We Are Me and Yu

New Look Book

2012-01-31T14:14:00.000Z

Open publication - Free publishing - More fashion

New look book.
Photography by Rebecca Aubrey and Me&Yu
Art Direction - Me&Yu

New Fabric Print

2012-01-28T17:47:00.000Z

Just this minute finished printing a new fabric run, this time it's some lightweight navy jersey with our new Aztec print, next week I'll be making it up into some t-shirts!!!

Random Studio things

2012-01-27T15:01:00.000Z

Some random studio bits (now that we've got internet and I can post stuff while I'm there!!!)

Part of an order going out to some shops in Japan and currently keeping us very busy

This t-shirt appears every so often when I move things around, it was the first screenprinted t-shirt we ever did - a bit of Me&Yu history (although I do seem to have use it as a rag at some point)

Some new zines/flyers just waiting for a hand printed finish.

A box of new aztec inspired long pocket jumpers - waiting for a finishing print

A new batch of tie dyed fabric for some long pocket jumpers/dresses as the last batch sold out straight away.

Thanks!!!

2012-01-26T20:20:00.001Z

it's always nice to be appreciated

Tie Dye Jumper Dresses

2012-01-24T22:37:00.000Z

We have some extremely limited edition tie dye jumper dresses that we made today. They are based on our loose fit handmade sweatshirt pattern but with extra length and 2 side pockets, they have been made from a very colourful and bright tie dyed fleece backed sweatshirting (fleece backed means it's supersoft inside), we've made 4, we might make some more or we might not. They will only be available in our Afflecks store (from tomorrow)

Tie Dye Sweatshirts

2012-01-23T13:00:00.000Z

These amazing tye dye sweatshirts are back - in very LIMITED NUMBERS.

When Gordon went to the fabric store he came back with an armful of

tye dye in different colours - we just had to make a rail of these!

Each piece of fabric was enough to make a handful of sweatshirts in a variety of sizes . Once they're gone, they're gone!

Get them here

New Street Style Pics

2012-01-22T13:14:00.001Z

There's a new post on our street style blog (a big thanks to SassyHorse)

Instagram

2012-01-18T11:46:00.000Z

If your on instagram find us and be our friend, you'll get to see pictures of cats and screenpriting

New Website/Webshop

2012-01-16T20:59:00.000Z

We're doing some work on the website and webshop so please be patient with any glitches or changes. These thing always take a bit longer for us as we do it all ourselves (and we sometimes have to learn what to do!!!) Here's a screen grab - visit our site to see it live

Mushroom Sweatshirts back soon!!!

2012-01-15T17:31:00.000Z

I spent yesterday morning handprinting some new white sweatshirting with our mushroom design ready to make up some mushroom sweatshirts, so they'll be back in stock very soon!!!!

Tie Dye Fabric

2012-01-11T20:35:00.000Z

We've just got hold of a new batch of tie dye sweatshirt fabric, so soon we're going to be making some handmade sweatshirts and jumper dresses - we'll let you know when they are ready!!!!

New Jackets!!!!

2012-01-10T21:41:00.001Z

We were having a tidy up in the studio when we discovered some old samples of sweatshirts we made from suiting fabric, they were never quite right so we confined them to a box a few years ago. We had another look at them and decided they may just work with a zip. The first sample looked good, so we're going to add zips to the rest and then probably make some more, sometimes things don't work out at first!!!!!

Cat in a box

2012-01-09T15:54:00.000Z

Knowledge is Power T-Shirt

2012-01-09T12:57:00.000Z

This is how we create our Knowledge is Power T-Shirt

It's here

WATM Magazine

2012-01-08T16:54:00.000Z

We got a bit of a feature in WATM magazine, it looks like a pretty cool fashion/music/art blog (my french isn't great so I cant read it!!!!), anyway if you do speak french check it out. Our feature is here

Tribal Face

2012-01-06T22:27:00.000Z

Buy Here

Mobile Store

2012-01-03T21:58:00.000Z

We've finally sorted our mobile store, so you can now shop with ease from your

mobile phone!!!!. View the mobile store here (from a mobile obvs)

Our main homepage will still appear as normal but if you go straight to the online shop you will be re-directed to the mobile site.

More Sale

2011-12-29T17:57:00.000Z

We've just added a few more pieces to the online sale

Sale!!!!!

2011-12-28T16:04:00.000Z

Click here for our online sale

Happy Christmas

2011-12-24T10:01:00.002Z

We've been a bit rubbish with the blog recently as we've been so busy!!! Anyway Happy Christmas

Handprinting bags

2011-12-18T09:17:00.001Z

If you watch this gif non stop for about 2 hours you'll experience what it's like to handprint 500 paper bags, which was how I spent some of my saturday!!!!!! enjoy

(Me&Yu accepts no responsibility for any sort of trance like state created by watching this for 2 hours)

Christmas Delivery

2011-12-16T17:27:00.000Z

Handprinted Sketchbooks

2011-12-12T22:21:00.000Z

We've just added some great handprinted sketchbooks to the online shop.

Click Here

Sketchbooks!

2011-12-09T17:08:00.000Z

A few weeks ago we printed a sample selection of handprinted sketchbooks, they were very popular and sold out pretty much straight away so we've printed a new batch which are now available in Afflecks and our pop-up store in Manchester town hall.
The A5 'Draw In' ones are £6.50 and the A4 'Art Theft' at £9.50

Christmas T's & Sweats Now Online

2011-12-07T22:42:00.000Z

We've been pretty hectic so sorry for the delay, but at last the Christmas T-Shirts & Sweatshirts are online now!!!

Get them here!!!!

Christmas Displays

2011-12-07T21:18:00.000Z

Here's how our shops looking this Christmas !!!!

It's Christmas!!!!!!

2011-12-05T17:41:00.000Z

We've been very very busy over the past few weeks and in between this we've been trying to sort out all the Christmas stuff, we're a bit behind but getting there!!!!

So here's our first offer, spend over £50 online, instore or at the Pop-up Afflecks and you'll get a FREE limited edition Me&Yu Handprinted Christmas T-shirt.

Christmas T-Shirts/Sweatshirts

2011-12-03T21:54:00.000Z

Today we started handprinting our Christmas t-shirts/sweatshirts, they should be instore and online on Monday!!!!!

New Fanzine

2011-12-01T21:31:00.000Z

We've just printed some new fanzines to give out with all orders over Christmas. As an

added present we've handprinted the fold out A3 poster with our Art Theft quote. We could easily

have just printed the poster through our laser printer (it would have been easier) but we thought it kind of summed up our philosophy by handprinting this quote.

Christmas Bags

2011-11-29T22:25:00.000Z

It's Christmas time and here's our handprinted Christmas bag!!!

We will also be printing an exclusive Me&Yu Christmas t-shirt this week, we'll keep you posted!!

New Photos

2011-11-28T15:59:00.000Z

A big thank you to the super talented Rebecca Aubrey for these amazing photographs!!!!!

Sue Denim at Me&Yu

2011-11-25T22:57:00.000Z

Sue Denim from Robots in Disguise came in to see us yesterday. After a lovely chat about random things she got very excited with our latest season designs and left with a huge bag of goodies. She was flying our to Kiev for a gig where she'll be representing Me&Yu again!! Thanks Sue!!

We can't wait to hear Sue's solo album - it's just being produced and finished in the studio and will be out soon! And if anyone's not bought the latest Robots in Disguise album - you should it's great!

Pop Up Afflecks at Manchester Christmas Markets

2011-11-24T21:53:00.000Z

Starting from tomorrow - Friday 25th November - Me&Yu will be available at Pop Up Afflecks.

Pop Up Afflecks is a NEW EVENT designed to give you a taster of Afflecks right in the heart of Manchester's Christmas Markets. More like a Pop Up Shop than a traditional Christmas Market, there are a variety of products on offer from Me&Yu, Hannah Makes Things, Clothing With A Conscience, Biggi Bagga, Beanies, Chocolate Ape and Pop Boutique.

Pop Up Afflecks is selling a cross section of products available in the whole of Afflecks - a huge selection of clothing, fashion and accessories as well as sweeties and unique gifts. With sales assistants from all your favourite Afflecks stalls (Angie will be there every day!!) to help you shop for all those awkward people to buy for!

Why not enjoy the splendour of the Festive Christmas Markets whilst sipping a Glühwein or German Beer, or munching on some scrummy food before coming inside to see us (and get a little warmer too!)

We're situated just inside the Town Hall in the Foyer of the amazing Gothic building - you can't miss the huge clock tower. Look for the inflatable Santa - the entrance is just below his feet!

Opening Times:

Monday to Sunday 11am to 7pm (7 days a week)

Friday 25th November to Sunday 18th December

Christmas Cards

2011-11-21T17:19:00.000Z

We just got our delivery of Christmas cards/flyers, basically every Christmas we design a flyer that looks like a Christmas card to give out in our Christmas goodie bag (you get one every time you buy something)
Now we just have to fold 2500 of them!!!!!!

Use the Forces Tassel Top

2011-11-21T15:53:00.000Z

Buy it here

Super Duper Blackpool!

2011-11-20T18:37:00.000Z

Yesterday we had our annual chance of trading in our home town. The Super Duper Fair was a lovely event held this year in the rather splendid newly redecorated Grand Vestibule of the Winter Gardens in Blackpool.

Here's some pictures:

Covering 2 rooms there was over 50 stalls of handmade products from fashion, vintage and accessories to cards, gifts, artworks and cake!

Our little stall had a selection of our current best-selling handprinted tees, and a rail of our new overdyed slouch tees and dresses with a few cosy sweatshirts too!

Just in time for Christmas we've hand-printed some new cards - and this year we've introduced quality sketchbooks with hand-printed covers - a perfect present for anyone that loves a doodle!

Above all it was a lovely social event - Angie's friend Lisa Wigham had a stall next door selling her original prints and etchings - here's a selection of pictures of her stall and some examples of her work:

We were amazed by the quality and variety of products throughout the fair - here's some of our other favourites:

Muffin Ceramics

Lovely hand-made ceramic things from floral rings to porcelain tea-light holders.

Lots of ceramic detail cards, christmas tree decorations and jewellery that stood out as being just a bit different with a nice quality.

Maus Haus

Hand-made handbags and printed fabric badges with lots of detailling - cute retro styling!

Loula Belle at Home made the cutest pinny's, baking and making sets.

T-World T-shirt Film

2011-11-20T13:04:00.000Z

The people over at T-World magazine in Sydney have made this film about t-shirts, it's quite good (although I do sometimes cringe when people talk too much about the whole aesthetic/cultural meaning of t's), anyway watch it it's good!!!

NEXT: The future of T-shirt graphics from T-world on Vimeo.

New Things!!!!

2011-11-18T22:27:00.000Z

Today we've been busy printing sketchbooks and cards ready for Christmas. Those of you coming down to the Super Duper Fair tomorrow will be the first to see them, then we will have them in Afflecks and online next week.

Me&Yu in Blackpool - The Super Duper Fair

2011-11-17T21:52:00.000Z

This Saturday we will be taking part in the Super Duper fair in our hometown of Blackpool, come down, have a look, buy stuff!!!!

Today in the studio

2011-11-16T22:17:00.000Z

Fashion Monster Blog

2011-11-15T21:01:00.000Z

We had one of our sweatshirts featured on german blog Fashion Monster, it's good to see images of our designs created and styled by someone else (normally we control EVERYTHING!!!!), check it out here

Inspiration

2011-11-14T14:35:00.000Z

I tend to collect a lot of images/ideas on my computer, then every so often I will lay them up and make them into my desktop image so I'm always looking at them. I've just done the latest lot, and it wasnt till I laid them up together that I realised they all kind of go together!!!. These images were randomly collected over the last month but they definitely have a similar feel.

Scissors

2011-11-13T15:27:00.000Z

Now this may seem extremely dull but it's a post about scissors!!!! Yeah I got a new pair of scissors. Now this wouldn't normally warrant a blog post but these scissors are special - they were handmade in Sheffield (last week) by Ernest Wright & Co, a family owned scissor manufacturer.

I'm left handed and my current pair were not up to the increased amount of cutting I've been doing recently, and as the new year will see an increase in the amount of handmade product we sell, I thought it was time to invest in a new pair. I had a look on google and found this amazing small company that handmake all their products - that was it I had to get these, here's some nice shots of them -

Made by hand

2011-11-10T22:33:00.002Z

Watch this film - take note - wait......

Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

Mushroom Hat

2011-11-10T17:03:00.000Z

We don't like to waste fabric, especially fabric that we have lovingly handprinted. So once we'd cut out a fresh batch of handmade & handprinted mushroom sweatshirts we were left with a big pile of spare fabric...and this is what we did with it!!!!!!!

buy it here!!!!! (or at least like it!!)

Hipster Fashion Cycle

2011-11-10T13:05:00.000Z

I found this on one of my many aimless wanders around the internet, it's one of those things that I find equally amusing, interesting and pointless depending on my role for the day!!!!

Blog Features

2011-11-09T22:07:00.000Z

We've had a few features on some blogs recently, here's some -

Flamingo magazine click here to read full interview

Bambina - read it here

and lovescene online

We also got randomly featured in the easyjet inflight magazine, which you can read here or on an easyjet flight!!!!. If you would like to feature our wonderful work on your blog please do - we'll love you forever!!!!

New Website

2011-11-07T17:39:00.000Z

We've got a new website (well it's the same it just looks abit different). I've spent the last few weeks designing and setting up our new look website, it didn't take all that time it's just I have to fit it in between everything else I have to do (printing/making/shop/accounts etc). Those of you that know all about Me&Yu will be aware that we like to do EVERYTHING ourselves, which is good but time consuming!!!! So for the past few weeks I've been learning how to use flash, and trying to work out how my idea for the website can be modified to fit in with the small amount of web knowledge I have. So my initial idea was to have a scrolling live feed across the top of the screen that would display everything that is happening at Me&Yu via facebook/twitter/tumblr/blogger etc unfortunately I couldnt work out how to do this (or if it is possible??) so I have distilled the idea slightly and will try and slowly work out if it can be done.

We will also be adding more content to the website, so the images at the bottom of the page link to posts about whats happening on a weekly basis - photoshoots, in the studio, videos etc as well as stuff we think you will like - we will be adding more each day/week - but please be patient as there's only 2 of us!!! and we normally end up updating the site in the evenings.

Check out the new look site here

Contradictions

2011-11-06T17:47:00.000Z

During my usual Sunday blog browse I find it astonishing how many blogs seem to exist simply to re-hash posts from Slamxhype and Hypebeast.
Anyway here's an interesting post I found on slamxhype about ByKenyan and a film made about their wonderful collection of 'things'. I find it interesting and inspiring to see how people live/work closely so these type of documentary short films are always good to watch, and this one especially as it is so beautifully shot - watch it!!!!!

Kenyan & Grace by Gary Nadeau from gary nadeau on Vimeo.

Lauren Rowland Photoshoot

2011-11-03T22:24:00.000Z

Grayson Perry

2011-11-03T22:19:00.000Z

I've just watched the Imagine feature on Grayson Perry - The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Perry is an artist I've always been aware off but hadnt paid much attention to his work, in fact I only watched this because I'd found him vaguely amusing on Have I Got News For You. Anyway, seeing the work he has created for his exhibition at the British Museum I was deeply impressed by the ideas and the execution of those ideas - anyone who has a custom made pink motorcyle built containing a shrine for his childhood teddy bear - then driving it to Germany and back deserves much praise. I remember a quote by Keith Allen about Damian Hirst - 'it's one thing to have the idea of dissecting and displaying a shark, it's a whole different thing to actually do it', I guess thats was separates us from 'the artists'. I liked the images it showed of Perrys sketchbook and definitely felt there was some similarities with what we are trying to do (in a very far removed way - we do only make t-shirts!!!), and definitely got some inspiration from this.

Y'OH/Streetwear

2011-11-02T23:13:00.000Z

It's nice to find someone designing & making interesting streetwear in the UK. A lot of streetwear seems based around heavily branded t-shirts (that all look pretty similar), chinos/workwear pants and brown utility jackets, so it's very refreshing to see someone taking a bold yet considered step to create a range that takes the basics of current streetwear trends and twists them in an innovative way. Checkout Y'OH.

New things online

2011-10-31T15:14:00.000Z

We've added a couple of new items to our online store, check them out below

Handmade Cat T-shirt here

Use the Forces Tassel Top here

Noise in my Head

2011-10-31T14:29:00.000Z

Every so often we decide that we need to blog more about things we like, rather than just blog posts about Me&Yu, we do it for a bit then forget again. So here's me remembering!!!!

I found Noise in my head via Perks and Mini (our favourite Australian clothing label).
Noise in my head is - (in their words) -
Noise in My Head is a two hour freeform sonic excursion that broadcasts every Sunday 10pm-midnight on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR 102.7FM. The show is a commitment to potent baked goods that you’d otherwise never hear on the airwaves. Hosted by Michael Kucyk, NIMH regularly features mixes and interviews from various Australian and international artists, producers, DJs, label heads, compilation selectors and record collectors of unknown and well-respected renown.

You can download all the shows and dj mixes from their site, I downloaded 3 and spent the whole of the day in our studio listening to weird/obscure/good music - definately worth a download.

Beauty of the Soul

2011-10-30T08:13:00.000Z

Buy here!!!!!!

Happy Halloween

2011-10-28T20:08:00.000+01:00

This Weekend Me&Yu Afflecks is open:

Saturday: 10am-6pm

Sunday: 11am-5pm

Yuksek

2011-10-25T21:30:00.000+01:00

YUKSEK (LIVE) + Guest DJ at the Deaf Institute -Manchester
* November 14th - 11.00pm/3.00am *

If you've seen our website or ASOS boutique recently you will have seen the lovely Marine who modelled some of our new and old range for us. As well as been a great model she's also organising a night at the Deaf Institute featuring the amazing Yuksek (see below). We hammered Yukseks first album - Away from the Sea on the Me&Yu stereo and his new one will get just as much play. Anyway here's Marine to tell you why you should go!!!!

'If you think about it -there is NO reason why you shouldnt come to the gig. It's all about music, partying, and raising money for Cancer Research UK. It is new AND it is happening in Manchester. I would call that -winning the jackpot. Get yourself a ticket!!'

For more info see here

For tickets click here

Fabric Printing

2011-10-24T22:05:00.000+01:00

We've just started printing a couple of new rolls of fabric. The first is a purple UK made sweatshirting which we are printing in 2 colours with an aztec inspired design, we will then make it up into sweatshirt dresses. The second is a vintage mustard suiting fabric which we are making into slouch trousers.

More 35mm photos

2011-10-21T08:50:00.000+01:00

Me&Yu Stockists.....

2011-10-20T14:15:00.000+01:00

You might have discovered our brand in Afflecks or online at www.meandyu.com but you may not be aware that Me&Yu is also available at a few select stores and websites.

Cuckoo Folk in Congleton
A cute little shop which is also a hairdressers has a select range of the latest Me&Yu designs alongside other upcoming designers and choice vintage finds.

Utopia in Wakefield
Selling mens and womenswear, specialising in limited edition and one-off pieces from a variety of designers. A new batch of Me&Yu tees are heading their way.....

Unbox Shop, Lancaster
Unbox sells cards, gifts, clothing and art, with an emphasis on the quirky and unique. We created an exclusive design especially for Unbox which isn't available anywhere else!!!

ASOS Marketplace
We also manage a boutique on ASOS. It has most of the same stock as our main website but if you use ASOS Marketplace please follow us and give us some love / hearts so we can reach a bigger audience with our designs.

Support independent retail - little shops like us and those we sell in rely on visitors, customers and word of mouth so get shopping and spread the word......

Photos (on film)

2011-10-19T00:13:00.000+01:00

We've been doing a lot of photoshoots recently, and while we shoot the majority of pictures on digital, we've also been experimenting with film, here's a few pics

Mystreetchic

2011-10-17T15:15:00.000+01:00

The lovely people over at mystreetchic have posted a few of our 'looks' in their style gallery, pop on over and have a look.

Mystical Forces Look Book

2011-10-12T23:28:00.002+01:00

Here's our new look book

Open publication - Free publishing - More fashion

Winter Warmers

2011-10-12T12:28:00.003+01:00

Vintage Jumpers NOW IN STOCK in Afflecks!!!!

Errmmmmm....new flyers

2011-10-10T16:23:00.000+01:00

Not really sure if this actually justifies it's own blog post, but it's getting one for 2 reasons - one, I cant think of anything else to say and two I am a bit geeky when it comes to us getting new flyers.
So we have some new flyers, this is the first time we've done flyers for a specific collection (Mystical Forces) and they feature a double exposure photograph taken by Angie. Anyway here's what they look like, if you want one come into the shop!!!!! (or buy something online!!!)

The Colours - more dates....

2011-10-07T14:22:00.000+01:00

New design online now!!

2011-10-06T20:31:00.000+01:00

This design is hand-drawn by Angie and handprinted in black on an overdyed yellow t-shirt to get a "dirty mustard" textured colour. This unisex heavyweight t-shirt features a cut & finish neckline for a relaxed fit.

Containing the text "All That I'm Certain of is the Beauty of The Soul" hidden in the roots of a magical tree. Inspired by the myth and legend of the "Tree of Life" and hidden within the branches are lots of friendly creatures.

Buy it here

Swiss Lips

2011-10-05T21:27:00.000+01:00

Ten Bears are no more, Swiss Lips are here

SWISS LIPS HAVE FORMED. THIS IS THE BEGINNING. SWISS LIPS HAVE FORMED. THIS IS THE BEGINNING. SWISS LIPS HAVE FORMED. THIS IS THE BEGINNING. SWISS LIPS HAVE FORMED. THIS IS THE BEGINNING. SWISS LIPS HAVE FORMED. THIS IS THE BEGINNING. SWISS LIPS HAVE FORMED. THIS IS THE BEGINNING. SWISS LIPS HAVE FORMED. THIS IS THE BEGINNING

here's all the links
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facebook
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International Firework Championships

2011-10-04T17:36:00.000+01:00

Fireworks Displays aren't really something that you think of when you think about fashion.
But every year Blackpool plays host to the International Fireworks Championships and this year Angie from Me&Yu was chosen to be on the panel of judges at this fabulous event. The judges were selected from professionals in the tourism industry and the arts council so it was a real honour for us to be asked to take part.

The event ran for 4 consecutive Fridays throughout September, with 3 competing teams from different countries, finishing last Friday with a closing display from a UK Team.

The First Week we saw a great display from Canada:

Secondly was Germany,

And last was Australia...

Angie was asked to offer her professional opinion about the quality of the displays, choice of music, syncronization, colours and overall technical performance. It's been a great opportunity to learn a little bit about all that goes into preparing these great co-ordinated shows. The Australian team just had the edge over some of the other performances with a jaw dropping display that was just perfectly timed throughout.

For more information about this and other great events see the Visit Blackpool website.

New Stuff Online Now!!!!

2011-10-03T17:33:00.000+01:00

Get them here!!!!

View from the studio

2011-09-29T12:34:00.000+01:00

Yesterday was a busy day in the Me&Yu studio, not only did we manage to print a couple of new designs we also made some winter mushroom hats and another batch of handmade mushroom sweatshirts!!!!!
Here's the day in pictures -

New Sweatshirts

2011-09-26T17:14:00.000+01:00

We've just added a few new sweatshirts to the online shop check them out here

Sue & The Unicorn

2011-09-23T21:12:00.001+01:00

You may know that here at Me&Yu we are big fans of Robots in Disguise (they quite like us too!!!) anyway today we got a lovely email and photo off Sue Denim who is busy recording her solo album in Wales (and wearing Me&Yu).

New Season - New Photoshoots

2011-09-21T13:23:00.001+01:00

We've been doing a few photoshoots recently some of our brand new stock but also some of the older designs you know and love. Since we opened our ASOS Boutique we've had to re-think the way we do our photography. We still like to have a great flat image of each design but ASOS Marketplace have strict guidelines and all items submitted to their site must be outside, street-style photography. This means that each item must be photographed clearly on a model outside - for both boys and girls.

In the past we've done shoots inside at Afflecks, occasional ones outside or relied on guest photographers so it seems like a lot of extra work for us to organise and take shoots ourselves of every single design - we make so many! But actually the results have been pretty amazing - what a difference to use outside natural light rather than rely on flashes which produce images that need colour correcting. I feel like a good photographer all of a sudden (but maybe my skills are just improving with practise) and I'm really happy with all the photographs - A big thank you to all our models who are also so talented themselves!!

Firstly was Lucas McDonald who we caught on his bike in the Northern Quarter (check out his Menikmati Fashion Label - his designs will soon be available online and in Cindy's House, Afflecks.

Jake Powell and Lauren Powell did some modelling for us in Blackpool and as well as the product shots we managed to get some more "arty" shots on 35mm film. As well as being full-time degree students at Blackpool they also have a card and gift brand called The Crafty Badger. And Jake is also in a band called The Colours who are playing around the North West - talented and busy!!!

Next up was Ruari Spence who has been a Me&Yu customer for years. He's just starting his degree in Fashion Promotion at Manchester Metropolitan - good luck Ruari!

And to come we've a girls shoot tomorrow with Marine Bezault who just graduated from UCLAN in Preston - can't wait!!

With more NEW DESIGNS on the rails by the weekend we'll have to get snap happy again soon. It's such an exciting time to see all our new designs on actual people rather than the plain "flats". And we have some artistic photoshoots from guest photographers scheduled for the next few weeks its looking like Me&Yu will be having a photo make-over!

Street Style Blog

2011-09-19T16:21:00.000+01:00

Our (previously rather sporadic) street style blog is back up and running, a massive thanks to sassyhorse who has kick started us again!!!!!

Cut Copy New Video

2011-09-15T17:10:00.000+01:00

The Australian electronic band Cut Copy have released the official video for "Blink and You'll Miss a Revolution." Described by the group as a "video found in a rusty chest in an ancient grotto in Saint-Maimin, France" the video was directed by Emile Sornin, and produced by Jules de Chateleux at Division. The track comes from the LP Zonoscope, which is out now via. Modular. Watch below! (thanks to HUH! for the text)

Cut Copy - Blink And You'll Miss A Revolution from Cut Copy on Vimeo.

New New New

2011-09-13T21:33:00.000+01:00

New things here!!!

Some new prints online

2011-09-12T17:38:00.000+01:00

We've just added some new stuff to our online shop - look here

New Print/Re-print

2011-09-10T09:47:00.000+01:00

Yesterday I had a busy day re-printing a new batch of our The End is the Beginning print as it's been selling really well. I also printed a new design 'Knowledge is Power', a single colour design on a amazingly good drip bleached black t-shirt. Here's some pics - they will be online next week (early).

Under The Town!!

2011-09-06T17:50:00.000+01:00

You may remember us talking about a fashion show event in Blackpool. Well this was last Thursday 1st September and it was such good fun!!

Angie's been working with Blackpool Council, Blaze and The Grundy Art Gallery over the summer. All three organisations teamed up to create a programme of events for young people in Blackpool. The Arts Award is a national scheme for young people which enables them to gain a qualification and experience a variety of projects that are a bit more fun and interesting than things you would find in school. From Art, Music, Video Production and Event Planning - the award starts with the Bronze Award and moves on to Silver and Gold. Over the summer students have had a choice of workshops in Combined Arts, Dance, Theatre/Drama, New Media, Visual Arts and Literature.

As part of the Fashion module, Angie ran a two day hat workshop. These hats were then modelled as part of the Photography Module with Claire Pepper, an award winning Fashion Photographer based in London. The students then went on to organise and plan a whole festival in the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. With live bands such as Karima Francis, The Cold One Hundred and The Colours, stalls from Me&Yu and The Crafty Badger, and a fashion show which was completely choreographed by Sarah Hall. These amazing photographs of the night were taken for Blaze by Brian J Slater Photography - better than we could do with our little compact camera!!!

Thanks to everyone we met who had such lovely things to say about us, and worked together so well to produce an outstanding event!

Photos

2011-09-04T14:45:00.000+01:00

Not only did we get to meet lots of new customers at the N4 Loves U Street Party we also managed a quick street style photo shoot (a big thanks to Lucas and his bike for modelling)

Kid British/Me&Yu/N4 Loves U

2011-09-04T12:09:00.001+01:00

Yesterday we were at the N4 Loves U street party in Manchesters' Northern Quarter with our pop-up Me&Yu stall. The amazing Kid British (long time Me&Yu wearers) played a small acoustic set on the main stage and Adio was showing his love for Manchester with our Eye Heart Manchester T-shirt (he also gave us a shout out!!!), here's a few pics.

The street party/festival is continuing today, so if you're free why not pop down for some great music, food and booze (and us), we'll post some pics of the event tomorrow or check our facebook.

N4 Festival This Weekend

2011-09-02T09:06:00.000+01:00

We will be taking part in this weekends Northern Quarter N4 Loves U festival. Along with some other shops from Afflecks we will have a stall on Thomas/Edge Street from 11am-5pm Sat & Sun.

Come down and show your support for Manchesters' independent businesses.

Here's the info (courtesy of The Natter)

Northern Quarter businesses are hosting a two-day free festival called N4 Loves U Festival on Saturday and Sunday, Sept 3 and 4 from midday until 9pm to support the I Love MCR campaign.

Thousands are expected to attend the festival which is centred around Thomas Street, Tib Street, Edge Street, Copperas Street, High Street and Oak Street. The streets will be closed off to traffic, there will be music stages, four pop-up bars and 30 acts performing across the weekend. Afflecks will also be running a vintage market.

Street party style picnic tables and benches will run along Thomas Street, Tib Street and Edge Street and there will be a range of food concessions available.

Entertainment will be provided through-out the day across thee stages including an acoustic stage, an Indie stage and a DJ stage featuring Mr Scruff who will headline on Sunday.

Entry is free but buckets will be at the gateways collecting money for the I Love MCR designated charities – Forever Manchester and Reclaim.

Councillor Pat Karney, Manchester’s city centre spokesperson said: “Despite being in the heart of the city centre, the Northern Quarter has a real community vibe. It’s fantastic that the businesses are coming together to put on a free and fun event for all the family and I would urge people to show their support for this important part of the city centre’s economy by coming along and enjoying the show.”

Vaughan Allen, chief executive from CityCo, Manchester’s city centre management company said: “The Northern Quarter is a very important part of the city centre retail and entertainment offer, and the festival’s content really reflects this. These businesses have shown great resilience over the past few weeks, and true Mancunian spirit. Delivering a free fundraising event for the local community in such a short time frame is testament to this.”

An organiser of the festival, Northern Quarter spokesperson, Nicky Rybka Goldsmith, proprietor of The Bay Horse public house, Cord bar and Thomas Restaurant said: ”As small independent businesses, we can be the most vulnerable which the local economy is hit in this way. The last few weeks have demonstrated the strength of working together as a community, which has helped us through this difficult time. It’s now time to celebrate and thank local residents and our other regular customers for their loyal support.”

Another organiser of the festival, Gary McClarnan from Sparkle Street Creative Adventures who owns Teacup on Thomas Street said: ”It’s great that Manchester has come together against anti-social behaviour to show the world we are proud and united in our love of the city. The Northern Quarter is very much behind this fantastic campaign and this festival is our way of showing our support.”

Follow @N4lovesU on Twitter for up-dates on the programme of events across the weekend.

Facebook App

2011-09-01T13:50:00.000+01:00

We have a new facebook app that allows you to shop at our online shop through facebook, so not only so do you not have to leave the house to buy some lovely Me&Yu goodies you don't even have to leave facebook!!!!
Get it here!!

Under the Town Festival

2011-08-30T16:08:00.000+01:00

Me&Yu will be running a fashion show and pop-up shop at the Under the Town festival in Blackpool on Thursday.

Under the town is a new festival at the Winter gardens Blackpool, bringing together the best in music, visual arts, fashion and dance.The event has been organised by young people from blackpool as part of their arts award and will feature a headline show from Karima Francis.

Info - Thursday 31st August, 2pm-9pm Winter Gardens, Blackpool.

Tickets available at Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool (no on the door tickets)

Handmade mushroom sweatshirt online now!!!

2011-08-29T12:56:00.000+01:00

The future vision of Me&Yu is for our main products to be handmade by us in the UK, whilst still retaining the affordable pricing we have. This is the first step in that vision with these handmade and handprinted sweatshirts created by us in our Manchester factory using UK produced loopback jersey. I think you would find it very hard to find a UK produced sweatshirt retailing at a lower price than these.

This cool mushroom and eye illustration has been repeat printed over the fabric, which has then been cut out and made into these beautiful sweatshirts. The position of the prints will vary with each garment.

It's strange that to some people a mushroom with eyes is weird - to us it's just something we draw!!!!!

Buy it here

New Re-Worked Jewellery online now!!!

2011-08-28T13:16:00.000+01:00

It's here

I Love Manchester because.......

2011-08-28T11:52:00.000+01:00

A big thank you to everyone who's been down to our Afflecks store in the past few days and supported the I Love Manchester campaign, our wall is full of reasons why people love Manchester!!!!!!!

New Handmade & Handprinted Sweatshirt

2011-08-28T11:48:00.000+01:00

Yesterday we finished the handmade and handprinted mushroom sweatshirt (see earlier post), it's in our Afflecks store now and we will be putting them online in the next few days. The next few weeks will see us making more handmade/handprinted sweatshirts so keep looking.

New Fabric Print

2011-08-25T21:08:00.000+01:00

Today we handprinted the first of our new fabric designs - which we will soon be making into sweatshirts and cardigans

New Paper Bags!!!!!!

2011-08-25T21:06:00.000+01:00

When I Die Bury Me in the Clothes of my Youth

2011-08-24T21:20:00.000+01:00

Buy it here

I Love Manchester

2011-08-24T13:58:00.000+01:00

You may have seen this logo spread around town, seen our "Eye Love Manchester"

t-shirt and heard us talk of Manchester Day.

So what's it all about???

I Love Manchester Day is this Friday 26th August and exists to show appreciation for the city - your city, and what you love about it. The idea for it came from the stong community spirit that prevailed after the riots, looting and criminal damage that hit the city centre a few weeks ago. The campaign gathered steam and the council and local businesses have joined forces to celebrate the city and what we love about it.

We all know about the riots, "That was ages ago," I hear you say. Well even though we were not directly affected, the lack of confidence in the high street has affected trade for business large and small. This combined with the general downturn means little business like us and our fellow Northern Quarter shops have been struggling a little bit more than usual. Manchester Day is about supporting all the independent businesses throughout the city that make Manchester one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world. We're also fund raising for Forever Manchester and Reclaim - two great local charities.

So this FRIDAY 26th AUGUST come to Afflecks and celebrate with us.

There will be live music and competitions, poetry readings and celebrity appearances throughout the building. So if you fancy a bit of celeb spotting, want somewhere to hang out with your mates and have fun - come to Afflecks. It's what we're here for!!!!

If you can't get to Manchester - enter our "I Love Manchester" Competition and you could win an amazing prize!!!

The End is the Beginning

2011-08-23T21:18:00.000+01:00

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Soul Surfing

2011-08-22T12:17:00.000+01:00

Just thought we'd give you the lowdown on some of the new designs, the ideas behind them etc. I'll start today with the easiest one - Soul Surfing, this is the easiest one to describe the idea behind simply because we pretty much just saw the image and used it. We're big fans here of the Australian label PAM, one of the founders Mischa Hollenbach also does an occasional blog on hypebeast, where he blogs about interesting books, one of these posts featured the book Be Here Now by Ram Dass, and some illustrations from said book. We had also been thinking about doing an Ocean Pacific inspired beach/surf t-shirt and one of the illustrations (see below) seemed to fit that theme, and it is probably the most amazing and ridiculous image ever, so how could we not put it on a t-shirt.

We just added the soul text, scanned it in, made a screen and printed the t-shirt.!!!!!. To get that vintage OP look we hand bleached some indigo blue t-shirts to create a lovely acid wash style light pink t (this also means they are all unique too)

Buy it here !!!!

New Things Online Now

2011-08-21T20:51:00.000+01:00

When I Die T-Shirt - £15

The End is the Beginning T-Shirt Dress - £22

The End is the Beginning Vest - £15

Eye Flower T-Shirt Dress - £22

Eye Flower Slouch Top - £15

Eye Heart Manchester T-Shirt - £15

I See All Oversize T-Shirt - £15

Soul Surfing T-Shirt - £15

Eye Love Manchester T-Shirt

2011-08-19T22:57:00.000+01:00

As part of the I Love Manchester campaign we have designed an alternative Manchester t-shirt. Show your support and love for this great city!!!!. We will be donating a percentage of all sales to Forever Manchester and the Reclaim project. Here's how we made it!!!!

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New Designs are here!!! (nearly)

2011-08-17T22:24:00.000+01:00

Today I've been busy printing the first batch of our new designs - here's a sneak peek!!!

Summer Sale

2011-08-15T14:16:00.000+01:00

Click here for womens sale

click here for mens sale

New Look Book

2011-08-13T18:01:00.000+01:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More fashion