There is nothing team Oaf love better than seeing our garbs worn by all of you near and far so, as part of Carnaby Street’s Catwalk event for London Fashion Week, next Saturday 11th September we are inviting you down to our store to show us what you’ve got. Because, quite frankly, no one rocks Lazy Oaf as well as all of you.

Get ready for LAZY EYE ON YOU - Oaf fans, we want to see you in all of your glory.

* Come to our store on Saturday 11th September wearing a piece of Lazy Oaf and receive 20% discount off everything in store (you can be wearing an item of jewellery, clothing or a bag)!

* If you come along ‘Oafed’ up to the max wearing more than two Oaf items then we’ll give you a free goodie bag worth over £10.

* Get your photo taken, have a little chat to us about your outfit choice and appear on our special Lazy Eye Style blog the following week.

* We will be opening up Oaf Club to new members on the day… find out all the details in store.

Photographs will be taken throughout the day but our official Oaf photographer Jerry who will be getting snap happy between the hours of 12-4pm. We are looking forward to seeing all of you there, dressed up to the nines in your Lazy Oaf gear for us to cast our lazy eye on you!

And there is plenty more worth coming along to see on the day. There’ll be live catwalk shows down the length of Carnaby Street (keep you’re eye out for Oaf pieces), Company Magazine’s editor is heading down to give insider trend advice, there’ll be the official unveiling of the new Vivienne Westwood Lee Jeans collaboration and our friends American Apparel, Gola, Vans and many more all have massive exclusive discounts running just for this special day. These are discounts you won’t see again for a very long time.

To get you in the spirit for our style trial, the Lazy Oaf ladies thought we’d let you in on who we consider to be our favourite style icons. Read on for some right treats and let us know if you have anymore to add.

ZOE: JENNY LEWIS

My style icon changes constantly (some may say I am a very fickle person because of this) but my current idol is singer Jenny Lewis. Mostly because of her beautiful hair, which I have attempted to replicate using various shades of hair dye to no avail, but also because we share a penchant for beautiful vintage dresses. I’d give anything to raid her wardrobe. Oh, and she makes some pretty lovely music too.

ALEX: DARIA

I am not too sure who I’d pick as my style icon but people often tell me I look like teen cartoon character Daria which can only be good thing right?!

STEPH: GRANS OF BRITAIN

They have no shame left to lose and just wear whatever they want. The more floral print layers the better.

GEMMA: MIXED BAG OF GEMS

Basically if you could amalgamate soap actresses, 80s oversized comediennes, all the Disney characters and early 1900’s  children’s wear you get my style influences. Eclectic but it works. I have been considering a perm lately.

JERRY: GOTHIC TEEN HEROINES

I don’t know what’s happened to me lately but my most overused phrase is ‘everything looks better in black’. Since I got my hair cut, comparisons to The Craft and Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) have been frequent and I have also gone back to wearing my hair in plaits (see Wednesday Addams). Cheer up goff? No thanks!

ELLIE: BARBARA ‘BABS’ WINDSOR (1961-1975)

Although my bleach blonde hair is now a distant memory, the only person that makes me grit my teeth in envy and regret is Babs Windsor and her tower of platinum locks. Any lady who tries to gain height inches with their huge hair has my instant respect. But my love affair is down to more than hair. Its the late sixties mini skirts and polo necks and the high wasted bikinis, carry-on camping style. Plus she always seems to have a drink in her hand and having a ball. She makes me proud to be British, no wait, she makes me proud to be short.

KATIE: BJORK, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD AND HELENA BONHAM CARTE

Each of them have there own distinct style and under no circumstances do they care what anyone else thinks of them, they like to mix it up and throw in that odd ball item, some more often that others. I am lucky enough to see VW on the tube in London as she lives near me, she still manages to out do everyone by looking polished and well put together even early on a Wednesday morning. If I look half that good I’m happy.

If you want to feature in our next style blog then make sure you come on down to our shop in your Oaf items next Saturday 11th and become the fashion icons of the future!

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Posted by: Jerry

Last Saturday 28th August, The Lazy Oaf Drawing Club traveled to Oxford Street’s Selfridges to bring you another installment of live drawing. Our very own designer Gemma Shiel teamed up with illustrating talents and brothers Richard and Chris Fairhead to fill their own 2m wall in drawings beyond your wildest dreams.

Here are Chris (left) and Richard (right) working on their doodles skills armed with plenty of black Poscas.

No Oaf art trip would be complete without one of our In the Mix Rucksacks packed full of all of our drawing neccessities.

Alongside the live drawing, customers were able to get their hands on some of our best mens T-shirts available in Selfridges stores across the country.

We also set up a table full of blank frames ready for you to fill with your own pieces of artwork and we had some excellent contributions.

All of your doodles were displayed on the frame work of the mens till point for all to see!

Chris Fairhead.

Fresh graduate Chris Fairhead created his own illustrated totem pole including some beady eyed tree stumps and a flock of friendly birds topped up with an impressive phoenix.

Richard Fairhead

Richard Fairhead filled his wall with a fantasia of his signature geometric patterns combined with crazed cartoon characters, a colonel skeleton and a floppy faced dog.

Gemma Shiel.

Gemma Shiel.

Gemma Shiel built up a colourful wall of collaged patterns and beings with a rude boiii riding a unicorn, a melancholic clown and some shiny sharp nails.

Thank you to all of you who came along and watch the drawing magic unfold. Long live the Lazy Oaf Drawing Club!!!

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YES! The bank holiday is here at last and this doesn’t just mean a three day weekend, we are also giving you a whole 20% off EVERYTHING online right up until midnight on Monday. This is your one chance to bag Lazy Oaf goodies at these super discounted prices so don’t miss out. This discount is available both online and in our store so come on down and see us this weekend.

Please note: Art, cards, goodie bags and vouchers are not included in this discount.

So whether you’re going wild at a festival, shaking your thang at Nottinghill Carnival or whisking yourself away on a trip somewhere nice then make sure you pay a visit to our site and bag yourself a right bargain.

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Posted by: Jerry

This Saturday 28th August, Lazy Oaf Drawing Club is hitting Oxford Street’s Selfridges and we have the honour of working with two very fine London illustrators Richard Fairhead and Chris Fairhead. So we thought we’d give you an insight into what you can expect to see on the day.

For any Lazy Oaf regular, you will know Richard has been on our radar for sometime. He designed our favourite satirical tote bag ‘Rainbows are shit‘ and allowed us to route through his studio and home in Brixton for our Through the Keyhole feature. Here are some of our favourite examples of his work; we particularly like his latest series of unused quotes (see E.T example below)

Richard’s tote bag is available online now and you can see more of his work on his site at www.richfairhead.co.uk.

Drawing talent must run in the family as Richard’s younger brother Chris Fairhead produces his very own collection of colourful, graphic illustrations. We were introduced to Chris’ work after coming across his LIVID drawing of the Incredible Hulk in his brothers studio and thought getting the two of them on board to work side by side each other this Saturday would be a winning combo.

Get an eyeful of more of Chris’ designs at http://harshbut.blogspot.com/

To see these two guys in actions, be sure to pop on down to London’s Selfridges on Oxford Street this Saturday from 12-6pm in the mens sport and street department and expect beautiful things to emerge before your very eyes.

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Are you sick of sleeping in every morning? Are your friends getting sick and tired of waiting around for you every time you meet up? Or do you wish could stop approaching strangers in the street when you want know the time? Well then, it is about time you got a watch! And with a collection as fine as the latest selection we have from Swedish brand Cheapo, making your choice will be a breeze.

If you are lying blurry eyed in bed and you don’t even have enough energy to lift your arm then these talking watches will do all the hard work for you. All you have to do is press a button and a special voice will tell you what time it is!

These talking digital watches also come equipped with their own alarm to wake you up in the morning with a cockle-doodle-do.

This watch is available in three colour ways including mint green/plum, white/navy blue and black.

If you are after something a bit more slick, simple and straight to the point then take some time out to look at these Analog watches including this brand new, clear strapped colour way with a sharp black face.

Here is a watch for all of those maths maniacs amongst us – the Calculator Watch ready to work out all of those puzzling sums you are faced with on a daily basis. So if you want to be branded a genius in no time then here is the watch for you available in lilac and mint green.

Alright partner, you know what time it is!

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There is nothing we love more at Lazy Oaf than drawing so when our menswear stockist Selfridges asked us to host a live drawing event within their store this Saturday 28th August, we knew what the answer was! Yes of course and, yet again, you too can be involved.

To celebrate the launch of our men’s collection in store, this Saturday we are going to be working our drawing magic in Oxford Street’s Selfridges within the men’s Sport and Street department located on the first floor.

Come along to see live drawing from talented brothers Richard Fairhead and Chris Fairhead as well as Lazy Oaf’s very own drawing genius Gemma Shiel. The trios doodles will follow the theme of pattern so expect to see them create a patchwork of stripes, dots, dashes and whatever other delights they dream up on the day.

Alongside the live drawing there will be a table of colourful sheets ready for you to fill with your very own patterned pieces to pin up within the menswear department. So if you want to see your doodles displayed beside the high fashions of the UK’s most innovative department store then here is your chance.

As our mens T-shirt collection will be on sale, we will be giving out free tote bags to all of you who purchase one of our designs on the day.

If you would like to find out more then feel free to us an email at jerry@lazyoaf.com and we really hope to see you there.

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After taking a long trip away to clear their minds, the Bumper Bags are now back and are bigger and better than ever before. These mystery bags give you the chance to get your hands on a whole collection of Oaf goodies for only a fraction of the price.

Girls go nuts and get hold of 2 whole T-shirts, a piece of stationery and some other goodies thrown in from our online catalogue.

Boys go bonkers and kit yourself out with a T-shirt, piece of knitwear and an item of stationery all for just £25.

Please note: The contents of each bag is a complete mystery and items from the bag are both non-exchangeable or refundable.

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Posted by: Jerry

As many of you will know, the Sunday before last we put on a live drawing event at Tate Modern where we asked you to come along and draw your own self portraits. As far as we were aware, you were all drawing pictures of yourselves or each other however we spotted a bit of a pattern emerging. Once the crowds started to calm down, the Oaf team took some time out to have a look at all of your work and quickly discovered that many of your drawings showed a real resemblance to our own staff members. Some of these, we think you’ll agree, were uncanny.

SHEVONE

With the blunt fringe, black locks, red lippie and defined eye liner, it is hard to believe that this portait isn’t of our very own Shevone.

ALEX

ZOE

KATIE

GEMMA

OK so our designer Gemma doesn’t have a curly tash, massive mono-brow and a hair style to make Johnny Rotten proud however she does have a taste for rainbow shirts.

JERRY

ELLIE

It was this drawing that originally alerted us to the idea of this blog as the hair was a perfect match to our lovely shop manager Ellie.

Talk about dead ringers eh?

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With September only a couple of weeks away, term time is quickly creeping upon us and here at Lazy Oaf, we think this will be the year to remember. So, to get yourself organised and never forget a thing, we have this dateless Circus Diary ready for you to fill with all of your dates, targets and deepest thoughts.

And this isn’t just your regular diary. Not only is it dateless so you can start your year whenever you wish but each page is also piece of artwork lined with circus themed illustrations to keep entertained for the 365 days ahead of you.

It includes 54 dateless week overviews with one week spread over 2 pages and 12 month overviews with one month spread over 2 pages so you can look back each month at all of your achievements.

The diary is not only there to keep you on schedule but it is also packed full of activities that will provide you and your pals with endless entertainment. Get ready to get carried away with the double page spread Rate my Mates letting you record everything from who has the buffest dad to which friend pulls out the smoothest moves on the dance floor.

Other activity pages include recording your dreams and nightmares ready for your pals to try and analyse (examples above) and a page to draw your family portraits.

So whether you’re starting a new school, about to conquer your final year at uni or simply want to get your life back on track then the Circus Diary is your answer.

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Now that we are in the midst of August, the next thought on many of your minds will be that dreaded or much anticipated return to education. Maybe you’re about to enroll at college, jump into sixth form or embark on three years of student life at university? Or perhaps you are job jumping in the hunt for a fresh start? Either way, here at Lazy Oaf, we have plenty of products ready to prepare you for what is going to be your best academic year yet. We have picked a selection of our finest term time treats and put them all together ready for you to take your pick.

Get In the Mix

If you want to guarantee having all eyes on you on your first day back then this is bag to do it with. Available in a grey and blue colour way, this roomy bag is big enough to pack full with at least 3 A4 folders or notebooks as well as all of your necessities.

You will never lose site of this bag of colours when you hang it on the peg beside everyone elses. The In the Mix Rucksacks have been getting a lot of attention on some of our favourite blogs recently with fans including our favourite accessory designer Fred Bulter and style savvy mens blog Daily Street.

Tote-ally!

While you can store all of your necessities in your rucksack, nothing is quite as practical in term time as a Tote Bag. This will fast become your best library buddy ready to store all of your books plus it makes the perfect P.E. bag. And make sure you don’t miss your chance to get the last of our Barrel Bags with only one Beat Box Boy design left altogether!

Take this Bag to Skool

For the Work Time season only, we are giving you the chance to bag a right old bargain with our latest goodie bag BAG TO SKOOL. Priced at a tiny £10, each bag is packed with over £20 worth of new stationery and accessories from our online catalogue. The contents of each bag is a mystery but believe us when we say it is guaranteed to make you look forward to returning to education.

No matter what your next step is, if you are looking for a bit of school time nostalgia then no online collection is more fitting than our Tate range. Highlights include the Pencil Tote bag and Stationery Pocket notebook including the ruler of everything.

We hope this has bought a sigh of relief to those of you who feel like the summer holiday is catching up on you too fast. Be sure to make the most of what is left!