IT'S ABOUT PAINTINGS&COLLAGES...

"Collage is a great way for me to be creative, finally using all the kitsch books i have collected from Op Shops over the years. I love making with bold garish colour, grotesque 80's food and bad fashion...".
Li Kim Chuah is a collager artist and photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. It's a glamourous vintage taste!

 

Amy Kligman. Amy's work is a psychological study, observing people and patterns in their nature, their dreams, their mistakes. Social anxiety and awkwardness. It's about all life psychodramas.

 

 I really love her work... it's a perfect human representation!

Megan Van Groll. Megan is a really young artist from Honolulu. She studies her own relations to body, function and gender through her neo-realist interpretation and does so in a way that feels mundanely human while rendering each piece particulary poignant and oddly evocative.

Charly Roussel. Charly is a young artist from Paris but he used to live in many different places. He  makes collages out of fashion advertisements. He changes the 'innocent' fashion ads into a bizarre and sexually exlicit images.

SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE WOULD DO: IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN

Iris Schieferstein is a controversial german artist who works with dead animals to create her pieces of art.

She joins the fragments together to new creatures and this give a new faces to death.

With her latest work she's totally gone to the extreme. It's about shoes, The Gun Hoof.

I definitely find her point of view grotesque and, to be honest, i don't know if we're ready to this kind of revolution. But, anyway, her work certainly moves. It's dynamic, subversive, somewhat interesting...different.

Don't miss her exhibition in London @ MILKandLEAD Art Gallery (from 17/02/11).

DE-CONSTRUCTIONISM: JESSICA OGDEN

Jamaican birthplace, she moved to London looking for a freedom that she hadn't found in America were she was studying.
Her fashion idea is really artistic. She works out and on the body, trying to find a kind of balance between clothes that are for the body and clothes that are against. She develops a vision that gives a new shape to the body. She is a master de-constructionist and has a fascination with old and distressed fabrics which has been a salvage fashion, with a strong respect for craft. Among her favorite sources of salvage, old patchwork quilts.
"The nicest element of quilts and quilt making is the inherent history that is litterally sewn into the work".
Recycling, assembling..telling people stories through belonged and lived fabrics.

A LITTLE TRIBUTE TO DIANA VREELAND

Undoubtely Diana Vreeland is one of the most legendary figures of the fashion world. Born in Paris in 1903, she moved to the USA with her family after the First World War and in New York she started his journalistic career as author of  "Why don't you" section on Harper's Bazaar and in the 1962 she was at American Vogue direction until 1971.

Subversive, brilliant, avant-garde..Diana is an icon and still contemporary and innovative also after her death. More than 15 minutes of celebrity. She was (is) an eloquent proof of the controversial claim that style is innate and blind as love. She wasn't beautiful, but full of elegance.

STILL IN LOVE FOR JOHN GALLIANO

Paris menswear fashion week Fw11-12. No way, he's definitely different from all the others. Every time, every show, John Galliano still innovative and interesting. Same allure, his own allure. Indisputable styling, amazing pieces!
This menswear show is dedicate to the Russian ballet and it was opened with a harried horde of Russian emigrés in great big coats, tufty shearling, and military jackets; it was closed with a glittered and embroidered eveningwear. Below my favourites looks.
BRAVO JOHN!

ADELE MILDRED

Definitely a character, a potential icon. She looks like a young Elizabeth Taylor. Adele Mildred is head of atelier for Stephen Jones. Friend of Dita Von Teese who introduced her to Stephen Jones,  today Adele presides over a workroom of twenty-five milliners whom she lovingly describes as “a bunch of old ladies sitting around a table gossiping and making hats!” all busily executing his mad vision not just for his own label, but the host of fashion visionaries who rely on Jones each season (John Galliano, Gareth Pugh, Marc Jacobs...).

She grew up in a small suburb of Minneapolis, but she spent much time in France (because of her  mum). Her french background made her feel special and she spent a lot of time alone with her imagination, developing her unique visual sense. She studied fashion in New York, she use to design clothing and create costumes for indipendent films..but her real obsession was for the hats. 

"Like art, millinery is a process and you cannot churn the product out".

PAULINE BORCA'S FANTASTIC TRIP FOR SS011

Kinitted dresses with images of mountains landscapes, space inspired printed dresses and multicoloured jumpsuits... here the Pauline Borca's artuful work on SS011 menswear and womenswear collection.
She's a young french visual artist and designer recently graduated from the Higher Institute of Applied Arts in Paris (LISAA).
In her work art and fashion are all in one, the photos taken by Matthieu Delbreuve perfectly represents this line full of fantasy and imagination.
I really like the hats and the animal head-shaped knitted masks!! Gorgeous!!!