Where Were You?
Garry O’Neil has been working on putting together a book of photography featuring Dublins youth cultures for the last few years. I’d heard rumours of his search for images of Teddy Boys, punks, mods, rockers, ravers and skaters and now it looks like it’s all about to happen. Alongside the publication Still films are also trying to produce a feature length documentary charting Dublin street style since the 1950s, taking in a scenic route of skinny jeans, winklepickers, flares, platforms and polonecks. The joint project is up at on fundit.ie and with just 6 days left to reach the target, get busy this morning contributing towards a piece of fashion history.
Posted by admin on April 19, 2011
Daydreamer
Daydreamer True Love from daydreamer zine on Vimeo.
Daydreamer Zine is back with another pocket of calm rarely achieved by online magazines. Arsheen Qasim and Anahita Tabarsi have poured all their love of all things fashion, happy thoughts and sunny skies into ‘The True Love Issue’. Packed with positive people and pretty pictures cover to cover, it’s a breath of fresh air in Dublin magazine culture.
Posted by admin on April 14, 2011
Prada Minimal Baroque
Ooops here comes the rain, but just before we forget about summer again, check out the most amazing sunglasses of the season complete with bug eyes are baroque detailing. Instead of a photographic shoot, the ever experimental Prada commissioned illustrators Ivo Bisignano, Marcela Gutierrez and Andrea Tarella to create water colour and pencil images for the campaign.
Posted by admin on April 11, 2011
Gone surfin’
“Surfer,” directed by Dusan Reljin and Hilde Pettersen Reljin showcases Marni’s SS11 pieces to the beat of a Charleston drum.
Posted by admin on March 30, 2011
Talk of the town
Simone Rocha SS11 collection Pop Up Shop launches at Havana boutique in Donnybrook tomorrow evening. The fun starts at 6pm and fashion will be in full effect. Join the queue for your neon perspex clutch and crucifix ring.
Posted by admin on March 23, 2011
Lucky Boy Sunday
Dreamed up beside a lake on a sunny day in Copenhagen, designers Camilla Ebdrup & Camilla Korschen set themselves a remit to create happy, silly, graphic products for children to play with and adults to love. Soft and stuffed with feelings of sunny days and things going your way, Lucky Boy Sunday love to dress up, styling their images as a dreamlike childish world. Blip blop, Bow Jovi, Chimney Jim & Jealous Baby are all part of the family, with the SS11 collection available now in Smock on Drury street.
Posted by admin on March 16, 2011
John Stezaker
Just in case anybody is fleeing the shores with St. Patricks snakes, I’d totally recommend catching the last days of the John Stezaker exhibition in the lovely White Chapel Gallery, London. Stezaker has been cutting up old movie images, magazines and postcards since the 70s to create unique works of art, revealing the subversive force of images and imagining a new visual language. The Louis Vuitton Maison on Bond Street is also hosting a display of his work to coincide with the artist retrospective and runs for an extra day until the 19th of March.
Posted by admin on March 16, 2011
Meta. Morph
Una Burke creates sculptural pieces and armor like accessories. Her new collection Meta. Morph is based on the physical alteration of the body and the psychological impact of prosthetic limbs and medical braces. The Irish designer from Knockvicar has collaborated with photographer Andreas Waldschütz, creative director Adia Trischler and collodion wetplate photographer Stefan Sappert to develop her concept through a series of both beautiful and unsettling images. Her hand crafted leather pieces are wearable art forms, which restrict and contort the human form and expose a fragile mind. Challenging stuff perhaps, but Una has been embraced by the fashion world, with icons Daphne Guinness and Lady Gaga wearing her pieces and support from leading fashion figures including stylist Nicola Formichetti, photographer Nick Knight, Vogue Italia, I-D and Numero magazine. Una is another remarkable Irish designer making her mark on the world stage.
Posted by admin on March 11, 2011
London Fashion week is live
It’s that time of the year again when fashion week collections are presented all over the world and the Irish head over to London like a posse. London is all about the New Blood, with new designers shaking up the industry and giving us techno fabrics, experimental silhouette, artful prints and colour combinations to pour over for the next six or seven months. London has been leading the pack with new technology and on Monday 21st will stream the Burberry show, by the most applauded British design house, live onto a huge screen in Piccadilly Square. There will be shows screened in the Underground to ensure there is no escape, even when running from one venue to another. The Irish have possibly never been better represented with designers showing in the BFC Fashion exhibition, the on show schedule at the BFC catwalk space, Topshop sponsored Fashion East show and the Vauxhaul Fashion Scout presentation. Tuesdays schedule is the hot ticket with Simone Rocha showing her third collection and a new collaboration ‘Les Guerriers’ presented by designer Joanne Hynes & artist Helen Steele.
Stephanie Grace Foy
Joanne Hynes
Simone Rocha
John Rocha
Tim Ryan
Posted by admin on February 18, 2011
Proenza Schouler too cool for school
It’s kind of interesting to watch how designers develop their collections each season and how concepts change but the design aesthetic stays the same. So Fall 2010 was gawky- preppy school girls and Fall 2011 is a Santa Fe inspired road trip. Going forward designers Jack McCoullagh and Lazaro Hernandez have pixelated native American blankets into a print for slouchy pants. It’s another example of the many takes on the Wild West that are evident internationally. But really I’m just looking for an excuse to post an old video collaboration by Harmony Korine for Proenza Schouler inspired by a photo by Christopher Wool. That’s some serious name dropping in my book. I know it’s so last year, but still super cool and I love how ‘preppy’ has become drinking 40s and throwing shapes on a sunny day bunking off school. Brings me back…
Posted by admin on February 09, 2011
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