AXM Magazine Issue 1 - (Page 34) Toni and GUy Hair is so important right now. We find those new ‘we are the guest list’ hair salons based in reclaimed taxi offices around Dalston/North Quarter so intimidating. You can go in pointing at a page you ripped out of Dazed and end up becoming a human experiment in the scissor-hands of some depressed girl who isn’t from Stockport anymore. But we’re not saying Toni and Guy is playing it safe, more like you stand a very high chance of coming out with at least hair that’s fit for the Milan catwalks. Especially if you can get a cut with London Hairdresser of the Year, Cos Sakkas. We’re digging the Label. Men hair and body products too. www.toniandguy.com TopMan A vintage year for boys. 2008 was a bit so-so for old Toppers, but they’re back on form this spring/summer. We’re feeling the new ads, especially the totally gay ‘Quentin Crisp’s nephew on a gondola’ art-direction. All the new lines come in sharply cut retro shapes, with our favourite going by the name Motel Arizona. It’s kind of 50s meets Drugstore Cowboy meets male prostitution on a clothes rack. The one where you get to look like Quentin/David Hockney is called Chelsea Arts Club. It’s nice, but might get you attacked if you have to wait for a Trans-Pennine train at any point in the next few months. Especially if you cross your legs when reading paperbacks. And if you’re going to make yourself bait for fag-haters you may as well rock a codpiece and shock wig or something. We don’t like the Darjeeling line that much, but maybe it’s just because the model has long hair. Actually, some of it’s cool in an ‘I write lyrics for a medium-crap garage band but they won’t let me sing them’ way. Wear it with the shoe-gazing CD we reviewed somewhere round here. And the Spring Break one is also quite 50s, but also quite last year somehow. It’s ok. www.topman.com A LIST HE Wood We so would. We’re not going to spend paragraphs on top notes and bottom notes (uh), but just want to say we love this fragrance almost as much as its name and packaging. Dean and DanSquared2 call He Wood an homage to their native Canada. They make no mention of He Man or erections. Due to this spring’s ‘when I lean on the trailer park jukebox it means I’m pretending to be a rent boy from the 1950s’ look, plus giant trees, Canada is a cool country for most of March. Stock up on your sprays, body wash and scented candles now! Eau de Toilette 30 ml Natural Spray £24 www.dsquared.com FUTUrE diSco Italo gets a bass kick. Last year was all about Italo Disco, which means it’ll probably have a room of its own at Fire for 2009. To make it go nicer with your recreationals, Ibiza party starters Azuli present a new-crop of producers turning up the 80s sound with beefier bass-lines. Burn. Future Disco out 23 March on Azuli Sci-Fi Lo-Fi VoLUME 3 Look into the shoes. Nu rave was only one side of the 1991 revival. The skinny boys with dyed hair and over-sized Timmy Mallet glasses braving Belgian techno on weaker pills than their 90s sisters-in-disco, overlooked the other freak scene of the era: shoe-gaze indie. In this collection, multi-tasking house DJ Rob Da Bank raids the hits of bands like The Jesus & Mary Chain, Ride and Dinosaur Jr. We’re talking walls of guitars and lyrics about preferring Scottish drug heroin to sex. Best listened to when lying on your bed on a Saturday afternoon with some hot geek you’ve started to love. Oh, you just wanna know how to get the look? Think lumberjack shirts, ripped Ts and biker jackets. Alice Dellal with a cock. Rob Da Bank – Sci-Fi Lo-Fi Volume 3 out 16 March on Soma. http://www.toniandguy.com http://www.dsquared.com http://www.topman.com
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