# @stephen__carpenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BpejuNHBKtV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59749094-stephen-carpenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-10-28T12:52:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Stephen Carpenter (@stephen__carpenter) — https://gondola.cc/stephen__carpenter

## Caption

Amazing to see No Ifs or Buts last week and lovely to see some of the old and current CUTS team  and customers from back in the day at the opening night. x 
First Photo credit marklebon7 .
CUTS was probably the most influential hairdressers in London throughout the nineties and noughties. Going to get my hair cut at wearecuts for me was like going on a fornightly pilgrimage, the people, the stories, the cuts were all pure unfiltered realness, talent and creativity fuelled by real life experiences and a soul driven need to share, relate and create.  noifsorbuts_movie by feltculture was an amazing emotional rollercoaster of nostalgia, fun and sadness. It made me think about creativity today and how it's being blocked by smart devices and information overload - more in than out. We are now sold a complete image rather than the imagination to create our own worlds, just buy, replicate and follow. CUTS was one of the last places I know where individual expression and true raw creativity met and naturally came together with artists, musicians, advertisers, innovators, stylists... Today are we being surrounded by people that just want to replicate what they've seen, reinvent rather than invent and express with self discovered  imagination and ideas,l. Studying at Elephant & Castle at that time I was surrounded by many people that wanted to learn how to be creative rather than have a raw talent, i didn't realise at the time but CUTS led by Steve Brooks created a place that sheltered and cradled raw creativity and free spirit, led by someone that may have needed care and sheltering the most. ♥️ Back then I saw a man  that was like a composer, a giver, ask Steve would do, give. After watching the film I saw a man that needed to give love and to be loved.
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