These are particular shoes and these are particular legs, huh? Legs, brilliantly re-designed by Rick Owens.
Category: 1st class salad
Another Design Object
Intelligent textiles are quite exciting, especially when they’re extremely wearable. So let’s take a look. Stone Island are already known for their research on thermo-sensitive coating for fabrics: reacting to cold (Ice Jacket) and to heat (Heat Reactive). This is their Heat Reactive Jacket, which is able to modify its color from dark to acid green (the key – temperature is 27° Celsius). Love the product & the concept!
images via hellyeahmag.com, dazeddigital.com
Fashion, Textiles & Beyond
I’m obsessed with connections – in fact, fashion is the perfect medium for creative connections. Here’s the famous jacket by Martin Margiela versus Anders Krisar’ s stunning art piece. I put together these two objects because they are similar & different and their connection leaves space for some wonderful insights.
Katrantzou
This reminds me of Frida Kahlo, though everything is more optimistic. Colorful, genuine, beautiful!
Mary Katrantzou‘ s Fall Campaign was photographed by Erik Madigan Heck. The photographer managed to reconstruct an entire world around the designer’s dresses (considering that Mary’s outfits themselves already reflect a world!).
images via anothermag.com , orangeintense.blogspot.com
Nakazato
I really appreciate designers who have a wider view on fashion. Designers who always push the boundaries of taste, designers who love to experiment and try to redefine the new aesthetics of the fashionable body. As usually, innovation comes from Japan (… via Royal Academy of Antwerp).
Yuima Nakazato is already famous for his metallic – architectural – highly elaborated fashion exercises. Here’s a close-up on his creative discourse on body / fashion object relationship. Stills are taken from one of his Tokio performances.
Irina Werning Goes “Back to the Future”
“Back to the Future” is one of Irina Werning’ s photo projects. And I find it extraordinary.
Look closely at the characters, re-found and re-photographed after a long period of time, re-taken in an almost identical stance.
A simple juxtaposition – an unexpected perspective on what is usual and commonplace in our daily lives. It’s so human, deep, and funny at the same time.
Even if these photos are beyond fashion, the styling is perfect (and essential!). Check out the whole series on Irina Werning ‘s site.
That’s what I call a 1st class salad !
Perforated, fretted, lasered
I’ve always, but always, been fascinated by broken and fretted stuff, incisions and steep compositions, and I’ve always loved Lucio Fontana. I was thinking about it a few days ago, while I was wearing a shirt full of holes. The new trends carry out increasingly more interesting materials, more textured, even damaged or broken. Especially the leather variations – fretted, embossed or lasered.
I appreciate the lasered leather dresses created by Haider Ackermann, but, frankly, I prefer rawer versions.
I have recently seen some of Mihaela Cirlugea’s dresses (she’s a Romanian fashion designer from Cluj). I appreciate the originality of her fashion technique – her dresses have undergone a thorough process of cauterization… and the holes were forming some kind of drawings.
Here is a close-up from Mihaela’s SS 2011 collection – “Dreams”.
