Défilée Haute Couture 2012
01/27/2012
01/23/2012
01/14/2012
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
Vivienne Westwood's homage to David Attenborough in Milan
The Telegraph, London
"Our collection is in support of David Attenborough's documentary series Frozen Planet," said Dame Vivienne in a press release. The reason, apparently, is that she was miffed to learn that the final episode - "where he explains that we humans are responsible for the ice melt" - will not be aired in the United States.
12/23/2011
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GREAT MOMENTS WE COULD SHARE
WISH YOU HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Marlies Pekarek
12/12/2011
FASHION LOVES ARTWORK LOVES ASIA
Prada's Real Fantasie Lookbook
by director James Lima
James has directed, designed, and created visual worlds for three of the greatest directors of our time. James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, and Joe Pytka.
When Miuccia Prada, the inventive and bold genius behind thePRADA fashion empire looked for the right director, she hired James to direct TREMBLED BLOSSOMS, the most ambitious and inspired CG animated fashion film of the decade.
It was no surprise that when Madonna, looking for the right director for a CG animated film, hired James to direct RAIN, the mash-up music video for her Sticky & Sweet Tour.
His latest directorial project “The Love Thing” for Love Magazine once again teamed James with mega Designer Pradaand Editor/stylist Katie Grand to produce the innovative online hit.
12/02/2011
ONLINE & OFFLINE SHOP ARCHITECTURE
The window frame of this Beijing boutique by Japanese studio Nendo is repeated into the depths of the store.
Nendo designed the repetitive display system to recreate the experience of flicking through images on the pages of a catalogue.
11/28/2011
COGGLES.COM
There's plenty of web shops out there, masses of online supermarkets flogging either super luxe and conceptual goods or cheap as chips threads. The most exciting trade has arguably moved in from Bond and Sloan Street to the world wide web. Coggles is one of the winners in this fashionable retail jungle, having found the right balance between high end brands like Comme des Garcons, Damir Doma and See by Chloe and more reasonable priced goods from Penfield, Our Legacy and David David.
But there are other elements to Coggles that make the boutique stand out amongst its peers. There's a strong sense of Coggles selling a style, rather than fashion. Except for clothes, you can also buy books, vintage pieces, magazines and bicycles. The site is clearly beyond just picking up the latest trends, it's about sustaining a lifestyle. By David Hellqvist
11/14/2011
EYE CANDY MEETS OPEN EAR
H&M - Versace Campaign makes magic with their communication design on a high-end-fashion level. Stunning music accompaignements and the implementation of a little extra arty movie for an impactful and effective communication to various target groups!
More is more, indeed !
11/02/2011
RICCARDO TISCI'S EXSTASIS
Givenchy's Designer Riccardo Tisci directed this visual meeting of minds between Dazed's (and Confused Magazine) former fashion director Katy England and art shaman Matthew Stone.
Models that the legendary designer has championed over the years present personally from his six year reign at Givenchy.
10/17/2011
NEW YORK'S LOW LINE REANIMATION
A plan for a new park banks on subterranean photosynthesis.
Rendering: Courtesy of Raad Studio
“We’re channeling sunlight the way they did in ancient Egyptian tombs, but in a supermodern way.” Ramsey envisions a stand of dozens of lamppostlike solar collectors on the Delancey Street median, feeding a system of fixtures down below.
Land for parks is so scarce in Manhattan that the city’s most generous new green space, the High Line, occupies an elevated railway. Now three urbanist entrepreneurs hope to mine roughly two acres of green space under the city streets.
Transforming an old freight line into an attractive strip of greenery, this trio wants to convert the vast and dank trolley terminal that has sat disused on the Lower East Side for six decades into a park that they are calling Delancey Underground but will inevitably be known as the Low Line.
NYMagazine
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10/07/2011
09/21/2011
CELEBRATED POETRY
Phantasy, Back-light images, photographer Hans Feurer und Designer Marcel Wanders are the stars of this movement. At the current London Design Festival Wanders presents a photographic installation featuring mermaids exploring the Moooi collection.
image@dezeen.com
09/16/2011
POOR SPACE, RICH IDEA
Kate Moss bringt es auf den Punkt: ' Mit dem konventionellen Fliegen bin ich durch. Das ist ja der pure Stress. Ich will eine eigene Linie, "Kate Air" wäre ein hübscher Name, finde ich.' (Vogue)
The Russian Architects Arch Group propose an other solution: 'If you want to sleep while waiting for your plane or train, you face many security and hygiene problems. We believe that urban infrastructure should be more comfortable. For this purpose we have developed Sleepbox. It provides moments of quiet sleep and rest without wasting time in search for a hotel.'
The Sleepbox unit at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport contains two beds and can be rented for between 30 minutes and several hours.
The architects are aware of the intense service after each user and proposed a sheet changing mechanism, but for the moment their main task is to make Sleepbox affordable...and some much needed fine tuning, see comments.
But as long as we can't afford our own airline, we are more than happy to follow up the Japanese and Russian prototypes for comfy air travel?
09/01/2011
MODERN TIMES
Was Walter Pfeiffer fotografisch umsetzt, rückt Lichtjahre in die Zukunft.
'Woran man merkt, dass die Bilder von mir sind?
Erstens: Die Art, wie das Modell dasteht....
...zweitens: die Umgebung, drittens: der Farbenmix, und....
....viertens: der Ausschnitt.' (Walter Pfeiffer)
08/15/2011
INDIVIDUALITY GOES CORPORATE
Close your eyes and envision the prototypical perfumer or architect. Now open them and glance at Ben Gorham, covered in tattoos or Peter Marino (Video) in his unchanging uniform of biker leathers and cap. You can be forgiven if the two images don’t exactly jibe.
Individuality is now accepted up to the executive suite: Gorham (below) is the driving force behind Byredo Parfums, the Stockholm-based fragrance house that he launched in 2006 and Marino, best known as the retail design guru behind Barneys’ Madison Av. as well as the go-to architect for Chanel, Fendi, Zegna, Christian Dior, and Louis Vuitton, see also page 10 in our bi-monthly POOL Report.
Ben Gorham, Stockholm
08/03/2011
MÖBELBRANDS ALS DISPLAY-PARTNER
Globus am Bellevue nutzt seit Langem die Synergien zu Interio und verschafft der Verkaufsfläche ein Upgrade mit Möbel-Trouvaillen aus dem Partnerhaus. Jetzt zieht Jelmoli nach und toppt die Idee mit einem Gesamtkonzept von Bliss, dem Zürcher Spezialisten für restaurierte Möbel aus den 50er und 60er-Jahren.
"WIR LASSEN TRÄUME WAHR WERDEN", BLISS INTERIOR
Das junge Team gestaltet nicht nur die Herren-Etage und das Jelmoli Magazin, sondern auch die Schaufenster....
...und ergänzt das Display mit Sprechblasen zu Lebensweisheiten aus dem Alltag der damaligen Zeit ergänzt! DER ultimative Eyecatcher!
07/22/2011
LONDON SNAPSHOT
Street art in London's East End
by our scout in London
07/07/2011
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04/21/2011
04/07/2011
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03/23/2011
FAST FORWARD TO HISTORY
Stadtbad, Opening 11.11.11
Zurich Volkshaus has been home to baths for 100 years. The 11.11.11 will mark a new chapter in the socialist history of this building. A combined hamam and sauna in the basement will offer visitors bathing pleasure in line with the tradition of Antiquity but in a modern environment, incl. various massages and beauty treatments as well as a gastronomic offer.
Stadtbad rendering - with hamam and sauna at Zurich Volkshaus. A new project by Tobi Rihs, Seebad Enge
Art in form of murals (Eric Schumacher), ceiling frescos (VeronesiHöpflinger), illuminated pictures (Husmann/Tschäni), and ceramic paintings (Noel Fischer) as well as a special architecture ensure an overall atmospheric work of art and a site not quite of this world but in the heart of town.
02/25/2011
01/31/2011
INSPIRED AND INSPIRING
Pitti Immagine 79, SHOWstudio exclusively showcase Gareth Pugh`s latest collection, specially designed for the event and shown via a unique fashion film created with Ruth Hogben. The Film was projected onto the ceiling of a fourteenth-century church in the heart of Florence.
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01/30/2011
RE-THINKING NEEDELWORK
The exhibition "A new hook. Rethinking Needlework" sets out to explore current responses to the notion of craft, in particular needlework, in order to examine its impact in the discourse of art, design, architecture and everyday life.
Museum Bellerive Zürich 29.04.2011 - 24.07.2011
CRAFT HYPE
For the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, (January 2011) MoMu, the Fashion Museum in Antwerp and Mercedes-Benz, invited Belgian art director Frederik Heymann and 4 fashion designers to create 4 installations.
His decors are built completely by hand, in collaboration with a team of sculptors and artists. In the final results, the handcraft, the construction and consequently also quality craftsmanship are always clearly traceable. Fashion designers Bernhard Willhelm, Peter Pilotto, Henrik Vibskov and Mikio Sakabe have added their own visions to the installations with each 3 new looks.
01/29/2011
01/26/2011
01/25/2011
01/21/2011
Pushing fashion boundries
Last year, Givenchy arguably got much attention for using Lea T, a transsexual model – kissing Kate Moss on the LOVE magazine cover, who will be launches on February 7th
Following on the Lea T ads, Mr. Tisci hired Stephen Thompson, who has albinism.
Is it just manipulation to get you to the next thing, as said Klaus Stockhausen, the fashion director of German GQ?
