambags Jaguarshoes or over here on vimeo!

lookbook

2011-11-08T13:14:00.000-08:00

freds lookbook is here and looks amazing.all dreamy and out of focus.shoes look great.im happy.cant wait for next season already.

M-DUBZ

2011-10-20T06:29:00.000-07:00

last week my lovely friend Angus took me to Matthew Williamson's birthday party.i got to borrow the best Craig Lawrence dress for it and felt a million bucks.probably about the same amount richer everyone else at the party was than me.yep, that is a giraffe head on the wall above the dance floor.

shooting freddy shoetime

2011-10-02T05:51:00.000-07:00

great day with the usual Fred Butler girlcore team shooting her lookbook.this girls legs were incredible and made my shoes look pure sexy.cant wait for the real thing.

lets do this

2011-09-20T02:42:00.000-07:00

ive started tweeting.please join me.http://twitter.com/#!/RosyNicholas.

susie talks fred

2011-09-18T05:48:00.000-07:00

Susie Bubble did a nice preview piece about Freds S/S 12 collection which feature shoes made by ME! read it HERE.go fredddy!!

miss this guy

2011-08-20T14:31:00.000-07:00

this is my old desk.today i miss it.this picture was taken for The W Project exhibition guide for the show in March and it reminded me i never posted my answers to their lady based questions which you can read here.

H.O.O

2011-08-15T13:44:00.000-07:00

House of Organza this year was called MUSE and was all a Kim Howells signature shade of blue. my job was to draw on the walls and wear kims blue cloud headpiece on the night.there were some amazing pieces this year from Fred Butler/Craig Lawrence/Piers Atkinson.., go look here and watch the beautiful film by Daniel Sannwald.

DAZED

2011-07-20T01:35:00.000-07:00

some of my pieces from Freds last collection were shot for Dazed & Confused by Robbie Spencer.great to be part of this issue, guest edited by Bjork.

Toms

2011-07-16T08:33:00.000-07:00

instore display for Toms shoes at No-one in shoreditch, paper shoes and illustrations for a special limited edition tote bag.

big bangles

2011-07-10T07:01:00.000-07:00

black and white bangles for a russian vogue shoot.cross fingers they make it in.

black and shiny

2011-06-20T13:15:00.000-07:00

never got proper pictures of this guy.on my desk and setting up at The W project.

rosy roses

2011-06-01T01:49:00.000-07:00

Me and sam made big paper roses at Andy Hillmans studio the other day for a Jo Malone window to celebrate the Royal wedding.they smelt great.there they are in the window looking dead romantic.

ThreeDeeeeee

2011-05-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

i was just part of the THREEDEE show at Jaguar Shoes with some very excellent illustrators.here are my drawings and my pages in the accompanying booklet.specs are provided so go give your eyeballs a good time.

Italian Vogue

2011-05-14T01:27:00.000-07:00

Me and fred made Italian Vogue!! A well sexy spread shot by Miles Aldridge and styled by Patti Wilson who called in our pieces from Freds "Phosphorescent Omni-Present" collection.Here is a shot of my silver metropolis inspired earpieces and a still from the behind the scenes film you can watch on Vogue.it.it stinks of glamour and money.YESSSSSSSS.

press day

2011-04-10T15:33:00.000-07:00

Freds display at her press day, featuring my crown and shin pads.

POW

2011-02-22T11:50:00.000-08:00

Its time again for another collection by Fred Butler, INCANDESCENT META-MORPH-INCESSANT.Back to her full spectrum paper self, i couldn't have been more pleased to make this crown and leggy piece for this season.The colour pallette made us so happy, it was pure fun making together.Plus we got the old girlcore team back ( Kim Howells styling and Elisha Smith Leverock directing) and shot a little film, which was screened at Somerset House during london fashion week.BIG! Heres some shots of my pieces on the shoot day, me and freddy at our screening and the film on the big screen.Now, you can catch the film exclusively on Diane Pernet's ASVOF site here!

supermarket sarah

2010-12-01T04:50:00.000-08:00

my supermarketsarah wall is now LIVE! go have a look, you can buy stuff like this, plus accessories from fred butler, amazing tassel earrings from jennyjenny ,my cleopatra t-shirt form lazy oaf and more here..

fred meow

2010-11-28T05:24:00.000-08:00

my girl freddy went on a trip to the lazy oaf offices and picked up this multi coloured print cat top which i drew the pussies for a while back.basically made for her.you can buy one here.

new prints

2010-11-25T03:54:00.000-08:00

couple of new screenprints.ready for christmas presents and available to buy on my supermarketsarah wall which is coming soon!

vision with kim

2010-11-09T05:21:00.000-08:00

Kim Howells story for Vision Magazine has just come out with photographer Victor de Mello featuring my big paper shoulder piece that Kim commissioned especially for the shoot.Kim always smashes it, the whole story looks amazing.Best girl Fred Butler also put it on AnOther loves for more to see.whoop whoop

rosy for fred

2010-10-28T05:54:00.000-07:00

Here is a sneaky peek of Fred Butlers new collection from her press day at Cube last week.For the second season i will be contributing a few pieces to freds collection including these ear Deco-rations. These are key pieces from the S/S 11 range which will be sure to make another amazing film with Elisha Smith-Leverock and Kim Howells when we shoot in a few weeks.i cant wait.girl core at its best.

birthday suit

2010-09-03T05:16:00.000-07:00

Lovely bishi in this months special 30th birthday issue of i-D shot by Nick Knight, wearing the necklace i made her. i think shes looking particularly regal. me and bish felt pretty royal that day, it was so much fun and its so boom to be involved in this massive issue if only a little bit.i bought the naomi cover of course-still sexual.

noiseBOX

2010-07-25T05:10:00.000-07:00

this is Shingai in rehearsals trying on the necklace i made her for the Noisettes Lovebox performance last weekend.this girl is as good inside as she looks on the outside so i had a fresh time making something for her, as well as getting to try on the white onesie... alot.more colour pics from the actual day coming soon.

they dont sell fridges

2010-07-22T10:40:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago i did some drawing and making for lazy oaf's installation at Selfridges, who now stock a range of their tees in store.lots more lazy oaf/selfridges collaborations coming up this christmas including a teatowel i did some drawing for.actually, it wont be long now because selfridges christmas shop goes up in...AUGUST.jokes .

wrap party

2010-07-17T09:46:00.000-07:00

i worked with the very lovely Alex Cunningham on some oversized wrapped presents, for Peter Jensens Resort 2010 look book.it was BIG fun.all inspired by Peters favourite childhood book, Lisa's birthday.there was cake, a pinata and of course beautiful clothes,shoes and hats.alex's walnut whip hair and earings combo was what i was hoping for in my party bag.

SKINny skin skin

2010-07-12T02:03:00.001-07:00

yeah thats right.skunk anansie are BACK!and currently on tour around the world.stylist kim howells commissioned me to make a few pieces for skins tour wardrobe. i met kim when i was making some of these gold card pieces for Fred Butler as part of her A/W 10 collection film 'Sunshowers'.we decided they would look great on skin so i made her this gold shoulder piece and some matching cuffs in gold and a fresh gun metal grey.hopefully we'll have some tour pics of skin soon.cant wait.weak as i aaaaaaaaaam!!!

ESKA

2010-07-07T02:55:00.000-07:00

the beautiful Eska wearing my gold ear piece for her recent gig in brixton. Eska also worked some of the gold kryptonite recently at glastonbury where she was vocalist with Matthew Herberts big band.Matthew is playing field day this year, i cant wait to see them live again.

colour me bad

2010-07-03T07:34:00.000-07:00

giant colour pencils for lazy oafs new stationary display at the the tate! pencil me in.

knitting nancy

2010-07-01T04:30:00.000-07:00

my childhood knitting doll nancy has come back into my life and has so far spawned this wooly beaut.i made this necklace for supermarket sarah when she was doing an installation at selfridges.this necklace and more of my wares will be able to buy at sarahs event at tatty devine on the 15th of july.come!

me, garfield, hockney

2010-06-02T15:50:00.000-07:00

read about me and some of the best boys in my life, yeah that includes you kenny (dad).a very nice blog about me here.i look like a dickhead but nevermind.those are my david hockney glasses and my current favourite vogue themed dvd's.

de nile

2010-05-28T15:32:00.000-07:00

to celebrate the launch of lazy Oafs drawing club range of t-shirts, which includes my lovely cleopatra garms, the oafs had a little party.me and my studio friend/girl for life, chrissie abbott did some LIVE drawing.we both like egypt so we made this.here we are laughing.we do it very well.probably more so than live drawing.yeeeeeeaayy.

cleopatra

2010-05-20T15:24:00.000-07:00

you can now buy my cleopatra t-shirt from my lovely friends Lazy Oaf, online and in their stores.its very nice.

selfridges window

2010-05-02T15:07:00.000-07:00

i assisted the lovely fred butler last month with her wonder room window at selfridges, making her some nests for her paper birds and doing the double night shifts of installing.selfridges at 4am-not as much like 'Mannequin' as we had hoped.her scheme was called "metropolis ridiculous".look at these pictures.nuff said.

my bodys telling me yes

2010-02-16T06:50:00.001-08:00

thankyou to everyone who came down to visit me at the valentines fayre on sunday.i fed my black heart with black drinks and had a lovely time.here is the filth wrapping paper i had to offer amongst my wares.

selfridges beauty

2010-02-12T11:35:00.000-08:00

At the end of last year me and seb did some work making mini sets for Studio Toogood.here are some prep shots and a few of the final ads for the Selfridges beauty campaign.

is that a ritz?

2010-01-22T11:09:00.000-08:00

no eddie.these crackers were made by me and my boy sebs as a christmas mailout for Madmedia.after screenprinting my illustrations we cut+folded+glued+tied 100 of these beauts in time for christmas.phew! seems like years ago already.actually im quite happy about that memory being distant.

SHOWstudio with BISHI

2010-01-07T05:48:00.000-08:00

easily one of my favourite days in 2009 came right at the end, just before christmas.my beautiful friend Bishi asked me to make her a necklace for her portrait with SHOWstudio's Nick Knight, part of his 100 portraits project celebrating 30 years of i-D magazine.here are some of my shots of bishi backstage and in the studio at Somerset House.what a thrill to be able to watch Bishi wearing my piece, whilst she is photographed by THE Nick Knight! what a guy.non stop charming.Thankyou to my girl Fred Butler.without her friendship this year, id have never made it to this place.Fred watched the live stream of this shoot excitedly from her studio and took some screen grabs of NIck and Bishi at work.look here.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

2009-12-23T00:52:00.000-08:00

christmas cards for YCN's pop up shop,looking quite lovely against my blanket knitted by my grandma.merry christmas x

BISHI

2009-12-15T11:25:00.000-08:00

this is my new friend Bishi looking really beautiful on set of her video for 'One Nation'.i made some gold dangly bits to accompany her all seeing eye necklace and all gold vintage dress.see more of Bishi here.thankyou to Paula Harrowing for lovely shots.

RON the don

2009-12-12T10:21:00.000-08:00

Top cat Ron! wearing my pussy couture crown for house of Fred Butler.photographs of Ron rejecting it/rocking it by his owner and lovely man-brilliant photographer Dan Wilton.see more of Dan and Ron's excellent friendship on film here.

catdog

2009-12-02T15:42:00.000-08:00

fred and me made things together for the selfridges christmas windows.i was in charge of doggy crowns.as always, bloody good times with my girl butler.however she has a penchant for a pussycat and so our doggy couture went feline, in a specail commission for everyones favourite ginger (bar boris becker and belinda carlisle) Ron!

(see above!)

HERBIE

2009-11-20T08:46:00.000-08:00

the greatness that is Matthew Herbert, here on set for his new video wearing a bowtie i made him.last month i got to see him playing live at the Barbican with my wonderful friend Fred Butle r.we nodded and whooped and bounced all night.i made a special black kryptonite bowtie for the performance.more pics of that to follow.big love to rowdy superstar for being cilla black and introducing us.im so excited to do more for this whole fresh family in the new year.

bippity boppity boo

2009-10-24T17:11:00.000-07:00

magic owls,eyeball jellies,glitter balls and a rainbow coloured wool party in my arms.a pretty radical week at work.

go team scrabble!

2009-10-20T16:31:00.000-07:00

this is the lovely handmade paper scrabble board i made with fred butler for her special schedule page in the fashion week newspaper the Daily.996 individual multicoloured 3D card letters! took ages but looked great- a running theme when working with Butler.always worth it.photographed by Amy Gwatkin in the dead of night in dalston.thats how we roll.

supermarket sarah

2009-09-23T17:35:00.000-07:00

my new pharoah screenprint is now available to buy at the wonderful SUPERMARKET SARAH, within a specially curated line up by my favourite spectrum sister-FRED BUTLER.

pom bear

2009-09-15T16:37:00.000-07:00

a pom pom belt and a menagerie of other hand crafted accessories.

Holly Fulton

2009-09-08T14:46:00.000-07:00

cardboard robot arms for new friend and amazing stylist Nobuko Tannawa.Heres a shot for her Dazed Digital piece on the very fresh Holly Fulton.

i love YOU so

2009-08-29T16:30:00.000-07:00

Graham all the way from L.A posted me on We Love You So, the blog for Spike Jonze's new film Where the Wild Things Are. My own eyeballs have been enjoying the Maurice Sendak masterpiece for years and i am most excited about the the films release.what a treat to be liked by them.

chewie the cake

2009-06-23T07:32:00.000-07:00

chewie birthday cake for hannah.shes loves that guy and he tasted great.

magic gems

2009-06-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

cant get enough of these little cosmic card guys.such a pleasing mix of shapes and colour, i could pump them out forever.i might actually.

paper bag

2009-05-21T03:16:00.000-07:00

this is the massive and very excellent multicoloured magazine weaved chanel bag that i helped fred make for her kokon to zai window.boom.

fold with fred

2009-05-19T07:35:00.000-07:00

some folded fondant fancies that me and fred butler made for her very useful and funtimes papercraft workshop at the design museum.

sale sale sale

2009-04-03T10:24:00.000-07:00

heres some little jazzy colour paper pyramind guys for lazy oaf's sample sale window last weekend.

last christmas..

2009-04-02T05:11:00.000-07:00

..i made this for the ycn tree.looking at these photos now makes me want a hamster so i can make him candy colour bedding like that.i could call him john candy.

ed wood

2009-01-11T15:07:00.000-08:00

mr tree in the studio.he's part poly-part papier mache, made for a john lewis project.

wheel of fortune

2009-01-11T14:43:00.001-08:00

great colours.great look.

pom

2008-11-26T06:17:00.000-08:00

a new naked pom pom man for my friend jack, using this excellent techno wool i got in japan.

ycn world

2008-09-28T15:38:00.001-07:00

YCN asked me to make some things for their world of YCN, to be featured in their new book. heres what me did.a birdhouse,birdcage and gun metal glitter top mountains.

concrete hermit

2008-09-27T03:06:00.000-07:00

i made some special edition screen prints of my two head man drawing for Concrete Hermit's recent print show.see more stuff from their shop and gallery here.

granny

2008-09-26T14:23:00.000-07:00

9 blue grandmas.i made these as badge backs to some knitted brooches for lazy oaf.go visit their shop. lazy oaf

your face/your body

2008-09-26T13:59:00.000-07:00

this is armen armenia getting some refreshment during the shoot for his wonderful track

'covered in love'. watch him work his body at www.myspace.com/armenarmenia

drawing

2008-07-26T09:59:00.001-07:00

couple weeks ago i went into the YCN studio and did a drawing - LIVE! here i am.

make it right

2008-05-30T03:49:00.000-07:00

ARMEN ARMENIA on set at the video shoot for his no.1 hit 'covered in love'.

tee

2008-04-28T05:17:00.001-07:00

some new tee's i printed this week.

mitch mitchell

2008-04-28T05:12:00.001-07:00

our super 8 film didnt come out = getting cussed hardcore.

but we are over it now boy because mitch mitchell is back in production.here is montgomery as mitch,looking as sexual as ever and making great use of my boom spaceman suit.

you make me feel terrible

2008-04-10T14:08:00.000-07:00

im on the lightbox.my black and white, paper, solo, epic animation Terrible is now back in production. wonderful beats and inspiration by ARMEN ARMENIA.its going to hurt so good.

space raider

2008-04-06T10:07:00.000-07:00

On set shooting our super 8 film for this years straight 8 competition.simon the pie man smashing it in the lead role.

pumps

2008-03-23T16:08:00.000-07:00

Here are the plimsoles i decorated for Lazy Oafs 'Pimp My Pump' exhibition.

Yeti and Mouse have been around the world and are now on sale at www.lazyoaf.com