music to my ears and eyes

Toots and the Maytals



Max Romeo and the upsetters



Gregory isaacs

the sartorialist
connection

truth

I discovered Pieter Hugo this week...I am sure that I have seen these images before somewhere.

I love them...they are raw with honesty, and truly capture the reality of Africa.

ready for the shop

This is the First look Ready for sale, I will be putting some of the Gypsy Love collection in a new shop in brick lane called Laundrette..the are a few more pieces yet, but this is the first one, and I feel pretty happy about adding in the belt,I think it gives the Tito Dress a little added value:))
p.s note the new branding...R_A is the ofspring of riyka, for easier and more casual pieces, more info will be on the website in April

its just me

I dont want to seem vain, but I really like these images that a very nice photograher named Modi Bovicelli took of me last year when we where taking some test shots for the Gypsy Love collection...I was just cleaning up my files when I found these.
its me looks like circa 78-79 in my favorite leggings, Take note that the pictures are very blurry, but you can always see my signature wide smile in all of them..

Vincent

Looking at Margiela’s collection on The fashionisto made me think about a couple of Vincents, specially because one of them is appearing around a lot recently due to the amazing “Black swan” that I am yet to see, anyway so these vincents and the margiela collection all represent to me a male aesthetic that I really admire…a man who is confident, has a mysterious strong gaze in his eyes and is pretty much FIERCE…I mean menswear its not really my field, but sometimes I just love looking at the way it is evolving and how it has many different of styles within it, and hey, the is nothing wrong with enjoying a look at some really well dressed fierce men giving you that mysterious look…enjoy the vincents!

Maison Martin Margiela Fall/Winter 2011




Vincent Gallo






Vincent cassel

growing pains

thinking about the past, growing up and the pain of becoming a spotty teenager...listening to my older brother's music blasting through the wall, waiting for the weekly episode of My so called life and swooning over Jordan Catalano...hoping that I would grow up to look like kate moss while my mum dressed me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses....

the little shop of treasures

ceiling!!!!












found another gem next to my studio, this perfect little record/cd shop with all the kinda music I love, and its got an amazing ceiling???!!!