About NAMALEE face of Reebok Freestyle launch July 31st
C4 Bright New Wonder : Namalee
There's no one quite like Namalee - she's an original - a pioneering multifaceted artist combining fashion, music and performance to create a visual and aural sensation based on her own universe Namazonia. Dreaming of becoming a cartoonist as a child Namalee also had an obsession with reading fashion magazines as if they were fairytales. The two obsessions would forever run side by side as in 1999 she was announced Winner of The Guardian Jackie Moore student fashion journalism prize, and by 2006 she'd already walked out on her prestigious job as fashion editor at Sleazenation and masterminded and co-founded SUPERSUPER magazine. SUPERSUPER is the trendsetting youth bible that was born out of the London underground clubscene and is widely given credit for kickstarting a cultural music/art/fashion rainbow revolution.
Namalee's brand of pop music has the same approach as her styling - fun, mash up, ultra rebellious and full of positive messages about female strength, love, honour and self knowledge. Her song writing is witty,fast, sexy, punchy and bright and she is currently working on an album with Rat Scabies (formerly of legendary punk band The Damned). She has played live shows in London, Paris, Germany, Austria, Denmark and Sweden and is currently working on new tracks and an official tour with release dates to be announced soon.
Mostly known for her widely copied flamboyant style she calls 'maxi-maximalism' Namalee has consistently smashed down boundaries of acceptable taste by brandishing her heavily loaded style weapons, toys, cartoons and beloved Spongebob accessories. As muse to designers Basso and Brooke, for 4 years she also styled shows for them at Sao Paulo, Moscow, Singapore, Berlin as well as London fashion week.Namalee has also worked and styled for Zandra Rhodes, Noki and Jean Charles de Castelbajac.
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"The talent! This Autumn they'll be no escaping Namalee. She's a 21st century multi tasker/muse/singer/stylist/magazine editor of SUPERSUPER/ chanteuse/ style icon - the list goes on." The Cool List, Grazia
“A beauty with grace and intelligence Namalee is fast becoming a national treasure and is firmly instated as a leading style icon.” QX magazine
"Namalee! - The guys want her and the girls want to be her! The Namazonz are heard to be invading London; they have been spotted at night time, wearing fabulous outfits looking like celebrities, making a sound like M.I.A. on acid." - Electronic Beats: T-Mobile Magazine
"Our favorite UK muse is Namalee, the London stylist who's credited with bringing the 'Nu Rave' look into mainstream London fashion - according to British fashion critics, the hot pink heels and
neon t-shirts in TopShop are all her fault!" teenvogue.com
"Namalee is an underground star poised for success. She writes catchy powerpop with a thought provoking and relentlessly optimistic message." - Music Week
"Singer. stylist and queenof style, Namalee dresses like anything is possible!”-Sunday Times Style
"Pushing the creative boundaries of fashion and music to it's outermost limit, this singer slash scripter is seeking global domination. U Glo Grrl is fast developing in to an underground anthem." - RWD magazine
"Imagine a crossover between Elsa Schiaperelli's 1939 'Commedia dell'Arte', wonderful Technicolour extravaganza films starring Carmen Miranda, the vibrant costumes of 1982 cult film Liquid sky, the DIY ethic from the late 80s Acid House movement, a mythical fearless Amazon and Surrealist cartoons a la Spongebob Squarepants..Namalee is set to take the world by storm with her multicoloured revolution" - ZOOT magazine
Namalee was recently selected by Channel 4 to be part of their 'Bright New Wonders' series of outspoken British Talent and are currently working on a series with her and SUPERSUPER which will be aired later this year...
"A 21st century day-glo Cleopatra. In a world full of plastic pop stars with absolutely nothing to say Namalee is a supersonic breath of fresh air" - Polarbear
Hey! Love your magazine. Always inspires me and makes me happy!! I think I've already said this but, when I read other magazines i feel like crapola. It's like: DIETS AND LOOKING LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.... boring!!!! Just wondering when the documentary is going to come out! <3 xo xo
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