Tim Walker; Story Teller

Today I had a bizarre encounter with a giant doll, snails that were bigger than me and a swan love boat parked on an indoor beach of lurid fake sand. Tim Walker, who graduated in 1994 and spent the early years of his career wasted as a newspaper photographer, has spent the last decade creating weird and wonderful worlds for fashion to inhabit. He doesn't just photograph fashion, he helps create it. That unobtainable, exaggerated fun we associate with this fickle world is played out in Walkers work. From pastel Persian cats, to models hidden under beds made of bones, he leads fashion into the realm of impossible imagination.

The current retrospective at Somerset House allows us to experience his magic first hand, his giant doll is as eerie up close as she is chasing models through the woods.

Happy Halloween

I received a call from my housemates as I was en route home last night- the lollies had run out- we needed more supplies. It was only 6pm! The trick-or-treaters were out in force in the Clapham area. I told her we would hide in the lounge at the back of the house and pretend not to be in, before instantly feeling guilty about it and detouring to the local corner shop for a selection of sweets. I was ever so slightly spooked when the cost of the random selection was £6.66. Devilish!

Getting in the spirit, we carved our pumpkins, joyfully answered the door to hoards of kids covered in fake blood and then embarked on a scary trip out. Our local Picturehouse cinema was screening The Shining, a cult classic I have never seen before. It wasn't too scary that I couldn't sleep, but I was pleased I'd shut the curtains before leaving the house!