WALKING IN CHARING CROSS ROAD..ART ON WINDOW!

A couple of weeks ago, during my usual summer vacation in London, i was walking in the evening with friends of mine. We were in Charing Cross Road and in front of the Central Saint Martins school i have been kidnapped by an art installation. Two students of visual art were on window, performing their art work. Cool!

THE KNITTED ART OF LAURA THEISS

Every time I go for a walk around the Victorian & Albert museum,  I always find lots of interesting artists. Laura Theiss is one of them, fashion designer graduated from Central Saint Martins (London) in 2009, is already in her second collection. Much to look at and everything is absolutley to wear..

The designs combine traditional hand-knitting and crochet techniques inspired by the Far East costumes with metallic embellishment, unusual color combinations and futuristic, feminine vision in the forms.

The Lithuanian-born Theiss is focused about knitting. "For me, knitwear is like my mother tongue: it's a sort of language embedded in my DNA .... The Best Part of Being a designer is That I can create my own fabric with just a needle and yarn" she said.

Very contemporary and original, interesting and not boring voice in the upcoming scene. I like her!

SASKIA, STEFAN (DIEZ) AND THEIR PAPIER BAGS

From a brilliant collaboration between husband and wife, born a gorgeous line of bags, Papier (Paper bags). The bags are made of Tyvek, a material developed by Dupont which is water-resistant and completely recyclable. The visual and tactile effect is undoubtedly a huge sheet of paper folded like origami.

The project was launched last year during the Paris Fashion week.. and only now I see them on sale in LN-CC one of my favorite places where i can find escapism when I'm in London.

http://www.ln-cc.com/ 

 

 

LEIGH BOWERY, THE BRUTAL BEAUTY.

Leigh was a drag mama, an intellectual, a space alien, a club queen, a trans-performer and an advocate for creating your own reality. He was so avant-garde to transform himself into a living artwork.

 

He was a freaky icon. Was the London underground scene of the 80's-90's. Inspiration for special artists such as Galliano and McQueen. Creative energy, pure.

KATHARINE HAMNETT ( IN AN ORGANIC OUTFIT ) MEETS THE QUEEN

Famous since the 1980s for sending slogans down the catwalks, designer Katherine Hamnett meets Elizabeth the Queen last month, wearing an eco friendly dress and a gorgeous Philip Treacy hat made from cockerel feathers, which is a bi-product of food waste.

 

 

 

ENCHANTED PALACE-LONDON- (BEFORE SEEING)

"We really wanted to try something completely different that gave us a way to take a fresh look at the palace's history and the lives of the people who lived here" "We want people to connect with the emotions." Alexandra Kim, one of the curators of the exhibition.

Stephen Jones, Boudicca, Vivienne Westwood...create installations using "incredible and dramatic stories of the people who lived in the palace as the springboard." I'm really excited and I look forward to admiring the magic of these installations to be able to tell, and try to pass something that will surely have an high emotional impact.

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

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.