Hawaiian Shirts

The Hawaiian shirt is generally regarded as one of the must have items for every beach bum and “big fat party animal”, to quote Homer Simpson but its limited appeal is set to change, with this seasons main trends and influences coming across from stateside.

With many of the best efforts for the Hawaiian shirt this season coming from Adam Kimmel, Paul Smith and Gucci (probably the best Hawaiian shirt you will see all season but the most expensive), Made from Plastic though has taken it upon itself to find one where the shirt dazzles more than the price tag. These come from Hawaiian shirt specialists Karmakula, with an array of designs and colour options.

Made from Plastic’s favourite items include:

Wills-Moody Jumble Sale

Wills-Moody Jumble sale has been running since 2005 and is one of Made from Plastic’s favourite days out in London. The jumble sale is on the 3rd Sunday of every month, held at St Aloysius Social Club in Euston and is the place to be if you love vintage clothing, old records, books, jewellery and much more but if you need a break from the shopping there is a bar.

“It’s ACE! It’s like a gig and shopping all muddled up-this is great!”

-Artrocker

London Book Fair

Made from Plastic is just reminding you that the London Book Fair will be taking place on the 20th-22th of April, London’s Earls Court. The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for sales and distribution content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. There is also the chance to meet and chat to authors.

Skive & Toole

Skive & Toole London is an exciting new leather accessories brand for gentlemen. The brand founded in late 2008 focuses on luxurious and affordable accessories, which capture the essence of classic Britain with a unique and fresh take. Skive & Toole is sure to become a firm favourite of every manbag loving gentleman.

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Little Joy

Made from Plastic is head over heels in love with Little Joy’s self titled debut LP, which was recorded in California on Rough Trade. This record has been booming around the Made form Plastic headquarters nonstop (silly dancing and tone death singing optional).

Little Joy is the side project of The Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, with Rodrigo Amarente and Binki Shapiro making up the rest of the band, who have an easy going tropical folk/indie sound. The album is full catchy tracks, beautiful melodies and harmonies, which make the album a truly enjoyable listen and Made from Plastic is urging you to check out.

Pretty Green

Like the rest of the world Made from Plastic are pretty big Oasis fans and although are favourite Gallagher is Noel, we have always loved Liam’s effortless style. So it was great news in the Made from Plastic headquarters when we heard Liam was to bring out his own clothing range entitled Pretty Green.

Pretty Green is intended to be an up-front, straight talking, classic clothing range, which will be entirely limited edition. It will feature a very rounded collection including footwear, denim, knitwear, jackets, trench coats, parkas, T-shirts, hats and accessories.

Whilst Made from Plastic expects the garments to be quite contemporary, Liam’s favourite item at the moment appears to be a pair of bright leopard print suede loafers, which also gives the impression that some of the pieces will be quite daring and fashion forward.

"Clothes and Music are my passion. I’m not here to rip anyone off and I’m not doing it for the money either. I’m doing it cuz there’s a lack of stuff out there of things I would wear"
-Liam Gallagher

Mjolk

Mjolk, created in 2003 by menswear designer and Denmark Designkole graduate, Lars Stoten together with St Martin’s graduate John Clarke. Mjolk pours new life into male costume; with unflinching design practicality coupled with high-end fabrics and craftsmanship’s.

They offer clean aesthetics that are derived from classic men’s tailoring fused together with colour and beautiful fabrics, giving them a signature look. With a loyal following worldwide, Mjolk has been championed by the likes of David Bowie, Pete Doherty, Scissor Sisters and The Knife.

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From Britten

From Britten is a menswear label from Alex and Tim Britten-finschi. They combine simple, classic and innovative ideas into their designs, with a subtle and original approach to eccentricity. Their first collection in 2006 specialized in shirts, with inspired details and quality fabrics, launching their debut collection at the Motorola Melbourne spring fashion week, which has given them a cult following.

From Britten offer the ability to be dressed up or down or any of direction you wish to take their clothes, with their clothes appealing to those with style and a fine eye for detail.

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April 77

April 77 a tribute to youth movements, counter culture and lifestyle, have achieved true cult status in the UK. Founded in 2002 by 25 year old Brice Partouoche, finding inspiration from underground music scenes, combining quality fabrics with original designs, bold colours and beuatifull finishes to offer quality garments, with most having a unisex feel. They have also just launched a record label, which are available via the site.

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Telepathe

The electro/disco/pop infused, Brooklyn based duo Telepathe are hitting the road on March 18th for South by Southwest, followed by a very exciting tour with Ladytron. Telepathe though, are fresh off the release of their David Sitek produced debut album “Dance Mother”, which is a personal favourite of Made from Plastic and we urging you to check them out. Their T-shirt's are pretty decent too.

E3 All-Stars

Made from Plastic’s favourite club night is back full of even bigger tunes and quirkier dance moves so get yourself down to E3 All Stars on 14th March, 8pm, down at The Victoria in Mile End.

The night will feature its usually hosts, Radeo Vido (James Manning and Aaron Coultate) in the red corner going one on one with Snitch DJs (Elaine and Lawson) in the blue corner ALL NIGHT (Balboa, Creed style). Their usual stylings of electro/techno/pop/hip hop surely taking centre stage in the mix.

Just to wet your appetite here is a mixtape from both the contenders:

1. Snitch DJs-Snitch Tape. Vol 2
2. Radeo Vidio-Back to Business

French Horn Rebellion

French Horn Rebellion, who consist of two Brooklyn based brothers that combine electro, pop and jingly jangly noises have just dropped their new EP “Up All Night”. The title song has yet to leave Made from Plastic’s stereo (it really is that good) and sounds what we would imagine MGMT to sound like if they did sexy

Made from Plastic have a lot of love for this band at the moment and are urging you to check them.

1. French Horn Rebellion-Up All Night
2. French Horn Rebellion-Up All Night(Database remix)

Chewy Chocolate Cookies

Fresh off that brilliant Adele remix, Chewy Chocolate Cookies have brought us a mixtape full of baked goodies, including some of their own original material, with more on its way. Here is the full track listing:

01. Chewy Chocolate Cookies - Still Untitled + FDHC "Silver screen" Acappella

02. Keatch ft. Gehts Noch - Call it Love

03. Phenomania - Who is Elvis (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Re-edit)

04. From monuments to masses - Beyond gold&Elvis (Felix Cartal)

05. Chewy Chocolate Cookies - Apocalypse

06. Royksopp - Happy up here (Boys Noize Remix)07 DJ Manaia - The bass killer

08. Chewy Chocolate Cookies - Numero

09. Cazals - Poor innocent boys (Shinici Osawa Remix)

10. Chewy Chocolate Cookies - Boom boom

11. Lazy Jay - Float my boat

12. Digital Boy - This is motherfucker(Chewy Chocolate Cookies Mix)

13. Junk Project - Brain tool (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Re-edit)

14. Drlkt Freddie - Blood (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)

1. Chewy Chocolate Cookies-Mixtape

Alternative Fashion Week

Alternative Fashion week is getting that bit closer and Made from Plastic can’t wait. It’s held at the infamous Spitalfields Market from 20-24th April and hosts the most original and creative collections from a fresh crop of new and innovative designers. It will showcase 20 different designers each day, with tons of stalls selling lots of treats for the fashion hungry and its FREE, YES FREE!!

Culture Prophet

Culture Prophet, aka Mark Barksdale and Christopher Masse originally broke onto the scene with a superb Digitalism remix, which acted as a platform for them to come alive with some of their own original productions, more top draw remixes and a European tour which saw their electro/synth DJing reach the masses.

With the world set to wake up to Culture Prophet in 2009, here are a few of Made from Plastic personal favourites.

1. Does it Offend You, Yeah!-We Are Rockstars(Culture Phrophet remix)
2. Digikid-84-B. Boy Underground(Culture Phrophet remix)