Anne Demeulemeester new store in Seoul

For the record, Anne Demeulemeester is one of my most favorite designers. In fact, it only made sense to me that such a smart and graceful architectural form be erected in her name as her newest boutique in Seoul, Korea.

According to PSFK the boutique reflects an emerging architectural style known as "organic architecture" - and the Anne Demeulemester building in Seoul marks the first fashion post to incorporate it.



This particular iteration used "Le Mur Vegetal" or "The Vertical Garden", a technique developed by French botanist Patrick Blanc, in which a light weight material is used to suspend, cultivate and grow your greens of choice on the vertical plane without soil. Mass Studies, the Korean Architecture firm that designed the Anne Demeulemeester building, used moss and bamboo, both inside and out.




You can view more photos of the building on the Mass Studies website.

Reed Barrow's Artwork

I found a new artist I'm really into: Reed Barrow. Kind of techy, ethereal, and even mystical all at once.

I was first led to his LED chandelier piece which plays a 12 minute video loop of shapes/colours on 360 degrees of its surcace. It's called Monument to Amaranth and lives at the new Tommy Hilfiger retail store in Manhattan.



On his site I found some other great pieces like this "falling" meteorite,



and this Mystification Apparatus.

Lykke Li : Little Bit

I'm more than just a little bit in love with this song right now. The video is sweet too, all washed out like a Juergen Teller photograph. Enter synthy xylophone beat and syropy swedish pop voice and the video kinda makes you feel that bliss of waking up to a sunwashed room, clean sheets, and a heart-on for your crush lying next you.



And how cool is the suggestion of a private dance party at home, with a fully charged spotlight and all!

geek meets street

I love it when contradicting things that I like come together as one, like this case of geek meets street in an html closing "tag" for Bush.


brilliant.




re-blogged from wooster.

Zaki on the cover NOW Magazine

Zaki Ibrahim's show this Tuesday night is going to be bananas. With NOW magazine putting her on their cover the week of the show, (which fyi was scheduled before the NOW feature, not the other way around as the article implies), the crowd's bound to be super hyped!



Here's the photo from the inside spread featuring pleated trousers by the fine chicas at common cloth, and custom bustier by yours truly.

Rorschach Inspired Pt. 2

Another round of inkblot inspired numbers. A few with mixed mediums. oh, and next week, if all goes as planned i should be posting part 3 - the ultimate ode to Rorschach...


watercolour and tinfoil


watercolour, tinfoil and leather / zipper cut out


watercolour and vaseline

Stylist to Zaki Ibrahim

This last week was spent doing some of my most rewarding work to date. Last Wednesday a talented crew and I shot the lovely and talented Zaki Ibrahim's PR shots to support her forthcoming EP. With Jesar's moral and creative support I art directed and styled the shoot. Turns out one of the looks will be used for the cover of NOW magazine, out this Thursday.

Here's a highlight from the day; one lovingly customized bustier avec spray paint, safety-pins, chandelier drop, chains, metal studs, buttons and kilt pins. It was inspired by the work of the stylist god that is Judy Blame (responsible for memorable Neneh Cherry and early Björk looks).



I'll post the NOW cover when it drops later this week.

Martin Klimas : Photography of Impermanence

Martin Klimas' high speed photographs capture the impermanence of form. The shots are taken at the precise moment of transformation of his selected objects.





Visually arresting and highly conceptual, his photographic works reveal the complex beauty of destruction, reminding us, perhaps, that destruction's beauty is that it manifests change.





In an interview with Lowdown Magazine last month, Klimas said "You know, I think it's the destiny of every figurine to burst into pieces on day or another as it is inescapable for every flower to dry up." Indeed.

Rorschach Inspired

Like many others, I've got the Rorschach ink blot bug right now. So when J brought out the watercolors today I thought I'd make my own Rorschach inspired ink blots to hang on my wall.

i heart geoff

heartfelt.
geoff mc fetridge
for the Whitest Boy Alive

Dye Jobs

I recently had a craft day that involved dressing up as a mad scientist while I dyed some items a la DIY.



my experiments resulted in one gradient fade dyed blouse,



and one black on black dyed shemagh scarf with big-ass pom pom trim.






Nicolos Ghuesquiere for Balenciaga Fall 07 Scarfs, eat your heart out!

a few things that caught my eye

i like how this artist used an existing element, that looks half crown of thorns and half halo, to position their Jesus face stencil.



originally posted here.


Another great use of existing spatial element to get a(n enviornmental) point across:



as seen on wooster.

I've been very intrigued lately by a proliferation of digital / projection / light art. Target's fashion show this season seems to have fallen right into this ethereal little niche, somewhere between the surreal, performance art, and light show with a "holographic fashion show".

The show was supposed to take place yesterday and today in Grand Central Station, NYC but I've yet to find photos of the actual show. Scheduled to play every 10 minutes, the 2d projection was set to project an HD 3-D seeming holographic image. It will be posted on youtube, facebook and on target's site at some point. I'll post a link or images once they're live.

Michel Gondry for Motorola

Not sure about you, but when I saw that Motorola commercial for their new razor weeks ago I found it rather fromage-filled. So it was interesting to find out the commercial I'd watched was actually produced for the Asian market. It was subbed in here because Motorala is in some disputes with Cutwater who hired Michel Gondry to film the American spot. Turns out they thought it was too artistic. Typical. But what'd you expect hiring Gondry, right?

You can watch the Gondry for Motorola commercial, which hasn't aired, below. As expected, it is very pretty.



Here's the one being aired, a la fromage:

That's Amorre...

'When the moon hits your eye' could be virtually any time now, indoors or out.





A group of Russian designers have designed "Your Personal Moon"; a crescent shaped light box / lamp.

Oh how romantic.









reblogged from PSFK and Geekologie

Not the least bit 'sketchy'

Front designers' sketch furniture process makes you want to go back to the drawing board


Some time ago I featured the work of Swedish Design studio Front. Well, today I was blown away by their latest venture into "sketch furniture".



Qu'est que c'est you ask?

"The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture."

holy shit right? watch this video and become a believer.



Who knows what this will mean for DIY culture and customizable furniture, but at the very least you can look forward to purchasing some hand drawn furniture.

facebook alternatives, anyone?

crackbook



arsebook

Mark Borthwick for Vanessa Bruno

Here is a photo i'd like to share.



I saw this in Purple fashion magazine. (If you don't know, Purple is the best glossy in the world, and by best i mean smart and by smart i mean perfect).

It's from Vanessa Bruno's lookbook this season, shot by Mark Borthwick.

So are these.

Marc Ecko 's Digital Graffiti

Mark Ecko's latest marketing venture is so smart it makes my brain hurt. It's a bluetooth phone gadget cum spraycan. Paying homage to his love of graffiti once more, basically you can tag giant lcd screens around the city via your phone's bluetooth interface. It's called Blue Tooth City Lights.








reblogged from ads of the world