Artist Astor Alexander reimagines our favourite Disney damsels through his classic 40’s noir filter - tilting their narratives on a new angle. One that’s less about glass slippers and more about smashing glass ceilings.
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An atmosphere with enough snap to raise the hairs on your arms, talent and technique you couldn’t help but be in awe of and a queue outside the door every day. We had the 14th year of The London Tattoo Convention in the Tobacco Dock pegged with quiet optimism as our ultimate pitch to date.
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Ever been asked to consider what your ink will look like when you’re old and wrinkly? (The request usually comes with a fair bit of distain). Well … we thought about and decided - we’ll look effing fantastic. Getoud, a foundation dedicated to bridging the gap between generations, has profiled 25 over 75’s with stories of ink to tell and we LOVE it …
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Manipulating symmetry and the landscape of the human body, French artist Vek Van Hillik creates moving illusions of ink and skin - it’s magicians work. Which is why we have him sitting at the tippety top of our appreciation-gawp list.
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Clink, clink … clang, clang … hear that? Gary’s got his gear on and is knuckling down in the factory getting us set up for the London Tattoo Convention at the end of this month. Yep, there’s a lot of CG Killer on its way to old London Town. Who’s coming?
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With ribbons and messages of hope on motorway bridges, and sculptures of men on top of buildings, this week is suicide awareness week. To acknowledge and respect the battle 1 in 4 of us are waging with ourselves, we’re exploring the poignant work of Polish artist Dawid Planeta and his journey through his own darkness.
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Here’s the the trail-blazers. The ones who don’t wait for solid ground to start putting down roots. The ones who light the path for the culture to follow. Seoul based tattoo artist Zihwa is creating globally-renowned magic with a needle, in a country where tattooing is still pretty much illegal. We did some internet stalking to find out more …
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Doing what you love, building a dream … well, it’s everything the pretty Pinterest quotes have promised and then some. You know what else it is? Effing hard work. And you know what they say about all work and no play? So, to Skiathos we go … fancy a catch up?
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t’s an image known all over the world, one adapted and adopted by artists and cultures old and new. The Russian Doll. But what does it mean? And why does a 19th century relic of Russian family matriarchy still resonate so much with us now? We did some exploring.
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How effing fantastic is it that we can tap and swipe and glance thousands of miles away from our physical selves. Travel grammers are ten a penny, but those that have the talent and the eye to actually pick your backside up out of your seat and take you on their journey are not. Alexis Pifou, self proclaimed Explo-Trotter has it nailed.
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Our sense of perspective is unique to us, and the power it has to influence our perception should never be underestimated. It’s a theme photographer John S Dykstra experiments with particularly well. He creates imagery that dabbles between abstract truths and concrete reality, playing between the lines of perspective for work that lingers between daylight and daydream.
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Our collection of jewellery has been a journey, a timeline as our lives of CarterGore. For that first spark of inspiration, it wasn’t about us at all. If anything, our range today stands as a lovingly curated collection of other people’s stories. That a whole sense of self can be crafted in silver or gold, that an image could stand for something, could depict a part of who we are. It’s magic, really … the true magic, of what we do.
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Since the earliest iteration of mankind, we’ve been drawing. It’s primitive, instinctual even. So … when was the last time you picked up a pencil and a blank piece of paper? Yup, as we thought. Today, we’re sharing our love of the draw and some of our favourite sketchbook wanderlust Instagram accounts. Inspiration loading in 3, 2, 1 …
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Always creating. Always learning. Always figuring out what’s next. Well, diamonds is next. The high end market is next. Yass, guys, we’re on our way. Last weekend, we took our brand new CarterGore Killer to renowned family owned premium jewellers Steffans for our Gold & Diamond launch. Wanna see?
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A look at our now annual pilgrimage to The Great British Tattoo Show in Alexandra Palace. 300 of the country’s best tattoo artists, vendors, traders and mohwak-toting mega babes … I mean … what more could you possibly want from an event?
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New York based award winning photographer, Sarah Gamand, creates portraits of pooches perishing in shelters in a bid to find them a loving home. Her latest collection, Pitbull Flower Power, turns her lens to one of the most abused and and neglected dog breed and it’s giving us all the feels.
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Oh, hey there sunshine. Yep, summer has finally waltzed in the joint, drink in hand, slurring her words a bit but she’s here and we couldn’t be more excited. Why? Well, it formally opens the gate for some of our most hotly anticipated sartorial desires - namely, Western.
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Hindsight can be a smug old bitch, but she has her moments too. While we’re still rocking that ‘The Future Is Female’ tee (all day long), this week we’re feeling all reflective. So here’s a letter, five pieces of advice we’d give to our sixteen-year-old self as they start to scrap with what it means to be female. We feel a series coming on …
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If you make a pit stop here on the regular, you’ll remember the precise moment we got engulfed by the history and symbolism of Sailor Jerry. It inspired a brand new collection of CarterGore pendants … wanna see?
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After losing her mother to cancer, Asya Ivashintsova-Melkumyan discovered 30,000 negatives in the attic - unearthing almost 40 years of memories and her mother's poetic, creative genius. It's a hell of a story, and one that's got us thinking quite a bit ...
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