LONDON FACES
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Namalee Bolle, muse, model, singer, stylist, N7...
… is known for her radical style. Nicknamed the 'queen of nu rave', she is
a muse for Basso & Brooke, and is about to release her first single.
I'm on my way to the Trocadero centre a muse for the brand. But you're just as
to style a fashion shoot for the cover likely to find me wearing something
of SUPERSUPER, the magazine I co- I found in a bin or a joke shop.
founded. The car is filled with SpongeBob I love being known as the queen of nu
SquarePants balloons and sparkly outfits. rave! Nu rave is about hybrid culture.
My styling career started when I won a It started as an art/fashion based look
young fashion journalism award from The in clubs like Gauche Chic and Antisocial
Guardian and blagged a job as fashion then a lot of people on the scene also
editor of Sleazenation at age 20. I'm also started making music. It’s very DIY and
a singer/songwriter, muse, model and because of MySpace it spread across the
writer. I’m very schizophrenic but like globe. Nu rave celebrates imperfection
the challenge of doing so much. and goes against the idea of being ‘cool’
I describe my style as maxi-maximalist by encouraging emotional behaviour like
cartoon couture! I’m a total punk and enthusiasm and having fun. A bit like
very outlandish. I don't follow anyone. friendly punk! All the colour you see on
I like to throw random stuff together; the high street now in music and fashion
sometimes I pick things up off my
bedroom floor and put them on in the
"I'd rather be dead
order that I find them.
than mediocre"
Style is doing what the hell you feel like.
It’s about letting your personality shine. is because of us lot!
I'd never tell anyone how to dress; Namazonia is my first single. It’s a
as a stylist I seek to inspire, not dictate. powerpop club anthem about relentless
Celebs have terrible style, mostly; when optimism, self empowerment and
they've been ‘fashionably’ dressed by positivity. It's launching at London
a stylist, there's very little about them as Fashion Week with my Namazonia
an individual. I like people who take risks fashion collection at the SUPERSUPER
and get it brilliantly wrong – the ones in show. I want to show how fashion and
the ‘what were you thinking?’ columns. music link together and inspire people
I'd love to be in one of those! I'd rather to be DIY and do stuff themselves.
be dead than mediocre. I have a fetish for naughty food.
I can't get enough of Cassette Playa's I’m always going to Ed’s Diner for peanut
beautiful cartoon clothes and Emma butter shakes and Patisserie Valerie for
Bell's padded shimmery dresses; they cream cakes. I dance the calories off
make you look like a My Little Pony at IHEARTNIYI which is the club night
robot! I also love Stephen Jones hats and I run at Punk in Soho with avant garde
Jean Charles de Castelbajac; he's the king London rapper/producer Niyi. Its music
of cartoon chic. And I never get bored of policy is ‘badman bass with a smiling
Basso & Brooke's Willy Wonka prints; I'm face!' myspace.com/namalee
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