Pam Hogg

[thejarc]

I just discovered her stuff at Browns

brownsfashion.com

 

[Hanne]

Browns carry this ?
It looks like costumes! eg the first looks like a wonder woman costume and the red/black number like it belongs on the costume rails of the movie V for Vendetta ..
I usually like a lot of the stuff browns buys.. but I think this I would actually have to see close up in order for me to be convinced that this is anything but a bad joke.

 

[Scott]

ah...pam hogg....she's good friends with siouxsie. in fact the latter wore some of those patchworky pieces on her mantaray tour.

 

[leyla m.]

agreed with hanne,
this time browns got it wrong. i am not finding this cool. it might be a combination of the superhero look mixed with the strange fit on the mannequin

 

[Alejandro]

pam hogg is AMAZING. this is her first collection in about 8-9 years and it's sold exclusively at browns, under the "HOGG COUTURE" label.

here's a retrospective video from youtube featuring some of pam's collections from 1987 to 2000.....starting with her more recent work. her collections in the late 80s to mid 90s were her best imo:



this thread on her is long overdue.

 

[Alejandro]

saffron (ex n-joi and republica) wears pam hogg in the video for her 1992 single "one love"



pam is an iconic contributer to the look of the 80s-90s club scene in london, and was even part of an acid house group in 88-89 called the garden of eden, and i think she still does music to this day.

 

[Alejandro]

Browns carry this ?
It looks like costumes! eg the first looks like a wonder woman costume and the red/black number like it belongs on the costume rails of the movie V for Vendetta ..
I usually like a lot of the stuff browns buys.. but I think this I would actually have to see close up in order for me to be convinced that this is anything but a bad joke.

it's not a joke...pam's clothes are for people who understand the true definition of 'fierce' (ie: they're too good for 2008)...and who have the attitude to match, and the balls to pull it off.

one of the best pieces browns has:

pic from browns

fuggin fabulous

one thing i will say though is that browns styles the mannequins really badly.

 

[tigerrouge]

Pam Hogg was the stuff of fantasy when I was a schoolkid and too timid to enter into those edgy designer stores. I loved her stuff, for me in 1989, it had the promise of what it would be like to be 19 and have the freedom to dress up as a club kid superhero.

 

[Meg]

^
yeah but I mean kind of what's the point? I mean what are you saying about dressing like this? I suppose it's great if you are a club kid and want to wear it out but I kind of feel like I could get it at a costume shop for 20 quid, and surely that is more authentic? I would be more understanding if the fabrics were different, and maybe it's just the lighting, but that silver fabric on the first piece seriously looks cheap and flimsy, like a $20 costume. I know there is a context to her work that I'm not aware of but it's not doing anything for me, as it is now. Perhaps like you say, if it was styled differently....

 

[cato.]

omg wow... this is definitely not for the grocery store .. but it's fierce as HELL... Especially in those videos! thanks for posting Alejandro!

 

[Hanne]

I copied some of the posts here and made a seperate thread on Pam Hogg in the 1980's-1990's in HoS here


from rockpopfashion.com/blog

 

[Jamess]

I saw her dressing the windows with her clothes at Browns last week but couldnt be sure it was her- then saw the collection on Browns website.
To be honest it looks even more unimpressive in real life, the display is kinda cool though. I remember more than one gold jumpsuit >.<

 

[Scott]

OT-can i just say,madonna hasn't a thing on siouxsie sioux. 51 yrs. old and still rockin' the quirky pam hogg catsuit. and she doesn't look like she's been through the mill just wear that sort of stuff either.

anyway,i don't understand this criticism though. i mean what's the diff between this stuff and the hype around cassette playa and what she's doing? i think there has been a sort of reverberation of alot of those elements of pam's time,as such,so perhaps she thought,as well as browns,it was a great moment for her to come back with a new collection. now the quality...honestly,it doesn't look as terrible as some. i mean the seam work within the patchworking looks lovely and thoughtful....not sure about the composition of the material as browns is not very forthcoming about that aspect.

the point though is,pam has and probably will forever be for those who like the visual aspects on stage. like a siouxsie or a lovefoxx from CSS or alison goldfrapp and natasha khan. no,i can't imagine anyone wearing these items on a daily basis(except perhaps the superwoman t'shirt) but they could certainly work for a fun night out.

 

[tigerrouge]

yeah but I mean kind of what's the point? I mean what are you saying about dressing like this?

These days, her stuff seems like a fashion relic, a jumpsuit dinosaur for old times sake, a part of the 80's revival that can't keep up with 2008.

But in its original form, it's the stuff of memories for some of us - that there was a time when mags like i-D were showcasing her collections in its pages, and for a schoolkid in Northern Ireland in the 80's, to see these clothes hanging on the rails in a shop in your own town, they were like a promise of all the madly creative stuff in cities a million miles away from your own rain-sodden, bomb-blasted existence in Belfast.

At a certain point in my life, at a certain age, her clothes represented a dream of another existence, in places where some people did wear stuff like that. They might look awful to modern eyes, but these cartoon clothes performed a powerful function - they reminded me that the creative freedom to be crazy did exist in the world - and as proof, a little bit of it had infiltrated back to me in the form of these clothes, in a shop where I could see them for real.

Now that I'm almost 34, I won't be paying homage to that memory by wearing any of it, but I salute what the woman meant to me twenty years ago.

 

[tigerrouge]

The Daily Mail runs a short piece about Pam Hogg and Peaches Geldof wearing one of her outfits:

Out of this world: Peaches squeezes into revealing skintight silver jumpsuit

13th May 2009

She may lack the long legs of some of her model friends, but Peaches Geldof certainly knows how to strike a pose.

Sir Bob's occasional journalist, fashion designer and TV presenter daughter squeezed into a silver jumpsuit last night for the opening of a fashion boutique. The plunge-necked lycra outfit left little to the imagination, clinging to every curve.

The 20-year-old was posing appropriately enough in a design by Pam Hogg, whose pop-up boutique she was helping to launch in Newburgh Quarter, near Carnaby Street, London.

She was joined in the dazzling space-age designs by her friends Jaime Winston, Anouck Lepere, Touloula Adeyemi and of course Pam herself.

Peaches is house hunting in London after spending the past few weeks living at the May Fair hotel. She has told friends she doesn't want to live on her own, so will be looking for somewhere with at least two bedrooms. her plan is to rent the other room out to one of her friends.

Punk rock designer Hogg was the toast of the 1980s - combining a career in pop, supporting the Pogues and Debbie Harry, with designing outlandish clothes for the likes of Siouxsie Sioux. She also ran a shop in Soho close to her new premises.

The Scot reappeared on the fashion scene this year, with a show at London Fashion Week, featuring Daisy Lowe and Jaime Winstone, and the debut edition of Love magazine featured a spread of her designs. And her profile was raised further when Thierry Henry's ex-wife Claire Merry wore one of her futuristic outfits to the Star Trek premiere last month.

Signing up Peaches for the night was no mean feat, however, with the Geldof girl now a bona fide lingerie model thanks to her deal with Ultimo.

In a number of tattoo-baring poses, she proved she could hold her own even with 'a normal body'. She believed she was a healthier role model than an anorexic alternative. And last night Peaches confirmed again that she has no hang-ups about showing off her regular figure. She looked slightly pale and wan, but that may have had something to do with attending a string of events the previous day, which ended up with a 3.30am run to Sainsbury's. And her Peaches' pout looked more sleepy than sexy as she posed for photographs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ezes-revealing-skintight-silver-jumpsuit.html

 

[Grill]

Even more hideous now Peaches is wearing it. In times of financial trouble, the Brits tend to nostalgia - surely this is the real reason for renewed interest in Pam's dodgy gear and Lady Gaga's popularity!

 

[Patricia 89]

power rangers gone bad. i hate there jumpsuits, but the first video shows she used to do good, what happened? i dunno, not my kind of thing

 

[Scott]

what's lady gaga have to do with the brits? she's american and was famous here before she was in britain. and i've never seen her in pam hogg. she wears mostly god-awful heatherette.

anyway,i don't think it's to do with nostalgia at all. they love originals and they love that paving your way approach and pam whatever your taste,was and still is in fact an original. the fact that so many of london's boundry pushing popular visionaries have all left london to show in paris and ny,they need more buzz factor from true individualists. and also,in a sense its about retaining london's spirit as an experimentalists capital...with so much mass market,high street crap clogging every street and hi-luxe labels,perhaps this was pam's intention and why london has been supportive.

 

[Hanne]

Since when is Susie Bubbles bad publicity? The publicity team at Pam Hogg must be out of their mind! http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/06/hogg-roasted.html

 

[Elegance.Is.Refusal.]

^^^ i read that and had to chuckle since alot of people read her blog and shes giving the brand awareness to a larger audience, and its free! never knock free publicity from someone whos passionate about fashion.

i'd never heard about pam hogg before it was on stylebubble needless to say those jumpsuits will never been on my designer list of things i crave to own.