25 year old artist and illustrator Alicia Rosam was creative from the moment she could walk, but stopped it all to concentrate on a career in the Police Force. In May 2007, after extreme fitness training and studying she was informed that her application for the Police Force was denied, and as a form of recovery Alicia started to draw again, displaying her craft on the internet.
Since that moment her life has not stopped. She now has her art and illustrations in private collections in over 16 countries worldwide and is due to exhibit at 8 art exhibitions in the coming months with a solo gallery show at the end of the year. At her first gallery show, her artwork was the first to sell on opening night within five minutes. She's been featured on various websites including V-Raw, and has a bunch of commercials, print advertising and illustrations in the works.
"I am honoured and a little overwhelmed by my success to date but I'm having so much fun
doing what I love. I'm looking forward to what tomorrow will bring."
Brings a tear to the eye.

I think fashion is cool, and am not afraid to say it.
Fashion isn't just about trashy celebrities with IT bags and the "in" shoes. Louis Vuitton is launching an ad campaign shot by Annie Leibowitz starring Andre Agassi, Catherine Deneuve, and the last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, driving alongside the Berlin Wall.

Suddenly, my bad experience at the Louis Vuitton store in Paris (think rowdy Chinese visitors and crowds of Japanese tourists) is evaporating. By using a politician in its ad campaign, LV reinstates that old-school, let's roll around in a Rolls Royce feeling, while recognising an important part of world history.
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Got lost in an amazing self-publishing fair in London today called Publish and Be Damned. where book, magazine and zine makers from all over the UK and Europe gathered in a lovely old converted school yard in East London to share their self-published treats.
Kids were lolling around on the grass outside in the brief patches of sunshine that we were permitted, while a crazy visiting Berliner conducted readings of his 'childrens book for adults'. While just outside there was a kind of villege fete, with games and cycling races. It was an ultra inspiring, crafty cool gathering of geek chic and fun folk, and for a former zine producer like myself it was truly awesome to see so many independent creators. In the next issue of YEN there'll be an article by yours truly on zine culture with a full lowdown on the fair and zine history with interviews and pics galore!

Auckland girl about town, Kylie Mckenzie is a graphic designer, club promoter, radio DJ and if that wasn't enough to keep her up at night, she also designs snappy  graphic t's under the moniker, BIRD.
"I started BIRD in my final year of studying graphic design...when I wore my
designs around my friends all loved them, and NZ designer Adrian Hailwood asked me to put some in his Auckland Shop."
Kylie now also stocks at Saturday Shop, Hailwood and Stenbeck & Morse in Auckland and runs a monthly night club It's Time To Get Dumb, with her boyfriend and two mates, with whom she also rocks the radio waves on NZ radio station George FM.

Sydney girl Ainslie Fletcher's art is an explosion of vivid colour, intricate geometry and mind boggling sqiggle and snake obsessions. Some work from her recent China Heights, Sydney exhibtion.

Peeked into this amazing show in Berlin last week. A group of mostly American artists working with paint, illustration, sculpture and collage, presenting a new trend in figuration- broken, decaying, fractured and monstrous! Fran Spiegel paints soupy sloppy women engulfed by slime piles. Rapper's hoes, socialties, and pin-up girls are all thrown into the stew of mylar, goo, glitter and chewing gum.

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