FALL WINTER 2011 I ALSO LOVED (A LOT) MARY KATRANTZOU

London. It's all about print and the star is Mary Katrantzou. Colors and shapes. Her print is snappy, real. The clothes comes to life. They're the 'real' show. Definitely exciting. Hypnotic collection. Perfection and class. Great success, lightness and style. A great artist.

FALL WINTER 2011 SHOWS .. who&what I LOVED!

Fall Winter 2011... New York has passed. That's who has left his mark.
Proenza Schouler. Femininity, elegance, color and prints. Again. The collection is dynamic and engaging. Impressive.

 

London Fashion Week. Pungent, ironic, irriverent. The stage of creativity. Emotions...

Antonio Berardi. Pure couture. Versatile and multifaceted. A collection "to wear". He declares: "I want everything to feel like, Oh my God, i want a piece!!!!".

Vivienne Westwood. Vivienne The Queen always excites me. Ironic, cheeky, funny. " Too much".

I love her.

Basso & Brooke. This print struck me. Cool.

PEPI'S WONDERLAND, LONDON.

"Pepi's is an idea. An idea that everything is possible".

Pepi's is a "wonderland"founded in 1994 by Carlos Gomez and Begona Alegria in the catacombs of Camden Market, London.

Pioneers of extensions using materials never used before such as wool, plastic, fibre optic filaments... they're differents from others hairdressers coz their mission is no profit and they're focused on the challenge to go further more and more were no one ever came.

Far from the "forced" fashion, totally uncommercial, they preferes alternative "windows"..because their creativity still unpolluted.

Pepi's crowd is a melting pot of people and characters. children, young, old, homeless, managers....

New images and new expression forms. Continous change. Constantly changing, perfectly expressed in what is their location: a mix of recycled furniture which is replaced over time with other recycled items.

www.pepis.net

THE ANTI-FASHION DESIGNER: ALAN HRANITELJ

Alan Hranitelj was born in Croazia. He's generally a fashion designer, but we can't describe him like that, because he's completely subversive and anti-fashion. He doesn't sell its clothes, he doesn't do collections and he doesn't follow the natural career of fashion designers. He's different, alternative, unique in his gender..he's got the "aurea of genius". The Alan style is totally "haute couture", through its creations you can feel his elegant sensibility. There's something magic and something absolutely theatrical. He mostly designs for drama, opera and film and is costume designers for the Cirque du Soleil. 

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.