Six Online Fashion Mags Making the Fall of Print Bearable

Six Online Fashion Mags Making the Fall of Print Bearable

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Video: Major Lazer,

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Talula Photo Shoot on Le Fashion Blog

Le Fashion blog featured the Talula shoot I art directed a few months ago! Thought I'd post the images here too!

Model: Rachel @ MuseNYC
Photography: Francisco Garcia
Make-up: Elena Pacienza

Dior's Lady Noire Affair

Chanel video

hi.



i'm Chanels new video from spring 09 show in moscow.



please watch me.



i'm the hottest shit maria's ever seen.

The harder side of Ernie & Bert

i haven't laughed this hard in a really long time....

Falling from Grace

Bondage chic

Even amidst a bondage chic revival, I'm mildly shocked to see this Vena Cava bondage print dress. It's pretty damn rad but wow, you can see 'er patch and everything!



Worship Worthy's fall 08 collection, also in the spirit of bondage:


I'm reminded of madonna's majestic sex book;

Let the Right One In

Director Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In is like a poem of a horror movie. This is definitely one of the best films I've seen in a while.

Priestesses of Longing

Admittedly I've taken a long hiatus. Moving to Vancouver for a new job has kept me so swamped in newness that blogging's been the last thing on my mind. That said this week I was summoned by Rick Owens' Spring 09 Collection which he called Priestesses of Longing.

When I saw the collection I basically died a little death and came back to life full of artful longing and desire. It's like the priestesses have baptized me, purifying, making me new again. How can a bloody fashion collection do that? I don't know. There must be something wrong with me. And yet I know I'm not alone in my capacity to be moved by art and fashion. So I think I'll keep on sharing.


Hail Mary of Darkness, post-apocalyptic warrior, pagan gothic priestess. gOD. I can't even take it. The mood reminds me of another beautiful fashion story I fell in love with last year styled by Edward Enningful for Italian Vogue where he juxtaposed puritan and santeria-esque priestess dresses, in a crazy ecstatic mashup evoking the crucible, excorcism, robotic worship, and anime. fucking crazy and beautiful.
















I would also call these women priestesses of longing, though they don't have quite the same warrior strength of Rick Owen's spring 09 models. So I've been nurturing an obsession with this Priestesses of Longing concept for the last few days when my horoscope for this week practically asked me to BE a Priestess of Longing...

Your creed for the last three months of 2008 comes from Nikos Kazantzakis:

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create
it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Memorize this meme, Cancerian. Imprint it on your subconscious mind. Make it
so much a part of you that it breathes as you breathe and dreams as you
dream. Allow it to turn you into a magician whose potent desire is as strong
as the longings of 10 normal people put together.

Rick Owens... wherever you are... you've stirred in me a deep inspiration and longing, and for that I thank you.

YSL SS 09 Video

Have your cake and fix it too

Object Factory At the Gardiner Museum

After the ROM's re-opening last Friday a group of friends and I stumbled across Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Design at the Gardiner Museum across the street. The exhibit is an excellently curated sample of interesting modern ceramic designs. And to my delight its centerpiece was my long time favorite Ingo Mauer chandelier Porca Miseria! It almost brought me to tears! Here's a photo from the Mauer catalogue, but it's breathtaking in person.






In many ways I thought Object Factory was a perfect showcase of "re-imagined possibilities of ceramics", as it set out to be, save for one oversight; as Jesar noted, Charles Kraftt's porcelain shot guns (below) would have truly completed the exhibit. Nonetheless, kudos to curator Marek Cecula on a beautiful show. Object Factory runs at the Gardiner Museum until Sept. 7, 2008.

Mr. W

What an adorable little "short"!

Thanks to Gracie Bezaire for leading me to this "spin" on a renewable resource.

Rei Kawakubo for H&M !!!

The mammoth of luxury meets mass market collaborations has truly arrived...  Rei Kawakubo has agreed to design a COMME des GARÇONS capsule collection for H&M.  



I don't even know what to say except... does anyone have some camping gear I can borrow? I might actually have to camp out for this one...

Wear Palettes

Now here's an interesting instance of a blog dedicated to interpreting/translating/processing someone else's blog... sometimes it just blows my mind how much the "web" plot thickens and thickens...

If you're anything like me your daily internet fix consists of a dose of Scott Schuman's The Sartorialist.   Well, a young graphic design student has started a blog called Wear Palettes  where he extrapolates the colour palettes of each sartorial outfit.   Rather genius really.  check it out. 

I just love coming across new levels of free information sharing.  I'm re-blogging this story after reading it on PSFK which of course, is all about the free exchange of ideas in trends and innovation (as opposed to locking ideas behind the login gates of sites of WGSN and the likes). Along these lines, if you haven't yet read Chris Anderson's article "FREE! Why $0.00 Is The Future of Business " in this month's issue of WIRED, well you really should 

- it's a simple, good read with excellent examples of the why's, how's and future of FREE in marketing,  grounded in the torrential exchange of information that shapes contemporary existence. 

cheers.

 

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.