From guitar-pick earrings to piano-key bracelets, Tatty Devine get heaps of inspiration for their designs from music. Are they also shaping London’s musical landscape?

When Tatty Devine duo Rosie Wolfenden and Harriet Vine burst onto London’s fashion scene seven years ago, they had style know-it-alls falling at their feet. They thought it was hilarious.

 “We had no respect for the fashion industry,” says Harriet. “We just thought it was such a laugh!”

The pair went from selling their quirky accessories at Spitafields Market to a Vogue spread and a spot at London Fashion Week. “Tatty Devine” was suddenly on everyone’s lips – and around their necks, wrists and sitting pretty on their lapels.

Despite all the hoo-ha, Tatty Devine were taking more notice of alternative music acts than the fashion heavyweights pounding the catwalks. “We were really into antifolk acts like New Yorkers the Moldy Peaches and Jeff Lewis,” says Rosie. We also loved the Velvet Underground and Nico.” It’s not surprising then, that the best place to cop an eyeful of Tatty Devine accessories is on pretty young things at All Tomorrows Parties gigs.

It’s not just music fans adorning themselves in Tatty gear. Bjork recently popped in to Tatty Devine’s Soho store. Noel Fielding was spotted sporting a Tatty Divine grand piano brooch while lounging around London with Courtney Love. Karen O has a Tatty Devine dinosaur necklace. The Gossip’s Beth Ditto has a giant BETH name necklace

Meanwhile, Rosie and Harriet are doing their bit to uncover and support brilliant London bands. They have just hosted the Tapestry Goes West music festival in South Wales. The lineup featured musical friends (and lovers) including The Duke Spirit, The Cherry Bombers, Tokyo Dragons and Radio Luxembourg, with merchandise designed specifically for these and other local bands for sale.

They also have plans to start their own record label, says Rosie: “Just 7” records of songs that should exist by unsigned bands. We may even record a few songs of our own – with kazoos!

“We’ll also be starting a new music night called ‘Revolting’ featuring lots of loud punk and girl-riot rock.”

There’s no doubt Tatty Devine have shaped the London look, and taken much of their inspiration from music.  Now Tatty Devine are bending the city’s musical ear.

http://www.tattydevine.com/

Chromeo's P-Thugg and Dave 1 occupy opposite ends of the fashion spectrum but together they create the slick-ass electrofunk responsible for this summer's outbreaks of Fancy Footwork. Frock caught up with P-Thugg to find out what to wear while dancing to their new album.

In the year 2007, your special lady love is no longer your girlfriend, your sweetheart or your shorty. She's your Tenderoni.

So says Chromeo, the electrofunk duo of P-Thugg and Dave 1, who call themselves "the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture, and walking hip hop encyclopedias". Tenderoni is just one of the dance-floor greasing tracks from their hit album Fancy Footwork.

"We grew up listening to a lot of the same music including hip hop," says P, who brings Chromeo's synth basslines and distorted talkbox vocals.   "Although Dave found hip hop a bit later - he was more into 70s classic rock and funk, then hip hop."

Their musical influences have been fused together to produce Chromeo's unabashed lover's funk.   They have also created P and Dave's separate styles.

"I draw my styles from rappers like Fat Joe and Ghostface Killa. I wear baggy Levis, XXL t-shirts, big gold chains, earrings, hats," says P. "I have a collection of 50 pairs of sneakers - my favourites are Nike Air Jordans.

"I mostly shop in New York, on 125th Street in Harlem, and at the Fulton Street Mall in Brooklyn, or at the African cartel on 28th and Broadway. I can't find anything for me in London - everything's too tight."

While P is pulling on nightgown-sized DipSet t-shirts, Dave is paying homage to Aha and Robert Palmer, and stepping out in Yves Saint Laurent dinner jackets.

"Dave mixes a lot of designer clothes with vintage pieces like black leather jackets and old Ray-Bans. He'll find something in every city. He's not too indie, though - you don't want to look like everyone else."

So how does this translate for Chromeo fans eager for some bonafide lovin' and anxious to fit the Chromeo mould?

"For the guys wanting to show off their fancy footwork, they should wear all leather, Grandmaster Flash style, with triangle cuts and blue-leather pants."

And for the ladies? "A pair of high-waisted jeans, a blue leather jacket and stilettos - a must-have for dancing".

Oooh, T-T-Tenderoni.

http://www.myspace.com/chromeo

The brainchild of Comme des Garcons' Rei Kawakubo, Dover Street Market got big wraps from Vogue* , which named it 'the coolest store in the world'. We wanted to see if this translated to their music choice, so, like an annoying fan who steals the playlist at the end of every gig, Frock found out what was being played in store.

Dover Street Market in London's Mayfair is not the kind of market that sells organic veggies and homemade preserves. Arranged over six floors, the luxury retail store by Comme des Garcons' Rei Kawakubo houses labels such as Givenchy, John Galliano, Undercover and Alber Elbaz for Lanvin, as well as the various Comme des Garcons ranges.

"I want to create a kind of market where various creators from various fields gather together and encounter each other in an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos," said Kawakubo, of her vision for DSM, which opened in 2004.

The space is revamped twice a year for tachiagari, where designers transform the interior of the store, creating installations to house their new collections - and beautiful chaos ensues.

This idea of beautiful chaos - mixing up different creative ideas - extends to the music being played in store and staff on each of floor have a lot of freedom to pick and mix what they want to play.

So, what's on the Dover Street decks? Here are six albums being played across the six floors.

Brian Eno: Ambient 1/Music for Airports
Ambient 1 was installed at the Marine Air Terminal of New York's LaGuardia Airport to diffuse the anxious atmosphere.

Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert
Jarrett's three-part concert is one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.   Jarrett started his career jamming with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis.

Sufjan Stevens: Come On, Feel the Illinoise!
Stevens aims to make an album for each of the 50 US states. Illinoise!   Includes songs about the state's local UFO spots, and serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr.

Jim O'Rourke: Eureka
Former Sonic Youther Jim O'Rourke has released albums of jazz, guitar rock and plain-old noise, including this one.

Medeski Martin & Wood: Uninvisible
MMW starter as an acoustic jazz trio but John Medeski added a Hammond organ when the difficulties of touring with a piano became apparent.

Arthur Russell: Calling out of Context
Cellist, composer and disco producer Arthur Russell bridged the gap between New York's downtown, rock and dance music scenes.
*British Vogue April '07

http://www.doverstreetmarket.com/

Essex geeza Kissy Sell Out has been shredding up dance tents across Europe’s summer festivals, remixing garage rock, indie-disco and electro. With a graphic design degree from Central Saint Martins, Frock reckons Kissy also knows a thing or two about fashion and stuff like wot he learnt at design school, innit ?

How would you describe your style?
The way I dress is a cross between urban fashions like XXL vests and colourful jewellery, and things that remind me of my childhood like ripped t-shirts with nostalgic prints, skinny jeans and plimsolls. I call it “expressive dressing”. I hate trainers though; I got a free pair of Nike Air Force Ones at the Nike ID place when I was working as a designer at Pop Magazine. I have never worn them!

Where do you shop?
I love customising things - I could spend all year in Topman and Topshop buying plain t-shirts and accessories to cut up and muck around with. I go to the Camden Stables Market to find second hand stuff too. You can express your personality more in the process instead of letting a designer do the talking for you.

You influence what your fans listen to – do you also influence their styles?
A very talented designer called Captain Copyright makes all the plastic jewellery I wear when I’m DJing. When she makes a piece for me I usually then go and design a t-shirt to go with it. A recent phenomenon we’ve encountered at gigs like Glastonbury, Rockness and Global Gathering and on myspace is people making their own bling in the same way.

Your new single – HER – is out. What would you wear if you were dancing around listening to this at home?
I have some very high cut Converse Allstars which are falling apart at every seam so I only wear them to dance at home now in case they fall apart completely! I also have some drainpipes which I sewed together myself but they restrict the blood to my legs a bit so I only wear them inside the house!

Any female DJs whose styles you dig?
Annie Mac, M.I.A.; DJ Mehdi’s wife Fafi is wicked too – she just did the Lily Allen illustrations for that Mark Ronson single “Oh My God”.

http://www.myspace.com/kissysellout