Future Beauty
The future is now for Japanese fashion design. Fashion historian and Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, Akiko Fukai presents an exhibition of over 100 garments and a brief history spanning from 1980 to the present in the Barbican in London. The avant-garde designs of Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake have literally turned the fashion industry inside out and upside down since coming on the scene. This mecca group, also including upcoming designers Junya Watanabe and Jun Takahashi, have stormed Paris and had a huge impact on the international scene with conceptual, architectural collections which bring design and beauty back to fashion.
Posted by admin on November 19, 2010
JW Anderson
My new favourite designer JW Anderson now does womenswear. His collection entiiled ‘The Devoured & I’ is the perfect mix of punk rebellion and well worn retro pieces, styled in an effortless and modern way. The Belfast designer who has to date been known for his menswear, shows us this season how the good kid turned bad.
Posted by admin on November 16, 2010
Rodarte Black Swan
Two LA girls, Kate & Laura Mulleavy who spend most of their time hanging out amidst the poppies of Pasadena, are also the duo behind Rodarte, one of the best labels to come out of the States of late. Their designs are spun from the things they love including everything from the Californian landscape, to 80s plastic flowers, Gothic horror and broken plates. Since 2005 they have been delivering incredibly beautiful conceptual collections so close to couture that the high street will never get a patch on them. And now they’ve gone and collaborated with Darren Arranovsky on his new thriller Black Swan, creating 40 costumes with feathers and tulle for the big screen debut. The film is also preceded by four great teaser posters commissioned by Empire.
Posted by admin on November 02, 2010
Celestine Cooney at Offset
Just back from London fashion week where I saw two amazing shows styled by Celestine. One was the first on-schedule presentation for Simone Rocha at Fashion East and the other was for the wild and wacky Ashsih, who Cooney has been working with for around four seasons now. The two shows, which fell on the same day(!), were polar opposites of each other in pretty much everything – design, music, hair& make-up, mood. Simone Rocha’s show was a super slick palette of white and cream with a bright pink punching it up and unbelievably cool accessories like a crucifix shaped clear perspex handbag and metal collars. Ashish then was rooting tooting Rodeo themed with customised cowboy boots, leopard print sequins and floor length fringing.
Celestine is taking at Offset on Sunday at 12pm. Yee Har.
Posted by admin on October 29, 2010
Copenhagen Fashion Week
Prada in Italy, Balenciaga in Paris, Marc Jacobs in New York and Fashion East in London are a good place to start if you fancy a dig into the international collections for SS11. There are fashion weeks in most major cities but these players are the Monopoly champions. Copenhagn however, the hub for the Scandinavian designers who like to side step trends in favor of developing conceptual collections, is where it’s at. They kicked off the Spring Summer preview with a showcase of newly graduated designers from the Danish Design school and filled the schedule with exciting stuff from Peter Jensen, Vilsbol de Arce, Henrik Vibskov and Stine Goya.
Posted by admin on October 29, 2010
A Shaded View on Fashion Film
photo by Nobuyoshi Araki
Diane Pernet literally has a shaded view of the world through her uniform of veiled headpieces and black sunglasses, which make her one of the most iconic figures in the fashion industry today. She is responsible for championing the fashion film and nurturing it’s many forms, initially in the You Wear It Well competitions and now with the ASVOFF Festival. This September during Paris fashion Week the Centre Pompdieu will host the city’s first fashion film festival. Over the three days there will be screenings, installations, presentations and discussions and I’m sure some of the most incredibly dressed folk you might ever see and black, black and lots more black.
Posted by admin on September 09, 2010
Wolf can Dance
Lovely Productions directed “Little Red” video for Cathy Davey.
Posted by admin on September 05, 2010
H&M Lanvin Collection
Next big shot in line to design an affordable range for the masses is Alber Elbaz at Lanvin for H&M. The historical Parisian label is synonymous with luxury and innovation and very very expensive. Now ready to share the dream, the designer views the collaboration as H&M doing luxury rather then Lanvin lowering the bar.
Posted by admin on September 02, 2010
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