Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Friday, July 13, 2012

Fashion Illustrarion

Refinery 29 has presented this illustrations on fashion's favorite personalities. Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, Anna piaggi were some of the personalities they been illustrated. I would have loved to see Grace Coddington, Hamish Bowles and  of course Miss Wintour


anna piaggi andre leon taley
Anna Piaggi and one of my favorites Andre Leon Talley, he is hilarious, I loved his moments on the September Issue.
daphne guinness dello russo
Daphne Guinness and Anna Dello Russo two women with Big personalities and bigger closets, I can't imagine the size of Guinness's closet. 
kawakubo and pernet
Diane Permet And Kawakubo
bubble ipfel
Susie Bubble and Iris maybe two of the  cutest people  in fashion, Stylish eclectic and adorable. Susie  is one of my favorite bloggers, It's amazing how sensitive  she  is to fashion and design.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

RAF SIMONS

Last year when John Galliano was fired from Dior I was devastated, I'm not exaggerating. It was all I could talk about for weeks, Galliano for me is Couture, I love the guy, Crazy, Dramatic, Theatrical, despite anything he might say or do He is an amazing designer someone who inspires me. Every time I watched a new Couture collection I stayed a long time wondering how much work the dresses would have taken and how crazy everything was. He is the type of designer that you cannot be neutral about you must have an opinion because he walks on the line between being a genius and just vulgar. The thing is I love him and I am genuinely worried of who can do the couture job, because I do not believe the pret-a-porter line is a problem. After the Gayten disappointment I had really big expectations for Simons. I love belgian designer in general. So what could go wrong. I know most people love the line but I think most of it is just plain.
Let's start from the highlights:
Dior couture 2012 simons
 Love this dresses VERY Dior flatering for the body, the deep blue in the right one is amazing and the texture in the bottom is just stunning, Amazing dress, a timeless classic. The dress on the left is puffy something that I used to love from the Dior couture collections, everything was girly and puffy. I like this dress, the reason why I do not love it is because Im not very fond on the transparency on the top, but its a tren so I won't critisize it, But the length is weird and that is what makes me not be in love with It but I do believe its a very Dior Dress done In a beautiful way.
Dior couture 2012 simons
Im in love with both dresses although I've got the same transparency problem with the one in the left. I do believe the dresses are beautiful but do they belong in a Dior collection, I don't thing they are very Dior. But I would wear both of them anyway, amazing dresses.
Dior couture 2012 simons
Beautiful again, but is this Couture? I Don't think so.
Dior couture 2012 simons
The coat has the shape of a typical Dior Couture Coat, But the Pattern? I think this is a piece that shows Simons as a designer, and I like It but I do not love him doing Couture.

So I do have to say that he made mostly a very beautiful collection but for some exceptions it just doesn't feel like Couture.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Dancers among Us


"BE passionate, joyful, euphoric, intense, desperate, present, ALIVE"

This are the words that have inspired Jordan Matter from 2009 when he decided to start

this project, Dancers among Us. Matter was wondering after watching his little kid play,

 Where does our passion go when we grow up? How would it look if we do everyday 

activities with joy? So, the idea for this project became capturing people doing regular 

activities with passion, for this he chose dancers. In the words of the artist : 




 "Dancers are storytellers. They’re trained to personify passionate moments, their bodies 

imbued with a stunning combination of artistry and athleticism. They create a fantasy 

world, offering us a deeper look into familiar settings. They bring to life what we feel but are 

unable to express physically."

dancer among us jordan matter



dancer among us jordan matter

Everyday places, different people, different attitudes.

dancer among us jordan matter

"The process of producing the images is organic; created through a spontaneous 

collaboration with the dancers. The resulting photographs are unaffected and not highly 

stylized. The essence of the subject material parallels the current state of our society, 

where people are finding an appreciation of smaller, simpler pleasures. The images are 

infused with a humor and joyfulness that make the viewer feel good. The carefree nature of 

the work is a welcome antidote to the persistent anxiety that defines many people’s lives."

- Jordan Matter

dancer among us jordan matter

Friday, June 8, 2012

POP-UP PARADISES


Today I'll be featuring another Argentinean artist, Manuel Ameztoy. He was born in La Plata, Argentina, he has done a 


large number of succesfull artistic instalations in the country and abroad, his most notabel work are surelly "Las Fuentes 


del Nilo" (2011) and "Cortar y Pegar" that he made for Fundacion PROA  (one of Argentinas most respected art 


institutions). In this las work he also explores Fretwork as in "Paraisos Desplegables" (Pop-Up Paradises) his latest 


work that  its now at the  Faena Art's Center. 


Paraisos Desplegables  is a site Specific Installation of 630 square m, made of synthetic and artificial textiles that have 


been cutted by hand. The exhibition is inspired in the landscapes of Entre Rios, the  province were the artist currently 


live, wich has a very humid climate that results on a very varied vegetation, this is  important  because the exhibition is 


very jungle like, the fabric is coming from the ceiling and you feel in some kind of forest's. As I already mention the 


inspiration is nature so he made each fretwork unique but also using within the same piece a pattern that he would 


repeat, rotate and also mirrored. The result is  beautiful, if you are  in Buenos Aires right now you shouldn't miss it. 


Following the picture there is a video  of the artist talking(it's  in Spanish) but you can also see the dimensions of the 


sculptures and and texture that one cannot appreciate in the pictures,


paraisos desplegables pop up paradises manuel ameztoy

paraisos desplegables pop up paradises manuel ameztoy

paraisos desplegables pop up paradises manuel ameztoy


paraisos desplegables pop up paradises manuel ameztoy

paraisos desplegables pop up paradises manuel ameztoy


Al  images via Design Boom



Inovation in Fashion Shows

The 2pac Hologram this year( though it wasn't the first hologram to be featured on a concert), set the

start for a trend that, I think, we are going to see a lot more. Two shows have taken advantage specially

well of this technology: Burberry Fashion Show in Beijing and the Stefan Eckert's Fashion Show . The

use of this technology was quite similar although the results look very different, the Burberry show

looked a lot more conservative than the Eckert's  show.  Overall, both shows looked beautiful and

exiting, the use of holograms is perfect for fashion shows because it ads movement and other elements

that takes them to a whole new level.


Eckerts hologram showEckerts hologram show

Eckerts hologram show

Eckerts hologram show

Burberry hologram show

Thursday, June 7, 2012

SerpentSea


Sophie Auchauer Started this project, Serpent Sea, after coming back from a sailing trip. All the 


rugs are made of recicled sailing ropes and woven with tradicional sailor knots. I love the fact 


that she named her rugs styles after three famous pirates, "Drake", "Bonny" and "Morgan".  



rugs serpent sea

All the rugs are handmade and unique, I'm in love  with the color combinations

rugs serpent sea
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