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  • Artist Interview – Remi Rough

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    Artist Interview – Remi Rough

    Megaro Hotel Mural

    Agents of Change Mural at the Megaro Hotel

    By: Indie

    Earlier this month we had a chance to speak with Remi Rough.

    Remi is a South London born and bred artist that has been breaking boundaries with the aid of a spray can and a paintbrush for over 27 years. Remi started as a teenager in South London painting graffiti and studying graphic design and art at school.

    “At school they asked what I wanted to do and I wanted to be a painter but I was interested in graphic design which was probably really detrimental to me at the time as I wanted to throw paint around. Now I use it for my own means. I do my own flyers and books”

    “It is easier to get into graffiti now, the internet has made it easier. When I started there was nothing to look…

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  • Traditional Shoes: The perfect Brogue! Her Highland heart’s attire!

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    Brogues say everything about a person… a classicist… a modernist: both, all and more

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    Traditional Shoes: The perfect Brogue! Her Highland heart’s attire!

    Brogue Trader

    The traditional Brogue is a heavy Gaelic classical shoe (a lighter version was also know as the ‘Ghillie’ or Ghillie Brogue).

    It is a crafted shoe that is made from strong, untanned leather with decorative punched holes, mostly worn in Scotland and Ireland though now a much prized, newly discovered fashion icon.

    Chuck Berry Brogues

    Chuck Berry waggin’ his brogues!

    But it was in the seventies that the Skinheads adopted this traditional shoe along with the Loafer and Smooth as part of their take on fashion and ironic noble English dress.

    The scoop is, the best priced English made Traditional Shoes in London can be found at:

    ‘Mens Traditional Shoes’ 171 Camberwell Rd, London SE5  +44 2077034179

    “Ghillie” brogues were originally designed for, funnily enough, Ghillies & gamekeepers as footwear…

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