Ghosts of the Xmas Past: FURBALLS

January 1, 2012 0

Tanner Almon is a photographer, a film-maker as well as an author and poet. He is a true artist of the French Académia of the 18th century. He is what is called a great visionary and let’s be honest all the good ones are ones that think way out of the box! My obsession with Furballs is quite obvious I think, from my picture in the team page. And I fell in love with Tanner Almon and his lovely wife Vicki’s last year’s Christmas sequence. The story of the furball series is what Tanner calls: A Christmas miracle.

BERNHARD WILLHELM: World of Colour

Fashion village

November 15, 2011 0

Remember being a kid and making paintings where clouds were purple and the sun was blue? Some people don’t grow old, hence never stop being creative and chasing after what they have come to this world to do. And it is in fact Friedrich Nietzsche who said: “The overman…Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment.” Bernhard Willhelm, born in the heat of 70s in Ulm.

ARCH.TEKT.ONIK

Fashion village

September 10, 2011 0

A designer from Poland who graduated from Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design plays with the definitions of geometry, architecture and combines them with fashion design. Anna’s avant-garde designs are constructions and de-constructions of raw materials and they are mostly inspired by modern architecture and interior design.

Aoi Kotsuhiroi: Unfamiliar Territory

Fashion village

July 6, 2011 0

Aoi Kotsuhiroi is a talent, an artist, a photographer and a story teller. What she does is hard to define without using the word “exquisite” every second on the way.
She doesn’t call her creations, designs because Aoi believes that the use of the word design has become a marketing label to replace the word ‘product’. Now based in France, she keeps on creating exquisite works through chapters. I had the chance to ask her a couple of questions about her Body objects.

X’U

Fashion village

June 7, 2011 0

I made my first dress when I was a teenager, because I couldn’t find what I want in Kyiv’s shops. I remember that in Ukraine that time all shoes were black or brown and all clothes were equally boring. But when you are fifteen and dreaming to become a filmdirector you need more colours, shapes and concepts. So I started make clothes for me and my friends without thinking to become a fashion designer. I wasn`t interested in fashion, i love art, cinema, music and parties. But at the age of 19 I took part in fashion contest and won a contract with one of Kyiv`s fashion house.

Scandinavian Fashion: GAIA

Fashion village

April 27, 2011 0

As I was looking for something inspirational I found a knitwear designer from Central Saint Martins College who has a tad bit different approach than others. Gaia Brandt Rasmussen, the Copenhagen based designer opened her brand in 2009.
All the pieces in her collection are hand made and the silhouettes are retro-ish. They do not carry the modern approach of knitwear in combining ultra-modern structures with the soft, grandmother reminiscent material. On the contrary, her designs are well established, lady like yet, androgynous in the same body.

“Not Everything Has To Be Wearable”

Fashion village

March 9, 2011 0

“For me fashion is an expression of art that is very close related to me and to my body. I see it as my expression of identity combined with desire, moods and cultural setting.” says the brilliant talent Iris van Herpen. Born in the Netherlands she started her eponymous brand in 2007 after studying Fashion Design at ARTEZ and finishing her internship with beloved Alexander McQueen. She won many awards in the Dutch media besides her showcases in London, Amsterdam, Spain and finally, received the appreciation she deserves with her show “Escapism” in 2011 Paris Couture Week. To her, fashion is a contrast between beauty and regeneration, by which she means; reevaluating reality and underlining individuality.

The Dance of Colours

Behind the scenes / Fashion village

December 8, 2010 0

Blockbuster ideas created by fashion are unmistakably done by EAK. Her designs show the significance of the subconscious and the chaotic environment in between the double sided mind. Carrying elements of the mind, the collection is an awe towards anatomy. The hand crafted prints over the satin shows the true essence of the soul within the body and with every drop, every shade on the fabric many, many feelings comes out with the frill of fashion.

Experiments, Experiments…

Bang on trend / Fashion village

November 24, 2010 0

Voilà! This freaky little thing is not only on a fifty something inch tv but inside your pocket! Timo Weiland, the young American talent moves up the market with Timo!Wallets. Timo explains that Timo!Wallets are how he learned to use a sewing machine and he has been expressing himself with these wallets since he was 17.