My Friend Brix

Posted by Fashion Editor at Large

I'm currently at Babington House about to assist in an event named "An Evening with Brix Smith-Start." A lot of people find it an unlikely pairing, but nevertheless the fact remains Brix is one of my dearest friends and I adore her. Which is why tonight, at 7.30, I will be interviewing Brix in front of a live audience who have paid to see/hear her at Babington. I compiled a Power Point presentation full of images of Brix's life from her as a big-haired precocious L.A teenager who counted Bret Easton Ellis as a friend, to a rock star in the group The Fall (and living in Manchester), to the girl friend of violinist Nigel Kennedy and now fashionista, pug lover and co-owner - with her husband Philip - of the Start boutique in Shoreditch. Not forgetting of course her growing television career. Brixie has co-hosted Gok's Fashion Fix, Promzillas, and pops up regularly on This Morning as fashion correspondent.

Brix with her bass guitars

To assist in the presentation, I've put my two favourite Fall videos in here - plus a hilarious interview with Brix and Mark E. Smith of The Fall, and more of Brix the fashionista. They wouldn't work within the Power Point...Grrr... So what better window than here?

GHOST IN MY HOUSE



L.A





Interview on Snub tv




The Start of Start



Brix at LFW

MEET TERRY

Posted by the Fashion Editor at Large

 

The word plushie amuses me and I admit I do have a thing for strange looking toys. In fact, may share my green "Jackie" teddy with red clown lips with you one day soon (named for Jackie Stallone), and reveal my collection of "Bed Head" dolls.

My very part time hobby for plushies explains why I was like a kid in toy shop with excitement when one of my friends Brix Smith Start of the Start Boutique in London's Shoreditch commissioned a woman called the Felt Mistress aka Louise Evans to create a bunch of plushies (felt and fun fur toys to you and me) to adorn her London Fashion Week window. Brix is nothing if not off the wall; she is a woman who made up a song and a dance about the cloaca. What more could you possibly expect from her other than a menagerie of plushies running rampage in her store while all the lights are out?

The toys arrived at Start Boutique yesterday and Brix has already made this short film to showcase them. My favourite plushie so far is Terry, below. Apparently, Terry (who you will meet halfway through) is inspired by Brix; when you shake him, he growls. I like that he is wearing a The Fall T-shirt. Is this how Brix felt after a night playing guitar in the full flow of her Rock n Roll life with The Fall in the 80's? I shall be treating myself to a Terry, and may even commission the Felt Mistress to do a plushie of my girlfriend for her forthcoming significant birthday.

Since the above video was done the plushies have been been made into a window display at Start. The Fashion Junior at Large will be photographing the window on her way to work in the morning. Brix says that "Terry is the naughtiest toy in the shop. He is pulling the wig off one of the mannequins, and earlier was looking up one of their 3.1 Phillip Lim dresses."  

The plushies are for sale! From £70 to £600. Find some of them here at the Start website.

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