Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Viktor + Rolf couture 2000/2001
Sadly I couldn't find the video I've been thinking about all day, it is seriously amazing. But the photo above will have to suffice. It is from Viktor and Rolf's collection "Bells". The catwalk show was silent however the overarching soundtrack was the beautiful noise of the bells shaking as the models walked circuits of the catwalks in the adorned garments. Such a beautiful use of sound.
Psssst
Psssst wanna know a really good bookshop, specialist in fashion, fashion illustration, magazines and fashion photography books? Well go to Claire de Rouen books. It's hidden above a sex shop on Charing Cross Rd. Certainly worth a visit even if you don't buy something, just to flick through some gorgeous books. Also there is a gallery space on the same floor, which is also worth a peek. Last time I went there was a show by the wicked Valerie Phillips.
Making it up as we go along!
Happy birthday! Dazed and Confused are celebrating 20 years of their wicked magazine. When I was younger I would always flick through copies my parents would leave at home, but I never really buy it, i-D always gets in there first. Anyway, so it was really great to see an exhibition all about Dazed at Somerset House - to view magazine content on the same level that you view a framed piece of art. I thought that was cool, in the world of publishing you always rush onto making the next issue for the printers deadline and you never get a chance to properly acknowledge what you have created - so I think the show was great in that respect. Below are some of my favourite pieces from the show ...
The language Barbara Kruger (below) uses in her pieces is ace. "I'm cool. If I wasn't skinny, I couldn't be cool. I'd have to be hot, or even worse warm" - perfect phrasing for the world of fashion journalism!
Phil Poytner's series "I didn't recognise you with your clothes on" for November 1998 is definetly one of my new favourites! So witty.
Also the embroidery pieces by Maurizio Anzeri for "It came from the sky" were absolutely gorgeous.
Hot & Cool
Today I got "Hot & Cool". It is Alice Goddard's magazine. The layout and design is cool, and the contents is pretty hot. With the perfect quantity of content and brilliant art direction it makes for an ace publication.
Gloves
November means that is getting dead cold. Blue lips cold.
How fantastic are these gloves? I know that just under $600 is a lot, but they look insane! And can double up as a mop. May have to get the knitting needles out and make some counterfits!
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