Archive for August 2011
Riccardo Tisci + Visionaire
Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Published 3 times a year, Visionaire features a different theme and format with each issue. Artists work in collaboration with Visionaire to produce their personal interpretation on a certain theme. Visionaire issue #60 goes on religion, being guest-edited by Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci.
Tisci grew up in Italy and has a strong Catholic background – we feel it everywhere in his work, in all his fashion statements. With the Visionaire collaboration, he pushed the boundaries even more. Reenacting various biblical scenes for the Visionaire photo spreads, he re-defines the key religious moments in his personal way – a fashionable way. Madonna and Child, the Pietà, martyrs and saints, the Marriage and the Funeral are all there, featuring famous dramatis personae, like Lea T, Lara Stone, Mariacarla Boscono, Christina Ricci, Marina Abramovic etc. Not to mention the photographers involved: Inez & Vinoodh, Mert & Marcus, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Mario Testino etc.
The book comes bundled up in a wooden box, meant to evoke an altarpiece, and costs $495 – exclusive indeed! Contemporary black & white moods, dramatic styling, designers, photographers, models and celebrities – to me, it looks like a delicious sample for the vanity of fashion.
images source: lylbye.blogspot.com. ; heycrazy.wordpress.com
Walter Van Beirendonck’s Gentlemen
The truth is we’re already preparing for the Fall. Bye bye sun and wonderful summer days, I never get enough of you! Anyway, I’ve searched for a Fall collection which is colored enough to preserve the summer in our souls. .. something special and warm like Walter Van Beirendonck.
Van Beirendonk may not be the most popular designer of our times, but, definitely, he has a smart, spirited and funny approach to Men’s fashion. Remember the WonderFur project, the “Kiss the future” slogan, the huge headphones collection? With every new collection, the Belgian designer plays on a new theme – he knows that creativity matters and always gives it a twist. For the Fall 2011/12 Men Collection he showed out something more “classic”, very “wearable” and literally elegant. Mixing the tribal spirit with the western elegance, he dressed up some African models after he made a casting in the street. The looks remind me particularly of those Afro- dandies portrayed in Daniele Tamagni’ s book- “Gentlemen of Bacongo“. Van Beirendonck’s gentlemen from the catwalk or the snobbish gentlemen from Tamangni’s book, both of them show the same wonderful features- genuine color, creativity and a great enthusiasm. And I love the fashion enthusiasts!
Fashionable Camouflage
If you like sensitive prints, graphics, hand-made effects, black & white exercises, camouflage… Here’s an image from Remix Magazine (Journey Home) versus a full-covered outfit by Teodora Baciu, a fresh graduate of UAD, Cluj. I love the fabrics and the mood.
Red
I saw this stunning textile piece some time ago, visiting the Graduation Exhibition of Fashion Design students, at University of Art and Design, Cluj- Napoca. Loredana Novotni is a MA graduate, and the author of the red piece (actually there was a group of red pieces, entitled “Sacred”). Love her particular approach, the texture and the heart-shaped hips.
What Lies Beneath
What about this dark-romantic-surrealist editorial in the Fall issue of LOVE Mag? Stunning indeed!
Editorial : What Lies Beneath / LOVE Magazine, Fall issue/ Photographers : Mert & Marcus/ editor-in-chief Katie Grand / models Lara Stone, Mariacarla Boscono, Saksia de Brauw, Kristen McMenamy, Anais Pouliot, Guinevere van Seenus and Xiao Wen Ju/ images via fashiongonerogue
