Sketchy Daily Situations

Having collaborated with street style photographer james bent and worked with artist dawn ng, hisyam abd rahman (our own graphic designer and resident artist) is no stranger to the world of pencilling. Here, he casts his dark-whimsy and satirical eye over the season’s offbeat looks, illustrating them, off the runway, and into the scenes of the everyday.

Portrait of Tammy Strobel

Having collaborated with street style photographer james bent and worked with artist dawn ng, hisyam abd rahman (our own graphic designer and resident artist) is no stranger to the world of pencilling. Here, he casts his dark-whimsy and satirical eye over the season’s offbeat looks, illustrating them, off the runway, and into the scenes of the everyday. 

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Is the tawny-haired woman dressed in the hooded DKNY fringed boiler suit caught in an Inception delusion, or is the short-bobbed one in the Louis Vuitton cut-out polka-dot gown trapped in an artistic illusion?

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Maria Grazia Chiuri dishes out a crustacean-embroidered Dior bib: good enough to be eaten with your lobster - extra dressing optional, and wine, just a sip. 

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They’re not plastic, but look fantastic - that’s how these girls do slick. It’s red at Gucci, purple and blue at Kenzo; from the ’70s to ’80s till today at the grocer’s - it’s forever chic.

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Move in or make room. Just don’t get too close to the sisters three, as eye-catching as their floral vase-like (Salvatore Ferragamo), spiky (Junya Watanabe) and exaggeratedly-proportioned (Jil Sander) silhouettes be. 

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Left, right, left. “Right, just get out of the way,” she said, unstoppable in her wide-shouldered Balenciaga jacket (right), to the immovable being in her Comme des Garcons statement dress (left) the size of a bed. 

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Bejewelled high-society she-wolf meets waist-belted huntress in this zoological display.

It’s these fur-lined looks of Moschino (left) and Lanvin (right) that enable the women to rule the world today. 

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