Posts Tagged ‘fashion’
Prints over prints over prints. We will never get tired of prints and they will never leave us too. The season we’ve seen the floral, art deco, paisley, jungle and even vegetables! Altuzarra. Louis Vuitton, Dolce Gabbana, Vivienne Westwood, Comme Des Garcons and many had the classic floral prints besides many others on their collections. Now, using these prints on a daily basis is tricky. It might seem over done or as barely making a fashion statement. I’ve put this ‘how to wear floral prints’ on a daily basis schema.There is really not a single way to use the florals on your cupboard as this season many stylists have interpreted this trend with a different approach.
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Recently I read an article talking about the human influence on landscapes as seen by Google Earth. The article stressed how much more evident is the intervention of the man on nature, if seen through this media, as exemplified by a photo depicting the border between fields and virgin forest in Brazil. That was impressive, but more than making me think about how sustainable we are, I have to admit I was struck by the beauty of some of those images, that looked like beautiful abstract compositions.
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Korea meets London. Juhee Han, a newly graduate from the legendary fashion house; Central Saint Martins, Han is a knitwear designer. She graduated from BA Fashion Design and Knitwear in 2011 and her graduation show, I must say, is quite interesting. Her collection is knitwear combined with fur and metal accessories in bright colours; oranges, purple and tones of beige.
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A rising star on the UK menswear scene, Christopher Shannon made his London Fashion Week debut in September 2008 as part of Fashion East and Topman’s MAN showcase, after having graduated from Central Saint Martin’s with an MA. He describes his own style as Re-worked luxe sportswear, tight colour palettes, overbearing prints. And actually it’s what I thought about especially when looking at his FW11 collection, where fabrics range from clean nylons and cottons to heavily embellished woven blanket fabric (…)
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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.
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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.
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In 2008 Pauline Van Dongen graduated with a BA in Fashion Design from the renowned Artez, Academy of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands. It was there that she first met with the French method of pattern drafting called “moulage” (mold) Later she began printing silk jersey with puff ink applying heat to the fabric. During this process, she discovered that the ink expanded and pulled the fabric into a resilient and flexible plissé.
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DUD.ZIN.SKA is a brand runned by Anna Dudzinska, a Fashion Designer based in Poland. Anna’s collections may be described as a street style avant-garde, combining different subjects such as construction vs. deconstruction, old vs. new, pretty vs. ugly etc. She’s inspired by modern architecture and interior design and those subjects could be found in her works. She also designs short RTW collections recognized as a FASH.LAB.
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Coinonia’s latest collection for Autumn Winter 2012 captures the essence of this relaxed state. They explain this state as; ” A moment when something gets suddenly released from a certain tension or balance. Everything normally maintains its equilibrium with its certain tension – sometimes being tensioned too much. Even so a moment could arrive when it loses its tension or its own physical balance. No matter what kind of stimulant it is, this causes a movement, a shift from static into dynamic even for a very short period of time or in a smaller scale.”
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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.
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Alba Prat comes out of the darkness with pure perfection and a witty architectural style. After finishing her studies at Environmental Science she started working as a technician in Barcelona where she met the true passion of her life; fashion design. The white cubic pattern of her work comes from a cult film from 1982, Tron. She explains the film as taking place in multiple universes: the real and the virtual. Through a laser people are converted in to pixels and that is where Alba Pratt gets the three dimensional inspiration for her collection.
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Leather and chiffon meets the summer wardrobes by Gemma Slack’s newest collection. Chiffon, perhaps yes but leather in summer sounds a little out of the box for me. Nevertheless we often saw leather in the runway this season. The transparency of the textile combined with diverse cut leather shows the distinction of the no-season trend that is in favor for the past couple of years. I love Gemma Slack, though. Her designs are a good combination of good and bad. Good represented by the soft pink tones, oranges and beige at sub-tones and bad with cutting edge leather jackets skirts.
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Reality Studio is back with a brand new collection for the Spring Summer 2011. The project, I would rather say, is called “Open To The Public” showcasing the collection in an unconventional way. On bicycles!
Eight women are selected to stroll through the streets of Berlin during the Berlin Fashion week in July, modeling the pieces for the current season. The idea behind this collection is rather than limiting the viewing to a selected audience, the Reality Studio have let lose and presents the collection to the public. The starting point of the project was an inspiration from the Californian music performer ‘Flying Lotus’.
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LIKA hats by Lisa Cestaro was found in 2005 and has always been experimenting new ideas pushing beyond the limits of fashion with the strong sense of innovative Italian design. The hats are contemporary and feminine with a well defined conceptuality. For the Fall Winter 2011 collection, the hit hat was ‘Cristal’, with its transparent plastic detailing on wool and lapin fabric. The plastic used on top of these hats are both a practical and modernized version of concept hats such as fisherman’s and 20s elegant style.
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Imagine, owning a design that is done purely in the sake of the design itself.
No boundaries, no restrictions.
But an added quality in material, production and of course the designing process.
Kron by KronKron is a brand for incredible shoe designs from Iceland. Hugrún Árnadóttir and Magni Þorsteinsson, the designers of this innovative brand come from different backgrounds yet work together as a whole with a limitless and feminine style. Hugrún studied fashion design in Studio Bercot in Paris and graduated in 2000.
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Adam Andrascik is an American, London based Womenswear Designer, whose collection I saw at Rendez Vous in Paris. I was impressed by the sculptural yet very wearable appearence of his garments, and by the fluro-bright colours he mixes very well. His favourite designer is Martin Margiela, you can tell, but I think after a few collections he already found a signature style and his own trademarks.
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British milliner Stephen Jones celebrates 30 years in fashion with Vakko Fashion Center. After working with many well known fashion muses such as Boy George and Duran Duran following his graduation from Central Saint Martins, he is definitely one of the most extraordinary milliner of the century. Playing close to the borderline of imagination his designs have certainly become more than just fashion and transformed into art pieces of their own.
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We all know that Hussein Chalayan is highly intrigued by the Japanese culture. Nevertheless, he is not interested in the obvious Japanese cliché that the collections seem to have been following in the past two seasons. For Fall Winter 2011 collection in Paris, Hussein Chalayan continues his examination of the Japanese culture through the DNA of this eastern environment that keeps on growing into the western benchmark. For this reason he entitled his Fall Winter 2011 collection: Kaikoku or Kai ko ku which in Japanese means “open country”. Kaikoku is signifying the ever-changing and experiencing side of the eastern culture.
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I have no doubt we will see a gorgeous actress gracing the pages of Vogue in a Liz Black design in the very near future. During the beginning of a fashion career, it is every girls dream to work for a high-end fashion designer. My dream became a reality when I had the chance to observe the creation of a new designer brand. Ladies, meet your new best friend…Liz Black.
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Victoria and Albert, one of the most beloved museums in London is holding yet again another legend. There will be an exhibition that explores the work of the ground breaking designer for whom fabric is everything and that is what intrigues him about design. This retrospective in V&A, with various installations throughout the V&A and beyond, includes Yamamoto’s menswear for the first time. The exhibition holds 60 pieces of work including multi media timeline of his work.
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Some weeks ago a person I know posted on Facebook the first foto above. It’s clearly and simply the shot of a floor with a particular pattern. This person is a very famous creative director of an important Italian fashion brand. The photo got some “likes” and someone commented something like: “I wonder what people would say if I posted a photo of a shit on a pavement. Would they like it too?” It was a joke, ok, but suddendly I started thinking about how many different things we can see in the same images, giving it different meanings.
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For as long as I have known myself I have been a devotee for fashion photography. Tried it myself actually, and as an enthusiast, I tried a couple of photography competitions too. I believe photography, in terms of fashion to be specific, has got one rule only; the crazier the better. Talking about photography: out of the box, a beloved fashion -GURU- photographer is in Istanbul for an exhibition.
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Combining art and fashion in terms of searching for an identity certain characteristics of both come out in the surface. Having 30 artists, both emerging and established in the field the exhibition is at a level of awe. Including artist such as the late Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Alicia Framis, Maison Martin Margiela, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Yohji Yamamoto and many more Aware Art Fashion Identity is in a true search for their ID.
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“Honey” she calls out from the kitchen, “it doesn’t matter what you look like! It’s what’s inside that counts!” Guess what? In this case, it is no joke, the truth! But don’t get too excited, the inside I am referring to is a little less spiritual and a little more lacy. So here we stand in front of an underwear store to pick something not only to wear under the garments but to reveal our inner self.
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We recycle plastic, paper, glass even animal waste nowadays. However, recycling today is replaced by the organic movement on Martha’s list of make-it-yourself. But it can not be denied that we are moving towards a more nature based life, relating to the core of things.
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When we are young we are keen on dressing as superman, wonder woman, cinderella on the night of the Hallows. However, the gap between how we dress on Halloween from our daily couture is getting smaller each season in order to keep up with the drama of life. May it be John Galliano or Gareth Pugh we dress according to our fantasies and not really jeans and…
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The influence of that great period of experimentation and pure mixture of music and fashion, is the peculiarity of Discipline, young italian brand, record label and booking agency.
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“in this conceptual world women proudly wear unique masterpieces
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PRESENTATION OF NEW ARTWORKS WHAT’S MORE ALIVE THAN YOU®
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The presentation of the first collection WHAT’S MORE ALIVE THAN YOU® is going on at WMATY.COM
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Coolhunting around London.
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BaronOh FW 10 collection is inspired by the traditional baroque costumes
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would you call those women “fat”?
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Trust Me Magazine launching party @ YAB
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Milan based label Synthagma
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It’s Valentine’s Day. It’s also the Chinese New Year first day.
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Menswear Collection based on Damien Hirst
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Dearest Auntie…
Ariko
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One of the most genuine geniuses of the fashion world has gone.
Ariko
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I Want Candy!
Ariko
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All that glitter is NOT gold.
Ariko
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Umit Benan, fashion designer of Turkish origins, was the winner of the last edition of Who Is On Next and one of the special guests of this edition of Pitti Uomo.
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Cor Sine Labe Doli bow ties and Ralph Vaessen glasses are our favourites.
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A bright present and a brighter future for the fashion duo of Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein
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The Christmas tree interpreted by the photographer Zhang Jingna.
Ariko
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A shooting and a short movie by Karl Lagerfeld
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Tim Burton next exhibit and a shooting for Bazaar
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Lisa Shahno
This post was submitted by Martina Dabac.
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“A bike to match your look”. Since I moved to Nyc, I picked up at first glance the major trends
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Fashion editor of Vogue L’Uomo, effortlessly perfect.
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Anna Dello Russo, style icon
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Trend Union – The Key
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These shirts by Martine Rose prove how you can find a perfect match between a classic garment and hi-tech sportswear.
Ariko
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Una mostra sul rapporto tra la cultura sarda, il design e la moda contemporanea, a cura di Bonizza Giordani Aragno e organizzata dalla Sezione Eventi di Carlo Delfino Editore.
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Le idee più dolci del fashion system.
The sweetest ideas in the fashion system.
Ariko
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Cristophe Maout is a Parisian photographer who made a very particular report of the last Paris fashion week.
Cristophe Maout è un fotografo parigino che ha realizzato scatti molto particolari per l’ultima settimana della moda di Parigi.
Ariko
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He’s still studying at Central Saint Martins.
What can I say? I see a bright future for this Swedish talent!
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You can follow this young designer from Montreal, Quebec, on her website: http://www.evegravel.com/
Ariko
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Pensavo che “organic” fosse solo tessuti ruvidini, colori neutri, e yoghurt acidognolo fatto in casa. Mi sbagliavo: “organic” può essere anche cool!
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Se avete seguito le varie edizioni del concorso per giovani creativi ITS vi ricorderete di lui, altrimenti tenetelo d’occhio. Si chiama Aitor Throup, di origini argentine, ed è un eccezionale illustratore oltre che designer e creativo nel vero senso della parola: ha idee geniali e sa perfettamente come metterle in pratica. Per ricapitolare: frequenta il [...]
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